That first video where the guy is running in front of the flood and looking behind him, all I could think was: what if he tripped? He'd just straight up die surely?
Yeah exactly. The weight of being hit by that wave of debris would be like getting a dump truck load full of wet lumber and goopy sand poured on you.
If you even survived the initial wave, surely you'd have broken ribs etc and would have trouble swimming to the side after you got your head above water.
I loved how the kids seemed mor excited than scared. What an experience!
noksky ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 15:28:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Um isn't that small canyon flood video really dangerous? Massive amounts of water could have came speeding through those walls taking them with it and mashing them against the walls for miles... Stupid
It definitely seemed like the adults in that one were far more worried about maybe dying or getting hurt than the kids, who were like this is great nothing bad could happen because it hasn't happened.
I'm thankful for Maes Hughes educating me on flooding in the desert in the first video. I guess the path of the travelling water is always the same as it looks like it has actually wore down a little valley after some time. I wonder where it all ends, just slowing down until it stops completely and evaporates or seeps into the ground? Does it pool up somewhere?
The canyon vid wins the prize for the most boring video ever. It's ok to make a couple of mins footage, but 6-7 minutes of left, right, water, left, right, water..... Some goproers should just learn to cut their videos...
I was in a flash flood out in the desert once. The storm came on rapidly and within five minutes the water was up to the windows of our jeeps. We barely got out of there.
Caution. Dehydration takes a while to set in, so most people aren't dumb enough to get caught for days in the desert without water.
Nerdn1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, most people who live in a desert have figured out the water issue. That is pretty much rule one. Sure, if you're an idiot and/or extremely unlucky, you could get stranded in the desert, away from civilization, but it's rare.
And not just in the actual desert, even in the cities. I moved from an area that routinely got hit by huge storms and the occasional hurricane to Phoenix. First sorta big rain storm that happened when i was there left ponds in many parking lots and on some roads. I was flabbergasted at the lack of drainage, but why spend the money on it when it's something that only happens occasionally.
Is that most of the fatalities, or is it mostly just people who live in a desert (like, the majority of Nevada, California, etc) and own swimming pools?
I was on a trip with a Jeep group in Moab, UT last year and we got caught in a flash flood. The 3" deep stream turned into a 4' deep raging river in the matter of a minute. Stranded us for a good 3-4 hours until it was calm enough for us to pass through.
I live in a desert. Many of the deaths and injuries are from people trying to cross flowing water in their cars. It doesn't take that much water to pick up your car and move it - your tires are filled with air and will basically act like a raft.
Moara7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:54:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, this one didn't make sense to me because I'm African and not American, and we don't really get flash floods in our deserts. I wonder what the global statistics are.
People often set up camp in dry river beds because they can get at least a little bit of shade, protection from wind and sometimes even a little water. If it's raining somewhere far away in the mountains, there can be a flash flood, which can turn a dry river bed into a raging torrent within seconds.
Also, Alaska is a desert and when spring comes and the ice melts, many people fall through the sheet ice in to water and subsequently drown. The river under the ice moves so fast, they don't have a chance to scramble out and are dragged under the surface ice.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:12:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, many deserts are the low point for a huge area. So floods are compounded. One minute there's a slight drizzle and the next there is 5 feet of water. The Army has a Proving Ground outside of Yuma, AZ. I was involved in some testing there that had to get cancelled and evacuated because it started raining. An hour after we left the entire area that we had been in was under 6 feet of water. It dissipated quickly, but flash flooding kills quickly, we would have all drowned.
Haha I dunno, I figured the drifting lifeboat was as common a trope as the guy shipwrecked on the tiny island with one palm tree.
stilsjx ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 13:01:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Id imagine that a real life raft would have a beacon. But I just saw an article about a guy who died at sea in his boat and became mumified.
Gramage ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 19:31:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
There was that El Salvadorian (edit: not Mexican) dude who got caught in a storm while fishing and ended up drifting the ocean for 400+ days, survived by catching fish and turtles with his bare hands and eating them raw, and collecting floating plastic bottles to gather rain water. And drank his own piss. One tough mofo.
stilsjx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:36:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds terrible.
Gramage ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:39:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oddly enough, if we're talking about the guy that had a heart attack and was mummified sitting at a table, that's exactly the visual that came to mind reading this thread.
i think if you are out at sea in such a situation you would die of dehydration before you die of starvation. body has a lot of fat storages and in emergency can eat our own muscles to get energy. but water once lost is gone.
While that may work for a little bit, it's not a long term solution. Seagulls only go so far from land. If you're close enough to land to catch a gull, you're close enough to sail to land before actually needing to starve/dehydrate.
You're right. It isn't a permanent solution as blood is full of proteins and will eventually leave the body more dehydrated but the blood may be enough to get yourself to shore or to stay responsive until rescue arrives.
More people are victim of fire on boats (especially sailing ones) than sinking actually ! Because of the fact that you can be traped inside and depending on the boat they can catch fire reeaallyy quikly. So yeah fire is a bigger risk than water on the seas !
108241 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:58:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe if they survive the initial disaster, but you look at something like the Titanic where 2/3 of the passengers died, they didn't make it long enough to die of dehydration.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:02:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Squirt it up your butt if possible. It will absorb into your body more quickly. There was a family stranded at sea on an inflatable raft for a long time, and that's how they survived: killing sea turtles and squirting blood up their poop chutes. Not even kidding. Also, eat the eyes.
Phylar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:29:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's heat and dehydration...which makes a lot of sense now that I read it again.
You should read "In the Heart of the Sea." Really good book that explores the sinking of the whale ship Essex.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:45:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you want to read a story on this topic, look up the USS Indianapolis (if you aren't already familiar with it). Some of the anecdotes are quite the read, how after a few days of trying to stay afloat in the South Pacific in a group, some of the guys were so dehydrated that they were seeing things. One of the guys said that he was floating there with a few others, and one of the others all of a sudden took his life jacket off, dove down into the water, and then came back up and told everyone how there was a water fountain down there with cool, refreshing fresh water. The guy died not long after that. It's just crazy to read in chronological order, each day the group is smaller and smaller, there are sharks circling them, and so on.
Do you have a source? I understand how drowning could happen, but it doesn't seem like it would be nearly as common as dehydration. I believe you, but I'm gonna need a source of this is going to become my new favorite fact
WgXcQ ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 11:36:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People (inexperienced ones) tend to camp in and travel through the valleys between sand dunes or in those convenient uncluttered dry riverbeds. Which is exactly where all the water comes shooting through when there's sufficient rain. And the water is so fast that you don't know you're in trouble until it's right on top of you. The ominous grumbling beforehand only means something to the kind of people who don't think a dry riverbed in a desert is a swell place to camp anyway.
Also, it's not just water, but whatever junk has collected in the places the water comes through. Even if it's not that high a flood, it can trap you, then drown you.
Again, I'm not doubting that drowning in the desert happens. But that alone is not particularly interesting. What I'm looking for is a source that says that drowning in the desert is in fact more common than dying of dehydration
E-135 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:20:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it isbmore likely to die by dehydration in the desert when stranded there without water. But this is obvious and people make sure they got enough water.
Many people have no idea they can drown in deserts though. So they dont take that into account
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:19:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My neighbor tried to pull that on me a couple years ago, he never found out why so when we asked, he made us some shit about they find water and drink it too fast. We googled it and found the real reason.
Haha, no its a thing that frequently occurs when dealing with "older" live models (as in people who get naked for money so that others can draw their foldy bits)
There usually is this one older gentleman who... ahem... drips... from his privates, whilst standing there naked and motionless as you draw him.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:46:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, I never did much nude drawing so I never encountered that, I always wanted to try doing it myself but I was worried about random erections.
Eh you never really end up with attractive models, because they are less interesting/challenging to draw. Its mainly fat old wrinkly people or people with deformities that make the skin and muscle more of a challenge to the artist. I was never any good at it to be quite honest, but it taught me a huge amount about anatomy and foreshortening/perspective.
There was a mega-hottie in my first ever figure drawing studio. She repeatedly offered to model for the class but the teacher said she would not permit it, as the class was "too overly enthusiastic" and it would "be a distraction from the greater purpose."
So do you start with a big cigarette and erase along as you paint the rest or do you approximate how much of the cigarette will be left by the time you're done with the painting from the start?
My best friend in high school took that to mean that eyes were halfway down the face, and drew it as such. Fucking terrible, but I didn't have the heart to tell her that her drawings looked like something Napoleon Dynamite would do.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 12:20:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She, ah, kinda has tunnel vision. She thinks everything she does is awesome. I actually went to art school and didn't have the heart to tell her that her drawings were the stuff of nightmares.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 12:37:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
whats the difference between halfway down and halfway up. thats 1/2 either way
Face, not head (your eyes are halfway down your head, not your face. Hair covers some of your head, so if you're looking at the face alone, your eyes are in the top third.
Yeah when we were first learning how to do portraits I thought there was no way that could be right. Once we finished it and added hair and everything else I was astounded
Bohnanza ยท 922 points ยท Posted at 10:54:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mom was an artist and showed me this when I was a kid. To draw a face, she'd start with an oval, then mark off halfway down to pick a spot for the eyes, half of that was the bottom of the nose, half of THAT was the mouth.
Because we made sharp sticks, passed on the knowledge of tracking and being silent, and then, then we developed incredible long distance running capabilities, so that we could stick a antilope and then track it till it dies.
Humans are literally the best long distance runners in the animal kingdom, barring sled dogs, but they need crazy cold weather to be able to run.
We sweat out of almost the entire surface area of our bodies, cooling ourselves down very quickly. Many animals do not sweat at all or much, and those that do tend not to do it as much as us.
We can breath at any point in our stride. Animals that run on 4 legs can only breath at once per stride, due to ribcage compression and expansion. This also hurts animals whose primary means of cooling off is by panting.
We run on two legs. While this does free our hands up for using tools, it also allows us to see more across any terrain than an animal close to the ground.
While this last point is contested sometimes, we are able to motivate ourselves past our perceived limits and through pain with thoughts of love, honor, pride, etc. Our prey is generally only thinking of survival, and comparison predators are acting for the sake feeding themselves and/or their offspring.
I remember studying facial proportions in highschool. If i remember right the ears and eyes are on the halfway line of the head. The head can also be divided into thirds to mark other important features of the head: one division at the hairline, one division at the nose, third division at the chin. Halfway between the nose and the chin is the mouth. Overall these proportions make drawing faces easier (I was able to draw faces rather than potatoes with eyes noses and mouths).
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 14:30:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
acole09 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:42:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm truly sorry for your loss. She sounds like an absolute treasure. Keep those memories close to your heart, they'll definitely warm you up during difficult times. Have an internet hug.
This is a good one. I'm completely sure that you are wrong, but I don't dare just looking in a mirror because I'm scared to find out that I really look like a freak with my eyes in the middle of my face.
The face just blends into the scalp on Bald people, so it still holds.
Wermine ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 11:26:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I bet most people who have never drawn much will draw eyes too high.
haby112 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 13:49:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My art teacher in high school called it "Hair Hat" or "Hair Helmet". She would emphasize that people don't think about the fact that there is head under our hair when they draw and it causes us to conceptualize our hair as sitting just on tob of our head.
tocilog ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 11:36:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hair usually hides a lot of the top of your head making it seem like it's closer to the top. Try this. Your eyes are aligned right where the top part of your ears connect to your head. With one hand, place your pinkie on that part of your ear and then your thumb to the tip of your chin. Without moving your fingers, take your hand off your head, put your thumb where your pinkie was and then your pinkie to you head. You'll notice your pinkie will be on or around the very top of your head.
That's great and all, but is this really something that sounds 'extremely wrong'? Like this is the top comment? People read that Oxford university was founded before the Aztec empire and they're like "meh" but stating basic anatomy blows their mind...?
_F1_ ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:14:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a very simple thing. Most people wont feel much connection to Oxford university nor the Aztec empire. But something that seems weird about the anatomy they've had for their entire lives that they've never noticed, yes, that will do it.
Plus, the Aztec/Oxford university thing is pretty constantly posted on TIL.
Your armspan (fingertip to fingertip) is also your height!
SPCGMR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:27:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The only reason this makes sense to me is i play realistic shooters and know thst even if you can't see the other person, they can probably see the top of you head.
da5id1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:14:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Head or face? Because someone below recalled a high school art class where they started with an oval (face) and the horizontal line halfway from top to bottom for the eyes. There is no way I'm going to believe that in this picture of Donald Trump, even if you don't include the bottom of his double chin:
tl;dr: You need all the available power to get any amount of net motion to either gain momentum or creep it's way out.
TCS reduces engine power to prevent wheel spin, generally quite aggressively since it uses other wheel speed sensors as a reference to how much spin there is.
Non-drive wheels indicate 0 wheel speed, but the drive wheels indicate 60mph, it's going to try and slow the fast end down.
More realistic example, non-drive wheels indicate 1mph whereas drive wheels indicate 61mph; you have net directional movement, but if the computer stops the spinning wheels, you'll simply stay stuck.
It works left to right as well, and a lot of vehicles don't have limited slip differentials, meaning 1 wheel tends to get the bulk of the power rather than an even distribution. This problem can't be fixed by power reduction TCS though and requires a more sophisticated vehicle dynamic control system that can apply individual wheel braking.
In any case, you're either trying to slowly move out of being stuck or generate enough motion to be able to rock the car fore and aft and gain momentum to clear the obstacle. When you manage to get a little motion from rocking, you can time the application of power to increase the vehicles momentum. TCS will counteract the power application process by reducing engine power to reduce slip.
From my understanding taction control keeps your tires from spinning at odds to keep your car from unexpectedly changing course. By turning it off your wheels that are potentially stuck can still spin giving you the opportunity to use them to get out of wherever you're stuck.
Source: I've spent a ridiculous amount of time rocking people out of snow drifts.
In order for your tires to work correctly they need to utilize the siping on the lugs. These are the hairline like slits in the lugs. In order for that to happen your tires need to be spinning in order to eject whatever media you happen to be stuck in. TCS effectively cuts power to your drive train when it senses the tires spinning in relation to your travel speed. Essentially, when you're stuck you need your tires to spin. TCS is more for icy intersections and the like. And the people that use cruise control in the winter on the highway. Source: I drive (and get stuck in) one of those obnoxiously big trucks that everyone seems to associate with a small penis. My dong is fine, by the way.
You're stuck, skidding isn't really the problem. You'll need a bit more power to get out. If needed, switch between reverse and first gear to "rock" your way out, having people push is of course always helpful.
I used to work at a place that was at the bottom of a hill. If it was even remotely snowy and I left the traction control on, my Jetta would just refuse to turn left out of there. It would go straight-ish or 45ยฐ at best until I turned the tc off.
Doesn't it depend on the type of traction control? True traction control limits power to wheels with low traction, and that you need to turn off; but some cars have "low-tech" traction control that just applies the brakes individually to each wheel that's spinning faster than the vehicle's ground speed, and that type is actually beneficial because it allows you to build torque to the wheels without suddenly breaking loose.
It's for the same reason that, especially in cars with automatic transmissions, if you're stuck in the snow you're supposed to apply the brakes, put the car in drive, gently apply the gas until your engine is hanging at a few krpm, then gradually release the brake.
All the modern cars since about 2005 use a combination of applying brakes and limiting the engine speed. since almost all cars are now "drive by wire" throttle control the gas pedal is no longer directly connected to the throttle plate by a cable. The computer reads the input from a position sensor on the gas pedal and uses an electronic stepper motor to move the throttle plate. you can floor it but the computer will detect slippage at the wheel and ignore your wide open throttle request and the engine wont rev more than a few hundred rpm above idle.
My experience, if you spin your tires by revving the shit out of your engine, you make ice under your tires and dig yourself deeper. It sucks.
You make sure your tires don't break static friction, because once you use that much power, you don't have traction at all.
So, you turn your TCS off, sure...it helps you control engine speed. But power isn't what gets you out of snow, it's friction and making sure you got some.
There's a part of Canada that's farther south than part of California
I'm looking at a globe and this is the only one I couldn't make sense of. To save others some trouble: the southernmost point of Canada is Pelee Island, in Lake Erie.
I live in windsor and have visited point pelee multiple times. They have a national park with all the info about it, and maps showing how the latitudes work out
Yup. A lot of people don't realize we're closer to the Pacific than a large chunk of California.
That's part of the reason why All-You-Can-Eat Sushi is what we're known for, food-wise. The casinos order massive amounts of fresh food from the coast (just a four hour drive away) at bulk prices, so the small sushi joints are able to jump on those orders and get stellar quality sushi fish for very low prices.
But then every other person who was curious would also have to look on Google maps.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:47:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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ganfy ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 13:28:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because the Panama Canal doesn't connect the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
Yes. Yes it does. Regardless of how pedantic you want to be about the Caribbean and the Gulf of Panama. The the Panama Canal does connect the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. That's why they made it.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:02:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well the Caribbean Sea is in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Panama is in the Pacific Ocean, so that really doesn't have anything to do with it at all. It's more about the shape of the land than what we've named the seas.
-Yngin- ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 09:39:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read that as 'a NSFW direction'. What's up with Panama
I looked at this on google maps. I was pretty stumped with how that could possibly be the case.....until I zoomed out and realized I was being an idiot and just assuming the northern side of the canal was attached to the pacific.
You mean to tell me that the three kingdoms didn't get together and decide that Wales and Scotland would get cool national animals and in exchange England would get to essentially control them?
NicoUK ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 21:08:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No no, they mean that Scottish and Welsh people are England's national animal.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:38:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, like I said.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:05:29 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Found the Scotsman.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:44:11 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ye. I don't take no shit.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:54:20 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes it is, and they are real. If you say otherwise you're trying to take my freedom and I will paint my face blue and charge at you in a field with a kilt on while Mel Gibson pratters on about something in the background.
But nobody says that because who wants to live in a world with a nope amount of titty
ixiion ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:42:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine trying to use this word seriously in a presentation for college, or even for business. Every single person in the audience will bust out laughing and even the teacher likely won't believe it's a real word.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:06:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To a sufficiently scifi-future perspective, stars are enormous piles of useful raw materials that have unfortunately caught on fire.
So the most sensible approach would be extinguishing and disassembling them for safe storage while we decide on something better to do with 1030kg of hydrogen.
Gullex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:23:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, yeah, but "have unfortunately started undergoing nuclear fusion in a way that irrecoverably dumps otherwise-useful energy into the void of space" wouldn't be so concise.
An analogy to something more prosaic like a warehouse burning down gets the same point across (rapidly converting into something less useful in an uncontrolled and wasteful way) in fewer words and with greater ease of understanding.
Ramoach ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:56:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My next Skyrim weapon shall now be dubbed Starcutter!
OskarCa ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:06:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nerd.
Ramoach ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:34:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just rolled a D20. Turns out you're a dick.
OskarCa ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:36:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good thing I rolled a 20 as well and your insult has no effect on me.
Ramoach ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:50:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wrong. It was super effective.
OskarCa ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:16:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well then you're just a really shitty dm
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:15:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just like stars though, some are born and some die off all the time. Cutting down trees that are dead to make way for new ones is responsible forestry. Also, newer trees produce more oxygen compared to older trees.
oriaven ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:30:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trees are renewable, just cut down the fast growing ones and we are good. Clear cutting hundreds of acres of hundreds of years old trees to grow.... corn? That is not good.
If we cut a couple billion on the same area it would have a massive impact. If we cut a couple billion trees randomly in the whole world, it would have a much lesser impact if you exclude lumber roads and all that.
And while there is 7 billion people, 128 million people are born every year. That means that if every person can consume only 429 trees in their lifetime, enough people are born to consume 55 billion trees in their lifetimes. That means if no new trees are planted, that in 55 years every tree on earth would be consumed.
edit:changed"peryear"to"intheirlifetime."
pf2- ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:06:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit we humans are parasites plaguing the earth.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:50:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Several reasons. Animal habitats, and nobody is planting enough to replace them...and, ya know, they make the oxygen we need to breathe.
TheTyke ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:54:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And they themselves are living. Which should be and is enough to not cut them down without a genuine reason (need.)
Not sure myself but maybe just looking at a certain area, see how many stars there then get the rough area of the galaxy and get an average? Surely they haven't mapped every star
One way is like /u/nedkelly08 said, another way is looking at the density of energy and mass throughout the surrounding sky. There are ways of extrapolating from that as well.
We also look out to other galaxies similar to us and use those to help us gauge our own. But it mostly has to be guess work.
Sure lots of space doesn't necessarily imply lots of stars. However, my point is that I find it strange that somebody would find it hard to believe that many peoples' intuition would tell them that there's a fuck-ton of stars in the galaxy, even more than the number of trees on earth. Not so hard to believe, I think.
100 mil is the low-end estimate, 400 the high-end.
In fact, your link says the same.
In the end, it comes down to an estimate. In one calculation, the Milky Way has a mass of about 100 billion solar masses, so it is easiest to translate that to 100 billion stars. This accounts for the stars that would be bigger or smaller than our sun, and averages them out. Other mass estimates bring the number up to 400 billion.
How the fuck can we count how many trees there are on earth?
...much less count how many stars in the Milky Way?
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:19:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You start at one and work your way up from there.
Ipsaeus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:29:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Take a small area of woods. Count the number of trees in that area. Figure out how big the rest of the woods is and multiply accordingly (so if the woods is 100 times larger than the area you counted, multiply the number of trees by 100). You now have a decent estimate of how many trees there are in the woods. Wash, rinse, repeat for all of the other woods in the world. Same general idea with stars, except we we use computers to make more complex models to model the galaxy better.
It's obviously more involved, but that's the general idea. Measure small and model and/or extrapolate the rest.
Kesild ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:02:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why did it have to be trees!
Upio ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:06:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We should be looking for aliens in the trees, not the sky.
Corund ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:07:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I want to know who the fuck walked around the earth counting all the trees because that is some serious dedication to your job
MrShitz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:07:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can someone use the drake equation on the tree numbers? By all accounts there should be few type 2 civilizations among the trees and at least one type 3
Our solar system has only one star - the sun. Our galaxy - the Milky Way - has about 100 billion stars. So OP probably has two trees in his/her/their apartment.
I like to pretend it's false as there's no for sure way to just measure how many trees exist [for sure, and reliably] and that it's reddit and who doesn't like to put lies in a thread where there's no lies just to test reddit
don't tell me its real pls
tiif ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 06:59:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I bet the counting of trees went something like this: "1, 2, 3 ... hehe, tree...., where was i? 1 ..., 2....."
Erazai ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 08:39:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You usually don't count with unkown factors when counting stuff. Or there is a trillion stars in our galaxy, because well, we don't know that there isn't.
This is the big unknown... why would life on another planet follow the same evolution? Lets say we find other planets covered with actual trees- maybe not related to ours that we can tell, but with similar cell structure and using DNA - that would be mind blowing.
why would life on another planet follow the same evolution?
It might not, but this was a hypothetical to support the point that a tree need not grow on Earth to be considered a tree.
that would be mind blowing.
There are two possibilities in this scenario: that we find trees that are distinctly different from what we have on Earth, or that we find trees that are the same as what we have on Earth.
I explained my point poorly. We categorize our animals based on their relatives. Orca(killer whales) are more similar to whales than they are to dolphins. Since they are descended from dolphins, they are considered dolphins.
It doesn't matter if we find tall woody plants with green leaves that collect sunlight for photosynthesis. They will be called tree-like aliens.
There are also more possible moves in a chess game than atoms in the known Universe. I always get downvoted for saying this, but Google both of these facts separately before you downvote me please.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:29:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I still don't believe it
m00fire ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:32:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also the human body synthesises seven light-years of DNA in its lifetime.
Leeeto ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:49:27 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I kinda believe you, but do you have a source on that?
I'd probably still disbelieve that even after looking it up. That can't be right.
Ap0q ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:44:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh really, who did count every star in the Milky Way? Who did count every tree on earth?
Just kidding. I know that this is considered "scientifically correct" because someone smarter than us did the math.
But it is hard to believe that someone could actually figure out the amount of trees we have on earth when there is no way to keep up with how many trees fall/get cut every second.
I mean space on earth is pretty confined. There are only certain areas that can be counted as "tree areas" and those are constantly changing because of industrial mining, fires, natural disasters, even a lake or a river takes place so you can't just look from the orbit earth and say; hey, that area is green, it is 100.000km x 200.000km and there has to be 1 tree per 1mยฒ.
So if someone says or states "yeah, we got 3 trillion trees on earth" then I would like to see the book(s) of paper he had to fill to measure those numbers and prove to me he didn't come up with just a rough estimate that didn't take everything into account.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:00:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's also the one saying there are more stars in the universe than there is sand on earth. I just think that is REALLY unlikely. Considering if almost every inch of the ocean floor consists of sand and the oceans take up around 75% of the earth. That's a metric fuckton of sand.
Of course there are, not sure why people wouldn't think that.
Razimek ยท 1976 points ยท Posted at 06:23:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
If a disease infects 2% of a population, and a test is developed that is 95% accurate (and no false negatives), then if you are tested positive, the chance you actually have the disease is only 29%.
Edit: This assumes you're just a person chosen at random to get tested.
Population = 1000.
People who have disease X = 20.
People who don't have disease X = 980.
False positive rate = 5%.
False negative rate = 0%.
Of the 20 people who have disease X, they all receive a correct positive reading.
Of the 980 have don't have disease X, 49 of them will receive an incorrect/false positive reading.
69 people tested positive, yet only 20 of them are actually positive. That's a 29% chance that if you tested positive, you're actually positive, for a test that is 95% accurate.
Now let's say you have a 99% accurate test, for a disease that infects 1 in a million people.
Population = 1,000,000.
People who have disease X = 1.
People who don't have disease X = 999,999.
False positive rate = 1%.
False negative rate = 0%.
1% of the 999,999 people who don't have disease X will receive a false positive. That's 10 thousand people (rounded).
10,001 people tested positive, and 10,000 of those are false positives.
So there's a 99.99% chance you don't have it, if tested positive on that 99% accurate test.
It's a Pandemic reference. In that videogame, you have to infect people/countries. But as soon as an epidemic starts, Madagascar shuts down its borders and it's really difficult to infect.
a new desease has been discovered in china. It is none lethal and the only symptoms are minor coughing and it spreads trough air. Research twords a cure have already begun.
Matagasgar: close ALL boat and air traffic. Give people masks and burn dead boddies and lockdown the country.
There is a game called Pandemic, in which the goal is to create a plague that infects and kills the whole world. Madagascar was notorious for shutting down its borders at the first sign of any illness, and it was difficult to infect due to being an island.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:13:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You also get it on your phone. And Greenland is a bitch too.
Slightly misleading since in healthcare, your accuracy is more determined by the false negative rather than the false positive.
I am not worried about a patient being misdiagnosed (since multiple tests then follow which prove the legitimacy of the diagnosis). I am more worried about a test coming back negative when it should actually be positive, because then it is dismissed, particularly if it is large battery of tests. Yes the paradox above is true, but like many paradoxes, there relation to real life scenarios is a bit exaggerated when taught.
Nerdn1 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 18:29:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which is why minimizing false negatives is more important. The false positive paradox explains why when a cheap, quick screening test coming back positive doesn't mean you likely have a disease, just that you are more likely to have it than the general population. Since they found that you have a 29% chance of having the disease rather than a one in a million chance, it makes sense to try a more expensive, invasive, and/or slower test that is more accurate.
Seicair ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:29:02 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am not worried about a patient being misdiagnosed
In healthcare, you're not going to give certain tests to everyone who comes through your office because the likelihood of someone having that disease is so low. You'd only give them tests for rare or rarish conditions if they were presenting with symptoms that could be indicative of that condition, or if you had some reason to suspect they had it.
If you gave them to everyone, 71% of them would need an expensive secondary test and have undue stress put on them worrying after the first test came back positive.
The terrorist machine! I've used this to knock down a teacher who insisted that wiretapping every phone in the US was the best way to catch terrorists a few pegs. If we built the mythic "terrorist machine" that performs with 99.9% efficiency, and only like 1% of the population is a terrorist, the machine is almost 99% incorrect. And the "terrorist machine" we have today is maybe 40% effective, and only 0.0001% of the population is a terrorist, maybe. Maths!
"Probability that one or more team members may be infected by intruder organism: -75%-"
Cold hard statistics are terrifying sometimes. Especially when you're stranded in an Antartic research station with a parasitic shape-shifter back in the 80's.
Another way to explain why this is false is the Sperical Cow. We should remove all relevance to testing and the real world if we are going to relate this to a disease because this scenario is impossible. If 2% of a population has a disease you cannot know geographically what your distribution level is. The percentage of a population that has a disease is also a much more wild estimation than a test. It's a less reliable number. It could range from 1% to 10%. That is more like the actual human population and then we're not even talking about demographics or life-style.
On the other hand you have this actual scientific test that is 95% accurate. This statistic is FAR more likely to apply to your subject. I stand by you have a closer to 95% chance of having the disease than 29% in a real world situation and further more this is a bullshit example DESIGNED to make people feel stupid because they haven't bothered to dissect it like I just did. Everyone who had the intuition that this seems wrong you are correct.
If you guys want to derive a new principle out of this then it's this "Real life scenarios require statistics that have equal validity. The also involve their own margin of error."
This is like one of those IQ tests that a really smart person would fail and medocre people would imagine they were competent for the rest of their lives ruining society.
Razimek ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:55:23 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It does ignore that the people who are getting tested, probably have a reason to want to get tested. The examples in the article apply to random people getting tested. Nevertheless there are other examples where knowing the false positive paradox can be very useful, in cases where everyone or random people are being tested for something. For example, DNA testing.
If everyone in the world's DNA was on file, then if you had a computer just test random people and stop when it finds a match, that doesn't mean it's the right person. You need to have at least some other evidence (e.g the person lives in the same country at least).
If a disease infects 2% of a population, and a test is developed that is 95% accurate (and no false negatives), then if you are tested positive, the chance you actually have the disease is only 29%.
Isn't that assuming that everyone is tested for the disease, not just those they suspect have the disease?
Razimek ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:43:08 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sort of. For any random person that gets tested positive, it would be 29%. But if you're getting tested, you probably are presenting symptoms and have many reasons to be in the doctors office, which the calculations don't take into account. I'll edit the post.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:13:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I still tell my patients to do confirmation testing in most cases because of what OP alludes to. The conversation depends a lot on the age of the patient and what we see on ultrasound - both help modify the risk.
I know way too many people who had false positives on these tests. The stress levels they had were through the roof and the tests they have to further investigate have higher miscarriage/early labor rates, because they are invasive. If you plan on keeping the baby no matter what, many OB/GYNs recommend opting out of the testing, as many deformities can be seen on ultrasounds. I decided to opt out because 4 people I knew had false positives and amniocentesis the year I was pregnant, including one who delivered 6 days before me. I had enough problems during my pregnancy, I didn't need the added stress.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 15:46:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm glad to hear that! Yeah, I think the way it works is that they have easy / safe /non-invasive tests with a fairly high false positive rate, but in the event of a positive result, they can pretty much verify by doing more invasive / riskier tests. Which does sound stressful, but probably also like something you want to know.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:14:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had the Harmony test done, it's very easily available. It's just a blood test. This is something you definitely should want to know, and your doctor should have told you about if your child was born only 9 months ago.
I'd just like to say the name Disease X sounds really fuckin cool. I mean what's this pussy "Swine Flu", nobody's gonna be scared of this disease because you can just avoid pigs. But Disease X, I'd probably shit my pants. Who knows where it comes from?
Nerdn1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:37:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One thing that people fail to mention when talking about false positives is the reason we use often test that don't tell you if you are likely to have a disease. Many times there's a quicker, cheaper, less-invasive test that is used to screen the general population (like a blood or urine test). If this sort of test comes back positive, there is often more invasive, slower, or more expensive tests (sometimes a more expensive blood-test, or possibly a biopsy or something).
Another way to see why this is an impossible situation is:
Sarah says 2% of the population has a disease.
Bill has a test that is 95% accurate.
Bill gives you the test and it says positive.
How certain are you that you have the disease?
You go ask Sarah since she seems to know all the answers.
You are mixing divine knowledge and a dimension where we only know what the test says. This scenarios simply does not exist. In fact it cannot exist because you can never know exactly 2% of a population has a disease unless you already know exactly who has the disease and who doesn't, which means the 95% test is useless because you already know the answer.
How is 1% of 1,000,000 people only 1? Maybe I'm fucking up my math since I got two hours of sleep last night however it doesn't make sense. 1% of 1,000,000 would be 1,000 correct?
Razimek ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:09:06 on March 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I never said 1% (in reference to people who have the disease). I said:
for a disease that infects 1 in a million people.
Then I said
People who have disease X = 1.
That's 1, not 1%.
The false positive rate is 1%, which is 10,000 (not 1,000).
_ronak ยท -43 points ยท Posted at 08:16:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
dude. of course that math is going to work out that way. you went from a disease that infects 2% of the population to a disease that you indirectly say infects only .000001% of the population (1 in 1 million). so even though you increase the accuracy of the test by a whopping 4%, you're still cutting the disease size by a factor of a fucking million dude. so now you're comparing two statistically independent events and making it look like they have something to do with each other. all this "fact" tells us that probability wise you are more likely to get a correct positive if a larger percentage of the population was infected. but if the disease only infected 100 people in the whole world (~.000001%), probably skip totally unnecessary test cuz it's probably wrong. thanks guy.
Razimek ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 09:24:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Ooookay. Chill.
It's counterintuitive to expect a 99% accurate test can be 99.99% wrong. It's not expected that the rarity of the thing it is looking for will change anything. 99% accurate is 99% accurate, so you've got a 1% chance of it returning the wrong result, right? It's technically true, but misleading.
I was only giving the two mainbest examples in the Wikipedia article. If I just presented the fact without the explanation, perhaps it wouldn't have seemed so obvious.
I feel like I learned something valuable. Thank you!
Razimek ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 10:36:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Here's another way to look at it.
You compete in a blindfold competition to walk in the most perfect straight line. You're up against 10,000 people. Everyone gets a medal for participating (had to make this analogy work somehow), but the person who walks the straightest gets a "#1" written on their medal (the others are blank). You have a 1 in 10,000 chance of winning.
Except the people engraving the medals made some mistakes and 5% of the medals have "#1" written on them instead of only one of them.
You complete the race and get given a medal with "#1" written on it. Do you deduce that there's a 95% chance that you really won? After all, there's only a ~5% chance they gave you the wrong medal. Or do you suspect that you more than likely didn't win?
Of course, it'd be really really obvious if only the 1st place winner got a medal, but you saw that other people had medals too. Technically it's the same analogy, but the problem sticks out straight away.
The post is a classic example of Bayes' theorem. If you think it's trivial, you haven't thought about it enough.
rugtoad ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 15:12:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure the guy above is one of them thar "Reddit contrarians"...basically, people who counter-jerk anything they don't understand after quickly skimming over it.
See, they think that people who don't understand things are stupid. And they know they are not stupid, because they've never done anything that would have disproved their mom's assertion that they are, in fact, super duper smart (if they'd only apply themselves more!).
So the conclusion they reach is that the person who said the thing which they don't understand is wrong, then they perform a weird rhythm-less, senseless rain dance of irrelevant thought in which they attempt demonstrate how the person who confused them is, in fact, a retard. Usually, if you call out their rambling for not making sense or being remotely related to the original post, they will follow up with a mess of disjointed run-on sentences demonstrating your mental deficiencies.
The reason why this is wrong is because it is not taking into consideration that some people may be known to have the disease before the test.
rugtoad ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 15:05:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a well-established mathematical principle, there's not a damned thing wrong about it. What you're talking about is something completely outside of the scope of the comment above.
If you are known to have the disease the accuracy of the test doesn't matter. That is why it seems odd because it is. This situation assumes one must be tested by this test and only this test. This situation assumes this is the only valid test and nothing else can diagnose this disease. That is why it seems wrong because it is.
rugtoad ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:18:03 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh ffs.
This has nothing to do with medicine. It has nothing to do with the nature of the test.
It is a simplified example used to illustrate Bayes' Theorem.
There's nothing at all "wrong" about it, what is "wrong" is that you're nitpicking details entirely irrelevant to the point. Tell ya what, let's reword the example and see if that helps:
If social awkwardness infects 2% of reddit, and a test is developed that is 95% accurate (and no false negatives), then if you are tested positive, the chance you are socially awkward is only 29%.
Population = 1000.
People who are socially retarded = 20.
People who can have a normal conversation without nitpicking at every irrelevant detail = 980.
False positive rate = 5%.
False negative rate = 0%.
Of the 20 people who are socially inept, they all receive a correct positive reading.
Of the 980 who have healthy relationships with other humans, 49 of them will be identified as being awkward neckbeards.
69 people tested positive, yet only 20 of them are actually fedora-clad atheists with poor hygiene. That's a 29% chance that if you tested positive, you're actually positive, for a test that is 95% accurate.
The point has jack shit to do with the actual test, that is immaterial. It's about statistics, and specifically what the good reverend Thomas Bayes had to say about them.
Again, there's nothing wrong here, and if there is...go fucking demonstrate it, because there's a Fields Medal out there with your name on it if you can do so.
Razimek ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 11:04:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What do you mean? It's stated as a brute fact that 20 out of 1000 people have the disease. The examples require that it's known what percentage of the population absolutely do have the disease. You don't know which individual people, but you know the amount of people.
The calculations are then done on the amount of people who don't have the disease (980).
It should be clear that the amount of people who definitely don't have the disease but get a positive test, is 49. The remaining positive tests, 20, are definitely positive.
Seicair ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:31:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not certain, but he may be saying that in reality, we'd try to only give a test like that to people who are presenting with symptoms of what we're testing for. That cuts down on the false positive rate considerably. If a positive does come back, further (more expensive or in-depth) tests are ordered to rule out a false positive.
Razimek ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:33:00 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
we'd try to only give a test like that to people who are presenting with symptoms of what we're testing for. That cuts down on the false positive rate considerably.
Yes, that certainly changes things.
For other analogies where either everyone or random people are tested, the False Positive Paradox is very useful to know about. Another example on the Wikipedia article was about detecting terrorists.
It took me a while to figure out what you were saying, but you are correct in my opinion. We never give tests to EVERYONE in a population. People go in and get tested for things because they think they might have them. The scenario above assumes everyone is getting tested with this test yet there also exists some other divine knowledge that we know 2% of the population actually has the disease. In real life if someone went into a clinic to get tested and we have a rough idea that 2% of the population has a disease and they get a positive result the 95% accuracy result is the one that would be more likely to be true. Further more if we know 2% of the population has the disease then do we have some better test that tells us that? Why aren't we using that one? The scenario also never mentions that everyone takes the test or how we could possibly know until after extensive testing with this 95% chance test that 2% of the population has the disease. That means we couldn't know if the first test had a 29% possibility until we discovered 2% of the population has the disease so we would never be making this calculation. They are from 2 different timelines. 29% would be a conclusion only for population that was 100% tested and then the 29% would only apply in retrospect. For anyone walking in off the street 95% would the number you used.
Seicair ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:15:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We never give tests to EVERYONE in a population.
We do, actually. We give those tests if they're cheap, have a low false positive rate, and if the disease/condition is common. We don't do it for rare diseases, if the false positive rate is too high, or if the test is expensive/complicated.
Further more if we know 2% of the population has the disease then do we have some better test that tells us that? Why aren't we using that one?
Because the first test saves a lot of money. Let's say this hypothetical test has a 5% false positive rate, but effectively 0% false negatives. Let's say it's cheap and quick. A cheek swab, 10 minute turn around, can be done in a doctor's office. You'll give it to anyone you suspect might have this disease. If you get a positive, you send them to get blood drawn for a more expensive test that can confirm or refute the positive result for an absolute diagnosis. The second test is more time-consuming and more expensive, so it's only done if you have a positive from the first test.
You still wouldn't give it to anyone, despite it being cheap and quick, because this disease is fairly rare and 5% false positives would result in a huge number of expensive secondary tests.
This example is designed to be a trick because it is mixing absolute impossible abstract knowledge that 20 people have the disease with human derived knowledge that you have a 5% chance of having the disease. The absolute chance that you have the disease may be 29% if you take into account the mysterious 2% that we were given from nowhere. What is the test for that? What is it's accuracy? The only test we have in this scenario is the one that is 95% accurate. You can throw out the knowledge of 2% because we don't know where that knowledge comes from. The only thing you can consider trusting is that you have a 95% chance of having the disease. This is a fantasy world that uses a test for a premise for one statistic and some magical number for the other premise. This is a poorly designed fantasy world that I refuse to accept. I therefore choose to accept the premise that at least has a test.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:13:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ken M?
Dgraz22 ยท 878 points ยท Posted at 05:56:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We went to the moon before we put wheels on suitcases.
JasonDJ ยท 157 points ยท Posted at 16:20:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Luggage isn't that heavy on the moon.
Mmmcheez ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 18:00:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this the birth of the famous term "We can put a man on the moon..." came into play? Someone was so fed up with having to carry his suitcase around that he said "We can put a man on the moon, but we can't put wheels on suitcases?" Thank this man.
Tho the first recorded time a suitcase had wheels was 1987, it wasn't popular until the past decade or so. I remember watching a Simpsons episode from 1995 where Homer says the "How come you can put a man on the moon, but can't make my feet smell good."
Kinda nutty because it seems so obvious. What's interesting is that its popularity is STILL catching on... ten years ago, people in my offices still commonly carried briefcases to hold their laptops/work stuff. Nowadays it's 95% backpacks to hold the same stuff. I guess the idea that a businessman should awkwardly carry a briefcase was a fashion convention that overstayed its welcome.
Dyesce_ ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 09:17:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And before we had anything that we could call a computer nowadays. The everyday thing I hold in my hand that we give our little children to play with is waaaay more powerful than anything they had back then.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:04:14 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For a more specific comparison, the processor in a TI-83 was being used in computers in the 70s and 80s.
Ever consider that sometimes progress moves backwards, not forwards?
Now, in 2016, we couldn't put a man on the moon if the Earth depended on it. But the average asshole has so much extra Chinese-made crappy graphic Ts in size xxl and knick-knacks that we need wheels to push that shit around...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:54:02 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only Russia still has the tech to send a person to space. But not all the way to the moon. Nobody has the technology any more to pull it off. It would take at least a decade to develop.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:18:48 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So they threw all the tech to the trash? How could we have all the tech in 1969, but not anymore?
Pretty much. Nobody kept up the technology and the skilled teams required to do manned missions beyond low earth orbit over the last 40 years. We have no working rockets capable of taking people to the moon any more. Nor do we have an engineering team with experience doing it any more. We'd have to rebuild all of it. It would be incredibly expensive and time consuming.
Think of it maybe like building the pyramids. I mean, those were done with 6,000+ year old technology. But it would takes us decades and incredible cost to try to remake them today. We simply don't have the active stone quarries in the area, the manpower with the expertise, or the active supply routes they had. We'd have to re-invent it all from scratch. It would take a very long time.
Engesa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:51:54 on May 31, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It wouldn't be all from scratch, though. We have all of the theory still. It could go considerably faster this time if we needed it to.
I just don't really think it would be that much quicker. Even if the theory's there and you have a handful of experts that really know it, you still need a sufficient number of employees trained in it. That stuff takes time.
I mean, take something like the old analogue computers that functioned as guidance systems for naval ships. Say we needed a ton of those all of the sudden. Even if you have a bunch of software engineers to throw at it, who can with just a little study figure out how to set them up, you still need to train a ton of machinists and operators and assemblers and welders and everyone else who there won't be sufficient supplies of to get the damned things off the ground.
Engesa ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:16:08 on May 31, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, I'm not saying it will be easy. Just that it will be easier.
I was born in 1980. When I realized I was born closer to the original Woodstock than I was to Woodstock '94 it put so much in perspective for me.
kunibob ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 08:12:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fun fact from another 1980: we were born only 11 years after the moon landing.
I think about how the moon landing always seemed like "ancient history" to me, then realized kids born in 2016 will look back at 2005 as the same relative "ancient"ness, and it blew my mind.
I don't see 1989 as ancient history. I think it has to do with culture, tradition, history, build-up, and general ideas about the year, not just how long ago it was. 1899 is a lot longer ago than 1900.
kunibob ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:00:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True, I should have used historical events as a benchmark. A better example might be a kid born in 2012 looking back on 9/11. To me, it's a point in history that had massive repercussions worldwide in terms of personal rights, race/religion issues, international relations, and even small things like airport security. To today's 4 year old, it'll be something they learn about in a textbook next to other historical events.
I don't know, something about this realization made me realize how strange my views of historical events of the 60s/70s must have seemed to my parents, or how my views of WWII must have seemed to my grandparents. I don't think I'm adequately describing what I mean, but it blew my mind.
AP246 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:14:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This seems weird even for me, and I was born around 2000. I just got used the fact that it was the late 00s/early 2010s, as this was the age at which I was conscious of times and dates, but young enough for time to seem to pass slowly. It's crazy to sit back and think at how it's already 2016, 2020 seemed like the far future back then, and now I'm closer to that than 2010. Oh, well, from what I can gather this will only get worse as I get older.
00yoshi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:24:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
2025 actually looks like far in the future to me... My second monitor is a bit older (nearly 11 years, manufactured june 2005 in china) than the time we need to get to 2025 (9 years).
It's because we're deuterostomes and insects (and other animals like crabs and octopi and such) are protostomes, which has to do with which part of the internal cavity is formed as a zygote
That's untrue. Bats are laurasiatherians, but both humans and mice are euarchontoglires (notice that Rotentia and Primates are both clades in the tree).
Quate ยท 101 points ยท Posted at 08:45:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, shouts out to you for calling him out. There aren't that many of us who know a ton of taxonomy, but we have a responsibility when things like this happen. Nice job!
But he said that bats are more closely related to humans than how closely bats are related to mice, is it then the same distance? Impossible to define? I'm a little lost.
Same distance. Humans and mice are siblings, bats are their cousins. It's possible one sibling is more similar genetically to their cousins, but you have to go back the same distance to reach a common ancestor.
That's still wrong, bats are equally closely related to humans and mice. In the mammal family, humans and mice are siblings, while bats are their cousin.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 08:20:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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visvis ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 08:38:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It does. It means the last common ancestor is the same so they are equally closely related.
so what did bats evolve from if not mouse type creatures.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:04:07 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Appearance doesn't indicate relation, though related animals are more likely to look similar and have similar traits. Mice and "mice-like" animals aren't necessarily closely related. Shrews and mice are not closely related, the former being more related to whales, dogs, cats, bears, bats, etc., and the mice being more related to humans and rabbits. What defines these relationships? The more recently two species shared a common ancestor, the more closely related they are, and that is all there is to it.
Dathouen ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 06:22:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trumps are more closely related to humans than they are to cockroaches.
Gullex ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 06:24:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The mushroom one is true. Fungi and animals are sibling groups, plants are more like cousins. Our most recent common ancestor with fungi is thus a lot more recent than our most recent common ancestor with plants.
The sea cucumber one is true. Sea cucumbers are echinoderms, like sea stars and sea urchins. Echinoderms are deuterostomes, a group whose two most famous members are the aforementioned echinoderms, and chordates (fish, reptiles, birds, mammals, etc.). Deuterostomes are animals whose embryos develop an anus first. Insects, molluscs and annelids (segmented worms) belong to a different group, protostomes, whose embryos form mouths first. So you're closer to a starfish than you are to a butterfly, and an octopus is closer to an ant than it is to a sea cucumber.
However, the bat one is untrue. Bats are equally close to both humans and mice, because apes and rodents belong to the euarchontoglires (along with the rabbits and tree shrews) while bats belong to the laurasiatheria, along with whales, carnivores, ungulates and the like.
Really? I mean the other ones kind of make some sense but bats look a lot like mice, thats like zebras being more closely related to kangaroos than to horses.
I do believe bats are descended from species that held much the same ecological niche as mice, which goes some way to explain the apparent similarities.
They say that whales descended from a critter that looked somewhat like a wombat, so there might be something to that.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:52:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The earliest mammals WERE small and rodent-like, so really, take any mammal, and it shares a common ancestor with any other mammal that was small and rodent-like, if not the most recent ancestor.
Gullex ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:03:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Zebras and Horses are very closely related. They're both from the same genus (Equus), they're closer to horses than humans are to chimpanzees. Kangaroos, on the other hand, are marsupials, a whole different type of mammal. Zebras are closer to horses, whales, and human beings (in that order) than they are to Kangaroos.
But back to the main thing about bats and mice, look up a bat skull, then look up a rodent skull. Compare the similarity of bat skulls to those of dogs or pigs, and then compare them to a rodent skull. Obviously, there's a lot more to evolutionary relatedness than skull shape, but this can help to give you a sense of how different rats and bats really are, despite having some superficial similarities in size and shape.
Zebras and Horses are very closely related. They're both from the same genus (Equus), they're closer to horses than humans are to chimpanzees. Kangaroos, on the other hand, are marsupials, a whole different type of mammal. Zebras are closer to horses, whales, and human beings (in that order) than they are to Kangaroos.
I do understand this, i wanted a comparison that would immediately be recognizable as being wrong, there could have been better comparisons but it was the best i could think of at the time.
But back to the main thing about bats and mice, look up a bat skull, then look up a rodent skull. Compare the similarity of bat skulls to those of dogs or pigs, and then compare them to a rodent skull. Obviously, there's a lot more to evolutionary relatedness than skull shape, but this can help to give you a sense of how different rats and bats really are, despite having some superficial similarities in size and shape.
I think the eyes are what do it for me, but even the body of these ones in particular visually look to be shaped quite similar to mice to me.
Im not saying that any of this is wrong, just that it seems very strange to me.
I'm not sure why you think bats look like mice? They aren't exactly mice with wings. Theres a huge amount if variation in how they look, but to me macro bats have a dog like face, while micro bats have weird-ass faces they don't look like any other animal in particular. Outside of their face, their bodies don't really resemble any other animals thanks to the whole flying thing.
I guess it would be the eyes that make the strongest comparison but to me there are similarities in their ears, feet and even body shape (try to ignore the wings for this)
I understand that they arent that closely related but it was just really surprising.
I had to fact check and to my (admittedly ignorant) self this seems wrong. According to Wikipedia, horse and zebra are in the same family while a kangaroo isn't... Am I missing something?
Humans are more closely related to rodents than raccoons are. So Rocket in Guardians of the Galaxy had every right to get pissed off when he was called a rodent, because those calling him a rodent were literally more closely related to rodents than he was anyway.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:00:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And my girlfriend is more closely related to me than my cousin.
I think you've got that one mixed up. Humans and mice are more closely related to each other than either species is to bats. That's one of the reasons scientists use mice in their experiments.
redlaWw ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:57:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It makes more sense when you realise that salps have a spinal cord, which is a feature of vertebrates. (i.e. it seems more reasonable that salps are related to sea cucumbers, and that salps are closer to vertebrates because of their spinal cord)
Who_GNU ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:47:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And red tomatoes are more closely related to eggplant than to the green tomatoes (tomatillos) used in salsa verde.
I mean we all live in shit so this sounds accurate
Gullex ยท 57 points ยท Posted at 03:46:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd like to clear up this misconception.
While psilocybe cubensis, commonly known as the "magic mushroom", is considered a dung-loving species in the wild, when cultivated indoors for commercial purposes it is not often grown on manure. Rather, usually a combination of some type of grain such as rye, millet, corn, or brown rice is used as the nutritional aspect of the substrate with coconut husk, vermiculite, and/or peat is used for moisture retention.
Your magic mushrooms probably were not grown on shit.
[deleted] ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 04:14:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why are you specifically talking about magic mushrooms?
Gullex ยท 48 points ยท Posted at 04:20:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because those are the mushrooms people most often believe are grown on dung.
Few mushrooms, in fact, actually grow on dung, even in the wild. Most thrive on decaying wood.
wakingop ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:20:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Um... Your standard white button mushroom from the grocery also grow on shit
Sure, all the fancy ones grow on wood
Gullex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:18:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Our 'manure' is around 5-10% actual horse shit. We use the bedding from the stables which horses are kept in at the race track. The other 90-95% is hay. It is all composted, and broken down, and then further broken down by the mycelium as it grows, and eventually turns this into delicious mushrooms. The shit boosts the yields tremendously, and as far as cubensis mushrooms, they are corprophiles, literally means 'dung loving'.
Although not all coprophilous fungi produce mushrooms, there are many that do, particularly in the genera Coprinopsis, Panaeolus and Deconica.[1] Known species include:
Bolbitius vitellinus[2]
Conocybe moseri[9]
Conocybe pubescens[2]
Conocybe rickenii[7]
Coprinellus niveus[7]
Coprinopsis acuminata
Coprinopsis cinerea
Coprinopsis narcotica [7]
Coprinopsis patouillardii[7]
Coprinopsis radiata[6]
Crucibulum laeve[10]
Cyathus stercoreus[10]
Deconica coprophila[11]
Deconica merdaria[11]
Panaeolus papilionaceus[6]
Panaeolus semiovatus[6]
Protostropharia[11] (all species)
Psilocybe cubensis
Anyone interested, please join us over @ /r/MushroomGrowers ! We're a fun loving easy going bunch.
well thank you for the clarification, I truly did not know this about mushrooms...
one time I was told that magic mushrooms actually make your brain think you're dying so you try to kill yourself while you're high as a kite.
I'm an avid supporter of recreational drug usage, do your thang people (responsibly, don't do dumb shit pls) but that fact has never left my brain and is the main reason I have never "shroomed" .. sounds terrifying AF
but I'll fuck up a Marsala any day, hit me with those goodies... as long as pasta is involved. nommmmmmmmmmmmmm
jargoon ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:39:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I haven't tried shrooms, but I've done LSD a few times (from what I understand, the experience is very similar). It's totally not like that at all. Last thing I'd want to do while tripping is kill myself, I was busy thinking about how amazing life and nature were and how lucky I was to even exist. Also, a common misconception is that you aren't aware that you're tripping. You are totally aware that any visuals you see (crazy colors and shifting movement) aren't real, unless you take a very large dose. Other than that, the primary effects are lateral thinking, self-introspection, creativity, appreciation for nature, really interesting philosophical thoughts, feeling connected with the universe, and really good conversation.
I did a lot of research before trying it for the first time, but I was still pretty nervous about it because I didn't know what to expect. Afterward, I was so glad I did it.
I guess a good analogy would be if all your teachers and parents told you how terrifying and dangerous roller coasters were, but then you found out people actually enjoyed them and they were actually really safe. So you finally steel yourself up to go to Six Flags with a couple of trusted friends all day and find out you're having the time of your life.
Also, much like a day at Six Flags, afterward you're pretty drained and probably won't go again for a few months haha (hallucinogens are pretty much the opposite of addictive in that sense)
well that's some information I didn't know, I've never taken LSD so this is new to me...
when you did your research, did you read about the long term effects? I remember in middle school (D.A.R.E. days) during a Health class, we were told that you could do LSD once and like twenty years later just start tripping again. Is that not accurate?
I don't take all of these stupid facts as TRUE, they're just stuff I've heard over the years about drugs I never really had an urge to do.. so just my curiousity talking more than anything.
jargoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:49 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, from what I've read that's not accurate, and if it is, it is very mild, like you might see a tracer or something very minor. LSD doesn't stay dormant in your spine or whatever that rumor is, you basically just pee it out or it's metabolized very quickly. There is a possible thing where the hallucinations never go away, but it seems to be more hearsay than actual documented fact, and if it's real it is vanishingly rare.
The main results of my research were just that setting and mindset were important, and that it lasts for about 9 hours (it peaks for about 45 min and then you're at a nice medium level for several hours), so you need to just plan out a day around it and be with people you trust.
I haven't researched in a long time, but from what I remember, there really weren't long-term effects. Maybe if you took it frequently in high dosages over a long period of time, but other than that, there really wouldn't be. The only issues seemed to come from taking them if you weren't mentally stable.
As for tripping again later, 100% false. It metabolizes before the trip is even over, completely gone from your system. The only thing remotely similar to that is a flashback, but it's not as if the drug is going back into your system. All it is, is reliving something from the trip again. Supposedly, if something during the trip is super emotional (e.g. traumatic), you may relive it as you may relive a bad car accident or something like that. It has nothing to do with the drug itself - it only relates to the emotional experience you go through.
Gullex ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:25:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know where you heard that but it's completely untrue.
How can I put this....what magic mushrooms do is remove the filters that we carefully craft through our lives, as a result of societal expectations and a desire to preserve our self image. They allow us to perceive the world with greater immediacy, intuitively, intimately and without the lens of preconceived notions of how we're supposed to see things.
Depending on your mental state before you ate the mushrooms, this can either be beautiful and enlightening on a level you cannot comprehend or absolutely terrifying.
The people I know who say they do not like magic mushrooms are people who I think have a very strong, artificial, self-image they like to present to people. They do not prefer that image be questioned because to remove that image would be to force them to take a long hard look at what they really are.
The people I know who really enjoy mushrooms are the people who have nothing to hide, are honest with themselves, are open to new ways of understanding and seeing.
If you think magic mushrooms are something you would have a bad experience with, then do not try them, because you will have a bad experience.
However, if it's something you want to use as a tool of self-inquiry, then surround yourself with loving and caring people, people you'd be OK crying in front of. Find a safe, warm, comfortable environment, promote a mood of safety, growth, compassion, and happiness, and eat your mushrooms. It's a life-changing experience. Many people have described it as one of the most important experiences of their lives, and they have been permanently changed for the better from it.
Used to always have bad trips for the longest time but then i realized it was because i kept thinking i was going to have a bad trip because the last one was bad. It really is all in your head. I was just gonna say how wrong the comment you replied to was but i think you did a better job. It's similar to chemicals already in your brain.
Gullex ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:33:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. The mushrooms will just magnify whatever you've already got going on in your head.
thanks for the info! very insightful... I'll have a more open mind in the future! I probably won't go looking for shrooms, but if the opportunity presents itself, I might change my mind.
and for the record, I wasn't saying I believed whatever I was told or that it's true, I was just saying it was one of those comments someone made and it stuck with me, regardless of how irrational it sounds.
It's like you learned what they do and then put your own psychonaut twist on it.
Studies show though they allow parts of the brain that usually wouldn't communicate communicate by removing barriers that usually keep them from doing so . that's why people experience synethesia and other hallucianations and visuals.
Gullex ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:41:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was speaking from experience. I don't buy into the psychonaut thing, this is just the most accurate way to describe it subjectively.
Considering that the mushrooms that kill things and take over their bodies to spread their spores and then erupt out of their heads freak me out... this is not good news.
Gullex ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 05:14:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What does "closely related" actually mean in this context?
Serious question, no troll
ijflwe42 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 10:26:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It means that humans and archaea share a common ancestor that is more recent than the last common ancestor of bacteria and archaea.
It's the same principle as your brother or sister being more closely related to you than your cousin. The last common ancestor of you and your sister is your parents. The last common ancestor of you and your cousin is your grandparents. The closer the last common ancestor, the more closely related you are.
Thanks for the correction! What is the difference between phylogenetics and cladistics? I'm not a biologist; I've just studied this casually in my free time, so there's a lot I don't understand within this field.
It's a sociological difference more than a scientific one, and has a very inane cause: many years ago, in the 80s and 90s, when molecular phylogenetics was still a young field (people just started getting DNA sequences for things), there was a massive fight between two camps in taxonomy: One side argued that paraphyletic taxa (think "reptiles" -- the last common ancestor of reptiles is also an ancestor of birds, but birds are not included in "reptiles") are totes kosher and should be valid for formal use, while the other side argued that all taxa must be clades, or that the group should include all descendants of the last common ancestor. The latter were called cladists. The two camps hated one another with the fiery wrath of a thousand dying suns.
There were other issues too: some argued that you cannot define a taxon unless you specify a specific shared derived character (think innovation) only shared by that group -- eg. four limbs in tetrapods. Others argued that's not necessary for definition, all you need is a type specimen (critter in a jar that the taxon is legally based on -- yes, somewhere in a museum collection is a type coelocanth, possibly in a jar of ethanol or formaldehyde...) and characters are a different issue altogether.
Somehow, methodology entered the debate, and this is related to the synapomorphy issue: if you believe that taxa are defined by synapomorphies, then you may be inclined to apply the same philosophy to phylogenetic methods (ie, statistics). Basically, there are methods of comparing DNA sequences that essentially count changes (Parsimony); and there are methods that use statistical Likelihood to pick a possible ancestral state that would most probably result in the data you observe. And then there's Bayesians who say 'to hell with picking a particular ancestral state when we can just multiply out weighted probabilities over all possible ones!' -- which, as you may have guessed, also led to a war of its own, but that war is also among statisticians and thus not solely our fault ;-)
Anyway, somehow, cladists (recall people who would not accept paraphyletic taxa) also became hooked on synapomorphies, and therefore Parsimony methods -- to the exclusion of Likelihood (not to mention Bayes). Back then, sequencing was slow and expensive, so they had lots of time to sit around and argue while some poor shmuck reads out a sequencing gel by hand. Over time, sequencing became cheap and easy, and the field had actual data to work with, so the arguing has died down for the most part. Cladists won the taxonomic terminology debate -- while we still use paraphyletic taxa ("Reptiles") informally, formal taxonomic definitions are generally expected to be monophyletic. The other two issues, however, synapomorphies and parsimony, fell to the side as the field of molecular phylogenetics exploded with shiny new statistical methods, terrifying computational power, and an overload of data. Parsimony methods are crap for avoiding some notorious artefacts (most importantly, they place very derived lineages next to each other regardless of whether or not they're actually related). Synapomorphies... well, some people have by now forgotten there's an organism behind all the sequence data ;-)
The cladists didn't let go of the argument yet, however, and still have their own journal: Cladistics. Which recently put out a hilarious editorial. Fortunately, most of them are inching closer to retirement...
And that's probably more than you ever wanted to know about the cladistics-phylogenetics debate.
Oh man, thank you for taking the time to write this up! I had no idea there was ever a fight within cladistics/phylogenetics like this.
I feel like I'm 20 years behind on all this, since in my high school (2007-2011) we didn't learn any form of cladistics/phylogenetics whatsoever. It was the very-outdated Linnean taxonomy with 5-6 kingdoms. We didn't even discuss evolution, which I think was for political reasons (I lived in a small, Midwestern American town). My teacher, who truly was fantastic, was quite outdated on her information too. We learned the phylum Coelenterata, for example, which has long been discredited as Ctenophora and Cnidaria have been shown to be quite separate.
And then in college I studied history, so I never took another biology class, but this is all still fascinating to me.
I don't want to bog you down with questions, so I'll just ask one: what do you think is the most interesting or revolutionary discovery in phylogenetics in the last 20 years?
Don't feel bad about being behind or anything -- it takes a long time for information to percolate down to the general education system. Hell, even intro biology courses in universities are easily a good 10 years behind. Most freshly released textbooks have blatantly outdated pieces of information in them in areas where you're familiar with the field. And non-specialists have neither the time nor the obligation to keep up -- which is why science journalists and communicators have such an important job, dammit!
I have a biased perspective coming from a tiny field that specialises in organisms that are hard to compare without molecular biology, but I'd say the cheap sequencing and tree-building technologies that came with it. Our understanding of how the tree of eukaryotes looks changed completely, which is why I rail against the Woese tree that's often used to show relationships between prokes and euks. Old phylogenetic techniques placed derived (think 'weird', but in terms of DNA sequence) organisms at the base of the tree, regardless of whether they actually went there. This was particularly bad for parasites, who tend to evolve very rapidly (think arms race with the host) and thus end up with weirder-than-usual sequences. So we had this tree where most of the parasitic lineages were deeply branching, and the three main multicellular groups (animals, fungi, plants) at the tip of the tree.
This turned out to be a horrible phylogenetic artefact. Turns out, those parasites are interspersed within non-parasitic groups, and aren't related to each other at all (in terms of sharing an origin of parasitism). Moreover, all these random protist groups that are usually presented as the "grab bag of odds and ends", which they were, turn out to actually have substantial structure to them. The three famous multicellular lineages each arise independently from within protists, with fungi and animals on the opposite side of the tree from plants, separated by at least a billion years of evolving protist lineages. This explains why the organismal biology (eg. molecular pathways) is so different between them! The malaria parasite turns out to be a derived alga that lost photosynthesis; Giardia isn't an "early" eukaryote but a very specific member of a larger group of flagellates that are not all parasitic; microsporidia (another parasite) is now a fungus; and the last eukaryotic common ancestor is no longer an anaerobe! That last bit was also a result of the phylogenetic artefact.
We still have a lot of problems with the tree, but the overall "supergroups" are fairly stable now, even if the deep relationships between them are a bit murky. We also don't know where the root of the eukaryotic tree goes -- it seems like the supergroups evolved so rapidly (perhaps rapidly overtaking other eukaryotic lineages that are now extinct -- acquiring the mitochondrion is a very tempting explanation for that but we simply don't know at the moment. And while phylogenetic methods are still being improved (right now the focus is on getting models of evolution right, which is a very computer science and stats heavy field that I can't really follow), taxon sampling -- getting the sequences of critters in helpful phylogenetic positions -- is currently a bottleneck, and one that takes time. You basically have to discover new organisms, and rediscover long-lost weirdos, to help address that issue. Which, incidentally, is what my thesis project is based on =) Did I mention 'biased'? ;-)
To fully illustrate the beauty of cheap sequencing: just 10 years ago, to build a multi-gene phylogeny (more genes = more signal), you had to individually amplify each of the genes you wanted. Without knowing the target sequences (you'd pick sites you expect to not change much in functioning versions of that gene, but that assumption can be shaky at best), you could spend half a PhD doing just that. Last year, I had an organism I couldn't resolve with usual single-gene methods, and my supervisor advises me to just get a transcriptome. Ie, sequence all the expressed genes in that organism (just 1500-2000$ now). This organism is not even formally described yet, it has no name... and it has a transcriptome. I can fish out the 200-300 genes for my phylogenies without breaking a sweat. That was unheard of even 10 years ago, and 20 years ago we didn't even have a human genome. It's kind of AWESOME! =D
Gullex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa. That is amazing. Like amoeba?
ijflwe42 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:48:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Amoeba are also more closely related to humans than they are to bacteria, yes.
But archaea are much, much more distantly related to us than amoeba are. Amoeba are also eukaryotic (meaning they have a cell nucleus, like we do). Archaea and Eukarya (the group that includes animals, plants, fungus, protists - like the amoeba - and other smaller groups of organisms) split from each other very early on in the evolution of life. Before they split, they formed a single clade called Neomura, which is why they're more closely related to each other than either group is to bacteria.
Just a warning: that tree is so ridiculously out of date that it should be phased out in non history-of-science contexts =) Especially the eukaryotes are all completely wrong. And there is some developing evidence, though the jury is still out on whether it could be artefactual, that eukaryotes emerge from within Archaea (ie, there are some archaeans more closely related to eukaryotes than to other archaeans).
Yeah, we (as a field) really need to make one that's accessible and visually appealing. My focus is on protists, so I have a tree of eukaryotes here, on my cruelly neglected blog. The prokaryote people have their own trees that typically exclude eukaryotes or get them wrong anyway. We should overcome our differences someday and make a simplified diagram that gets euks and prokes right, but I haven't found a tree like that yet. If anyone has -- please do let me know!
Gullex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:54:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Crocodilians are more closely related to birds than to any other animal, including other reptiles. They form the clade Archosauria.
All venomous reptiles are descended from one common ancestor, and form the clade Toxicofera.
Lizards and snakes form a clade together (Squamata) and are therefore equidistantly related to anything else. Said another way, snakes are just as closely related to the tuatara as lizards are, even though lizards and tutaras are superficially similar.
Echinoderms (starfish and their relatives) are more closely related to chordates (vertebrates + a few small groups) than they are to anything else. Together, they form the majority of the clade Deuterostoma, which is essentially the group of animals (including us) whose anus forms before the mouth as an embryo.
Ctenophores (comb jellies), which are superficially similar to cnidarians (jellyfish and their relatives), may actually be quite distantly related. Their exact placement in the tree of life is currently disputed, and they may be a sister group to all other living animals.
Some sponges, like the calcareous sponges, are more closely related to all non-sponge animals than they are to any other sponge.
I must add that this is presumably morphological (shape) simplicity we're talking about. Bacteria are far more metabolically diverse and versatile than eukaryotes are, so overall, it's not so easy to say who's simple.
They're not quite the same. Prokaryotic means they don't have a cell nucleus (as opposed to Eukaryotic). There are single-celled, Eukaryotic organisms, like amoebas.
There are no multi-cellular Prokaryotes though, so I guess I could have just said Prokaryotic, but in general both terms are meaningful and distinct, especially since I was highlighting the surprising relationship between humans (multicellular) and archaea (unicellular).
It can be argued that some prokes exhibit multicellularity; for what it's worth, if fungi, especially moulds, are considered multicellular, then so should actinomycetes (a group hyphal bacteria). Some cyanobacteria show cell differentiation: akinetes and heterocysts in Anabaena as a common textbook example. So I wouldn't say that "single-celled prokaryote" is at all redundant.
Mushrooms grow from decaying carbon lifeforms so like. Is this why? A mushroom grows from, say, a dead wolf and that wolf is technically more closely related to a human than an orchid so that mushroom, by extension, is more closely related to humans than an orchid?
Gullex ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:28:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, it doesn't have to do with how they get their nutrition. If you look at the evolutionary tree, humans and fungi branch more closely than fungi and plants.
jado06 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:29:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does that make eating mushrooms closer to cannibalism rather than vegetarian?
AgAero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:33:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How is this calculated? 'Closely related' seems to mean either something related to the shortest distance between 'us' and 'them' in the branch network that is the hereditary family tree of all life on earth, or something related to the commonalities of our DNA. If DNA is treated like code(a sequence of bits of information actually), how do you decide what the appropriate 'word length' is to compared subsets of ours to theirs?
That sounds wrong to me. The most recent common ancestor of humans and insects would have been the urbilateria, which I would think was a descendant of metazoa rather than Protozoa. I'm not saying it's wrong I'm just curious about the details.
So Mario's obsession with Princess Toadstool doesn't seem so creepy now.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:39:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See, I completely understand how this works... but it's so fuck-y that I can't help but stop and think
"Maybe someone, somewhere, fucked up the classification system."
Like, how is that even possible? Maybe the rules that we use to classify things are a little broken, like a game that's in better. Every like 1000th time an action is done the game glitches out.
Maybe it's similar to our biological classification. In a hundred years perhaps biologists will look back on our time and be like 'lol... they thought mushrooms were closely related to us! They forgot to carry the protein!! HAHA! Barbarians! Alright... let's go get legally high!'
You are also more closely related to Amoeba (or most major groups of amoebae, in fact) than either of you are to plants.
Neither of the three well-known multicellular eukaryote groups actually share the same origin of multicellularity. Multicellularity has arisen multiple times independently and is not actually all that unusual.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:58:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't this the premise of the Super Mario Bros?
jarobat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:22:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans are more closely related to rodents than to any non primate.
If you're into sci-fi, check out Omnivore by Piers Anthony. It's one of his earlier works, before he sort of got pigeon-holed into the Fantasy genre. It's about a planet where the dominant species are all sentient, mobile fungi and the researchers coming to understand and even get to know some of these creatures.
Well... if evolution theory wasnt a good escape from a creator, this example alone would be reason enough for the scientific community to debunk the whole thing.
A YEAR? Damn that's more than my entire degree + maintenance loan. I can see why there's so much complaint about it now
NadBueno ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 13:13:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, and the Americans have pay proper interest on their student loans and don't have it forgiven when they're old. I can see why they're so pissed off.
Yeah, I would say the quality of education in general subjects is probably on par (like, Econ 101 at your big state school is pretty much the same as at your local CC), but once you get deeper into your coursework the differences really become apparent. All that money does go somewhere. Usually to hiring really good faculty, and good researchers.
Jdub415 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:41:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From my experience, you're not far off. Granted my teachers at UC berkeley were better than at CCSF, but the BIG difference is in how people regard that degree once you graduate.
I definitely prefer cc for general education. There's a new program in my state that allows you to do 2 years free at cc and transfer with all credits to state.
Really the bigger factor for me though is that the average cc student is more mature. Most of the people there are in the labor force paying their tuition and studying seriously.
State undergrads around here just waste their parents money partying.
You usually can't get a Bachelors and definitely not a masters or doctorate from a community college. They usually only give out associates degrees. I also went to a CC and there is a big difference between a community college and a university.
A state college (which is a proper university focusing primarily on Bachelor's and Master's degrees [not bashing CC, which is great for learning about subjects for the sake of learning, and for educating yourself enough about a subject to get a bse understanding in order to enter a field]) costs at least $13k per year in my state, not including housing, food, and books.
That's not every school though. That's about the most expensive private university you could find. In-state prices for a top public university like UNC is about 20,000. Still a lot, but not as ridiculous as 60,000.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:18:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The only way you pay that much is if you're rich and go to an expensive private school. Schools with tuition that high give tons of aid to less wealthy students. Public schools can cost 1/4 to 1/2 that much. Community colleges get you half way and only cost a couple thousand a year. If you're paying 60k a year, you're either rich or an idiot.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:36:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Well surely if the private average is $32k, but it can be done for $13k, there must also be degrees highly above $32k?
calilac ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:06:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you keep yourself at a certain level of poverty and live in the uni library so you don't have to buy books it's possible to do it for free. Pell grant, scholarships, other students or faculty taking pity on your wretched starving body enough to feed you...
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bdogg54 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:17:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For what it's worth, most of the private colleges my friends go to have tuition and fees that are around 50k, but along with room and board, it comes to 60k+. You almost always have to stay on campus at those schools (at least the first two years) making that 60k price tag next to mandatory.
I don't understand why it's seen as good to many and controversial to change when we are like the only first world (or one of the only) countries to do this.
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[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 14:12:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a set cap. Almost all good universities charge that amount.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:20:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Almost all universities charge the ยฃ9k plenty of bad ones.
Also in the UK there is Oxford & Cambridge -> Russel Group. You can go to a good university and still be no where near Oxford level.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:52:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know, I went Warwick. My statement didn't exclude shitty unis, I was just speaking for the good ones which usually always charge the maximum amount (ยฃ9k/year).
Bit unrelated, but what's your overall opinion on the uni? I've got an offer for next year and I'm trying to decide which to choose.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:28:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I loved Warwick. Down to earth people, awesome campus, good SU (minus the SJW stuff), remote enough to not be a noisy city but central enough that you can get to Birmingham or London fairly easily. I strongly recommend it.
Would you say employability or actual enjoyment of the time at uni is more important? I'm wanting to do PPE and I got all my offers apart from Oxford, so it's mainly a choice between Warwick and King's. I've heard London is a terrible place to study though.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:43:59 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ideally both. Employability is very important, and between Russell Group universities it is about the same overall. But when it comes to the subject you pick it will make a huge difference. For example if you pick Afro-Caribbean Studies, don't expect a job, especially a high paying one, but if you pick almost any STEM job, business degree, and the like you should be fine.
PPE I am unsure about, I'd look up other people's experiences with that degree and where they go. I picked my degree based on passion, but it also happened to coincide with my career passion too (Computer Science -> Game dev/ software dev). Your enjoyment of uni will also be heavily affected by whether your degree is fun. I did some Mathematics before CS and hated it, it was hard, not my passion, and I didn't care. I switched to CS and loved it, every coursework was fun.
So in the end pick your uni based on it's ranking and what you'll enjoy (campus vs city) and degree based a combination of passion and employability.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:55:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
None of what I said disagreed with you. Not sure what your point is.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:14:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haa, just graduated with my master's from Oxford and about half my classmates are waitressing/temping/in retail. The other half are in fabulously exciting and important positions, but they're the ones who already had good connections in their field or come from backgrounds wealthy enough that they could take on unpaid internships throughout their degree. Having an Oxford degree on your CV still isn't very useful when there's not much work around, alas...
Why did you go to a school that is in the 99.9th percentile for tuition costs? You can't really complain when you chose the most expensive private school possible or went out of state.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 14:06:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
9000 pounds is just the tuition, and coincidentally is the same tuition price as the University of California System. Two UC campuses, Berkeley and UCLA are top world class universities comparable to Oxford. If you haven't been paying attention to the news the US just adopted a new federal loan forgiveness program called REPAYE.
It is fine to complain about anything, but it is also important to have your facts in order. Complaining about $50,000+ tuition when you have full control over what university you attend is stupid. So is assuming that this person's story is anywhere near what the average US student faces.
Even then you are ignoring that average student debt in the UK has recently eclipsed that of the US.
Chao-Z ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:20:43 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
UC schools still cost 50,000 (more or less depending which one) if you don't live in California, so not much help to a lot of people.
Sure but other states have their own great public universities. Check through the Times Higher Education rankings and there are tons of public schools in the top 100.
Per capita the US and the UK have practically the same number of students attending top 50 universities, with a sight edge to the US, so great education is just as accessible here.
Chao-Z ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:39:42 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure, but the point I made was that if you don't live in one of those states (like living in say, Montana or Idaho) you're kinda screwed financially by it.
Plus, that's a pretty damn small pool of schools to choose from that don't cost a lot, considering only public schools in your state will be cheap (less than 25k a year, which still isn't all that cheap), and most states dont have more than one public college.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:45:05 on April 17, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Harvard is the best university in the world and covers 100% of Financial need
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:20:21 on April 18, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm afraid I'm going to have to stick with university loyalty here on the best university, I'm afraid. Does it? I had a quick look at the costs and it was about $85,000 which is nuts.
And if they didnt, it meant they were rich enough to pay ยฃ36,000 up front, which, if they did, meant that it wouldnt have been considered much of a sacrifice to them lol. It would have been like pocket change yadigg
Edit- This is england Im talking about, not america. Anyone can apply for a tuition loan which covers the ยฃ9000 per year fee and is a special type of loan. As is stated somewhere in this thread, the loan interest follows the inflation rate and it is forgiven after 30 years if not paid off by then. It also only starts paying when the user is earning over ยฃ21k a year (a fixed percentage from their income-9% or something, which increases if yearly income increases above 21k). Only someone stinking rich would consider paying it upfront in full without taking the tuition loan.
You can't assume just because someone made the choice to pay 36k upfront in order to save themselves/their child from having to spend significantly more than that amount on a student loan in the future that it wasn't a big investment for them. Yes, of course there's a few uber rich people who perhaps that kind of money doesn't mean alot, but for most students/parents the decision to pay tuition upfront is something that involves a lot of consideration and some pretty significant sacrifices in other areas of their lives to help front that cost.
Student loans in the UK have interest capped at inflation and you only pay back of you're earning over 21k a year, and they're forgiven when you're old. If you have the cash it makes more sense to take the loan and invest the cash.
They are (1k more and upfront), but in a course which includes masters it costs the same as 1 year undergrad. So instead of paying 10k up front you can do a masters with the student financing.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:51:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its like this. Say, I can do a BEng (3 years). When it comes around to it, I would have to pay ยฃ10k up front in cash for the extra year to obtain a masters. That means I have the freedom to stay at that uni or transfer to another to do the masters, or even not do it at all, so its the more flexible option. But, if I have that intention from the start then I can apply for an MEng at that uni instead which adds an extra year of study at that uni (for the masters) and this time 9k to the tuition loans that I am gonna take out, thus meaning I dont pay upfront. So its something to consider before you even start uni. Of course, the loan doesnt get taken out until you actually start that following year of uni (and even then its in installments, so you can still change your mind even if you applied for an MEng, so technically that would be more flexible I guess actually)
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:12:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless you just started your tuition would have been either ~ยฃ1,000 or ยฃ3,000 a year. Oxford would cost significantly higher if there was a free market for tuition fees.
Tuition hasn't been ยฃ1000 for quite a while now, and the ยฃ9000 fees were introduced in 2012 IIRC. Unless you're doing a PhD, or in the final year of an unusually long undergrad course, then you've paid ยฃ9000 a year to be at the uni.
Zebidee ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:24:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was that high in the 1400's?
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Zebidee ยท 457 points ยท Posted at 09:34:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd never thought of the problem of inventing universities before printing presses.
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elboydo ยท 209 points ยท Posted at 11:23:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IT's where the modern names "Lecturer, speaker, reader, professor, etc" come from. Back then the books were often held in the library and could only be retrieved by the highest rated university staff.Often some books could be worth more than the building they were taken to.
The general idea was a lecturer could teach what they knew, a speaker could look at the books, write notes, then read it back to students, a reader could actually take a book out with a professors permission and read it, or most importantly, a professor was free to take a book out on their own accord.
The current hierarchy is based on coping with paper, ink, and th eskills to make a book, being in scarce supply.
elboydo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:01:14 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll try to find a solid source, but this was mainly from a professor at the pub (English professor so a properly placed one, not the american type.
Normally this guy is pretty trustworthy for this sort of antiquated information, but remind me and i'll do my best
bl1y ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 12:21:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Today, a professor is someone with a very nice income and infinite job security (provided they don't ask for "some muscle"). A lecturer is a part-time employee probably making close to minimum wage, but teaching classes the university charges full price for. A speaker is a guest, and gets paid for 1 hour about what a lecturer earns in an entire semester. A reader is no one. No one fucking reads.
bl1y ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 15:04:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm very aware.
The university where I teach officially calls that position "adjunct instructor," but has us tell our students to call us "Professor." They say it's for "consistency," but I suspect it's so they don't realize they're getting a cut-rate teacher.
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elboydo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:01:46 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly I couldn't remember the exact difference, but I'm pretty sure that some places considered it to be the difference of having the book there, or reading back notes or what you remember of the book
They just had to memorize more, good thing there was less history back then.
xpoc ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 10:39:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It really wouldn't have been much of an issue back then. People didn't really learn from textbooks like they do now.
Lecturers had to actually teach.
kamgar ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:26:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The lack of printing presses is actually largely responsible for the lecture/note taking format in universities today. It's an outdated way of disseminating large amounts of information to a large audience.
That's a big reason they were invented at all. If you have to hand copy a book, you keep that copy somewhere nice and safe. But books are useless if no one reads them, so you collect them, and let people read them in your nice big complex. Now if the people want to talk about your book material, you've started a university.
It probably made more sense then, than now! Think about it: back in the time, how would you go about learning something? The possibilities were rather limited, if not non-existent, so you had to go to a university and actually learn from people with appropriate knowledge or access to it. Nowadays, you have almost unlimited access to sources of knowledge in virtually any field, and nothing is holding you off from becoming an expert in, say, quantum physics - but you still need to go to a university for somebody to confirm you actually know something :)
Nice not to have all the students bitching about buying textbooks, probably. That said, they probably expected, you know, discussion. Must have been a magical time.
If you don't die of a bunch of stuff, maybe! I'm sure like now, they thought things were alright. 500 years from now, folks will look back at us thinking how primitive we were.
"No, you can't take a bank holiday. This university was around before banks"
sirin3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:10:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I heard they already had banks and a stock market in ancient Sumerian
But they lend money to the king and he had to pay a lot of interest. He did not like that, so he seized them all
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 10:05:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Though the more you think about examples like that, the clearer it becomes that it wasn't the same kind of institution as a modern university. It didn't even have a proper library (allowing people to actually read the books!) until the Bodelian was founded in the 1600s. Just before that, the previous collection of books was burnt in case it contained any traces of naughty Catholicism.
Speaking of time frames, the one that gets me is that the wright brothers first flight and putting human beings on the moon are well within the span of a person's life.
That's true but none of those are quite old. The Ottoman Empire was the final of the four Islamic Caliphates. The Incan Empire as well was a new player based on previous nations (Cuzco, Wari, Tiwanaku, Moche, etc.)
Also, while the movable type printing press was invented in Europe after the founding of Oxford, movable printing press itself was not. Movable printing presses were used in China after they were created in 1040, but fell out of use because of the massive amount of characters in Chinese vocabulary and language.
I learned about the english civil war in a school that pre dated it by a century. That was weird to me.
ititsi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:19:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Byzantine Empire is something lots of people know of but don't know much about, checkit yo podcasts to the rescue B-boys! It's really awesome actually.
You're correct, sorry. All my knowledge of this is from five weeks in Mexico a year ago :) from wiki:
Theย Mexicaย (Nahuatl:ย Mฤxihcah,ย [meหหสiสkaส];[1]ย the singular isย Mฤxihcatlย [meหหสiสkatอกษฌ][1]) orย Mexicasย โ were an indigenous people of theย Valley of Mexico, known today as the rulers of theย Aztec empire.
The Mexica were aย Nahua peopleย who founded their two citiesย Tenochtitlanย andTlatelolcoย on raised islets inย Lake Texcocoย around AD 1200. After the rise of theAztec Triple Alliance, the Tenochca Mexica (that is, the inhabitants of Tenochtitlan), assumed a senior position over their two allied cities โย Texcocoandย Tlacopan.
MJWood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:26:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, further south, between present-day Mexico City and Guatamala, but not hugely further south.
I actually knew that they were around in the 15th or 16th century, I just didn't know that Oxford is THAT old
yaarra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same here. As someone from Europe, I also thought this was like 2000 BC. Turns out they were only around for a short while and wiped out by a Spanish conquistador in the 16th century. Huh.
Records are records. 1096 was when Oxford was officially 'recognised'. There would have been some form of education going on before hand but how and what it was is basically speculation.
AF79 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:11:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oxford most likely wasn't founded in 1096. We don't know when it was founded, but there has been found evidence of teaching there from 1096, so it's at least that old. If the evidence is correct, of course.
The Aztec Empire was founded in 1428 not long before the Spanish conquest contrary to what one might assume. Teaching in some form existed by 1096 at Oxford and records show that it was recognised as a university in 1231 almost 200 years before the founding of the Aztec Empire.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:01:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tenochtitlan was a bigger, cleaner city than London or Paris at the time. Instead of throwing shit into the street there were receptacles that people would take to the gardens and farms to help support the agriculture needed to feed so many people.
Bonus:There once was a huge temple completed in the city and to dedicate it to the gods they had thousands sacrificed with priests working in shifts for days. The stench of blood and rot was so bad that the whole city was evacuated for a time.
Bonus Bonus: When the Spanish brought Christianity, the locals of the time (post-collapse Maya, or some subculture thereof) jumped right on board with crucifixion. It fit their ideas of blood ritual and self sacrifice.
Bonus Bonus Bonus: Yucatan means "I dont understand you" in the native language. "What is this place?" 'Yucatan.'
Source: no links but I took a Societies of Middle America course a couple years ago.
When someone takes a hundred turns to settle in civ.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:20:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's amazing to think that when the Aztecs were building their civilisation, and alien civilisation on the other side of the world to them were leagues ahead in terms of knowledge. It's kind of metaphorical perhaps of the human race and some other species out there.
I disagree with his reasoning, yes the culture of the civilization is much older than Oxford university. But the political entity the Spaniards came into contact which is called by us the Aztec Empire had only come into being in the 1400s. The statement might be considered misleading but to call it incorrect in my opinion would be wrong.
Thanks for telling me all the same though it was an interesting post that you linked.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:41:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
40.000 Aztec soldies were destroyed by 1000 Spain soldiers.
Good one. I actually couldn't believe that until I looked it up. Thank you.
MJWood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:43:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The temples of Angkor Wat were built over roughly the same period as the cathedrals of Europe, although the earliest ones pre-date the European ones by 2 or 3 hundred years IIRC.
These two civilisations had nothing to do with each other, so the zeitgeist really must exist.
Maybe this is less crazy than it seems. Part of the reason the Spanish were able to conquer the Moctezuma's empire (and Atahualpa's) is that it was so new and relatively unstable. Lots of its subjects remembered being independent, and so there wasn't much incentive for them to defend it.
I'm still sceptical. In my mind there is at least a 50% chance that narwhals are just a joke played on the public by biologists and everyone who knows is just playing along.
A narwhal's tusk is one of the most sensitive parts of their bodies, loaded with millions of nerve endings. They use then to communicate, to sense their surroundings. My guess is that they would know what's in the water around them and not get all stabby.
JorgeGT ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 16:25:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to have an ant problem. Then they destroyed a good portion of my insulation.
Man was that a sadistic year from me. Fun, but very sadistic. No empathy for anything that happens to an ant anymore.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:34:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I woke up me day and found what must have been thousands of ants all over a certain area in my closet. I was actually amazed by the sight for a moment, but I knew that the rest of my day was now wasted.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:26:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Personally, I would recommend starting with a small amount to get the feel of taking care of them. Then getting the rest all at once. They are great for body disposal.
Skika ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:18:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
877-ANTS-NOWW
Chezgum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:19:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you have a structured settlement but you need ants now! Call G.M. Antsnow! G.M. Antsnow!!!
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 11:06:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OP said that for every human there are 1.6 million ants. The second guy jokingly took it literally, saying that he's waiting to get the 1.6 million ants that are "for" him
I think they were sent to our garden by mistake. We are only three people in our household and we have nearly 6.4 milllion ants rather than the 4.8 million we were supposed to have.
Sorry about the mix-up. You can pick them up whenever it suits you.
Phalex ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:39:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think I saw am episode of Archer where there were some instructions on how to get ants.
Don't let them leave the ants until you have counted to make sure they are all there. They tried to swindle me and only delivered 1,599,984 ants. The nerve of some people.
I'm still trying to get mine to put the sugar cube in the tea cup.
aoskunk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:57:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry I think I got your shipment as well as my own. I would send them to you but I've been systematically exterminating them as they walk onto my kitchen counter for years now and I'm afraid there aren't many left.
mtewary ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:57:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you want ants? Because that is how you get ants!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:04:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think they might have been delivered to my house by accident.
We've got millions.
I'm gonna say no. Apparently ants weigh 1-5 mg each, so a million of them would be 5 kg at most, and 1.6 million would be 8 kg. Even considering small children, I'm pretty sure the average human weighs more than 8 kg (17.6 lbs). That's like the average weight of a one-year old.
The weight of every ant on the planet is almost the same as the weight of every human on the planet. I think we're winning because we got some really fat fucks
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
VANY11A ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:38:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When was the last time they did an ant census though? This fact is old, we need to recount the ants again.
no_myth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:52:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Given a mass of roughly 5mg, those 1.6 million ants still only weigh about 10 kilos. So I feel like us humans could totally take the ant population on! If it came to that.
He would have at least been spared the irony. Fox wouldn't let Lucas call it Episode IV: A New Hope until 1981 after ESB was released. Until then it was only Star Wars.
Nope. Nowhere. Realize, not even George honestly believed he'd get a sequel. He was going to settle for releasing Splinter of the Mind's Eye and admit that his big dream was never going to happen, because sci-fi movies rarely got sequels.
That's really interesting. I can't believe I never knew about it. I always thought it said that in the title crawl just to add some mystery even if there weren't going to be any other movies.
I don't know if you're joking, but it's actually true.
Dyesce_ ยท 64 points ยท Posted at 09:27:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did mean the fact. And compare it to "modern" techniques of execution you'll find he had the right idea. Well, abolishing death penalty would be even better but not every country is ready for that step in social evolution yet.
Timmeh7 ยท 80 points ยท Posted at 10:16:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I agree it's almost certainly better than many "modern" execution techniques, but there remains the "living head" problem. The cut made by a guillotine may be a little too clean; it severs the head, but doesn't sufficiently jar the brain case, so the head seemingly, anecdotally remains conscious for a few seconds until the massive drop in cerebral blood pressure takes effect. Surprisingly, long drop hanging, or decapitation by a skilled swordsman are potentially more humane than the guillotine as a result.
The best method of execution was explored by an excellent BBC Horizon documentary presented by Michael Portillo, which found that nitrogen asphyxia is by far the most humane method. You don't feel like you're suffocating (can breathe normally), get a rush of euphoria as oxygen starvation takes effect, and then simply fall unconscious and die. No pain, no suffering. I'm opposed to capital punishment, and in a country which hasn't implemented it in 50 years, but that would seem to be the best way to go if a country intends to execute someone as humanely as possible. Ironically, I know some objection's been raised to it by people who feel it's a little "too humane".
Really though. I'm against the death penalty, but there's something about providing them with the most comfortable death anyone ever gets to experience that doesn't really sit right with me. Is there a toxic gas that makes you feel like you're stuck on hold while you've got really important things to do?
Just make them call Comcast customer service while they are being put under.
Timmeh7 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:20:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is an interesting point that gets raised a lot when I mention nitrogen asphyxia as a method of capital punishment. I suppose it comes back to... what's the rationale for implementing the death penalty to begin with?
When you consider it, the death penalty doesn't achieve much more in terms of protecting the public than life imprisonment. It isn't cost-effective - in the current American system, implementing the death penalty costs millions; it'd be cheaper to try an 18 year old mass-murderer and imprison them for the rest of their natural life, no matter how long they live (within reasonable limits of an actual human lifespan) than to put them to death. It's also not a good deterrent; counter-intuitively, states without the death penalty have consistently lower murder rates.
I know you're anti-death penalty, but I've asked this of people who're for it, and it always boils down to some form of revenge for the victim's family, getting to know that "animal's been put down" or similar. Which raises the question... why not crucify them? Or let the family of the deceased stone them to death? Of course, that makes all but the most rabid death penalty advocates shuffle uncomfortably. Yet still the feeling that nitrogen asphyxia is too "gentle" a way to die, too kind to a murderer at the end persists. Death must be clean, and "kind" (at least in the context of killing a person), and pretty much painless... but completely painless is a step too far.
I can't figure it out myself. I'm also against the death penalty, but I can't rationalise the idea that a method of killing someone is "too pleasant". Usually someone'll spout "well, it's better than that animal did for their victims!" Well yes, of course it is, and it should be. If the state is going to sanction killing a person, surely it has to be better than the people it's killing. Clearly the current methods of killing are aiming for cleaner, less painful or messy deaths (hence the effective end of hydrogen cyanide gas chambers and the massive decline of firing squads and the electric chair) - so how can something become too comfortable? How does the move from lethal injection to nitrogen asphyxia suddenly cross the line from just painful enough to being too kind? Genuinely curious to poll opinions.
Nalivai ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:11:21 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why the hell it's so pricy? What can cost millions in a such simple thing as murder?
Timmeh7 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:32:32 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's almost entirely trial costs, automatic appeals etc over a non-capital murder case. Obviously, courts and juries make mistakes, and inevitably innocent people can go to prison for murder. Capital punishment cases cost a massive amount more to achieve a greater degree of certainty when a life's at stake - and they should. New evidence exonerating someone you've already executed is flagrantly pointless.
Add to this things like death row cells being more expensive to run, with inmates spending a long time on death row (often 10+ years) and it becomes a very cost-ineffective thing to do, even from the outset.
I think people feel that nitrogen asphyxiation is too kind because it seems like a better way to die than a lot of natural deaths. Sure it sucks to die before your time, but you're going euphorically and without pain. What are your chances of doing the same if you're not on death row?
With a lethal injection, even if it is done perfectly and is painless, your last moments are going to have you realize that this is truly the end. You won't if you go via the nitrogen chamber. Maybe for a while, but you'll forget that and go out thinking everything is going to be great.
At least, that's what I feel are the reasons. I'd rather not kill anyone either.
I made my proposal: a toxic gas that makes you feel anxious and uncomfortable. Your 'torturing them in front of their loved ones' is a good idea too, I'll let them know you like that one.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:58:52 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shit... I forgot who we were killing again. Ah screw it, who cares? Let the games begin!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:09:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I don't know though, I've always felt that the death penalty, especially a painless one, isn't necesserily so much a punishment for the criminal as much as it is for their family. Because unless you believe in something like a hell, you have to accept the fact that as soon as the criminal is dead, it's done. The period leading up to the execution may have been shitty, or depressing, or terrifying, or whatever; but once you're dead, you're not bothered by the fact that you're dead. Because you're dead. Your punishment is over. Dying was your punishment. You're no longer around to feel anything and the only thing that remains are two grieving families; that of the victim and that of the murderer (if it's a murderer).
Nalivai ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:08 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not about punishment, it's about preventing further crimes. From this person and from others who will be scary of this.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:45:31 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
If that is the goal I think it's pretty obvious it's failing :P Unless you're talking about serial killers. Then yeah, they won't be able to murder anyone anymore I guess. But most people aren't serial killers and I personally don't see the point of executing a person who has, for example, killed someone in a fit of rage. They still need to be punished but there is very little risk of a repeated offense.
And people are still getting killed, especially so in countries that have the death penalty. In fact research shows (I don't have any numbers, sorry) that countries with the death penalty have more crime, and more violent crimes, than countries without it. Makes sense if you think about it. If you kill someone in the Netherlands, you're arrested and after twenty years or so you're free again. There is less incentive, for example, to desparately try to resist your arrest than in a country where you're almost certain to be put to death.
Not the Republicans starting an illegal war with Iraq, dismantling all the fail safes that restricted Wallstreet and protected the economy or the complete refusal to let anything get passed in Congress? Yea it must be the liberals who decided to completely fuck this country back in 2004 and 2007.
Dyesce_ ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 10:24:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've read the head remains alive for up to a whole minute and can see and all.
I don't see how ending a life by force can be right in any circumstance and by anywho. But torturing someone to death by poison or electrocution is even more beyond my comprehension.
I can think of more humane killing methods like an OD of sleeping meds.
But torturing someone to death by poison or electrocution is even more beyond my comprehension.
And torturing them to death by keeping them in a cage is more humane? Imprisonment is a far greater cruelty than even the electric chair.
Timmeh7 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 10:40:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's quite subjective, however. You'd prefer to be put to death than live out your life in prison, which is fair enough, but personally in a hypothetical choice between the two, I'd live out my days making use of the prison library. The number of people on death row in the US desperately appealing to have their sentence commuted to life imprisonment suggests that most people are in the latter camp, and a painful execution isn't preferable to life in a cage to the majority.
Sometimes, I think about getting sent to prison, so I could finally write that novel.
Dyesce_ ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 10:36:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not where I live.
Also it takes up to thirty years for a death sentence to be fulfilled in the US. 30 years of being afraid to be killed brutally the next day. Yah,way better than therapeutic classes and a minor job to do.
Executions are scheduled in advance. Most of those 30 years are spent with appeals pending. There's no fear of being killed the next day. In fact, being on death row is better and safer than being in gen pop. It's one of the few places in prison where you're not scared you're going to be brutally killed the next day or that night, without warning, for looking at another prisoner the wrong way.
Nice try though.
Dyesce_ ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:53:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then the report I've read about death row might be exaggarated.
You just confirmed the general inhumanity of American penal facilities to me though.
You just confirmed the general inhumanity of American penal facilities prisoners to me though.
FTFY. It's not the guards, it's not the facilities, it's the prisoners. Trust me, I'd love to see an overhaul of the American prison system, but it just won't work with who we are as a people. I don't know a single person for whom the fear of prison doesn't impact their decisions. I've had multiple people pass comments that if they lived in a European country with their "spa prisons" they would actually beat the shit out of/kill a given person. The state of our prisons are a real deterrent to crime. When the only people left are people for whom that deterrent doesn't work, they're going to turn what small comforts there are in prison into something to destroy. Prison library books are regularly defaced. It used to be they accepted donations from the public. That had to stop when books were being used to smuggle in LSD. The problem isn't the prison system, it's American society as a whole.
Dyesce_ ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 11:17:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I see the problem is still with the facility because they fail to keep their occupants safe. I was aware that the imminent danger comes from the inmates.
If our prisons are so ineffective as a deterrent then why do we have fewer murders per 1000 inhabitants and generally less crime, too?
I fully agree that the American society as a whole is very problematic.
There are many aspects to that. A country that feels so superior to any others but where you can lose your job on a whim of your boss. Where you can go broke because of a an injury. Where there's no safety net of any kind at all. But we're the old, backward world. Ok.
Back on topic, I don't even see how imprisonment itself is a helpful tool. I think someone willing to hurt another is not entirely mentally healthy. I believe our goal must be to heal that person, not take our revenge on them. So, our "spa prisons" are a step into the right direction. I think it was Finland that is leading in this. (too lazy to google it)
I see the problem is still with the facility because they fail to keep their occupants safe. I was aware that the imminent danger comes from the inmates.
Unless you're going to put everyone in solitary confinement, which is cruel in and of itself, you can't. Many of these people are in here because they're simply to dangerous to be out on the streets.
If our prisons are so ineffective as a deterrent then why do we have fewer murders per 1000 inhabitants and generally less crime, too?
Because of a difference in society. Size, homogony, and shared history all play a role. You're able to run prisons the way you do because your culture is already less conductive to creating criminals.
I fully agree that the American society as a whole is very problematic.
If you can find a solution to that, we might actually be able to change our prison system.
There are many aspects to that. A country that feels so superior to any others but where you can lose your job on a whim of your boss. Where you can go broke because of a an injury. Where there's no safety net of any kind at all. But we're the old, backward world. Ok.
I didn't call you old or backwards. (Not to mention the Old world is a distinct geography term with no negative connotation) This is one of the problems that tends to arise in a discussion like this. When an American say "Your solution won't work for us" you take it as an insult.
Back on topic, I don't even see how imprisonment itself is a helpful tool.
I absolutely agree. It's simply the least bad tool we have right now.
I think someone willing to hurt another is not entirely mentally healthy. I believe our goal must be to heal that person, not take our revenge on them.
You can't help someone who doesn't want to be helped. You can't make someone stop drinking who doesn't want to stop, and you can't make someone stop hurting people who doesn't want to stop.
So, our "spa prisons" are a step into the right direction. I think it was Finland that is leading in this. (too lazy to google it)
For European society? Absolutely, it seems like it, though I trust actual Europeans would have a better understanding than I would. Of course they're not perfect. There was that guy who went on a murderous rampage slaughtering adults and children because he said the prison system was too lenient, but one man isn't reason enough to say it's not net good. That doesn't mean it would work everywhere.
What is it about American society, in your view, that causes this tendency towards criminality?
I think your European interlocutor has a point about the general lack of a safety net - job security and social welfare being very low on the agenda mean crime is a necessity in the poorest socioeconomic environments in the States - for some people trapped at the bottom, it's simply the only way they have to get ahead. There's also the over-prosecution of minor crimes (possession of drugs, for example) leading to the incarceration and potential criminal indoctrination of otherwise law-abiding people.
The fetishisation of guns and the machismo associated with an American's right to bear arms for the explicit purpose of defense against other Americans is another bizarre attitude, from my European perspective.
The solution, you're right, doesn't start with the prison service. It starts with progressive policies - the kind of thing that the Republican party in particular would view as "un-American" - stuff like a social safety net of a basic income allowance (something Europe hasn't yet properly implemented either) coupled with a reorientation of the public school system (currently, I'm led to believe, laser focused on rote learning and standardised tests) to promote civic sensibility and dissuade people from inheriting their parents' combative attitude towards the world.
Given a generation to take root, such policies should make communities more positively cohesive, rather than the ghettoisation along tribal lines that currently exists in lots of poor areas (if I'm to believe my favourite TV dramas).
I babble. Please excuse the length of this - you've drawn the short straw and been subject to my morning-wakeup wall-of-text. I'm interested in your response to my initial question.
Timmeh7 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:54:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm also European, so take my perspective on the US with a pinch of salt. I'm very conscious of the anti-American circlejerk which goes around reddit; really not out to add to that by any means, but rather highlight the differences.
Europe obviously has more emphasis on social welfare programs - so set a level in society through which nobody should fall. The US does this too, but you tend to find the level is proportionally lower. Of course, wealthier people essentially fund these programs through taxes, so taxes are generally higher in Europe, but the lower echelons of society are better-protected from poverty. America, by contrast (and I'm aware I'm generalising a diverse nation) is often heavily anti-socialist as a result of the cold war, and more individualist than nearly all of Europe. Application of healthcare policy is a prime example of this.
The American rationalisation is generally that if you work harder, you earn more, and you have the right to keep what you earn, and use it to pay for better healthcare, education, housing etc for your family, without having to support anyone else - "you do you, I'll do me". Inevitably, while that works for many, many more who're disadvantaged one way or another will struggle to survive. The upshot is that, compared with Europe, the rich in the US usually do much better, and I feel there's a much higher rate of Americans striving to achieve social mobility, but the poor do much worse without the crutch of European-style welfare programs. Inevitably, deprivation and poverty leads to crime, and a cycle which is hard to break.
There're many other factors, with the war on drugs you mention ultimately feeding into the prison-industrial complex (something which, even trying to be even-handed I feel is indefensible), but I think the gap in quality of life between the average European in poverty and the average American in poverty is the primary reason for the disparity in crime rates. Again, I don't by any means want this post to be interpreted as American-bashing, and I'm happy to be corrected in cases where I'm wrong, or've made a misconception, but there are some fundamental differences in the way Americans and Europeans as a generalised mass perceive social welfare, and these, to my mind remain the primary cause of the disparity.
What is it about American society, in your view, that causes this tendency towards criminality?
I honestly don't know. That would be a great research topic. I think it's the sum of a million different things.
I think your European interlocutor has a point about the general lack of a safety net - job security and social welfare being very low on the agenda mean crime is a necessity in the poorest socioeconomic environments in the States - for some people trapped at the bottom, it's simply the only way they have to get ahead. There's also the over-prosecution of minor crimes (possession of drugs, for example) leading to the incarceration and potential criminal indoctrination of otherwise law-abiding people.
Honestly, I think you hit what may be the single biggest aspect straight on the head. Prohibition specifically and over criminalization in general. When you look at all the laws that people routinely ignore about smaller things (from drugs to speeding), it creates a culture of lack of respect for the law.
The fetishisation of guns and the machismo associated with an American's right to bear arms for the explicit purpose of defense against other Americans is another bizarre attitude, from my European perspective.
I think on this one you have the causality backwards. It's knowing that for many that fear of getting caught is the only thing keeping them from committing crimes makes the need to defend oneself much more paramount. I won't say there might not be some feedback loop, but I think the preponderance of causality flows in the opposite direction you're thinking.
The solution, you're right, doesn't start with the prison service. It starts with progressive policies - the kind of thing that the Republican party in particular would view as "un-American" - stuff like a social safety net of a basic income allowance (something Europe hasn't yet properly implemented either)
The issue here is there's a concern, and I'm not sure how unfounded it is, that the same societal issues that make these problems will cause issues with safety nets. Personally I favor minimum income, but I don't think the reservations about it are unfounded.
coupled with a reorientation of the public school system (currently, I'm led to believe, laser focused on rote learning and standardised tests) to promote civic sensibility and dissuade people from inheriting their parents' combative attitude towards the world.
Education is bipartisanally fucked. I'm not entirely sure how to overhaul it. But trying to use the schools to "promote civic sensibility" sounds a lot like propaganda. A school's job is to impart knowledge, not to parent children.
Given a generation to take root, such policies should make communities more positively cohesive, rather than the ghettoisation along tribal lines that currently exists in lots of poor areas (if I'm to believe my favourite TV dramas).
Just to be clear, the ghettoisation is along financial lines, not tribal ones. (Unless you were using that term loosely)
I babble. Please excuse the length of this - you've drawn the short straw and been subject to my morning-wakeup wall-of-text. I'm interested in your response to my initial question.
The problem is it's a very multifaceted question. If anyone had a real answer that we could be sure worked, it would already be in action. But part of the issue is that any solution has to come from below and be supported from above. If the people don't support the solutions, they won't work.
Yes, I meant tribal in very loose terms indeed - just that communities with similar concerns band together and shun outsiders - be that along racial, religious or economic lines - all apply.
It's funny that you should say that civic education sounds like propaganda, because US schools look plenty propagandised already, with the pledge of allegiance and the amazing amount of patriotic nonsense that seems to be instilled in kids by it.
By civic education, I just mean a slant on the education that highlights how the local and national elements of government work for the people, and how the people can influence that. To provide a sense of empowerment, and to avoid instilling misplaced pride in a broken system - rather the sense that they can help fix it.
It's not something that should be a parent's responsibility, because Politics is part-art, part-science - it's a complex beast, and that's what schools are for: Teaching the complex. Furthermore, if kids are left to learn the lay of the land from their parents, you just get generational voting with nobody thinking for themselves.
(All of which is easier said than done, I know - my own country suffers from a similar inscrutably deadlocked bureaucratic hairball of a government as the US does.)
I agree, solutions need support from above and below - though it increasingly seems these days that never the twain shall meet!
It's funny that you should say that civic education sounds like propaganda, because US schools look plenty propagandised already, with the pledge of allegiance and the amazing amount of patriotic nonsense that seems to be instilled in kids by it.
Trust me, there's nothing instilled in kids by the pledge of allegiance. It's a joke, and no one takes it seriously.
By civic education, I just mean a slant on the education that highlights how the local and national elements of government work for the people, and how the people can influence that.
As far as I know you can't graduate from an accredited high school without a civics class or better. Kids already learn this, though it could possibly be better if it were taught more practically. (ie You're taught the process for amending the constitution, but there could definitely be some benefit to figuring out how to do that practically.)
To provide a sense of empowerment, and to avoid instilling misplaced pride in a broken system - rather the sense that they can help fix it.
You see, the issue is that schools shouldn't be telling students what they should or shouldn't be taking pride in. There are a few examples that can be drawn on pretty uncontroversially (for example expanding suffrage), and that's what's generally used when speaking about something like that. Otherwise it's left for the students to draw their own conclusions.
(Easier said than done, I know - my own country suffers from a similar inscrutably deadlocked bureaucratic hairball of a government as the US does.)
I am going to point out something about the US government that most people even inside the US don't realize. It's designed to be deadlocked. Better no law be passed than a bad one.
I agree, solutions need support from above and below - though it increasingly seems these days that never the twain shall meet!
I think the bigger issue is that the grassroots solutions never even approach consensus. You might get the wrong idea from reddit, but really there are a whole hell of a lot of people who think that the changes from the status quo that need to happen are all in the opposite direction from what reddit is saying. There are plenty of people who believe that the reason cap punishment isn't serving as good a deterrent as it might is because we don't have public executions any more. America is a huge and very divided country in terms of viewpoints.
Dyesce_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:21:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel very much that we both are agreeing fully and saying basically the same thing.
The old world equals backwards did not come from you. I apologise for projecting. I got the feeling that it's a general American view but probably it's that fallacy that loudmouth trolls get heard more to the point it seems they speak for everybody. Again, sorry.
I wish for peace and prosperity for everybody and it's frustrating to think it just might not be possible in some places.
probably it's that fallacy that loudmouth trolls get heard more to the point it seems they speak for everybody
I think there are two aspects here. One that you hit the nail on the head (America #1 Trolls) and one that a lot of the European sentiment (particularly here on reddit) is one of superiority, looking on America as savages. It's easy for people to reply angrily when they feel like they're being talked down to. Especially considering when America subsidizes the military and healthcare of a large chunk of the world. We get criticized for having such a large military, right until someone needs a show of force to maintain stability. We get criticized for the price of healthcare when without that spending new drugs wouldn't be able to be developed.
The fact is America is peaceful and prosperous. The fact that how that works for us is not how that works for you is not a bad thing.
Dyesce_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:33:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
So you're saying America is more focused on the big picture with the sacrifice of the individual. Those who cannot contribute fall through the grates. I see. Maybe Europe does look too much at each little person. But at least Germany and GB for example do contribute to medicinal development. It's not as if we don't have technology and development. Germany even builds war machinery for just about the world which I feel does not fit into the whole picture at all (but I sew the monetary potential loss if we didn't).
After all is said and done we all have yet to come quite a way to Roddenberry's vision of a united peaceful world.
Edit for afterthought:
Maybe Europeans react acerbic because Americans promote that feeling of superiority, too. See my wrong assumption about being seen as backwards, it has reasons.
But at least Germany and GB for example do contribute to medicinal development
Yes, but they still sell in the US, where they make money. It's not about where the companies are homed, it's about where they make their money.
Dyesce_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:54:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Umm ... Are you telling me that the market in America (population 322 mil) is greater than in Germany (population 82 mil)? Then I say to this: D'uh. Or are you against exports/imports?
Some meds from Germany are sold exclusively through export because they are not allowed here due to very strict testing. Which I think is very wrong because if it's not good enough for our people they shouldn't give it to foreigners. But money rules the world and I think that's one of the roots of all evil.
Umm ... Are you telling me that the market in America (population 322 mil) is greater than in Germany (population 82 mil)? Then I say to this: D'uh. Or are you against exports/imports?
Neither. I'm talking about the fact that the profit made on that 322 million is greater than the profit on the other almost 7 billion of the rest of the world. And I'm not against import or exports. I'm just commenting on the US subsidization of European healthcare. If they can make the research costs back in the US, they can afford to develop better medications that European governments pay a pittance for.
Have you ever had a general anesthesia? It's like turning the light switch off. Once I have it applied you may as well cut me with a dull saw. I understand that doctors don't want to use the life saving techniques to kill so we have situation that gas chambers could be most uhm humane way to terminate people and are anything but.
Timmeh7 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:26:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
doctors
You've hit on the problem there. The Hippocratic oath prevents doctors from taking part in lethal injections, so technicians or orderlies insert the needle, and verify that the inmate is unconscious - something they're not necessarily qualified, or adequately trained to do.
This isn't a theoretical: 7.1% of US lethal injections up to 2010 were considered "botched" - 1 in 14. A little further down that same article is a description of one of the more unpleasant failures, which resulted in the inmate dying, seemingly in quite significant pain of a heart attack.
I personally believe that correct application of the process is probably painless, but consistent correct application seems a very long way off. If a government is to execute, surely better to pick something like nitrogen asphyxia which doesn't require medical expertise beyond certifying death (which medical doctors do usually do in all executions), is very difficult to botch, and frankly won't cause the inmate physical pain if something unforeseeable does go wrong.
How many tax payers are willing to feed and shelter rapists and murderers though, assuming they are truly guilty (let's say most of them are for simplicity)? One might argue it is an inefficient allocation of resources from an economic standpoint. That money could be better served going to schools and programs that prevent people from doing things that land them in prison.
Dyesce_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:45:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've seen (and forgot the source ... I think it was ethics lessons in vocational school) statistics that processing of the death sentence in America is more expensive than lifetime incarceration in Germany.
Prevention through education is the key, I absolutely agree!
It's awful indeed. I'd like to understand how the fuck an insane mind can have created the electric chair. But, as insane (as well) as it can sound, I think being shot in the head is even better.
larsgj ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 12:53:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Edison... To show how dangerous alternating current (Tesla's concept) was. He made the first demonstration with the electrocution of an elephant in New York.
No he didn't. That's a myth. His company had a crew there that filmed it but they had nothing to do with the elephant actually being killed. This is obvious because the elephant (Topsy) was killed 10 years after the Edison/Tesla current wars.
larsgj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:19:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks TIL. Still a good story though. I think I'll keep the myth :-D
Please don't keep spreading that junk all over the Internet.
larsgj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:36:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/s thought the smiley gave it away. Sorry about that. I'm a science teacher but can't fact check everything. I'd need 40 hours per day to do that. I just found the book where I read it. It's actually a science book from a respectable author here in Denmark. Shame on them :-(
Oh I didn't get the sarcasm. My bad. But yeah that's a really old myth that I heard everywhere for years until someone on reddit said it was junk and linked to a bunch of sources so I read up on it.
larsgj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:21:01 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's one of the reasons I always read the comment section here. Have a good day :-)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:10:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Totally agree. Just posted this above in reply to a comment, copying it here:
A large caliber hollow point or soft point round from a handgun, rifle, or shotgun blast to the back of the head at the base of the skull at a slight upward angle toward the neocortex would certainly be instant...
Immediately destroys the brain stem and the fragmentation spread tearing apart everything else would definitely result in an instant death.
An apparatus like the current lethal injection chair that placed and held the head in an ideal position while lying back against the barrel of a weapon firing something like a .308 Lapua, .45 ACP, 357 Magnum, 12 Guage Slug, .30-06, and so on would guarantee instant death...
I really don't understand why the US has outlawed death by firing squad. If I was ever in a position where I had to pick my method of execution, that would definitely be my choice.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:13:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because an execution where the person's body gets maimed or damaged is felt to be too traumatizing for the audience.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:08:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In that case the optimal execution method would be noble gas or nitrogen asphyxiation. From what I understand the reason this method has not been used is because it is too kind and gentle in appearance to the witnesses as the individual being asphyxiated typically experiences a profound euphoria as they die often causing giggling, etc. That somehow is also seen as distasteful.
If that's the main reason then that's all kind of fucked up prioritisation.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:35:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It basically is. That's why unreliable experimental cocktails are being used over a clean shot in the back of the neck. Public perception. People still want their criminals to die, but not in a too visually barbaric way.
True. Especially police snipers aim at "golden cross or god cross". Its spot on your head between your nose tip and top lip Point of this shot is destroy medulla oblongata in the quickest way, so target don't have chance to resist or harm someone. Separating medulla oblongata leading to instant death.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:00:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, so doing it from the back of the head while it was restrained would result in an even more certain fatal result and the time from the bullet hitting the back of the neck to total brain destruction would be shorter than the time for any neuron to communicate a pain signal that it could truly be described as painless.
As far as police snipers go, their goal of course is not to create a painless death but aim at that location because if a criminal holding a pistol to the head of a hostage or something is hit elsewhere there is some chance that they could 'react' and pull the trigger whereas successfully seperating the medulla and brainstem from the spinal cord more or less eliminates that possibility since even spinal reflexes in that case cause the hands to open and hands to raise.
Frankly, the fact that the US still uses the death penalty is barbaric.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:28:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wish Canada would re-implement the Death penalty. We are a civilized country , of sorts. But as a human race .. We need less of Paul Bernardo and Pickton.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:35:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you may have misread the comment above you. He's actually against the death penalty. He's stating that it's better for the tax payer to keep them in prison (which is true, it's cheaper)
You think you actually own the land? You don't, the government and corporations do. They will take it out from under you the moment they get a whiff of oil.
This country is all sorts of fucked up, no matter whose side you're on. The only people that are winning are those with hands in all the right pockets, unfortunately.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:33:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, this is untrue. It takes longer to argue, requires more lawyers, more appeals and in general is just more expensive to house the inmates than the life in prison guys.
Source: a bunch, but here's an article from Forbes
It's better than bringing ourselves down to their level and killing them. They could also be found innocent later.
Prison isn't a 'Savage Cage' and while reform is needed it is better than ending a life. Every life is precious and ending one for whatever reason is always unjustified.
Also it's actually cheaper to imprison for life than to give a lethal injection.
The appeals process, the actual cost of the drugs (there is a major shortage because medical companies are refusing to sell if they suspect their product is being used for execution), and other extra costs.
I'd argue that not existing anymore sucks. If you're correct and death is not just nothingness; it's what it was like for you before you were born. There is no 'you' anymore.
FGHIK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:56:53 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Civilization ain't batman. There's no "going on their level"
I would definitely counter that argument with the likes of Ted Bundy, the Unibomber, Charles Manson, Albert Fish, John Wayne Gacy, etc.
And stop telling people that it is more expensive to give the lethal injection, you know that is false. The appeals process is by far the most expensive part of the process.
There is a huge problem with crime in America, and just repealing the death penalty isn't part of the solution. I do personally believe that the state has no right to kill a human being, but we need to argue this in a factual manner, not with blanket statements that can be disproven.
The expensive appeals process is not a part of the cost of the lethal injection. It may sound like splitting hairs, but its not. I'm just saying, don't misrepresent what is going on - when people realize that what you said isn't completely true, then they reject everything you say. You need to have an ironclad basis for your argument.
Also the drugs have become more expensive recently going from $80 per victim to over $1500 per victim.
No they haven't, the country that was supplying the US became upset about the use, and artificially increased the price. Again, you are being misleading just to make your point.
Also, your counter arguments are pointless. The death penalty is never right. There is no threshold where it becomes okay to kill another human.
All you are giving me right here is an opinion. Opinions like that are completely worthless. If you notice, I even agreed with you!
I do personally believe that the state has no right to kill a human being
But you need to back up your arguments with things other than opinions and misleading figures.
This is a matter of opinion not fact. I've just been at a weekend long debating tournament (which my team won) and I have no desire to worry about formalities when I stated my opinion and refuted a falsehood with evidence.
I would argue that your definition of misleading is misleading. The price for the drugs did go up and whether the increase was artificial or not doesn't pertain any relevance to the discussion as the outcome is still the same.
Also, your exclusion of the heightened appeals process from the costs of a capital punishment is frankly squirreling and doesn't represent the facts. By limiting the scope to just the direct cost of the physical adminstration of the drugs you are failing to understand the wider context of the discussion and look beyond the immediate.
Ultimately cost isn't important to me. I care about human life. This is a discussion over how much you value a human life and anyone who supports state-sanctioned murder and claims to care about life is a hypocrite and needs to go back to the 1800s.
Wow. With that manner of reasoning, the competition must be pretty low wherever you are.
It does pertain to the discussion, bc for one, its not like there is only one drug that can kill humans. Secondly, lethal injection is not the only method of death penalty that is even legal in the US. Thirdly, even if it was, it's not like they couldn't legalize alternative methods in the first place.
I wasn't excluding it, you just can't read. There is a difference between lethal injection and the death penalty. The cost of lethal injection is purely the cost of the shot, just as the cost of a table is purely it's price. By making the two so inseparable, you allow your argument to be completely deconstructed to its weak foundations. Here are the facts: imprisonment for life is cheaper than making appeals for 20-30 years, not any single method of executing a person. It is misleading to represent it otherwise. If you present it your way, then it opens up the argument that a shorter appeals process should be used, which would bring the costs down to below that of life imprisonment, which would make it the cheaper option, and therefore, better for the country as a policy. Since we have agreed this is wrong, perhaps we should explore some other avenue of reasoning.
Your last paragraph just parrots the recent circlejerk about what time period it is, which accomplishes nothing. People can have differing opinions on things at a basic level and not be hypocrites. It's called having values. It is very likely some of your values are seemingly conflicting to others, but that doesn't make you a hypocrite. If you really were such a renowned debate champion, you wouldn't rely so much on broad generalizations.
I feel like the chance of wrongful conviction makes the appeals process necessary to any conversation about the death penalty.
I'm not sure if it was your intent, but splitting hairs about the cost of execution and the cost of the death penalty may be coming off as a little pedantic (hence the downvotes).
I'm not saying that it isn't. I'm saying that splitting hairs happens in any part of a public debate, so having really fragile reasoning is a bad idea.
On a moral level, someone who has killed someone else is morally lower to someone who hasn't. My statement has nothing to do with value of life (which are all precious no matter what moral standing).
Secondly, what do you mean by "your government". I'm not American - my country got rid of the death penalty ages ago (we were also the first country to give women the right to vote, which is unrelated but cool).
Incorrect, it costs more in appeals to actually reach the execution than to keep them in prison. When you simplify it that much, you paint an incorrect picture of the process.
But most people have the common sense to realise that when people say the lethal injection is more expensive than incarceration, they know that it means the whole legal process involved.
I don't see how this can be true. The injection or electricity cost is more expensive than feeding/providing shelter to an asshole that deserves worse than death?
Nothings going to be instant instant except something like a trip hammer that flattens you in a split second.
But at least a guillotine wouldn't have the repeated burning that the drugs or electric chairs sometimes end up causing.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:08:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A large caliber hollow point or soft point round from a handgun, rifle, or shotgun blast to the back of the head at the base of the skull at a slight upward angle toward the neocortex would certainly be instant...
Immediately destroys the brain stem and the fragmentation spread tearing apart everything else would definitely result in an instant death.
An apparatus like the current lethal injection chair that placed and held the head in an ideal position while lying back against the barrel of a weapon firing something like a .308 Lapua would guarantee instant death...
ititsi ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:07:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And to further tie France to Star Wars: in Bioshock Infinite when you first see Elizabeth open a tear in her room, she opens it on a street in France with "RETOUR DU JEDI" across a cinema marquee!
"Coupard" doesn't mean anything in French but "couper" means "to cut" or "to chop" and "-ard" is a common word ending, so "M. Coupard" would be like an American guy named "Mr. Choppy". That fits well.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:00:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is particularly fascinating in that Saint-Pierre is such a small island. It is off the coast of Newfoundland, and yes they speak French there (French French, not Quebec French) and the currency is the Euro (not the Loonie). I was going to visit there, but in September the ferry runs only once a week, and, well, a week there is about six days too long. At the ferry terminal are a line of cars parked, Citroeons and Renaults, with French license plates.
It is not a colony, it is France - in the middle of Canada! How freaking bizarre. It would be like Germany having an island off the coast of North Carolina or something.
XheadJr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:20:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My Grandfather smoked his whole life. I was about 10 years old when my mother said to him, 'If you ever want to see your grandchildren graduate, you have to stop immediately.'. Tears welled up in his eyes when he realized what exactly was at stake. He gave it up immediately. Three years later he died of lung cancer. It was really sad and destroyed me.
My mother said to me- 'Don't ever smoke. Please don't put your family through what your Grandfather put us through." I agreed. At 28, I have never touched a cigarette.
I must say, I feel a very slight sense of regret for never having done it, because your comment gave me cancer anyway.
Well there was the one time he told Peter Jackson he was directing a getting-stabbed-in-the-back (literally) scene wrong, and "here's what it's really like when somebody gets knifed in the spleen".
So there's that one.
Naf5000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:37:01 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean he's dead. He doesn't do anything in the present tense anymore.
So he's like the guy who goes to executions? Is there a list you need to get on?
Veefy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:32:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The one that Christopher saw (he was 17 at the time) was held in public outside a prison. Anyone could attend it. Because of the behavior of spectators the French president banned all future public executions.
Correct. After the one witnessed by Christopher Lee, France decided it was probably a bit much, as there was an absolutely massive turnout, and video now actually becoming a thing (the one Christopher Lee saw was recorded, and can be found online. It isn't graphic, as it's black and white, and from a distance, but it's incredibly surreal).
France kept it up for a while afterwards, and, as OP said, stopped in 1977.
barosa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:28:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He saw that one too, dude loves watching executions.
What a man Christopher Lee was. Between that and a terrifying childhood encounter with M.R. James when he was interviewing for Eton, man was built to be a horror star.
Man, I know the story's been told, but I can never get over Christopher Lee correcting Peter Jackson on what a man sounds like when he's been stabbed in the back. It makes me feel like that he was just not a man to be fucked with.
Edit: speeling misteaks
akashik ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 14:28:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
According to the video, Jackson was blocking a scene in which Wormtongue (Brad Dourif) stabs Saruman (Lee) in the back. Jackson goes into a long explanation about how he wants Lee to react and Lee says, "Have you any idea what kind of noise happens when somebodyโs stabbed in the back? Because I do.โ
If there's such a thing as a humane execution, beheading by guillotine is it. Almost instantaneous, and the spinal cord is the first thing severed, which makes the conscious perception of pain impossible. The way we do it in the US - electric chair, lethal injection - is insanely cruel by comparison.
[deleted] ยท 167 points ยท Posted at 06:27:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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darsynia ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 12:01:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I saw a documentary about that--the guy hosting was in a chamber and I can't remember exactly but I think the air density was lower and lower so he could experience what it feels like. When the levels became dangerous, another guy who was in there with him already wearing a mask with a safe amount of oxygen was to tell the host went to lift his own mask. The host had gotten so far in the process of impaired brain function that it actually took a lot of persuading to get him to put the mask on. The trouble is that he was euphoric, and the idea that condemned prisoners would seem in their last moments to be happy and carefree would probably be seen as a problem in terms of a punishment in the US.
Euchre ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 15:19:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The death penalty isn't really supposed to be punishment, it is meant to be abatement and deterrent. People who warrant death penalty are supposed to be those likely to re-offend. Killing them means they can not commit the same act again. The existence of the death penalty is supposed to deter others from committing such acts. The former definitely works, the latter less so.
While I know this is the case, the thing is that a lot of people in America believe that there needs to be a punishment and that that is the ultimate punishment. What I should've done was point out that I don't believe this myself, but it's definitely a thing here.
And it would require very little training for staff, you just put a gas mask on the convict and get the gas flowing. Fairly idiot proof compared to putting in an IV.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:00:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well unless the supply of gas is cut off halfway through and you're left with someone partially brain dead.
Part of the issue with that is that it's not a guaranteed kill. People do sometimes survive gunshot wounds to the head, even point blank, even if it's only for a few seconds. A violent but not instantaneous isn't very humane, even if most of the time it is pretty much instantaneous.
Things did not always work out according to plan at such executions; at a mass execution at Firozpur in 1857, there was an order that blank cartridge should be used, but some loaded with grapeshot instead. Several of the spectators facing the cannons were hit by the grapeshot and some had to amputate limbs as a result. In addition, some of the soldiers had not been withdrawn properly and sustained damages by being hit by whizzing pieces of flesh and bone.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:55:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it's instantaneous, I don't see the problem. I wouldn't care if they dipped me in a vat of poop if my death was truly instantaneous.
And if a shot to the head isn't a guaranteed kill, they should do a double-tap. No method is 100%; there's always something that can go wrong. (And usually has.)
mistixs ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:24:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The first death by electric chair went terribly wrong and the person was alive and in horrible pain.
Inert gas asphyxation is not what the Nazis used (at least not as the most common method). The Nazis used HCN gas. Which is exactly the same gas that the US gas chambers use, just the way it is generated is different. (They are still the secondary method of execution in a bunch of US states).
Watch this. People were saying Americans wouldn't go for it because its too humane, not because of anything to do with the holocaust.
NoifenF ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:43:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, but you cant deny the instant mindful connection to the holocaust. You hear "gassing people" you think of the Auschwitz.
I wasn't saying that it shouldn't be done because jews died. Just that what people immediately connect it to.
You're right, most people would make that connection. But in the documentary he's asks American people and politicians and they all say its because its too easy a way to go.
NoifenF ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:52:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I haven't had time to watch it yet. But really? Too easy? That's horrible. I understand when you want someone to suffer but that doesn't mean they should.
marvin ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:48:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Heh, that's actually a great point. Although controversial only because it makes the (albeit superficial) similarity clear. (Nazi Germany killed people, the United States kills people).
I read somewhere that after the beheading sometimes the human brain stays active for a small amount of time and you can still see what's going on. I wonder if it feels any pain?
It can't. Your head is severed from the spine at this point, the thing thats solely responsible for leading pain signals to and from your brain. I imagine it'd be mighty fucking weird though
So what about the giant gaping neck wound in the part still attached to the head?
The two most contrary things I've read about instant decapitation is that the sudden change in blood pressure would pretty much immediately make you lose consciousness.
And the doctor who told execution victims to blink their eyes after decapitation when he yelled at their severed heads actually got a response, including blinking eyes and eyes focussing to make eye contact for some 20-40 seconds after decapitation.
The executioner's assistant slapped Charlotte Corday's severed head, and witnesses reported that her face flushed with anger. Obviously that's not possible, but people remembered seeing it, and people are generally great at seeing expressions where there aren't any, on dead people or emojis.
That still hasn't happened, though. There are a lot of stories about scientists testing the consciousness of decapitated heads, but many of them are fictional, like Dr Velpeau and the executed Pommerais, and the chemist Lavoisier. Dr Beaurieux, observing one executed person, Henri Languille, reported that he blinked when his name was called, and that's the only test that seems to be supported by sources.
The only repeated experiments I can find are extremely doubtful, supposedly carried out by a Dr Sรฉguret, and showed that stabbing the tongue would make the face grimace. You'd think the big gaping neck-wound would hurt enough to grimace if it could be felt, though, making the tongue thing unnecessary. The fact that the only reactions reported are so mild makes it more likely that they are either misinterpreted or involuntary twitching, since horror and agony tends to create at least some response in most people. Thousands of people were publicly guillotined during the French Revolution, and if people were conscious and able to move their faces after being guillotined, there should be enough observations of this happening to be sure.
You can't know that for sure. I'd imagine the lack of any signal from below your neck would have a tremendous impact on your perception in general. There is no real way to know what that might be.
You do still have a nervous system your brain. Brains have been known to feel pain from limbs that aren't their anymore. Therefore, how do you know the brain won't feel pain from a whole body that isn't there anymore.
Well, there might be total phantom limb syndrome for your entire body. For all you know, beheading might be the most excruciating way to be executed imaginable.
Also, have you ever had a nerve damaged? It can very easily be like having the pain setting just stuck instantly on 'max'. Imagine that with every nerve coming up your neck.
Well, except for the 10 seconds to a couple of minutes (depending on sources) of maybe painless but definitely uncomfortable consciousness to follow...
Blood pressure loss results in unconsciousness almost immediatly.
r1zz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:44:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I think I would rather be put to sleep and then injected with drugs to kill me while I slept then to watch the world for a few seconds with my head detached. People that have witnessed beheadings have said the heads blink and the eyes would fixate on someone yelling their name and other have looked to be trying to speak or inhale, but obviously unable to due to no lungs. Or for more fun reading check Living Heads.
Nah I'm always up for seeing the world with new eyes :) get a new perspective on things before I die.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:36:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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yatsey ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:38:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being hanged* may be quite good if it goes well and the neck is broken after the initial drop, but there's always a chance the hangee will be strangled instead.
Except for all the times that the thing failed or was too dull and took multiple tries to remove the head.
If I were ever sentenced to death I would want the firing squad. Lethal injection seems cruel and unusual to me, a bullet in the brain stem seems as humane as you can get.
Nitrogen gas is the best. You breathe normally and actually experience euphoria before passing out and dying. Cheap and 100% painless. Americans won't go for it because its too humane.
pjor1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:55:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but now the corpse is in two and it looks fucking weird as weird gets.
Bullet to the head, however... just as humane and you get a full corpse!
mistixs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:22:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think the worst part of the guillotine is the anticipation and fear waiting for the thing to slice your head off.
Anyway, what's wrong with lethal injections? Could they put a person to sleep beforehand?
Lethal injection relies on medicine bought from European compangnies, which have refused to sell it for PR reasons. As such, they tried alternatives, which were somewhat more painfull.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:35:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think when we're discussing the humanity of somebody who's going to be dead in a fairly similar amount of time no matter which method, we should discuss it from the perspective of the people who are doing the taking away of life.
I'd wager you'd feel quite a bit more shit if you chopped somebodies head off for a job, as opposed to flicking a switch.
Absolutely not - I'd feel much shittier if I had to watch someone jerk around in agony for a few minutes, not knowing whether the current/dosage were sufficient to be fatal. The guillotine essentially works by flipping a switch as well.
No its not humane the amount of stress and trauma the person goes through before dead is unreal. Just imagine sitting there tied up waiting for a blade to cut your head off lol.
In theory yes. In practice not so much. It wasn't uncommon for the blade of the guillotine to get stuck while falling causing it to not cleanly sever the head.
I've seen this stated before but it doesn't seem correct. Not challenging you just wondering if you have more information. What I think about with this assertion is that the head is intact and could perceive and process pain for a few seconds while brain death occurs. Maybe it wouldn't feel the pain below the cut line, although phantom pain is well described in amputations, but surely pain would be perceived above the cut line until brain death. Just wondering...
I'd take head explosion by a 50 caliber bullet. You sparked a conversation about how long the head lives after decapitation and whether or not it can register "phantom" pain, possibly making it excruciating. Also think about the possibility that your whole existence is as a head with no body.
And you're right, the lethal injection is you immobilized just sort of slowly feeling yourself slip away, your body fighting the drugs to stay alive. I can't really think of a good way of dying other than ignorantly in your sleep. But if someone blew up my head with a large bullet, it's the closest thing to an off switch I can think of.
The most humane would be to fill them full of midazolam, fentanyl and haloperidol. Wait a few minutes until they're kissing the sky drug-wise, then start a propofol and succinylcholine infusion. They will go from incredibly high, happy and euphoric, to unconscious and paralysed.
Then, just don't intubate/ventilate them. Very peaceful. Very unaware. Very humane.
asshair ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:21:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, drug overdoses have too much potential to go wrong, and asphyxiating someone is just too slow of a process to be humane
Yes, there is a great deal of potential for something to go wrong. For example, someone could die! :O
If you push 100mg of midazolam, 1000mcg fentanyl, 200mg haloperidol, 100mg propofol and 150mg succinylcholine, there's only going to be one outcome, unless you have a resus team literally standing beside you ready to go. Which would be an odd thing to have standing around at an execution.
Who are these guys?
Oh, that's the resus team. After we kill this poor sap we're going to resus him.
I'm sure it is - please don't get me wrong, I'm not saying capital punishment by guillotine - or any capital punishment is a good idea... I was just musing on the irony that the guillotine seems like it's so old fashioned, but it's not any more barbaric than what we do now.
But remind me to ask for that cocktail when it's my time.
Aaah I see what you mean now. Yeah, it's certainly better than being electrified 11 times before actually expiring..... Hanging would be a pretty horrid way to go too if it didn't snap. Hell, even if it did....
As for the cocktail, well I mean yeah, it'll give you a nice buzz, but maybe leave it till last call? Night night finish a bit early otherwise ๐
Someone's already said it, but just because they not commonly known about doesn't mean it's not the most humane way. The guy said "method x is the most humane way to execute someone". His lack of knowledge regarding other methods doesn't invalidate their existence, or make them somehow less humane due to the scarcity of knowledge regarding them.
With beheading there is evidence that the person is still conscious for up to half a minute after the head is severed from the body.
With lethal injection the person is chemically induced into sleep before given a drug that stops their heart. They feel nothing during their final conscious moment except for and unyielding urge to fall asleep. I think lethal injection sounds far more humane.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:08:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
because the emotional build up of getting decapitated is so stress free
Haha I'm not advocating it, but I don't sure it's any more stressful than the build-up to other forms of execution (I'm only making the comparison because the subtext of the original post was that the guillotine is more "medieval").
I don't agree with capital punishment, but guillotine has got to be one of the better methods. Seems like a sure thing where hangings/electric chairs/injections aren't infallible.
Riff-Ref ยท 75 points ยท Posted at 03:13:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
"Oui! Aftair zeh chopping we shall watch Star Wars!"
lenaro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:53:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The French liked the guillotine so much, that among the 1889 World's Fair centerpiece projects rejected in favor of the Eiffel Tower was a 300-meter-tall guillotine... I'm being serious.
Doing the "Terreur" in France were organized "balls for the victims" only for aristocrats that had someone close to them killed in the guillotine, to salute they would shake their head in every direction to immitate the decapitation, the family would wear a red ribbon around the neck and the hair pulled up.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:22:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For those interested by the topic, R Badinter wrote a book about how (as a lawyer) he follow is client up to the guillotine (and still filled the paperwork afterwards) the most frightening moment, is when he comes at night in his client cell to tell him that the last appeal failed and that the executionner and the priest are waiting for him.
5 year later Badinter became the justice ministry who abolished death penalty
mistixs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:20:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Speaking of historical things that sound wrong but are not. Wasn't Cleopatra alive closer to the invention of the iPhone than the construction of the pyramids?
Barbara Zdunk has been identified as the last person executed for witchcraft in Europe, the official verdict did not mention witchcraft, as this had ceased to be recognized as a criminal offense.
trentsim ยท 996 points ยท Posted at 03:12:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Water has the amazing quality that the solid form is less dense than the liquid. Check out triple point if you're interested. But imagine how fucked we'd be if lakes streams and ponds froze from the bottom up.
That's absolutely true. Water, and it's phase changes, are so awesome! Did you know that ice itself is not very slippery? It's actually quite jagged creating a huge surface area and therefore huge amounts of friction. But because ice is less dense than water when you apply any pressure to ice at all it turns back into water. This creates a microthin layer of water between you and the ice which causes the slipperiness.
[deleted] ยท 183 points ยท Posted at 09:32:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
AFAIK it's kind of disputed nowadays whether it's actually water on it. Some say that it could be a different phase entirely, something that behaves a bit like liquid but not quite. The phenomenon is difficult to study because the microthin layer of whatever is just too large to comprehensively simulate to a molecular precision, but just too small to take conventional measurements of.
Can confirm confirmation. I spend plenty of time driving icy highways at -40. Grip is comparable to asphalt in summer but all the cracks and potholes are filled in, so no bumps/jolts or road noise.
Everything is smooth, white, quiet, and clean. An extremely pleasurable driving experience.
Especially when driving through beautiful country like this.
Well you're not wrong, but what they don't believe anymore is that it has a thermal interaction based on pressure. That's kind of preposterous anyway because changing the melting point of ice significantly to make it still slippery at -40 due to thermal interactions isn't going to happen under your own body weight.
The pressure aspect is still a factor though. If you press two pieces of ice together they sort of stick together, this is because the outer layer of the ice is sort of 'incomplete' and it wants to continue its crystalline lattice. So when you give it more ice to interlock into it finds a mate to all those bits on the surface that are incomplete.
When you try to do this with ice and something that is not ice the lattice doesn't line up and the surface shifts around in a fluid like manner to try to fit into the right shape. Technically, it may not be water, but it is a thin fluid layer of H2O, so is it not, essentially, water?
I'm going off a few years old memory here of the subject, but if things have changed I'd love to hear about it.
oskli ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:11:07 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, you're spot on, judging from my recent reading.
You mention surface area and friction, but I was always taught that friction was only related to mass. Does surface area help determine the coefficient of friction, or was it just a simplification of what happens?
The poster is saying that if you were to zoom in and view the microscopic surface of ice, you'd find it to be rough and jagged on the molecular level, despite its smooth appearance to the human eye.
And to answer the second half of that, the coefficient of friction is determined experimentally and unique for any two surfaces being used. For example, wood and iron has a different coefficient of friction than iron and iron.
In a way, surface area does help determine coefficient of friction, but when solving the equation for coefficient of friction, all units cancel out, hence it being a coefficient.
To illustrate, a substance with a SA of 1 m2 slid on a surface will get the same coefficient of friction as 1 mm2 SA of the same substance.
Wow, you just answered one of those questions I'm always thinking but never actually say out loud to anyone. How is it that there was be water puddles and slush on busy streets when it's fucking -40 out there?!?
Thank you. You've helped me more than you'll ever know.
That is actually because the tires going on the road heat the rires up, which melts snow and ice. Feel your tires after going down the highway for a while, they will be warm or hot.
They actually had skates a few years ago that the blades would heat up slightly which was supposed to make you glide much faster because of this. Don't think they ever made it to market though, I have definitely never seen them.
Anyone that has tried cross country skiing round the -20 Celcius mark will be aware of this. At really low temperatures the snow becomes less and less slippery and eventually it gets to the point where you might as well be skiing on sand.
Same principle applies to walking on ice, There is no need to worry on the really cold days, the ice will grip your shoes better than concrete, but as the day gets warmer you gotta start taking care =)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:55:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As others have said, pressure melting has been debunked. I have a more detailed proof it is somewhere from my thermo class, but the result of the problem we did yielded a net change in melting point of -3 C for a 100kg skater with a 100 micron thick blade of reasonable length. While it's true that an increase in pressure decreases the melting point, it fails to explain how skating is possible at temperatures much lower than -3 C. See this article as well.
No it doesn't. That happens because your tongue is moist already and metal is a very efficient thermal conductor, relative to your body. So when you touch something wet to something cold the wet thing just freezes. This happens quickly with metal because the metal pulls the heat away quickly.
You can lick frozen wood and you'll be fine, if you don't get splinters, because wood is not a good conductor of thermal energy, it's what's called an insulator, and the heat from your tongue is enough to keep the moisture from freezing because it doesn't go anywhere.
cdude ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 08:54:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nice try but i'm not licking wood. No way i'm falling for this again.
phil8248 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 09:55:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm assuming if that is your patter in a bar you don't get laid much.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:45:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's almost like bars and science discussion on reddit are 2 entirely different scenarios. Screw him for knowing things, right?
iZMXi ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:46:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Surface area doesn't affect friction. Only the Normal Force and Coefficient of Friction affect frictional force.
Surface area does affect the other drag forces associated with sliding objects across each other, such as hysteresis, adhesion, and permanent deformation, just not friction.
What? No it doesn't. I live in the arctic circle. I know my ice. You can always skate on it, even in -50. The way the ice is frozen is the largest factor in it's skate-ability, not it's temperature. The only ice I find hard to skate on is ice formed in a humid environment. It's 'furry' and that makes it hard to get going on, since you never really get to glide on it.
Essentially it'd just freeze everything in the lakes to death. To keep it super brief, part of what's so important about water freezing on top is that it insulates everything below it, at a temperature amenable to life, whereas bottom-up freezing would quickly freeze the entire lake.
qwadzxs ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 06:51:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
current life holds his restriction; life possibly could have evolved to hibernate in the mud at the bottom of the pond or some other adaptation.
More to the point for this example, if frozen water was denser than liquid, ice would sink, bodies of water that stayed below 0 for long periods of time would freeze solid, and then probably never again fully thaw. Most of the world's water would wind up permanently frozen, along with anything unfortunate enough to try to live at the bottom of a body of water.
A thick layer of water also insulates everything below it. Is current ice formed by water under the surface becoming frozen and rising or from water on top freezing?
The way most liquids work: they get coldest at the bottom. That's because of convection: colder liquid goes down, hotter liquid goes up. So the coldest liquid is going to be at the bottom. That means that for most liquids, when it freezes, it would freeze from the bottom up.
How water is different: well, convection works the same for water: the coldest water falls to the bottom, the hottest rises to the top. But, since frozen water is less dense than liquid water, the frozen parts gather at the surface of the water, rather than at the bottom.
Why it would suck if this wasn't true: let's look at say, Lake Michigan. When winter rolls around, and temperatures dip below the freezing point, the lake begins to freeze. It freezes from the bottom up. Since the frozen part is not directly exposed to the sun, it freezes a hell of a lot faster than normal, too. By the time winter is over the entire lake is one solid block of ice. So, two main problems: 1) those fish that normally in the water during the winter? They dead. They all dead. 2) The lake will never unfreeze. Sure, when the temperature warms up the surface of the lake will begin to thaw, but not to any significant depth.
So we would be left with a world where most of the water is trapped frozen in the oceans, with only an insignificant surface of melt.
This one particular function allows our planet a system to transport water to literally everywhere within the atmosphere, and naturally stores reserves of it that create filtered pure forms.
Are there any other compounds available in the universe that could be transported from oceans and stored to mountain tops, similar to earths water?
Because if so, this hypothesis would deem that life could form in said substance, given that a planet was able to naturally circulate it in a manner similar to water.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:33:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, if there were oceans of apple juice, I'd say, yes, there's another compound that you'd find on hill tops as well as in valleys. In other words: every liquid that comes in such a quantity as water does on Earth and that evaporates similar to water you could find traces of everywhere.
Think for a moment about all of the plant life on the bottom of the ocean, and what that might mean as a food source for many fish, even the ones that can swim above the bottom of the ocean when it started to freeze?
EDIT: Apparently talking about hypothetical circumstances in the context of a topic will get you downvoted. Who knew?
Edit: What could cause the entire ocean to freeze solid? Wouldn't underwater volcanoes just melt the ice in most places? The only place it might freeze solid is the arctic.
I guess I'm not understanding how the ocean could ever lose enough energy to substantially freeze. There's hot springs etc on a lot of the ocean floor for example. Maybe at the arctic poles the ocean would freeze solid, but that wouldn't prevent life from occurring in the warm parts of the ocean.
If it means anything, I understand what you're trying to say.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:17:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is exactly because water as a solid is less dense than as a liquid that the oceans and lakes don't completely freeze over, also that the salinity of the water lowers it's freezing temperature significantly. But it's more than just ice sinking. Think about the density of water vs temperature. When the water is right about to freeze and starts forming small ice crystals. These tiny molecule clusters effectively become less dense than the surrounding liquid phase and begin to float towards the surface. This process also prevents bodies of water from freezing over. If you take away the fact that the lattice water molecules take on when they form a solid phase is less dense than the flowing, cohesive fluid they form in a liquid phase, then there is a runaway freezing effect on our planet. More ice=more sunlight reflected off the surface=less warming. Geothermal activity could still create warm liquid regions, but when could life have had a chance to develop and from what could it have spawned from? It seems like the chances of complex life decreases. If cold water always sinks, the earth is frozen immediately (in the timeframe of evolution, for example multicelled organisms took around 3 billion years to evolve, the earth would freeze far before then) after it cools. When does life spawn during this process of fast freezing? There is also the theory that life did not originate on earth but was merely a guest from a derelict asteroid that found a comfortable home. This theory seems impossible on an ice planet.
So first, if the bottoms of the ocean froze there wouldn't be any ice at the surface to reflect sunlight so we wouldn't absorb any less heat. The earth might actually be warmer if ice froze at the bottom.
Second with sunlight and geothermal heat being the same, I don't see how the earth could ever lose enough energy overall for the entire planet to freeze, especially with the ocean freezing from the bottom. Maybe the arctic ocean would freeze mostly solid, but in summer little of the light would be reflected once the top thawed.
I agree life might be different, and life is impossible on an ice planet, but I disagree with the premise that earth would become an ice planet.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:34:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The salt content on earth prevents a completely frozen planet, but otherwise it would be like a slushball earth, with perma-ice layers separating extremely cold extremely salty waters. For more info you should check out this link.
Also, you are misunderstanding how the thermo works when ice and cold water sinks rather than being convected to the surface, but I'm pretty sure they go over it in detail in the link I posted.
Life could certainly form and evolve to survive, it is possible. But I think the chances of complex life forming, especially as complex as today, is drastically decreased. It seems we are in agreement there.
EDIT: Furthermore, the current flow created by lower density water floating to the top distributes nutrients and dissolves oxygen. Without this mechanism, it is again harder for life to function. Thanks for the downvotes, you're still wrong.
The discussion is being glad about the fact that bodies of water DON'T freeze from the bottom up, cause if they did, there would be no "warm part of the ocean". Everything would have frozen and died.
Thankfully, that is not how bodies of water behave.
He specifically asked about geothermal activity which certainly would create warm parts of the ocean. But never mind, the guy above actually answered the question and wasn't condescending.
The original thought proposed life as we know it would not exist if water froze from the bottom instead of the top. I'm not saying it would, I'm saying it would be horrible if it were true, and if water froze from the bottom the entire ocean wouldn't have to freeze solid to screw with the ecosystem.
Life would have just adapted differently. Some animals can be frozen solid and then thaw and live. Current ecosystems would certainly be messed up if the change happened today.
That wasn't was being discussed. I was responding to the claim that "Frozen Ocean = no life." I don't think the oceans would freeze. I don't think the bottoms would freeze since thy'll actually be warmed by the Earth and geothermal activity. Even if the bottoms did freeze, that would just make the oceans less deep. Finally, I doubt there is very much plant life at all at the bottom of the ocean since light doesn't penetrate beyond 1000 meters.
Not in our current climate, but the Earth has been much colder in the past; if every ice age scoured the entire ocean it would be a severe handicap for lifeforms all over the planet.
Monagan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:17:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In short, ice forming at the surface insulates the water below it from freezing - freezing being bad for life and all.
Don't forget the moon being so large it protects our rotational axis from shifting erratically due to the gravitational pull of the gas giants, not to mention gravitational force it provides to create the tides, hence the tide pools necessary to allow life to evolve outside of the oceans. Also enough atmospheric pressure to allow water to take liquid form at the temperatures amenable to life as we know it. Also the ozone layer. Also the core of the planet creating a magnetic field that protects us from CMEs. Also the distance of the planet from the sun. Also the accidental creation of a combination of molecules that is self-replicating (DNA). When I think of all the astronomical odds stacked against our existence, even before considering the impossible circumstances leading up to the right people fucking at just the right times, it boggles my mind how infinitely close to zero the possibility of our existence is.
Although it may seem semantic, I think wording it like that highly misleads the mechanics of evolution, physics, science whatever else. It's more like, it's NOT the reason we got extinguished. There are many many many many parameters of our existence that are in such a narrow range to permit our survival and evolution. You could just as easily argue that if gravity were gravity were inverted then in fact the water would kill us in an otherwise same world. So it's not THE reason we're alive or whatever, because there are no reasons in the universe. There's just all things that don't kill us.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:08:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My Astrobiology lecturer spoke briefly about this in one of our lectures. As I remember he said that while it likely was quite important for life, it's impossible to say that life wouldn't have made it if it weren't the case. His point was that some animals which can tolerate freezing (Wood Frogs freeze over winter) and so there are mechanisms by which life can cope.
it's one of the special properties of water that has led to the evolution of life as we know it as a result of hydrogen bonding - the actual underlying reason.
Basically if lakes froze bottom-up the entire thing would freeze solid. Whereas freezing top-down means that you have a layer of ice on top that insulates the water beneath, allowing aquatic life to survive in the non-frozen water under the ice.
Think about how how water stays liquid under the ice. If water froze bottom-up the entire lake would freeze solid, killing everything that lived in the lake, but freezing top-down means that the layer of ice on top insulates the water below from freezing.
I mean sure, if you really wanted to get bogged down in the pedantry of it, you're technically right. But we have no reason to believe that life could survive such conditions.
There's a reason that people get excited by the idea that life is living in the liquid water under the ice layer on Europa and not possibility that life is living in the ice.
mahousu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:06:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you explain why? (I'm on mobile so I can't see if you've answered this already)
I know; it's just that people say water is a "building block of life" and I'm wondering if this is the only property of water that makes that true, or if there are others as well.
Gotcha. I'm not qualified to dig deeper into this without doing a ton of reading, like I said, the basic point was that life would have been prematurely aborted if lakes froze bottom-up.
trentsim ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 03:55:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If water froze from the bottom up, aquatic ecosystems would be completely different. It would kill (or force a stasis like situation) for most of the bottom of the food chain for long periods. It would worsen the snowball earth periods.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:59:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would kill (or force a stasis like situation) for most of the bottom of the food chain for long periods.
Well, it wouldn't. I mean if it froze from the bottom up then it would have always frozen from the bottom up and the ecosystems would reflect that.
Honestly, I don't think it would have had any incredibly major effect. We'd just be saying "but imagine how fucked we'd be if lakes streams and ponds froze from the top down".
The oceans and most deep lakes would never thaw and the only liquid water would be the top 20-30ft. In northern or southern latitudes, the only liquid water would be the top few inches and only in the middle of summer. Life would not be life as we know it if ice was dense and the water columns didn't flip.
Not only that, it would have made migration of land-based animals near impossible. This would actually have been kind of neat because you would end up with a much more varied global ecosystem, until humans start moving shit around with boats. Each continent, or even large island, would have it's own little biome full of stuff that lacked the ability to migrate to the next major land mass.
Ice Nine is just a crystalline ice structure with a freezing point in the hundreds of degrees Fahrenheit. A little over 900 if memory serves. But it doesn't say anything about it being more/less dense than normal ice.
trirun ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:31:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it was less than that since they could melt it for drinking water near the end of the book. Or am I just making up parts of the book in my head?
Right โ Vonnegut's Ice-Nine doesn't really work scientifically. (He wasn't trying to be Asimov.) But a false vacuum decay event is a scientifically plausible concept that's kind of like Vonmegutโs Ice-Nine scenario on terrifying steroidsโฆ
Ecosystems would die. When water freezes from top to bottom, large bodies of water are insulated under the ice, so things can still live in the winter.
Although this is only true for the standard form of ice that exists at low (sub-GPa) pressure. The reason that the water on this exoplanet is solid is that there are more dense crystal structures of ice that are stable at high pressure.
that's not all that uncommon actaully. silicon, gallium, germanium, antimony, bismuth, plutonium all do that as do a lot of things that form tetrahedral crystal lattices
This would primarily fuck us through rapidly rising water levels, correct? Or are there other reasons as well? I'm picturing something like water in the deepest fissures of the ocean freezing/expanding, causing cataclysmic tectonic shits
There are lots of forms of life in ponds and streams that only survive because the ice forms on top and stays there. It also then acts as a moderately good insulator, keeping the liquid water below from losing heat to the environment as quickly as it would otherwise. This results in the water remaining liquid for longer, often all the way through the winter.
If the ice formed at the bottom (or sank there immediately on forming), the whole thing would be much more likely to freeze completely solid, killing almost everything within. This would radically alter the food chain from the very beginning of time forward, meaning that we likely would never have evolved.
Most kinds of water ice are actually more dense than water. We are fortunate that the simple 'cool it a little bit under low pressure' type of ice floats and is what we have.
Having a total brain fart right now, what would actually happen if water froze from the bottom up?
BAM5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:19:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is like saying "We're so lucky gravity exists! We would be so fucked if gravity didn't exist!" It's just a property of water. It's a fairly uncommon property, but it has it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:46:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't understand why this would be bad. Can you explain?
ngc4594 ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 04:19:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"You see, after the game, a lot of guys like to ice up their arm. Still, other fellas think that heat is the way to go. But I, have discovered the secret, Henry... hot ice! I heat up... the ice cubes! It's the best of both worlds!"
Yeah, you can do a lot of crazy things with temperatures and pressures. Saying that you can boil water at -67 degrees Celsius sounds crazy until you realize that it requires an extremely low pressure environment.
Yeah, get to ice VII and then you can heat that shit up. Technically you would die from the pressure long before you could really get burned by the ice... But whatever.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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jargoon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:27:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mostly they can tell its mass by its orbital period, and they can tell what chemicals are there by looking at how the light changes when it transits its star. Put the two together and you can figure out a lot about it :)
I mean I get the reason for the sentence structure but it makes it even more bizzare.
carnosi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:31:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like the fact we have four planets with rings in our solar system. Yet we've only found one other planet with a ring system, j1407b.
Not only that fact, but this planet's ring system is 120 million kilometers in diameter, 200 times larger than Saturn's ring system.
Universe, u so weird.
There's burning ice on earth. In deep ocean, the pressure is so great that methane gets trapped in ice as a clathrate. When chunks are brought to the surface, you can hold it and it's cold, but then also light it on fire.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:03:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't understand this, when water becomes a solid it expands unlike other things, if gravity was keeping the atoms from expanding then shouldn't it remain a liquid?
Kittimm ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:09:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They say it's at around 400-700 degrees C... which is not that hot.
I mean a charcoal fire is around 1000 C. Magnesium burns at around 2000 C and I played with that shit when I was a kid all the time.
I mean... it's hot and you don't wanna roll around it in. But it isn't going to melt your face off for looking at it like the covenant of the ark.
From what I've seen, he was supposed to take her insults as part of the show, and then responded with a comeback that wasn't scripted and she either slapped him in actual anger or as a off-script response. It pissed him off and he slapped back
GenosHK ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 04:08:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This was the "something that sounds wrong but is right" I was going to contribute, but here we are accidentally doing it in replies to a top level comment.
pjor1 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:57:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He also forgot a question mark like a kindergartner.
Not to mention the incorrect capitalization of the "F" in "fucking".
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:46:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you guys really are crazy about grammar huh?
WhapXI ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:09:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I assume the gentleman was the last man from Fucking to be hanged.
pjor1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:15:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท -13 points ยท Posted at 04:22:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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yatsey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:42:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You say that like you could use any homophone interchangeably, so why do you bother using 'two' correctly when you could just as easily use 'to'; because the distinction isn't pointless, like the distinction between hung and hanged. I hung up a picture, but I hanged a man.
It's not really pointless. To be hung in the past tense doesn't imply execution or death. I was hung from my deck by my ankles many times as a kid. My father thought it was funny. I didn't die, because I wasn't hanged. Now think about the electric chair. If someone was executed in the electric chair you wouldn't say they were shocked, even though that is absolutely correct, because it wouldn't imply that they were killed. You would say they were electrocuted because they were executed by electricity. In the same way, we say that a person was hanged because they were executed by the method of hanging, and while they were hung by the neck, hanged is more specific than hung.
Wolfir ยท 97 points ยท Posted at 02:37:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the Delaware, New Hampshire, and Washington, hanging is still an option as the death penalty.
As bad as "Let's take the subway to the hanging." may sound, "Hey, self-driving-car, drive me to the hanging." sounds way worse.
PlayMp1 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 11:46:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, at least here in Washington we've only had 3 executions in the last 20 years and all of them were lethal injection. The condemned chooses either hanging or injection.
Still, I would have expected we would have abolished the death penalty here by now...
p7r ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:47:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The incident you're replying to in 1868 was the last public hanging, but executions continued in the UK for almost a century afterwards behind prison walls and so in private.
When they got to the last execution they realised that whoever they chose would be immortalised, and also have this extra punishment over them: knowing they were the last person. It might even make them glad, I mean they are crazy villains, right?
So, what to do?
Kill two people simultaneously. Easy.
So on August 13th 1964, the two killers of a man (Alan West), killed in April that year were hung at the same time. One was a man killed in Liverpool, the other was a woman who was killed at Manchester.
I'd offer their names, but that defeats the point.
It's actually pretty humane (when contrasted with other ways to take a human life): When the neck breaks and severs the spine, blood pressure drops down to nothing in about a second, and the subject loses consciousness. Brain death then takes several minutes to occur, and complete death can take more than 15 or 20 minutes, but the person at the end of the rope most likely can't feel or experience any of it."
http://health.howstuffworks.com/diseases-conditions/death-dying/death-by-hanging.htm
Mavgrim ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:52:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That totally sounds like a "Family Guy" script.
InnoSang ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:15:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Well in the UK, there was a long lag between when the last guy was killed by hanging and when it was officially abolished. The last guy hung was in 1964. But it was still available as a punishment for treason until 1998. So the last guy hung had no particular reason to think that he'd be the last guy hung.
I can't believe the number of insufferable dicks that corrected you on the hanged/hung thing. Not only is it annoying, but didn't any of them see the forty other corrections?
I'm glad you stood your ground; "hung" is equally as correct as "hanged," even referring to an execution, it's just currently less common and therefore a lot of people think is incorrect. But it isn't.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:40:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not being a grammar snob, but this is relevant to the original question. "Hung" is the correct past tense usage of "hang", unless it is by a rope from the neck. In this case "hanged" is the appropriate word.
I think I'd rather be hung then any other method of execution. That or firing squad. Less of a hassle, more easy, you know? It would just feel more natural and epic. Lethal injection is so lame
Also, the London Underground opened during the American civil war.
himit ยท 88 points ยท Posted at 09:47:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm from the UK, and my dad (American) took me to visit a civil war fort during one of my summer visits with him.
I remember seeing the dates of the war and laughing my ass off. I'd always assumed it was in the 1600s or something, but it really wasn't that long ago!
And in the eyes of the South they declared independence from an oppressive federalist government, so they were an independent country before the "civil war".
In the UK no one calls it the American War for Independence, everyone calls it the American Revolution.
We also call an uprising of Indian military during the Empire the "Indian Mutiny" but the Indians call it "The First Indian War for Independence".
So yes you're right, but it's because everyone has different perspectives on these things anyway
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:25:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Yeah but it's the whole "one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist" isn't it?
Even if the declaration of independence was signed after the fighting started the US wouldn't refer to it as the American Revolution and the Indians don't refer to the first conflict as the Indian Mutiny, because that makes you sound like traitors.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:24:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Replace "King" with "Congress" and you've just described the American Civil war. Seems kind of silly to define whether something is a civil war based on which side wins.
falor42 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:45:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seems kind of silly
Such is war.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:22:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but it was a British civil war, since all the colonies were on the same side.
If the South had successfully seceded we would probably call that a revolution as well. However, there's a distinction for the US revolution in that the British empire wasn't exactly one big unified nation state. We were colonies, not integral parts of the UK
m1rrari ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:44:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is why America still had so many race issues probbaly. It was not that many generations ago, I was suprised too when I would out how recent it was but American society makes more sense when you know when it happened.
That is definitely a factor, but race issues exist everywhere. Europe is really struggling with a lot of friction in dealing with a growing Muslim community, while America has had less problems in that area. There is a load of rhetoric thrown around, but considering the size of the country, very few actual major incidents between Muslims & other faiths.
Sure. But in Eurooe the issues are more about culture and religion (and benefits for immigrats). In US it seems to be a lot about sterotypes about people with differnt skincolors and how the people of color are often in lower class.
Not sure if this is more of an indictment on all American history being 'recent', or of the UK educational system for you thinking the US Civil War occurred before there was a United States.
Hell, the very first British colony in the Americas wasn't until Jamestown in 1607. Guess I'll go to the old joke: "Americans think 100 years is a long time, Europeans think 100 miles is a long distance."
Nah, we weren't even a country until the very late 1700's, and it took us almost a century of people dicking around and passing temporary solutions to the points of contention (slavery, tariffs, legislation that favored the industrial north over the agricultural south, etc.) before we got fed up enough to get around to fighting ourselves.
It's ok, you probably know more American history than I know British or UK history. :)
Hey before you around saying that temporary solutions were passed in favor of the north (legislation that favored industrial north, tarrifs connected to slavery and so on), it has to be known that the Northern states tried to compromise several times with the South. The Missouri Compromise and the Kansas-Nebraska act were both passed in order to satisfy the southern states. Slave catchers were illegally entering the northern states and kidnapping free black men. A representative from South Carolina also caned a representative from New England on the House floor over the issue of slavery, critically injuring and nearly killing him. The Southern states were absolutely in the wrong during this whole time period and continued to push aggressive tactics against the northern states.
It wasn't the North that was dicking around and passing temporary solutions, it was the South dragging the rest of the country through it's backwards ways. At this point the industrial revolution was about to be in full swing and the United States government/northern states knew that an agricultural industry based on slavery (and "king cotton") would not be sustainable long term.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 08:05:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Non-American here: Why would you say "utilized" when "used" seems to work perfectly fine?
jMyles ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 12:10:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To "use" something, especially something so life-changing as a system for gaining liberation, means simply to engage it, whatever the outcome (ie, to "put it to use.")
To utilize something means to gain utility (its etymological root) from it.
So, in this case, since slavery was (and actually still is) such an abomination, I think it makes sense to make clear that people gained utility via this awesomely law-breaking, system-crushing movement.
gqgk ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 08:29:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not exactly; it mostly helps us cover up our bullshit.
OskarCa ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:16:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reason being, North Americans enjoy utilizing many extra unnecessary letters in their words to have themselves appear more intellectual. Like "high rate of speed" which does happen to annoy me quite a bit if I do say so myself.
I like how Brits put the "r" sound in words that don't even have an "r"!
firthy ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 10:32:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or Americans who just arbitrarily whipped out the silent letters that had been used in those words for centuries, because they were essentially, a bit thick. Same reason they substituted all the 'z' with 's' - dumbing down and laziness. See also 'donut'.
That's always the craziest thing to think about. In terms of countries and how long they have been around. America is barely a blip on the radar but we are one of the most influential politically , financially and militarily on a global scale.
[deleted] ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 07:31:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just wait another 150 years and we will all bow before the military, scientific, and cultural might of The Micronesian Empire.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:55:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 09:25:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One of the last executions in Europe as well. Capital punishment is strictly forbidden by a treaty pertaining to European Court of Human Rights. Only Belarus exercises death penalty anymore, even Russia switched to making "accidents" happen to the people it doesn't like.
Belarus is an interesting country in this regard. Their mode of execution is a leftover from the Cold War - they take the unsuspecting prisoner to an interrogation room, he sits down, he is given a paper to read on the table. While he's reading the paper, somebody shoots him in the back of his exposed neck. AFAIK both CIA and KGB did this back then.
They meant the last public hanging, which was in the 1800s.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:06:18 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't see how that changes anything I said in the parent. I guess the idea that this is a "wow, no way!" thing is just alien to me. I guess different nations have different history taught in their curriculum. Apparently in the USA the curriculum is "Nothing 101".
[deleted] ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 05:06:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I think you are confused about what the Underground Railroad is.
Edit: OK, looks like I was confused on the history of underground railroads.
Micia19 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:24:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you're just confused
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:13:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A network of secret routes to help slaves escape to the north?
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:41:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Tube predated the last hanging by about 100 years.
dethb0y ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:45:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
he was a bit of an odd duck, too: Micheal Barret - due to the circumstances of his trial and the politics surrounding it, we may never know if he was really guilty or what, but it honestly looks like he may have been innocent of the crime he hung for.
It's strange how things that were so important a few generations ago are so forgotten now.
L96 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:28:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I looked it up and it's true, the last public hanging took place just after the tube opened in 1867. But back then the tube still had steam trains and wooden carriages, so it's not that surprising.
L96 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:28:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I looked it up and it's true, the last public hanging took place just after the tube opened in 1867. But back then the tube still had steam trains and wooden carriages, so it's not that surprising.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:33:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Last PUBLIC hanging in London. The last execution in London was in 1961
L96 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:28:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I looked it up and it's true, the last public hanging took place just after the tube opened in 1867. But back then the tube still had steam trains and wooden carriages, so it's not that surprising.
well it is no longer public but you can be hung in Washington State and a couple of other states in the US. So someone could technically take a subway to a hanging
Doesn't sound extremely wrong to me because of how popular subs like wtf and 50/50 are
p7r ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:40:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe.
They may have done to witness the last public hanging in 1868 at Newgate prison, but at that time the underground was composed of two small sections between Paddington and Farringdon some 2-3 miles away from Newgate, and between South Kensington and Westminster which again, is a couple of miles away. The crowd is reported to be about 2,000 and so there is actually a good chance none of them got the underground at all.
MxM111 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:59:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People were eating the tube sandwiches from Subway?
Just some quick math... (not accounting for leap years). If I live to 100 years old. I have to make $19.02 every second of my life to reach 1 billion dollars. Maybe my math is flawed. But that seems rediculous ..
Lesson to be learned here. Don't drink and do math.
1 billion / 100 = 10,000,000 / year
10,000,000 / 365 ( not accounting for leap years) = 27,397.26 day
27,397.26 / 24 hours = 1,141.55 hour
1,141.55 / 60 minutes = 19.03 minute ( must have missed this)
19.03 / 60 seconds = .32 per second
Approximately. ... I know it still isn't perfect though.
I didn't account for leap years having one less day. So across 32000 years there will be 7927 (rounded down) leap years. That's 7927 less days. Which is 21.7190356053 years.
Therfore it is (as accurately as I care to figure it =31,688.072948158 years.
I don't know why I did that.
Edit: leap years ADD days so I'm the opposite of right. Thanks to AssAssln46 for the correction
A year is about pi x 107 seconds, within about 0.5%.
Kalsion ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:52:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not to kill the interesting fact, but a 0.5% margin of error means that every digit after the first 2 digits (maybe only the first digit, I can't be bothered to do the math) can be different from pi. 31222222, for example, is well within .5% of 31415926, despite not having any real resemblance to pi.
A year is 31536000 seconds, pi x 107 is 31415926 seconds or about 1.5 days short. pi x 107 is more than adequate for order of magnitude estimates, which is actually where you'd use it (it comes up in simple order of magnitude astronomy calculations). If there are other uncertainties that are larger than 0.5%, your final uncertainty will be dominated by that. The reason you'd use pi x 107 in such calculations would be to cancel a pi elsewhere.
Let's look at the previous poster's comments:
a million seconds is about 11 days.
11 days is 950400 seconds, or about 5% different from 1 million. pi x 107 in a year is more accurate than that.
A billion seconds is about 32 years.
32 years is 1009152000 seconds, or about 1% different from 1 billion. Again, pi x 107 in a year is more accurate than that.
Kalsion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:36:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All right I take it back, that's pretty neat.
ftt128 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:07:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
525,600 minutes is a year
akaini ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:15:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
pi seconds is a nano-century, to 3 significant figures.
dogsn1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:26:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not as impressive when you the million seconds one first, you can just work out that it's 11000 days
This was instrumental in teaching me the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire, and was a significant part in realising just how fucked up the global economic system is with that whole 1% mullarky
Computers often store the time as seconds elapsed since 1/1/1970. Some time in 2038, over 2.14 billion seconds will have passed, and this is the largest number that can be stored by a 32 bit integer. It will then overflow to negative 2.14 billion seconds, or some time in 1911.
11 000 / 365 = 30 years. Now obviously a million seconds isn't exacly just eleven days so it's going to be a bit more than 30 years. But it's hardly surprising that 11 days multiplied by a thowsand is a lot.
Wait how does the math work for that?Let's say the first statement is true.A million to a billion is *1000,so if we do 11 days *1000 we get 11.000 days,right?11.000 days to years convertion on Google is ''0.0301170019 years''.
Google assumes that '.' is the decimal point and ',' is the thousands separator. Also a year is 365(.somthing) days, so dividing 11,000 by 365 gives... 30.something
That result is heavily influenced by rounding errors, but I'd say it inspires supports OP's claim
The word "Strengths" holds two lexical records as being both the longest monosyllabic word in the English language, and also having the highest ratio of consonants to vowels.
The hard to believe part is that it's one syllable.
EDIT: It is NOT the only monosyllabic word of that length, but it also uniquely contains only 1 vowel and 8 consonants.
Reminded me of this fun fact. Stewardesses is the longest word you can type with just your left hand (using the "proper" hand placement like how they teach typing).
There are a ton of monosyllabic words with 9 letters, but only one with 10. "Scraunched" is a made up word from the book Don Quixote, but many don't actually consider it a real word :(
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 14:09:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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joequin ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 13:41:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The hard to believe part is that it's one syllable.
Are there certain accents where it's surprising that "strength" only has one syllable? As a North easterner I don't see how that isn't blindingly obvious.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 19:11:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's more from a world-languages perspective. In a lot of languages you can't have more than one or two consonants at the end of a word, and here with strengths we have ng-(k)-th-s (IPA: /ลkฮธs/). A lot of people, even English-speakers, simplify this as either n-th-s or ng-k-s or something like that. /ฮธs/ (that's th-s) as a sequence is really hard for a lot of people, too, as shown by the similar sequence at the end of clothes, often simplified so that it's a homophone of close.
The onset is also pretty packed, all things considered. Some languages like Spanish don't allow s to start words if it's followed by other consonants, so a Spanish-speaker might say estrenks or something similar for strengths.
It's just a packed word. But everything's relative - in Georgian you can get words such as (per wiki) แแแคแ แชแฅแแแ gvprckvni ("You peel us"). That's a single syllable that starts with gvprckvn-.
Sorry, I meant the meaning. That may be a literal translation, but the meaning doesn't translate.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:32:22 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I was being a wise-ass :) It works. It's just not exactly a likely scenario. But I assume it's the verb "to peel" conjugated so that the subject is the 2nd person and the object is the 1st person. So it could be used if you were being tortured by Ramsay Snow or something.
Holy shit - I didn't realize it was being literal, I figured it was just an idiom or the phrase meant something a bit differently in that language. Wow!
And yeah, I figured, but usually calling someone a smartass doesn't get you very far as it sounds aggressive, and I really wanted to know!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:35 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're into this stuff do some reading on wikipedia. It's written pretty accessibly.
Georgian is an agglutinative language, meaning it just tacks on lots of different affixes instead of worrying about stringing together lots of different words like in English. Languages exist on a spectrum of how much they tend to incorporate into a single word (agglutinative) to relatively analytic languages like English (and even more extremely analytic languages like Mandarin).
Nor is it a true consonant, by that definition. If it is a true consonant, I'm guessing they didn't count it because it's rather ambiguous.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:17:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It depends on your point of view. The spelling isn't the word, and <y> represents a vowel that is definitely there. In fact, there are two vowels in rhythms; the <y> is read like the <i> in kit and there's an indeterminate vowel called a schwa between the <th> and <m> (for some people; others glide straight from one to the other and make [mฬฉ] its own syllable).
konaya ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:35:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Y is a hybrid. It shares this category with W, which you can find as a vowel in certain Welsh loan words such as cwm and crwth.
It's a good and therefore frequently used example word for demonstrating the phonotactics (rules for stringing together sounds) of English. It has the longest possible onset (beginning of a syllable) with a sequence of three consonants and the longest possible coda (end of a syllable) with four (th is one sound even though it's spelled with two letters).
I pronounce it something like [stษนeลkฮธs]. I guess some people don't have a stop between the nasal and the fricatives.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:14:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If we're doing narrow transcription I think I arguably have four consonants on either end, because the whole sequence /st/ is retracted: [สtสษนษลkฮธs].
eihongo ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:51:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does it rhyme with "world" for you? What about "whirled"? And btw do you pronounce "world" and "whirled" the exact same?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:53:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
world sounds like whirled syllable-wise, but the vowel sound is different. Edit: to expand on this, "world" has a longer vowel sound when I say it, "whirled" sounds shorter and more clipped, if that makes sense.
And it doesn't rhyme with world, because then I would have to say "wor-eld"
Oh, neat. I'm not familiar with any dialects that distinguish the vowels of "world" and "whirled" outside of Britain.
Btw if you want to read about this stuff you can read here
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:03:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well as I said in another comment that may not have been in response to you, I'm kinda from all over (although all in the U.S.) so I don't really have a normal U.S. dialect, although I'm able to sound generically upper-middle-class suburban to some and lower-middle-class rural to others when I feel the need to fit in.
Nice to meet you. Out of curiosity, where in the US are you from where squirrel has two syllables?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:13:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Basically all over, which probably has something to do with it. I've lived in North Carolina, Iowa, Colorado, and more. And I've lived in both rural and suburban settings.
As far as phonology goes, "vowel" and "consonant" are two different types of speech sounds basically defined by whether you're blocking up the flow of air or not. In writing though, what we call a vowel letter and a consonant letter just depends on which type of sound it's representing.
This isn't that impressive to me, in Czech, we have plenty of words that contain no wovels at all. The longest being probably "ฤtvrthrst", consisting of 9 consonants and having two syllables. It means "quarter-handful".
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 13:31:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:36:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe they were counting phonetically (stษนeลkฮธs) and felt like saying that calling a consonant letter a "consonant" is wrong.
RanShaw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:07:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Technically, there are 6, although there are 8 letters representing consonants. <ng> is the representation for the consonant /ล/, while <th> represents the consonant /ฮธ/.
Consonants and vowels are letters. Consonant sounds and vowel sounds are phonemes.
RanShaw ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:09:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's really not how the terminology is used in linguistics. Consonants and vowels are two types of phonemes, and in writing these are represented by letters. And letters are just that, a representation of language, and not actual spoken language. That's why different letters can be used to represent one and the same phoneme, or why different languages use different letters to represent their phonemes. Consonants and vowels make up the phonological system of a language. In writing, letters are of course also referred to as consonants and vowels, for the sake of simplicity and because not everyone can be expected to be aware of phonology. However, the fact remains that consonants and vowels are, in essence, a part of human speech, i.e. of phonology, and therefore, the terminology of 'consonant' and 'vowel' applies first and foremost to phonology.
Those are the linguistic facts. As I said, the terminology is in everyday language of course applied to the letters as well, for the sake of simplicity (which is entirely normal and acceptable, of course), but if you want to get technical, consonants and vowels are phonemes.
Just take a look at any kind of basic introduction to phonology, or just google it.
Thanks for that .gif. I like to blow people's minds with this fact and that gif is the best way of showing it. This is something that really catches people off guard when they notice it because it's THEIR EYES and they've been using them all their lives without ever knowing about it.
00yoshi ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:13:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Especially with that one plugin that shows a zoomed version of the gif. In the zoom you can see it moving but in the gif it disappears...
Assuming you aren't blind, you're doing something wrong.
For the first one, close your right eye, look at the cross, and then move your head closer and farther from the screen - there's some distance from the screen where you won't be able to see the dot anymore.
Make sure you aren't looking away from the cross at any point - you have to keep your vision fixed on it.
If you're looking at it on a phone with too small a screen, that might also cause problems. They still work on my phone (the dot will still disappear), but you have to get your face very close to it and things will start looking pretty blurry that close up.
I'm not sure what to tell you. You're doing something wrong.
If you're thinking that maybe this doesn't work because you don't have a blind spot or something, that's definitely not what's going on. You definitely have a blind spot in each eye. There isn't some genetic variation that leaves some people without one, unless you're a cephalopod that's figured out how to use reddit.
The blind spot isn't just some weird vestigial thing, it's an inescapable consequence of the way vertebrate eyes work.
The vertebrate retina is arranged in a really counterintuitive way - the nerve cells are actually on top of the photoreceptors (light has to pass through the nerve cells to get to the receptors that actually respond to it). What this means is that the optic nerve has to come up through the area where the photoreceptors are to reach that layer of nerve cells, which is how you end up with a blind spot.
Think of it like a tree - the branches and leaves are the nerve cells, the grass beneath the tree is the photoreceptors that actually sense light, and the trunk is the optic nerve. Where the trunk is, there can't be any grass. That's your blind spot.
Most often what people have difficulty with in these demonstrations is in keeping their gaze fixed on the cross while moving their head forward/back. It's natural to shift your gaze without really thinking about it, so it does require a little bit of concentration.
I'm on a 1920x1080 30" monitor and the first dot disappears for me about 10 or 11 inches away, if that helps. The distance for you will depend on the size of your screen and your eyes, but it's probably at least somewhere in that ballpark.
Stare at the plus sign and don't move your left eye at all, but just acknowledge the red dot without focusing on it (your peripheral). The red dot should jump back to the left of the gif in your peripheral vision about 75% of the way the red dot is travelling.
You are supposed to close your right eye, and then use your left eye to focus on the + symbol. That means your left eye is looking off to the right, across your nose.
Make sure you start fairly close to the screen and then pull back slowly until you no longer see the O in your peripheral vision.
[deleted] ยท 9334 points ยท Posted at 01:25:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Pierce Brosnan was both the lightest and heaviest actor to play 007. He went from 164 pounds in GoldenEye to 211 pounds in Die Another Day.
tollride ยท 19539 points ยท Posted at 06:32:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My company had some Russian contractors for a while. They loved making puns, but the puns never worked for exactly this reason. The disappointment on their friendly faces every time a pun floundered was heartbreaking.
Ah if English was just like other languages in the sense that there's only way to pronounce a certain combination of letters, everything would be easier. One basically needs to learn how every word is pronounced.
[deleted] ยท 1908 points ยท Posted at 02:41:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And now I will spend my Sunday watching those movies to compare body composition of Pearce Brosnan. Term papers can wait. O
[deleted] ยท 186 points ยท Posted at 07:20:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"That's what I was trying to avoid. A conversation about body mass, okay? We've had that conversation five times a day for the last month because we keep watching Predator and all you talk about is Weathers and Jesse "The Body" Ventura and how many pounds they can pack on..."
aetheos ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 08:40:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
AgAero ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:19:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a decent chance based on the phrasing and the interest in Pearce Brosnan that the person you're responding to is not a student, but rather a female teacher that's grading term papers for her class.
Ethril ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:41:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know, this sounds like a thesis worthy of PCU to me.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:58:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ltb1993 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:33:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Than you can procrastinate tomorrow
crossmr ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:12:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can't do that. If feminists have taught us anything it is that people only do that about female actresses. If you were to do that in regards to a male actor it would mean everything they've said is a lie, and the world would implode.
I am 6'1" 165. Ran four years of college track, and have not worked out once since graduation, 5 months ago. Other than having an uglier face, I look just like that picture.
I'm 6'2. Back in his heyday, I suspect Sean Connery was taller.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:48:16 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm also 6'2. Not sure how that's relevant? He was listed as 6'2 in his heyday, gave his height as 6'2 in his heyday, and looked 6'2 next to other actors in his heyday. He's a tall dude, but 6'2 in the 60s would have been similar to 6'3 now rarity wise.
He played his roles fine, but his movies were too awful for me to think any higher of his tenure as Bond. There's only a handful of loose set peices I personally like from his movies outside of Goldeneye.
... I think Die Another Day and Diamonds are Forever are the absolutely worst movies in the series. Even as as a 10 y/o I thought the car duel, the diamond zits, and surfing a goddam tsunami after outrunning a space laser were absurd to the point of being dumb. They felt like children's movies. It somehow out-camps The Man with the Golden Gun.
It's the cycle of Bond movies. Start grounded, gradually get more gadgety and outlandish until it gets to be too much, then "refresh" with a grounded, spy-intrigue movie, repeat.
He aced the perfect mix of suave and action Bond. Overall I like the Craig Bond movies better, but I like Brosnan as the better Bond. Craig could just be playing any action movie, but Brosnan feels like the suave secret agent.
Connery looked quite heavy in his last one, that surprises me.
Mofman1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:21:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More like Pie Another Day.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:23:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Timothy Dalton was the best actor to ever play 007 but was cursed with the worst plot and production and he was the one who ended up being punished for the failure of the films he was in.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:32:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ยฃ211?
He got ripped off
L8Show ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:59:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As the movies came out you didn't notice but if you see them together, it becomes apparent that Pierce Brosnan consumed Denise Richards in the late 90s.
Mugros ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:26:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, it's almost like they cast similar body types for the same role.
In orbital mechanics you need to speed up to slow down, and slow down to speed up.
Meaning that wherever you are in an orbit, if you speed up in the direction you are travelling, it won't change your velocity at that point (too much) but it will cause the opposite side of the orbit to "grow" from whatever body you're orbiting, and your velocity there to decrease. If you reduce your velocity at a point, it will again most affect the opposite side of the orbit, causing it to decrease toward the body being orbited, and the closer it gets the faster you will go there (like a sling-shot effect).
An Oberth maneuver in the close vicinity of the Sun, while theoretically possible and extraordinarily effective at the speeds the spacecraft would reach, would however be very difficult to carry out in real life, because the neighborhood of the Sun is an extremely hostile environment and the spacecraft could be incinerated during a too-close flyby.
KSP does not make any attempt to deal with the N-body problem (for which there is no complete solution), or even simpler 2-body mechanics. Instead celestial bodies are "on rails" and have fixed Spheres of Influence (SOI); a craft within a particular SOI feels the gravitational influence of only that body, and transitions are abrupt when a craft crosses the edge of an SOI. This means there are no Lagrangian points, Lissajous orbits, or, critically for this context, orbital perturbations by distant bodies or other factors. Therefore orbits modeled using KSP would poorly reflect the actual orbital behavior of a probe traveling through the solar system on a multi-year mission involving multiple fly-by maneuvers.
Do you think games like KSP will create a new breed/wave of rocket scientists with it being so much more approachable than it was before?
ttiwdty ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 12:44:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, it might garner interest, but irl there is a lot more to it than orbital mechanics - that's just one small part of the teams that help design, test, 'fly' satellites.
I'd be willing to bet that there is a not insignificant number of engineering and aerospace students that were at least inspired by KSP to at least look into those programs.
I hope so! I think it will do it by getting kids/people excited about the concept enough to eventually pursue careers in it. Of course it could all be one of a series of flashes in the pan. For instance, in retrospect actually landing on the moon was one of the worst things that happened to the space industry. Once we got there once, public interest in space and the space program tanked, we only sent 5 more missions to the moon, and funding for public space programs dried up. Obviously there were a lot of other things at play there, and there have been some other great advancements through the ISS, the Mars rovers, New Horizons, etc.. Government funding has a tendency to follow public interests though, so maybe, hopefully that's where the recent resurgent interest leads. And if it doesn't there's always Tony Stark Elon Musk.
adamd22 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:46:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't even learn it months after I purchased KSP. To be fair to me, I tried for like a week, gave up cause "fuck this, im playing something that doesn't require a fair amount of thought" and did that for a few months.
"NEIN! NEIN, NEIN, NEIN! Ze AtmosphericModel changed in ze latest Update! You must start ze GravityTurn much earlier!"
<Smokes a cigarette in a fucked up way, held between the middle and ring fingers.>
Hegiman ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 12:15:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man I really need to break down and buy this game.
danstu ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 12:32:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unfortunately, the demo is horribly out of date, but definitely play the demo first. It's the type of game where you'll either get frustrated/bored in an hour and give up, or you'll put several hundred hours into it.
Hegiman ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 12:59:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've tried the demo, I can't figure it out. It's very limited. I built a rocket but when I launched it exploded in the pad. I guess I did t release some mooring clamps or something. Lol. I think KSP will be a game a spend way too much time in once I get it. That's one reason I've not got it.
The clamps not releasing is likely due to you're launch sequence being incorrectly ordered with the clamps either too late in the launch sequence or too early. See these orange tabs on the right of this picture? They signify from bottom to top the launch sequence of the rocket. You can grab those tabs with the mouse and move them around to change the launch sequence. You can also mouse over each part on your rocket and it will highlight the rocket part in the launch sequence. If you dont like where it is in the launch sequnce you can even pick them up from one orange tab and drop them in another one.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:43:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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danstu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:25:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Absolutely agreed. It's also one of the most satisfying moments I've ever had in gaming.
It's such a unique game. And it's intellectually rewarding. Sure, the vast majority of us aren't rocket scientist. But knowing you, done maneuvers, burns, orbital changes, etc. all things similar to that of rocket scientists or astrophysicists its pretty cool. And it takes relatively real time. Wanna go to another planet, you're gunna need several hours if not days sometimes irl. I mean you can speed up time but you see my point. Its pretty realistic. It's a game worth playing. Thats for sure.
Hell, if you didn't speed up time it would literally take weeks! Actually, I'd be curious to see someone attempt that in real time, just need enough snacks...
It's the greatest game ever made IMHO. Unlrss you prefer games that don't make you smarter.
iamPause ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 13:23:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It's the greatest game ever made IMHO. Unlrss you prefer games that don't make you smarter.
Unlrss you prefer games that don't make you smarter.
Unlrss
adamd22 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:49:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't inflate your own head too much. Yeah it's complicated but it's only really teaching you orbital mechanics around different bodies. It doesn't even factor in gravity affecting a ship from multiple bodies, only one at a time. It doesn't make you smarter at all, it just lets you use your brain, unlike other (still fun) games like COD.
Using your brain makes you smarter. KSP requires a ton of forethought, critical thinking, problem solving, and research. All of which are valuable skills and very important for "smart" individuals to possess.
adamd22 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:51:57 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For the record, I love the game as well, but you're overstating it. It requires knowledge of trajectories, and googling of SOIs of planets. Sure it requires more discipline of the mind than most games, but if you go to people and say "hey, I'm smarter because I play Kerbal Space Program", then you're an ass, to be quite frank. It's a very small field of physics that's being applied in the game.
Your reaction is surprising. It's so angry, for seemingly no reason. I'm an ass because I think the critical thinking and planning skills in Kerbal Space Program can make you smarter? I honestly don't even care about the disagreement anymore, you're affect is far more interesting. Do you typically overreact to innocuous comments on the internet?
adamd22 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:42:01 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's funny because I didn't call you an ass at all. I said IF you say to people "I'm smarter because I play Kerbal Space Program". Are you telling me you DO actually do that? That's the only possible way you could be offended by what I said, otherwise you're just overreacting. If you do actually say that to people, then I stand by what I said.
Also, the grammar errors in your comment kind of definitively prove that Kerbal Space Program does not make you smarter. I am affect? You mean "your effect" I assume, and even then it still doesn't make sense.
My original point was that it's kind of a ostentatious to say "this game makes you smarter, which is why you should play it, because other games are dumb", because whilst KSP does require application of a certain, small area of physics, it doesn't simply "make you smarter". If you play KSP on repeat for a month you don't suddenly "become smarter", you simply gain better knowledge of how trajectories and SOIs work in space.
I hadn't heard of this game, but holy SimCity on meth!
When I was taking a course on orbital mechanics the guy teaching the class recommended KSP as an aid to understand the big concept stuff, and it really helped. It wasn't a part of the curriculum, and certainly doesn't teach the full science and math behind it, but I feel it went to show how integral hands on and experiential learning really is.
sullyrb ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:34:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
good luck with the simple maths you have to do on day one. you have learned nothing
graaahh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:11:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Comments like this are why I want to play KSP but based on playing the demo version, I'm definitely not good enough at it to justify purchasing the full game.
Arcian_ ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 12:27:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Watch some of Scott Manley's videos, he knows how all that shit works in real life so he explains how to do it in the game.
Knows how it works, explains how and why it works, how to do it, why what he's doing wouldn't work for real because he's exploiting some game mechanic that doesn't work in real life and he has an awesome voice. He makes me jealous, puts me in awe, and I can't stop listening to him! Help, I think I have a problem.
fatnino ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:16:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I learned from an exhibit in some forgotten corner of a science museum what you had to play ksp for.
It was an interactive, DOS graphics, shitty CRT with one joystick. The goal was to change your orbit from whatever it was at to whatever the computer decided it wanted to be at now.
ocha_94 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:38:55 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair I learned more about orbital mechanics with KSP than in my satellites class, where I just learned how to put everything into STK and let it do the math
Is this because as you speed up you're getting further away from the point you're orbiting, so since you're further from your orbiting point it now takes you further to make that orbit?
I hope I explained my thought well enough.
Sort of like a CD. The bigger the cd, the longer it takes the outer edge to make a rotation. So increasing the speed would make the CD bigger and take it longer to orbit.
The CD is actually a good example. The orbital period, or how long it takes to orbit a body, is pretty much based off of the major axis (or the longest part) of the orbit. There can be orbits shaped like perfect circles, or ones shaped like an egg. In the more oval shaped orbits part of the orbit will be close to the larger body, and that's where the orbit is fastest, kind of like how the part of the CD/spinning disc nearest the center moves faster. The opposite is true for the outer part of the orbit/CD/disc.
It's a little more complicated than that when dealing with orbits, but if you're interested here's some good info on Kepler's Laws of planetary motion.
Thanks. I figured it was a bit more complicated than my example but that was the simplest terms I could think of to convey what I was thinking. I'll definitely check out that link.
Now that I think about it, it's not the best example. /u/SirSpaffsalot and /u/SplitArrow have given a better example which would be spinning a ball/mass on a string. It's still not a perfect example, but the closer it is to you the faster it will spin with the same angular momentum, the further out it is, the slower the angular velocity with the same angular momentum. Good catch!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:37:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Yeah, I knew it wasn't exactly a correct analogy. I was just trying to confer my thoughts in simplest terms I could think. Obviously I failed. But the up got what I was trying to say, I think.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:43:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The CD is a poor example as the outer edge may be travelling faster than the inside edge, but they still take the same period of time to make a full revolution.
Orbital mechanics however is different as the opposite is generally true in that closer objects generally travel faster which results in hugely reduced orbital periods. Mercury for example which the closest planet to the sun has an orbital period of 88 days and an orbital velocity of 47.4km/s. The outermost planet Neptune (sorry pluto) has an orbital period of a staggering 164.8 years and a mere orbital velocity of just 5.4km/s.
Yeah, I know realize it was a poor analogy. I was just trying to convey my thoughts in the simplest terms. I've obviously failed at that. But I think the op got what I was trying to say. I think.
The fact that you are on the "outside track" and have to cover more distance when in a higher orbit is part of it, but it is more that you actually slow down when you gain altitude. In a circular orbit you are not gaining or losing speed. Your direction changes, but since gravity is perpendicular to your direction of travel you don't speed up or slow down.
Now, imagine you fire your engine and speed up a bit. Now that you are faster, the centrifugal force of your velocity is no longer equal to the force of gravity, but rather slightly greater. This means you start to gain altitude. Now at this point you might wonder why you would not spiral out into infinity. The reason for that you don't is that now your direction of travel is not perpendicular to gravity, but rather slightly away, and as such it slows you down. Eventually it slows you down enough that your centrifugal force is now to weak to keep you up and you start to fall, an as you fall gravity accelerates you. As it does you gain more speed and eventually it becomes enough that you have to much centrifugal force. It will continue to follow this elliptical up down path until something else disturbs it.
TL:DR: When you accelerate your centrifugal force causes you to rise, and as you do you slow down. when you come back down you speed up again. On the whole, this makes you orbit longer.
I loved studying orbital physics. It is really interesting when the Professor leads the section with "It's falling, but missing the ground constantly."
SilkyZ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:38:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy states: "There is an art to flying, or rather a knack. Its knack lies in learning to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ... Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, that presents the difficulties."
ELI5 edition. Higher orbits are slower. Lower orbits are faster. Applying thrust in the direction of travel pushes the path of your orbit on the opposite side of the planet much higher so you slow down. Turning around and thrusting in the opposite way to you direction of travel changes your orbital path on the opposite side of the planet much lower so you speed up.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:33:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
If you go faster you'll go farther from the planet, and reaching that point the planet will move you more slowly because gravity gets weaker with distance. If you go too fast to stay in a slow orbit then you'll just escape the planet altogether.
Man I still can't wrap my head around it. Could you explain it as simply as possible to me? I am interested.
Tobl4 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:29:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly, to really grasp it, I would recommend waiting until KSP is on sale again and playing it. But I'll try anyway:
1) Orbits that are further away from the planet are slower (take longer for a full rotation) than those closer to the planet. This makes sense because the planet's gravitational pull decreases with distance, so we can afford to travel slower without being dragged to our doom
2) When we're in an orbit (i.e. travelling sideways over the surface fast enough to not be dragged to our doom), to get into a higher orbit, we need to increase our velocity in the direction we're travelling. This makes sense because we got into orbit in the first place by increasing our sideways velocity. Similarly, to get into a lower orbit, we need to decrease our velocity (eventually, this ends with an orbit so low that it intersects the planet's surface)
1+2) If we want to take longer for a full rotation (for example so that another spacecraft can catch up to us), we need to get further away from the planet. To do so, we need to increase our velocity. In orbital mechanics, you need to speed up to slow down and vice versa.
I don't know if it helps or is accurate, but the orbit is elliptical and the increase in velocity here would have the direction of force be tangential to the orbit.
So draw a circle. Draw a line from the center to outline. Draw a line perpendicular to that radius.
There have been some other good examples posted here, so I'll summarize as best I can. Imagine taking a ball/weight on the end of a rope and spinning it. The closer in to your hand, the faster it can/will spin. The further out, the slower it will spin. Now if you have it closer to your hand, and you try to speed it up, it will want to pull away from your hand even more. In the case of satellites, there's not really a string pulling it into the center, so it does travel further out. The further out it goes, the slower it goes.
There's some good info on the wikipedia page for Kepler's laws of planetary motion. Kerbal Space Program is a game on steam that provides a really good hands on with these concepts too.
tie an object to a string, and the other end tie it to your finger, when you swing your hand and object starts to "orbit" your finger, as the string shortens the object speeds up, and the reverse is true, the object slows as the string gets longer
Pretty much only in that they're both circular/elliptical. Drum brakes work by pressing pads against a rotating cylinder, creating a lot of friction, thus slowing the cylinder.
Greul ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:39:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
serekes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:50:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always thought that makes sense, but no one believed me because i had no idea how to explain since i haven't read about it, to me was just a instinctive logic.
It's an efficient way to launch into an orbit by turning the craft at the right time(s) to both over come gravity and achieve enough sideways velocity to maintain orbit. Once you get that down, you can start to launch a series of crafts, connect them in orbit, offload fuel and essentially having a gas station in orbit. This makes the margin for error for getting to outer planets much greater.
Edit: Another tip is the Hohmann Transfer. I've typed a few explanaitions up for it, and I'll try my best to describe it if anyone's actually looking for it, but it always sounds pretty complicated. The easiest thing is to look at these sites: Hohmann Transfer Orbit, Kerbal Hohman Transfer
Edit 2: There are two things to keep in mind everytime you fire up your engines in orbit:
If you fire your engines for a few seconds at any spot, you will return to that exactly that spot, and the effect of your burn will be on the exact opposite side of your burn.
There are a few spots where burns are most efficient (I'll let you research these yourselves), they are the periapsis, apoapsis, ascending node and descending node. Here's a page on basic maneuvers that's pretty good
If you haven't tried out Kerbal Space Program, it actually helped me a ton understanding the concepts. You might not get the equations and specifics out of it, but being able to think about those specifics in terms of something you can actually get your hands on and manipulate helps so much.
There have been some other good examples posted here, so I'll summarize as best I can. Imagine taking a ball/weight on the end of a rope and spinning it. The closer in to your hand, the faster it can/will spin. The further out, the slower it will spin. Now if you have it closer to your hand, and you try to speed it up, it will want to pull away from your hand even more. In the case of satellites, there's not really a string pulling it into the center, so it does travel further out. The further out it goes, the slower it goes.
There's some good info on the wikipedia page for Kepler's laws of planetary motion. Kerbal Space Program is a game on steam that provides a really good hands on with these concepts too.
There have been some other good examples posted here, so I'll summarize as best I can. Imagine taking a ball/weight on the end of a rope and spinning it. The closer in to your hand, the faster it can/will spin. The further out, the slower it will spin. Now if you have it closer to your hand, and you try to speed it up, it will want to pull away from your hand even more. In the case of satellites, there's not really a string pulling it into the center, so it does travel further out. The further out it goes, the slower it goes.
There's some good info on the wikipedia page for Kepler's laws of planetary motion. Kerbal Space Program is a game on steam that provides a really good hands on with these concepts too.
Niqulaz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:00:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In order to catch up with something in front of you in orbit, you cannot speed up in order to catch up.
Instead, you have to go lower.
And once you wrap your head around that, everything becomes a lot easier.
I haven't seen the Martian in a while so I'm erring on the side of them getting the science right enough. But if I recall they were correct about slowing down to decrease the orbit, which would increase their speed at the lowest part of their orbit, slingshot around earth, and reach mars quicker. Now if they did it right, and they had a highly eccentric orbit (much more elongated than circular) then at the highest point of their orbit, their angular velocity would be slower than a circular orbit with the same semi-major axis. If I recall there were some scientific liberties taken, but it was in the name of good cinema. I really enjoyed the movie!
I loved the movie and the book. Both were so great, but I was meaning at the end spoiler alert when they have to drop in orbit to pick up Watney. They blow the front compartment of the Hermes and that both slows them down and reduces orbit. Can they do both at the same time with enough force?
Oh that part, well they slowed down so they'd go lower. But they'd go lower at the exact opposite point on the orbit, not right where they blow the hatch. When they got to that other point in the orbit they'd be going faster. If I remember correctly it was only so they'd go 100ish feet lower, but they'd also be going a bit faster at that lower point, which if i remember was also one of the things they had to deal with. I think Matt Damon would have become a frozen meat mist.
Hexzul ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:25:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Objects in higher orbits have more orbital energy, but move slower. If two moons are in the same orbit, the lower one eventually catches up to the faster one. Gravitational attraction transfers some of the orbital energy from the moon in the higher orbit to the moon in the lower orbit. The moon in front drops closer to the planet and moves faster, pulling away from the moon in back. Eventually, it catches up and they exchange orbits again.
That's more true once you actually reach the other side of the orbit, but at the moment you're adding velocity you're just speeding up. The slowing down comes much later, along with the extra distance gained
It is rather simple when you think about it. While on the surface the thought is hard to grasp but when you realize orbit is about controlled falling it makes more sense. If you increase speed you are increasing the centrifugal force on the object which causes it to want increase distance. If you slow down it makes the object come closer.
The best way I have been able to explain to people is imagine a string with a ball on the end. Spin the string and the ball will pull away the faster it goes. Slow it down and it will stop spinning.
I learned it in a classroom, but I didn't know it until KSP. This is correct.
JLBeck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:58:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That seems like a very specific career to switch from. After satellite engineer what did you do? Similar field or did you just say fuck it and go into marketing?
I did it in the USAF and got out. It's a very location specific job, and didn't really want to work for the DoD or live in that/those areas. The nice thing about having a background systems engineering is that you can do many engineering jobs without your bosses having high expectations of you.
JLBeck ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:27:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for appeasing my curiosity.
Yeah, it's pretty much all angular velocity and angular momentum. If you take an instantaneous snapshot of the velocity change, it'll be a linear velocity change, but it translates into angular velocity.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:49:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
By "slingshot effect", they don't mean the famous gravitational slingshot that probes use to get to the edges of the solar system. It's more like the other side of a planet is a half pipe that you fall into and then role back up the other side. (While the other direction, reducing your speed, causes you to go up a hill and down again.)
Gravitational slingshots involve doing this not during orbit, but as they pass a planet, and coordinated with the planet's orbit so that they can steal energy from it.
True. I used it as an example to make it easier for some people to visualize that one end of an eccentric orbit has a faster velocity than the other. While using in an orbit isn't a gravity assist, they're both the same effect but different conic sections (ellipse vs parabola).
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:11:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
read this and went "fuck that, that doesnt happen in ksp!"
For those who are unaware that is angular momentum. M is the mass of the orbiter, v is its instantaneous linear velocity and r is the radius of the orbit.
Darkfeign ยท 5881 points ยท Posted at 01:31:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Been said before, but that all the other planets in our solar system could fit within the average distance between the Earth and the Moon. This includes Pluto with some room to spare, if you're feeling nostalgic.
Distance between Earth and Moon = 238,900 mi
Diameter of Mercury = 3,032 mi
Diameter of Venus = 7,520.8 mi
Diameter of Mars = 4,212 mi
Diameter of Jupiter = 86,881.4 mi
Diameter of Saturn = 72,367.4 mi
Diameter of Neptune = 30,599 mi
Diameter of Uranus = 31,518 mi
Total distance of all diameters added = 236160.6
Fact checks out.
[deleted] ยท 4710 points ยท Posted at 03:41:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I see no point in memorizing the diameter of the planets in miles. - Literally Everyone
FTFY. I'm sure a handful of scientists have memorized facts like planetary diameter just from repetition. But I'd bet a year's salary it would be in kilometres, not miles. Literally no one would have reason to know it in miles.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 11:52:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I once worked with a woman who had memorised every suburb's postcode in the state. Worst superpower, ever.
_cortex ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 09:34:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They specially employ a guy for the sole reason to remember all the most important constants in imperial units. In case anything crashes again, they just blame that guy.
The meter was originally defined as 1/4000000 the perimeter of the earth at the equator, hence, the perimeter is 40000km. The meter is lately defined otherwise. But:
40000km/PI = 12732.77km
katieya ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 07:17:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Albert Einstein: The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library how to google shit.
adamd22 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:31:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty accurate tbh. He also said "I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think". Unfortunately in our modern world it seems that Google is removing the human initiative to think. Or maybe that's just me thinking like an old baby boomer.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 07:32:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck you people, I'm retired - Albert Einstein if he were alive today
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:36:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now let's fuck you bitches, I'm getting retarded - Albert Einstein if he were a member of the black eyed peas
I believe the meme is "Albert Einstein... probably"
WarKiel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:46:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's been research done on this.
Younger people who've had access to internet are worse at remembering things but way better at finding information than earlier generations.
We have sacrificed the ability to remember stuff like phone numbers for our mad google-fu skills.
memorizing some piece of information has more value than just knowing the fact. It shows that you care about the subject enough to memorize it. It shows that a person has a passion for what their learned about.
I'm 27 and I would do the same thing in the elementary library. I feel like I had perfect timing being born and being able to experience the 90's watching technology change our lives in so many ways. I get a feeling that younger generations will not appreciate how bad-ass technology has progressed! I'm still amazed that I own a smart-phone and what it can do.
gill8672 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 05:33:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm, I'm 16 & not amazed by it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:31:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They will witness other things. Like curing all diseases and being forever young.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:30:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hi! I know the Earth's and I know each one's relative size to the others, but I don't know the numbers off the top of my head or anything. I suspect few people do.
Diameter of Mercury = 3,032 mi
Diameter of Venus = 7,520.8
Diameter of Mars = 4,212
Diameter of Jupiter = 86,881.4
Diameter of Saturn = 72,367.4
Diameter of Neptune = 30,599
Diameter of Uranus = 31,518
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Sum = 236,160.6 mi
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Difference = 1,739.4 mi
Even if you include Pluto (diameter of 1475 mi), you still have about 260 mi, or an error of 0.1%, to play with.
Ardub23 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 07:51:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a lot of people don't consider is that the distance between the Earth and the Moon is generally the distance between their centers, not the actual space between them. You have to subtract the radius of the Earth and Moon to get the amount of space between:
r(Earth) = 3,956 mi
r(Moon) = 1,080 mi
239,228 mi - r(Earth) - r(Moon) = 234,192 mi
Less than our planet lineup by a couple thousand miles, unfortunately. Luckily we can still make it work! We can wait until the moon is at apogee, the farthest point in its orbit around Earth:
252,700 mi - r(Earth) - r(Moon) = 247,664 mi
Or we can line the planets up pole-to-pole, since they're a bit narrower that way:
Mercury = 3,032 mi
Venus = 7,521
Mars = 4,194
Jupiter = 83,082
Saturn = 67,560
Uranus = 31,035
Neptune = 30,250
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Sum = 226,674 mi
Euchre ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:44:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was wondering if the measurement of Saturn includes the rings. If not, the rings are going to make things interesting.
Ardub23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:40:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The measurement is just the planet itself, not the planet plus anything orbiting it.
But Uranus is really gassy, they would just go right in without any pounding.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:09:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes..
The actual distance varies over the course of the orbit of the moon, from 356,500 km (221,500 mi) at the perigee to 406,700 km (252,700 mi) at apogee, resulting in a differential range of 50,200 km (31,200 mi).
You forgot to account for the radius of both the Earth and the Moon, since the distance between the two is the average distance from the center of each.
Ageir9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:58:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Distance between Earth and Moon = 238,900 mi
Diameter of Mercury = 3,032 mi
Diameter of Venus = 7,520.8 mi
Diameter of Mars = 4,212 mi
Diameter of Jupiter = 86,881.4 mi
Diameter of Saturn = 72,367.4 mi
Diameter of Neptune = 30,599 mi
Diameter of Uranus = 31,518 mi
Total distance of all diameters added = 236160.6
Fact checks out.
We went to the fucking moon and back. Always amazes me.
Willie9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:27:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Radius of Earth = 3,958.8 mi Radius of Moon = 1,079 mi
Total distance of all diameters plus radii of moon and earth = 241198.4 mi.
Fact doesn't check out
Distances between celestial bodies are reported as the distance between their centers, so you have to include the radii of Earth and Moon in this calculation.
Now the distance between them that you found is the average distance between them, so this can work, but only when the Moon is near its apogee (greatest distance from Earth)
From u/Rumblebunni 's numbers, the remainder is smaller than the smallest planet (Mercury) is. Given how crazily massive some of them are, that's pretty impressive.
Well jupiters mass would immediately cause all the other planets to crash into it so i imagine it would look like a quickly accellerating giant red patch in the sky
The gravitational distortion from Jupiter at that distance would be extreme compared to what the sun exerts on them from their current distance. We are affected by Jupiter's gravity even now, just not very much, definitely not enough to throw off our current orbit. Imagine a rubber sheet with a bowling ball in the middle, and a pea rolling around the depression several hundred feet away. That's earth orbiting the sun. Then throw in an orange a few inches from the pea, it would immediately roll into the depression created by the orange, despite its original trajectory.
I think he was referring to the original question, where all of the planets were between the Earth and Luna, not the newly proposed scenario where it's just Jupiter.
If it's as big as they expect, then no, this would no longer be the case. However as it stands you can still include Pluto for old time's sake and it still holds true.
I see it coming already: That new planet is going to destroy this fact.
mbrw12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:11:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've never heard this but holy fucking shit. That's insane.
Also if I ever looked up at the sky and saw every planet lined up like this (firstly we'd all be dead) but I'd shit my pants and expire right there on the spot
We should so try and do this. If we put nukes on the far side of each planet in exactly the right spot we could move them right? Then we'd just have to nuke them but slightly less in the other direction and they will stop. Nasa can figure out all the details
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:50:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those saturn rings would really mess with the natural flow of the planets.
Correct, but the point is that all the actual planets would fit, with enough room that we could even fit Pluto in. The new planet they believe exists will most likely falsify this fact.
People see models of pretend distances. Most people dont realize how absurdly vast the space in between anything in deep space is. The fact that we even made it to the moon in that tin can is still a marvel
Potentially a stupid question, but I just wondered.
Would all the planets collide and explode due to their combined gravitational forces if they were to be placed next to each other?
I'm no physicist but yeah without a doubt they would collid if they were aligned like that. As for the part about exploring, i'd imagine they would be severely crushed but I have no idea if they would reach a fast enough speed given the remaining distances between them.
This reminds me of something I heard in passing at a writing seminar given by a group of authors. They referred to something they called the "Tiffany problem", and when asked to clarify they said that the name Tiffany was a really popular name in, like, the 1500s or something like that, but you cannot use that name if you are writing historical fiction, despite it being appropriate to the time because it would sound ridiculous.
According to this post, it's not just limited to the name Tiffany. Even funnier is that according to wikipedia the name was given to girls born on Epiphany, making the girls Tiffany of Epiphany, which is a great way to get teased in the playground.
Speaking of wrong names, i was under the impression that Jesus' name was yeshua (hebrew) which translate to joshua in english. However if you translate yeshua to greek and then to english you get jesus.
So if this is right, most of his devotees are getting his name wrong!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:20:13 on May 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not entirely related but it boggles my mind how Romans would give all their children the same names. Say your name was Julius and you were the father of 5 children, two boys and three girls. Your sons were named Julius and your daughters Julia.
Like how the fuck do you keep track?
Downvote ยท 1695 points ยท Posted at 08:11:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NOWWWW JESSICAAAA
samcuu ยท 1002 points ยท Posted at 10:53:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
COME BACK HERE JESSIIICAAA!
hextree ยท 487 points ยท Posted at 12:20:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
LET GO OF ME JESSSIICAAAA
[deleted] ยท 434 points ยท Posted at 12:24:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Naggins ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:10:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jessica Jones: The Cliff Notes
jmz_199 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:02:29 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That ending to me was so good but David Tennant played such a good villian I almost wanted his death to be worse.
TimS194 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:39:48 on April 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it was great. Points out that Jessica is strong enough to have just up and killed him at pretty much any time (if not for fear of the fallout).
jmz_199 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:34:45 on April 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I agree honestly there wasn't really a point of a drawn out fight. I liked how it got straight to the point rather than the usual "about to kill someone" speech.
Speaking of, hot damn Season 2 was/is amazing. Even the finale, which for Jessica Jones and Daredevil Season 1 fell flat a bit, was amazing. The last two scenes left me wanting so much more.
I mean don't get me wrong, the finales are amazing also, but the fight scene particularly in the Season 2 finale just felt so well choreographed as opposed to the slightly anticlimactic fight with Fisk in Season 1 where it was the only place that episode really faltered for me because the jump up to smash Fisk felt just a bit too odd.
I need to watch Carter. I meant to pick it up but it came on at such a random time I missed the chance to record it. Now I've got to stream it and it'll take forever but it'll happen. I really love the Marvel universe right now and how they have connected everything especially SHEILD with the different movies.
well, not really. the modern spelling of the name came from Shakespeare, but the name itself dates to ancient Hebrew. that would be like saying "jesiica" and claiming I invented the name.
You did, in fact, invent the name Jesiica and if jesiica were to completely replace Jessica as the 'correct' spelling then you would be credited as the first person to use it. Just because it evolved from an existing name doesn't mean they're the same.
well, I guess it just depends on whether you think a name is a spelling or a meaning.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:51:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a spelling to me at least. Hayley, Haley, Hailee, Hailey etc are all different names, but share a common ancestor. Kinda like how all primates are different, but we share a single common ancestor. This particular branch was formed when Shakespeare went name-making.
fyeah ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:14:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let's be honest, how many people think a name is a meaning?
"I am forest dogs"
Cool. We get it, Carl. You're spiritual or whatever. Just finish your ham salad and shut up.
I meant more in a traditional/origin sense than a literal sense. If you name your kids Mark, Mathew and John, you're probably aware those are biblical names. I'm sure some people don't think about it, but many people look up name meanings and origins before they name a child
Nah mate. When it comes to hebrew-derived names the rules get all kind of wacky. Example: some dude named "Josh" bas managed to convince everyone it's pronounced "Hay-soos."
That was because of a Roman translation and the limitations of Latin.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:04:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We have three words written by Shakespeare, all of them are his signature, how do we know how he spelt Jessica?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:00:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See his edit. I disagree that any of those examples he gives (if those are what you're referring to) are close enough to "Jessica" to be considered simply a different spelling of it.
well, I couldn't find a source that disagreed with me, I took the consensus view that Jessica was a anglicanization of Iessica (which would have been spelled with a J in shakespere's day), much like Yeshua became Jesus. so, if you want to disagree with most sources, including the Oxford dictionary of names, I don't care enough to argue, that's just what I based my post on.
Gakimir ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:43:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All that says is that he had the oldest written record of the name with that specific spelling. It also cites that the name is derived from Hebrew origins, with words that give the same (or near exact) pronunciation with a different spelling.
That doesn't mean he created it. I keep seeing this one floating around without any good backup. Maybe you could try something less douchey than a lmgtfy link?
I mean all the information I know about it I got from googling it for myself after reading merchant of Venice so it's not like I can cite any sources other than those you'd find through lmgtfy/Google. Do your own research and decide for yourself if an original spelling counts as inventing a name
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:01:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The name 'Imogen' was 'invented' by Shakespeare but, in fact, was almost certainly meant as the very traditional 'Innogen' and then was mistranscribed later.
Innogen is used in Much Ado About Nothing and there's a written legend of Innogen the quean that predates Shakespeare. Innogen is married to Leonato in Much Ado and Imogen in Cymbeline is paired with a male character who has the nickname 'Leonatus'.
Also, in 1611, Simon Foreman saw the play and records the character is being called Innogen.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:10:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
J M Barrie popularised the name Wendy. Although he didn't invent it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:15:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The name Wendy was popularised by JM Barrie. It was his nickname for Margaret Henley who was the daughter of WE Henley, the man who inspired the creation of Long John Silver by RL Stephenson!
I want to know who is responsible for creating the name "Jessie" and making all the lives of male Jesses living hell.
mistixs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't he also say the first yo mama joke?
rztzz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:28:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
side note: the list of phrases coined by shakespear is long and impressive. So many things like "havnet slept a wink", things have gone "full circle", "alls well that ends well", etc. came from the guy http://www.pathguy.com/shakeswo.htm
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:29:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol... just plain loling over here... yeah... mhm... shakespear invented the female version of the biblical name "Jesse"...
xkforce ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:45:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Shakespeare invented over 1700 new words in the English language many of which originated as nouns that were converted to verbs. Olivia is another name that was invented by Shakespeare.
Author Jonathan Swift invented the name Vanessa in the 18th century. His secret mistress was a woman with the name Esther Vanhomrigh. He took the at that time common nickname Essa for Esther and combined it with the first three letters of her last name to create Vanessa. The name became popular because he also worked it into several love peoms which got published.
DAZTEC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:32:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can I thank him for making like all the Jessica I know fucking beautiful? Coz hot damn, I want to hot jam myself in there.
Zalwol ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:07:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Inventing a new spelling for a name is not the same thing as inventing a new name. Especially if the name is from a different language and the English spelling is arbitrary to begin with.
I roamed around so much in that game the first time I got it I jumped ahead 4 quest lines because of a bug that happened when I talked to someone before I got the main quest.
Why does it sound false? He's obviously classical ( even people who don't know music know that) and classical go from 1730 to 1820 (many educated guess would have put it in the 18th century). I don't see why it would seem wrong to anyone.
ChulaK ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 10:10:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here's my train of thought: Mozart, Beethoven, fancy fancy, Italy, Renaissance, Rome, not Spartans too far back, Caesar maybe, still a bit far, but somewhere there yeah
xpoc ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 10:19:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You really need to learn some history dude.
ChulaK ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:32:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, the fact that the main comment is way upvoted shows I'm not the only one. Calm down bro
And also the historical timeline correlation between the birth of the Roman Empire and western classical music โซ
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 11:49:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you fucking kidding me? You actually think that kids know when Mozart was alive in correlation to important historical events?
They barely know who Mozart is at that age
xpoc ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 13:27:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
By six I was learning stuff like Aesop's fables and Greek mythology. I certain knew that classical music came a very long time after the Roman Empire ended.
Please don't send your kids to whichever school you attended.
That's weird because there are very few really famous composers further back in history. Those from the decades just before Mozart (Bach, Hรคndel, Telemann, Vivaldi...) are well-known, but before that the only really famous one is Purcell (I mean there are loads of them but they're not famous).
I never encountered this misconception where I live, I assume it's an American thing. I imagine you guys don't learn much the chronology of the rest of world after 1776 so some people assume everything they heard of in Europe etc. happened before that.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:35:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's just because you form chronologies of a single subject โย my classical music timeline goes from Hildegard von Bingen to now, but it's filled with composers and their interrelations, not with painters and empires. It's really hard to integrate timelines with each other, it takes a conscious effort in the very least. I really can't blame people for being surprised that Schubert was born just after the treaty of Tripoli. After all, for that you have to know when Schubert lived (i.e. locate him on your music timeline), and counterpoint that with your American History timeline (i.e. know when the Barbary treaties were signed) โย and who the hell does that intuitively? History education anywhere is narrative-driven and insulated while history itself is a complex chaos, I don't think it's a particular American thing.
History education anywhere is narrative-driven and insulated while history itself is a complex chaos, I don't think it's a particular American thing.
Well, my point is that I actually didn't learn history the way you describe. In middle school we had old-school world history mostly in chronological order, and in high school we had a quick chronology to tie everything together, that included both political and cultural events, and apart from that what we did was concentrate on a specific time and place and study everything from that era, politics, trade, arts etc. It wasn't "narrative-driven" at all.
(Also, I never heard of the treaty of Tripoli :)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:22:15 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With "narrative-driven" I did not mean some idealogical narrative, but exactly that kind of chronological kind of history teaching which aims to give an overview of the large issues. It's very important and useful of course, but it's such an abstraction that it becomes hard to do anything with it. For example, when you give the chronology of the Napoleonic wars you can talk about the French Revolution, crossing the Alps, the wars with Britain, Egyptian expedition, the invasion of Russia, exile in Elba, return & Waterloo, exile in St. Helena, and numerous other events.
However, there are several issues with such an approach:
For the sake of brevity and clarity you have to focus on the large happenings, but you ignore so much important history if you do that! Not only the (relatively) small historical incidents that had the most impact on peoples' lives, but also the various happenings that lead to or caused big historical events. This causes history to be become a series of events that are hardly related to each other, which makes it really hard to mentally place them.
Learning those lists of factoids leads to knowing that something happened, but not how and why something happened. The abstraction takes so much of the knowledge out of history. "The ancient Egyptians built the pyramids" says almost nothing. When did they build the pyramids? How? Why? Who where these Egyptians โย what were their customs and lifestyle?
What I meant with narrative-driven is that in telling the story of the Napoleonic wars, you are carving out a piece of time and marking it "Napoleonic Wars โย 1803-1815". That piece of history is now predominantly the story of Napoleon and not of Jane Austen or Beethoven, the Anglo-Spanish war or the Argentinian Independence war. It's not wrong, and it the Napoleonic Wars were by far the most important events of the time, but it can be hard to realise that you've only got a small piece of the 1803-1815 period. After all, there were lots of people who were not or hardly involved with the wars, and for many people, life just went on. By labeling periods in that way, you are creating an abstraction (again), and make it really hard to connect to history in a mentally meaningful way (again).
I'm not saying we need to change the way we teach history or something since having a global overview is definitely important, but I can't blame people for not knowing how to place historical events or people. If the difference between the 17th century and the 18th century is a few battles and some numbers, how can you expect people to know whether Telemann lived in one or the other?
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 10:48:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Pro tip: Unless you're a big music nerd, you've probably never heard of a composer who lived as far back as Shakespeare. (Besides Henry VIII, Pythagoras, and others who were known primarily for things other than composition.)
Yeah, I actually love Renaissance music. (I was in a madrigal group once upon a time.) I'm a big fan of John Dowland and Palestrina, but I wager OP has never heard of either.
PlayMp1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:00:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a common conceit that no one in "old Europe" really knew about the Americas until the US was a country. The tendency in US teaching of world history is to skip over the Early Modern Era in Europe, and go straight from the Renaissance to focusing strictly on what was going on in the American colonies.
Makes for great fun when reading the Comedy of Errors and seeing references to the discovery of America (100 years prior) in there.
I'd say because in the US you generally learn about us history and world history in different classes and/or grades. So you probably perceive the two happening at different times
I teach music. A shocking number of people seem to group composers in a vague era pre-America. Even if they recognize that say Mozart is an 18th century composer. They rarely consider what else was going on.
I swear some of my students think that all classical music was made immediately after the renaissance and then went untouched until pop music came around.
It really is a young man's move, though. They were signing their own death warrants if things went south, and that's the sort of thing that appeals to young men more than older men. Just think about all the high school kids nowadays signing their names to a document that says they'd be willing to die for a principle.
Zebidee ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 09:21:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Better than high school kids willing to die for a principal.
MrJed ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 09:50:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where's your school spirit?
Zebidee ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:53:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And having a bunch of future idiots obsess over your wisdom.
Iceyeeye ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 06:30:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh god. It is bad enough only I obsess over what a fuck-up I was and am from time to time. I don't think I'm father material, much less Founding Father material.
One of the unfortunate byproducts of our increasing longevity is that we're turning adolescence into extended childhood. Our culture could produce a usable member of society, capable of independent thought and reason, at a much earlier age two hundred and fifty years ago.
The whole history of europe is screwed up in peoples perceptions. From about 400 to 1700, people condense, lengthen, swap history all the time. But when you stop and think...
400, the Romans leave Britain. The dark ages begin, and the Anglo-Saxons turn up. And most people think "welp, they stayed for a bit and then got their asses handed to them a couple hundred years later by the Normans". No, because then you remember it was 1066 before the normans showed up. 600 years later. But then things get even screwier because its only 200 years before you get your full plate knights riding around, even though people think of those as being shortly extant before the Renascence, which is still another 400 years away.
Meanwhile, the Huns attack the roman empire before 1000, but people think of Atilla like some sort of viking raider type person, picturing chainmail and braodswords and metal shields, but even thats not quite right because the vikings as we think of them existed from 400 right through to 1200 at least.
The Mongol invasion of Europe takes place in the 1200s. People think of it as early middle ages. But thats the SAME TIME as the 3rd crusade, Richard the Lionheart, Saladin type thing, which people attribute to late middle ages.
The holy roman empire fits in there somewhere though no one knows where. Same with the moorish invasion of Spain.
People think "well, guns turned up in the Renascence", and by that they mean 1700, except guns were first used in large amounts in Britain at the Battle of Bosworth Fields by Henry 7ths forces in 1400s. 1400s!
The age of stone castles was really only about 400 years, from the 1100s to the 1500s when cannon became common. But people think of it being this massive era.
The dark ages and middle ages of europe are one, huge, historical mess. One day I will sit down and try to understand the timeline of events.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:42:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Speaking of Mozart, Ben Franklin gave Mozart the glass harmonica he developed. Weird to think they both knew each other.
Frictus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:54:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the shit I love. Knowing that while in the US they were running around signing shit over in Europe some guy was making wonderful music. They never connect these dots in history class. They teach it as if when the declaration was signed nothing else was going on. Fuck that.
rbnstl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:57:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
zeekar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:53:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Mozart and the Founding Fathers were contemporaries, yes. Franklin and Mozart met at least once; Franklin showed off his glass harmonica and Mozart composed some pieces for it.
In my music literature class, we had to write an essay on a composer's life and then make a timeline of events in their life, works released, as well as world events. That timeline really helped put things in historical context
Incidentally, Napoleon was about a month shy of his seventh birthday when the Declaration of Independence was signed. Also, when George Washington died, Napoleon, who was leader of France by then, ordered ten days of mourning throughout France in Washington's honor.
They also did the awesome 2 phonebooks joined page by page not being able to be separated by anything but two tanks in the end due to friction. Super cool.
I think all the roughness of the paper kinda locks together page by page. And cumulatively it's very difficult to pull a telephone book apart from each side without twisting. But my basic comment does a disservice to the bit which is worth watching.
BthreePO ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 12:50:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a dick, taking a world record away from a 16 yr old girl by using HER equation for finding the size of paper required.
Clarityy ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 14:57:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She doesn't own the equation, she merely invented/discovered it. And they quite properly accredited its discovery to her. To the point of including her in the video.
I love that the guy has started making videos again because of all the new subscribers and views. From one of his comments on youtube: Hydraulic Press Channel: I start make videos today again now they have some viewers, Thank you all for support.๏ปฟ
"What did you do this beautiful spring Sunday, Rhurabarber?"
"I went birdwatching, washed my car, ate half a tube of Pringles, had a glass of Jack&Coke. Spent half an hour watching Hydraulic Press Channel. I regret nothing."
I was walking down the street, and I see this pickup truck with a trailer pulling into a parking lot next to a big ditch. As I'm getting closer, he starts to pull out again, and knocks over this stack of 55 gallon oil drums, and they start rolling into this ditch. I hear in the distance- FUCK. You really had to be there.
Probably rabid barking, followed by a shrill howling as the press smashes it's head, followed by the crunch of its skullled and finally the lowering soft barks as it dies.
And he sold out to Jukin Media so the video can no longer be played in the RES embed.
BAM5 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:27:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fuck that's a good way to lose a finger. Better procedure would have been to lower to a certain point where wedging the paper in would hold the paper in place, then press it. Or use some pliers. Pancake-ing body parts is worse than breaking tools.
This is such a reddit community comment. Crazy how I immediately was thinking the same thing, but normal people out there would have no clue wha da fahk you're talking about.
I wouldn't call it cheating its just that i kind of defeats the whole point of talking about a piece of paper folded 42 times. We talk about this anecdotally to try to grasp the concept of exponential growth and how insanely large the numbers get very quickly.
It's all insane though trying to really understand infinity and then understand that some mathematical equations go there way slower. Also I have an infinite series test on monday and should definitely be going to sleep
Plokhi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:22:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why is it cheating? It's not like there's a standard thickness.
Kind of. 80 g/m2 is what people are accustomed with.
Plokhi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:10:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
still, "kind of" and "accostumed with" is far from "if you're making thinner you're kinda cheating"
I can try folding a 600g/m2 paper and then say it cant be folded more than 3 times and everything else is cheating. There's an equation that predicts that kind of stuff.
This paper thing sounds extremely wrong and is actually wrong.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:32:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Start with 1, double it: 2. Double it again: 4. Keep going: 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024. We only doubled it 10 times and it's already over 1000.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:19:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay start from the other end. 42 folds gets you to the moon. So 41 folds would only get you half way. Each fold doubles the thickness. So 40 folds gets you a quarter of the way.
Your reasoning was that if 42 folds gets you to the moon, then one fold would get you 1/42th of the way. But that's 5680 miles, just from folding once, so that can't be right.
I won a bet once by doing this. The poor sap didn't specify the size of the piece of paper i could use, so I unrolled a role of toilet paper. I got to 8 or 9 folds.
Well that would be linearly additive rather than exponentially additive which is what you get when folding or tearing the piece in half each time. It isn't like I am tearing a single piece into 42 pieces. I am tearing it in half, putting the pieces on top of one another, and repeating. So the tearing goes 1 piece, 2 pieces, 4 pieces, 8, 16, 32, etc. If you just fold it, the same thing happens.
You still run into the problem of just too many layers. Eventually there's nothing holding the stack together and it just flies everywhere. Also, cutting that many is hard, but there are work arounds at least thanks to various paper-cutting technologies.
You can also describe this as additive growth vs exponential growth. At the next point of additive growth, you add 1 to the previous total. For linear/proportional/multiplicative growth, you increase to the next multiple. With quadratic growth, you increase the base while keeping the same exponent, and with exponential growth you increase the exponent. There are also sublinear growths of several kinds, but they aren't as dramatic.
To use 2 as an example, it's the difference between 2+n, 2n, n2, and 2n. That last pair look similar, but they behave very differently. There are even bigger growths as well, like arrow notation for nesting exponents like 2โโ2 being 222 if I remember right.
It's important to know at least the smaller ones and how to spot them. f.ex Savings and sales both act additively: the final total is the largest concern. You can't save money by spending it unless the purchase was inevitable and would be worse later. It can also prevent future purchases, but that's about lifespan which isn't really to topic. Fairness however is proportional: if you and I make a thing to sell together, it's a 1:1 split, and we sell 5 items, then later I make it so the split is 99:1 but we sell 10k, that's really unfair even though you're making objectively more money. Folding paper is exponential growth: every time you make a fold you double the number of layers. 42 folds is a ton because it's 242, not 2*42.
I could go on about other important shapes like bell curves, well curves, pareto distributions, kinds of means, how possibility spaces increase as cardinality increases, etc but this is off topic enough.
The labels are less important than the concepts, and being able to tell the shape of growth is more important than remembering what to call it. Still, do point out standard terminology if I misnamed anything.
I once folded a large piece of thin paper in half eight times. So it can be done... but there was no way I could fold that same piece of paper in half nine times.
Not with appropriate area to thickness ratio it isn't - try tissue paper, or reaaaally big paper. Mythbusters got to 11 or something with a football field of paper. So... Get a galxy-spanning sheet of paper, and origami us up a nice space elevator.
Mythbusters once folded a sheet of football-stadium-sized paper 11 times in half.
Trikk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:40:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So if you take 6 of those and put them together, you'll reach the moon?
njmh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:53:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I might be wrong, but from memory, I think mythbusters got up to 11 folds. The "piece" of paper was the size of an airplane hanger though and they had to use a fork lift to make the last few folds because the paper was too heavy.
thardoc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:20:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mythbusters got 11, highest I've seen.
Zaelot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:33:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They debunked that myth on mythbusters. I know you said nearly, but they took a sheet of paper the size of a football field and folded it more than seven times
Not in half, but you can still fold it. I tried this out myself. I couldn't fold the piece of paper in half accurately, 7 times, but I could still fold it. The paper doesn't need to be folded in half 30-something times, it just needs to be folded to reach the moon.
Alarid ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:16:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have to account for the curve created by the fold. Highest I've seen was 12 folds.
[deleted] ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 01:57:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah the power of exponents ;)
[deleted] ยท 132 points ยท Posted at 01:47:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait... What? How?
[deleted] ยท 248 points ยท Posted at 02:14:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
So when you fold it once, the two 0.01 cm sides make one thickness of 0.02 cm.
3) 0.04 cm
4) 0.08 cm
6) 0.16 cm
7) 0.32 cm
8) 0.64 cm
9) 1.28 cm
10) 2.56 cm
11) 5.12 cm
12) 10.24 cm
13) 20.48 cm
14) 40.96 cm
15) 81.92 cm
16) 163.84 cm
17) 327.68 cm
18) 655.36
19) 1310.72 cm
20) 2621.44 cm
21) 5242.88 cm
22) 10485.76 cm
23) 20971.52 cm
24) 41943.04 cm
25) 83886.08 cm
26) 167772.16 cm
27) 335544.32 cm
28) 671088.64 cm (=4.1699514 miles)
29) 8.34 miles
30) 16.68 mi
31) 33.38 mi
32) 66.76 mi
33) 133.52 mi
34) 267.04 mi
35) 534.08 mi
36) 1068.16 mi
37) 2136.32 mi
38) 4272.64 mi
39) 8545.28 mi
40) 17090.56 mi
41) 34181.12 mi
42) 68,362.24 mi
EDIT: As someone pointed out, I somehow skipped five, bringing the actual total to 136,724.48 miles
Yeah, but for anything involving large numbers or unit conversion, I would stick with metric due to the ease of going from small(cm) to large(km)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:31:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly if you aren't actually doing the conversion it doesn't matter. You can just type in however amount of cm into miles and it will do it all for you.
JarasM ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:49:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You do you cm? I though you guys deal only in inches and feet and stones and shit.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:07:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you look at an American ruler, you've got inches on one side and centimeters on the other. Inches are too big for some measurements, although it's also common to just use fractions of inches, so idk.
"Stone" is a British thing. I've only ever seen it used on British television. Unless you were joking that we measure with stones, which is obviously correct. I'm about 6 stones 4 rocks high.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:05:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And grams, but only for illegal drugs.
Anrza ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:53:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
These just raised further questions. What if you have to convert?!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:31:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How often do you guys measure things, honestly? Our engineers and scientists and stuff use metric. I was taught in science classes that 1 inch = 2.54 cm but I've never actually had to convert.
I'm in physics so, a lot. :P but that makes me heavily biased towards imperial.
Edit: so you never really need to convert between thing? Honest question as I'm using units and such everyday
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:37:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so you never really need to convert between thing? Honest question as I'm using units and such everyday
Well, I'm a high school student right now. I measure things for sewing sometimes, sometimes for furniture or something? And I guess sometimes I have to convert (although I don't remember any specific time). Every ruler or measuring tape I've had have cm on one side and inches on the other. But I mean idk, I get that you're in physics, but when you're not doing work do you often measure things? And even then, when is it very important to convert or be very precise?
This is probably the most I've thought about this lol.
Same ahaha. To answer your question, the desire to have things precise is just engrained into you to the point where you still want things to be accurate. For example when people approximate the conversation of Celsius to faerenheight (?), they use a factor of 2 when it should be 9/5ths etc.
I don't really know how to answer. I guess besides labs and such I really don't measure things that often, it's just easier for me to relate the quantities given t me in metric, especially if I need to do some offhand thinking. Basically I like to be precise even if it's not required.
I feel like miles are just more practical when talking about distance because you can use smaller numbers and you're usually just talking about distance where ballparking it is enough for most purposes.
On the other hand, centimeters are more convenient when you're talking about something on a small enough scale that inches/centimeters make any sense because then you're probably more interested in precision, so the smaller unit makes sense.
l-0_o-l ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 02:26:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fold in half 1 time = 2 layers (0.02 cm thick)
Fold in half 2 times = 4 layers (0.04 cm thick)
Fold in half 3 times = 8 layers (0.08 cm thick)
Fold in half 4 times = 16 layers (0.16 cm thick)
Fold in half 5 times = 32 layers (0.32 cm thick)
....
10 times = 1,024 layers (10.24 cm thick)
20 times = 1,048,567 layers (10.286 m thick)
30 times = 1,073,741,824 layers (107.374 km thick)
40 times = 1,099,511,627,776 layers (109,951.162 km thick)
42 times = 4,398,046,511,104 layers (439,804.651 km thick)
Distance to moon = 384,400 km
Kai-Mon ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:42:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well...
Distance to the moon: 384,400 km
Every time the paper is folded in two, the thickness doubles. Fold it forty-two times gives us the expression 242 .
Multiply in by the thickness of the paper gives us 0.01โข242 which gives us ~43,980,465,111
=439,804,651 cm
=439,805 km
Math checks out
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:36:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Folding the paper in half doubles the height of the resulting stack. The number 242 is about 4 trillion, so by folding a piece of paper in half 42 times, you make a stack of paper that is 4 trillion (4E12) times thicker than the original piece of paper. The moon is about 400 million (4E8) meters from Earth at its greatest (according to Wikipedia), so you'd need to have a piece of paper about 1 tenthousandth (1E-4) meters thick, or about a hundredth of a centimeter to reach the moon at its farthest with 42 folds.
Even better - put a coin on the first square of a chess board. Double it (2 coins) on the 2nd square. Double it again on the 3rd square (4 coins). How high is the stack on the 64th square? 2 metres? 10 metres? A mile?
Hint: it's taller than you think. Nope, even taller than your second guess.
The actual answer is 18 light years.
Sabrayet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:42:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
0.0001 m x2x2x2x...x2 42 times
= 0.0001x2 42 m = 4.4x10 8 m
Every fold doubles its thickness.
distance to the moon (googled) = 384000000 m = 3.84x10 8 m
The number of layers grow exponentially and the assumption is that the thickness of each layer remains the same, so it's then just a simple math problem.
xGr1m ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So it's .001 thick to start. Fold in half makes it .001x2=.002. Fold in half again is .002x2=.004=.001x2x2. Following this pattern, folding it in half 47 times is .001x(2 ^ 47), which is rather large.
Get a piece of paper and see how many times you can fold it in half. You'll understand tea quick
scirc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:14:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exponential growth.
Assuming perfect folding and a piece of paper of thickness t, the height of the folded paper would be about t(2n), where n is the number of folds. Doing the math, a paper folded 42 times would make a tower about 439,804.65 kilometers tall, assuming the thickness given above.
swutch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:17:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Each time you fold the paper you double the thickness of the folded paper. So folding 42 times means 242 times the original thickness.
(242 ) * 0.01 cm = 439 804.651 kilometers. The distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384,400 km.
As you can see multiplying by two can easily escalate into unimaginably large numbers. Folding it 8 times will have a thickness of 1cm. By 21 folds the piece of paper is now 100m heigh. Repeat that sequence 23 more times and it doesn't seem as unlikely for it to reach that far.
On the 30th fold the piece of paper will be 28,823,037,615,171.17cm heigh, which equates to roughly 29 million km. On the 40th fold that increases to 2.95*1016. My estimates may be off since I was using a simplistic calculator and multiplied the numbers repeatedly by 2 and might has multiplied too much.
It has to do with the volume of a sheet of paper, and stacking the total volume linearly. how many 0.01cm3 bits of paper do you suppose are in a sheet? if you continue to fold the paper well past its physical boundaries, the math assumes the you would end up with what is roughly a 0.01cm circumference cylinder that is approximately 238,855 miles long, the average distance of the moon from earth.
And if you told it 11 times, you're done folding. Mythbusters tested it and couldn't get any paper to bend enough for another fold past that point.
Spax_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:36:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well the world record is 16 times, there is an equation to maximise the folds so it's theoretically possible. It would just be an insanely huge piece of paper.
Mythbusters is a TV show, not scientific proof guys.
It neglects the distance required for bending the paper around itself - or, to put it another way, it assumes that the thickness of the paper is negligible.
When you fold it, the thickness becomes 0.02cm, then 0.04 cm and so on and so forth.
Folding it 42 times will result in a thickness of 0.01*2rt42 cm.
Same thing with the rice on the chessboard. Place 1 grain on one box, then double it for the next box in series. Eventually you'll have 2rt64 grains of rice or 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 grains. A grain of rice on average is 2*10rt-8 cm3 in volume, which means the grain of rice will occupy 147.5 olympic size swimming pools.
Multiplication is fun. If you could take a pill that would double the length of your cock every time you took one, you'd have a cock as long as our galaxy is wide after 73 pills, assuming average size to start with.
If it took a month to take full effect but grew at a steady rate, your cock would exceed the speed of light after 54 pills.
I wonder what the mathematical equation of this would look like. (Say, I was to put that equation into wolfram alpha and get the height of that folded paper.
Even more nuts: if you fold it 93 times it would be the length of the observable universe.
DeXes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:41:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That's not true unless my math is fucked up somewhere.
42 folds will result in 0.01*241 (cm) which equals to
136,640.97 miles, while the distance is 238,900 miles, which means you need to fold it 43 times.
But that would have to be a piece of paper that's wider/longer than the distance to the moon to begin with, otherwise you'd just be stacking paper molecules
Okay, is there any chance you could explain that again a different way? I don't understand it. In my head folding a piece of paper is making it smaller, so how could that reach the moon?
I remember this from Dan Brown's book inferno. When (I forget his name) is explaining the potential exponential growth of the human population to the kidnapped director of the W.H.O.
The paper exploded as if the laws of the universe shouted:
"THE LAW OF 7 FOLDS IS SET IN STONE, WE HAVE DEEMED IT SO. THEREFORE, THIS OBJECT IS NO LONGER PERMITTED TO CONTINUE AS PAPER."
If the distance from the Earth to the moon was scaled down to the thickness of a sheet of paper then the distance from the Earth to the Sun would be a stack of paper that would reach from the earth to the moon.
manubr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:02:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This was a test problem in physics once...I didn't want to calculate and so I just wrote "It's not possible to fold a paper more than seven times"
Still got a point for it:)
So you could combine this fact and the other fact in this thread that you can fit all the planets between the earth and the moon and come up with a crazier sounding fact.
If you could fold a piece of paper in half 42 times, it would be as long as each planet lined up next to each other.
See, this doesn't make sense to me. Assuming we're talking about a standard A4 sheet of paper, there physically isn't enough material there to cross that distance, so the problem becomes less about whether or not you can fold paper 42 times and more about whether or not you have sufficient material to reach the moon. Essentially, this conundrum translates to, "If I had enough paper to reach the moon, it would reach the moon" which is way less impressive.
It's almost like saying, "If this matchstick was long enough to reach the moon, it would reach the moon." And then everyone is all like, "WOAH." But I'm like, "the fuck does that even mean."
Similar statistic: put a grain of rice on the first square of a chess board, 2 x 1 on the second square; 2 x 2 on the third, 2 x 3 on the fourth, and you'll need more rice than has ever been grown for the last square. - 18 trillion, trillions of grains.
hexag1 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:06:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you could fold it a hundred times, it would be as thick as the known universe
I read this as a reference to a subreddit where historical figures do AMAs. Is that a thing?
Wetbung ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:17:30 on March 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really doubt Winston will be doing an AMA and even though I was alive at the same time as him, I don't think I could do a reasonable job doing an AMA for him. You may want to suggest this in a history subreddit. I'll bet there are some historians who would be up for it.
Yes. He was huge in the late 80s and early 90s till he died from aids. The people that hung out with him said that he was notorious for never using condoms, bad idea.
I have a feeling most rock stars didn't either. In the 80s/early 90s, HIV/AIDS was seen as a "gay disease" that straight men weren't as much at risk of contracting.
PlayMp1 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 13:21:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then Magic Johnson and Eazy got infected and they realized "oh shit."
Also Marion Hugh Johnson has made implications that he was injected with blood from someone with aids as a form of assassination. It would sound insane if anyone besides Marion said it.
dj_soo ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 08:01:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the theory is that it was a hit contracted by Suge Knight
PlayMp1 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 12:03:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Suge Knight: quite possibly the worst person in hip hop, and that is in a genre that is no stranger to murderers, rapists, and generally horrible people.
If Easy -E had gotten old eventually he would've gotten hearing aids. Just sayin
Hegiman ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:41:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you see "Straight Outta Compton"? If so what did you think? I liked it but thought it was more a Dre/Ice Cube biopic. It should have had more focus on E as he was the founder of everything. He started the label, he wanted Dre to do beats for him so he could get out of the dope game. Eazy was the only real gangsta in the crew. Dre was a DJ who was making records with world class wrecking crew and cube was a kid still in high school who wrote hardcore poems about ghetto life. E brought them all together on ruthless. Cube wrote the rhymes, Dre produced and Eric Eazy-E rapped. NWA was a result of the "Eazy-Duz-It" recording sessions.
Tupac is somewhat relevant. Tupac was heavily associated with Dr. Dre (until Dre left Death Row records and their relationship turned to Tupac dissing Dre to which Dre never publicly responded) who was part of NWA. NWA was Easy E, Dr Dre, Ice Cube, MC Ren.
Spoang ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:56:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks. I was going off memory. The weird part is I have like 300 songs on my Spotify playlist and as I was typing out my answer, Straight Out Of Compton came on.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:32:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
dj_soo ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 07:59:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well he's Eazy-E, he's got bitches galore
You may have a lot of bitches but he's got much more
Wit his super duper group coming out to shoot
Eazy-E, muthafukas cold knocking the boots
PlayMp1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:21:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"We wanna fuck you Eazy!"
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:23:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You might know him as Eazy Mutha Fuckin E...
Mesaj ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:07:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Checks under the bed
Then under the dresser
He looks at the closet
I pull out my Beretta
He walks up to the closet
He comes up to the closet
Now he's at the closet
Now he's opening the closet...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:12:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Zildjan cymbals started in like the 1600's
Mahler5 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:09:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kongo Gumi has been in operation since 578, independently until 2006.
There are 10 Popes per square mile living in Vatican City.
Edit: To alleviate confusion (and maybe quiet my inbox for a while), There are two Popes living in Vatican City. Francis and Benedict XVI both have the title of Pope. Though he is no longer the head of the Holy See or the Roman Catholic Church, Benedict XVI retains the title of Pope even after resignation.
Vatican City is about 1/5th of a square mile. (Technically speaking it's .17, but I didn't remember the second decimal point and just rounded)
Edit: not trying to be pedantic, papal just sounds cool and it should be used any time it's appropriate.
uniptf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:52:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah man, then you're discussing the density of the pope, and then we have to decide it we're going to use BMI or water displacement method to do that. I think the word you want is Popelear.
It will be a cold day in robot hell before I recognize the space pope.
LeWigre ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:10:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You never know honestly, could be 1.6 million antpopes going 'bout their business somewhere and we don't even know about it.
Amadan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:18:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, no. Pope Francis himself has pope density of about 11 popes per cube meter. (calculated using 210 pounds per one Pope Francis and 1.01 kg/l as average density of human body).
That's what I was saying. There's what sounds to be .1 sq mi of land for Vatican City, and one pope. If you extrapolated the data, .1x10 is 1 sq mi and 1x10 is 10 popes. But popes are a constant with respect to square mile.
uniptf ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:53:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
both have the title of Pope
No man, you missed where he explained that "both have the title of Pope".
Does he still count as "a pope", though? Former US Presidents are afforded the courtesy of being called "Mr. President", but I've never heard the same being applied to popes. But that's most likely because I'm very ignorant about Catholic dogma.
kjmitch ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 10:06:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a question that's very easy to be ignorant of, as Pope Benedict XVI is the first pope to resign since Pope Gregory XII in 1415, a space of 598 years. Apparently, he is Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, so his current title refers to his past holding of the position, and I'm a bit surprised that that information was as easy to find as it was.
I'm not I remember reddit was all up in arms when benedict retired because he still wanted to be referred to as Pope, still receive all the benefits that come with being pope but do none of the work
PlayMp1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:58:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Has Benedict XVI said much on matters of theology since he resigned? He might still be working in that regard or something.
Has Benedict XVI said much on matters of theology since he resigned?
"Theologically speaking, of course, I'm still a pope"
-- Benedict XVI in a private conversation after he resigned.
108241 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:55:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The former office holder is no longer due the precedence and courtesies we extend to the current office holder. He or she speaks with the authority of a private citizen. We honor former office holder's service, but the 'form of address' -- which acknowledges the responsibilities and duties of office -- belongs only to current office holder.
With offices of which are many office-holders at a time ... senators, admirals, judges, etc. addressing 'formers' with their former honorific not disrespectful to a singular current office holder.
Cool. But first, what is the current date and time where you are? Keep in mind days, years, months, hours, minutes, and seconds are all non-base 10 measurements.
Nearly all of them are based off of the rotation or revolution of the Earth. A period that most planets don't share. Why change it to suit a small minority, right?
Also could you approximate your current longitude and latitude?
Vatican City (in Rome) is 0.17 miles with one Pope. Meaning on average, there is 6 Popes to every 1.02 miles. So if that's what Op is referring to they are wrong.
Possibly they thought that Benedict XVI counts since he is still alive, however Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi made it clear that any titles he holds are purely ceremonial. Not to mention it would be closer to 12 Popes per square mile, so Op is still wrong.
Basically this is just a sneaky trick that doesn't count.
As a Discordian Pope I've known a lot more popes than that and have excommunicated almost all of them. Incidentally, if you can read this - you're a pope. If you're already a pope you've just been excommunicated.
Now that you're a pope you're absolutely infallible. So don't take no shit from no one. Also, now that you're a pope, you'll have to Pontify as many people as possible. Anyone you know to be a Discordian Pope must be excommunicated immediately. After all; we Discordians must stick apart.
Unless you've been excommunicated. In which case you'll have to reinstate at some point.
The Pope of the Palmyrian church ( a minor heresy that rejects the last few popes as true, and consider themselves the true papal authority of Christendom.)
Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.
And the patriarch of the Orthodox Church, is also, technically a Pope.
A brown bear is U. arctos and a black bear is U. americanus. They're actually pretty different and cannot produce viable cubs, so I'm not sure what you're asking.
Well I'm not a biologist but it's just strange that two things that seems to be so similar are different species as you said. But these plants are all the same species. It's strange
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 04:15:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
There are actually many examples of species that can interbreed, particularly in the plant kingdom. The definition of a species is a bit subjective and has no one unique set of criteria.
We selectively bred the plant species into as many varieties as we could. Very similar to what we've done with dogs.
Meanwhile, the Bear species have just spent a very long time in their evolutionary history seperated, and while they have not changed that much in appearance, they have changed enough to not be able to reproduce with each other (apparently).
It's the internal changes that matter, not the external changes. Black bears and brown bears are very different internally despite looking like different colors of the same thing. These vegetables are very similar internally.
It's because each of the vegetables we know in the Brassicas family have been need for specific traits over time - broccoli and cauliflower for flowers, Brussels for leaves, etc. They have the same genes, just different ones turned on. Similar (albeit not the exact same) as domesticating wolves to breed dogs over time for their personality and working/physical traits.
Edit: missed the comment which already explained this. I am a dummy. Apologies for the redundancy.
If two animals fuck and make something that can't reproduce itself, then they're different species. Scientifically a species is a group of organisms that can mate and produce fertile offspring among itself.
Plant genetics work in ways animal genetics can't. Animals like us always have only two copies of our genome, one set of chromosomes from the mom, one from dad. Any more or less than that, and it's almost always fatal. Plants can have multiple sets of chromosomes, and rather than being fatal, it radically changes the resulting plant. So all of these plants have the same genetic code, but differing numbers of copies of that code.
burf ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:56:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So basically all of our superfoods are one species of plant. That's nuts.
It's also a little nuts that a chihuaua and a great dane are the same species.
Those aren't quite the same species. The ones I listed are B. oleracea while mustard is actually several different kinds of Brassica(elongata, juncea, tournefortii, rupestris, narinosa, carinata, and nigra), turnip is Brassica rapa, and rapeseed and rutabaga are Brassica napus.
I'm pretty sure people doing that is how some of these happened in the first place. And yes, I've seen some weird stuff on r/gardening a couple months ago that was romanesco/red kale.
Lettuce is not in the same family. Lettuce is in the same family as sunflowers (Asteraceae), crucifers (like kale, broccoli, cabbage) are in Brassicaceae, the mustard family.
I wasn't familiar with them, so I googled it. Fuck that. Apples should not be like strawberries, although it isn't as bad as the brassica, where all the diversity is in the same species. Squash are like that too.
cmunerd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:06:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So explain why all of those things you just listed taste like absolute shit while Broccoli is pretty good and even better with some cheese and butter and cabbage can be seasoned to taste good but no matter what you put on greens or sprouts they taste like shit?
Question: why do we continue to cultivate this same species in different ways when 90% of the results tastes like shit? Maybe we should try a different species.
i know right, at first I was also confused but when you consider that their traits have been specifically chosen for hundreds of years (not really sure in this one, but I'm guessing around 200 years..?), it kinda makes sense.
appearance-wise, yes they are very different. but if we look closer to their DNA and stuff, they still have the same number of chromosome which still enables them to pollinate each other and have fertile offspring. by the rule of taxonomy, they are still considered the same species, but different subspecies I think.
no, because their genes that code for their appearance is already fixed when the seeds are germinated.
however, with human intervention, I think this is the closest and most possible method to create that kind of organism. I am not really sure if it is feasible though, but there are many cases where you can have multiple fruits or flower color using this technique.
m1rage- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:12:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am currently growing seedlings for vegetable garden. I have brocolli, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, cabbage, kale and they all look exactly the same 1 week in.
ademnus ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:37:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I participated in a fun experiment a few years ago to see how many plant species I could eat. This really didn't help my numbers. Same thing with beans. Many are the same species.
So are apples, pears, quinces, apricots, plums, cherries, raspberries and strawberries, but the name of the family (Rosaceae) is a bit misleading, in that it calls to mind a specific kind of flowering bush, but encompasses almost 3000 species, most of which don't resemble it at all.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:24:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it is the same species. apple wood comes from apple trees. It's not like cherry blossom trees or dogwood, you don't get the things from the trees that they're named for
It's colored greens... They don't call them collared people.
Edit: Person who downvoted me, I'm sorry for you that you haven't watched The Office or have any sense of humor whatsoever. โบ๏ธ
Elranzer ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:26:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And they all taste like bitter shit.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:46:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah and get this: dogs are the boys, and cats are the girls :^)
gordo65 ยท 173 points ยท Posted at 05:08:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Rumsfeld was both the youngest and oldest Secretary of Defense in history (43 years old in 1975, 74 years old in 2006).
marktx ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 12:10:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No! It doesn't wear sunglasses. It wears sun's glasses.
AP246 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:41:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I never got that. Why would the sun wear sunglasses? To protect its eyes from the light from... what, exactly? The light is coming from its face, all its doing is trapping more light in front of itself.
Actually, the wavelength of light the sun is emitting at with a peak intensity is the one for green light. You see white light, because that's the average over the range of the electormagnetic spectrum that's visible to humans. Animals (or aliens) that have a different visual spectrum than humans might disagree on what colour the sun is.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 14:09:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Actually, the wavelength of light the sun is emitting at with a peak intensity is the one for green light.
Yep, the intensity of the spectrograph peaks in the green. But that's different from the color green (which is a perceptual experience). For that you can't just look at the peak wavelength; you have to look at the whole visible [to humans] spectrum.
That only means that if all the light except the photons near the peak intensity wavelength stopped existing (or lessened in intensity), the Sun would be green.
Indeed, but I'm just saying that if we had a broader or narrower visible spectrum, it could be something different from white.
But then again, it is also true that our eyes evolved to see the wavelengts in which the sun is emitting most of it's intensity.
I also just realised this: if we would only be able to see the sun at a narrower part of the spectrum, it would probably ben around the green peak. But we probably would not call it green, but be able to differentiate between the greens and that would be our colours. Just because that's how our brains work.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:59:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I told my teacher this in grade 3 (I was a nerd), and she made my whole class laugh at me. Fuck you Ms. McDonald.
White because it emits light all across the visible spectrum. Green because it emits green light more than any other colour and Black because it absorbs all light that hits it.
00yoshi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:34:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It should reflect a bit of the light that hits it.
I believe those classifications were made based on what is visible here, until we start living in space, there's not much practical reason to do otherwise.
krukson ยท 13776 points ยท Posted at 00:06:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
New York City is further south than Rome.
[deleted] ยท 9104 points ยท Posted at 01:46:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really convenient if you have friends and family on the East Coast of the US. Depending on the time of the year we're either at the same time, one hour ahead, or two hours ahead of the eastern time zone.
One time, I actually thought I caught someone pretending to be Chilean because they must have gotten time zones backwardswhen they reported the local time.
Then I looked it up and it was Bearenstain Bears all over again.
[deleted] ยท -63 points ยท Posted at 05:46:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:09:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm glad we have you around, to tell us all what interests us. I don't know what I'd do without you.
bregolad ยท 2138 points ยท Posted at 02:44:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I seriously thought you were joking so I had to check. I'll be damned. Unless you're in cahoots with Google maps for this prank, of course...
Despite looking at the map a lot, I have to be reminded how further west North America is compared to South America. Had there been some great seafaring culture in like Sierra Leone, they probably would have discovered Brazil around the time that Leif Erikson discovered Canada.
The first time I flew to Guatemala from California I thought it was stupid that we had a layover in Dallas since Central America is obviously South of California and our route to DFW would obviously take us way East of where we were going and we would have to fly back to the West.
Nope, we actually had to fly a little bit more East from DFW once we took off.
dpash ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:33:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Colon on the Caribbean coast of Panama is slightly to the west of Panama City, which is the Pacific entrance to the canal. Panama is a sort of S shape on its side. It's mostly north-south direction of travel though.
Also, there's locks on the canal, not just because the lake in the middle is way above sea level, but also because the Caribbean sea and Pacific differ in height by about 20 centimetres.
Like engine maintenance. Any idiot with some tools can take an engine APART, but putting it back together again...
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 07:03:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you look at a globe from the top, you will see that the Nordic countries are a lot closer to Greenland and Canada than you realize when looking at most projection maps.
Mo_Dex ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 13:20:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
THAT i did not expect. damn you, robinson projection!
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 10:06:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't there something about winds around those latitudes that made it incredibly hard to sail straight west? I vaguely remember something from my meteorology classes.
Dictato ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 05:16:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Despite all the evidence mounting against it the sea voyage of Abu Bakr II of the Empire of Mali is a fascinating mystery
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:10:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IIRC he belived there was land further to the west, amd thus sent out a huge expedition of canoes into the atlantic. Whem they didn't come back, he reasoned they must have found somewhere so nice they decided to stay there, so he personally led the second expedition, and was also never heard from again.
[deleted] ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 12:21:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He sounds blindly optimistic...
Hegiman ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 12:23:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most likely he just left because everyone was pissed their friends and family were gone.
More like: Alternate ~ real ~ history novel confirmed?
EntTreb ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:25:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Leif Erickson didn't discover Canada. His father, Bjarni Herjelfson (probably not spelled right), AKA 'Erik the Red', discovered Canada and decided against it. His son, Leif, then went back and created the first European colony/village in Canada, following the maps and guidance of his father to island hop.
Before the conquistadores there was a Malian king who departed with ships from Senegal wanting to find what was at the other side of the sea and was never heard of again. I'd google him to you but I'm lazy. I read about him on a BBC article a few years ago, so it's not a conspiracy from shady blogs.
baminy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:55:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hinga dinga durgen!
tef_gong ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 05:05:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's actually solid evidence that Africans travelled to Central America and the now Gulf of Mexico around that time frame based on archaeological discoveries in those areas.
There's actually solid evidence that Africans travelled to Central America and the now Gulf of Mexico around that time frame based on archaeological discoveries in those areas.
Aren't they the ones that also claim the chinese discovered the americas in the 1200's? I don't think I'd trust them to understand magnets at this point.
There is a theory out there that all of the world's pyramids were designed by a blue eyed, light skinned group of people who were great explorers. It's kind of like Adolph Hitler's ancient "Aryan Race" stuff with subtle alien overtones.
but but that sounds so plausible! I mean, I just read it on the internet and I only know what's on the internet!
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 05:38:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ehhhh. you probably won't find any: it contradicts the current orthodoxy, and the evidence is sketchy at best.
I won't do your googling for you, but the major points are:
the supposed presence of coca leaf and tobacco leaf in Egyptian digs
the argued antiquity of certain central american statuary that resembles Roman busts
the argued antiquity and authenticity of certain coin finds and engravings throughout the Americas
I don't believe that there is definitive evidence of such a cultural exchange -- the evidence is insufficient -- but there's certainly no negative evidence, i.e. there's no reason to believe that a per-columbian Atlantic transfer is impossible.
It could have happened, and I personally feel that occasional Atlantic transit during the Mediterranean bronze age or even earlier is likely.
The sea-going vessels employed by the Phoenicians were not intrinsically inferior to those employed by the Norsemen who colonized Iceland and made abortive forays into Newfoundland. Neither vessel was suited to Atlantic transit, but the journey from north-west africa to the west indies is arguably easier than the transit in the north.
Honestly, the issue is a lack of definitive positive evidence, rather than some confident assertion that it would be "impossible".
It is not because the idea is contrary to current orthodoxy, it is because extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence.
We know the technology existed to travel far distances, just look at the vikings and Polynesians. We also know empires financed trade and expiration missions before like the Ming dynasty. But finding concrete evidence is tougher.
There are claims that the Olmec was a civilization started by African settlers. But these are mostly based off the heads in artwork look kind of African.
There are claims that the Egyptians were great sea fairer and even cocaine and nicotine were found on a mummy. However two later studies failed to find the cocaine. There was tobacco remnants on it but it could of been from being handled so much in the 1800s.
There are stories from the Mali empire that there was a storm that blew 400 ships in a fleet off course and only 1 made it back with tails of a new world. A Mali prince then abducted to go explore what laid across the ocean with 2,000 ships never to be heard from again. They could of very well made contact, but the currents make it a 1 way trip. They had a 0.04% success rate after all.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:19:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a bit of both.
There are two strong tendencies in science: A tendency for the views of older, more established individuals to be treated as 'fact', even long after evidence indicates otherwise. And the tendency of older, more established individuals to deny that this is true.
but the adage, 'science advances one funeral at a time' for a good reason.
There is evidence, just not concrete evidence, even the report of Africans in South America by Portugal is a bit odd. "from the south and the southeast had come black people whose spears were made of a metal called guanรญn...from which it was found that of 32 parts: 18 were gold, 6 were silver, and 8 copper."
Guanรฌn was a known alloy of copper in the America that did not use tin because tin was rare in the new world. If they were really Africans they would at least have bronze tipped Spears instead of guanรฌn. The Portuguese most likely called anyone with darker skin black.
The reason why science tends to champion older ideas is because they had more time to gather evidence for that idea and ideas with more evidence are favored. They only drop an old idea if it is without a doubt wrong. Then we have people like you and u/LordDwia champion new competing alternative theories along with pseudoscience ideas because no one can be bothered to look up citations and check to see if there is any science backing up their claim.
This is correct, and the jars were dated to the time of Rome, personally more likely a Carthage ship. When the dive went back it was buried by the government and was kicked out of the county. Alot of people say no evidence but PBS has done documentary on it and History channel.
ValAichi ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 07:23:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
History channel
Let's be honest, at this point that is probably evidence against it actually having happened.
Like below that some have said you
won't find proof but you will find many ways why some think think that. Carthage was interested in traveling west. There's history n PBS documentary on this. Also a while back a diver was diving off the coast of Brazil and found a ship dating to that age. Took jars n other things to be studys, it was dated to 100ish bc. He went back to find a military ship over the location dive and the ship with
sand dumped over it and he was kicked out of the country. Look it up. *Grammer
tef_gong ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:28:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read a book about it years ago, can't remember the name right now but google search pretty much covers it
Really they're one of the most simple large structures to create. Just stack slightly fewer blocks on each subsequent layer.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:17:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's really just that pyramids are the easiest thing to built. Large base, tapering top... if you want to build something grand without any real advanced techniques, it pretty much has to be a pyramid.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 11:06:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Malian empire did find the Americas but it went into decline before Columbus.
However, nothing is discovered unless white people do it. This is true of so many things e.g. the Earth being round (proven in Egypt b.c.), that the Earth goes round the Sun (proved by Malian mathematicians 300 years before Gallileo), vaccines (invented by an Edward Jenner, testing a theory brought back from the Ottoman empire). We still live in an age of historical whitewashing.
They may have recorded it but we will never know. Not enough of the thousands of Malian writings have been translated - nor are they a priority for translation. Mali is too poor to do it and the idea of a great black empire are too horrific for the wealthy European/American/Arab nations to bother investing in...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUtAxUQjwB4 - If you're interested, this is a great video for the anti-whitewashing of black history.
ZipTone ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:17:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Had there been some great seafaring culture in like Sierra Leone, they probably would have discovered Brazil around the time that Leif Erikson discovered Canada.
Lol
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:03:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is Alaska really that huge? It looks like it could almost cover the whole United States.
bregolad ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:03:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think that Google maps is more accurate when going west to east (or right to left) along the screen. North to south is way less accurate, because it doesn't really express the way the planet moves outwards in the middle. Basically, the pattern of a sphere (the planet) is never gonna work on a rectangle (computer screen).
I'm explaining this like a jackass, but put it this way: from Google map, you might think Greenland (in the north) is the same size as Africa (in the middle) - it's not: Africa is way, way, way bigger than Greenland.
Also, Reno, NV is further west than Los Angeles, CA.
rckid13 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:22:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I learned how far East South America is when my wife spent some time in the Galapagos Islands. The islands are ~600 miles west of mainland Ecuador but are in the US Central time zone. We were on the same time zone when I would call her down there. I assumed she would be at least a few hours different from me.
I figured this out when I went to Rio and was shocked to see how many hours ahead of the west coast it was. I always pictured it being on the same longitude as Boston or Maine. Nope. Middle of the fucking Atlantic
Ehm I have a dumb question! Is there such a thing as the "west-pole"? I think not. If thats correct then how can a place be further west then another place?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:23:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm. In Santiago but live on the west coast of the USA, when I call my family they're like, "What??? What do you mean you're five hours ahead, I thought you were in our time zone still!"
Here's a good one: "Farther" sounds extremely wrong to some people but it is actually the correct adverb when describing relative distance. Further is a verb.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:10:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
rugtoad ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 14:49:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drink to make the time go faster.
Also, eat at Packo's.
Oh and Gino's.
And if you have an iron stomach, stop by Stanley's. The kielbasa is among the best in the nation, but the indigestion from it is usually just short of a medical emergency.
But after you've hit those places, probably best to just start drinking. You've seen most everything worth looking at.
Knew that was gonna be said. Last time I was in Ohio we were so bored in the car, that we decided that every time we see a sign for Toledo, we say "holy Toledo." It was difficult to keep score. Pretty sure I won.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:55:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dat jet stream.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 07:00:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Eh, oversimplified and not really the full truth, though that is the usual rhetoric weathermen dish out. Yes the Jet Stream dips low in the Eastern US, but that has underlying causes. The Eastern US is on the eastern side of the continent, for one. The westerlies won't be coming directly off an ocean like they would in Europe or California. Hence we have a continental climate (hot summers cold winters) compared to their oceanic climate (mild winters mild summers). Fully exposed (no high mountain ranges or deep bodies water) between the Canadian arctic and the gulf of mexico, allowing continental (extreme) cold air masses to move freely and unmitigated east of the rocky mountains. That allows the Jet Stream to dip so far south.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:00:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fully exposed (no high mountain ranges or deep bodies water) between the Canadian arctic and the gulf of mexico, allowing continental (extreme) cold air masses to move freely and unmitigated east of the rocky mountains.
This makes so much sense...every time I look at the weather channel when it's hot and humid it looks like air is coming from the Gulf of Mexico up to us, and every time it's really cold it looks like air from Canada is swooping down to us. I wish that Canada air would stay up there!
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:20:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think the biggest reason it throws people is because in the northern hemisphere the ocean currents flow counter clockwise. Because the earth spins about its axis so the water nearest the equator gets hotter but because we're spinning the water gets pushed into currents and the stuff in the northern hemisphere rotates counter clockwise so western coasts are generally warmer than eastern coasts. For example, look at the US, both Eureka, CA and Philadelphia, PA are at 40 degrees N (roughly). Technically, Philadelphia is just a touch further south than Eureka. But you think of Philadelphia and it's not cold like say Maine or Minnesota but you're not thinking of going surfing there either.
And you see that the world over. Like London is farther north than Augusta, ME. But the temperature average is about five degrees warmer in the British Isle. So I think the perception that time is warner makes you think it's farther south than Toledo. So I'm with you it seems strange. But if you stop and think about it it makes sense.
That's why I'm amazed we Americans aren't jumping on the idea of solar power. Germany is, has done for years, and their most southern point is around the same latitude as northern Maine.
Everybody I've told this to thinks Rome is much farther south, because of the weather there. People think of it as more sub tropical, like Florida.
aoskunk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:44:27 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay cool, I guess I just don't know much about rome so I didn't have it in my head that it that warm. I fell asleep staring at a world map in my childhood bedroom. So I guess one of the main things I know about room is it lat/long.
edditme ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:25:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:20:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And every bit as culturally significant. Some parts of Toledo are even fully populated and have relatively few weeds! And the water doesn't taste like oven cleaner if you filter it first!
Scrial ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:53:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Working on it.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:53:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's...not warm...
[deleted] ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 07:01:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was about to call you nuts until I realizes it was farenheit. Still, for the winter and a northern place like Alaska, 7 degrees (Celsius) is really damn warm for the winter. The whole coast is like that. Vancouver barely gets winter with a daily mean of 4 in February and it's almost 5 degrees more north than Montreal.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:07:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh. To be pedantic, it's not that cold. But I get your point.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:22:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:23:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True, but I wouldn't say 45 is warm. Just not that cold.
I'm being pedantic here
Getjac ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 09:39:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're using warm as a perceptive description I'd disagree. After a long winter, 45ยฐ literally feels warm. It just depends on what you're accustomed to.
For winter? I'm in NY and considered this past winter to be one long heat wave because we almost never dropped below 0 (Fahrenheit). 45 is like t-shirt weather, as long as it's not too windy.
This. I moved from Hamburg, Germany to Cologne, Germany and was relieved to once again be "in the south", i.e. more like where I was used to in the UK, where I'm originally from. Cologne is about level with Southhampton, for example. I then thought, jokingly, oh, I'm probably further south in the States, as well.
Hm, except Cologne's latitude is roughly that of Calgary.
I also found this, which helps when working this sort of thing out:
To be precise, only Scandinavia and the far north of Scotland really shares latitudes with Alaska. I live on an island north of the Scottish Mainland, and we are at 59 degrees north. In midsummer you can read a book outside at midnight. In Midwinter it's pitch black by about 3pm.. Makes for insomnia in June and hibernation in January.. I wouldn't recommend either.
It's weird, I live in Canada in Ontario that sort of bends in into the United States (I'm more north than NYC but more south than Portland, Oregon - I'm about the same level as Milwaukee) and it's weird to think I'd have to fly north west to land in England.
dunaja ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:23:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:45:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:24:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The weather in NFLD is generally considered to be shit by the rest of Canada so trying to say that the UK has good weather because of its similar latitude doesn't really help.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:22:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not saying it has good weather compared to Newfoundland. I'm saying that, given its latitude, it has good weather full stop - compared to all other non-inland areas. I simply chose another place at a similar latitude with a large amount of coastline, similar to the British Isles, as a recognisable example given that people on this site tend to be from North America than therefore fairly culturally and geographically ignorant.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:57:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's true. In Windsor, you can drive north and end up in the US.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:17:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Used to live in that section of Canada actually. Traveled about 45 minutes north to get to Detroit. Felt weird, as anywhere else in Canada you travel south to get to the US.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:50:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Canada extends as far south as Northern California.
Cairo and Houston are at the same latitude. The British Crown used to pay an hardship pay to the diplomat stationed in Houston because of the heat and humidity. It doesn't cool off at night because of the humidity. You have to go north to Oklahoma for that to happen.
Uh, Mercator preserves latitude and longitude just fine. NYC is further from the top of a Mercator map than Rome is, and closer to the left side than Santiago.
London, England is further north than Fargo, North Dakota.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:08:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
After all the arguments I've heard about American maps being biased and NA-centric, this one is one argument that doesn't even make sense to me. I didn't even realize NYC would land in Europe anywhere...
So after spending a good amount of time listening to mating cats outside and looking at Google maps, why isn't Scotland covered in snow? It's above Maine and parts of Canada.
As a kid I thought that the old liners that sailed from my home town of Southampton to New York went out of the English Channel, headed due West and ended up in NYC. It amazed me to find out a due west route would actually end up in Newfoundland.
66 years from the first flight to landing on the moon.
barto5 ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 13:35:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And I will always maintain that a person born circa 1900 has seen more profound changes in their lifetime than any other generation has seen or will ever see.
Wesside ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 15:12:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was going to make a counter to this, based on computational power, and tech in general, but the people born in 1900 (at least some anyway) have witnessed all of those things in their later years as well.
They've gone from no one ever flying, to people being able to jump out of helicopters in wing suits and flying through the mountains.
They've witnessed the devastation of the creation and use of Atomic weapons.
They've seen more deaths from wars than any other group likely ever will.
They've gone from Women having no rights at all, to having equal rights (depending on country anyway).
As mentioned above, they've gone from horse drawn buggies, to walking on the moon as well.
They've (likely) seen the most expansion in known species on the planet in their lifetimes.
I don't think there will likely be another generation to see as many advancements as they have likely ever again. We've iterated on everything that's happened since then sure, but we've not witnessed nearly what they have, and short of an alien species coming to earth, curing all of our diseases, and showing us the path to the stars, I doubt we ever will.
Some of the most important foundations for modern technology and discovery. Mass production, machine tools, transportation, chemistry, paper machines (news publication and information being more widely distributed,) mass agriculture, gas lighting, etc etc. They saw some shit! It doesn't seem like much to us now, but they didn't call it the Industrial "Revolution" for nothing. The human race really clicked on with science and technology during that period.
Now, the generation born in 1900 didn't go from horses to bugatti because of a singular invention. The combustion engine capable of use within an automobile was designed in the 1800s. It's more likely Ford's ideas for an assembly line and interchangeable parts to quickly and cheaply mass produce vehicles so the average person could afford - this created an industry and industry requires competition to sell more cars. To compete with your cars, they had to be better, thus the rapidly advancing iterations every decade.
While it's impossible to predict what advancements we will see, or estimate how many - I'd say it's extremely unlikely we'll see significantly less than generations before us.
Edit: Just spit-balling here because this is an interesting topic and I should be working right now, but would rather not be.
The birth of the information age - having nearly the entire sum of information known to man in our pockets at all times. That is huge! And seriously taken for granted. In 1920, they wouldn't be able to fathom that in about 80-90 years, every citizen of a developed nation could communicate instantaneously. You could have a device that transmitted video of the other person from the other side of the world. You could look up any information and educate yourself on absolutely any subject you could think of and answer nearly any question you ever had. Within seconds, you could have perfect directions routed to any location you didn't even know existed before routing to it. On a small device, we can zoom in and streetview small cities in Venezuela or, browse photos taken by men from rooftops in Yemen.
sirin3 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:33:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They've (likely) seen the most expansion in known species on the planet in their lifetimes.
And people born in 2000 will see the largest reduction of those
(unless there will be man made species made by gen tech)
I disagree. With automation and a transition to a post scarcity economy on the way, as well as AI at some point in the future, we're in for some much bigger changes.
barto5 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:43:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's easy to say that, and it may be true.
But if you were born in a rural area in 1900 you had:
No Heat, certainly no Air Conditioning.
A 50 mile journey literally took ALL day by horse drawn carriage. Now it takes an hour. Maybe.
Crossing an ocean took weeks by steam ship, longer if you sailed. Now you can have breakfast in New York and lunch in Paris.
No Electricity - bed time was at sunset because you had no lighting (I know there were candles and kerosene lanterns). Did I mention no heat or A/C? (And the internet was really slow).
No running water. My father was born in 1924. If he wanted to take a bath he had to - go to the well to draw water. Heat it up on the (wood burning) stove. And pour it into a big metal tub.
Need to take a dump? No problem. The outhouse is only 50 yards away - and it's 14 degrees out. Have fun with that.
Get spinal meningitis? That's sad, because you're going to die. Meningitis is still a serious disease, but it's not a death sentence. (Source: survived spinal meningitis, the same disease that killed my grandfather.) And despite the anti-vaxers best efforts, I still don't know anyone on an iron lung or in a wheel chair due to polio.
Children don't routinely - routinely - die of smallpox. Go to a turn of the century graveyard and look at all the tiny tombstones. Born: May, 1904. Died: January, 1908. Some family plots have, 2 or 3 or 4 young children buried alongside mom and dad.
I'm sure the future will bring profound changes, but when you look at the impact of these changes in the day to day lives of ordinary people, it's hard to imagine anything more dramatic.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:31:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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barto5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:11:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess it's a matter of perception.
Manned missions to Mars and private space travel will have virtually no impact on the day-to-day lives of most people. And curing cancer is a marvelous thing when it happens but certainly no more radical than the virtual elimination of polio, small pox and other diseases through vaccination.
I'll grant you that we can't - or at least I can't - begin to grasp all of the implications of AI and Nano technologies.
And by huge global events do you mean something like the TWO world wars this generation lived through? Admittedly, if we manage to have a full scale nuclear war that will mean Massive changes. It would almost be like going back to the 1890's.
Creation of Artificial Superintelligence is more dramatic. An AI with cognetive powers surpassing us by orders of magnitudes more than the difference between us and mice could quite easily cure mortality. Either that or we go extinct because we programmed it poorly.
Post scarcity, which would also arise from a benevolent AI, means a world where no one has to work. A world where time is no longer our primary currency, and everything is provided, because making it is literally free.
Technological progress from rural 1900 to 1980 is impressive and all, but it cannot even begin to compare to some of the things that are coming.
barto5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:17:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
quite easily cure mortality
If that happens - and that is a mighty big if - it will change the world in ways I can't imagine. But to suggest that immortality is "quite easy" to achieve seems optimistic at best, and frankly delusional at worst.
I'm not saying we can achieve immortality, I'm saying a superintelligence orders of magnitudes of orders of magnitudes smarter than us could. There are already some animals, like one kind of jelly fish, that are biologically immortal. That is, they don't age. Surely this would be possible to genralise, no?
We are already theorising on waqys to achieve immortality. There are some things with DNA that might stop aging, and we can think about ways to simulate the brain, maybe even copy an entire brain pattern to software. Surely a being orders of magnitudes number of orders of magnitudes smarter than us could figure out the details.
The big thing to remember here is that this is a best case scenario. If something goes wrong, anything, really, in the programming of this exponetially growing superintelligence, it could quite easily, and quite probably, wipe us out completely as an incedental part of whatever it is doing.
I am not optimistic for our future, there is just too much that can go wrong with an ASI. If nothing goes wrong though, we're in for a treat.
barto5 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:04:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
There are two simple, very basic things that we take for granted. Things which have profoundly changed life as we know it.
Electricity. And indoor plumbing.
Yes, changes are coming. Changes we cannot even imagine yet. But in terms of how we live our lives everyday, they will have to be truly momentous changes to have a greater impact on our lives than these two very basic things that we take for granted today.
Edit: I find the downvote on this comment amusing. Tell you what. Turn off your electricity AND your water for 30 days. Don't use your car. At all. For just one month. And see how profoundly your life changes.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:35:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just want to add my two cents to this conversation. I think that the disagreement you and Nighthunter have has a little bit to do with perception of what invention is.
Invention used to be dramatic. Lots of few, but big, leaps. As we advance, the process of invention will get smaller and smaller, but faster and faster! Yes, we will have conceptual breakthroughs, but those will actually still probably build on lots of little concepts that are already out there.
Indoor power and plumbing were important, as well as temperature control. But importance is not necessarily the only mark of an advancement, but a factor. Improvements still are advancements, which is why I think that each generation will probably see similar levels of advancement as time goes on.
The one I find might be super interesting is 3D printing going mainstream and how that might disrupt manufacturing-based economies. Think of how important automobile production is to so many economies. Now imagine if every town and city has multiple shady garages you can go to that have big 3D printers that can produce any car you want at a fraction of the normal cost. If you thought illegal downloading of music and movies was disruptive, wait until people start downloading cars.
3D printing is really a part of the shift to post scarcity. In the same way that digital distribution removes scarcity from music sales, 3D printers could remove scarcity elsewhere. It's the first step towards Star Trek's replicators.
sirin3 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:34:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ofc not, why would I?
In a time where you can download a car, you could download your people carrying drone.
00yoshi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:01:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahh, what... I would send myself over the internet to the location I want to go to.
sirin3 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:31:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That reminds me of an audiobook:
A company creates the ultimate antivirus program based on extremely advanced AI. The AI is so good, it is has a real personality. 5 of these AI programs are made, with weird names, Debug (or Assemble?), or so.
Sadly, there is a brilliant hacker, who creates his a similar group of programs. Minus (perhaps Virus? and Bug? were others) was one called.
The hacker sends his group to attack the company, unaware of their recent research. The groups meet, fight, the bad AI programs are losing and decide to build a trap. They travel away from the company and the antivirus persue them (because these programs are so advanced they cannot be copied. They only move through the computer). The virus group lures the antivirus group in a random desktop computer, there they evade them, and disconnect the computer from the internet after leaving. Now the antivirus are stuck in the random computer, and the virus can freely roam through the company network.
The antivirus have only one chance, they must communicate with the use of the random computer, although they are not supposed to as they are secret prototypes. The user turns out to be some kid/girl, and now I forgot the details. Anyways, they work together and reconnect the computer to the Internet.
Now the point, why I wrote all this: The kid needs to further help the antivirus during their final fight. Either she really wanted, or the bad programs made another trap only a human could bypass. However, that final fight is at the company, not at the girl's house. So what do the antivirus programs do?
Well, these are highly advanced AI antivirus programs. They design a special laser and place it inside the COM port. From their they scan the girl, disintegrate her and reintegrate inside the computer. Now she has the same structure as one of the AI programs and can travel through the Internet to that company, where the AI reactivates his laser, and reassambles her outside the next terminal.
Anyone know how this story was called? The program names are way too hard to google.
00yoshi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:50:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting... Well, that programs can't be copied is a somewhat strange concept. Btw, then I could send myself to everywhere on the world at the same time! Or create a million of myself and start a revolution.
K20BB5 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:40:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
except those materials still cost money, and you have to pay someone to run the machine and keep it running. So you'll probably end up paying more than you would if you bought it from the company, who would be able to provide either cheaper because they're producing it at scale. Not to mention that 3D printing anything other than polymers is extremely difficult and expensive
3D printing anything other than polymers is extremely difficult and expensive
I'm assuming the technology will get much, much cheaper over time. DVD players cost thousands of dollars when they were first released.
You may be right about the materials though. I'm not sure how much of the cost of a car is the actual raw materials and how much is for the labour, R&D and company profit.
00yoshi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:00:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha, didn't someone 3D-print a house? Who knows what comes, with advancements in nanotechnology and 3D-printing we might 3D-print our own devices (or at least make our own processors).
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:30:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It just proves that once you crack the code, so to speak, the sky's the limits. It's the same with art techniques and simple things like baking or preparing food. It's also something that makes me go "hell yeah, humans are cool."
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:15:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Ugh, new generations are so lame and uncreative. I like good ol' Gen 1,2 and 3. Ruby/Sapphire and Emerald Gen 3 was the last good generation.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:19:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because sewage that turns into more sewage in very creative? Magnets are also very creative. As are pokeball with eyes, and its evolved form upsidedown pokeball with eyes. My personal favorite is snake. What's snake's special abilities you say? Being poisonous. You know, like snakes.
Come off it mate. You try making up 700 creatures and not make a few junk pokemon.
It's a joke bro, calm down. I was actually making fun of people who call new generations shit which is kind of a stereotype and that's also why is said "Ugh" at the start.
"My father was born shortly after the Wright Brothers. He could barely believe that I went to the Moon. But my son, Tom, was five. And he didn't think it was any big deal." - Charlie Duke
Well this is flat out wrong. Horses were first domesticated about 2000 BC. They were rode nearly immediately before eventually chariots were invented. Unless your three generations each lived over a thousand years, this is just hilariously wrong.
He didn't mean from the beginning of riding horses. He meant that 3 generations ago we were riding horses. The next used cars and planes. The next went to the moon.
I'm pretty sure people were riding on horseback well into the 60s on farms. Normal farmers in the south never bought cars and so no reason to. Note, these farmers weren't Amish, they were normal people listening to the Beatles.
toolate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:18:52 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The first steam train was built in 1804, then there was 165 years until we landed on the moon. How is that three generations?
Sacket ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:07:42 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Old people are so dumb.
FeastMode ยท 11239 points ยท Posted at 01:33:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Due to a couple of its islands being west of the international date line, Alaska is actually the easternmost American state.
There are two or three people in Montana. I don't know if there are more. I've been wandering these wastes for years, and have encountered nary a soul.
Send help. And faster Internet.
Euchre ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:54:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Empty refers to people vs volume, and Alaska has a population density that is lower than Wyoming's by 5 people per square mile - which doesn't sound like much, except that the difference is 6 per sq. mile for Wyoming vs 1 per sq. mile for Alaska. The US average is 84, and the top is 1218.
Oh, I've traveled through Montana and I've seen a few people. Nebraska though? I haven't heard of anyone that's seen evidence of civilization in Nebraska. Is it even real?
For people stationed at Ft. Wainwright, they don't even bother shipping UA out. It's colder heret than Black Rapids most of the time, so they just make us hunker down in the yard in front of the barracks.
It's because Upstate New York turns into an artic tundra during the winter. New York isn't the northern most state but having Lake Erie and Lake Ontario causes it to get freezing here during the winter.
Rootner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:04:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Barrow, Alaska. Average tempatyre of about 12ยฐF. Just checked the tempature, sunny at 2 am and nothing above 0ยฐF for the next week. Yeah, I'd say that's cold.
Pssssh. You should check the average December/January temps.
We regularly see -40F/C in Fairbanks and North Pole in the winter. Barrow is colder and windier.
I could see some 14,000+ peak in Colorado or Montana taking that honor. I realize Alaska has it beat by for on latitude, but I don't think their mountains get anywhere near as high...
(I could be totally wrong)... I'm wrong, forgot about Mt. McKinley.
bregolad ยท 890 points ยท Posted at 02:49:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I've learned anything from Reddit, it's that American schoolkids are fuckin' stupid when it comes to the actual location of Alaska (and Hawaii); so is there potentially a way you could trick tourists into thinking it's also the southernmost point of the US?
Some people claim Australia is an island, though it's not the majority view. The term isn't super well-defined outside of specific disciplines (neither is continent).
Indeed, dont touch the continent subject with a barge pole, are there 7? but people only count 6 in some cultures? some combine north and south america even though geographically they were apart, some combine asia and europe to eurasia, some count only populated continents, then as you said what is continent? i always assumed it was to do the tectonic plates but nope! why isnt greenland a continent? but austraila is? it was a larger landmass in the past ...seriously the more you look into it the less sense it all makes. Just walk away if it ever comes up * twitches *
Shut up! The International Astronomical Union got a taste for downgrading after they declared that Pluto isn't a planet any more, and they might name our continent as "Not a continent, merely a large island" if we're all not careful.
Because he thought Alaska was an island. In nature, there are very few perfectly straight lines. The only straight borders are artificial and over a landmass. If Alaska's border was straight and it was an island, that would just be strange.
As opposed to all of the states that are just straight up rectangles?
PYRRH1C ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:57:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That makes sense though, because they're artificially imposed borders. You can put up a straight fence and, you guessed it, the border will also be straight.
You can't chop off a part of an island, even if you put up a fence.
Had a girl in high school who thought it was the island country of Alaska and that it was crazy how cold it got there because it was right next to Hawaii
I am Canadian and Canada isn't split up. When viewing a map of America, Canada is always included. I have literally never seen this map but I don't understand how I would have ever had the chance, considering my country doesn't just delete countries when showing a map.
No really, in our geography and history textbooks we have maps of our own country that still include Alaska. We just have it shaded in, with it's name without any more identifying features (like capital cities, lakes)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:12:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most countries do similar things. in the UK we just delete the rest of Ireland whenever we're looking at a map of the UK.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:25:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe this is why they're always so angry at you.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:27:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well that and the genocide...amongst other things.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:21:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hear people forget genocide pretty quickly. Being misrepresented on a map, though...
Dephyus ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 06:55:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People do!
A friend of mine used to work on an arctic tour in an open train. No interior heat, not walls, just rails and posts. This family came up in December in shorts and tee shirts. It was -25 Fahrenheit. They thought Alaska was off the coast of Hawaii, south east of California. They were from Michigan. Blows my god damn mind, man.
In high school (many years ago) a girl in my French class admitted that her aunt and uncle came to visit (this is in Palo Alto) with their family and their aunt was excited to visit Japan (thinking that's what was on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge!
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:34:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In sixth grade my teacher told us Hawaii was in the Gulf of Mexico. She was dead serious about it and (obviously) humiliated when we corrected her.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 06:27:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lying for karma is a deadly sin.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:16:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now hat would just be a really stupid thing to make up.
From talking to an airline stewardess, I recently realized a new depth of human ineptitude when she told me that one of the most frequent questions she gets from passengers flying over states is 'where are the lines?'
As in, the lines on the map separating states from one another.
So yes...I think a surprising number of people would fall for Alaska being south because of its superimposed, re-scaled location in the lower left corner.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:08:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Story Time!!!
I once told a fellow Soldier that I was being sent to Alaska. When I told her I was planning on driving, she told me that it was not possible to drive to Alaska. We went back and forth with the good old "yes you can, no you can't" until I asked her why not. She no shit told me Alaska was an island down by Hawaii... After gaining my composure, I asked why she thought that and she told me "well, those states are always in a box on the map!"
Americans (or any groups) aren't nearly as stupid as le euphoric reddit edgelords make them out to be
YT4LYFE ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 06:14:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From my limited life experience, the specific groups that tend to be singled out are not as stupid as they're made out to be, but the average person from any group is more stupid than I expected.
So true. Stereotypes are horrible because they claim that stupidity is concentrated when it's a God given right to all peoples.
Don't think that wins you any arguments, though, the people you idealize fall afoul of this rule, too. Christians get Westboro and the Popes, atheists get Dawkins and /r/atheism, Republicans get Cruz, populists get Trump (or Bernie, if you're a Trump-er), Dems get DWS (even Hillary supporters should be ashamed of her), feminists get tumblr-ites, redditors get neckbeards, on and on and on...
And we all point at the worst examples of our opposition and say "at least we're not like them!", at the same time they do it to ours.
Now, Dawkins may be terrible at communicating in a courteous way to anybody with anything less than a Master's in a STEM field, but the man is not stupid. Take a look at his CV if you maintain that he is particularly stupid.
Yes, he is brash and terrible to talk to if you don't agree with him. But that wasn't what was stated.
Hmm. I think he's plenty smart, but a little short of common sense. Or common decency at least. I'm still pretty pissed at him for tweeting that dumbass Sargon video that got him kicked out of that one event.
He's not just abrasive, he really is an ass. And I don't mean to discredit him completely, just point out that some people find him at the very least embarrassing. There's a bunch of different types of stupid, after all.
I'm aware that some people dislike him a lot more than I do, and that's why he made the list. I like a number of people on the list, actually. Well, maybe not the list above, it's shorter than what I was thinking of at the time.
International treaties not withstanding, and under the assumption that any location that flies a U.S. flag nearly year-round can be considered U.S. land, the Amundsen-Scott Research Station is the southernmost U.S. territory in the world.
This makes me want alaska to buy a small island in the south pacific so that this would actually be true. Sure, it would be highly impractical but still.
Look at a weather map of the country. They will sometimes put Alaska and Hawaii on the bottom of the screen below the continental US.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:22:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They obviously are just floating in the void in an alternate dimension. That's what the maps tell me.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:43:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From what I've learned in middle school history class, flip the map upside down and say that the rivers flow downstream, which means that it is southern, since it's flowing down. This is just my rough understanding of a very complex subject FYI
Optewe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:58:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I constantly meets folks that think Hawaii is "right off" the coast of California or Mexico
(Live in Hawaii)
laddism ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:03:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anyone can miss Canada, all tucked away down there...
A small piece of Alaska stretches up past the north pole, technically making it the most southern part of America in the same way as it's the most eastern.
This reminds me of a show in Australia (The Chaser) where they went to the US and did a piece where they asked Americans to locate North Korea on a map. They had a bunch of doctored atlases that had mainland Australia labelled as North Korea, Iran etc.
My SO and I are planning a vacation. He wants to go to Hawaii and in mid conversation he said the flight shouldn't be that long because it's only 3 hours to Florida... He though Hawaii was underneath Florida.
I told him he hasn't earned Hawaii. But I think I'll be getting him a map to study
I work with a person that no shit thought Alaska was an island off the coast of California because that's where it is on maps not big enough to show it. He also is basically functionally illiterate.
My friend thought it was an island until he was 25 years old. He finished a law degree and passed the bar before learning that our largest state is mainland.
An island with a perfectly straight eastern coast....
I'm from California originally. My friends, when I said I was driving instead of flying, thought there was a bridge (not sure where they thought it was, maybe southern California) because Alaska was an island near Hawaii.
It's obviously not a straight border of the island, it's just that this side of Alaska is too dangerous and unexplored so we don't know the exact shape and size of the eastern part of it.
The southernmost part of the US belongs to Hawai'i actually. It belongs to the big island of Hawai'i and the southern tip of the island is called south point. I was born and raised on the big island and have jumped off a 50-foot cliff there.
Yes. In elementary school I knew a couple kids who thought this. It's because Alaska and Hawaii were shown in little squares at the bottom-left of the map. Several kids thought this was their actual location.
They're kind of dumb when it comes to most geography. I can get not knowing where a bunch of places in Canada are, in the same way that there are small towns in a lot of the US that I couldn't possibly pinpoint. But the other day, I ran in to someone from Arizona who had never even heard of Toronto, let alone where it was.
The problem with that is that Toronto is kind of a major GLOBAL city. First, it's the fourth largest city in North America, behind New York, Los Angeles and Mexico City. Second, it's an alpha global city, putting in the same league as cities like (again) New York, Los Angeles, London, Tokyo, or Seoul. Basically what I'm saying is that Toronto is kind of important. How someone couldn't have possibly learned about it absolutely blows my mind, and honestly feels ignorant.
This isn't like a "don't forget about us up here" kind of thing, it's just that Toronto is a globally important city, and this guy was totally oblivious to what it even was, much less where it was. He literally asked "what's Toronto? Where is it?" I was, and still am, a bit irrationally mad about it.
That is probably the most interesting stereotype I've ever heard. First off, American schoolkids are on Reddit claiming that Alaska and Hawaii are in incorrect locations? Weird... Even more strange is the fact that you portray this 'factoid' as being the one thing you've learned from Reddit... How you have 370 kp for this comment, I'll never know.
jomb ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:48:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read that as "terrorists", and was like "is Alaska tanking for the rest of America, trying to pull all the aggro up there to keep us safe? Thanks bro!"
They aren't west of the international date line. They are west of the 180th meridian. The international dateline leaves the 180th meridian so that Alaska doesn't cross the international date line.
Yea, there are a whole bunch of little islands there. Problem is when you zoom in to see what they are, the line goes away. I'm sure your right about that.
konaya ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:51:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's Kiribati (pronounced "Kiribas"), a nation composed of lots of tiny Pacific islands.
The International Date Line used to go in a straight line there, but it divided Kiribati into two, with some of its islands on one side of the date line and some islands on the other side of the date line.
So they decided to move the date line, to bring all of their country onto the same date.
Resulting in parts of Kiribati being in the +14 timezone, fully 24 hours ahead of, for example, Hawaii in -10. Meaning it's the same time in Hawaii and (eastern) Kiribati, but on different days.
Yep sorry for the confusion. There really isn't much there and I wasn't there for long. Pretty much just a cannery on the US side.
Russia was just a very small town. It reminded me of Inuit villages but less people.
That's what thought. The International Dateline actually separates the 2 small islands that are in the middle of the Bering Strait. They are about 1-2 miles apart. One belongs to Russia and one to the US.
At 179ยฐ46' East (in the Eastern Hemisphere), the easternmost tip of Semisopochnoi is, Alaska, by longitude, the easternmost land location in the United States and North America. Semisopochnoi sits only 14 minutes west of the 180th meridian. Wikipedia
Lukin4 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 08:38:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's all just time and space man, it doesn't matter...
It's not stupid. It makes a lot of sense to make sure no country is divided by the date line, particularly if populations would be separated. It would very much screw with things.
That Alaska is the easternmost state is a fact. That a couple of Alaska's islands are west of the 180th meridian is a fact. That a couple of Alaska's islands are west of the international date line is not true, and therefore not a fact.
sirin3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:22:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Afair, in The Symphony of Ages by Elizabeth Haydon, if you cross the right meridian you become immortal, because the date you are supposed to die is in the wrong time zone
I guess it is technically correct, but if it is on the western hemisphere side of the date line then I don't consider it to be in the eastern hemisphere. Plus I go to college in Maine and we want to be important, damnit!
There is no logic to these issues. Spainand Portugal once managed to convince the Pope and divide up the world to their liking under the Treaty of Tordesillas
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:41:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This comes with a giant asterisk.
Northernness and southernness are absolute, westernness and easternness are relative to a reference point - in this case the 180th meridian, but it could be anything.
If I'm standing on Tanaga Island, which lies just east of the 180th meridian, and someone asks me where Semisopochnoi Island ("America's Easternmost Point*") is, am I going to say "It's 80 miles west of here," or am I going to point in the other direction and say "It's 5200 miles east"?
I live outside of America. There are national parks in loads of countries. Not American ones. I don't understand why you say it's common that "National Park" means "American National Park". That's definitely not the case.
In the UK, we have national parks, but still a lot of people would a) understand what that comment meant in context, b) understand National Parks to be US National Parks.
National Parks originate from America (the Yellowstone National Park being the first one), and thus the word is connected with the US.
Nope. It's the only US National Park south of the equator. This makes sense because American Samoa is the only US state/territory south of the equator as well.
Dephyus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:00:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Another fun tidbit: from one Alaskan island to one Russian island, the distance between Russia and the US, and similarly North America and Asia, is roughly 2.5 miles.
This is not correct at all. The 180 meridian does not define where East and West begin and end. It merely indicates where eastern latitude end and western begins.
Easternmost related to what? Greenwich? If you determine the easternmost of "something", starting point should be somewhere within " something". Greenwich is not in US
Ahh Little Diomede. Was up in Nome the other week. Diomede is a 'dry' village, meaning that it's illegal to have alcohol there. People had tried to smuggle booze aboard the helicopter hidden in a tub of ice cream. I was informed by a local that on the island, a tiny bottle of Vodka costs $600.
Eh, the state in this sense is completely arbitrary so our "wow" of this fact is, too. "Wow yours a little more west than me?" Everyone is west of everyone.
I can call the eastern most state, Alaska, about 5500 miles without extra charges on my cell phone. I can mail a letter for the cost of a stamp. I cannot do the same 70 miles away in Canada
I'm from Alaska! Also an upcoming rapper, and in a freestyle with a friend I said "I'm so west so I'm the best, but at least the more west I go I'll end up east" because it's true!
Thought it was funny, and I'm glad that someone said Alaska in a thread.
B0Boman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:51:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly, I think this one is absolute horseshit. Yes it's 'technically' correct if you define the Earth as a 2 dimensional planet which abruptly cuts off at the essentially arbitrarily chosen 180th meridian, but it doesn't. It's fuckin round. By this logic, Russia is the Westernmost European nation, New Zealand is West of Australia, and the Pacific Ocean is both the Easternmost and the Westernmost ocean, all of which are completely stupid.
Also, it can simultaneously be noon today and noon tomorrow in the United States, due to minor outlying islands in each side of the International Date Line.
[deleted] ยท 234 points ยท Posted at 04:11:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The original name for the color "orange" was something "gyelo-rod," (forgive me on that spelling, I've only heard it said, never seen it spelled) meaning "yellow-red."
Downvoted you until I saw your user name. Don't care how sarcastic or unnecessary your comment was, have an upvote cuz most people on here have no clue.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:40:31 on March 27, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All good. It wasn't sarcastic at all, I don't really like all the blind Detroit hate, especially the weak ass predictable jokes like that. I fully expected to get downvoted because people just love to hate Detroit. Fuck em.
It's not the fault of the people of Detroit that it's in the condition it's in. I'm no expert, but isn't it from corrupt politicians?
Do you also like Moe.?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:58:06 on March 27, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's from a lot of things. I just don't like how people who have never been here make assumptions and judgements and get all excited about kicking people while they're down. Yeah, moe. is alright.
You know that is just confusing, I mean 16, 18 and 21 all have arguments as they have been traditional ages of majority / being able to judge for yourself. But 19? Did they have a raffle?
Oh, surely that would be a school thing "don't show up drunk".
Year 13 tends to get a little odd at times. I do remember a few "Yeah guys, I am thinking of going to the pub after this. I hope I don't see anyone there" from a few of the teachers, mostly the sports ones.
welkie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:46:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now we have college kids drinking at lunch at the campus bar and coming back drunk.
We use to catch the #8 OC Transpo in front of our high school in Ottawa to Gatineau, QC to get drinks after school...one of the few advantages of living on ON-QC border
I'm still amazed they can get anywhere with how shitty our roads are... 'Let's block off two of the biggest and most used roads in our fucking city for several weeks, I don't see any problems with that!'
Funny I'm in Windsor right now (from Toronto) for a friend's birthday party, can confirm: Windsor Sucks Ass. Also the girl I'm into is dancing with another guy so I'm bummed out.
sashir ยท 65 points ยท Posted at 06:00:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just a thought, but it might be because you're fucking around on reddit rather than dancing with her.
But hey, you're not in Detroit anymore, so you've got that going for you.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 14:03:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You make it pretty obvious that you've never been here and just regurgitate the bullshit that is all over the internet because downtown Detroit is actually pretty fucking cool, especially when compared to Windsor.
The only people who would choose Windsor over Detroit are ages 19 and 20.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:21:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you drive north you'll end up in Port Huron, or "Little Canada"
If you go North or West from Buffalo you end up in Canada.
If you go South or East from Detroit you end up in Canada.
Without seeing a map that's a really weird one to get your head around.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:59:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure, but nobody in this area has ever referred to any part of the city as "South Detroit." There is downtown, east side, west side, midtown, cass corridor, downriver. No south Detroit.
If you drive due south from Detroit, you end up in the river, because both the bridge and the tunnel follow a more southeasterly path. But your meaning is still correct: Windsor is due south of Detroit.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:52:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Keep going!.. You are almost at the Montreal Strip clubs!!
C-grij ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:17:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm, I live in Windsor, there's not much to do :/
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:32:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And if you drive straight south from Detroit, you'll get shot before you get to Canada.
Those of us growing up in the northwest US don't realize how Canada swoops way down south in the east US area. Most Canadians live further south than Seattle.
Kugel ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:34:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I live in that small penis (its about how you use it) that juts down into the US, and when I talk to people from like NY and they ask me how the weather is and how my igloo is doing im just like "you live further north thean me!" like a seriously large percentage of the population lives right around the border and has about the same weather as people in the US.
I grew up in a U.S. city that was on the 45th parallel, and my dad always said we lived further north than 90% of the population of Canada, but I have never been able to verify whether his take on this is true.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:07:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, the boarder is made up at the 49th parallel for the western provinces. So, population of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, BC and the territories alone is about 8.3 million. With Canadian population being 35 million, that's like 25% of the country. So the 90% estimate is wrong.
Not really stupid sounding or that interesting but my little sister came home once when she was like six and told us that dolphins were whales and we just laughed at her so much she cried. Turns out she was right.
She's usually pretty wrong about things so we just thought it was some made up crap- but whenever she says something stupid and gets mad because we don't believe her, she always says "REMEMBER THE DOLPHINS" which makes us sober up real fast and we all remember the dolphins
Oh gosh. I remember the day at school our teacher said we were going to watch Remember the Titans. We were all so excited. Then it turned out to be about American Football.
Or she eviscerated the pod of dolphins with some sort of superhuman agility and ruthlessness while the family stood (or treaded water) helplessly nearby crying for her to end her bloodthirsty rage, all in a violent warning to the family after a betrayal.
Remember, remember the Dolphin September
the blowholes, the fins, and the nets.
I know that we ne'er did trap them on porpoise
September I'll never forget.
It's not that they didn't see the logic, they just failed to expand it to whatever I was referring to at the time. I also had a habit of saying "Who's on first?" Every time people would talk in circles.
Some people have trouble generalizing statements such as the one about squares and rectangles. They may simply not understand the parallel you are drawing because they lack prerequisite knowledge and/or a grasp of the nuances involved with the concept.
In a class a few years back, a teacher asked a question about human behavior. I responded to the question by talking about conditioning , and I used the phrase "like Pavlov's dog." A girl in the class got a confused look on her face and promptly raised her hand. She said that my comment didn't make sense because we were talking about humans, and the Pavlov's Dog concept only applied to dogs. She understood the concept from previous study, but she didn't know/believe that it was generalizable.
Edited to be more clear.
idwthis ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 08:10:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To play devil's advocate for a second here, if I may. I wouldn't be surprised for why she was confused if this was in high school or earlier, and the class you were taking didn't need to teach about Russian physiologists and one of their most famous until that discussion/lesson plan came up.
I mean, it's not like they teach about conditioning in general or even physiologists in elementary or middle school. Nor high school, I certainly don't remember it ever coming up in any high school class of mine.
The girl wasn't confused because she hadn't studied the concept previously. She was confused because she had failed to grasp the generalizability of it, as with OP's squares vs rectangles.
His/her district may have taught it in a common required class. We definitely went over it in my 8th grade science class. So depending on the school, it might have made sense for everyone to know about Pavlov. It's not like it's some complicated thing, it just depends on whether they spent the 5 minutes to talk about it in whatever class.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:54:32 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Whenever people talk in circles around me I often just say "THIRD BASE!" Usually no one gets it though, but at least it quiets everyone down for a minute.
I was caught in one of these scenarios the other day at my new job; I work with a lot of older guys. It took ten years but I finally said, "Who's on first!?" and got some laughs out of it.
It is fairly common for crazy people to say that they are not crazy. Have you asked yourself why you are telling strangers on the internet that you are not crazy?
Well its more like whales, porpoises, and dolphins are all parrelograms. Dolphins are like rectangles which is why you have people say killer whales aren't whales they're dolphins. Whales are squares. And porpoises are a rhombus
Whale is the common name for a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals. They are an informal grouping within the infraorder Cetacea, usually excluding dolphins and porpoises.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:57:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
What I think is even cooler, and when people don't quite get it and then it clicks it just makes me feel like a giddy child, is that marine mammals all walked on land at one point. Evolved from fish to having legs and walking on land for a long, long time, and then did the reverse back into the ocean long enough to seem as though they were always there. Also, convergent evolution, a la sharks, dolphins, ichthyosaurs. So much cool stuff. Some of my favorite stuff.
And tortoises are land dwelling reptiles that evolved from aquatic turtles, which evolved from terrestrial critters, which evolved from aquatic fishy guys.
Pick an environment guys, sheesh!
Rrumbah ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 12:50:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So wait, fish grew legs, chilled on land for a bit, said "fuck this noise" and went back to the sea?
I do the same thing in the mornings: go outside to face the day, get coffee, go back inside because everything out there is not my blankie, so fuck that.
dragn99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:22:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's how I felt this morning.
But work won't take that as a reason to call in sick, so....
Beidah ยท 95 points ยท Posted at 06:15:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is a great point to explain that evolution isn't linear like so many seem to think it is.
i like to imagine the moment when the manaphant decided to stay in the ocean and had to say his final goodbye to his sister the elephanatee that stayed on land and grew out her trunk. It was bittersweet.
So sad. I'll never think about those cartoons where the evolving-fish crawls up onto land the same way again. Why are you flopping up there, fish, why are you ready to leave it all behind? Are you searching for something? Or are you running away from your past? Did you shoot a man in R'lyeh just to watch him die?
The main things about evolution are that it isn't linear, and that it doesn't have a purpose or a goal. It's just a process, and so long as there's sex, mutation and environmental pressures, it's inevitable.
No, the same pressures can still push evolution onwards. It just reduces the survivability outside of their niche environment if and when the pressures do change. You just get better at doing what you do, and since you are better, your genes get passed on more frequently than the guys that do it so-so.
There are at least two different types of eyes, I remember- those with blind spots (where some nerves cross over the optical area) and those without. I think octopi have the latter.
Fitting in with the thread and your post, "octopodes" is a more correct plural of "octopus" than "octopi" is, because the word comes down from Greek (whereas -i would be Latin).
However, in modern English, "octopuses" is also considered correct.
Yeah, it depends if the retina is covered by blood vessels or not. Ours is covered by blood vessels (which is why you can see them when you look at a bright light) and there has to be a hole in the retina where all the vessels join and leave the eye. This is the blind spot. Octopuses have the blood vessels behind the retina so don't have this problem.
redlaWw ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 11:39:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whales are also quite closely related to ruminants like cows, sheep and deer.
johnoe ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 08:03:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
then it clicks.
:)
yppers ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:41:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think I remember reading about one whale like creature that was thought to evolved from a land species that had in turn had evolved from a whale thing that was almost the same as what it would become after spending a long long time on land and going back to the sea.
Well their precursors walked on land, but no whales have actually walked on land. But I get what you're saying.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:55:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like saying our ancestors swam (permanently). It's true, but no human has ever spent its entire life in the ocean (and not died like a minute after childbirth on a liferaft).
Or ocean dwelling creatures evolved to breathe gaseous oxygen and some developed legs and moved on land, while other air-breathing sea creatures remained in the ocean. Either option is plausible
oighen ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 08:38:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We have good reasons to say that marine mammals descend from land mammals, it's not just an hypothesis.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 09:38:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Atherix ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 09:55:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The breathing air is a big clue. It is a big disadvantage compared to be able to use dissolved oxygen for aquatic environments, but essential if you are to live on land. When they returned to water they had to sort out the physiology to hold their breath for ages. Also the flippers still have the bones of digits inside showing they were once limbs of tetrapods.
Actually, it seems there's a decent amount of consensus that primitive Osteichthyes could breathe air. So all modern fish descended from fish that could breathe air.
I have no clue what the evidence is for this, though. I'm trying to find it right now.
Hippos actually originate from the same ancestor as whales as well. Like they're not even close to elephants and rhinos, they almost became some kind of fish thing.
Not always. Dolphins and whales are all cetaceans, but the word dolphin is a non-scientific grouping of about 40 species of those cetaceans. Killer whales and pilot whales are all considered oceanic dolphins, but baleen whales are not dolphins. Similarly river dolphins are not considered whales.
The problem is that everything is a mess. There's no strict way of determining any category for any living creature. There's common names, latin names, scientific names, historic names all of which may lump things together in arbitrary ways.
Well, "fish" is so bizarre a grouping as it is that trying to make it cladistic may be a lost cause. Ditto "reptile".
It wasn't all that long ago that whales were classified as fish (and not mammals), just due to the gross similarities. I think groupings that more closely match ancestry are a lot more useful.
Ranzear ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:26:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here's the thing...
cryo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:50:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn those polyphyletic terms.
helohero ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 05:46:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahhh "remember the dolphins", only slightly less well known than " Remember the Alamo "
cxseven ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:47:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It makes me remember a signature of someone who traveled in a lot of my same mailing list circles, going by the name Oliver Xymoron at waste.org:
"Love the dolphins," she advised him. "Write by W.A.S.T.E.."
I later read The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon to try to figure out what it meant, but things didn't get much clearer.
Apes aren't monkeys because monkey is a paraphyletic classification, not monophyletic. Everyone loses their shit because saying apes are monkeys is wrong.
You'd have to ask a taxonomist since that's not really my area of expertise but my guess is that the rules are probably a bit fuzzy when making the distinction. Biologists can't even agree on a strict set of rules for identifying separate species (of course orcas and bottlenose dolphins would be easy enough to separate but in cases like deep vs shallow water cichlids things get a little messier).
Well according to the scientific journal Wikipedia, whales "are an informal grouping within the infraorderย Cetacea, usually excludingย dolphinsย andporpoises."
Also: "Whales do not form a clade or order; the infraorder Cetacea includesdolphinsย andย porpoises, which are not considered whales."
My brother is the same way. One time he swore that the largest single celled organism on the planet was the ostrich egg. My parents made fun of him for years. While not really entirely correct, the ostrich egg yolk IS in fact the largest single celled organism on the planet. Hard to believe that a yolk is one cell.
I remeber telling my parents one time that flamingos where pink because they ate shrimp and the laughed at me . It was the first time I realized my parents could be flawed.
Lol I learned this in second grade. We did a whole unit where different groups got different animals(I think it was only sea animals) I got the dolphin.
Not really stupid sounding or that interesting but my little sister came home once when she was like six and told us that dolphins were whales and we just laughed at her so much she cried. Turns out she was right.
She's usually pretty wrong about things so we just thought it was some made up crap- but whenever she says something stupid and gets mad because we don't believe her, she always says "REMEMBER THE DOLPHINS" which makes us sober up real fast and we all remember the dolphins
My first grade teacher made the entire class laugh at me when I was like 5 years old because I said my animal hand puppet a tiger and she thought it was a lion. Yep. The rare white-maned, orange and black striped lion.
Every time someone says, "Remember the dolphins," I'm reminded that the PC police are trying to kill my heritage and cultural history by banning dolphin hunts. So I stand up for heritage and kill one. I like to get the babies because their meat is more tender and delicious. Thanks, mate ;)
In common usage the term 'whale' is used only for the larger cetacean species, while the smaller ones with a beaked or longer nose are considered 'dolphins'.
My friends made me feel stupid the other day for saying this, so thank you.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:40:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Funnily, I have a similar situation.
When I was 5 I told my mother about Narwhals being the unicorns of the sea, and she said yes, they're exactly that. They don't exist.
She proceeded to laugh me out of the room, but I pulled out the dictionary and showed her, and now whenever I want to auto-win an argument, I go "But narwhals exist." and it's done.
Pipsay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:53:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was suprised to learn only recently that moose are a type of deer.
Riffler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:02:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a line in the Terrorvision song "Perseverance" - "I was right about the whales and dolphins."
I feel your sister's pain. On a family trip to Florida once I kept insisting that we would get free orange juice when we stopped at our first rest stop across the state line.
I had a somewhat different occurrence with a guy in one of my college philosophy classes. He would ramble on whenever the teacher mistakenly gave him a chance with some of the strangest thoughts. For instance, when asked about Descartes, "I think, therefore I am.", he launched into a soliloquy about how morality is really like a griffin.
Never figured out how that argument worked as he just sort of trailed off and couldn't elaborate further, but when he was absent a few class sessions later, the whole class had to take ten minutes to rant about his crazy. That's when it hit me. He could come in, say the absolute most enlightened thing that has ever been uttered by human lips, and the whole class would have collectively rolled their eyes at "Griffin-boy".
I don't understand why the idea seemed that foreign to your family. If I didn't know that they were whales, I'm pretty sure I would find it less than surprising that they were.
Did you think they were fish? I don't mean that to sound condescending - so sorry I'm sorry if it does - I'm just curious.
I did the same shit to my dad. Also told him Emperor Penguins can grow to be up to 4 feet tall. He called bullshit, so at parent teacher conferences, I made my teacher pull up the very laserdisc we had watched that planted this small nugget of wisdom into my cranial cavity, and he sat there watching it slack jawed. He didn't say another word until we got into the car. What were those words, you ask? "You did that on purpose. Good job. Let's go for ice cream."
vwlqu ยท 56 points ยท Posted at 03:30:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Google "The Birthday Problem". The basic explanation is that there are so many possible combinations of people that could share birthdays that you need less people than you'd expect to hit a high chance of having a shared birthday.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:55:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 108 points ยท Posted at 06:40:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 09:10:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Plus you can bet most people are conceived during holidays/events. Subtract 9 months from when you were born and you can likely figure out what night your parents got freaky.
This would increase the chances of a match tremendously.
Imagine this scenario as 23 people walking into a room. Consider the first person who walks into the room. That person can't possibly share a birthday with another person because he's the only person in the room. So, for the first person, the probability, p, of everyone having a unique birthday is 1. Then, the second person walks into the room. For every person, two at this point, to have a unique birthday, the second person must have a birthday that isn't the same birthday as the first person. The probability of that is 364/365. For this to be true for the next person, the third person must have any birthday except for the two birthdays of the other two persons. This still isn't that unlikely as only two birthdays have been "taken" so far. The probability of that occurring is 363/365.
Now, loosely speaking, the probability of two, three, or n numbers of events happening is the probability of those individual events multiplied together. For example, the probability of rolling five one's in a row is (1/6)5 or whatever that comes out to as a fraction.
So back to the birthday case. As these 23 people walk into the room, the odds of them each having a unique birthday drop and fractions smaller than one when multiplied together give fractions smaller than 1. And given the probability of events happening together is equal to the probability of the individual events multiplied together, 23 people having unique birthdays begins to look like 1x(364/365)x(363/365)x(362/365)x...x(365-(n-1)/365) until that happens 23 times. That gigantic fraction approximates ~0.5 or 50%.
Since it's the likelihood that any two people share a birthday, there are (23*22)/2 pairs of people (253) that could potentially share a birthday. This makes it a lot more likely that some pair were born on the same day.
If the question were "what is the likelihood that Billy shares a birthday with another person in the room" there would be 22 possibilities.
Thanks! Out of all the explanations here, yours made the most sense to me :) It's easier for me to think in terms of math rather than abstract concepts so you did the trick! Don't listen the others here, your comment was the first one where it all clicked for me and, coming from an actual teacher, you did a great job :D
The fact is that the details of the birthday problem are complicated, so if you want a detailed explanation, you have to get into the details.
Not everything in life has a simple explanation.
jhaluska ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:42:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Imagine shooting at a target that has 365 ways to hit it. Each time you shoot it, it leaves a hole. After the 23rd shot, there is a 50% chance you two of the holes lined up. In other words, the more people, the harder for all of them to miss each each other.
dweller_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:41:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The bias which produces the paradox is because we immediately frame the question in terms of "what is the chance that one in 23 people have my birthday", which is indeed fairly low (1 - (364/365)23 = ~6%).
When in fact we are just curious if there are any two pairs. For a problem that avoids the paradox of framing:
You are looking into a candy store that has 365 different kinds of candy. A group of 23 students walks in and each can buy 1 piece of candy. What's the chance that 2 of them got the same piece?
Exact same question, but 50% doesn't seem so perplexing.
Here's the actual solution:
Suppose there are just two kids. The problem is easier to solve if you ask "What is the chance that they don't have any two in common?"
The first kid can pick any piece of the 365 pieces (365/365). And to avoid having an issue of duplicates the second kid has to choose any of the 364/365 remaining varieties. So the probability of two kids not choosing the same pieces is: 365/365 * 364/365 = 99.7% chance they don't have dupes.
Now for 3 kids: First can choose any 365/365, the second again just has to pick any of the remaining 364/365 and the third 363/365 = 365/365 * 364/365 * 363/365 = 99.2%
The general form for n kids is 365/365 * (365-1)/365 * (365-2)/365 ... (365-(n-1))/365
For 23 the probability of NO dupes is 49%, so the probability of a pair is 100%-49% = 51%
What also helps with the intuition is that as soon as there 366 the last terms is (365-(366-1))/365 or 0/365 meaning as soon as there are more than 366 kids it is impossible to not pick a duplicate pair, which demonstrates our mathematical model aligns with the obvious facts that no amount of cleverness can avoid having at least one pair of matching candy if you take more than there are varities.
MrJed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:51:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no amount of cleverness can avoid having at least one pair of matching candy if you take more than there are varities.
Then the leap year guy walks in and finds a discontinued candy hidden at the back. Bam.
Good explanation though.
puzl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:26:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine you are with the 22 other people (23 total including you) comparing yourself to the other birthdays in the room. You ask everyone in the room what their birthday is to see if they match. 22 people answer your question with a 1 in 365 probability of a matched birthday. All 22 of those questions had unique independent 1 in 365 chance of being a "yes." Think of them as an individual 1/365 possibility of a "yes." Add all of those independent chances for a "yes" up and you get 22/365.
Now think of that fraction as a percentage. The added up chances of a shared birthday with you is 22/365=0.0602, or 6.02% chance of a shared birthday.
Now the person next to you has to compare their birthday to all of the other people too, but remember you have already compared your birthday to them. So they only ask 21 other people if they share a birthday. The other 21 people all have a 1/365 chance of sharing a birthday with this second person. Remember you were already crossed off of their list whey you asked them. All those individual 1/365 chances are again added up to 21/365 possible "yeses"" or as a percentage (21/365=0.0575) it is 5.75%.
Now here's the trick you have to remember. Your percentage of a "yes" (6.02%) is independent of the second person's chance (5.75%) in that your birthdays are not on the same day but the other person has to compare themselves to everyone else in the room; the other 21 people. So we have to add the percentages together to have the stipulation be true, that there is at least 1 shared birthday among the 23 people in the room. We no have a 6.02% + 5.75% = 11.77% chance of a shared birthday in the group.
Remember everyone has to compare themselves to everyone else.
So the 3rd person to ask the shared birthday questions to every one else does the same thing, and their fraction and percentage of possible "yes" to sharing a birthday with the 21 other people is now 20/365 or a 5.48% chance of a "yes", remember you and the second person already compared birthdays. Again add the possible 5.49% chance of a shared birthday to the possible percentage, 11.77%... We now have a 17.25% of a shared birthday.
We keep going with this on down the list of people in the group, keeping in mind we exclude all the parings that have already asked each other.
Keep having people ask the others about their shared birthdays until there are only two people left in the room that haven't asked each other if they share a birthday. This one is the lowest possibility of a "yes", just one chance of a 1 in 365 match, .02% of a "yes." And keep adding the percentages up.
There is one person in the group who never asks the question because everyone else has already asked that last person.
We have to add all of those individual percentages of the for all 23 people up and when we do that it is a slightly larger than a 50% chances of a shared birthday.
There are 253 pairings in a group of 23 people. (364/365)253 gives you the probability that 2 people don't have the same birthday. 1-(364/365)253 is the probability that 2 people do have the same birthday.
You need to compare each pair. Think about it this way. In a round-robin tournament with 23 people, there will be 253 unique games (pairings; 253 = 23 rounds of 22/2 games). So for the birthday question, with 23 people there are 253 unique pairings, so the chance that one of these have the same birthday is roughly 253/365 = 69%.
[deleted] ยท -12 points ยท Posted at 10:01:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 10:37:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Explain how it's wrong. There are only 366 unique birthdays (counting leap year days), so if you have one more than that, two people have to share a birthday
You might be thinking that everyone shares a birthday with someone, however the problem is just 2 people sharing a birthday.
So if you have 367 people, that's a chance for every single person to have 1 unique birthday for a total of 366 unique birthdays. Now, no matter what the 367th persons birthday is, he has to share it with someone. There are no more unique birthdays left.
The thing people miss (due it not being that intuitive) is that it's not the chance of sharing a specific birthday, for example November 9th (and yes, as a Brit, references to 9/11 make me feel special).
But more that two people have the same arbitrary date
There are 3808 comments in this thread right now. That means (assuming an even distribution) there are >10 people posting on their birthday, and >10 that have the same birthday as you do.
The tricky thing about the birthday problem is that people think about it incorrectly. Instead of thinking "what's the probability that someone has the same birthday as me?", you need to think " what's the probability that EVERYONE does NOT share a birthday with me?" The second statement is the complement (opposite) of the first, but it's easier to think about this way. It should also be noted that due to the nature of probability, the probability of an event occurring can be written as 1 - the probability that the event does not occur.
So say you have a room full of 10 people. What's the probability that two people chosen at random share a birthday? 1/365 right? So the probability that they don't share a birthday is 1 - (1/365), which is 364/365. What's the probability that 3 people all have different birthdays? 363/365. You do this until you consider the entire group of people, and when you analyze the probability of them all having different birthdays, it comes out to (364/365)(363/365)...(356/365). This probability will actually become quite small when you have larger groups. So you have your probability that nobody in the group shares a birthday; to find the probability that at least two people share a birthday, you simply subtract the product from 1. And again, given that the product becomes smaller and smaller when you add more people into your group, the probability that two people share a birthday moves closer and closer to 1.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:46:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1-(364!)/((342!)(36522)) seems to give a 50.729..% chance, you may want to say greater than 50%.
TIL (or I am simply once again reminded of) how it so easy for people to pass themselves off as psychics. Just get a small crowd of people in a room and say that you are getting a tingling sensation about that person. Look at their I.D. and then say that your psychic powers are detecting that someone else in the room has the same birthday as that person. If the people want to believe, which they usually do, then anyone with that birthday will jump up and say "That's me that's me!" and bam, now you've got the ball rolling. If you miss just say: "Ah sorry, my Psychic senses are all wonky today, the stars are not in my favor" or some other bullshit like that and the crowd will believe you and you can move on to the next trick. Hell, you can even personalize the reason you fuck up as some kind of "demonic spirit", or some other evil entity that gives you false signals and the crowd will actually probably feel sympathy many of the times you fuck up.
I feel there is more to it than that. I have yet to meet anyone in person with the same birthday as me. the closest I've got was a day. Jan 2 if ya'lls wondering.
I opened a store with 27 other people (28 employees total) and a girl and I shared the exact same birthday. I know it's more statistics than actually being true in 100% of situations where 23 or more people are involved, but seeing it practically was cool
The birthday paradox. I did a report on it when I was 12. It has yet to fail my experiments. One time in a room of 20, five people had the same birthday.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:01:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting, I have a few teachers who will say happy birthday to kids and out of all my classes nobody has ever shared a birthday. Maybe it's different because of the similarity in ages and because summer birthdays aren't usually mentioned
In my high school math class we did this experiment and the first three people to say their birthday were matched with someone else in a group of 30. I've always wanted to know the chances of that, cause that seems way less probable that that would happen.
Feroc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:08:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am always confused by this, because where I come from "birthday" is also often used as "date of birth", so to share my birthday you would have to be born on the same day.
But of course it's true if you only consider day and month.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:11:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No there isn't, though. Either some people share a birthday, or they don't. So really the chance is 0% or 100% for any given group of people.
Grisnik ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:45:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay so I've had it explained why this is, and I understand why (I think) but how come in a room with more than 23 people I have never seen two people with the same birthday
tehaxor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:58:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if the room isn't actually full and there's still 23 people?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:59:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually it's significantly higher than that. That's if birthdays were distributed evenly, but since they clump (high point around September iirc) you're even more likely to have a match.
PonKatt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:24:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably the best moment in my Stat class was when the teacher calculated this for my class of 24, then asked who had the same birthday. Lo and behold, two guys had the same birthday.
This one is really cool, look it up if you don't believe it. There is some math behind it though. I believe it is called the birthday problem or something.
That's true...and is also going to end soon...and badly, much as the sub-prime mortgage bubble did, just without the really horrible consequences for the most part. Lots of slightly used cars on sale for cheap pretty soon though.
A-Lav ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 08:58:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And I'll be there to buy the poor guys loaded car on the cheap.
As in maybe never. It has been that way for a long long time. Repoing and selling a 3k mile like new car carries a lot less risk for a bank than foreclosing on a 200k house and having to fix it and sell it.
Surprising to most people tho these people with bad credit who tend to get new cars tend to not get them repo'ed because a car is something most people cannot go without. You cannot get the kids to school and to work without it. So its bill gets paid almost no matter what.
People with bad credit will 99% of the time miss credit car payments, and I would say the number one thing holding down most of these peoples credit is medical bills. Most people have good + credit but they went to the ER once without insurance and are paying for it on their fico.
How so? If I have terrible credit and a thousand dollars cash surely it would be easier to go buy a cheap car than apply for finance. Even if I don't have a thousand dollars it would be easier to save that up than get into debt.
snn1626 ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 11:31:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think above they're referring to getting financed for a car. If you have $1k to buy a car that costs $1k, there's no need to bother with your credit at all. But if you want to put the $1k as a down payment for a $6k used car, you'd have a harder time getting a loan for the rest compared to buying a new car.
Yeah, it's an American assumption that you have no money saved. People are stupid, I don't know why lenders still issue loans to people with no money. (Heard an ad this week: If you earn $350 a week we will lend you $30,000 for a car!)
Probably because if you had money you might not need the loan, or because they have to entice people that have money with particularly low interest rates (and thus low profits) in order to make money off of them...
When I bought my most recent car I got an interest rate of 2.93%. If the car hadn't been so old it would have been 2.8%. I had the cash to buy the car, but I looked at it from a liquidity perspective- I could buy the car and have almost no money left, or I could spend less than $1000 over the course of the loan to borrow the money to buy the car, and still keep my money in case I needed it for an emergency.
Someone else was looking at buying a car and the interest rate was going to be over 10%. They had to borrow though, so as they are a bigger risk the bank is charging a much higher interest rate, and they are a guaranteed customer because in order to make the acquisition they must borrow.
Most banks will not give car loans for less than $5,000 and they won't give personal loans to people with bad credit. If you go to a dealer it is more worth their risk to sell you a $15,000 car than a $5,000 for several reasons. One is that they will charge you a high interest rate so they make more money off of the sale so their risk has more reward. My brother in law has terrible credit and recently bought a $21,000 SUV at a 13% interest. Over the course of the loan he's going to pay $9,000 in interest. Also if you default on the loan and they have to repo the car they recoup more of their loss from taking back and reselling a more expensive car.
But you're right that it's probably better to buy a cheap car that you can afford but it's hard for a lot of people to save $1,000. They also may need a car faster than they can save and want a more reliable car than the $1,000 will buy them.
I don't know entirely, but a new car will have a longer term loan period than used cars, making the payments potentially cheaper. I also suspect the collateral (vehicle being purchased) is easier to sell and can be done so more profitably than a cheaper car. The buyer also likely pays a decent down payment to mitigate some risk.
Not always, there's pros and cons to each. Some of the dealership pros:
warranties (usually a few months, depending on the mileage)
available selection (you can walk around a lot and see a lot of options)
usually much more flexible about test drives
the ability to import from other dealerships that would otherwise be outside of your buying area
more likely to fix issues to get the sale (especially minor/cosmetic issues)
they can handle registration and loans (last car I bought, they shopped around for me and got me a slightly better losn than I found on my own... mileage will definitely vary on this one)
if your current car is worthless, they'll still often give you a few hundred bucks for a trade-in
trade-ins remove the hassle of selling the car yourself... especially valuable if you're in a situation where you have no place to store your old car while waiting to sell it privately
Not to say there aren't cons. The two biggest being dealership sales will cost more, and there will (usually) be more aggressive sales tactics. However, buying a used car from a dealership definitely isn't "the worst idea ever", it's just one more option to consider depending on your situation, and it would be foolish to never consider a dealership.
Frictus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:22:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that some people don't know you can buy cars from private sellers blows my mind. Every car I've bought, and most of the cars my family has bought, came from private sellers. It's paradoxical, they were usually the only people I could afford to buy from, but they also usually had the best prices on legitimately functional cars.
It's like people who will only get their car serviced at the dealership -- the same dealership where they overpaid for the car in the first place. If you don't find an independent mechanic you trust, you're getting screwed.
Frictus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:08:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've always had an independent mechanic. TIL though because I always assumed private dealers were like Matilda (the movie) where they are scummy and not verified. There is one down the road from me and I am looking for a used car in the fall. I'll take a look.
If your biggest concern is getting a used car as cheap as possible, private sales will win almost every time. However, you are getting something for your money going through a dealership, whether it's a warranty, trade-in, or just helping you find what car actually suits you by letting you test many different options.
As for getting it serviced at a dealership, that's still a good option for warranty work and recalls. Although some dealers will still screw you over even on those (looking at you, Vision Hyundai).
Warranty is about the only thing there that you really lose out on, at least with the dealers I've dealt with. You can always test-drive a bunch of cars at dealerships to find what suits you, if you don't already have a particular car in mind. Then you just go looking for the right car from private sellers.
I've never found that the money dealers offered for trade-ins was near what I could get from just listing my old car in the paper or local buy/sell rags (and these days, of course, the internet) and being a private seller myself. Dealers, like anybody, want to minimize their costs and maximize their profits, and if they know you're not willing to buy or sell elsewhere they'll behave as if they have all the leverage.
A private sale will net you more money on your old car, but there's quite a few people out there who A) need the money as soon as possible, especially if their old car is something in very low demand and B) don't have any room for an extra vehicle between when they buy the new one and sell the old one. And, of course, C) people who just don't want to deal with the hassle of a private sale.
It's definitely good to have both options, and I sincerely hope the day never comes that lawmakers decide to ban private car sales because reasons.
And when it does, a ton of cars will default and be repossessed (foreclosure equivalent), flooding the market. This should result in cheaper used cars.
WarKiel ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 11:38:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Aren't there thousands of unsold brand new cars rusting away all over the world because people are not buying new cars and they can't sell them for cheap because then nobody will buy the newer cars? I imagine something similar might happen with foreclosed cars. Or maybe not since automakers might have less control over used market.
Probably something they'd do lol. Where'd you hear about this?
WarKiel ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:35:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently it's not true. There was a bunch of articles some time back, but it turned out to be a hoax. The images were of cars in storage before shipping out to dealers.
...Or maybe that's just what they want you to think.
Automakers could probably buy entire lots of barely-used cars and ship them away pretty cheaply on a per-unit basis. They're big enough to influence the market, so it's tough to say what will happen when people start defaulting in big numbers.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:52:46 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think this rule applys in England. I tried to get a new car from fords and they turned me down. I then went to a second hand dealer and got a car no problem.
welkie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:56:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm. Was declined for a $2800 loan for a used car. Was approved for a $14,000 lease on a dealership used car.
mike5f4 ยท 3488 points ยท Posted at 23:26:06 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Matter consists of 99.9999999% of empty space on an atomic level.
Imagine two marbles. There can be lots of different distances between them. Imagine one marble, can there be any distance between it and not another marble? Now imagine no marbles, what's the point of distance now? That's right, you've lost your marbles. Space is the distance between stuff, and without stuff your brain goes crazy because it's incomprehensible.
*Au shucks, obligatory thanks.
sicclee ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 10:46:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I burned waaay too many brain cells on this, but...
| Imagine one marble, can there be any distance between it and not another marble?
Yes, both infinitely small and infinitely large, and at the same time. What is the distance between your marble and the nearest "not your marble" thing? Or, what is the distance between your marble and the first unit of "empty space", i.e. the space not occupied by any part of your marble? No matter how close you get to your marble, you can always get a little bit closer and still be within that unit. Conversely, no matter how far away you get from your marble, you can always get a little bit further away, and you still remain within that unit.
| Now imagine no marbles, what's the point of distance now?
Again, its infinite, in all scales and in all directions. What is the distance between one unit of "empty space" and the next? As for many things in life, it all depends on the size of your unit. It's not so much that "space" does not exist without objects, its more that without fixed reference points, it remains unbound and immeasurable.
Are you being serious? Because if so, I'm going to need an ELI5. :P I was taught that laws are the only thing we know of that are immutable and always true no matter what.
I'm not serious, at least not in this case. "Empty" space is not actually empty, it's packed full of energy.
Matter is a type of energy, and energy types can be converted, so it doesn't violate thermodynamics for matter to be created "out of nothing", because it's not actually nothing.
It really is. Even if we found a space with no energy at all (how would we notice?), the laws and constants of physics would still apply to that space. Do those count as "something"?
pf2- ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:27:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If only it could spontaneously create me some cash.
avernan ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:17:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just give it time, it will happen between now and infinite time in the future
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:51:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In a world of only 4, does anything but 4 exist?
Ardub23 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:01:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That depends. Is 4 a lot?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:54:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That depends, does the concept of a lot exist in a world of only 4?
R34R34 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:03:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They just don't write em like that anymore!
dunaja ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:30:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here's a crack at an ELI5 explanation
Quantum physics describes electrons and other particles through their wave function, which is a probabilistic measurement of the location or measurements of other characteristics of the electron (such as spin). Since it is impossible to tell both the velocity and position of an electron at any given moment (Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle), we have to describe it through probabilities that it exists in certain locations. There is a nonzero probability that it will exist anywhere in the universe at any given moment, of course as you get farther away the probability decreases extremely fast. This isn't just a way to assess particles that makes it easier for scientists, either; it's a real thing! Look up quantum tunneling, where particles essentially teleport through barriers because they follow their wavefunction. Spooky
Its wrong in a strict technical sense, but for a very simplifed view that is trying to explain a subject to someone who will likely never learn about wavefunctions and operators or group/phase velocities it works.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:45:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is such a complex matter to explain, ELI5 won't do it justice, but calling the original explanation "almost" wrong is unfair. He/she touched upon the subject in an easy to understand manner.
There's a difference between simplifying and getting wrong. Substituting the wavefunction for the position observable is a reasonable simplification. Saying that the wavefunction somehow spans the universe is not.
Actually heisenberg uncertainty principle comes from the commutator postulate, not the probability of wavefunction one. This is probably what you meant though
I love it when people who understand such things try to explain it simply & just confuse me even more. You can't hear my tone here but I'm being complimentary. My brain is just not wired for this shit.
1ZL ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:43:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
people who understand such things
"I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics."
My bad dude. I kind of just started ranting instead of ELI5. Basically a particle or thing's location at a point in time is described by a probability graph, so it can exist anywhere in the universe at any time depending on that probability which is never 0
ELI5: Atoms are waves in space-time* much like a ripple in water (imagine those photos of a water drop falling into a pool.)
Now, the central "peak" of that wave/ripple is what we generally think of as "the atom" (or subatomic particle, or what have you). Now, if you look in that photo, it might seem like the ripple disappears after a little while, but actually what's happening is that the ripple is getting smaller and smaller as it expands. So, the center might have an amplitude of 100, the next ring and amplitude of 10, the next 1, then 0.1, then 0.01 and so on all the way to an infinitely small 0.00000000000[...]00000000001. But technically, this amplitude will never reach zero.
So the joke that /u/corpuscle634 is making is that, technically, even at the farthest point in the universe, any atom still has (a barely existent 0.00000000000[...]000000001 amplitude) presence.
EDIT: *ish. I mean, this is going heavy on the "Like I'm 5" of ELI5.
EDIT: Replaced image for copyright/link reasons.
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 02:37:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Umm, I don't think your link works
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:28:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mm. Strange. The link to a picture works for me, but it would seems there are issues (beyond my trouble-shooting capabilities) that make it not work for some others. In any case, the picture is a standard image of a water drop falling into a pool of water, much like you'd see on some kind of tacky motivational poster about "serenity".
xinxy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:15:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should have linked the webpage that you found the image on, instead of directly to the image.
Either that or you could have saved the image and uploaded it to imgur or something.
sba_17 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 07:55:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're a copyright violator! And a bandwidth thief too! Despicable.
rya_nc ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:19:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you click a link or your web browser loads an image, the browsers sends the domain (and possibly the page) you're currently on along with the request for the image. This server is configured to use that information to decide what image to return.
Stationary waveunctions live in Hilbert space, so you could say that the set of wavefunctions is a subset of the set of vector spaces within Hilbert space.
Not really relevant for what we're talking about, though.
This is kindof the same argument I go for whenever people bring up the idea of "Nothing ever really touches", if every atom is everywhere, then every atom is touching every other atom at the same time. That and I try to bring up Pauli exclusion principle, but I've never actually won an argument on this topic.
I_l_I ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:07:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except the ones in black holes? Oh jk they're probably not atoms anymore
Well, you could give a neat math analogy to compare this. Take the equation y=1/x, let's say x is distance away from a point and y is force experienced (best realistic example here is magnetism). Even if you are 3 quadrillion lightyears away, the force experienced is still greater than zero. (ie 1/(3 quadrillion lightyears)>0, disregarding units.)
Electrons dont truly orbit an atom's nucleus (centre bit of protons and neutrons) like you see in patently false depictions of atoms. They are distributed (exist) in a zone around the nucleus. Generally, you can be like 99.99..% sure of where any given electron is likely to be, kind of like pointing at the dot for New York and saying "that is roughly where Central Park is". . In this case, your pudgy finger would cover half of new york state, yes, technically you do point at where central park is, but what if you had to point at it with your man boob? Now as you crush your chest against the globe, you are still technically correct despite covering most of north America and a good deal of the Atlantic, you are still pointing at where central park is.
Because it is not 100% guaranteed to cover where the electron might be, the electron could be hundreds of miles, thousands of light years, trillions of parsecs away and still be technically part of the atom
There is no upper bound for where the electron can be it just becomes less and less likely to have ever occured based on the age of our universe.
Technically true, but the probability of the electron being outside the van der Waals radius is so tiny that it's equally pointless to claim that an atom takes up a space the size of a marble than it does the universe.
I remember in high school that we demanded an ELI5 f, rim out Chem teacher. He said there isn't one. Eventually he wrote (what I later learned) what wasn't even a really complicated version of the Schrodinger equation down for us. In 11th grade, we didn't even know what half the symbols in in were for. Hamiltonian? Spherical harmonics?
A good eli5 for this is that electrons aren't exactly discrete particles in one place at one time the way we often think of them. They are described in terms of their probability of being in a certain space, or "how often" they spend there. This probability is described by their wavefunction, and wavefunctions are asymptotic, meaning for very great distances, an electron's probability of being there is very close to zero, but never exactly zero. So basically, they have some infinitesimally small probability of being litterally anywhere.
that's a bit misleading given a modern description. there's a single electron field that exists everywhere in the universe, and what we'd call "individual electrons" are excitations of that field.
To call it empty space does an injustice to actual empty space, the vacuum.
Electrons and protons behave like waves at that scale, and the forces between them are incredibly intense. Matter is, in fact, wonderfully dense with a myriad of complex and powerful interactions!
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 10:07:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is really the only way to look at it. The meaning of intuitive concepts like "stuff" and "empty" completely break down when you're talking about the mathematical, quantum nature of sub-atomic matter.
His statement isn't false because the converse is true. It's false because it's just a meaningless statement.
If you picture a hydrogen atom as a domed stadium and had a marble in the center to represent the nucleus, then you could use a honey bee to represent the electron anywhere in that stadium.
It's supposed to sound wrong but be correct. This is wrong, but sounds correct to people who think subatomic particles are just tiny billiard balls. Downvoted.
I enjoyed the part where you pretend to understand physics in its entirety, then cast out your downvoted like it seriously matters that we know you downvoted him.
RileyF1 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:30:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He didn't pretend to understand physics in its entirety, thinking that particles are tiny billiard balls is a common assumption.
Kahlypso ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 15:06:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is zero percent chance that he can, with 100% certainty, say anyone is wrong where physics is concerned. End of story. It was an accusation of arrogance, not error.
RileyF1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:11:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah well gravity could be controlled by space monkeys but he is correct as far as we know. Quantum mechanics is one of the most tested theories out there.
"As far as we know" is, in my opinion, the most important and valuable thing anyone can say in the course of scientific discussion. That's my only qualm.
I liked the part where you tried to treat footlamps factual statement as false and the part where you forgot you were commenting in /r/askreddit not /r/iamverysmart.
People assume the billiard ball example all the time.
It's more accurate to envision then as blobs, rather than billiard balls. A good example of the problem with billiard balls is that some of the electrons 'orbiting' the nucleus have 0 angular momentum. If they were billiard balls then they should just fall in, instead they are blobs that surround the nucleus entirely and sit in a stable state.
Does it matter (no pun intended) if we're talking about something dense like leas or gold, vs. something less dense, like a sponge, aerogel, or even air at atmospheric pressure?
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 00:18:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
most space in every atom is empty, so it really doesn't change much the element you're inspecting
Gullex ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:50:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the part that isn't empty is occupied by something we can't really describe as "solid matter".
No, because he's wrong. Matter is not made up of empty space. Electron clouds fill that whole volume, no matter the material.
mike5f4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:29:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not by much. The number of electrons make a very small difference because they are incredibly small (even compared to protons and neutrons), and the distance from the nucleus is great and empty space.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:43:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is nonsense. The size of an atom is defined by the average spread of the electron's wave function, which fills up the atom completely and sits neatly around (and through) the nucleus. The whole "atoms are empty space" thing is incredibly wrong. It comes from misinterpreting Rutherford's experiment, where he found the nucleus to make up only a tiny fragment of an atom's volume, while still having most of the mass.
All mass "is" energy. Something with momentum has "extra" energy. But you can never have something with mass and no energy. And there's a minimum amount of energy anything with mass can have (the "rest energy").
Grabak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:22:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
samsc2 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 23:34:07 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Over 9000?
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 23:39:49 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
more like 10000
Gullex ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:49:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, it's all really empty space. That stuff you think isn't space, like quanta? What are they? Packets of energy. What is energy? Movement. What is moving, then? Just the field.
It's all empty.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:52:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1 + -1 = 0
isymfs ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:50:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No two things are ever truly touching each other, on an atomic level.
What if we are living on a floating subatomic particle in a much larger piece of matter?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:37:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The reason the atoms don't end up overlapping each other is because their electrons move so fast.
Think of it like this: Imagine trying to push a straw through moving fan blades. The blades of the fan will prevent the straw from going through, despite the fact that they only occupy the space a fraction of the time.
Yurei2 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:26:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's more accurate to call matter what it is, organised energy. There is nothing at all that physicaly fills space. It's just that all electrons are negativly charged, and therefore the electrons in object A will repell the electrons in object B just like magnets. Howeaver, the effect is over such a short distance that you can measure it in the smallest units of small we have.
It's such a short distance that you can feel the object due to how the electrons in your body move, but, you've never actually touched anything, ever. It's not actually physically possible to truly touch anything. Because everything is energy, and energy is intangible.
It's an imperfect analogy in more ways than just that; I just wasn't able to think of an exact English comparison. If you have a better one feel free to share.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 13:12:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Oxford English dictionary politely points out that the North American's seeming forgot that the word "thaw" was a word in it's own right and appear to have made up "unthaw" instead of simply using the previously provided word "frozen".
konaya ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:58:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The word is 'thaw', "to cause to unfreeze, become warm". 'unthaw' is just popular association of 'un-' (the verbal prefix, not the separate nominal prefix meaning "not") with process reversal. 'unthawing a turkey' would just be freezing it again. 'unthawed' is also a separate adjective (or nominal) formation, therefore it properly means "not thawed" = "still frozen"; as well as there being the past participle "frozen again" < from "to unthaw". It's not really hard to see why it's slightly confusing to some.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:17:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is an example of my countrymen mangling - yet again - the native tongue. Apparently this is an American thing, although I've never heard of it.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:41:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry, everyone will be using Newspeak by the year 2050.Then that pesky freedom of expression will be gone, and we'll be rid of inferior words like 'unthaw'!
First, some characters are relatively complicated and hard to write. Just take a look at these:่ฑ้ฝ้พ็ฑฒ้้ฌฑ้ฑป. (Granted, they aren't often used in normal speech, but still)
Also, there are four tones in Chinese.
ฤ (flat tone)
รก (rising tone)
ว (long falling tone)
ร (short falling tone)
This adds an extra layer of complexity. Some pinyin, like 'ma', have four different tones, each with a different meaning.
mฤ = mother (ๅฆ)
mรก = toad (่)
mว = horse (้ฉฌ)
mร = scold (้ช)
You could say
ไฝ ็ๅฆๅฆ้ชๆ็่ๅ้ฉฌ๏ผ(ni de ma ma ma wo de ma he ma)
Your mom scolded my toad and horse!
To learn Chinese, you have to learn a character's meaning, pronunciation, and how to write it. Sure, Chinese can make you worth more and you can do business with the Chinese, but I don't think you'd want to do business with the Chinese. I mean, some of the street vendors over there sell rat meat as lamb.
edit: Also, the pinyin structure is weird. The x sound sounds just like the sh sound.
Zaev ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:49:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, "because it's a massive pain in the ass". Gotcha. I've been studying Japanese on and off for a while, and the most difficult part has definitely been their "borrowed" Chinese characters, so that makes sense.
(How do you get "fresh" from a triple character for "fish", anyway?)
Oversight means making sure things function property, as well as failing to make sure things function well.
Sanction means to allow something, as well as prohibit something.
Dusting can refer to adding dust or removing dust.
To screen something can either mean to show it or to prevent it from being seen.
These words are called contranyms.
januhhh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:40:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WHAT IS THE BLOODY PURPOSE OF A WORD THAT IS IT'S OWN ANTONYM?
Well, there are quirks in every language and I'm sure you would encounter many in Mandarin, as well.
One other example is that "it's" does not mean "of/belonging to it", but instead is a contraction of "it is". But don't worry, it's quite a bit easier to learn than a fucking Chinese dialect.
it's quite a bit easier to learn than a fucking Chinese dialect.
Because you were born to it.
januhhh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:31 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was not, it's my second language. To be fair, maybe that's why it makes perfect sense to me, while native speakers tend to struggle with this concept.
The problem is that Chinese is very tonal, and if you weren't born speaking a language that's similar, it's very hard to learn to distinguish them. I bet your native language is much closer to English than it is to Chinese.
januhhh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:21 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
While what you say is true, I think it is also completely irrelevant and out-of-the-blue. Let's not continue.
I find Japanese to be more complex than English or Mandarin, given its varied use of particles, nonintuitive verb conjugations, and the differences between long form and short form Japanese.
Velgarr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:44:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every time I've heard anyone say this, it's usually this one guy who watches far too much anime and failed his second year of Japanese in college.
Well, I studied Mandarin for four years in high school, and I currently have a B in Japanese II, so I don't think that's really an apt description of my situation.
Velgarr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:21:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right. I wasn't trying to insinuate otherwise. Just bizarre that it's the same statement nearly verbatim.
Oh. Sorry for insinuating that you were insinuating that.
Velgarr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:51:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry for insinuating the offense, of which none was taken! I was thinking maybe Japanese teachers tell their students to spread this complexity doctrine, but upon further consideration, I think that perhaps everyone is correct. Surely there are more factors in determining the difficulty of learning a language than the complexity of usage rules.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:54:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mandarin is ten times worse lol. The same word can have 20 different meanings. And if you ignore the tones, the same word can literally mean 100 things
If an Alien species were to attempt to take over the world by slowly replacing Americs. We'd know they're aliens because they'll have studied the proper usage of words nobody actually uses.
HGF88 ยท 281 points ยท Posted at 01:39:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn this language.
Iceyeeye ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 05:35:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bless this language. We have developed a language so insanely constructed that only the natives of it can ever be truly proficient with it. It is like a cultural firewall for detecting foreign spies.
And even then, often only of your specific dialect, considering between British and American English the same words often have completely different and sometimes unrelated meanings, not to mention the other Commonwealth variations(looking at you, Australia, and your incomprehensible and nearly German-level of hostility)
This fucking language was never meant to leave the isles of Britain. Terrible, unholy things have resulted.
HGF88 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:43:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And even then, a quarter of the time we can barely make sense of it or why things are the way they are.
damn, this language! Or damn this language (to hell)!
[deleted] ยท 70 points ยท Posted at 04:19:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't help but notice the "North American" disclaimer above the redundant (which is to say, stupid) definition. "Thaw" means melt, so "unthawed" should mean unmelted, damnit!
Atario ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 15:07:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have never in my life heard anyone say "unthaw" for any purpose, and that's four decades spend in the US
I had the same fight with my aunt. She would always say unthaw and I would ask if she wanted me to freeze it, one day I looked it up... years and years later it still sticks with me
I confused my brother with something similar. I asked what was in a container in the fridge and he said "preboiled potatos" so I said "when are you planning on boiling them?" He went very blank.
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 07:11:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
There are a couple examples of words like that, but this one doesn't even make sense. "Thaw" means to unfreeze, so "unthaw" should be the opposite of that (to freeze, presumably after having been frozen and thawed at least once already).
I'm pretty sure somebody just fucked it up and it just stuck. Once enough people use a word "wrong," that usage isn't wrong anymore.
That's stupid though. No one says literally and actually means figuratively, they say literally as a hyperbole or sarcastically which insinuates 'figuratively' but its not the actual damn fuckin definition.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:45:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of The Dictator when he changes positive and negative to aladeen.
-"You are HIV aladeen"
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:58:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
unthaw isn't a word.
arcedup ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:49:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unthaw is my trigger word. Normally I don't correct people's grammar, and I understand that dictionary definitions change over time to reflect usage, but whenever anyone says unthaw, I say, "You mean thaw". It's like an involuntary response.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:58:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Surprised no one's mentioned that this is called an auto-anotnym.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:47:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How the heck does UNthaw mean thaw? Might as well tell me that flammable means inflammable.
I used to work at the snack bar at Target and the directions for one of the salads called for a half thawed chicken breast. I went over and asked my manager how one half thaws something. He laughed so hard as he explained half of a thawed chicken breast.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:33:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A similar example is 'sanction', having two meanings which are arguable "opposites" of each other: (i) give official approval for, & (ii) impose a penalty on (or punish).
Ausdwen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:02:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This needs to be so much higher. Biggest thought twisting mind fuck so far.
Ca you explain to me how the american usage makes sense? Or is it just something like "irregardless" but weight of stupid forced it into acceptable usage?
d_035 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:27:10 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh. I kind of read it as un being the root and thaw being a suffix, instead of unthawing being the process of reverse thawing. So it's UNthaw instead of unTHAW.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:16:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn, how did you even find this comment on a sub other than r/cavs on an unrelated topic lol. But hell yeah! I'm still ecstatic we won. Here's to hoping the Indians can do it now too
SC is definitely closer than 800 miles away. We're about 750 from Chicago where I'm from in SC. I'd guess that /u/superpunkalicious is in the top of Florida.
Oh I was thinking just a straight line haha. I guess by roadway the circle would shrink for what 800 miles means. I also couldn't help and looked at a map radius tool, and 800 miles from Cleveland straight south seems to be just south of Jacksonville, Florida
New York City is 9 hours away from Buffalo, New York. It also takes 16 hours to go from Miami to Pensacola. That's a road trip nearly half way across the United States.
Yeah, it's kinda insane how big some states are, the normal route from Detroit to Ironwood is 670 miles, if you take the long way around the Saginaw Bay and up and down the Keweenaw, it's more like driving from Orlando to NYC
dethb0y ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:37:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I found the view from Camp Fitch over lake erie to be both awe-inspiring and terrifying because of the steep cliff leading to the shore.
I used to be a camper and a counselor at a camp called Issac Jogues in Madison. We actually had a ladder that you could climb up and down to get to the water. Eventually the erosion got so bad that became impossible. Now the camp is a park and they dug out a dirt ramp all the way down. But I can still feel the feeling of being scared shitless taking those first few ladder rungs to go down to the water.
In the last winter olympics, the US men's curling team was from Superior, WI/Duluth, MN. The Canadian Men's team from Sault Ste Marie. Duluth/Superior are on the western tip of Lake Superior. SSM is on the eastern tip. SSM is further south than Duluth/Superior (barely).
The Canadian Men's curling team came from further south than the US team.
I was like "what made-up place do you live that this would be even remotely possible?" and then I looked at google maps and realized it's very likely we live in the same city.
No it doesn't, and you don't even need a map, much less a flat earth. Vardo, Norway is 31deg. E long., and Istanbul is only 29deg E. You can get that info from a lot of places.
Yes, so the assertion that Istanbul is west of part of Norway actually is the "actually correct" thing that "sounds extremely wrong". (Note that I am still agreeing with you.) What makes it "sound extremely wrong" is that we all know that Norway is part of Northern Europe, which must be somewhat west of Eastern Europe, and therefore certainly west of a country that is in the East, and so east of Eastern Europe. Added to that, we all know that Turkey is adjacent to Syria, Iraq, and Iran (which are in the Mid East, which naturally WAY east of Europe). The "trick" is that Norway wraps around Northern Europe, and its easternmost point is east of all the rest of Europe except a small bit of Finland, a sliver of Belarus, and about half of Ukraine. Also, though Turkey is having its border issues in the Mideast, Istanbul is wa-a-ay on the other side of the country, right next door to Bulgaria and Greece.
Now, all of this being completely true, it might be best if I mention that my comment about spherical geometry was made for humor and fun (and it has been fun; I have more responses to that comment than any other I have made). If there is any relevant point in it (and I hope that most people intuited this), it is that looking at maps gives a distorted perception of the world. Two cases in point are ship routes, and proportional size. On a map, you have to show the shortest, "straight-line" route, say from Maine to Africa, as a curve, the so-called Great Circle Route. And, from looking at a common map, say Google Maps, you would never guess that all of Greenland would actually fit inside the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Really, go look. Then look up the geographical area of each. It's amazing.)
I checked on my globe. it's obviously farther south, west, and north. the easternmost part is close to the north pole, and yes it is farther "east" but it's mostly northeast.
Niqulaz ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:45:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From the place in Norway I grew up, we had St. Petersburg, Alexandria more or less due south.
From the place in Norway I'm currently living, more or less due south will be Luxembourgh, Marseilles, and Lagos in Nigeria.
It's because it's further north, so the longitude lines are closer together. As in, it takes less distance to go from one time zone to the next, because you're traveling around the top of the globe instead of traveling around the entire circumference.
That's kind of cheating for Norway though; because that's less its size and more that it's closer to the North Pole so longitudes are much closer together
If I stood one meter away from the north pole I could place my right hand west of Los Angeles and my left hand east of New York.
jkool702 ยท 268 points ยท Posted at 04:58:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
You could also do this by straddling the international dateline. This has the advantage of letting you do this from a tropical beach instead freezing your ass off at the north pole.
EDIT: SO technically this is done by straddling the 180th meridian, not the international dateline. The dateline partially follows the 180th meridian, but ends up zig-zagging a bit. Also, yes, there is land (Fiji) on the 180th meridian. And is certainly is tropical.
except that the international dateline is in the middle of the ocean.
FourBox ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 05:14:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, if only we had a vehicle that could traverse water...I'll get started on designing it right away. I think I'll call it a War, short for Water Car
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 06:36:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought that weird Austrian guy already did that. Called it a BO-AT.
Well obviously you bring your beach on an aircraft carrier.
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 07:24:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The International Date Line is not synonymous with the 180th meridian, which is one of the two meridians that separate the eastern and western hemispheres (the other being the Prime Meridian).
Dateline, schmateline. You can stand anywhere on the planet and be both east and west of anywhere else on the planet. Except for the everything directly north and/or south of you.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:10:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oops, you're right, there's no land there. Hmm, looking at the map, it looks like Greenland has some landmass just 450 miles away. It would be a heck of a swim, but maybe with a fast boat.
Actually, scrap all that, the Earth has two poles! Just move this party down to the South pole and you can still do all of the stuff the guys were talking about up there AND there is land for a future tropical beach. Problem solved.
I think the alternative, having all places on one timezone, could be interesting. Presumably we'd just go with UTC. So now your schedule is just shifted however many hours on the clock. If you were in the UTC-5 zone, a 9-5 job is now a 4-noon job.
I think this might actually be better than timezones, if (and it's a big if..) people would be willing to change. Scheduling across distances would be easier, as would travel. The biggest downside is now having to know when a place tends to be awake, etc., but this isn't really a loss because
in the current system you usually have to look at a timezone map anyway. These can be adjusted to show when they tend to be awake or whatever.
Places and people don't have a universal schedule anyway. Even if you know it's 5pm somewhere, you also have to know what people do at 5pm there. You may as well have to know what they do at new noon there.
I agree with this, but we don't even have to go as far as abolishing timezones. We just need to make them not be such a retarded clusterfuck of bullshit. They're TIMEzones, why are they changed to follow political borders!?
Utility. I, for example, live in the part of the central timezone that juts out of northern Illinois into Indiana. A lot of people here work in Chicago, and not many go very far south or east often, so it's nicer to not make people switch timezones every day. (The timezones are quite discrete, so they're not very precise anyway.)
flodnak ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:36:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On the other hand, if you stand on the southernmost point of Norway, you're about as far from its northernmost point as you are from Rome. So it is big.
And banana-shaped.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:38:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn you spherical planetary objects and your cheating ways! Damn you to hell!
Just joking here, but you are in the thread literally titled "What sounds extremely wrong, but is actually correct?"
Norway has a really weird shape. After reaching the northernmost point, you can still keep going for over 1000 kilometers directly east before reaching the border with Russia.
Because Greenland being part of Denmark is iffy.
It's technically its own country, except its dependent upon, and not actually legally independent of (Even though it's independent in spirit or something, it's dumb), Denmark, and they all have Danish citizenship and are counted as Danish for most purposes, and so on.
Hans Island WAS proposed being split down the middle though, if that helps make it easier to swallow me using the term "border".
At any rate, if you count Hans Island Denmark is, by far, the most western and Northern Scandinavian nation, and it was already the most southern.
Edit: I forgot about a small island owned by Norway.
olderkj ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:57:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you think Denmark is the most southern Scandinavian country, you should google Bouvet Island.
But the only reason Hans Island can even be thought of as being Danish is because of Greenland. Look at a map of it; it's right in the middle of Greenland and Canada.
Denmark claims it because of its use by Greenlandic inuits, on behalf of Greenland, but because of its self governing treaty the matter is handled by Denmark as a Danish claim.
Amunium ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:38:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a terrible point. Lots of countries have territories that are far closer to other countries.
You would know if you'd ever spent half an empire total war campaign as Sweden fighting off both Norway and Russia while simultaneously managing the delicate balance of ass-kissing and economic exploitation required to keep the rest of europe happy.
Basically, fuck Poland for pretending to be friendly for 20 years before turning around and revealing themselves to be massively territorial supercunts who are terrible at picking their enemies.
The more you know! Sadly it's quite the common mistake...
To put it short: Norway, Sweden and Denmark share a shit ton of history. And we have a lot of similarities when it comes to culture and language. Finland share less history with the others and have a language that is completely off (Uralic->Finnish compared to the others which are Indo-European->Germanic->North Germanic->Norwegian/Swedish/Danish).
Was ready to call BS on that, but consulted my world map on the wall first. Damn, you're right! I've lived in Scandinavia for decades and didn't know that!
dpash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:02:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Republic of France shares a border with Brazil and the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
[deleted] ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 01:08:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It is possible to get between the two only traveling through Russia but not if you take the shortest path.
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 04:02:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure why you got downvoted. Yeah, you can travel from Norway to Russia to North Korea without stepping foot on another country's land, but as the crow flies and as most people could ever imagine getting from Norway to North Korea you wouldn't go that route. I guess this thread had a lot of pedantic geographers.
Spax_ ยท 777 points ยท Posted at 02:14:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a non American (an American't possibly?), why is this so unbelievable? Maine looks like the most Eastern part of the US so it stands to reason that it's closest.
The way most maps of the US are oriented, it seems that the east coast is almost vertical, so you'd expect Florida to be closest to Africa. But in actuality, Florida is West of Maine, and so Maine is closest to Africa.
I don't know about that. It just may be a matter of scale. On a normal US map you can see that Florida is a bit west of maine. However, that effect seems much more exaggerated when you look at a world map.
Another thing is that many people probably imagine that because the US and Europe are both the 'northern hemisphere' that they're about equal distances from the equator and that South America and Africa being 'southern hemisphere' continents that they're about the same distance from the equator. While the reality is that most of europe is much further north than the northernmost parts of the US(*continental US, not alaska), but many people when picturing the world map in their imagination will see Florida and Spain at the same latitude, as well as picturing the northernmost part of Africa being at the same latitude as Mexico or the north of South America.
I think this has to do with our similar climates as well (the US and UK). People assume because our climates are similar our distance from the equator must be similar. Oddly enough, Canada is much closer to the UK in terms of latitude.
moomaka ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:16:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The two maps you linked are using two very different projections which is why they look much different. The US map looks like an equal-area projection while the world map looks like a Van der Grinten projection.
Spax_ ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:47:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The problem is that in the US only map (which only Americans look at, sorry to break it to you but Americant's don't care about your geography) you're not representing North and South as a straight vertical line, it's on the piss, whereas in the world map (which is the only image of the US that I'm familiar with) the continent is angled appropriately.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:07:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, would've guessed Florida.
lkmyntz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:08:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a North Floridian, it blows people's minds when I tell them Orlando is actually east of Jacksonville.
I'm from the US and I couldn't believe this so I fired up google earth.
Apparently I had no idea the United States was oriented like that in respect to the rest of the world. Surprising to say the least. You would have thought someone during the 15 years of schooling I had would have mentioned that small fact.
Florida seems like the "southeast corner" of the US and hence the closest point to a continent that lies generally southeast of the US, but people don't realize how far west Florida is. Jacksonville is due south of Pittsburgh, not NYC or Boston.
It is because we think of Africa as "south", and would therefore expect the south-eastern most corner of the US to be the closest. However Africa extends much further north than we think, and oceans are also wider than we think; so the east-west axis is what is actually important.
Most people assume Florida is closer, because it sticks out of the bottom corner. But that's only because most people assume the east coast is nearly vertical.
2evil ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:00:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From a previous comment in this thread we learned that Alaska is the easternmost US state.
TJinAZ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You see, we don't think of the rest of the world as... Well, we don't think of it much at all... Sorry...
arefx ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:20:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
its because its so far north, I would at first as an american assume it would be a south eastern state like florida or georgia. looking at a globe it makes sense though. We associate maine with cold ass winters and snow, and africa as warm with no snow, I;m guilty of doing this subconsciously even though I know parts or africa have a similar climate to where i live during the spring/summer/fall months.
It's because the maps you are accustomed to seeing aren't proportionally accurate. At least, there are various versions that each have differing characteristics while all portraying the same earth. I am not well versed on why there are different maps, but I'm stoned and hope this helped.
rckid13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:37:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you look at a map it makes sense. California geography is a little weird. The coastline runs at a big angle. It blew my mind the first time I flew from LA to Santa Barbara and the entire flight was nearly straight west.
Most people don't realize how far Maine sticks out or how far south the US is/how far north Africa is. Many people would probably think Florida or something like that.
That hrm sounds british so I'm gonna explain this. The projections most Americans see of their country show Maine as way far north, and Florida as only a little bit west of Maine. And we all no Africa is further south than the US. So if Florida is only a little bit west of Maine, and Maine is waaaay north of Florida, and Africa is south of the US, then it stands to reason that Florida is closest to Africa. But that's not true, it just feels true because of the map of the US we're used to seeing.
Honestly, I can't find an accurate map of the world to even question details like this anymore. I just accept them to be true. I once read about bias in how maps are drawn, depending on their origin, and now I never know what to trust.
Wow. I mostly believed you, but I immediately opened Google Earth to verify and assumed it would be a pretty small difference. Nope, roughly 3200 vs 4000 miles.
I mean the only other that could seem possible would be the Eastern-most part of Florida, but due to the way Africa is shaped, it would be farther away to the East.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:08:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope.
idwthis ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:04:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. It's definitely from Black Sheep, where Farley and Spade are trying to make it to Farley's bro in time, and they're in the police car and the nitrous oxide is leaking into the car, giving them a buzz.
Then another police officer pulls them over, tells Farley he was only driving 7 mph, Farley claims Spade slaughtered a shitload of chickens and fucked horses in Nevada, and the cop tells him to get the fucker out of his jurisdiction a little bit faster.
Also associated with "jamais vu" (like dรฉjร vu, except jamais means never). Basically means it feels like you've never seen it before even though you know you have
It loses all meaning within seconds. You just stare at it and your brain says "wut?"
On an unrelated note, I'm having a serious Baader Meinhof moment right now, because I just spent about 10 minutes hunting for the word "semantic satiation" to describe this exact thing so that I could make my friend (who is at an [8] right now) trip out over a word, and then I came to read this thread which I had open in a new tab. Crazy stuff.
"for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China"
I had to do some legal bench memo for a Judge regarding a sneaker. I think in the memo, I typed the word "sneaker" 80 times. I still refuse to believe "sneaker" is a word despite having written this memo about 6 months ago.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:55:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stegosaurus is a type of armored dinosaur. Their fossil bones have been found in rocks dated to the Late Jurassic period (Kimmeridgian to early Tithonian ages), between 155 to 150 million years ago, in the western United States and Portugal.
Until recently, fossil findings indicated that grasses evolved around 55 million years ago. Recent findings of grass-like phytoliths in Cretaceous dinosaur coprolites have pushed this date back to 66 million years ago. Indeed, revised dating of the origins of the rice tribe Oryzeae suggest a date as early as 107 to 129 Mya.
For 5 minutes I wondering what the hell a "trex" was. Showed my little brother and it took all of 2 seconds for him to figure out it was T-rex. I feel dumb.
Qaysed ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 10:38:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Chronologically. Not sure about genetically, because I don't know how genetic distance works. I know that T-rex and sparrow are genetically closer than t-rex and stegosaurus, though.
Yes, phylogenetically (i.e. evolutionary distance) T. rex is more closely related to sparrows than stegosaurs, but all dinosaurs (including birds) are more closely related to each other than they are to you. You'd have to go back to something like amphibians to find an animal that would be the outgroup (less closely related) than yourself and T. rex.
Quick crash course on genetic distance: you need to find the last common ancestor. The earlier that ancestor is, the closer you are related.
All dinosaurs (including avians) share a "recent" common ancestor, about 250mya. The last common ancestor of dinosaurs and mammals lived about 350mya. Although these dates are currently speculative and likely to come down, we know that T. rex was more closely related to other dinosaurs than to any mammal.
Qaysed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:10:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let's say I dropped a penny from 1963 into a jar, then a penny from 2015 into a jar. They both existed, and they're both in the same place. I just happened to get ahold of them both for my convenience.
SmoSays ยท 7298 points ยท Posted at 01:51:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Overlook is the opposite of itself.
Edit 4 - I forgot to put this in Edit 3: I mean overlook has two contradictory meanings. Overlook does not mean the opposite of the word 'itself'. I should have chosen my words better.
Overlook can mean
To examine, study, supervise
To completely fucking miss
Edit: Words like this are called contronyms and auto-antonyms.
Moot can mean "subject to debate" but also "of no practical relevance".
A moot was originally a kind of meeting, so a "moot point" was something to be tabled for discussion. My googling tells me the "of no practical relevance" definition arose in the US, but to be honest I've never heard it used in the original sense here in Australia, or anywhere else for that matter.
EWVGL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:01:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Resign, in terms of sports, might mean a player is never going to play again, or that they're going to keep playing.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:40:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, literally has been used as an intensifier since at least the late 17th century, or about a hundred years after Shakespeare more or less established modern English. Mark Twain, James Joyce and many other respected writers have used the word as an intensifier. So it's probably time to let it go, because you are wrong. Also, I don't feel like citing the link, but the editor of the OED wrote a history of literally as an intensifier, I think it's on Slate. Google it.
bumwine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:02:50 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
rugtoad ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:56:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, not really. It's an intensifier, but literally nobody uses it in a manner synonymous with "figuratively" (i.e., to indicate language as not being literal).
Like "buckle," these two uses are in very different contexts. "To execute a process" is universally to start it, "to execute a person" is to kill them. No real chance of confusion from a native speaker.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:08:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. As someone who knows three languages, the 'impurities' in the English language provide a rich source of humour, so necessary for human beings to enjoy life. e.g The Panda eats shoots and leaves.
What? No. Inflammable means able to become inflamed. Nothing regarding how easy it is (within reason, under normal atmospheric conditions, so not in a pure liquid O2 atmosphere). Non-flammable is its antonym and flammable is the word used to replace inflammable when people began to assume that the usually negating prefix "in-" meant "not".
The power is inside you to answer that. Or maybe inside the outlet to your clothes dryer. Two stout paperclips can help you find what you are looking for.
What I like about "cleave" is that its two opposite meanings actually come from completely different etymological roots! One version comes from a PIE word meaning "to cut or slice", while the other comes from a PIE root meaning "to stick".
See, I think this word, and words of the type (like "shell"), mean somewhat broadly "to do something that involves dust to something else", rather than being true contranyms, but maybe that's just me.
I vote good example. Your either adding or removing "dust".
zinnzo ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:28:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, those are called contronyms and they're pretty fun.
You've got bolt (either you're fleeing or you're holding something together), peruse (looking at something in depth or just skimming it), egregious (it's really bad or really good), and nonplussed (could be unperturbed or really surprised and confused).
Same for 'ravel'. 'Ravel' and 'unravel' used as a verb both mean 'to untangle', but 'ravel' can also be used as a noun to mean 'a tangle, cluster, or knot'.
What the FUCK? I have never heard "sanction" used to mean anything other than "allow" or "approve". And then I Google it and find that "a threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule" is the FIRST definition?
Thank you, I got that question wrong on a vocab quiz thing last month and I was really confused but too lazy to try and do anything about it, I just figured I was wrong. And now the truth is revealed.
Sanction is really a consequence that can be positive, negative, formal, informal. Really, it's just like consequence, since that can also be positive, negative, formal, informal.
Also the word off.
Alarms can both go off and shut off.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:56:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not really fair because sanction is part of white man's honor code. It's like saying "You're set." or "You're about to die." You'll know which one it is at the time, if you're a white man.
SmoSays ยท 271 points ยท Posted at 04:34:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd always heard them referred to as contronyms but I looked it up and apparently both are correct. Both have different spellings and there are like a dozen different words that are all used because this is English and since when did that language decide on anything?
It should be "synonym" so that the term is also an example. Sadly it isn't..
[deleted] ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 05:08:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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j4jackj ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 05:30:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
if you have a friend who is a comma fucker
FTFY. Comma-fucker is apparently a Finnish (I use the translation because no way can I remember the original word) phrase with a similar meaning to grammar Nazi.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:39:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pilkunnussija, literally "comma fucker".
PlayMp1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:41:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In Finnish it's pilkunnussija ("comma fucker"), and it refers to anyone who is pointing out others' inconsequential mistakes or correcting inconsequential details in what they say, not just grammar nazis.
It's actually a colloquial version of the more generally used variant of the word, "pilkunviilaaja" ("comma filer", as in someone who's smoothing out imperfections in a comma using a file), which has the same meaning.
It's so much more fun to see the batshit insane things people come up with than to have to break it to them that they're "wrong" by some mostly arbitrary standard.
You're right, but then again they also understand that you have to take the situation into consideration and write and/or speak in a way generally agreed to be suitable for that situation and use proper grammar for the situation in order to not be considered a dolt.
Note that this goes both ways. In contexts like /r/AskReddit, the overall style is pretty casual, but still leans towards prescribed grammar. If someone were to (without it obviously being a joke of some kind) post a comment saying something like "ur the best luv u bby xoxoxo" (perhaps with some emoji thrown in for good measure), the style would be considered inappropriate for the situation. But if you're texting with a group of friends who use language in that kind of a way all the time, replying "I too harbor amorous feelings towards you" would again be inappropriate for the situation. There's a time and place for every type of language, and that is what I think people really need to understand. There's a time when confusing "their", "they're", "there" is not a huge deal, and there's a time when you really should get it right. If you want to be taken seriously in a relatively serious discussion, you have to write in a "proper" enough way. But if you're just chatting casually, it's not such a big deal.
So what I'm saying is that it's possible to be particular about grammar while still being a descriptivist, as long as you understand that the context matters. Don't be out of place. And unfortunately (for those who do it, at least) mixing up "their", "there" and "they're" appears to be somewhat out of place in many subreddits.
Solmundr ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:44:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That's true, but it also doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a mistake, or poor or unclear usage. E.g., typing "her" for "here" or "they're" for "there" is wrong, in a few senses, even if trying to force English to feel Italic by refusing to end sentences with prepositions is dumb.
There's a bit of a circlejerk around this, especially whenever people first encounter the concepts and can then delight in correcting someone else's corrector; and indeed "the way the language has naturally evolved is wrong!" is silly... but having a standard (or a few) that is generally accepted as mellifluous and clear has some advantages too.
In other words, you can still point out non-standard usage or obvious mistakes -- as long as you accept that "well, all my friends say it that way" is valid. "We ensure the worst accidents" might be a worrisome threat or a comforting sales pitch, but if all the residents of Grammarville sometimes use "e" where "i" normally goes, more power to them.
What? I'm just trying to defend my comma-fucking tendencies? Uh... well... hey, so how about those prescriptivist losers in France, right? Ha ha!
because this is English and since when did that language decide on anything?
You can find auto-antonyms in many other languages (perhaps even all natural languages, though it's always risky to talk about universals like that).
It's one of those things that seems totally unintuitive, but actually makes a lot of sense if you think about it for a few minutes.
It's efficient coding.
Think of all the auto-antonyms you know and ask yourself how often you're actually confused about which meaning is being employed. Generally speaking, it's very rare.
The fact that the meanings are so at odds with one another actually means that it's usually very clear from context which sense is being used. There are very few contexts where the listener is going to hear the word and not know what it means because either meaning makes sense in that context.
Whenever context can reliably disambiguate like that, you can get a more efficient coding scheme by not redundantly disambiguating in the speech stream too.
I was brushing up on my language skills for a trip when I realized that Spanish has a TON of those. That, and words whose definition vary wildly depending entirely on the context.
Ideally, the word "autoantonym" would be an "autoantonym"; that might be kind of interesting since all words would then fall under one or the other definition. Alas, the reality is that "autoantonym" is autoantonym (itself), but is not "an" autoantonym?
I don't think that really fits the first definition OP gives. If you look at OP's link your sentence fits definition 3 or 4, but OP's first definition really is definition 7 in that link. Definitions 3/4 and 7 are not really the same.
That comment was referring to OP's first definition "To examine, study, supervise". In my second comment I explained that OP's first definition is the 7th definition in the link that he provided.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:18:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SmoSays ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:45:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, I'm from America. Perhaps it's a regional thing. Then again I do watch a fair bit of BBC programming and my top favorite books happen to be British. It is very likely that it has seeped through. I'm also really into Linguistics and Etymology. A lot of studying the English language involves, well, England.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
British here. Only use the second definition of overlook. I work as an editor and I'd flag using the first definition to mean 'examine' as an error, or change it to 'look over'.
: to look at or read (something) in an informal or relaxed way
: to examine or read (something) in a very careful way
SmoSays ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:51:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fun fact! It started off meaning to wear out completely, then moved to 'read carefully'. It wasn't until the 1800's where it decided to completely rebel and go the opposite way. I like to think this one fucker just decided to mess with people by using it the wrong way, but he was the Regina George of the era and as with the boob shirt, people just followed the trend.
That last bit isn't supported by anything, but it also hasn't been disproved so I'm just going to accept my little headcanon here.
English has phrasal verbs, where the meaning of some verbs changes when used with certain prepositions or adverbs.
It's particularly common with single-syllable words.
More examples (some may be specific to my Eastern Australian experience):
"Put up with" means "tolerate"; "I put up with a lot around here."
"Put up" means "provide accommodation for"; "He put up three backpackers for a week."
"Put out" means "have sex with"; "Did they put out?"
"Put upon" means "has a lot to deal with"; "She looks put upon, did something happen?"
"Put down" means "insult"; "Stop putting people down, are you that insecure?"
"Put forward" means "propose"; "She put forward some fantastic ideas."
"Put off" means "delay"; "When it was his turn to buy the beer, he always put it off."
There's a bunch more for "put", and that's just one word.
You can see examples of non-English phrasal verbs here.
This is one of those things that, as a native speaker, you may not ever notice. You figure out the meaning of phrases you come across without breaking them down, so the meaning gets across and you don't have to give up. Essentially, you grow into the habit of using them.
Fair enough. I guess I am not one of the few that uses the word in sense 2 1. I do use the the noun "overlook" in a sense more akin to "study, examine" though, as a "view from above" or "vantage point".
salawm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:31:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a congressional oversight committee. I have no idea whether they're seeing things missed or missing things seen.
Tommy84 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:26:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being down to do something is the same thing as being up for doing something.
"Are you up for a game of grabass later?"
"yeah, I'm down."
Words like that are called contronyms because they have two contradictory meanings. Cleave is another one; it can mean to cling together or split apart.
bensawn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:18:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
is this accurate? i know oversee means to supervise, but i have never heard anyone say they are "overlooking" something in a supervisory capacity
SmoSays ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:45:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember once in 6th grade I got an "outstanding work report". Looked at and thought, man, I never do my homework. What a surprise that they think my work is outstanding. Showed it to my mom and she was furious. It took me about 15 minutes to realize that it mean that I had outstanding assignments, not that I had done outstanding work.
SmoSays ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:21:43 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was getting quite a lot of the same questions/responses. First, a lot of people were informing me what these types of words were. So, for the curious who didn't want to scroll through 100 replies, I put it up top on mine. Then I had quite a few people doubt my definitions, so I cited a source. Still I had more people baffled that people use the first definition. Finally, many people pointed out my awkward wording so I clarified.
1-3 are in order. The reason 4 is up there is because that's where it is relevant. If I put it at the bottom, people who had read and misunderstood the weird wording would've had to endure their confusion all the way to the bottom. Plus I'm an agent of chaos.
There's only one 3??????? Oh I see what you mean. In Edit 4 when I say 'edit 3' I am referring to the third edit.
I'm saving up my karma for retirement, so no profit.
I'm not surprised you don't reddit good. I don't believe your username for one second. You are a cat. Cats are ON reddit, but not as members.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:14:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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I'm with you brah! I always thought it was weird that when football players' contracts are coming to an end, they can resign (as in, sign again) or resign (as in, quit entirely).
It took me way too long to realize that you meant that "overlook" is the opposite of "overlook." I though you literally meant that "overlook" is the opposite of "itself." I was seriously trying to work out how that was possible
apepi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:44:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Another funny word is ineffable. Describes a word that cant be described.
In the traditional sense of the term, Sweden is/was a third-world country.
(Third world countries originally referred to countries that did not align with either the US or USSR but later became associated with developing countries.)
radome9 ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 13:14:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't buy wine or spirits today because it's Sunday. So sweden is a third world country.
dpash ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 13:33:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Literally unplayable. :P
00yoshi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:39:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats because the Soviet union and its allies fell decades ago (not including North Korea which is essentially an absolute monarchy anyway), and the words have completely changed meaning
Circra ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 09:24:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More that the non-aligned countries were routinely used to fight proxy wars between two powers that didn't dare fight each other directly cos of nukes......
Don't know why you're getting downvoted. I just watched a short memoir on the situation in Sweden are you're exactly correct. The refugee crisis in that country is going to destroy it. They have over 50 (read FIFTY) areas that citizens are not allowed to go. The police do not even go there because it's so bad. It's total chaos in certain areas.
TLDR: The faster you move relative to an external observer, the faster you go through time, relative to them. Everything experiences time at different rates, it just so happens that we are all moving at more or less the same speed, and affected by the same gravity - so our experiences are very close.
In a nutshell, Interstellar is actually just as science fact as it is fiction.
The most mindblowing thing for me is: If you were to fall into a supermassive blackhole (back to the hold, front to the rest of the universe), you would more or less see the birth and death of millions of stars and galaxies as you hurtle towards the end of the universe. You would see stars spread out more and more as the universe expands. You would probably see trillions of years worth of the universe, in mere moments for your own experiences.
And then you would die (but assuming no other human ever dies in a black hole, for the rest of time, you are assured the Guinness world record for oldest living human being; thrashing the previous record by a solid trillion billion years or whatever -- given that from Earth's perspective, you will still be alive and on the event horizon long after the death of our galaxy, let alone sun).
And, since the Cubs won:
Women got the right to vote
The titanic was built
Sliced bread was created
Chocolate chip cookies were invented
Radio was invented 5 4 states were admitted to the union
Edit:
Nearly everyone was born, including Harry Carey (So, he never saw his beloved team win it all.).
Also corrected states.
Edit 2:
Yes, nuclear bombs, space shuttle, lasers and the titanic sinking, but OP asked about what sounds wrong, but is correct. I doubt anyone is surprised we went to the moon after the cubbies won.
The Nintendo company was almost 20 years old.
JetsLag ยท 4146 points ยท Posted at 03:57:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
5 states were admitted to the union
Even better: Since the Cubs last won the World Series, Arizona became a state, got an MLB team, and that team won the World Series.
It's like Tailor Swifts says, "Haters gonna hate, so shake it off"
mashtato ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 06:11:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Game seven, bottom of the ninth, bases loaded. Base hit, Luis Gonzalez! Suck it, Yankees!
Eylsii ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 06:27:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a blooper! The diamondbacks have done it! They have won the World Series. I was 9 and I still remember that day.
mashtato ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 06:30:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was thirteen, and we tried calling my grandma who lives in AZ for 10 minutes before the call finaly went through. I guess everyone in the country had the same idea.
Whatever. In season four of the Simpsons (often referred to as the last truly great season) in the episode Homer the Heretic God asks Homer if St Louis still has a football team. Homer responds "No, they moved to Phoenix." Since then the Rams moved to St Louis, decided they didn't like it, and left.
A lot of the fans are from outside of it anyway. The Cubs are the tourist team.
glberns ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:56:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Cubs were one of the first teams to be broadcast nationally. This created a wide fanbase across the country.
And it's not like they've been horrible for 107 years. They've been in the championship series a couple times, been in the semifinals twice in the last 15 years (last year), and been in the playoffs many more times. They've been considered the one of the best teams in baseball several years (1969, 2003, 2008, 2016).
Each time they get close, it's incredibly exciting. I'd argue it's more exciting to almost end the 100+ year drought than to win for the 5th time in a decade. This spurs another generation of fans.
Further, baseball is a very nostalgic game. It's a huge part of American culture and history. The Cubs were one of the charger members of the first professional baseball league. They're playing in the second oldest stadium in the MLB (Boston is 3 years older). Some of the most famous moments in baseball happened there (Babe Ruth's called shot).
Combine the history, with getting so close to winning it all, with passing down the traditions between generations and we have a great fanbase.
The thing that still surprises me is sliced bread being "invented" in 1928, I always thought the phrase "Best thing since sliced bread" was just a saying for something really stupid and obvious
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:59:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've heard something about chopping up bread in the French Revolution so they couldn't hide messages in it...
We have a greater chance of landing a rover on the surface of another planet than the cubs do at winning another world series. The Cubs might wanna start looking into scouting/trading rovers than players. Maybe they'll win.
Radio was invented prior to that broadcast radio was invented the year after.
robmox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:52:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Chocolate chip cookies were invented
It never before occurred to me that chocolate chip cookies had to be invented. Yet, in 1938 is the first recorded recipe for the cookie. Damn, history. You never cease to amaze me.
Not only was the Titanic built: The Titanic was built, set sail, sank, was lost for 73 years, was rediscovered, had a feature film made about it which will turn 20 years old this season; and the poor Cubbies still don't look all that good for this year.
Nintendo was founded the same year that Hitler was born.
Erilaz ยท 103 points ยท Posted at 06:26:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Coca Cola Company and the Wall Street Journal were also founded, the inauguration of the Eiffel Tower was that year, and modern pizza was invented. North and South Dakota, Montana, and Washington also become U.S. States. 1889 was a busy year.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 10:03:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Erilaz ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 11:03:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Focaccia is technically pizza, but that's certainly not what comes to mind when people say they want pizza. There were a lot of things that were similar to what we think of as pizza before pizza was a thing, and I used the term "modern pizza" because a lot of people argue that those other things were pizza too, just not the modern version of it.
uberdice ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 10:21:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IIRC, similar foodstuffs were found in Pompeii.
Mr-Korv ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:04:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Without tomato sauce, yes. Tomatoes are from South America (along with potatoes, peppers, tobacco, avocados, etc.). What did the Italians do before the 1600s?!
My coworker is a huge Cubs fan so I have been looking this shit up the last few days.
Radio was invented; Cub fans got to hear their team lose.
TV was invented; Cub fans got to see their team lose.
Baseball added 14 teams; Cub fans got to see AND hear their team lose to more teams.
George Burns celebrated his 10th, 20th, 30th, 40th, 50th, 60th, 70th, 80th, 90th and 100th birthdays.
Haleyโs Comet passed Earthโฆ twice.
Harry Caray was bornโฆ and died. Incredible, but true.
The NBA, NHL and NFL were formed, and Chicago teams won championships in each league.
Man landed on the moon, as have several home runs given up by Cubs pitchers.
Sixteen US presidents were elected.
There were 11 amendments added to the Constitution.
Prohibition was created, and repealed.
The Titanic was built, set sail, sank, was discovered, and became the subject of major motion picturesโฆ the latter giving Cub fans hope that something that finishes on the bottom can come out on top.
Wrigley Field was built and becomes the oldest park in the National League.
A combination of 40 summer & winter Olympics have been held.
Thirteen baseball players have won the Triple Crown; several thanked Cubs pitchers.
Bell bottoms came in style, went out of style, and came back in style.
The Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Florida Marlins have ALL won the World Series.
The Cubs played 14,153 regular-season games; they lost the majority of them.
Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Oklahoma, and New Mexico were added to the Union.
The Titanic one is by far my favorite.
Edit: since this was so well received... Let me add something else
As last time too, i added a few others that aren't on that list. Unfortunately, it's like 5 am and in at work so i don't have them. I will one day have the whole new list up for everyone.
I smirked when my uncle's new wife brought up the Cubs and I said a woman's right to vote was more recent than a Cub's World Series win. (This coming from a Cubs fan who openly accepts over a century of failure, but enjoys historical sports/rights jibes, too).
Hanchan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:35:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ice cream cone was less than 10 years old when the Cubs last won a World Series.
That also means that Warner Bros. is older than Turkey.
Ecmelt ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:18:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of things are older than Turkey. A good example is how my grandmother was same age as my country my both grandfathers were older than it. I am 26 years old now and my uncle/aunt are just a few years younger than the country.
It is kinda sad to think we are losing the last people that have witnessed our independence war but it is also kinda cool.
One last thing, most great grandfathers (or grand grandfathers at max.) picked the surname for their family as it did not exist pre-republic. My grandfathers could ask questions like why did you pick this stupid surname waaa if they wished so as kids (ofc that didnt happen :P)
Radio was invented; Cub fans got to hear their team lose.
TV was invented; Cub fans got to see their team lose.
Baseball added 14 teams; Cub fans got to see AND hear their team lose to more teams.
George Burns celebrated his 10th, 20th, 30th, 40th, 50th, 60th, 70th, 80th, 90th and 100th birthdays.
Haleyโs Comet passed Earthโฆ twice.
Harry Caray was bornโฆ and died. Incredible, but true.
The NBA, NHL and NFL were formed, and Chicago teams won championships in each league.
Man landed on the moon, as have several home runs given up by Cubs pitchers.
Sixteen US presidents were elected.
There were 11 amendments added to the Constitution.
Prohibition was created, and repealed.
The Titanic was built, set sail, sank, was discovered, and became the subject of major motion picturesโฆ the latter giving Cub fans hope that something that finishes on the bottom can come out on top.
Wrigley Field was built and becomes the oldest park in the National League.
A combination of 40 summer & winter Olympics have been held.
Thirteen baseball players have won the Triple Crown; several thanked Cubs pitchers.
Bell bottoms came in style, went out of style, and came back in style.
The Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Florida Marlins have ALL won the World Series.
The Cubs played 14,153 regular-season games; they lost the majority of them.
Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Oklahoma, and New Mexico were added to the Union.
What's even more amazing is this: at the point the Cub's last won the World Series, it had only been around 4 years. Since then 109 years have passed. If you were to scale that up, it would be like if the first modern World Series was played in 0 A.D.(*) and the Cubs last won in 71 A.D.
Vicinus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:08:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't it awesome that furniture once ruled a big part of the world?
BobXCIV ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:17:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The last time the Cubs won the World Series, China's last emperor ascended the throne.
AP246 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:47:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nearly every person currently alive was not at that time.
barosa ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:30:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not an expert in bird behaviour or being humane to animals, but I think you could get a better reaction by blaring an air horn non-stop. It would be fun to spend a lot of time very calmly guiding them to their seats and then just unleash the madness.
That doesn't sound extremely wrong, it sounds exactly like what you would expect to hear when seeing your first ostrich. The burring the head in the sand part sounds wrong, because it is.
Yeah it's like saying "Elephants aren't afraid of mice". How does it sound "extremely wrong"? The original trope you only ever see in cartoons is what sounds bullshit.
One time I went to this kind of "safari" place on a field trip, where they had animals just walking around and you'd ride the tour buggy right next to them and shit.
During the tour, an ostrich walks towards the buggy and all us middle school kids are like "Oh hey! An ostrich! :D"
Tour guide was like "EVERYBODY TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BUGGY, FAST!"
We're like "But it's just an ostrich! It's just a dumb giant bird! :D"
Tour guide shouts at us again to move to the other side and pulls out this huge hooked metal pole. Nobody listens and the ostrich gets closer and then fucking lunges at us on the buggy. This thing wants to fucking kill us. So we all scream and run to the other side of the buggy.
Then tour guide hops off the buggy and starts dueling this fucking ostrich with his metal pole. He tells everybody to get off the buggy and run like hell over to this area with a wooden plank floor. He says ostriches can't stand on wooden planks, so we'll be safe over there.
So we all run over to the planks while he seemingly fights this ostrich to the death and then once we were all safe, he slowly backs over towards the planks, with the ostrich following him.
And just as he said, the damn thing wouldn't stand on the wood. We had to stay there until he decided he was bored of trying to kill us and ran away.
Actually, this is just flat out wrong. They'll just fuck you up. No running involved unless they started really far away from you. Then they'll just fuck you up in a few minutes.
Jingy_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:14:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Thank you for calling the Australian complaint department, please leave your name and location , and an ostrich will be there shortly to fuck you up"
I was driving around an ostrich farm in a truck, and when we would stop, one ostritch would come up to try to eat the truck, another would see and soon hundreds of ostritches are pecking at this truck
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:09:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A cassowary always goes with plan b. -far cry 3 guy-
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:51:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, what a pretty bird! Is it shy? I think it is walking towards me? Wowie, it wants to be friends!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:35:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But every animal does that.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:52:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The entire time, I was thinking "he is gonna get sick of their shit really soon."
mike117 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:15:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm. Source: have been chased by an ostrich. I had a 200m head start and was 100m away from my house. It was close... REALLY close. Fuck ostriches.
For those curious, this misconception is about as old as Jesus. If it comes from anywhere other than an ancient Greek's ass, it from either the particular way they hunker down when threatened (from a distance maybe it looks like they've only hidden their head?) or because they're swallowing smooth beach pebbles to fill their gizzard.
cjh93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:30:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're ever in a situation where an Ostrich is going to attack you (it'll waggle its otherwise pointless wings and do a funny little dance at you), don't run. It will easily outrun you in a second. But also, you don't wanna stand there like an idiot. Ostriches have two toes, one hench one (massive - welcome to outdated UK slang part one) and one smaller one. Their main attack method is to kick out straight with one leg - which will reach about adult chest height and will easily pierce your breastplate.
What you wanna do is lie on the floor in a ball and cover your head as best you can. The Ostrich will run over you, stamping on you, for a while, and will then probably sit on you. After a few hours it will probably get bored and wander off. If you're lucky all you'll have is a few broken ribs or something, but you should live.
As an aside, I rode an Ostrich once! It was awesome!
vizzmay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:19:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You must be from a very specific part of California, as, through the geographical majority of the state, most people don't talk like that. Numbers-wise that may be a different story.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:40:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You don't pronounce the t's. You just shove a d in there and if it doesn't sound right, say it slower with another syllable. Repeat until you sound like freedom.
Am Iowan. That (more like "iddle iddle iddle" though) is exactly what it sounds like when I say it quickly, and I'm giggling now.
aeam513 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:06:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I guess I'm normally pretty good at tongue twisters to begin with, so I'm not the best candidate for trying them out. The Bob one below (Bob Loblaw Lobs Law Bomb) did trip me up though.
I did...and I burst out laughing as soon as I got to the first syllable of 'open'. I'm from the south...slurring sentences into words is basically an art form for us, but this one takes the cake.
Oh nice, I usually say "twiddle it a little", and am glad am not the one that has noticed (not that it's hard) and enjoyed this particular alliteration assonance.
The hotter daughter taught her what the water otter ought to.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:51:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jigalidilidilitllopen
JIGALIDDIL3OPEN
Ziff7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:02:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is my new favorite sentence because I said it like 4 times before I had it rolling off my tongue so fast that my wife spit coffee everywhere laughing hysterically at me. Totally worth it.
Freihl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:02:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jig a lit ltl open dad help
edditme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:36:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm on a plane and said it. I got slapped by the girl sitting next to me :(.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:59:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Something similar that drives me crazy is saying "that that" in a row, in a sentence. And its grammatically correct. I didn't know this for the longest and have been correcting people the entire time. ๐ถ
Yes. As a native speaker (who happens to have a degree in English), I do not understand this sentence. I taught English as a second language briefly, and we stressed that it doesn't matter so much that you memorize and follow a bunch of technical grammar rules, but that you are able to be understood. "Proper" grammar and pronunciation are class markers to some extent. But for some people, "grammar" becomes just a set of rules to neurotically obsess over and/or judge others when they don't follow.
Reminds of something I heard once in German class - past tense verbs end up at the end of a sentence so there are various jokes about professors going on runaway sentences that last a whole lecture and just end with a 10 minute string of unrelated verbs.
[deleted] ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 03:39:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ich habe schon seit vielen Jahren bei meinen Deutschstunden an das, was du gerade gesagt hast, gedacht.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:09:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh German. Spent a whole year learning the language while living in Germany and still get so confused.
TM4rkuS ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 09:02:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For a second I was confused why this would be confusing. Sounded way too natural. But yeah, it actually is the same thing. With the difference that we at least try giving it some structure by introducing commas... and fail terrifically.
Skulder ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:42:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
..... I have, for many years, during my lessons on german, what you just said, thought of?
lippert ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 05:54:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He just kept talking in one long incredibly unbroken sentence moving from topic to topic so that no one had a chance to interrupt, it was really quite hypnotic.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 08:36:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am sure that a clever German politician can manage a cool rethoric effect like making everybody believe he's saying A and at the last word change it to B
Writer Franz Kafka made extensive use of this actually. He wrote in long sentences, with the exact meaning of each sentence only becoming apparent at the end of it.
This is actually a problem for translations of his works, because the same effect can't easily be achieved in other languages.
Kac3rz ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 13:10:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a running joke about German philosophers - their works are hard to understand, because they would write a single sentence two pages long and end it with "...nichts".
Oh, bei mir ist der Satz im Kopf anders geendet...
Wenn du denkst du denkst, dann denkst du nur du denkst, ein Mรคdchen kann das nicht - schau mir in die Augen und dann schau in mein Gesicht
Shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi.
Oh, thanks !
I thought he realized mid-sentence that he wrote bison instead of buffalo, but had no time to correct himself so he kept going and tried to write a repeated pg-18 version of 'shit shit shit shit'.
Fรฅr could mean "get" or "receive", here in the meaning "beget", as well as "sheep" or "mutton".
So, it's "[Do] sheep [be]get sheep? No, sheep [do] not [be]get sheep, sheep [be]get lambs". Word order is different in Scandinavian languages, so it's literally "[be]get sheep sheep? No, sheep [be]get not sheep, sheep [be]get lambs."
Shi is a chinese poem about a man who bought and ate ten stone lions in his stone den, and it is made up of around 50-60 uses of different variations of the word.
liamera ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:10:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're actually all different characters, and some of those characters are really parts of other words (e.g. 2 characters) that have been abbreviated to one character. It reads really awkward and confusing even to native chinese speakers.
They look like the same word to us, because some of them are pronounced the same (various tonal pronunciations of "shi"), but they look and are as different as the words "through" and "threw" do in english.
Amadan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:59:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depends. ไบ in Beijing dialect is pronounced shรฌr (ไบๅฟ), for which "sure" in certain American dialects is a very close approximation. Pick another dialect or another "shi" and this very tenuous connection gets obliterated.
As an American, that is how I associated it ( mandarin) and seemed like the best way to describe it. Maybe "sherr" would be more appropriate? Correct me if I'm off, please
Also, it's in Cantonese. There's something similar I learned in my mandarin class, but it's a lot shorter.
barki33 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:18:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Cantonese one is different though, as some words (ไฝฟ for instance) are pronounced sai, not shi. Only the Mandarin version consists solely of 'shi'
Fun fact: any number of iterations of the word "buffalo" can be interpreted as a complete sentence, from the single imperative, "Buffalo!" being an instruction to bully someone.
Chinese poem consisting of "shi" in different tenses/meanings/with differing emphasis: shi shi shi...an so on. Like the English "buffalo buffalo..." But much longer.
Infinite recursion is a crucial component of language, and common to all languages. Yes, I've heard about Pirahรฃ, but there's good reasons to have doubts about the one guy who wrote about it.
I hadn't heard about Pirahรฃ but your bringing it up lead to me a couple of really cool Wikipedia articles. So thanks!
What was bothering me about it, though, wasn't so much that the sentence was "infinitely recursive" but that it would take you an arbitrarily long amount of time to get any information from it.
Something like "John's brother's house's door was red" seems different to me somehow. Right off the bat you at least know that you're talking about John. With my sentence you don't even know what the first thing is until you've finished with all of them. (And with yousef's you don't know which rat until much later in the sentence.)
kileel ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:31:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yay the halting problem and non-partial computability!
Adarain ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:28:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which is probably one of the reasons why in most languages, anything over three of those embeddings becomes unintelligible to speakers, even if it's grammatical on a technicality.
Amadan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:08:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Specifically center embeddings. It becomes intellegible (but still hard) as a left or right embedding (e.g. in Croatian or Japanese):
Slad je pojeo ลกtakor kojeg je ubila maฤka koju je ganjao pas.
I don't think I could use that "had the teacher's preference" construction in my dialect of English. I've never heard anyone say something like that at least. Do you mind if I ask (broadly) where you're from?
I've always seen that degenerate sentence as "James, while John had had 'had', had had 'had had'; 'had had' had impressed the teacher more."
ravia ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:20:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's how it was shown to me. I had had no "preference" regarding said construction. Seeing it now it appears to be correct, although in the context it would appear to be more a matter of correctness and not mere preference, although a teacher could reasonably and meaningfully be impressed by a correct construction, which, it is true, would also be preferred, but to say a teacher prefers correct grammar is almost redundant, one might say. The grammar itself appears to me to require such a construction when it is to be used, based, of course, on the situation in which it arises. But a teacher certainly could be impressed by a student's being correct where this is not thought to be likely.
Huh, U.S. here too. I'd say that the teacher had the teacher's preference. What James said could be preferred. But the holder of a preference is the only person who could have that preference. ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ
ravia ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:01:39 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The person who told me that had gone to college around 1920. It may be an older construction/idiom.
zenthr ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 04:16:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's one which is difficult to deconstruct into its actual meaning (at least if you read it- with speech there are of course additional cues). In this case, the portion, "the old man" misdirects you into thinking of an old man, which is NOT the subject in the sentence.
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is also grammatically correct. It means, "Bison from Buffalo, which bison from Buffalo bully, themselves bully bison from Buffalo."
[deleted] ยท 134 points ยท Posted at 02:16:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Isn't the verb "buffalo" obscure enough for it to no longer be considered a valid sentence?
EDIT: I Google Ngramed "buffaloed" and found that its usage has spiked tremendously since the 1970's; however, only in historical fiction and glossaries.
MangoPDK ยท 279 points ยท Posted at 02:49:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like it's kept alive solely by this example.
HankF89 ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 03:28:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a name for words like that, that are kept alive simply because of one use. Words like "ruth" from "ruthless." I've had too much wine to either look up the term myself, or come up with more examples.
The example "buffalo" would be a fossil word, as it only exists within a single idiom. "Ruth" would be a bound morpheme, seeing as it is a "root word" which only exists presently when paired with certain suffixes or prefixes.
HankF89 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:59:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes! "Fossil word" was the term. Thank you, and u/Kaeysa
derleth ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:07:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Linguists are morpheme addicts, and will go to great lengths for affix.
This hasn't made sense until just now for me.
Buffalo- city of
buffalo- bison
buffalo- bother
The Buffalonian bison that Buffalonian bison bother, themselves also bother Buffalonian bison.
Buffalo(city) buffalo(animal) [that] Buffalo(city) buffalo(animal) buffalo(bother), [they themselves also] buffalo(bother) Buffalo(city) buffalo(animal).
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
Ah but this is not multiple centre embedding. It's actually an usual kind of garden path sentence, in which a word plays a role different from the expected one.
E.g.
'The old man the boat'
'The horse raced past the barn fell'
b1sh0p ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:34:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Omelette Du Fromage
rugtoad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:17:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also grammatically correct under the premise that another name for Internal Affairs is "Police-police", and there is another department responsible for monitoring them...and you can probably sort out what their name would be.
sirin3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:30:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
These are the things that break an English-learning AI
Now four beers in, it still doesn't make sense. Is it the cat, that killed the rat, that the dog chased, that ate the malt? It still doesn't make sense to me.
The rat ate the malt. The cat killed the rat. The dog chased the cat.
The rat ate the malt. The rat, the cat killed, ate the malt. The cat, the dog chased, killed the rat. The rat, the cat, the dog chased, killed, ate the malt
Yours has commas though that makes it much easier to read lotsa sentences look awkward without commas. My brain broke trying to comprehend op's sentence.
Or: The dog chased the cat that killed the rat that ate the malt.
ThVos ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:50:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it helps you to break it up like that for understanding, why not? But that's not how English commas work, strictly speaking.
Karufel ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 09:49:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because strictly speaking english commas don't have any use. They are up for the writer to decide whether or not to use them.
Are there actually any rules when you have to use commas?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:28:02 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone else is just down-voting you and not answering. You are wrong though, there are rules for commas. Google it!
In this case, it seems more like that the rules of grammar are incorrect. Why would grammar, an invented structure used to describe language, ever produce something un-understandable, or that makes sense to no one?
It's not the fault of the grammar, which has a number of completely valid, perfectly comprehensible uses. The mistake would be with whoever composed such a sentence without taking into account its ambiguity.
Even very standard grammar is fraught with these potential potholes, only we typically go to a lot of effort to avoid them. One great example of this the gymnastics most of us perform without thinking when using pronouns. For example, say we were to talk about a male dog, there are two major pronoun forms we could use, the impersonal, it, and the gendered, he, and which of these we choose would change depending on whomever or whatever the dog was interacting with. For a human male, we would use it ("it bit him" vs "he bit it"); human female, either ("it/he bit her" vs "she bit it/him"); and a venus fly trap, he ("he bit it" vs "it bit him"). Just because we could theoretically choose not to perform this adaptation and produce sentences that are impossible to fully parse ("he bit him" and "it bit it") doesn't mean the underlying grammar is incorrect. It may be limited, say compared to a different, more flexible language (like, in the case of disambiguating the above scenario, Navajo, which has separate inflections for humans, non-human animals, and non-animal objects), but that still doesn't make it incorrect.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 07:28:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:27:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not understandable, it's explainable. Nobody could hear that sentence spoken out loud and understand it without having it explained.
B would describe that better. However, A could also describe that. A may not be the best way to phrase it but the way I look at it it's not necessarily implying that a dead rat ate the malt.
As I re-read it over and over I realize that it, A, can be interpreted both ways.
Makhiel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:58:19 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's about what's likelier, I don't think any syntactic rule works 100%.
Whenever things like this come out it pisses me off. If nobody understands a sentence and it takes 8 steps to explain it, then sure it may follow the structure of an English sentence, but it's still a garbage sentence that isn't correct English because nobody knows what the fuck it means. Same with that Buffalo bullshit. Repeating the word Buffalo 7 times only means something if you've already looked up what the word Buffalo 7 times in a row means. If nobody understands a sentence, then we shouldn't consider it grammatically correct, it's just a shitty anomaly because languages evolve, they aren't designed.
Actually, with certain inflection this sentence sounds natural, if you slightly pause after 'rat', 'chased', and 'killed', while saying 'the cat the dog chased' as one term, it sounds correct.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know it's gonna sound pretentious, but did no one else do this exercise in school? Complex sentences? Subject predicate? Compound-complex?
Fuck yeah it sounds confusing, and in practical use no one would use that sentence, but is it really that mind blowing to pick apart if you think about it for 30 seconds?
It's easier if you use "incorrect" commas (though the point of a comma is to clarify otherwise dubious sentences; that of which, this exactly is). "The rat, the cat, the dog chased, caught, ate the malt."
This is actually a point of huge contention. You would be hard-pressed to overestimate how much has been written on the grammaticality of center-embedded sentences.
The older (which is not to say unpopular today), Chomskyan view is that these sentences are "grammatical" in an abstract sense, but that humans lack the computational resources to resolve the dependencies once you get to three (or possibly more) embeddings, resulting in very low acceptability ratings.
Essentially, the idea is that there's some part of your linguistic system that can in principle produce these things, but somewhere between that part and your linguistic input/output systems (your mouth or ears), there's some kind of bottleneck.
This ended up being a very influential idea and center-embedding is still the primary motivating example people use when explaining it.
You end up having to propose something like that if you want to propose the kind of extremely minimal structure-building operations that are supposed to form the core of modern Chomskyan syntax - you have to build a wall in your theory between grammaticality and acceptability and say that, even though humans can't process the sentences, they would be grammatical if humans could.
The problem you run into is that that's a pretty thoroughly untestable hypothesis. It also implies a pretty strong and almost certainly incorrect assumption about human brains having pools of computational "resources" to run out of in a way analagous to a Von Neumann computer.
In the last couple of decades, there's been a lot of pushback against the idea of separating grammaticality and acceptability like that - it turns out you can still write very parsimonious theories (albeit very different-looking ones) without assuming that kind of really minimal grammar that sits somewhere prior to processing constraints. A lot of modern researchers would tell you that sentences with three or more center embeddings just aren't actually "grammatically correct".
Another fun thing about center embeddings is that if you take out one of the verb phrases (e.g., "The rat the cat the dog chased ate the malt."), acceptability often doesn't change, even with only double center-embeddings.
Reminds me of "Buffalo buffalo, Buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo Buffalo buffalo", which would actually make a pretty good anti-bullying PSA.
ArMcK ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:38:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
While it may count as proper English (a point I'm not willing to concede--I believe it needs two commas), it is not good English. This is because its meaning is so obfuscated.
Saoren ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:06:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the other sentences make quite a bit of sense honestly although this one seems to be a case of being only technically correct. part of the reason is many of them utilize multiple meanings of words, or utilization as different parts of speech. as an example
the complex houses married and single soldiers and their families
may seem odd because the portion [complex houses] can be read as an adjective and a noun, as opposed to a noun and a verb. the correct way to read it could be illustrated by rewriting it for clarity:
married and single soldiers (and their families) are housed by the complex
[the] buffalo from buffalo, that buffalo from buffalo, buffalo (used with the meaning "to confuse or mystify") [in turn] buffalo (again used as a verb) buffalo from buffalo.
if we used different words to express a similar sentence, for the sake of more clarification:
the people from newyork that people from newyork talk to, also talk to people from newyork
the problem i have with the one you mentioned is that it appears too unclear even when parsed. it seems that it utilizes the same rule as a subject being resented such as:
the mouse the cat hunted.
or if extended into a sentence:
the mouse the cat hunted fled
the primary issue im seeing with the sentence you stated was that the ordering now becomes unclear whenever referring back to the nouns present.
so if we go back the the first subject i presented, and add a dog, this is produced:
the mouse the cat the dog hunted
the main problem here is that while the cat is meant to be hunting the mouse, "the dog" is now implied to be the hunter and the cat is left with no understood relation to anything. if we add the term "fled" like before to complete the sentence:
the mouse the cat the dog hunted fled
this isnt alleviated. its still seemingly implied that the only two nouns that have any relation to one another are the dog and the mouse. the subject of the sentence is referring to a mouse primarily, affected/given relation to specific cat and a specific dog. so getting to the sentence you provided:
the rat the cat the dog chased killed ate the malt
at this point there appears to be quite a few specific issues when parsing the sentence. when reading "chased" its implied it occurs to the rat as its the primary noun being addressed in the sentence. an action that isn't occurring either to it or by it, without additional specification appears odd. etc
this sentence may be grammatically correct but again, seems to be in a way that is primarily technical rather than actually logical. the other sentences can be understood directly as they are presented primarily as confusing but primarily utilize aspects such as homophones.
James, while John had had had, had had had had; had had had had a better effect on the teacher.
The idea is that two students wrote a paper. In it, James used the phrase "had had" at some point (i.e. I had had very little experience in mechanical work up until that point in my life), while John had only used "had". The teacher preferred James' "had had".
So, a more clear way to write the sentence might be:
James, while John had had "had", had had "had had". Therefore "had had" had had a better effect on the teacher.
Also - the old man the boat.
Here "man" is a verb and "old" is a noun mean the elderly.
No it's not grammatically correct, I don't care what anyone says.
That's just not English!
leAlexc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:41:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will Smith will smith
Will Will Smith smith
Xrsist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:48:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was doing inventory at a computer manufacturing company and kept our smaller anti-static bags in larger anti-static bags. Those were therefore anti-static, anti-static bag, bags. If I kept nesting them another two layers, I would have an anti-static anti-static anti-static anti-static bag bag bag bag.
This is making my head hurt. Because I'm bad at smartness, I'll do what I usually do in this situation: ask my wife (she's an English teacher).
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This was fairly easy to read as someone with a tendency to structure my sentences like that, the dog chased a cat that was chasing a rat and that fat ate the malt but was killed by the cat
Is it really grammatical, though? Sure it follows a rule someone made up, but nobody who reads that sentence understands what it means without explanation.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:21:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It might be constructed in a technically correct way, but it doesn't very clearly convey its intended meaning. If I were an editor and I came across a sentence like this I would rephrase it.
burf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:55:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Might be technically correct, but it's also bullshit and terrible communication.
Ceejnew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:55:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That that is is that that is not is not.
That that is, is. That that is not, is not.
istara ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
THE RAT | THE CAT | THE DOG CHASED | KILLED | ATE THE MALT.
\ \______________/ /
\ \__ Describes the cat /
\_____________________________/
\
\____ Describes the rat
So you can collapse the descriptions to make things more readable. Eg, collapsing the rat description gets:
THE RAT | --------------------------------- | ATE THE MALT.
\ /
\ /
\_____________________________/
\
\____ Describes the rat
And collapsing the cat description gets:
THE RAT | THE CAT | -------------- | KILLED | ATE THE MALT.
\ \______________/ /
\ \__ Describes the cat /
\_____________________________/
\
\____ Describes the rat
Soooo.... "The rat the cat the dog the man the cow the fly the woman killed stung licked petted chased killed ate the malt" is also grammatically correct? It may be correct, but it's so much easier to understand in the form
"The dog chased the cat that killed the rat that ate the malt"
Cbasg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:07:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I made a story out of this method:
The five passengers the car the train the crate the box the fox was in was in was on hit carried were killed.
[deleted] ยท 7078 points ยท Posted at 01:26:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Most people have an above average number of arms
Edit: Waking up to 61 replies is kind of scary
For people still lost, it's dubious semantic trickery, taking 'most' to mean mode and 'average' to mean mean, which is why using mean is often a bad idea
Nope, below. When you receive a kidney transplant, they don't remove the weakened kidney, they just slip the extra into your pelvis. There are people with 3 kidneys, which they often receive from people who die immediately thereafter, so the number of living people with 3 kidneys outnumber the people with only 1.
There are also a lot of live kidney donors, and also people who are born with only one kidney or have one removed because of cancer. I would think these people outnumber the living transplant recipients.
Not really. In the US & EU there are plenty of people who donate kidneys and live, but even with excellent healthcare their lifespan is notably shortened.
However in the most populous regions in the world, namely Asia and Africa, almost nobody donates. Most people receive kidneys and other organs from people who are dying or are going to die.
Elzuria ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:32:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My son was born with only one kidney.
Elzuria ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:32:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My son was born with only one kidney.
OskarCa ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:29:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about people with multiple transplants? An old friend had a transplant, her body rejected it after a few years then she got another one. Would she then have 3 on one side (for a total of 4)?
They typically remove the rejected organ. The problem is that removing an organ like the kidney is very delicate, and when you're already sick from kidney problems surgeons would rather not risk it if it's not going to do any harm.
In the case of a rejected organ, however, the immune system will attack and destroy the alien organ that is still consuming nutrients. Needless to say, your immune system trying to devour one of your organs is detrimental to your health.
They might know it, depending on how large it actually is. Maybe when they were born the first thing the nurse said was "Holy Shit! Doctor, come look at this!"
Considering the only way this could happen is if this person has horrific splenomegaly, he/she probably has a fairly good idea they're a candidate for the title.
A friend of mine has a rare genetic disorder where his spleen doesn't break down old platelets from his blood. He went in for surgery to have it removed and they found he had two spleens. Anyway the one they removed was like 40 lbs, pretty sure he had the record at that time.
edditme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:34:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So the average number of testicles is somewhere around .9-.95 testicles?
pomom ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 07:31:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
According to Google, there is 1.01 males to every female. Cryptorchidism is found in about 1% of males, so about ~34 million males have a single testicle. Polyorchidism's effects are negligible with around 200 cases worldwide reported in humans.
So the average number of testicles is close to like, .9925 testicles, yeah.
EDIT: Testicular cancer is not common; a manโs lifetime chance of getting it is about 1 in 263. Roughly 13 million men have testicular cancer and the first option is generally orchiectomy. We can assume that about 12 million have had at least one testicle removed. The average is closer to .996.
That is highly unlikely. The median is the value of the result in the middle of the set when sorted in a list by value. You would need a lot of 0 to 1 armed people to push one of those 1 arm results up to the middle of the list.
Well over 50% of the population would need to have less than two arms.
I think he means his teacher taught it was [0 1 2], out of which the median is 1, instead of the actual very long list you would need to actually figure it out.
The median, like the mode, has to be an actual number from the set. It is unlikely that the middle value from the set will be a result of less than two, unless my wild guess at the number of people missing arms is off by a lot.
The median, like the mode, has to be an actual number from the set
What if there is an even number of items in the set? It was always my understanding that you would take the mean of the two 'medians', meaning that it is not necessarily an actual number from the set. Could be wrong though.
(By the way, I know that in this case it would still be 2, I'm just curious)
Yeah nah that's not how I was taught. Sorry that your local vernacular is different to mine, guess that makes me wrong. What's the point of a word that can mean 3 different things in the exact same context?
This pretty much proves my point. Average is used as a name for the arithmetic mean. Mean, mode and median are all measures of Central tendency, not average.
danstu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:42:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Either your math teacher shouldn't be teaching math, or you weren't paying attention. It's not a matter of regional differences. All three are types of averages. It's like how you can look at a Model T parked next to an Tesla and call them both cars. The word car can literally mean hundreds of different things in the same context, because it's a generic term for every different make and model ever produced. Would you say there's no point to the word car?
No, they're all measures of Central tendency. And no, it's not like that. In the context 'car' is used, it has enough information, but in the context 'average' is used, your definition does not have enough information. On average, aliens are 3m tall. That doesn't really tell you anything because the measurements could be
1m, 1m, 1m, 1m, 1m, 2m, 3m, 4m, 5m, 5m, 6m
Mean is 3m, median is 2m and mode is 1m. Saying 'average' in this context, which is commonly is, gives you no information because it could be mean, median or mode in your definition.
Wait, what? I don't understand this. What does this mean? Is the average less than two? Are we talking about "are born with" or "currently have"? I'm confused.
EkiAku ยท 129 points ยท Posted at 03:37:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is more likely to have 1 or no arms rather than 3. Most people have two arms, and while this is obviously the most common, it is not the average. Averages can be skewed by outliers, for example, an amputee. Since 2 is (almost always) the maximum, each person with 1 or no arms lowers the average to below 2.
EkiAku ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:47:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bodies are weird things. I assume there's someone out there that got the arm lottery.
Boomy2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:17:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it was a penis joke...
PlayMp1 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:48:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The issue is the ambiguous definition of average. The median number of arms is 2, so you could say the average number is 2. Same goes for the mode. The mean number of arms is somewhere under 2.
Normal people have 2 arms. Now aside from that, what's more common; people with only 1 to 0 arms, or people with 3+ arms? Definitely the 0-1 group... So basically the average number of arms on a person is probably like 1.99 or something. So if you have 2 arms, you technically have more than the average.
Let assume every 1000th person has lost one arm. That means, that for every 1000 man there are 1999 arms, so statistically speaking there are 1999/1000 arms per person on average, so the average person in our example has exactly 1.999 arms. If you happen to have 2 whole arms, then you are slightly above average.
f3riah ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 02:52:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was taught from as far back as i can remember that average and mean were congruent. Median was always its own thing.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 08:07:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some people don't understand math. They also downvoted you.
bozur ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:50:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know why you both are being so condescending, but this is exactly why other averaging operators exist - if I say that I have an average number of hands, you'd get that I have 2 hands, not 1.9999999. As with most words, "average" has multiple definitions, not all of them synonymous with "mean".
Quite a lot of people understand math, they downvoted both of you
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 11:56:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Average literally means mean. It can never stand for median. If you do use it as such, you're using it wrong.
Basic math.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:30:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Average is commonly used to refer to various types of mean (arithmetic, harmonic, geometric, etc), as well as the median and mode, and occasionally the mid-range.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:49:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, you want to play that game? How many sites did you have to search before you found this?
Anytime average is correctly used in a mathematical concept, it stands for mean.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:07:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this maybe a regional thing? I studied math in the US Midwest. We clearly used "average" the way Merriam-Webster defines it (โa single value (as a mean, mode, or median) that summarizes or represents the general significance of a set of unequal valuesโ).
In fact, we avoided the word โaverageโ due to its ambiguity, preferring to explicitly talk about โmeasures of central tendencyโ to refer to a variety of types of averages.
As for Google, maybe it's because of my search history, but earlier I linked to the top result for โmathematical average.โ
Top result for 'average'. Stop acting like that's some obscure idea that nobody uses. If your teachers didn't bother to educate you on what average means, it's your loss, not mine.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:35:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But... If most people have two... that would be the average, right?
Gadion ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:10:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, because there are more people who have 1 than people who have 3.
Yes, but it depends which type of average. OP is taking about the mean, which is probably slightly less than 2.
Mean probably isn't a good way to measure the average number of arms. Median and mode both would be 2, which give a better picture of what a typical person looks like.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:53:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some people are amputees. If you average the number of arms over the whole population you'll get 1.999... arms per person. Thus most people have an above average number of arms.
Okay, after further reading I understand the reasoning, but it's bogus. You can't say the average number of arms is 1.9999999999, because a person can't have a non integer number of arms.
How can most people have an above average number of arms? Unless most people have three arms, which I find hard to believe, then most people have the average amount of arms.
And the average human has one breast and one testicle.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:06:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And eyes, probably testicles/ovaries (guessing industrial accidents and historectomy count beats out the odd third testicle or double-set of lady parts) kidneys, lungs, fingers & toes, etc.
Here is one I like to throw out to make people think; about half the population is of below average intelligence.
Rootner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:08:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have a prime number of arms.
Hddgvv ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:24:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do U know x amount of cunts don't have 3 or 4 arms
Which average? If you're actually doing this statistically correctly, you'd use the mode, not the mean. The mean is a silly average to use here, because it'll just be very nearly two, but not quite, when a mode of two makes much more sense.
Is this because most people have 2 but those few people who don't have 2 bring the average down to below 2?
Say there's 1000 people on earth with 2 arms and 100 with just 1 arm that'd bring the average down meaning that 1000 people have an above average amount of arms?
The word Data is actual plural, so you would have to say: "The data are." The singular form of data is actually datum. And even though I know this, I still can't bring myself to say it correctly.
EDIT: apparently now it can be used both ways
[deleted] ยท 2665 points ยท Posted at 03:57:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can talk about data as an indiscrete plural. Like dust, or Lego, or water.
At least, I think.
Data is/are beautiful, data points are beautiful, a datum is beautiful.
Edit: apparently indiscrete plurals are in fact called "collective nouns". Although indiscrete plural is a pretty good term for the inverse, when the collective is referred to as a plural, I.e. "Geese are dicks".
[deleted] ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 06:23:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Excellent summary. My original comment would have been much better if I knew the correct word for what I was talking about. Indiscrete plural is misleading because it's not really a plural, but that's what happens when you make up words on your own.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 06:56:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Family" is a good, relatable word that fits. I know that in Spanish, as well as English, "is" is the proper conjugation of the present tense of the "to be" verb (and both ser (es) and estar (esta con accento) en espanol).
Edit: "mi familia es simpatico" OR/O "mi familia esta al parque."
Nipso ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:59:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sports is the area I find the US/UK divide on this sounds weirdest. "Manchester United is shit these days" sounds so weird... and not just because I'm a '90s kid.
Tom_Rrr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:08:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure, but wouldn't that mean that you can't say "a datum"? You can't say "a water" or "a money".
You can say "a datum" like you can say "a dollar".
ddigby ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:47:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lego is a brand name. You can say Legos if you want, they're just afraid of going the way of Kleenexes. So feel free to decide whether you want to cooperate in their resistance toward diluting their trademark... or not. There isn't some technical or linguistic reason for it beyond that.
ddigby ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 07:05:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lego is a collective noun.
And, according to Adobe, "photoshop" should not be used as a verb. Both companies are trying to avoid their trademarks becoming genericized. Unfortunately for them, they don't get to dictate common usage of a living language.
HNPCC ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 07:37:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it must suck for Adobe's business when people use the name of their photo editing software as a verb referring to photo editing
Since I'd never heard that grammar term before, I Googled "indiscrete plural" and your post on a reddit page came up along with three grammar checking pages. I can't find discrete plural on those pages. I think you made this term up.
Yeah, this is correct. Data is beautiful...like, the entire class of that type of thing. If you're pointing at one set of data, then those data are beautiful.
Dust refers to the particulate matter as a whole, it's not a plural...
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:08:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If that were the case, "Data are beautiful" would be wrong. You can't say "rice are delicious, whater are transparent"... otherwise, your comment makes sense.
Also, if a text "contains data", what would a datum be anways? A character? But a single character doesn't contain any information and thus data at all...
Furthermore, "Datum" means "date" in German. I guess the origin of the (english) word "date" is actually "datum", the pronounciation and the meaning just changed over time, from "a single piece of infomation" to "a single point in time".
In German you differ. 'Die Daten' (data) and 'die Medien' (media) are always plural. But 'das Wasser' (water) and 'die Lego A/S' are singular because water is the name of a substance and Lego is the name of the company. If you want to refer to the lego piece then 'der Legostein' is the proper term.
edit: From the main thread, your comment shows up as a reply to the original post about data, not this sub-comment. Which is probably why you're getting downvoted because it appears that you're saying "I thought that data is plural and singular is datum" to a post that says "Data is a plural and the singular is datum"
[deleted] ยท 894 points ยท Posted at 04:00:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it hasn't already, sometime in the near future "data" will be both singular and plural. Like deer. Because datum just doesn't feel right to say, so no one says it, and what the majority of people say determines what words mean.
Much like how using a singular "they" is becoming widely accepted.
"They" has been used as a gender-neutral singular since at least the 1300s and only started being criticised in the 1800s. That's another rule like the pointless "don't end sentences with a preposition" that's artificial and being slowly reverted.
That's also where the "You shouldn't split an infinitive." rule comes from. I don't know how they thought it made any sense to apply to English from Latin when it's totally impossible to even do in Latin because an infinitive is a single word. The equivalent "error" in Latin would be stuffing an entire word in between the stem part of the infinitive word and its ending.
I'll demonstrate this with Spanish as it should show the issue with Latin.
Correct:
English: to move quickly
Spanish: mover rapidamente
"Incorrect":
English: to quickly move
Spanish: movrapidamenteer
They were pretty much pulling the rule out of their asses.
The equivalent "error" in Latin would be stuffing an entire word in between the stem part of the infinitive word and its ending.
You know, I wonder if that was ever done colloquially in Latin the way a word will sometimes be broken in half with another word inserted into the middle (usually an expletive) in English, or if that's an artifact of the Germanic habit of just piling extra words together to create new ones dynamically (not that Latin didn't sort of do the same thing (because that's kind of how language works in general anyways), but it did so to a much less extreme level).
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 10:01:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably no. Even in languages that actually allow for word composition (like Germanic and Uralic languages) you still don't splice the words and insert stuff in the middle. The composite words are made of complete, pre-existing words without any surgery.
The expletive infix is a pretty narrow case in English and is really only used for emphasis AFAIK. I doubt ancient Romans would be messing with the syntax of Latin that much, even colloquially.
I think the "abso-fucking-lutely" kind of thing isn't really seen outside of English. I know Norwegian doesn't do it, and if we do it's with English words in the middle.
It's one of those bullshit rules that teachers love to cling to. It's even more bullshit in this case because it's making the language clearer by helpfully playing the role of a word that doesn't fucking exist.
Ryzon9 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 14:49:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
No, it does not. Technically, it may, but in any communication with a native English speaker of North America or the UK, "it" is a dehumanizing way to refer to a person. It will be offensive, and not in a tumblerina super SJW manner of offense.
They, or "one" are the best accepted gender neutral pronouns across the English language. Certain groups and communities (and even individuals) may have their preferences for neutral pronouns, but the use of "they" is recognizable to almost all.
shapu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:21:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For what it's worth, both the ACT and SAT treat "they" and its pronouns and derivations as plural.
I remember being taught that ending a sentence with a word that is normally a preposition means that that word is actually acting as an adverb, so that rule is essentially meaningless because they aren't prepositions. That hadn't stopped my old college from going grammar nazi on it.
mbhtonks ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 05:22:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where did you get this info? I'm not doubting you, it's just that as a graduate student in English, I'd love to defend my bad writing habits with historical facts.
Say you're quoting an article from theverge.com. But that article doesn't have an author listed, so in your reference you just have to put The Verge. There's even a tickbox for Corporate Author in MS Word's references system. And I would consider them nebulous, because a faceless corporation is less accountable for something attributed to them than an individual author is for something they put their name on.
Sure. As a note, it's probably meant to be more for press releases and things, which is why I made the differentiation with nebulous corporate sources.
Shut the fuck up with this worn out meme and learn how to use a cited encyclopedia.
Wikipedia is more accurate than any print encyclopedia, and they are permissible for basic learning of simple subjects. If you want to do academic work, then you follow the sources or find reputable primary and secondary sources yourself.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:37:23 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was mocking English teachers, here, not Wikipedia.
The thing is, historically correct or not, during the eighteenth century "they" sat down and created a grammatical standard for the English language, so even though some things like double negatives and singular theys were in play at some point, they are no longer considered correct, so arguing for them is a moot point.
ETA: You don't have to like it, but grammar rules exist for a reason. If you don't like it, learn the rules and why we have them, then join the MLA and lobby to have them changed officially. I used to hate grammar until I learned something about it, and I love it. It's fun and really not as complicated as people like to think. Also, as a teacher, I work hard to teach proper grammar in formal writing. Regarding fiction or poetry, I think it's fine to make stylistic calls that break the rules if you know why you're breaking them and you're not just making sloppy mistakes. As for informal writing like in Reddit comments, do what you will; that's between you and the Internet.
I go by the books. Will our language someday officially recognize singular "theys" and whatnot? Sure. But until then, in formal writing, I want students to follow the rules.
guepier ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:24:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will our language someday officially recognize singular "theys" and whatnot?
It already has. Show me a grammar guide that forbids singular-they and Iโll show you one that allows/endorses it (in fact, here, have the lot). It helps that, despite what you seem to think, thereโs no โofficial grammar standardโ. There are collected standards, based on usage.
The MLA style manual is the one used for formal writing guidelines typically used in formal writing; it is on the cusp of being officially changed for all of the reasons mentioned in the wiki, but it has not yet been officially changed. I'm not trying to be a gatekeeper here; I'm just pointing out that until the official word is passed down from on high, teachers can choose to penalize students for using it incorrectly. There are ways to avoid using it incorrectly, so it's not even that big a deal.
And a lot of teachers penalize students for things that aren't incorrect. For example, while the serial comma is grammatically correct, so is not using the serial comma, but some people and some guidelines feel the former is what's correct or at least most correct and some people and some guidelines feel the latter is what's correct.
The Oxford comma debate. The Oxford comma is still correct and necessary for grace and clarity. It is the difference between inviting the "strippers, Johnson and Kennedy," and the "strippers, Johnson, and Kennedy." The debate began in the newspaper world, where every written character means money, and they decided that comma was unnecessary and cut it. Grammarians are not letting it go and it is still required for academic and literary writing. Fields using technical writing tend to ignore it, but it is still required in the actual field which sets the standards for actual writing.
Again, that depends on who you are asking. There are plenty of cases where not using the serial comma does not create ambiguity in context, and plenty of cases where using the serial comma does. In many cases a simple reordering of the list or rephrasing solves all ambiguity: "Johnson, Kennedy and the strippers" and "Johnson, Kennedy, and the strippers" are both perfectly clear.
And like I said, there are plenty of style guides and publications that use the serial comma (APA, MLA, Chicago, Oxford Style) and plenty that do not (Associated Press, New York Times, Cambridge Guide, Wall Street Journal).
I love grammar as well but I would recommend you take a linguistics course.
Linguistics is about spoken language. Grammar is primarily about written standards and formal speech. I have taken linguistics, advanced grammar, and history of the English language courses while working on my degree, and it stands that the MLA and others who set the standards for writing say it is necessary. Like I said before, it has been dropped in journalism because not using it saves space in print, and that space costs money. Journalists are not grammarians.
Calm down, dude. I was joking. Like I said, I'm a graduate student, currently writing my masters thesis. I follow and even quite enjoy these rules. Even you have to admit there are things you do in your writing out of habit that you always have to go back and correct--singular they is mine.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:53:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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tslc144 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 08:34:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The united states' is a bad example because it one whole unit of a country
weisen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:57:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Technically incorrect because the unit is the United States of America.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:37:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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weisen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:05:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was just pointing out that the entity is the United States of America, otherwise it just sounds like the states which are united. That form would sound fine in plural. To be honest, up here, we would say both form.
American English does suffer a bit from ambiguity when I talk with people from other languages who are used to having a more precise language (german, french, etc...)
tslc144 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:46:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not saying it's incorrect I just thought that it was a bad example. I personally would think of the united states of America as one object . I'm just saying better examples could be used to illustrate the point
weisen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:11:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're right. We're arguing over apples and apples. I don't have a better example on the top of my mind.
Where I come from, we would say both the United States is and the United States are and that would simply depend on the construction of the sentence.
tslc144 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:45:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fair enough I guess I'm just in that kind of argumentative mood today ;)
There are rules in place for collective nouns; if the word is acting as a unit, it is singular. If you are referring to individuals within the unit, it will be plural. It can sound super awkward because we're not used to hearing the proper usage of so many words. Basically, though, think of the prepositional phrase "members of." If you can add that, it's going to be referring to the individual units. It also works with subbing in plural pronouns.
The family (it) traveled last year. [The (members of the) family] / [they/we] are getting [their/our] lunches from different places.
There are no such rules. There are also clear regional differences. While treating collective nouns as singular is the norm in America, some speakers from European countries (including the UK) treat them as plural. Neither is "more correct," neither breaks some arbitrary rule because both are the natural tendencies of native speakers.
I posted the exact same thing elsewhere in this thread, but I find it really weird hearing sports teams referred to in the singular, e.g. "Manchester United is really shit these days".
I am referring to rules as prescribed by the MLA and taught in grammar manuals such as the Harbrace Handbook. Regarding natural tendencies, prescriptive grammar notoriously stomps all over those. In the eighteenth century or so, some learned scholars sat down and established all kinds of rules about grammar; not all of them are still in use, but this rule is still on the books.
I would not say "good," just not "natural." The standards are immensely helpful as without them language moves all over the place...it is why our language is so crazy. Here is a link with the collective noun rule for subject-verb agreement (#9): http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/subjectVerbAgree.asp
I would recommend asking a qualified linguist about the importance of prescriptive grammar rules. While I am not one, what I've gathered is that they are actually relatively unimportant in preserving the intelligibility and usefulness of language.
I am actually almost done with my degree in English and have taken many classes in advanced grammar, linguistics, and the history of the English language. Linguistics is fascinating, but the official prescriptive grammar rules do not change as quickly as spoken language. It takes a very long time to make most changes, again because without rules, the language would be all over the place. Having a standard for the written word is immensely useful as if we all learn the standard rules, it is easier to communicate via the written word. Try reading works in their original forms before they were edited for print from before the standards were imposed and you will find the same author not keeping to any set standard more often than not...so you can imagine it would get pretty confusing at times.
I agree that prescriptive rules are less subject to change than natural language. Also, they are useful in that they can allow a professional standard despite massive differences in dialect. However, I disagree with the claim that without prescriptive rules the language would be "all over the place." The language does not evolve more quickly than its native speakers. Divergent groups of speakers will remain largely intelligible to each other because in a modern setting they are in constant communication. Without such brilliant edicts as "thou shalt not end thy Sentence with a Preposition" and "Data is undeniably the plural Form of Datum," I assure you that the English language would resist catastrophic implosion.
Also, the written word is artificial and not, strictly speaking, language (or of linguistic significance). Orthographic standards are undeniably useful but not really part of this discussion.
Forsyte ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:31:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That last point is something I've never thought of.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:50:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not using prepositions at the end is pretty awkward in everyday speech but when formally writing, I find that using it in the middle or the end at certain situations makes for stronger writing.
I just wish we had a better gender neutral singular pronoun and a better 2nd person plural/ singular pronoun although I suppose ya'll works just fine. It should be used more than it is.
I'm not opposed to evolving language, but I hate the singular "they." I completely understand why people want to use it, but when I see posts like, "This child was interviewed by Oprah thirty years ago. Look at them now," I want to grab someone by the lapels and shake him.
Many people who use the singular "they" aren't doing it for political or ethical reasons. It's been around for longer than any of us. It's been passed down to many of us. And it is completely natural to most of us (who use it, although I don't know exactly how many people that is). You might want to waste your time being angry about other things, but that isn't my call.
I'm well aware of its history. I'm well aware of a good bit of history. I don't like all of history. Do you?
As for whether I waste my time, you're right; it isn't your call. At present, the College Board does not recognize the singlular they as correct. Therefore, I have to teach my students how to get more points on the SAT by avoiding it. That's not a waste of time in my book.
Oh, really? I don't remember "they" being on the reading section when I took it. It must not have been, considering I ended up with an 800. But you're right, in high school you're justified in teaching to a style guide. While I would be in favor of teaching kids both sides and when one side is expected (i.e., to avoid the singular "they" on standardized tests), that could be taking time away from more important lessons. I just don't understand why the use of "they" in a setting where style guides don't apply would cause anger.
I do teach the acceptability of the singular they in the culture at large. And as for your apocryphal 800 on the reading, grammar and usage have been tested on the writing portion of the SAT, a category that is now gone as of 2016, but that existed for the last 12 years or so.
As for anger, I'm sure your work to achieve an 800 involved some exposure to hyperbole. The fact that you seem to be unable to detect its usage might be worth investigating.
You caught me. 720 on writing. Maybe my use of "they" worked against me.
I understand that the use of the singular "they" likely does not send you into apoplectic spasms, but I still don't understand why it would be cause for significant annoyance. If it's just one of those irrational, inconsequential things, that's fine. I just got the impression that you were among those campaigning for the exclusively plural use of "they," which I can't understand.
By the way, I started this conversation with a hostile tone. Sorry about that. If it does continue further, I want to be clear that I don't mean to be rude. The rest of the thread had made me irritable.
A campaign of the sort you mentioned would be futile and not a significant enough issue to pursue, but my aversion to the singular they is based on its pointlessness. Why use a plural pronoun for a singular? It's silly.
In cases in which the antecedent is a weird word like "everyone," I get why people would say, "Everyone finished their food." But when people say, "Anne's roommate forgot their phone," I just wonder what the point is. You're talking about one roommate. Why would you use "they" to refer to her?
If Anne's roommate is known to be female by the speaker, I agree it would be strange to use "they." But in unknown gender cases it serves the same purpose as "his/her": "Whoever last used the table left their sandwich on it."
It also replaces "his/her" in cases where the gender is ambiguous or intended to refer to a single person at a time in a group of people of mixed gender: "Everybody who enters this room must remove their shoes."
As for why it would be used over "his/her," there are a few reasons. It's more natural to many people, there are fewer syllables, it avoids conflict over non-binary genders, etc. While these aren't compelling reasons to make you switch from "his/her" to "their," it shows that for people who are already inclined to use "their" there is no good reason to switch to "his/her."
My response would be if we're willing to make "they" singular, then why not just agree that "he" and "she" can be gender neutral? Say we don't know gender. We can't be held accountable for what we don't know. If we do know number, then we should be held accountable for that. It wouldn't convince most people, but that's how I see it.
"He" is one of the other major contenders for a "neutral" pronoun. It's almost as natural as "they" for me, but not quite. Ultimately, it isn't a decision I made to use "they" over "he" or "he/she." It's just the way I learned to speak, and I'm not alone. The point about accountability is good, but "they" doesn't actually imply plurality between speakers who use the singular "they." The way I see it, there's no significant reason to switch from any one to the other, which is the reason we have all these factions of pronoun-users.
More like "don't split infinitives". It's a relic from Latin and there is no grammatical reason in English why you should not split infinitives. The other ones you mention have a point to them. Asking "where is it at?" just adds a completely unnecessary word to the end of your sentence and makes you sound uneducated, regardless of its correctness. And when you're writing formally, you still don't use forms of "they" as singular.
Atario ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:15:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
since at least the 1300s
Means nothing. They said a lot of things in the 1300s we would consider incorrect today.
Can you give a source on that? It's a nice thing to know, for when English teachers get prissy, but I want to make sure I'm correct before I go arguing with smart people.
Just my โฌ0.02, but I often hear this quoted, but most examples involve the use of words such as nobody, everybody, someone, anyone, no-one, which are themselves pretty vague in terms of number.
I'd argue that the following sentences are pretty standard, for example:
Everybody should bring their own umbrella.
Noone should have to be on their own.
The use of "they" in sentences with a clearly singular noun (with non-specific gender) is more problematic, however, such as this one:
If a police officer is not armed, they will not be able to stop a criminal.
It is this use of "they" that is IMHO (and for many other people) problematic.
My solution is always to use the plural. If we are generalising anyway, why should we refer to one person?
So:
If police officers are not armed, they will not be able to stop a criminal.
Natiak ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:36:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, what? I thought it was only under certain conditions that you are supposed to end sentences with prepositions, like when you are employing a phrase.
It isn't really becoming both singular and plural, but rather it is becoming an uncountable noun (like "water" or "air", where there is no notion of a single rice or a single air). The word "media" (plural of "medium") is also undergoing a similar shift for some senses of the word.
Although it's mostly to do with English speakers' unfamiliarity with Latin plural and singular markers. 'deer' is only singular and plural because historically both its singular and plural markers disappeared about the same time. (OE sg dฤor, pl dฤor = PGmc sg *deuzam, pl *deuzล; you can actually see how the endings were even cognate to Latin neuter sg '-um', pl '-a', as they both come from PIE sg *-om, pl *-ehโ.)
Defmork ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 05:03:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OE = Old English
PG = Proto-Germanic
PIE = Proto-Indo-European
He's basically explaining the reason for the irregular plural by tracing the case markers back to Old English, and further back to Proto-Germanic. Then he shows the relationship to Latin and the similarity of their case markers by tracing it even further back to Proto-Indo-European, which is the ancestor of most European languages.
rnjbond ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:00:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're an ambulance
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:33:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe they are both acceptable, and I think this is similar to the American vs. British use of names for sports teams. For example, in Britain one would say: "Arsenal are playing well."
In the states, one would say "Arsenal is playing well."
The difference is that one refers to the group as a plural (multiple players) where the other refers to the group as one unit acting together (a singular team). So, in the case of data, it's easy to see how the same logic applies. If the data, meaning many pieces of data, collectively support a hypothesis, it would make sense to say "The data support the hypothesis" and "The data supports the hypothesis".
Each one can be argued on a logical level. On the one hand, you are speaking about a plural... Arsenal is a name for multiple players. However, when speaking about the group as a unit, the meaning doesn't exactly represent the sum of the singular units. Perhaps only 8/11 players on the field for Arsenal are playing well, but they're still up by 4 goals. Collectively Arsenal is playing well, but all of Arsenal are not playing well.
Mandood ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:04:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kind of like the plural of book was beek but the vikings decided to just put an s behind everything to keep it simple but words like teeth stayed relevant because no one really spoke about them in the singular version
I think the "-s" is a French influence, because in French (and Spanish) the plural ends with -s/-es, but in German the plural ends in -e, -en, -er or with an umlaut (oo -> ee is analogous with the umlaut).
Mandood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:08:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That makes sense. It's just something I saw in a documentary or educational video or something so idk how accurate it was but it made sense too.
Its also a reflection of the Norman conquest, there English lost most of is complicated parts (e.g. inflections) because French had become the language of the educated and only commoners spoke English.
s1eep ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:19:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We really fucked it up with the word literally though. Now literally can mean literally or figuratively. So there's no more word out there to truly mean literally. C'mon y'all.
Yeah language is evolving all the time, I'd be willing to bet the committee of people who watch word trends for the dictionaries already are considering data as being both plural and singular.
"Data" has been largely considered a mass noun for years. While "datum" is still recognized and still has the plural "data," more people will say "a piece of data" and continue to use the mass noun than will say "a datum" and use the plural form.
No. The best way to figure out if you're using a word wrong is to ask: how long have you been making this mistake? Do other people do it too? If the answer is "my whole life, and yes" then it is no mistake. Also, "deerum" is not and has not been a singular for "deer."
The evolution of language is an infinitely fascinating thing to me.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:13:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We call our language Modern English to differentiate it from Middle English (Chaucer) and Old English (Beowulf). I wonder what English profs 200 years from now will call the language we speak today. I also wonder which of our literary works kids will be forced to read in school all the while barely understanding what is being said.
Try telling my English teacher about the singular "they", she gets so pissed off whenever someone uses it or says it's correct, insisting we say him or her
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:43:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Washington Post says it's okay. Obama says it's okay. I think that's good enough.
Learned this in geography but "datum" actually has a Latin and there are other words that are similar to this but can't come up with off the top of my head.
Natiak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:33:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How many conversations would an average person ever find themselves in that necessitate the distinction between data and a datum? I would venture the number approaches zero.
Aha, I was thinking of a use along the lines of "they is" but now I see that "they" is used to refer to a single person all the time, but still used as "they are."
Not a native French speaker but what I think you mean is ils/elles (they [male]/they [female]), which would only be used as groups. Il/elle would refer to a singular person.
Wow. But, datum is a word that will never be used. Data never goes out alone. It's always with its buddies. That's data. It can't be data on its own. But it never is alone. Got it?
drc3686 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:08:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The future is now:
Data (/หdeษชtษ/ day-tษ, /หdรฆtษ/ da-tษ, or /หdษหtษ/ dah-tษ)[1] is a set of values of qualitative or quantitative variables; restated, pieces of data are individual pieces of information.
But how can that word really have a singular meaning unless referring to one datum within a data set? By saying data you are already referring to multiple points of reference.
No, that's largely unnatural. Singular they is conjugated the same way as plural they. For example: "Somebody keeps leaving footprints on my rug. They are really getting on my nerves. They'd better stop it."
I thought singular they was used in Shakespeare's time.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:25:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And probably long before that as well. But as is often the case in English, some uppity person decided that it wasn't correct and started pushing an agenda not to use it. It's come back.
Non native speaker here.
Wait what? You mean to say that 'they is' is becoming accepted? That hurts my brain.
And that's coming from someone whose native tongue regularly uses 'datum'.
"They" is treated the same way regardless of whether it refers to a single thing or multiple things. Most people would never say "they is," but "they are" can refer to a single person.
For example: "Somebody is making noise upstairs. I wish they would stop it. They are getting on my nerves."
This is the first time I hear about singular they becoming widely accepted. Does it work something like this: "Is John coming with us?", "No they said they would meet us there"?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:21:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can use the word "they" any time you would use "he or she" or "him or her." It's usually when you don't actually know who you are speaking about, or are speaking about an individual that could be anybody (like any one person within a group of people).
Oh right, yes I do understand what you mean. I thought people were using it constantly but yes, if gender is ambiguous or in other contexts then I've used it like that myself.
Yes, but generally it is reserved for cases where gender is ambiguous or unknown. If both parties know John's a male, it sounds odd. But if somebody named Alex is in question and neither party has met them (and thus can't comfortably assign a gender in speech) then "they said" would sound more natural. Another use is when the pronoun is intended to refer to a single person at a time, but ultimately multiple people over time. "If anyone comes in here, they must wipe their shoes on the mat." One person at a time, but not one person specifically and not only one person.
I misunderstood earlier. I've used "they" in that manner before, specifically when writing some process documents at work. I would have to write it as gender neutral as possible so would use "they". I thought the guy I replied to was saying people were just replacing it for all situations or in situations where he/she would be more appropriate.
The fluidity of language use can change parts of speech. Juice is a noun. But naturapathic practitioners have turned it into a verb, to juice, meaning to put fruits and vegetables together and create juice out of them. Impact is a noun but politicians turned it into a verb, to impact. It is used mostly in the past tense, impacted.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:20:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Impacted is also an adjective.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:23:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As an economics student I can say that many (most?) academics already use data as both singular and plural. In fact I don't think I've ever seen datum in a scholarly article but that could just be my memory.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:57:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I say datum all the time at work, oddly enough... I didn't know it was to describe single data, but it makes a lot more sense now. Thank you for teaching me about my own job Reddit
Stonn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:32:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and what the majority of people say determines what words mean
No. The majority of people can still fuck up. Just because they are the majority does not mean that they are right.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:18:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think you understand how language works. English does not have a governing body that decides what is right and wrong to say, though some languages do. A small group of people decided that datum was singular and data was plural, but the masses rejected it. The singular they goes back like 700 years, but then a small group of people decided it was improper, but the masses rejected that notion.
Much like how using a singular "they" is becoming widely accepted.
Speaking of, an I the only one who gets annoyed as shit when people refer to a singular group like a band as a plural (they)?
I know it's now accepted as grammatically correct, just because everyone does it, but even if a single entity is made up of multiple parts, that doesn't make it not a single entity if you're going to refer to the entity.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:16:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's mostly a British thing. Americans tend to refer to a group of people (like a sports team) as a singular team. Brits tend to refer to the group as the compilation of its parts (multiple players).
Particularly with bands, e.g. "Fallout Boy is releasing a new album. They are on tour."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:24:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahh, I see what you mean. Yeah. I think that stems from how awkward the phrasing has to be otherwise. Calling them by name in the first sentence identifies the subject, but in the second sentence calling them by name again hits the ear wrong.
Fallout Boy is releasing a new album. Fallout Boy is on tour in Europe. Fallout Boy has announced additional tour dates in the US.
Also, that could very well be a singular they in your example. There's actually no way to tell. We could be saying that "they" is singular and refers to the band, or that they is plural and referring to the members of the band. Either way would be presented identically. So if it makes you feel better, just pretend that it is a singular they.
Relish4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:14:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On a Cartesian coordinate system, datum refers to X0, Y0, Z0.
barto5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:28:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what the majority of people say determines what words mean
Can you please tell the guys at r/firearms that it's okay to call a detachable magazine a clip?
It's kind of hard to use the word datum. If there area is more than 1 byte of information then it is data. You can't really do anything with just 1 byte.
mbelf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:04:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with the word "stamina". No one says "His stamina are amazing".
Right, but they usually do that by using the male pronoun for an unknown.
As someone who always feels uncomfortable asking "what's his name" for dogs, knowing there's a 50% chance it's a girl, I would appreciate there being a distinct word.
Safe to say this is no longer true. Consensus is the arbiter of correctness when it comes to language.
Twinge ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 11:53:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is something I wish more people understood. Speaking and writing correctly still has value, but ultimately the most important thing is conveying meaning - if your words are understood clearly, it doesn't much matter if they are "wrong".
Here's something for you. People who say "data are" are no more correct in any way than people who say "data is." Conventions and "rules" are not binding. They attempt to describe how (generally) the prestige dialect operates. Failing to follow them has never made you "incorrect," although prestige dialect speakers may think that your speech is odd. And now that these rules are obsolete, more native speakers think the remaining few who follow them are the odd ones. From a linguistic perspective, conventions have no say in correctness in this sense.
I work in science and while I nearly always forget to use the plural after data (eg. The data are), most of the older generation of staff will almost always use it correctly. It's surprisingly jarring to hear spoken fluently when it sounds so wrong.
I also work in science and have always felt deeply and morally opposed to data being treated as a plural, because it sounds so fucking wrong, like one of those grammatically absurd things a child would say.
It's one of those things I just have to deal with, because, you know, science loves clinging to its archaic, pointless conventions. But I can't wait for it to catch up with the English language.
Every scientific paper that comes out of my country uses this feature (I have noticed it reading linguistics papers), because in my country using "data" as a collective noun is the only correct way to use it.
guepier ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:10:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I do. Itโs one of the few stylistic choices I managed to defend against my PIโs meddling. (And, to clarify, it was a conscious decision because โdataโ is a mass noun for me, and โdata areโ sounds weird.)
rugtoad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:22:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should explore the concept of "dialect".
See, just because something is unacceptable in an esoteric/academic/technical or otherwise restrictive environment, that doesn't mean that it's "wrong" in every other one.
Take the incredibly esoteric and rigid dialect of "legalese". Since the legal field has pretty much no tolerance for ambiguity, the definitions of words have rigid and specific meanings which practitioners must understand.
And while lawyers know it very well, they don't speak in that language when they go out to a restaurant with each other.
Scientific papers, depending on a number of factors, will also have an expected dialect, and some will indeed be taken less seriously if you use "data" in place of "datum".
I doubt it's the kind of thing that would cost you your PhD though.
How come you don't speak Old or Middle English? Why is language evolution only bad if you witness it?
weisen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:01:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because in an era where people communicate around the world, language evolves at different rates in different areas and often leads to imprecise communication.
You're all talking about language like we communicate in predicate logic. This constant whining about imprecise communication is bullshit. Where is the impact? Where is the big problem? Languages developed that way, by changing at different rates and in different ways in different locations. There are probably dialects of your native language that you have a hard time understanding. And it's not like people can only speak one language and one dialect.
weisen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:10:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I though my comment was pretty neutral on this. I simply offered a possible explanation as to why common rules/grounds are useful.
In a global economy where we are closer to international neighbours in our daily life, being able to aptly communicate is a benefit.
As someone who speaks french, english, german and spanish, I always found the dialect nature of languages to be the biggest barrier.
Oh, sorry! I'm annoyed by the constant pedantry on reddit and thought you were just another language purist.
The thing is that people can code-switch. Most people don't speak just one dialect, they speak differently in different environments. I speak three languages myself, but I never had serious problems with dialects in conversations where it mattered. I grew up in Swabia, which definitely had an impact on my way to speak. But I can switch to standard German pretty much instantly. I have a slightly different pronunciation than someone from Bavaria or Austria, but that doesn't hinder communication.
With English as a lingua franca we can communicate freely. You don't speak in a meeting like you would talk at home. Varieties like business English are pretty much special dialects themselves, tailored specifically for our global economy. I don't think that treating data as a singular instead of a plural will hinder communication that much that it would become a problem anytime soon. And stopping language evolution is nearly impossible, it will evolve anyway.
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rugtoad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:23:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The "rules" of a dialect are determined by the people who speak it.
Pretty much every prescriptive rule is arbitrary and provides no communicative value to the language.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:11:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah people saying 'data are' is like nails on a chalk board for me because in English its trivially wrong. You wouldn't say the 'water are' the 'flour are' so stop saying or writing data are.
Originally (i.e. in Latin), data was a normal plural noun, however, in its current usage in modern English, it's also acceptably used as a collective noun. In American English, a collective noun is used as a singular noun.
So, your usage is fine, if you're American (but not if you're British).
I work in the uk in science and almost exclusively hear "the data are". Outside of work, it's a phrase I rarely hear.
redlaWw ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:37:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're hearing two different forms. In science, each measurement or observation is one datum, so you use the plural, data, to refer to all of them. Outside, data is a collective noun for information (usually) in the various, effectively equivalent, forms of binary code that we manipulate with computers. In the former case, it would be like referring to "atoms of water", and in the latter, it would be more like referring to a "body of water".
It is a good point, but I have to point out that there are no such things as 'atoms of water'. Molecules of water are made of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.
redlaWw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:58:27 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oops.
Though only from a chemistry standpoint. Dividing a molecule of water would make it not-water, so molecules are atomic in that (irrelevant) sense.
I think when people use data in a singular manor, they really mean dataset. I'm trying to think of a phrase where that isn't the case but I can't. For instance, I wouldn't say "we're receiving a lot of data, but we don't know what they'll tell us" but I would say "...but we don't know what it will tell us". This sentence would be the same if written "...but we don't know what the dataset will tell us".
In a computer context, a singular datum would be called a data point. Many data points make a dataset.
Interestingly, the same word (datum) is also used in geodesy, but in that field, it's the singular that made it into the language, and if you're talking about more than one datum (say, WGS84 and NAD27) you'll find people using the word "datums".
I remember hearing this over a decade ago. I don't know if it was exclusively correct then, but presently, the rule is very out of date. Data is recognized as having a singular form by all official sources. The plural form is mostly reserved for usage in academic writing.
Can confirm. I teach research methods and statistics to Psych students and I always get a weird look when I say something like "there are fewer data", or "these data are representative of". I can't bring myself to say it any other way, though.
kneticz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:20:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Datum is used quite frequently.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:33:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And even though I know this, I still can't bring myself to say it correctly.
Linguist here. This is a good indicator that a pedant has been feeding you bullshit.
You can get around it by saying "this data set is". I also have a hard time with "data are" but I am comfortable with "these data suggest". Can't say datum. Wouldn't be worth reporting anyway, I guess. -Ego amo Datum-
No, I believe you can you use a collective plural in a singular tense, such as "the media is a disgrace", or "the team is on the bus", or "the data is showing a downward trend". Reddit tries to be fancy (British I think) by treating these collective nouns as plurals a lot.
Aha, thanks high school maths, really pulled through for me teaching me this fact so that I could say that I already knew this
burf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:00:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think of "data" like "water"; there isn't just one of it, but god damn it, you sure as hell aren't going to put a number to it (I have yet to see anyone claim they have 236 data), so you treat it as a singular plural, or whatever the fuck the technical term for it is.
That's because just about each piece of a thing that you would call "data" assumes multiple things as true information in order to even contain all of the properties that define that piece of data. So every piece of data contains multiples pieces of information, and if anything is a datum it would be an individual quanta of information that is irreducible. But anything that would actually express knowledge of a datum would have to assume multiple pieces of information in order to manifest itself in our actual brains.
Let's take The Law of Identity. The Law of Identity, or the fact that anything in the universe A is equal to itself A, is probably a datum. That fact is an irreducible property about the universe as well as any and all worlds we could possibly conceive. But as far as expressing that fact I am going to need multiple, nigh uncountable amounts of pieces of the universe that can be expressed as individual pieces of information to even observe, understand, or communicate the fact that A=A in any meaningful way to anyone. Because I need a whole set of language and a brain and all of this other shit to actually communicate that fact as a concrete idea, just as I would need that same stuff to think about any idea.
Information as we communicate and express it and understand it must come in chunks made out of no standardized individual quantas of information. This makes it a "mass noun" or "uncountable noun" in relation to our linguistic expression of that thing.
The word Data is actual plural, so you would have to say: "The data are." The singular form of data is actually datum. And even though I know this, I still can't bring myself to say it correctly.
And 80% of people that use the term metadata use it incorrectly.
When I was 22, working with a couple of stats people, and kind of a dick, I used to use the plural "datums". Meant it to be silly, but I'm sure I came off as a beard.
Data is usually an uncountable noun, meaning it implies plurality in the meaning, but it cannot be counted (basically, how much data exists to the point where it is almost impossible to find an exactly number). Much like "City" or "Information" (City being a collection of many different shops, stores, cars, people, etc. and information being lots of informative stuff). Therefore you would use "is".
Data is beautiful would make more sense than "Data are beautiful" because "Data are beautiful" implies specific information that exists in an easily attainable finite number. Such as "The Data that is in this study on these specific cases are beautiful".
To be pedantically complete, 'data' in Latin is a neuter plural substantive, and it was acceptable in classical Latin for a neuter plural to govern a singular verb (in imitation of classical Greek, where it was mandatory), so 'data est' instead of 'data sunt' has always been acceptable.
edafade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:49:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I was going through my bachelors program, multi-variate statistics was a core component and we were taught that Data is both singular and plural and depends on the following word, is or are.
Reading journal articles, I see them interchanged all the time. I would say both are correct.
Datum in Swedish means date, as in "what's the date today". Also dator means computer, but most people say data. I then like to remind them that data means information, and then they usually feel the need to remind me that getting punched in the face hurts.
Same for me with die/dice. "Give me the die" sounds so strange.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:17:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
datum
Damn near killed 'em.
Am I doing puns right?
datlock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:17:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Never knew that, which is weird because here in the Netherlands 'datum' is a commonly used word meaning 'date' (as in, March 20th is a datum. And the plural form is data.)
Never thought about it but it's pretty logical words ending on -a are usually plural
Hakoten ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:44:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Datum? Damn near killed 'em
gerusz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:57:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not surprising if you speak Latin. (Datum literally means "given", and AFAIK sometimes English uses "givens" instead of "data", though it's probably a very old-fashioned way of saying it.)
nick9000 ยท 216 points ยท Posted at 08:49:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That you can have a perfectly correct English sentence that has the word 'and' five times in a row.
A signwriter in England had an apprentice. He gave his apprentice the job of making a new sign for the local pub, the Pig and Whistle. After a while the apprentice comes back with the new sign. He has produced a beautiful sign with a pig blowing a whistle - the artistry is excellent. But the old signwriter rubs his chin.
"It's great, but the words are too close together. You should have left more space between 'Pig' and 'And' and 'And' and 'Whistle'"
Velodra ยท 145 points ยท Posted at 14:23:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sentence: "You should have left more space between Pig and And and And and Whistle" is easier to read if you put quotation marks before Pig, and between Pig and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Whistle, and after Whistle.
Similarly: James and John were taking an English test. One question asked to fill in the blank in this sentence: "The man _____ a cold". John put down "had" and the teacher marked it incorrect. James put in "had had" and the teacher marked it as correct.
So in conclusion: James, while John had had "had", had had "had had"; "had had" had had a much better effect on the teacher.
Then do standard grammar rules apply in song lyrics? Because I've listened to songs where they don't follow proper grammar, so it's more of an artistic thing to make it sound better or something or something.
It's kind of up to the writer, usually; what comes first is making sure the words fit the music.
Like with the Wizard of Oz, the song was probably composed first, and then the lyricist was stuck with trying to fill that chorus section. So he resorted to repeating the word "because."
I was going to say that it doesn't use the word 'and' 5 times, because of the use/mention distinction, but by god, you phrased it "has the word", so my pedantic correction is invalid. I hate when that happens. Thus why I'm still making this comment.
Pretty contrived since "and" the conjunction and "'and'" a word in the title function differently. Or I guess I mean, you can put whatever you want if you include quoted words.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:49:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The part that sounds extremely wrong to me is that you can use quotes and it doesn't constitute cheating. Or can you find any grammatical errors in this sentence:
"And then Roger fell into what looked like some sort of strange trance and said 'AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND', and so forth for hours!"
'Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Donโt teach a man to fishโฆand feed yourself. Heโs a grown man. And fishingโs not that hardโ. --Ron Swanson
"give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day, but if you teach a man to fish.... then he's gotta get a fishing license, but he doesn't have any money. So he's got to get a job and get into the Social Security system and pay taxes, and now you're gonna audit the poor cocksucker, 'cause he's not really good with math. So he'll pull the IRS van up to your house, and he'll take all your shit. He'll take your black velvet Elvis and your Batman toothbrush, and your penis pump, and that all goes up for auction with the burden of proof on you because you forgot to carry the one, 'cause you were just worried about eating a fucking fish, and you couldn't even cook the fish 'cause you needed a permit for an open flame. Then the Health Department is going to start asking you a lot of questions about where are you going to dump the scales and the guts. 'This is not a sanitary environment'"
-Dough Stanhope.
When there's a fish, what you can do is give a man that fish. But then he won't have fish later after that fish. So instead you want to give more fish so he can eat for a day later. It depends on how you treat the man and if he wants fish or is vegan. He will eat for a lot of days
sirwine ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:28:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh. My. God. I finally get this one! I always thought that he would be warm because of the scars (you know, because burn-scars feel hot when you touch them)... I only just get that the man dies in the fire. I feel so stupid!
mmazurr ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:24:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Terry Pratchett, I believe. If it were Michael Scott it would sound clever, but wouldn't be. Like saying "I haven't showered in a year" instead of "I haven't showered all year" at 12:01 am on January 1st.
That's not true at all. Assuming you leave the baby in the water, he would have a very short life and at no time during that short (but not infinitesimally small) life would he breathe water.
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 05:16:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And just in case either of you didn't know, babies actually instinctively hold their breath underwater.
Either way. It's not even a funny joke. Not because we're talking about dead babies. But, genuinely, it's not funny. Idk, maybe if you said it in a really weird and crazy voice, then it would be funny. Nice talk.
I know the joke your making here... but in all seriousness... I've always thought about that.
A baby spends 9 months developing in fluid. Even during the final stages of its development, when it is pretty much a ready-to-go baby, it still remains in fluid until birth. Not needing to breath air in the normal sense, to my knowledge.
Would it be possible to make it so that the baby/child/adult never needed to breath air in the usual way and could instead stay submerged in fluid just as they were leading up to their birth?
I know. Exactly. So what if we found a way to hook up the umbilical cord to an artificial mother? Like a long synthetic tube connecting to the remnants of the original umbilical cord that imports everything the child needs as it grows up? With a team compensating for any changes needed as the person develops.
Could it then stay submerged in some sort of tank for the rest of its life? An artificial womb of sorts. Continuing to "live" in there as if it were never birthed?
I would say it is possible (that which was suggested above), the problem being that the person involved would likely die from the lack of need to move.
kshoggi ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:43:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I predict wrinkly skin. Also seems logical that the infant's ability to be oxygenated through the navel will fail with further development.
No, not a scuba tank. I'm not looking for them to breath through their mouth and nose.
That defeats the purpose of the experiment.
I want to know if it is possible to transfer a nearly developed but still unborn baby to an artificial womb, and let it continue to "grow up" in that environment. As if it was never born, in the usual sense.
In such a way that throughout its entire life, it remains submerged in fluid and everything still comes from the (synthetic) umbilical cord. Food, oxygen, et cetera. Just like in the womb.
I want to know how long it can continue to live in such a way, if at all.
cadrina ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:38:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To put a personal touch on it, my grandfather had some very dedicated caretakers who allowed him to test that saying when his terminal illness had eventually deteriorated the quality of his life well below zero. Turns out it's wrong. You end up with a stand-in caretaker who prolongs your life for a few days by feeding you multiple slurpees.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:37:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How? You mean through some sort of injections (as in, still getting nutrients but not infesting anything) or using stores of fat (and proteins)?
Arcian_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:40:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A man on reddit actually went about a year without eating to lose all his giant amount of weight. Apparently only taking supplements and drinking water will destroy your organs.
Depends on your viewpoint, I guess. If we accept that "the rest of my life" is predetermined, then no, I can't go that long without eating (assuming I'm meant to last more than a few days). But if I stop eating, then in retrospect I will have gone the rest of my life without eating.
I don't think it really works in the present tense.
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Any temperature you set in a room is room temperature.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:51:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Therefore coffee considered cold and any soda considered warm are at/near room temperature. Without knowing set degrees of room, generalizations such as warm and cold are used for comparison to their previous/preferred ingestion state. We are both correct in this crazy, crazy world. But, EAD.
Phalex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:40:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The best way (imo) to make iced coffee is not to just simply cool/ice coffee that was brewed hot. It makes for a bitter iced coffee, and doesn't taste any better than just coffee gone cold.
I like to steep the coffee overnight at room temperature. Then drain/filter and store in fridge. Makes for a much superior iced coffee.
ChulaK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:23:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Worst is when you take a sip of coffee in the exact moment it becomes the same temperature as your mouth down to the decimal point. You keep tipping the cup over wondering where your coffee went and suddenly you feel your shirt get warm :(
This is also because cold fluids have an anesthetic effect. The cold liquid makes your tongue less receptive to tastes. Although the coffee isn't any different warm or cold, an iced coffee will taste much less bitter than its warm version.
it is. Our sense of heat doesn't actually measure the temperature of an object, it measures the rate of temperature change in our skin. Plastics and woody things don't give off that much heat for their temperature, while metal just loves spreading its heat every which way.
another example is water vs. air. In cold air you can survive pretty well unassisted into the negatives. Put yourself in ice water and you're hypothermic in minutes. The temperatures are the same, but water takes in and gives off heat at a much higher rate at the same temperature.
If you want the technical term for what people are talking about, it's called a heat transfer coefficient. Metals have higher coefficients than plastics, and will thus reject their heat more readily into you.
stanek ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:01:35 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wouldn't that also mean that they absorb heat better than plastics as well? in effect making them hotter?
Nope. It will get hotter faster but it cannot get hotter than its surroundings. So given a sufficient amount of time the plastic and metal will get as hot as their surroundings.
Carbination. Gas is less soluable in warmer liquids, so when you drink warm soda, less gas stays in the liquid on its way to your stomach, so it has more of that burning sensation
He doesn't mean iced coffee. Coffee that you pour into a mug and let get cold (room temperature) is the same temp as a soda that you haven't put in the fridge (room temperature).
I call bullshit. I order cold coffee and that shit comes on ice. I get a warm soda out of the garage on a summer day and you're going to tell me that's the same? Hell. Even lukewarm soda would be warmer than coffee on ice.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:07:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always wondered why the hell room temperature coffee feels like it's been in the fridge but room temperature Coke feels like It's been left in the sun all day.
bumwine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:15:36 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is no point unless your mind is blown at the difference. I cannot drink room temperature soda, it goes down like shit and the carbonation is so predominant.
Well the pyramids are hard to explain off the top of your head with no real thought in less than 30 seconds, therefore, the only logical explanation is that Ancient Alien Vimana aircraft built them.
Eiroth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:38:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is my time to pedantically point out that the mammoths were confined to a dwarf species off the coast of Alaska. This fact is true, but highly misleading.
Edit: fuck, people I see Wrangell and I think Alaska, I know it's Russia, shoot me now, I'm sorry
Edit 2: I need to brush up on my paleontology. Yes, the last population was confined to the island. Yes, there were dwarf species around the world, the most famous being m. Exilis on the Santa Barbara channel islands(island? They were only one back then). But Wrangel dwarfism specifically is up for debate.
This article (http://m.pnas.org/content/98/25/14518.full) brings up the size difference under "Effect of Evolutionary Time Required for Body Size Changes." (Sorry for weird format I'm copy pasting from the article a lot), and this study was published in 2001, however, it cites "our database" as to how they got the data, and congrats with this article(http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v362/n6418/abs/362337a0.html) which states that only teeth have been found for the range if 7,000-4,000 years ago, which can still give an idea if size and age, but allows the issue to be debated.
Conclusion, because as fun as this is, I have other stuff to do: the mammoths on Wrangel were pretty similar to the mainland ones, and probably underwent some size reduction, but calling them dwarf or pygmy would be misleading, and its still up for debate.
If you mean how'd they get to the island, probably they were already in the area when the sea level was lower and it wasn't an island. When the Ice Age ended the water level rose, making the area an island, and so the present population was stuck there.
burf ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:53:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck pedantic; that's an important caveat, I think.
An island that used to be connected to both landmasses by beringia but was separated as sea levels dropped. The mammoths became dwarf over the generations as the island could not support huge animals.
I remember seeing a document that mentioned this as a kid!
For some reason it made me really sad back then. Like, people were just slapping some stones on top of each other while an entire family of animals died, never to be seen again.
Because it's the only place that's undiscovered by humans
pb_k ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:44:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is my chance to pedantically point out that Wrangel Island is off the coast of Russia, not Alaska. Also, the mammoths found there were initially thought to be a dwarf species but after further examination they are no longer considered to have been dwarfs.
So I looked into the "not dwarf" thing because that's never how I heard it, and it runs out to be more muddled than that. Look back at my parent comment, I added a bunch of stuff.
I understand the Russia thing, but how can they no longer be believed to be dwarves? I've seen their remains with my own eyes in museums, they haven't grown over time. Are they now beloved to be juveniles? Becuase its pretty obvious when mammal bones aren't developed.
Alright, idk where I got the idea that I saw the remains- I saw a traveling mammoth exhibit while I was in Anchorage and I guess I confused the Santa Barbara species with then. Look back at my parent comment though for more discussion
I don't think it's really all that misleading...I mean, you're right, but they are mammoths, and a population of small furry mammoths off the alaskan coast as recently as ~2000BC is still pretty mindblowing!
Mammoth refers to a genus, and using the term for size was derived off of the animal. And look back at my parent, turns out they might've been full sized.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:57:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, but it doesn't make the fact less correct.
NemWan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:05:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:48:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Come to one of my paleontological period parties, and try your luck. This week are doing Crustaceans, time period or tasty dinner entree? We're serving scampi and surf and turf.
The fact that a four year old reddit account hasn't heard this fact every before (or even six times this month) blows my mind. It's practically a meme by now.
Repeating this meta level meme is very similar to what caused the meme, there ought to be a new metax2 meme that takes the piss of the overuse of a meme created to take the piss of the overuse of a post
Yes but did you guys realize that when that 70s show was released, it was as far away, time wise, from the 70s then as we are from the 90s today. But still no that 90s show. Friends reruns don't count.
I actually haven't heard this before either, but I also don't find it even remotely surprising. I don't know why finding out that an animal went extinct sometime in the last 4000 years is surprising. Animals go extinct all the time.
The surprising thing is that the went extinct that recently, not that they went extinct at all. Most people's conception of natural history divides the world in phases. And "bigger hairier versions of mammals" comes right between "dinosaurs" and "civilization" with no overlap. Before I heard this factoid eighty five times on reddit I'd've guessed that they went extinct tens of thousands of years ago, before the development of agriculture.
It's not a theory. It's just a broad, mostly unconscious view of how things work. (Brought on, I suspect, by the fact that natural history museums are divided into rooms.) No one would come out and defend that idea. But bad ways of thinking about things have a way of lurking in the background and affecting your conclusions without ever becoming explicit.
Have you considered that a reddit account that old might have wised up to the terribleness of the defaults, and long since left most of them? I'm equally reddit-old, and hadn't ever heard this, either.
It's really annoying when people take umbrage when people use an everyday word and insist that they use it in the technical manner prescribed in an academic field of study.
When someone says they work in an office I don't tell them that they aren't exerting a force along a displacement.
EDIT: Less umbrage, more playfully poking at the lines between "meme" and "pop culture meme". But eh, I'm feeling a bit defensive and tender. I'm sorry. :/
I'd define it as "a widely recognized thing that people say/link to almost exclusively on internet forums, possibly with small variations designed to be humorous".
Well, I'd definitely agree that it fits under the academic term "meme" but I think that most people use the term in everyday use to refer to things that originated on the internet. (The saying of them originated on the internet is what I mean. A lot of memes are from things like TV shows etc.)
"No, I am your father" can't be a meme (general usage) to me because it became popular before the internet existed. If Empire came out today it probably would be.
Whenever I hear Lindsey graham speak, all I'm hearing is Russell edgington from true blood. He's got the same old school southern accent for a gay man.
Only one species of mammoth was actually the cold loving species we know and love. All others were dwarf variants if that one, or various different things that were basically pumped up elephants that you really didn't want to fuck with.
It does make sense, too. Look at humans, for example. As far as I am aware, our African brethren (as in human cousins, not "brothas") have limited body hair, usually concentrated on the head and face. Then look at those nutty Russians, and they (mostly the men, but the women are often hairier) tend to be hairier than a Tolkien-esque Dwarf.
Of course, the only research I did was to search for that video clip on YT, and am going purely on stereotypes.
You really think some more hairs on a chest helps saving someone from freezing to death? With a coat on you should sweat at the north pole, then.
And at the same time, most people ignore or dismiss the real differences that helps not freezing to death, such as bigger average size and more efficient cardiovascular system.
There were three known dwarf species, actually, all confined to islands. There was the Wrangell species, the longest lived one. Then there was a species on Sicily, and a species on the Santa Barbara channel islands, back in the ice age when it was one big island. So not an entirely uncommon phenomena.
That's not entirely true. There were a bunch of "cold-loving" mammoths. The woolly mammoth was just the last one to go extinct.
Additionally, unlike in the movies, woolies didn't roam glaciers for no reason. They were more cold tolerant than some other mammoth species but still preferred open tundra steppe environments with an abundance of northern grasses.
Aw forgot about the earlier ones, I'm so used to my refernec frame being about 10,000 years ago. And interesting little anecdote about the grasses- the ecosystem that mammoths lived in was much different than the ones of today because if all the megfauna, which made it easier for grasses to grow as opposed to the fingi and low bushes of the modern day tundras. In fact, there's some rich Russian dude who bought up land in the middle of nowhere, Russia, and started putting a higher population density of caribou, musk ox, and other large fauna in that area and he got some of that ecosystem back. He's also said he would like to be the first to receive a mammoth if they clone it. Gimme a sec to find the source.
There's no need. The place you're referring to is Pleistocene Park run by a guy called Sergey Zimov.
I don't know if I'd say that the presence of megafauana made it easier for grass to grow though as that doesn't paint the full picture. As you probably know, mammoths, mastodons, and most of the other large pleistocene megafauna were keystone species that shaped the environment around them. As such its not so much that they helped the growth of grasses (which I'm sure they did), but that they enriched their local environments allowing for a more varied ecosystem then the poorly diverse version we have now. I'm pretty sure it was Willerslev that published a paper on it in 2013 looking at ice cores across Siberia and North America that showed the relative drop in abundance transitioning from pre-LGM to LGM and the incomplete recovery from LGM to present day conditions.
They were keystone species, but the growth of grasses was, as is being found in plesitiocene park, the primary mechanism for the diversity boom. A significant change in the producers is going to have the most significant impact on an ecosystem, and keystone species are usually either the only carnivores in an ecosystem or a species closely linked to producers. Another tangential example: sea otters, who are a keystone species in California waters because they eat things that eat kelp. In the megafauna case, I once read it was thought to be the breaking up of the frozen, tough topsoil and fertilizer spread. So then the method of enrching the ecosystem would be the grasses, then. If you can find the article I read or one disproving it I would be interested, because I can't find it at the moment.
Yup you're right. The theory you're referring to has been floating around for a while and also came up a few times in the news articles surrounding the release of the Willerslev paper. Googling "mammoth extinction caused by flowers" finds a whole bunch of them, but I can't remember if anyone actually wrote a real response to the paper.
Its hard to know exactly how extinct proboscideans enriched their environments, but some people have tried drawing parallels to extant African and Asian elephants which have been involved in as you say breaking ground and controlling the spread of dense vegetation, and perhaps most importantly to this argument seed dispersal in a nutritious poop packet.
By the time humans made it to North America, where most of the largest species were, the largest species were saying or dead from the end of the last ice age.
No, its not like it at all. Wooly mammoths were no more rare or common than Columbian mammoths or any of the variety of steppe mammoths and mammoths dotted across Europe and Africa. We just popularize the wooly mammoth most. Theyre a celebrity. They were not 99.9% of all of the mammoths there were, in fact only one (or two, counting the dwarf) species that was a wooly mammoth, and many if them. The woolys are just the most popular.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:03:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
To piggyback off of this, the great pyramids used to be covered with mirror polished granite, making the sides completely smooth and shiny. The valuable granite had been completely looted and broken off over a couple of millennia since the ancient Egyptian culture died away, leaving the rough, stepped pyramids we know and love today.
Wasn't king tut buried like a thousand years after the pyramids were completed and cleopatra was like another thousand years after king tut died? The moon landing and cleopatra were closer in time than the time between cleopatra and the building of the pyramids
As someone corrected me above, she was closer to the moon landing than to the building of the pyramids. I'm still amazed by the time span were talking about here. By the way it's portrayed on Tv and movies and pop culture, you'd think King tut and cleopatra ruled Egypt together while watching the pyramids be built by Jewish slaves.
Another mistake. It was the time from cleopatra to the building of the pyramids compared to the time between the moon landings and cleopatra. It was an error. I'll fix it
It's sad when you think about it too long. One of the reasons we have a decent chance at cloning one from a preserved specimen and the likelihood of finding one though
I read somewhere that Mammoths could still be alive and well on Antartica or the North Pole I forgot which. But apparently we wouldn't ever bother to explore the entire massive cold region to know if any could still exist. This could be bullshit but I remember reading it somewhere awhile back in much depth too. And it sounded plausible then but kinda doesn't at all now.
What would be more impressive is if they were in the same area, imagine these fat wooly elephants watching a bunch of skinless short bi-pedaled elephants dragging stones and shit.
benw999 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:35:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thomas Jefferson actually expected Meriwhether Lewis might find wooly mammoths, as well as giant people when he was heading west, and you can read it in his correspondence with him. Not many know this but that was actually the first black ops mission run by the US government and there was some coverup of mound builder sites that they came across in an effort to downplay the sophistication of the native population in an exercise of manifest destiny.
We today are closer in time to Cleopatra than she was to when the great Pyramids were built. Cleo was ruler in around in about 50 to 30 BC, the Great pyramid was built in about about 2570 BC So the Great Pyramid was about 2500 years older than Cleo, who lived about 2100 years ago.
For interests sake, could someone point me to a source? How do we know that? Considering how broad the estimated dates of most ancient fossils are, how is it possible to pinpoint a date for sure when the last mammoth died?
And Cleopatra is closer in time to us than to the Pyramids.
Edit: ha, someone said this further down. Always strikes me as so cool because I think most people don't really think about just how long Ancient Egyptian culture flourished.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:47:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The pyramids were as old to Cleopatra as ancient Rome is to us. She was also ethnically Greek, and was one of the few people in her family who ever bothered to learn the Coptic language.
ghidfg ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 01:28:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Given a solid ball in 3โdimensional space, there exists a decomposition of the ball into a finite number of disjoint subsets, which can then be put back together in a different way to yield two identical copies of the original ball.
00yoshi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:56:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
What about square planck lengths?
Edit: The area of something in 3D space is also infinite after that method.
Ardub23 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:02:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, I'm the one who corrected him in that other thread! And then I randomly stumbled on this thread! I don't know why this is so hilarious to me...
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:04:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We do but not exactly in the same sense as the American one. Our constitution is the combination of many documents, namely the Constitution Act and the British North America Act.
itz4mna ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:08:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We don't have a single document called the constitution either in the UK, I think it's part of having a Westminster system.
dpash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:12:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It really bugs me when people say the UK doesn't have a constitution. Obviously we do; it's just not in a single document.
itz4mna ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:17:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly, our constitution is much older than the US but it's also much more adaptable. I think our way is better than tying ourselves to the words of people who certainly can't have foreseen centuries into the future. Imagine if we still used the magna carter as our sole constitutional document?
dpash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:10:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting facts: only three sections of the Magna Carta are still in force in the UK. The right of a fair trial, the freedom of the church and the ancient rights of The City of London.
Also as an example of forward thinking laws, the Computer Misuse Act 1990 does not define what a computer is, so it can continue to work with devices like smart phones and IoT type devices that no one could conceive of 26 years ago.
We do but not exactly in the same sense as the American one.
Yes we do, especially when it comes to the American Bill of Rights and so forth.
We do have a "hybrid" constitution, which means that some of it is written, some is convention, and we have more than one constitutional document.
Our constitution is the combination of many documents, namely the Constitution Act and the British North America Act.
You mean the Constitution Act, 1867 and the Constitution Act, 1982? Unless you're a time traveller from before 1982, the "British North America Act" no longer exists.
Canada's Constitution includes the Constitution Act, 1867 and the Constitution Act, 1982 as the two main documents, the Constitution Act, 1982 includes the Charter of Rights and Freedoms as Part I, which is analogous to the American Bill of Rights. When people say "I have constitutional rights!" in the "American" sense, we have the ability and a direct analogue for saying "I have constitutional rights!" in reference to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
There are actually many more Constitution Acts, all making minor amendments to the Constitution, for example, the Constitution Amendment, 2001 (Newfoundland and Labrador) changed the name of the province of Newfoundland to the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
The Magna Carta and the Royal Proclamation of 1763 are also constitutional documents in Canada, the former granting Habeaas Corpus and the latter guaranteeing land title to Aboriginal peoples.
Then we have unwritten convention. For example, the "Prime Minister of Canada" is never mentioned in the Constitution, but if you examine the Constitution Act, 1867 and see all the parts saying a power is exercised by the Crown or Her Majesty the Queen, you know those parts are the powers of the Prime Minister.
He/She may have confused themselves because we also have 'the Canadian charter of rights and freedoms', which some mistake to be some type of constitution. Canada actually happens to have two constitutions!
Taken from Canada's government website, "The Constitution of Canada includes the Constitution Act, 1867, and the Constitution Act, 1982. It is the supreme law of Canada. It reaffirms Canadaโs dual legal system and also includes Aboriginal rights and treaty rights."
arhanv ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:01:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is such a niche inside joke it's almost fucked up
Sasamus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:11:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was an inside joke between myself
I think you forgot a couple of words there.
An inside joke with yourself must by definition be the most inside of jokes possible.
ebbomega ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:28:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Might be confused since Canada's constitution didn't exist until 1982. Prior to that it's government was defined by a British act of parliament. In 1982 Pierre Trudeau (father of current Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau) "patriated" the Constitution.
Might be confused since Canada's constitution didn't exist until 1982.
Yes it did. Canada is a federal state, and it's impossible to have a federal state unless you have a constitution that outlines what powers the federal government gets and what powers the sub-national governments get.
Our Constitution was called the "British North America Act, 1867" before 1982. We didn't own it, and we had to ask the British Parliament to amend it for us, but it was a bona fide constitution.
JNS_KIP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:34:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember hearing once that the New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Israel are the only countries that don't have a formal written constitution. I bet there are others.
That doesn't mean they don't have a constitution, it's just that they have a bunch of constitutional laws, practices and conventions, but no single supreme document.
What we have is the "Basic law", an interim solution of a dead simple, very no-nonsense set of...well, basic laws. It was meant as a placeholder until they could get around to making a proper constitution, but it worked out so beautifully we just stuck with it. So now we have a constitutional court, constitutional protection services, and so on, but no constitution. Just a Basic Law taking the place of one, until we write one. Which we don't intend to.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:23:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. It is not called a constitution but it is one.
She appoints governors-general on the advice of the prime minister. Governors-general do a bunch of things, but almost always on the advice of the prime minister. They both have reserve powers that they don't use.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:12 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I know, I live there. In this case, the queen and the governor general do sweet fuck all.
The theory is that the Queen and g-g can act as a safeguard against an extreme government, but since the current governor-general has been both the head of the military and the head of the GCSB, I doubt he's got it in him to make a principled stand against government overreach.
Having the Queen as a defence against a rogue government is a bit like having a smoke alarm โ the difference is that you routinely test a smoke alarm to see if it will work when there's a fire.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:32:52 on April 17, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah... someone mentioned that. It comes down to what you consider "a constitution". The UK doesn't have a "constitutional document" like most countries do. But it does have a body of fundamental laws.
But the bigger question is... why are you even here? This thread is 29 days old. And yet you came here and found my comment three layers down. What's up with that?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:48:09 on April 17, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But what were you even doing to see this post? I don't even know how you'd stumble across it. It's not like it's a top post in the subreddit. And it's not recent. Did you just browse down to page 5000 on /r/AskReddit?
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:59:48 on April 17, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not in the same sense. In Britain, the constitution is just a series of laws, not like the US constitution which takes precedence over acts of congress and has a special way to change it. Parliamentary sovereignty is the most central fact of the British constitution.
Look, I know the UK's Constitution is unwritten, but it's still a constitution.
The constitution of the United Kingdom is the sum of laws and principles that make up the body politic of the United Kingdom. It concerns both the relationship between the individual and the state, and the functioning of the legislature, the executive and judiciary. Unlike many other nations, the UK has no single constitutional document. This is sometimes expressed by stating that it has an uncodified or "unwritten" constitution. Much of the British constitution is embodied in written documents, within statutes, court judgments, works of authority and treaties. The constitution has other unwritten sources, including parliamentary constitutional conventions.
I know that it does have a constitution, but my remark was that this is not what people (particularly from the US) mean when they say constitution, by which they mean constitutional document. We are both correct.
Md_Mrs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:18:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The UK has an โunwritten constitutionโ. Don't ask me how that's supposed to work.
dpash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:15:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like everything works in the UK: Convention, tradition and a stiff upper lip.
p7r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:57:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The U.K. does not, nor do any other countries that have the Queen as head of state (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc.), and in fact the only member of the Commonwealth I can think of off the top of my head that does is South Africa.
dpash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:16:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Canada and Australia have written constitutions.
There's only 16 Commonwealth Realms out of 53ish members of the Commonwealth.
This made me look up the actual size of Brazil. I feel like most maps I see aren't accurately scaled. I always thought Brazil was quite a bit smaller than the US when in fact the continental US is smaller than Brazil.
because if you just look at google's or most maps of the world they look about the same size. if one were to take that at face value it would seem incorrect.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:11:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, now. That comparison used to be very different.
It's confusing because flat maps of earth distort the sizes of objects as they get further from the equator. That's why Greenland looks so much larger than Australia, when actually it is smaller.
It's a consequence of projecting a spherical earth onto a flat map (cylindrical map projection).
Air passing through a divergent duct will see its pressure increase. Air passing through a convergent duct will see its pressure decrease.
Have this airflow move past the speed of sound and the pressure increase/decrease will work opposite.
[deleted] ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 08:12:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Currently taking fluid dynamics, and that was the most counterintuitive shit ever. It was only explained as a mathematical consequence of Bernoulli's equation though. If you have a chemical \physical\microscopic explanation of it I'd be very interested to hear it!
I've answered this on /r/askscience and when teaching intro fluids courses.
My hand-wavy physical explanation is that the canonical description of supersonic fluids is that they no longer "feel" what happened immediately behind them. Like the hyperbolic domain of dependence here. And they can only influence things further downstream. So the wider you physically expand the flow, the less the particles can interact with each other, which means a lowering of pressure.
And it's not described by Bernoulli, even the compressible form. At most that can tell you there are two possible mathematical solutions for velocity at a given pressure, but not if that is physically possible.
newtoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:28:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nerd here. I found the answer in this page quite convincing (aka, average angle of collisions of molecules on the duct)
What is a "backwards wing"? Generally if you go past the speed of sound aircraft pitch is no longer controlled by an elevator and instead has a stabilator in the tail. The invention of the stabilator was actually what helped the X-1 finally pass the speed out sound without tearing its self apart.
Yeah they did, but Rome wasn't even the West's capital by the end. It was Ravenna. Albeit Rome was still the spiritual home. Justinian wanted it back during his reign and briefly had it, so the Roman Emperors in Constantinople still did see it as the homeland as it were.
'Myriad' actually stands for 10,000. There are a myriad ways to do something. There are a thousand ways to do something. You wouldn't say 'there are thousand ways to do something.
If you simple want to say ten thousand that works, but since a myriad is a noun to symbalize a grouping, and you'd put a in front.
MrJed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:02:21 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You wouldn't say 'there are thousand ways to do something.
Right, you would say "there are one thousand", all you did is replace "one" with "a" in your first example then removed them both in the second to make it sound wrong.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:06:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We're both right, but it has been used as a noun for longer.
Actually, words used as groupings are used as nouns with an 'a' before them, even when they have an indetermined number; for example, you would still say: I have a flock of seagulls, instead of I have flock of seagulls. Even though you don't know exactly how many you have. You would only omit the 'a' when it has it's own singular and plural forms. Saying "you have myriad items" is only proper if myriad is the plural of itself (and you are referring to multiples of 10,000s of things).
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:00:14 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
English is hard. I love it, and hate it because of this.
I love that I can say or write something, and that phrase could have several relevant meanings. Especially in songwriting.
I hate it because things are easily misinterpreted for the same reasons. Add sarcasm/facetiousness into the mix and its a cluster fuck.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:13:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope
mhaydar ยท 3522 points ยท Posted at 00:10:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cleopatra is chronologically closer to us than she is to when the pyramids were built.
[deleted] ยท 582 points ยท Posted at 00:39:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
But Cleopatra was Greek, so how much was her dynasty really part of the civilization? If I remember correctly, one of the reasons the Egyptians loved her so much, was because she was one of the few royal family members that could actually speak the local language.
Well the Egyptian pantheon did change over time, there were pharoahs who have re-arranged or added a god.
Something neat is that the snake cult of Dionysus was being introduced to the Greek and Egyptian pantheons shortly before the introduction of Christian cults. The two obviously didn't go well together and many theorize it fostered the anti-serpent mentality in Christianity.
SBFms ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:31:58 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anti serpent mentality came from the Old Testament because the emblem of (I think) Canaan was a snake. Early Isreal and Canaan were military enemies, so hence eve was tempted by a snake.
DylMac ยท 70 points ยท Posted at 03:40:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same gods all the way through? You mean besides Akhenaten turning Egypt into monotheistic society and dispelling all the old gods and only worshiping Aten.
That only lasted for about a decade, and basically no one wanted to go along with it. It's weird to think that such a short period is so well-remembered, but it had a disproportionately large effect. Think the decade or so where Nazism took over Germany: short, and relatively quickly reversed, but it sure doesn't feel that way so close to the fallout.
Besides that and several other less spoken of attempts to change things up. There were also several local deities who would come in to popularity for 100-200 years and just fade into non-existence.
I have heard Yahweh described as an Israelite war god. The fact that you've named two other members of the Canaanite pantheon places Yahweh nicely amongst them. He is a later innovation by the Israelites, who demoted the chief god El to a common word for god (see: Israel), then eventually deleted the rest of the gods by about 2500 years ago.
FarBoy ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 11:55:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Hmm, I'd heard that Yahweh and El were the same entity but I guess, once again making the link between the Canaan mythology and Egyptian mythology, that it was not unprecedented for gods have changing domains as time wore on or for 2 to fuse when their domains coalesced as was the case with Ra and Amun. (I'm not an ancient history academic/ scholar so feel free to iron handedly correct me if I'm mistaken).
I would assume that in the story of Job, "the adversary" described is likely another of the gods from the Canaanite pantheon, and I would also wonder if, seeing as how the story of Job seems to me to be one of the older ones, perhaps the "lord" depicted in the story is El or perhaps even Baal or another god whose domain included livestock, wives, children and other worldly possessions..?
Even then I think it was pretty clear the old gods were never forgotten by the people. As soon as he died they went right back to worshiping the lot of gods again.
Which lasted like, twenty years. Out of a two thousand year history.
isobit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:46:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And founding a Utopian plaza-city in the middle of the desert so as not to distract from the murderous sun-rays with things like work, plants, or water!
Almost like a Boko Haram style conversion to the One True Path.
redlaWw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:20:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That didn't last long. The next guy was literally named for undoing it.
I think it's kind of a stretch to call it the same civilization. They were conquered by the Persians long before Cleopatra, conquered again by Alexander the Great, whose realm broke into several smaller realms, ruled by Greeks. Cleopatra was also Greek, her native language would have been Greek, as well as that of her court. Cleopatra was actually the first ruler of Egypt who could speak Egyptian in 300 years, i.e., since Alexander's conquest. And I also doubt that the Persian emperors spoke Egyptian. And the Greek rulers probably worshipped Greek gods, not Egyptian ones. If old Egypt and Cleopatra's Egypt was the same civilization, then the old Germanic tribes and Denmark/Sweden/Norway are also the same civilization.
no, it was conquered and transformed by the arabs. that's why arabic is the main language and islam the main religion. only china has been "continuous" since antiquity: same language (evolving of course), same script, same culture.
Not really, because unlike egypt whose culture remained mostly intact (Despite the changes) it never wavered in thinking themselves egyptian and carrying on the various traditions, adjusted by time. In comparison the "Christian civilization" is not really one cultural, ethnic, or national identity but a mad shmorgusbord that happens to share the same religion.
BretOne ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 05:27:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's no Christian Civilization.
There's the Western Civilization (Western Europe, North America, South America, Australia and New Zealand). It started without Christianity (Greco-Roman era) and will most likely end without it too (with the rise of atheism). To precise I'm not saying that atheism will end the Western Civilization, but that when it will end it will be mostly atheist.
Atheism isn't a religion it's a lack of religion. It's also not a, "come and go" type of belief. Atheism is rising because scientifically it's starting to look more and more correct. Unless there is some sort of scientific breakthrough that steers humanity back towards a deity it will most likely continue to grow and become even more set in stone.
Atheism behaves like a religion politically, culturally, and on an individual level. This behavior is not experienced by declared Agnostics or 'Spiritual, but not Religious'.
When people are declared Atheists and believe their way is the only true way, religion will always be here.
I don't believe it is the only true way. That's entirely ignorant to say. That's like saying all black people like watermelons, Asians are bad at driving etc.
I do not believe there is any one true right way to live or believe. But I do think there are wrong ways. And believing in a being that there isn't one shred of evidence for who asks men to sacrifice their son for him for instance, one of many instances of this "god" showing his true meniachal self, is definitely a wrong way. Open your eyes and ask questions. Stop continuing this belief because it's what you've always done.
And even if you do believe he's there... what gives you the unshakable faith that he isn't lying to you. The ten commandments show his jealously. The old testament definitely shows his rage. The world itself shows his capability of turning a blind eye to unspeakable evil. But oh he loves you. So easy to say sitting with a full belly under a roof playing on reddit.
For some reason I struggle with the concept that South America is 'Western'.
There should be a term for all Iberian derived nations (not Hispanic, and I understand Portuguese don't like Latino either). Those peoples have been a part of racial melting pots for millennia and are quite distinct from other Western European nations as a result.
BretOne ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:26:06 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From Europe's point of view, both North and South America feel very foreign. Both are "a new world", one spawned by England/France and the other by Spain/Portugal.
The governance systems, the culture, the languages, and the history of both can be directly traced back to Western Europe. The people themselves are the descendants of native survivors, African slaves, and for the most part, European settlers/immigrants. Same deal with Australia and New Zealand by the way.
Can't the say the same thing now? We had Christianity, then the well known "dark ages" and a resurgence. Same gods, same cities, it's been pretty much kings and queens, but now we're in an era of more democratic gov'ts mostly in the western world.
It's mindblowing that in thousands of years they made basically no scientific advancements but in less(?) than one hundred years we went from inveting the first flight machine to setting foot on the moon.
Well... a version of Egyptian civilization. The Ptolemaic rulers of Egypt were Greek, and thus had some differences compared with the previous several thousand years of Egyptian culture.
HGF88 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:54:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't really say rose, they were basically a vassal of the Romans.
Kugel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:41:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
if fucks me up to think that Cleopatra and Julius Caesar were an item. Like you can visit the city of Rome, and 2000+ years ago cleopatra was there boning JC. Like 2 key figures from the roman empire (which lasted basically until the 1400s) and ancient egypt (which was started before 3000 BC) dated.
That is a bit disingenuous. Her ancestors were immigrants, 275 years before her. That would be like saying someone descended from George Washington has a family of immigrants.
She has more claim to the being Egyptian than any American has claim to being American.
Being an Egyptian depends on ethnicity unlike being an american
xNIBx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:02:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cleopatra married her brother and generally the upper echelon was only greeks that married/socialized with other greeks(and some hellenized egyptians/jews/etc)
From wikipedia
"Cleopatra was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, a family of Macedonian Greek origin that ruled Egypt after Alexander the Great's death during the Hellenistic period. The Ptolemies, throughout their dynasty, spoke Greek and refused to speak Egyptian, which is the reason that Greek as well as Egyptian languages were used on official court documents such as the Rosetta Stone. By contrast, Cleopatra did learn to speak Egyptian and represented herself as the reincarnation of an Egyptian goddess, Isis."
Just think of the way the world is now. The western world as we know it has only existed for what, 200 years? That's generous, and false, but use it as a benchmark. The Ancient Egyptians lasted nearly 3,000 years.
Either the Western World will stay the same for a looooong time, or (and potentially 'then') things will change in a BIG way. It blows my mind thinking that. Shame I won't be around to see it.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:22:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
You know what fucking blows my mind man?! Technology. Motherfucking technology. Like, those Egyptians lasted for thousands of years or some shit and they were fucking pushing dirt and stones. Now, it's been Less than ten years since the release of the iPhone and we've have like 8 different iterations or some some. Like, it used to take fucking months to get anything menial bullshit done back then but now we are moving so fucking fast we get pissed if it takes long than 30 min to board a flight. A FUCKING FLIGHT MAN. THROUGH THE AIR LIKE A MYSTICAL FUCKING BIRD. shit rocks my world man. They lasted thousands of years on sand and were about to kill ourselves with a few decades of technology. Fuck.
Well, Cleopatra was part of the Ptolemaic Dynasty which was actually made up of the descendants of one of Alexander the Great's generals. The kingdom that built the pyramids collapsed and was reinstated twice over 1500 years before being conquered by Persians and then the Greeks. By the time Cleopatra was ruling, Egypt was more culturally Hellenic than it was of the culture that built the Pyramids.
Depending on how you want to classify things there's civilizations and cultures that have been around since even longer. A lot of people forget that China, India, and the jews are fucking ancient. And that's not even getting into various tribal cultures like the aborigines.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:04:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do all civilizations eventually crumble? It's only a matter of time before the current one does right? We have a few thousand years of proof that none of the others lasted.
That's why when written down the fact is linked to a fix date like the Apollo 11 moon landing. So that when people find books in 10,000 years they don't think we're idiots.
I don't get it... Maybe I'm stupid but wouldn't the distance in time between us and Cleopatra vs us and the pyramids stay the same as time moves on?? Oh god what am I missing?!
Mammoths were still alive when the pyramids were being built. As a matter of fact, the last mammoths died out just 3600 years ago, by then, the Egyptian pharaohs were about halfway through their 3000-year reign, and the Great Pyramids of Giza were already 1000 years old.
This being unknown is mostly due to a lack of general knowledge on Cleopatra. People with a basic idea of Classical history know she wasn't even ethnically Egyptian, something that blows the minds of most people I tell.
I'm just from a wikihole, reading up on all the dynasties, times, locations and events. The civilization rose, fell, was reborn... Im so fascinated I'd make a prezi just for the giggles.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:22:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A baby born underwater can live it's entire life there.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:59:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some day people will realize that this isn't true.
Menulo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:52:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think people understand how recent Cleopatra was. She was not one of the ancient pharaohs. She was a descendant of one of Alexander the Great's generals (Ptolemaeus), and therefor Greek. The old Pyramids where relics from a previous culture to her. A bit like us looking at Roman ruins.
This depends on which pyramids you're talking about. The latest were constructed 721 and 664 BC and there were also several c. 1750-1990 BC. But for the pyramids of Giza, yes.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:07:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'VE NEVER HEARD THAT FACT BEFORE W0W THAT IS SO UNIQUE AND COOL!!รท
mhaydar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If that's supposed to be sarcasm then you're really bad at it.
Turn your caps lock off and sit down.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:39:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why would I be standing at a computer or on a phone?
Imagine you have a piece of string just long enough to go around the world. If you make it just six metres longer, it will be long enough to go around the world about a metre off the ground.
Edited to add:
1/ Yes I know pi is 3.1415 yada yada. I said "about", people. You don't need to make this point again. Really.
2/ The fact people need to ask if this is correct and for others to do the math for them makes the baby princhester cry. But I'll type through my tears. OK, so there's going to be a lot of "about" in here. I've rounded everything off to make it easier to see how it works. I don't need anyone to point out that the diameter of the earth is actually 12,742km plus change, and that the Earth is actually not quite round and that pi is 3.1415etc and not 3 and whatever the hell else I've approximated. Anyhoo:
Radius of Earth: about 6,500,000m
Circumference of sphere = 2 * pi * radius (sigh, you don't know this?)
Circumference of Earth: about 39,000,000m because pi is about 3 so that's 3 x 2 x 6,500,000 is 39,000,000. So you need a piece of string about 39,000,000m long.
Now we make the string long enough to go around the earth with 1m gap all around. That means the radius is going to be 1m bigger1: that is 6,500,001m because 6,500,000m plus 1m is 6,500,001.
So now we do the circumference thing again so its pi times 2 times the new radius or about 3 x 2 x 6,500,001 which is 39,000,006m
You will note that 39,000,006m is about six metres more than 39,000,000m. Ta-frickin'-da.
Footnote 1: Yes, the radius is 1m longer. The diameter is 2m longer.
So if it was a hula hoop, would it 'float' above the ground everywhere? Would it want to spin? Could be a futuristic method of transport...
robcap ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:24:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would float, and it would not spin. Forces are balanced on it in this setup, so it doesnt go anywhere. However, the slightest nudge in any direction and the thing could spin (or hit the ground, or flop sideways, or any number of other things). Think of it as trying to balance the hoop on a knife-edge - technically possible, nigh-impossibe in practice.
We've got satellites and space stations and shit. Give us time and we'll have this badass ring to show off to all the jealous planets at the next party.
sn3rt ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 10:21:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Length of the string equals 2pi times the radius. Meaning the length required for one additional metre to the radius equals 2pi times 1, which is roughly 6.
When you (1) put string around a ball and (2) take a piece of string that goes around the same ball at 1 meter distance, then it doesn't matter how big the ball actually is: the difference in length between the two pieces of string will always be 2pi meters (and 2pi is very roughly 6). You can test this yourself with a tennis ball and a soccer ball.
Mathematically, this is trivial, but it still sounds surprising when talking about very large balls (such as mine).
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:19:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Circumference = 2ฯ*radius
When you increase the radius by one meter (by lifting the rope), the circumference increases by 2ฯ = 6.28 meters
iCupid ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:17:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
same here
Peleaon ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:21:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The way you calculate circumference is 2*pi*r, right? So now if you increase r by 1 (because you're adding 1 meter to the radius of Earth), the circumference increases by 2pi, which is ~6.28
iCupid ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:34:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OK, ELI1
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:43:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Peleaon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:19:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine you have a string with the length of 0, and with every 2pi (~6.28) meters added to it, it can run around a circle with 1 meter bigger radius. So with a 6.28m string you can cover a circle with 1m radius. For 2m radius you'd need a 12.56 string, for 3m radius you need 18.84 meters of string. So now, if the radius of Earth is around 6,378,100 meters, you can see it doesn't really matter as much whether you do this "increase step" 6,378,100 times or 6,378,101 times, as the difference is still going to be only 6.28 meters, which is a very little percentage compared to the number of steps you have already made.
You can demonstrate this on a small scale using small balls, but I don't have any, so I'll give one more go at the math route.
The string needed to wrap itself around a circle is equivalent to its circumference (actually, this is probably technically incorrect, but for our purposes, we're treating them equivalently). Adding floating string is 100% equivalent to making a bigger circle. So, what we're talking about is basically the size of two circles (Earth is also technically not a circle, but again, we're treating it as if it were a perfect circle). To be more specific, we're talking about the circumference of two circles, not anything else, like mass or volume.
How do we compare the size of two circles? Well, to do this, we can define the size of a circle (in our case, we're using its property of circumference) by using the formula C = 2ฯr.
Under this formula, the size (circumference) of Earth is 2ฯ times its radius, no matter how large its radius is, whether it's 1 meter or 40075000 or 3290482034823084230 meters. Let us call this radius, no matter how large or what its number may be, Re meters.
So the circumference of Earth is 2ฯ(Re). We now want to compare this to a circle that is one meter in the air above the current earth. If you can visualize this circle, it will actually be two meters larger in diameter than our earth, because you have to add a meter in the air on the "top" and "bottom." Our formula uses radius, and because radius is half of diameter, this adds 1 to the pre-existing radius of our Earth, which we earlier defined as Re. Mathematically, this is Re+1.
So, we need to compare the circles with the sizes of 2ฯ(Re) against 2ฯ(Re+1). Remembering our basic algebraic factoring rules, this means 2ฯ(Re+1) is actually 2ฯRe + 2ฯ(1). Simplifying, this is 2ฯRe + 2ฯ. So the sizes of our circles are:
Earth: 2ฯ(Re)
Bigger Earth: 2ฯ(Re) + 2ฯ
Remembering again that all of our units were in meters, this means bigger Earth is 2ฯ meters larger, or about 6.28 meters. If you were to do this with a ball, you would probably be using millimeters. So, if you had a 50 mm ball bigger by 1 millimeter, you would need 2ฯ(1) mm of string, or 6.28 mm. If you want to make it bigger by 10 mm, you would need 2ฯ(10), or 62.8 mm of string.
I guess what's surprising is how little the circumference has changed. If we were talking about mass or volume, it would indeed be a great amount, because there is cubing involved in the formula. To visualize this another way, imagine you had to walk around the Earth's equator. It's a long walk. Now imagine I added a millimeter layer of sand across your path. How much further, in foot steps, do you have to make? I mean, I guess it's hard to visualize, but mathematically, the answer is, probably only one foot step. Now increased to a meter, it turns out to be about 20 foot steps. Keep in mind that the question we're answering is how many additional footsteps does it take, not how many footsteps you need to walk in total nor is it how much sand do you need to add, because the answers to both of those questions is different (and a lot more).
Fun fact, it works with literally any radius regardless of how big it is. Test it with a silo, or a ring, or a cup of soda. Do it on any number of objects
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:14:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I did the original experiment as OP described but with a tennis ball, and then made the string 6 meters longer, it would hover about one meter around the tennis ball?
Good point. I wasn't trying to call you out. I was trying to give people a hint as to why it's true, without just doing it for them. That's basically the opposite of what this post asks though, so I see why you rounded off. Pi is a pretty big hint, after all.
Because it really isn't much cleaner. It only seems that way when dealing with the same situations where diameter could be easily used instead of radius.
I just mean in situations where Tau is called for. 2pi is always thrown into formulas and daily conversation for whatever reason when a Tau substitute would save both writing and syllables.
I'm aware this is entirely esoteric and pedantic lol. Just a very minor pet peeve. You know how it is.
There's really only one formula that actually contains 2*pi, and that's circumference. And really, that's 2*radius, not 2*pi, because pi is circumference/diameter and 2*radius = diameter. 2*pi is present in trigonometry because of this definition of pi, true, but it rarely shows up in actual problems - practically speaking, you're never operating in even periods of sine/cosine. And if you're having daily conversations involving 2*pi, boy, your life sounds like a wild ride.
And of course, I mean the last bit in jest. My only real point is that I don't see the need for a 2*pi substitute when the uses for pi go beyond simple formulas for circles. I suppose there's a convenience factor involved for people who never need to know more about pi than "it's used to help determine something about circles, right? and it's, like, a little more than 3, I think", but I don't think it's enough to really instigate any kind of change.
raddaya ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:41:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because pi came first and does everything just as well.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:05:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Funny thing is, if you have a piece of string just long enough to go around an orange, and make it sic meters longer, it will also be long enough to go around the orange about a metre off the surface.
No matter the size of the circle, you just add pi meters for each additional meter of diameter. Circumference is pi time diameter, so adding 1 meter of diameter only adds 3.14 meters of circumference. In this example, you are adding 2 meters of diameter, so you only need 6.28 meters of rope. It holds true for a ball the size of a car, a ball the size of a building, or a ball the size of the earth - every ball any size only needs 2pi meters (6.28) to add 2 more meters of diameter. Even if a circle were drawn around the Universe in a circle, you could cut the rope and add 6.28 meters to it, then make it round again - the result would add 2 feet of hover around the old circle.
TM4rkuS ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:56:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are 2 feet equal to 1 meter? Last sentence confuses me.
Now we make the string long enough to go around the earth with 1m to spare.
That implies the string is 1m longer instead of the radius of the Earth being 1m longer in my opinion and kind of threw me off. Other than that, it was a nice explanation.
Do the frickin' math for goodness sake. Many of the posts in this thread are hard to check; this one you can check yourself using math my 13 year old could do.
6.283185307179586476925286766559m would be a closer approximation. I'd make it more accurate but Windows calculator got the shits with me when I tried to paste in more decimal places. Damn wussy piece of crap. I need a Real Man's calculator.
Thaweed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:05:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If we were to make a string or hula hoop or something this long would it float above the ground to the gravitational force canceling out on the other side of the planet?
I doubt it. But if you can figure out some sort of formula-thingy for calculating the circumference of a circle from its radius - yeah, like you are ever going to be able to do that [snort] - I reckon you'd win some sort of math prize or something.
If you increase the length of the global string at place X and tug it upward by 6m, would a person at place Y, opposite to place X geographically, instantly be able to tug the string up by 1m? I think most of the confusion with this fact relates to physics.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:19:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not a real smart way to encircle the globe. You need some stretchiness to account for tides and weather and continental drift, or a dumb worker who pulls too tight. I just don't think that's a fair assumption.
You're right. It's almost as if my post is demonstrating a broad highly theoretical mathematical thought experiment. Why would I do that? What a dumbass I am.
What would be far more sensible would be to set out a detailed engineering design for construction of a real world string encirclement. Now that would make good old fashioned down to earth sense.
Yes. However, a quick read of the replies will show you that the set of "people replying to this post" and the set of "people who have the slightest understanding of Pi and circles" are not congruent.
This math is overcomplicated. A string a meter up off the ground would increase the earth's diameter by 2 meters (one meter on top and bottom). 2*pi=6.28ish. The earth's actual measured diameter is completely irrelevant in this situation.
I know that. You know that. But people have trouble believing it, so I included the Earth's radius in the calculation so people could see that it didn't make the large difference one might assume.
Sometimes the shortest, most elegant math is not the easiest to understand.
Dyesce_ ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 08:58:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An actual German. And here I was expecting someone to verbally mutilate it just a little less bad than scootinfruity. Have an upvote for being actually helpful.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:42:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think the American pronunciation of the word is actually kind of cute. They're sort of saying "Schadennfroide", so usually quite close (at least in the instances I've heard).
Dyesce_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:38:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The methanol one always gets me. I've heard so many stories of people getting methanol poisoning and dying on their way to the hospital. Of course they usually don't know it's methanol poisoning, but shit the cure is at the bar that tried to kill you!
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 11:38:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what are we, in the roaring 20s? this still happens?
In bars? Not in the western world. But industrial alcohol containing methanol gets stolen a lot and consumed by the thieves or sold as moonshine (usually not with malicious intent: people just don't know there's difference and think "alcohol is alcohol").
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 14:15:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it makes me sick. just another example of big government holding us back.
imhotep4 ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 15:17:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How? Do you live in the Middle East where booze is illegal or something?
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 15:36:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no, i'm a sarcastic american
imhotep4 ยท -12 points ยท Posted at 15:51:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Should have put an "/s" at the end of the comment then.
Phiau ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:05:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've heard of methanol poisoning being treated with a whiskey drip, when they were out of methanol drip packs. Literally a bottle of whiskey.
Anything at least 80 proof. The enzymes in your liver prefer to work on ethanol, so if you keep giving it to them they won't turn the methanol or antifreeze into formaldehyde and other nasty stuff, and it will be excreted by the kidneys.
thumpas ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:00:11 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If your liver tries to break down the methanol it will turn it into bad chemicals that hurt you. So ideally you want it to be filtered by the kidneys, so you essentially give the liver ethanol to keep it busy while the kidneys take care of the methanol.
Can confirm. Work at a nuke plant in Canada.
Rumour has it that if you had a tritium update back when people were cool instead of perpetually terrified of HR and the court of public opinion, they'd give you a coupon for a six pack. Now they tell you to "drink lots of water or coffee".
The 'cure' is actually just to piss a lot.
She rode horses and didn't have electricity for at least the first 10 years of her life, most likely more than that. Now if she wanted, she could go onto the internet and read these very comments with another tab open with literally anything she could imagine. That's insane to witness in one life time and makes me think, if I live to be that old, daily life will probably consist of things I couldn't even comprehend or understand right now.
Micia19 ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 08:05:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
My sons grandma was born around 1935 and didn't have electricity til she was 7 (family was working class, living in Liverpool) and she remembers being amazed that they can just flick a switch in their house and there's light. They didn't even have running hot water for the 1st decade or so of her life. It's amazing how things have progressed the past 80 years and still the oldest person in the world was over 35 by the time my son's grandma was born
Why do you say your son's grandma? That's just your mother, or mother in law.
Micia19 ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 09:30:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Cos my mother is dead and his dad and I aren't together and never were, we were always just friends. So she's not my MIL, she's my sons grandma.
jabask ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:42:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
stepchild, maybe?
kokroo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:58:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What do you mean by "last life"!?
Micia19 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:16:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol sorry sometimes I get all muddled up when I'm typing and randomly insert words and all sorts. Why most of my comments has a little edit next to them. I meant "of her life"
kokroo ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:26:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank goodness. I thought you belonged to a family of reincarnated Egyptian priests.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:32:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandma was born in 1939 and didn't have electricity or running water until my great grandpa got back from ww2
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:05:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's insane to witness in one life time and makes me think, if I live to be that old, daily life will probably consist of things I couldn't even comprehend or understand right now.
I find myself thinking this as well. Pretty incredible...
Your right actually. Technology advances at an exponential rate. What this means is that the technological developments that will occur in our lifetime, lets say from 2000-2100, will be equivalent to 20k years worth of technological development from the current rate. We often look back and think, "Damn the last one-hundred years saw so much change!" We forget that the world is still changing.
Technology is increasing exponentially faster as well. If you live to 100+ (assuming you're in your 20s to 40s) the changes you'll see will be unfathomable. It's exciting and a bit terrifying to consider. Personally I want gaming to get so real it's like we're in the matrix.
Walk through your iPad to China. Don't like it? Open a tab for Australia, walk through, check it out. Or go back to your couch. Or Mars. Through your iPad. (or whatever the fuck it will be in 100 years)
She was quite possibly menopausal when segregation ended.
AP246 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:27:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not only that, living to see the rise and fall of communism, the first plane flight, jet flight, space flight and moon landing. She was alive to see the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Czechoslovakia, the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, The British Empire was totally dismantled. Yugoslavia came into existence and fell. Pluto was discovered and hailed as a new planet, and then made into a Dwarf Planet. China switched government systems 3 times (Qing Dynasty, Republic of China, People's republic of China), countries across Africa got their independence. It's staggering to think about it...
Note - Most people alive during WW1 saw WW2. They were only 20 years apart.
Friendly reminder to ask an older person you know about World War 2! Many older people will be more than happy to remember the "old days" and reminisce with a "young 'un," and the opportunities to ask someone old enough to remember World War 2 are becoming only more and more rare as time goes on. I still regret only asking one of my grandparents about when they were younger, and only doing it once, as all of my grandparents died before my 10th birthday.
TagProFC ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 08:33:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not kidding, I had a neighbor that was born in 1899 and died at the age of 101 in 2001. She also drove her car until she was 98 (kind of scary I guess). She was also a huge sf giants fan.
Funny story, one time my family and I went to go visit her in the hospital. We came into the room and with a big frown on her face, she told my dad, "Bart, it's all over." My dad then tried to console and told her that she would be at peace and all, and would be able to rest and such. She realized my dad was talking about death and said, "no no no, the giants are out of the playoffs..."
Imagine being her and being a teen during the first world war, then in your 40's at the time of the second. After that life's good a bit and then by the 60's you're an old lady. '69 and people look at you like you're might topple over anytime now. Punk movement and people really think you'd topple over. Kurt Cobain dies and you're as old as can be.
You've been an old lady for 50 years.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:33:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The first flight of the brothers Wright was in 1903. When she was at kindergarten age, we used zeppelins and flying from america to europe was unheard of. When she was a young adult, in 1919 the first plane went from the united states to europe. Shortly after her retirement, in 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrinwe walked on the surface of the moon.
Shorvok ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 12:00:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder if there will ever be another 115 years as much of a rollercoaster as those.
She got to see the spread of electricity, invention of recording, film, radio, and telephones. She got to see the beginning of flight, two world wars, women's suffrage and two world wars. She saw the fall of the Ottoman and Russian Empires and the birth of the Soviet Union. She saw the space race and saw men go to the moon while others unlocked the secrets of our universe. She saw the refounding of Israel, the birth of atomic weapons and power, and the rise of computers and the internet. She saw 19 presidents come and go, two being assassinated, and the first black president.
I haven't even put a dent in all the mind blowingly amazing shit she got to live through.
Fun fact, I'd technically be breaking rules at my store if I sold her tobacco products, alcohol, or lottery tickets. We card everyone and have to put in a valid DOB within the parameters allowed by the system, and the system in addition to not accepting someone's birthday who is too young (21 for alcohol 18 for tobacco and lottery) it also doesn't accept a DOB from before 1900. So I'd either have to lie about her birthday or the register wouldn't allow her transaction through. Guess the people who designed our systems didn't think anyone alive would be born before 1900.
No, I would not be breaking laws by selling to her. Just store policy. No I would not get in trouble for it, that would be ridiculous. It's just a fun sub-fact, kinda like the rest of the thread.
gurg2k1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:20:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's only 34 years after the Civil War ended. Compared to today, that would be 7 years after the Vietnam War had ended, Knightrider was on TV, and E.T. was playing in the theaters.
You know, living Confederate veterans attended the premiere of Gone with the Wind in 1939. Here's footage.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:48:12 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True, I wasn't considering that they probably still had a fair number of centenarians back then. Either way, I'm sure there are quite a few people who've met slaves still living, which really puts history in perspective.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:08:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fun fact, if Queen Elizabeth gets as old as this lady, she will live until 2042.
No, she hasn't died. NoMoreBullshitting is bullshitting.
[deleted] ยท 179 points ยท Posted at 06:38:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Tsorovar ยท 52 points ยท Posted at 08:43:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that true? The way I'd understand the situation is that they still have higher ranks, just no authority over the guy manning the checkpoint. Chain of command and all that.
sarais ยท 76 points ยท Posted at 09:49:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Do you know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with til you understand who's in rutting command."
Krateng ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 10:41:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They still have authority over the guy manning the checkpoint, but they cannot interfere with that guard's post orders. For instance, if someone in the guard's chain of command gave that guard an order to only let Lt. Cocknouckles and Maj. Dicklock through the gate, and no one else, Gen. Assface couldn't show up and order the guard to let him through. He could however order the guard to contact their duty officer or whoever.
We had a guy at my first base pull over the installation commander for running a stop sign. The young airman told him what was going to happen and said you'll have so much time to inform your supervisor. The commander said, I don't have a supervisor, this is my base. The airman replied, "sir, everyone has a supervisor." The general got out of his ticket by calling up the cop commander, but from then on whenever he got pulled over he'd coin the cop and tell him it was just a test.
Got it. Sorry to be sensitive about it, but I knew a Shore Patrol (SP, Navy MP) guy that bragged about cuffing drunk Marines, putting him in the back of his squad car and THEN pepper spraying them. I told him if I ever caught him doing that I'd give him the option of an NJP or a squad size ass kicking.
I hear you. I'm all for backing the badge, but you start abusing people, and you damage the credibility and respect every other cop has worked to earn for that title. It can quickly turn Cop/MP/SP from a term of respect/trust to one of hatred.
How exactly would an altercation go down in this situation though? I cannot imagine a situation where the President would back down unless there was explicit instruction from higher command to prevent the President from coming through the checkpoint. And in that situation, what is the obligation of those involved?
Just curious
Zirenth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:18:48 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One of the only situations I could think of is if there is an unsafe situation on the base. I don't know how the president's power works with FPCons.
Zirenth ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 13:11:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why would you put a colonel with a general and admiral? Col is an O-6, with Gen and Adm both being O-10 (in the US military anyway).
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:20:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
They don't outrank them at all. They just have a job to do so they have to do it correctly. You are able to just ignore an unlawful order that would go against the job your doing.
cjh93 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:06:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like Varys' power riddle he gave to Tyrion.
idwthis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're a potato.
Stonn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:38:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We the Potato of the Potato States, in Order to form a more perfect Potato, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of Potato.
I was trying to determine if you're European or American so that I could tell what you meant by chip. But it turns out it doesn't matter! They're both potato!
If by becoming a chip you're saying it ceases to be a potato, then it fits in the "not a potato" category. If you wanna say it's still a potato even when it's made into a potato chip, then it fits in the "potato" category. Unless I'm confused somehow...how can it be both a potato and not a potato?
hello everyone I am of new! holds up potato name is latvy but yuo can callings me farmer of potato! as yuo can seeings I am very love potato! is of why i here, to find more potatoโฆ am 53 years old (is still of good age for potato!) i like eating potato with myself (am very alone) its me favourite food! because is potato! I like potato but wantings more potato =) like people sayings the more the merrier! I like potato so gib more potatoes plox!
PPOOOTTAAAATTOOOOO<--- is me liking potatoe. Of bye.
GREETINGS BATTLE BROTHERS I AM NEW. *HOLDS UP BOLTER* MY NAME IS SERGEANT ARGUS BUT YOU CAN CALL ME BATTLE BROTHER. AS YOU CAN SEE I AM VERY LOYAL TO THE EMPEROR. THAT IS WHY I HAVE COME HERE, TO MEET OTHER BATTLE BROTHERS WHO ARE LOYAL TO THE EMPEROR LIKE MYSELF. I AM 127 YEARS OF AGE ( PRAISE THE EMPEROR) I LIKE TO PURGE HERETICS AND XENO SCUM WITH MY BATTLE BROTHERS ( I LOVE MY BATTLE BROTHERS, IF YOU DO NOT LIKE THAT THE DEAL WITH IT) IT IS OUR FAVORITE ACTIVITY BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT LOYAL TO THE EMPEROR. ALL MY BATTLE BROTHERS ARE LOYAL TO THE EMPEROR TOO OF COURSE, BUT I WANT TO MEET MORE LOYAL SERVANTS OF THE EMPEROR. LIKE THE EMPEROR ONCE SAID, THE MORE THE MERRIER. I HOPE TO BOND WITH A LARGE AMOUNT OF LOYAL SERVANTS OF THE EMPEROR SO JOIN ME IN PRAISE OF THE EMPEROR. FAREWELL. PRAISE THE EMPEROR
"Oh hi, how are you holding up? Because I'm a POTATO... clap clap clap... oh good, my slow clap processor made it into this thing, at least we have that."
fizikz3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:46:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My philosophy teacher in undergrad went over this but he used cats instead of potatoes, and had a pretty thick asian accent, so what he said sounded like "everything is either a cat, or a nyan-cat."
[deleted] ยท 914 points ยท Posted at 01:35:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flammable, inflammable & nonflammable... Why are there three? Don't you think that two ought to serve the purpose? I mean either the thing flams or it doesn't!
~ George Carlin
Riff-Ref ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 03:15:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"If crime fighters fight crime, and fire fighters fight fires, then what do freedom fighters fight?!"
MC_Mooch ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 07:49:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
My understanding is that Flammable pertains to anything that can produce volatile flammable vapors at temperatures at or below 100 deg. F (per NFPA 70). Inflammable is anything that can burn. Therefore, gasoline would be flammable, but dead wood is inflammable.
Honestly, I never have to go out to get one since every few months a nrw one pops up on my doorstep, and then a cpuple weeks later I'll walk my neighborhood and take any that are still sitting on porches and driveways if I need em.
I've not run out of paper for almost a decade now since I switched from propane.
Seriously a chimney starter might take a little longer than lighter fluid but god damn will your bbq taste better for it.
That's a good answer. I only just started using charcoal last year for the first time in my life, as my wife and I got a big green egg. I used the natural lighting squares you're supposed to use, but ran out. Instead of buying more I found an electric lighter on clearance. Take about the same amount of time. Been considering a chimney starter as well, but haven't really found the need yet. Not sure how those work with briquets, but I assume as well as on lump charcoal.
Sorry. I meant I don't know how well electric starters work on briqs. I also actually don't have any idea how a chimney starter would work with lump. But I assume it's really all the same.
There is no difference. 'Flammable' was back-formed from 'inflammable' because English speakers thought the 'in-' prefix stood for negation, when it actually stands for "in, on", the word literally means "able to catch on fire".
His definition for the two is prescriptivism trying to retcon them as if they were separate words.
Also, his second definition makes no sense because 'inflame(d)' doesn't mean "fire spreads very quickly", it means "to cause to burst into flame".
On a similar note, knowing the difference between "flammable" and "combustible" has literally saved my life before. Well... my character's life, in a D&D game. But still, it was very helpful to know that fireball does not set normal wood aflame.
vep ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 05:04:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you, with the knowledge!
rolytron ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 04:44:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Irregardless
mhaydar ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 03:59:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is what makes me think coining the word "flammable" was counterproductive, once it exists, people are more likely to think that inflammable means not flammable
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:57:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Found Dr. Nick!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:57:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In French we have ininflammable, which means not inflammable.
In french "in-" mean not... so inflammable should mean "can not burn", but thanks to whoever monkey that decided to make an exception... it mean it can burn... "ininflammable" mean it can not burn... Some should have been shot...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:08:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stonn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:43:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh I see. So inflammable as in in flames thus same as flammable. To be fair to create an opposite of a word the prefix "im-" or "non-" can be used. And it just so happens that "in" and "im" sound very alike. Examples: "mobile" and "immobile"; "precise" and "imprecise".
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:12:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandma always refused to stop for pee breaks while on the road. That was fine with her four sons. But no four year old girl should have to learn how pee in a cup in the back of a van traveling 65 MPH. I just wish I had the strength of character and will to hold her to her own rules, now that's she's nearly 80.
Depends what part of Florida whether its really 'the south' but I'm from rural Georgia and everyone says pee can. My grandmother from Alabama said pee can too.
[deleted] ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 01:05:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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voxdoom ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 01:34:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
LAN-CAS-ter is how Lancastrians say it.
Edit: like, from Lancaster, England.
dpash ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:27:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Americans are pretty terrible at pronouncing British place names. Edinburgh and Loughborough are two common examples. (Hint: they're roughly ed-in-brrrr and luff-brrrr.)
Pfft NorCal what don't you guys get offended at? Besides I was born at AV hospital I have never in my life heard anyone call it "lank-ist-err" California
That seems like a more colonial/british pronunciation, no? How the Brits often cut the end of Buckinghamshire to sound like 'Buckinamsha' and not enunciate the 'shire' bit. Any similarities at all, or am I making an incorrect connection?
We also shorten the county names a lot - making Buckinghamshire into 'Bucks', Hertfordshire into 'Herts', Berkshire into 'Berks' and Hampshire into 'Hants' (It used to be called Hantenshire).
HW90 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:33:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not that it's not enunciating the shire, it's just having a silent e. Shire is derived from the Old English Scir so fuck knows where that e came from.
Apparently this is how people say it. I have spent 28 years on this planet and I have never heard anyone say it like this ever. I'm a peekan kinda guy.
I'm pretty sure it's a southern thing. That's the way everyone down here says it. The only times I've heard it the other way were on television or movies.
I'm from England so there really is only one pronunciation.
Who_GNU ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:03:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With almonds the pronunciation difference is easy. You pronounce the 'l' when refereeing to almonds on the tree, but you don't pronounce it when referring to harvested almonds, because the harvesting equipment shakes the 'l' out of the almonds.
(edit:although most contemporary dictionaries will also include cul-de-sacs as a plural option because when you actually use culs-de-sac you're just that guy no one wants to hang out with)
Cul-de-sac is French and roughly means "ass of the bag". As in the bottom of something, or the end of a road that you can't pass trough, much like the bottom (or ass) of a bag. Now, the reason that the plural is culs-de-sac is pretty simple knowing the etymology.
If you want to refer to many of such bag-bottoms, would you rather say "They are many asses of bag in this area." or "They are many ass of bags in this area."? Now, both make not a whole lot of sense, but it's because in french "de" is more akin to the way the English say "Cheese Omelettes" and not "Cheeses Omelettes" or "Cheeses Omelette".
"Omelette de fromage" (and not "du", the cartoon lied to you) becomes "Omelettes de fromage" and not "Omelette de fromages".
Omelette(s) AU(X) fromage(s), bordel de pompe ร cul de merde !
Donc (so) : Une omelette au fromage (1 omelette, 1 cheese) ; une omelette aux fromages (1 omelette, several cheeses) ; des omelettes au fromage (several omelettes, 1 cheese) ; des omelettes aux fromages (several omelettes, several cheeses). ;)
Total sense. A cul-de-sac is basically a low-hanging scrotum. And it makes sense, visually.
What is a bit harder to interpret is why anyone would be obligated to parse multiple "culs-de-sac". When does that ever come up? "Mr. Chairman, we have determined that thirteen of the twenty-seven culs-de-sac in the greater South Houston suburbs do not support force plantings of cypress trees and azalea."?
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 07:18:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scientists are actually in the minority there. It takes a ton of support workers - pilots, mechanics, electricians, logistics folks, janitors, cooks, dishwashers, maintenance crews - to keep places like McMurdo Station running. Interestingly though, a lot of the people doing the more menial jobs are well-educated and have just signed on for a season or two to experience living there. Source: "A Year On Ice", an amazing documentary you can see on Netflix.
From what I saw when I was looking that the job postings you need to be a master in one trade and atleast useful in a couple of others. I doubt the support staff are dragging the average down much.
There's a sizeable support and administration staff in Antarctica.
Asmetj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:52:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Very not true. Go watch Antarctica a year on ice, in addition to being excellent it also shows you how many 'regular' people work there just to keep it going...
tsaven ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:32:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not true, the region of support staff to scientists is almost 10:1.
That being said, a huge amount of the support staff is vastly over educated for the work they do. Most of my friends who work in the galley at McMurdo had graduate degrees.
Source: work there, am support worker, friends with some scientists.
Between 1976 and 1982, 103,000 New Zealanders settled permanently in Australia. New Zealandโs prime minister at the time, Robert Muldoon, had a ready reply to complaints: "New Zealanders who leave for Australia raise the IQ of both countries."
What would his IQ have to be in order to bring the average IQ up that high?
Ericules ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 08:38:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So I don't feel like actually doing the math, but say the avg IQ is 100, and people in US is ~300 million, Essentially 30 billion IQ points, to experience a 10% rise, ball park his IQ would be like negative 3 billion-ish-ish. Conclusion: u/mouslylion str8 rekt him
CRISPR ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:57:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
his IQ would be like negative 3 billion-ish-ish
Are you related to Dr. Dirac?
J_Keefe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:32:11 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
say the avg IQ is 100
It is. That's the definition of the IQ scale. One standard deviation is 15 points.
Mex-Box ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:52:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My buddy and I are entering the Fire Service, after four years we qualify to volunteer for a 6 month or 1 year tour of duty... We're going with the sole intention of tipping penguins.
Enjoy your $10,000 fine. You're not allowed to do anything at all to the wildlife down there. They'd shut down the airfield if a bunch of penguins found their way onto it.
Mex-Box ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:48:21 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How many people do you know who tipped over a penguin and/or have been banned from a continent... Worth it
Not only that but most of the ice has at least dropped out of college, a few PhDs as well
aoskunk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:09:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The biggest class clown in my high school is in Antarctica now. He has the most beautiful pics on his Facebook of penguins or couches he's built out of snow. I think he's a photographer. He was.. Not the brightest. Seems to be doing great for himself though and having the time of his life. He definitely brings down the average education in Antarctica right now though.
scragar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:33:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I typed it on a phone with autocorrect turned off (it was not letting me type swear words and took far too much effort to adjust words to what I wrote any time it changed them randomly, including its occasional bouts of changing "I'll" to "ill" or "I'd" to "if" for no clear reason), so forgive the occasional typo please. I did edit the post to be corrected now though.
My sister-in-law studies penguins there. She got her PhD a few years back.
Ltb1993 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:41:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Smart people go to a dangerously cold area that can kill you in minutes far from any help where there is less protection from the sun and with magnetic interference that causes whatever other problems on top of that?
midvote ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:15:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Population statistics, such as those related to education, are generally measured based on that. E.g., these literacy rates. The people living in Antarctica at any given time would be counted under their country of citizenship.
Most of Antarctica's workforce isn't scientists. You've got all the supporting roles from janitors, cooks and maintenance to every role needed for the aircraft and ships coming in and out and doing the things they do on-continent.
mawo333 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:19:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sounds totally normal to me.
Permanent population 0, no locals, so no school dropouts, unemployed people and so on.
Just a bunch of scientists, highly skilled technicians, military servicemen and a small amount of normal jobs like cooks, carpenters, mechanics and so on
Reminds me of a quote from A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson:
โIt is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.โ
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:58:13 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An organelle within our cells that slows aerobic cellular respiration, which gives us most of our energy. It was a separate individual organism a long long time ago so it has different DNA than the rest of the cell.
The arctic and Antarctica got their names from this. Bears live in the arctic, getting its name from the bears that live there, the Arktos. There are no bears in Antarctica, or anti-Arktos, or no-bears.
If you set you hand palm down on a flat surface, and put the middle finger of that hand under your palm, you will not be able to lift your ring finger on that hand using only that hand.
Try it right now.
Edit: Make sure you middle finger is a far back as it can go (try to touch your wrist), and that all of your other fingers (index, thumb and pinkie) are still on the flat surface. If you still can lift your ring finger, congrats, you are incredibly flexible.
Yeah these people are cheating, it's physically impossible to do, middle finger needs to be jammed under there and the rest of your fingers remain flat.
You should physically not even feel like you can control the finger so its not about fighting pain.
sirin3 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:12:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should physically not even feel like you can control the finger
Some people feel as if they can move anything with their telekinetic powers
They're not pathetic, it's just that your middle and ring fingers are tied by the same tendons. Restricting the movement of your middle finger restricts the movement of the ring finger.
You can also try this trick with both your hands together. Press your palms and fingertips together, but then point your middle fingers down so the backs of the knuckles are flat against each other. You should be able to separate each of your finger tips...except for the ring fingers.
LioBio ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:39:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am not saying that you are wrong, but the same thing happens when you put index finger under and try raising your middle finger. Why does it not impair the movement both ways?
The last three fingers on your hand have a distinctively different function than the index and thumb. They are the "anchor digits" and are used primarily for gross motor functions and strength whereas the index finger and thumb are used mostly for finer control and manipulation.
sowega ยท 126 points ยท Posted at 01:54:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My dad can do this. He told me when I was 8 if I could do it he'd give me $100. I did it. He never paid up, though he did take me to Toys-R-Us and said I could get anything I wanted, so it worked out.
In the last 20 years, I've met three or four other people who could do it. They received neither $100 nor a Toys-R-Us carte blanche from me.
Piano player of 20 years here, yah it's not easy but it can be done.
Finger independence ftw, sorta like limb independence for drummers but with 10 things to train instead of 4.
Edit:
Seems like the OP wasn't specific enough. If you only tuck in your middle finger a little bit so the fingertip is in contact with a little bit of palm close to the bottom of your finger (think the claw with two 90-degree turns), then it's very easy, almost effortless if you've played an instrument. My ring finger is a good 4-5cm off the ground this way.
However if you tuck in your middle finger as far back as possible (think the rock on finger sign but the middle finger is pulled back even more), so the fingertip is almost touching your wrist, then this task becomes A LOT harder. I get a lift of max. 2cm if I strain really hard.
I'm curious, can you lift your ring finger if you also put your pinky finger under your palm? I can lift mine about 4 mm with my middle finger tucked, but with my pinky it feels damn impossible.
Yes, just tried and I can still do it, but it's much harder. About 1.5 cm lift height if I only tuck the fingers in so the fingertips are touching the bottom part of that finger, but it gets nearly impossible as you tuck your fingers back as much as possible.
It's more than just four limbs for drummers though, it's not like a clockwork monkey bashing at thing using the limb as a whole.
Each limb is using different movements involving different muscles and tendons.
The feet might be striking with heel or toe, and the hands use all of the fingers to control a stick, or at least a fulcrum balanced between index and thumb and movement controlled by the last three fingers, and also involving a whip like motion of the entire limb.
You're link says nothing of the sort, in western culture my statement is correct. The information provided is also not sourced and is the same as me saying my statement.
I'm gonna go with tendons for myself. Because I can do it but only by lifting my pinky finger as well, you can say that's cheating which is fair but my pinky and ring finger seem to be connected in that way, for instance the "boy scouts salute" I can't bend my pinky down without the ring finger bending too so I can't do the 3 finger salute thing and tuck the pinky under the thumb
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 02:03:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone can do it by also picking up the pinky, and for the boyscout salute it typically is difficult/is painful until you do it a lot.
I was able to do it without lifting up my pinky. Pinky definitely helps, but I forced my pink down and still got about 1/4 inch clearance on the ring finger.
same here. now my left hand is going to hurt for about an hour, but my right hand could do it without any problems. Also, contrary to belief, I can lick my own elbow. Well, I could in high school. I can't twist my arm like I used to be able to.
Ahh okay gotcha. I had just always seen people do that and figured there's something wrong with my hands or something lol
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:46:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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crossmr ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:35:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How can you keep your hand flat if you need to put your middle finger under your palm? Is your middle finger basically flat?
I can do it on both hands without issue.
I did it without lifting my pinky, everything stayed flat except my ring finger.. hurt like a bitch and I can only do it with my dominant hand (can't even move my non-dominant)
I can do it too, but it does feel funny, like this never-used tendon is suddenly called up to the free throw line with 2 seconds left when we're one point down.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:59:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can do this. Dunno if the fact that I'm double jointed matters. I also have freaky tendons, I can bend my leg backwards past my hips from behind and place my foot in front of my stomach.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:23:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tendon's are fucked for me. Rheumatoid Hyper-Mobility. Some people might have a "double joint" or two, but every single one of my fingers, both my hips, shoulders, ankles, toes, wrists, and many of my vertebrae are all "double jointed". I looked it up and only about 2% of American's have it.
I love doing that to a room full of kids I'm roped into babysitting.. they spend at least an hour trying to "psyche" each other out by lifting their ring finger xD
Nirheim ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:49:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yee because there's no extensor going just to the ring finger, or the middle finger for that matter, they share one with the pointer finger, but the pointer also gets another one, so that's why it can move on its own and all that jazz.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:48:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read this once when I was very young, and have trained myself to be able to actually do this. Will post video if people are interested.
Dmongun ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:54:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My dad loves to show off that he can do this, although only on his right hand.
When he was a kid he was involved in an accident that resulted in a trailer hitch slamming down on his hand. It did no permanent damage other than severing whatever tendon/ligament/whatever it is that prevents you from doing this.
I've seen him win a lot of beers from people in bars with this "bet."
Here's another one, though: Find a wall and a bar stool. (You can use anything tall enough to pick up from that position. A chair, a tray table, whatever.) Stand three lengths of your own foot back from the wall. Place the bar stool in front of you and lean against the wall with the top of your head. Pick up the bar stool. Now, without pushing off the wall with your forehead, stand up.
I can lift mine. It's only barely enough to get off the table but I can break contact from the surface. I thought I may have been doing it wrong but my middle finger is folded under my palm as far as I can feasibly make it go.
Then again I'm a musician so maybe that plays into the finger strength.
I can lift my ring finger about 1/4 of an inch. Now the top of my hand feels weird and a spot about two inches below my elbow hurts. Am I going to die?
I tried so hard. I thought of my family in need, children needing me to protect them, of horrible torture and pain, and I gave it everything I had. Sweating, vein on head, ect.
jcpmojo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I can do this. I used to do a bar trick where I would put my hand palm down, put my middle finger under my palm then use the tips of the ring and index fingers to pick up a match book and place it on the top of a standing box of cigarettes. Let me know if anybody else can do this. I've never seen anyone else do it.
vodoun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can do it, but I'm double jointed
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I tried it and I have found my secret talent. Thank you.
EchoPhi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I actually can. granted not much more than 1/4th an inch. And no the rest of my hand did not move.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember doing that in middle school. I was able to actually lift my finger verrry slightly up before feeling immense pain. Everyone was impressed and I remained a loser.
Just tried it again now. Felt the pain but I can't do it.
I've always wondered why I can't move the toes between my big and pinky toes independently of each other to any meaningful degree.
Rupour ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:58:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can do this quite easily and have been since the first time someone told me about this. Here is some proof. There comes a point where if my hand is high enough I cannot do it though. I'm guessing that my tendons are all kinds of messed up because if I put my ring finger under my palm I can't lift my pinkie finger, which is something literally everybody I know can do.
I can do it (not very far, and it does hurt), but I've spent the better part of 15 years training my fingers to do stupid, pointless things, so I think I have slightly better control over than than most people.
Most people also can't bend their pinky finger without bending their ring finger
djc6535 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:33:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sets hand palm down on flat surface
Puts middle finger under palm.
Lifts entire hand up off the table. Ring finger comes with it.
You were doing so well... you even specified which middle finger to put under my palm... but you never said whether my palm had to stay down or not.
PS: I'm not entirely pedantic. I got there because I did it successfully, but my pinky finger was so far in the air that I wondered if that counted or not. Then I realized you never said how much of my palm/hand/whatever had to stay down.
It's interesting that it doesn't work the other way around, though. You can still lift your middle finger with your ring finger under your palm, albeit not as much as you can normally
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:19:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It's easily lifting. So same hand? Just tuck the middle finger of the same hand under the palm on a flat surface?
Cause ring finger is lifting an inch plus over the others...
Edit: Yeah, pinky's down touching the surface (the base of it is raised, the first and second joints are touching.)
I can also do the "bend your thumb to your arm" thing"
I can lift it a couple millimeters with the middle knuckle and pinky tight against the table. If I lift up my pinky, then I can lift the middle finger a good couple of centimeters, and that's 100% fair because there was no rule that I couldn't.
Not American so I'm not 100% on three answer, but aren't the marines part of the navy?
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:02:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, they're their own entity. Funnily enough the Navy does have ground forces it can deploy in a similar role to what you think the Marines would do. And the Army had amphibious assault units which basically do what the Marines were supposed to do.
crono09 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:56:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Technically, yes, the Marines have been part of the Navy since 1834. Functionally, they operate as separate branches of the military with the Marines using the Navy for transportation and support.
kieppie ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:38:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a bit like saying they win the world series every year...
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:25:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uhhh...
You must be unaware that the US is not the only country in North America.
kieppie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:48:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I actually didn't know that. Knew of Canada, Mexico & a few others, but not 41.
Still, saying the US has the biggest $something on the continent is hardly comparing it to anything else of comparable scale: biggest population, GDP, homelessness, tall people, short people, left-handednes, cars, death form preventable illness, etc, etc
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:59:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It doesn't have the biggest something, though. It has the 4 biggest of something. And furthermore, that something is something a lot of people didn't even know we had more than 1 of.
That's what's interesting about it.
"What? We have 4 air forces? And even the smallest of those 4 is bigger than the biggest air force in the other 41 countries in North America? That is interesting."
So your analogies aren't really analogous. Your analogies would work if he said the US has the biggest Air Force in North America. But he didn't say that. He said the US has the top 4 biggest Air Forces in North America.
kieppie ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 19:45:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So it has the biggest subset for a set it consists almost entirely of?
Sure - that makes total sense, but the same would hold true for almost any other subset you can think of.
Not exactly a counterintuitive fact as per OP's question, init?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:53:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And now I'm officially bored of this conversation. Goodday.
Well, at least concerning the aircraft, each branch has aircraft specialized for their service. The Navy has a load of carrier aircraft, Air Force has everything, Marines and Army have (mostly) aircraft that engage in ground-attack and supporting infantry. It may seem chaotic, but it simplifies things when you're a Marine in Basra and would otherwise have to call up the chain of command and across to another branch to get an Apache over your head.
As of 2014, at least, there is still a pension being paid out for service in the American Civil War (1861-1865). It's claimed by a woman born in 1930 to a mother who was 50 years younger than her husband, Mose Triplett. Triplett served in the Civil War at the age of 16. She is in her 80s, and still gets ~$70 a month for her father's military service.
The Earth does not rotate once in 24 hours. It rotates once in 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds. The reason a day is 24 hours is because as the Earth rotates upon its axis it's also orbiting the Sun and 24 hours is the average time between high noons over one orbit.
Reagalan ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 04:54:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sidereal vs synodic. Thanks Kerbals!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:34:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Days are synodic, years are tropical, but none of the calendar measures are actually sidereal. Tropical is about seasons or the orientation of the Earth's axis - because of the precession of the equinoxes, or the slow shift in the axis, it is not exactly as long as a sidereal year. If we measured years in sidereal terms, the seasons would be flipped every 13,000 years.
It's pretty badass how the precession (which is about 1 degree in 100 years) was originally observed with naked eye by one dude in Ancient Greece, over his entire lifetime.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:00:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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munchler ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 04:23:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We need leap years because Earth revolves around the sun every 365.24 days, not exactly 365 days. That extra 0.24 days adds up to one whole day every four years or so (0.24 * 4 = 0.96).
Kurozy ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 04:35:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So does it mean that every 100 years we should skip that extra day because of it being 0.96 and not exactly 1 ?
Correct. It is 400. The leap centuries on the Gregorian calendar are 1600, 2000, 2400, 2800, and so on.
Drigr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:04:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So i got to live through a new millenia, century, decade, AND lead century?! Fucking sweet
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:51:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's it. Every hundred years there isn't a leap year, but every hundred leap years there is.
th3xile ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:52:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, every hundred isn't BUT every fourth one of those is still a leap year (so 1600 and 2000 were still leap years).
zeekar ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:55:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Not thousand, 400. 2400 will also be a leap year.
The calendar repeats exactly every 400 years in a cycle that includes 146,097 days. So it averages out to 146097 / 400= 365.2425 days per year.
The specific physical year the calendar was designed to track is the "tropical year", according to which the seasons return. Because the part of the orbit that is e.g. "spring" is slowly moving around with respect to the stars, the actual value of the tropical year varies depending on when you measure it. The "average of averages" for the current epoch is about 365.2422 days, so we're pretty close.
if (year is not divisible by 4) then (it is a common year)
else if (year is not divisible by 100) then (it is a leap year)
else if (year is not divisible by 400) then (it is a common year)
else (it is a leap year)
so every 400th year we put that skip day back in (last time in the year 2000)
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:25:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are also leap seconds added every now and then, in order to make it even more accurate.
Yes every 100 years we skip a leap day unless that year is a multiple of 400 which we than keep the lead day. Year 2000 had a leap day but year 2100 won't
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:22:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. It pertains to the position of the Earth's axis relative to Sun (which is what causes seasons), not Earth's revolutions around the Sun. They have slightly different periods. The axis, you see, is also rotating very slowly relative to the solar system (in astronomy, this is called lunisolar precession). If we measured the years by the revolutions, not the axis, it would take about 13,000 years for Christmas to be in the middle of summer in the Northern hemisphere.
zeekar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:53:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Nah. We need leap years because the amount of time the Earth takes to go all the way around the sun isn't exactly an even multiple of the amount of time it takes to spin around its own axis. It would be kind of an amazing coincidence if it were, don't you think?
we also offset the time difference with leap years (the minutes are taken care of by not having a leap year on centuries unless the first two digits are also divisible by four).
No, you're confused between rotation and orbit. We have a leap year because the length of an orbit is slightly longer than 365 days.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:28:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not the orbit either. It's the position of the Earth's axis with respect to the Sun. The two have slightly different periods because of the slow rotation of the axis itself (precession). If you measured by the orbit, the seasons versus months would be completely flipped every 13,000 years.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:11:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a sidereal year, which is based on the orbit. But the calendar years are based on tropical years, which are based on the position of the axis. It was one of the first things we covered in the Astronomy 101 course.
...the tropical year is about 20 minutes shorter than the time it takes Earth to complete one full orbit around the Sun as measured with respect to the fixed stars (the sidereal year).
The Gregorian calendar, as used for civil and scientific purposes, is an international standard. It is a solar calendar that is designed to maintain synchrony with the mean tropical year.
Great, I was talking about the rotation of the Earth compared to a day.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:35:53 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You were actually talking about leap years, which occur because of the corrections that the Gregorian calendar makes in order to sync with the tropical year. Calendar days are just synodic and aren't related to the tropical year by any raw number, which is why there needs to be corrections.
If the rotation of the earth is nearly 4 minutes short of 24 hours why doesn't the sunrise/sunset times shift (other than the rate they do due to seasons).
Well yeah. That with the tilt of the earth causes seasons, yes. The rotation of earth causes days. If it was 4 minutes short of 24 hours wouldn't sunrise/sunset shift close to half an hour a week? Sorry I'm just not following how the orbit makes up for a full 4 minutes a rotation.
Go outside and stand facing a tree. Turn around once. That's turning once on your axis. Now turn around once but walk a little around the tree. After turning once you won't be facing the tree, you'll be a little off. You'll need to turn a little more than once to be facing the tree again.
Picture the Earth orbiting the Sun. On day 1 you're looking up at high noon. 6 months worth of rotations and it's now midnight (the Earth is now on the opposite side of the Sun).
I never thought of that but it makes sense. 4 minutes a day means roughly 24 hours in a year. If earth rotated fully in 24 hours, after half a year noon would be midnight. Neat!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:39:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A calendar year is actually the length of the axial rotation with respect to the Sun (or in other words a full seasonal cycle). It's about 20 minutes shorter than the length of the revolution.
Weeks just exist because people regularly need days off. I wonder who originally started counting our 7-day weeks and if they've ever lost count since.
Suppose someone tells you that every day for the entire month of May, they will give you a certain amount of money, and you get to choose one of these two options:
$100,000 each day
1 cent on the first day, but the amount doubles every day
You would receive more money if you picked the second option.
Here's how the math works out. For the first option, you get $3.1 million. For the second option, you get 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + ... + 230 cents, which is equal to 231-1 cents, so it comes out to about $21.4 million (or exactly $21,474,836.47).
dactyif ยท 70 points ยท Posted at 08:57:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't there an anecdote about some Chinese advisor did the emperor a favour and in return asked for a grain of rice on a chess board getting doubled as it moves along the squares, emperor said sure! But ended up killing the advisor because he couldn't pay up.
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 11:52:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
man someone should write a book on how to not get killed in imperial china
Pfft, amateurs. If Donald Trump has taught me anything, it's that with a small gift of $100,000 dollars I could easily set up my own business and immediately make more money than I'd ever get relying on handouts every day.
I had it that way originally but changed it. The reason is, the first day is 20 cents, so the last day is 230 cents. Thus you need to find the sum of 2N where N is 0..30, so that's 231-1.
Sitting in a bar in Lake Tahoe I met a couple from Arkansas who thought Beverly Hills was just a short drive away. Sweet people, 'bout as sharp as a spoon.
Sitting in a bar in Sacramento I met a couple who didn't know Sacramento is North of San Francisco. This one is far more depressing because it's happened more than once.
Relatively speaking, the Arkansas couple was brother and sister as well
mattoly ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 02:30:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh man, I know what you mean. I'm in Seattle. When I was like 13 one of my mom's cousins from the south who had never been west of the Mississippi came to visit for three days. It was going to be two, but they wanted to make sure we'd have time to "drive down to the redwoods, see the Rockies, and check out the Golden Gate Bridge. And if we have time it'd be great to stop into Vancouver, Canada! The exchange rates are really good right now!"
This happened to me with relatives from New Hampshire. I live in Oregon. They didn't understand why we couldn't just make a day trip down to Disneyland, as it's "only one State away!"
mattoly ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:27:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right. It's like, California itself is all of your states combined. Got airfare?
The I-5's California interchanges hit number 796 before the Oregon border. Only beat by I-10's exit 880 in eastern Texas.
As someone who grew up in the South, I thought I-40's 451 in Tennessee was high. These numbers completely blew my mind at first.
While we're on the topic of interstate exit numbers, I know of three exit 0's: I-94 at I-90 in Montana; I-65 over the Ohio River north of Louisville, Kentucky; and I-40 at the Texas-New Mexico border.
Although all four I-5 interchanges are around a mile apart in Anderson, CA, the numbers go 665, 667A, 667B, 668. They intentionally skipped exit number 666.
The I-5's California interchanges hit number 796 before the Oregon border.
I moved from Seattle to Los Angeles a couple years ago. On the drive down, it really feels like you're halfway there when you hit the California state line.
Then you see exit 796. "I forgot CA had exit numbers that close to 800."
(The 101 is pretty close too: it's got an exit 794 and would actually be a good bit above 800 if the northern end were freeway.)
Then you get teased again when you hit Sacramento and all the overhead signs start saying Los Angeles. Feels like you're practically there! Nope, you've got another 5-6 hours of mostly arrow-straight freeway in the middle of nowhere to go, unless you want to spend 7 hours driving down the 99.
I've driven from Sacramento to San Diego a few times too many, can confirm. Los Angeles is your "well, I'm basically there!" point. After that you just have between two and eight hours to go to get to SD, depending on LA traffic.
I've done LA to SD a few times as well as the longer drive, I don't feel like I'm "getting there" for SD until I pass San Clemente. May simply be I visited LA frequently for a long time before moving, but SD only once.
In a similar vein, I always seem to forget Santa Clarita is there when I'm heading south, so I'm always surprised to not see the 14 and the 210 on signs coming out of Castaic.
I have no idea if the hills have an actual name. The ones south of town are "the South hills" and the ones northeast are "the Coburg hills". Then there's a few buttes around the area that have their own names.
Driving from Reno to Tahoe my aunt from Vermont exclaimed "it's like we're driving over the freaking alps!"
DaSaw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:47:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shoot, I grew up in California, and even I had trouble remembering how big it was. There I was thinking I could drive from Portland to Fresno in a day. Nope.
You should have taken her to Vancouver Washington, then just gone to Portland and told her the golden gate (Morrison) bridge doesn't look much like the pictures.
dj_soo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:02:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vancouver is only 2 hours north so it is feasible to do a day trip from Seattle.
mattoly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:28:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure, but not with everything else as well.
dj_soo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:37:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well yea. If they thought they were going to do LA, San Fran, and Vancouver in the same day then... Wow.
The amount of Americans that don't know fuck all about basic geography is astounding to me. I mean I can point out Kyrgyzstan on an unmarked map but most of my friends can't point out Iowa on an unmarked map
CA's geography is kind of simple though. It's a big ass valley, surrounded by mountains. All the rivers in the valley flow into San Francisco Bay. LA is south of the big ass valley.
And you know the angle in California's border with Nevada? That's where Lake Tahoe is.
Yeah, I know it's not that simple. If I had time, I'd make a map for this too.
And for a sense of scale, CA has 840 miles of coastline. OR and WA combined have 453.
I used to explain to my navy buddies that the Reason a guy from LA isn't a San Francisco niners fan... is like a guy from Florida being a giants fan. It's no where freaking near me.
I guess its just annoying to explain to someone how large California is when they all had maps in grade school. Dealt with this a lot during my enlistment. Also I think going from LA to SF is a lot different than some other larger states because well fuck it Traffic.
Huh. I thought Sacramento was in between LA and San Fran, basically where Fresno is. I must have thought it was between the two biggest cities for convenience, but Sacramento is straight up NorCal.
NorCal isn't even truly northern California it's more like central
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:38:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't know either of these things, but I'm Canadian so I suppose that'd be why.
Who_GNU ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:10:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you ever seen "Better off Dead"? They live in Northern California, but they watch Dodgers games in person, like it's a ten minute drive to the stadium.
Currently on a bus from Sac to LA. 12 hour long trip. Definitely a short trip . Granted, we are going through SF. It would be about 7 hours if I drove.
All of us Arkansans are not like this, I promise. I did have a funny interaction in a Tilted Kilt outside of Detriot, Michigan once, when I was up there on business. I ordered a beer and was carded, the waitress looked at my card and back at me. "Arkansauce?" "Yes, ma'am. I'm from Arkansas." The poor girl probably couldn't point out the general region Arkansas is in.
lmrk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:50:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's your game? You try to pick up couples in bars all over the place?
Sitting in a bar in Sacramento I met a couple who didn't know Sacramento is North of San Francisco. This one is far more depressing because it's happened more than once.
Sitting in a bar in Sacramento I met a couple who didn't know Sacramento is North of San Francisco. This one is far more depressing because it's happened more than once.
Having lived just outside Sacramento, I can see why someone would think that. To get from Sac to the bay, you take 80 West. To get from the bay back to Sacramento, you take 80 East.
the layman isn't accounting for the fact that whatever genius interstate designer came up with "80 West" had it travel as far or farther south as it does west between Sac and SF. A completely understandable mistake tbqh.
Sll3rd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:10:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're not from California, you likely don't know a whole lot about California geography.
Hell, I couldn't tell you much about say... Kentucky geography. Maybe less than what the couple you met from Arkansas knows about California geography.
I can confirm this. I moved to reno a couple years back and when I tell my friends in PA that I can see California from my house they go, "oh you must be like 20 minutes from the ocean then!" Uhm no California is about as big as if the east coast from PA to Georgia was all one state
Mtanak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:56:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, are you saying that OP's mom is not only a slut, but in fact does NOT carry around her young in a pouch while munching on eucalyptus? I've been had!
People think chlamydia is the clap because the name sounds similar, but gonorrhea is the std that is referred to as the clap. Common misconception among people but I doubt most doctors would get that wrong.
[deleted] ยท 55 points ยท Posted at 04:18:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is completely untrue . Koalas have two types of Chlamydia: Chlamydia pecorum and Chlamydia pneumoniae. Neither of these are the same as the Chlamydia that humans get; pecorum is the common type that affects most koalas and pneumoniae is very rare. Pecorum cannot jump to other species .Pneumonia can, but there is no evidence of this ever spreading from koalas to humans.
The reason you think koalas are cute and sweet is that they spend around 20 hours out of every 24 asleep, with a metabolic rate half that of a normal mammal. Why are they so slow and sleepy? Because they're drugged to the eyeballs, struggling to digest ridiculous levels of toxins from their diet of poisonous eucalyptus leaves.
For the other 4 hours, in the depths of the spring night, their true nature emerges. And you don't want to be there when that happens. The evening starts with a series of bloodcurdling bellows (think Darth Vader with a chainsaw). That's the males sizing one another up. Larger males viciously attack smaller ones. They chase, wrestle and bite one another. It's every koala for himself in this ugly melee, as their tiny, drug-addled brains are too stupid to form any sort of coalition or even recognize one another effectively. Virtually every adult male bears numerous scars on his arms, face and ears from this seasonal conflict.
Why are they fighting? The usual reason. Girls. It used to be thought that one dominant male would mate with all the females in one area. But it turns out female koalas are highly promiscuous. They will mate with pretty much anybody, so dominant males spend much of their time and energy trying to drive away interlopers. They also smear urine and chest secretions on everything in their territory to try to stake their claim. This seems to prevent other dominant males from claiming the territory, but it doesn't stop wandering juvenile males from sneaking in to get it on with the local matrons.
As exciting as this lifestyle might be, hygienic it is not. Chlamydia is transmitted sexually and in open wounds, and possibly in urine and chest secretions as well. Since males are routinely involved in random violence, and females are routinely involved in random sex, infections spread like wildfire. It doesn't help that koala populations these days are often confined to small, isolated patches of habitat where their populations fluctuate dramatically, leading to low genetic diversity which may compromise their immune systems. Many also have immune problems caused by a widespread retrovirus. Plus, one of the effects of chlamydia is to render females infertile, which may lead to them going into estrus more often, which may result in them having sex with more males, causing more fights and spreading more chlamydia.
jak_jak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:43:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Omg let's totally miss the point of your interesting fact by flipping out that you didn't use 50 year old slang correctly! I hear you OP, and I will wear a condom when and if I ever meet a koala. You've changed one life.
Complete nonsense. Koalas in zoos are tame because they have spent all their lives around people. Some of them love cuddles. I did volunteer work at a wildlife park and there was one koala who would come over and climb up me whenever I came into the enclosure.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:34:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah well you should hear cats during mating season. Doesn't stop th being cute and cuddly the majority of the time.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:22:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was thinking about this the other day while watching American Dad. It was the episode where Haley flirts with Reggie and all I can think of is "she's gonna get the clap from him."
Canada is technically more south than all of Idaho, Maine, New Hampshire, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Washington, Oregon, Vermont, Wisconsin and the Dakota's.
Canada's southernmost point is further south than the northern border of California.
scoo89 ยท 58 points ยท Posted at 03:54:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I grew up there, and the southernmost part of the Canadian mainland (Point Pelee) has a little monument at the 42nd parallel that names all the major cities at the same latitude. When I was little it was mind boggling to think I was further south than some parts of California.
Because India seems more south than the US. But non of mainland Asia is south of the equator. Singapore (is an island but it's mostly hugged around by the mainland) is a 1ยฐ N iirc.
Oh OK, it's probably because I'm not north American so I don't have the same bearings. I kind of have it set in my mind that Asia is definitely in the northern hemisphere :)
Who_GNU ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:07:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think your use of "all of" is confusing. It sounds like you are saying that Canada is more south than all of Idaho, all of Maine, all of New Hampshire, etc.
A lot of people don't realize this. Though I'm definitely old enough that even 18 year olds feel too young to me, whenever people are like "yeah, x more months until s/he's legal!" when talking about a 17 year old, I point out that my state has two different methods of consent: 16 overall, 13-16 if the other person is within 4 years of them.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
best post so far
matixer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:07:18 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thats worrying
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:21:54 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're an idiot or immature..what this guy said is the best example of OP'S GAME. Not right as in I support it.. It's wrong but legally right.
matixer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:34:15 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol okay jared
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:40:58 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shut up you're adopted
NYChomie ยท 1831 points ยท Posted at 01:18:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Begin standing somewhere along the equator, and start a timer that's counting up in seconds.
For every 1 billion years that passes, take one step forward. Repeat this process until you fully circle the earth, with 1 billion years passing in between each step.
Once you arrive back at your starting location, remove 1 droplet of water from the Pacific Ocean.
Now repeat the process of circling the earth, with 1 billion years in between each step, removing 1 droplet of water from the Pacific Ocean upon every complete circulation. Once you've completely emptied the Pacific Ocean, place a sheet of paper down at your feet.
Repeat the entire process of circling the earth, removing a drop of water from the ocean, and placing down a sheet of paper upon emptying the ocean, until the stack of paper reaches from the earth to the moon.
Repeat this ENTIRE process over again approximately 389 more times. Yes, three hundred and eighty nine.
The amount of seconds on that timer represents the total possible number of unique combinations for a standard deck of 52 cards.
Edit: it turns out I severely underestimated the amount of times you'd have to repeat the entire process... It's not 389, it's actually 1,167,000 times!
Keep in mind it's a rough estimate but very close! Take a moment to grasp how large of a number that truly is... It's mind boggling
NYChomie ยท 846 points ยท Posted at 01:59:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They say that every time you shuffle a deck of cards, it's never been shuffled in that exact order before. Every shuffle creates a new combination that's never existed before.
This is because there's SO MANY possible ways to arrange a simple deck of cards. The above is a thought experiment to conceptualize just how large that number is.
I think my mobile Reddit must have cut off your last paragraph. Cause when I read it, it just read as you telling us to walk around the earth for billions of years scooping up and dropping water for no reason.
If you read your comment without the last bit, it just sounds like a crazy person rant. Makes more sense now!
Xalteox ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 02:34:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you want to know the exact number of combinations, it is 80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883277824000000000000
AP246 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:47:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll just round that down to the nearest 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000. Makes it easier to remember.
If any of my friends leave their facebooks up I kind of want to leave OPs comment, bar the final explanation about cards, as their status. So many WTFs and more creative than the usual.
Eighty unvigintillion, six hundred fifty-eight vigintillion, one hundred seventy-five novemdecillion, one hundred seventy octodecillion, nine hundred forty-three septendecillion, eight hundred seventy-eight sexdecillion, five hundred seventy-one quindecillion, six hundred sixty quattuordecillion, six hundred thirty-six tredecillion, eight hundred fifty-six duodecillion, four hundred three undecillion, seven hundred sixty-six decillion, nine hundred seventy-five nonillion, two hundred eighty-nine octillion, five hundred five septillion, four hundred forty sextillion, eight hundred eighty-three quintillion, two hundred seventy-seven quadrillion, eight hundred twenty-four trillion
Eighty unvigintillion, six hundred fifty-eight vigintillion, one hundred seventy-five novemdecillion, one hundred seventy octodecillion, nine hundred forty-three septendecillion, eight hundred seventy-eight sexdecillion, five hundred seventy-one quindecillion, six hundred sixty quattuordecillion, six hundred thirty-six tredecillion, eight hundred fifty-six duodecillion, four hundred three undecillion, seven hundred sixty-six decillion, nine hundred seventy-five nonillion, two hundred eighty-nine octillion, five hundred five septillion, four hundred forty sextillion, eight hundred eighty-three quintillion, two hundred seventy-seven quadrillion, eight hundred twenty-four trillion combinations. How do you shuffle, shuffle a deck of cards?
Sorry, I'm retarded. I was confused. I was very obviously wrong.
Idk why I even suggested 16..
jtr99 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:02:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't beat yourself up. You're right about a related question. If you have 4 cards and you want to know how many subsets of those cards you could select (i.e., you're not interested in ordering) then you're absolutely right about the answer being 24 = 16.
Each card can be in or out of the subset (two states), and each card's selection choice is independent of the other cards, so it's 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 = 16. (So hopefully you can see that if we had 52 cards it would be 252 though, not 5252.)
Anyway, this is easily confused with the ordering question. You didn't do too bad.
No no, I really have to beat myself up for this. I actually as a matter of fact, do know a little more than the basics of statistics but for the love of all that's good, I have absolutely no idea how I came up with my original retarded question. But thank you for taking your time to try and console my stupidity. I appreciate it.
ChurM8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even if 42 was correct wouldn't it then be 522 not 5252 ??
It's 52 * 51 * 50 * 49 * 48.....* 3 * 2 * 1, which is an absurdly large number. When properly shuffled, your odds of getting the exact same deck that someone else has are so low that they are practically non-existent. You're MUCH more likely to get struck by lightning 100 times AND win the lottery 100 times in your lifetime than draw the same card order someone else has.
arkayic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:36:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is correct, but when you put it like that it seems small. The above explanation shows exactly how large 52! Actually is.
drkitteh ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 06:03:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except that's not true. Shuffling isn't truly random. If you shuffle a new deck of standard playing cards, you'll run into an existing shuffle rather quickly. The theory and practice of it are very different.
Not sure about that. I remember reading somewhere that 7 rifle shuffles (cutting a deck in half and sort of fanning them against one another) is enough to sufficiently randomize any deck.
every time you shuffle a deck of cards, it's never been shuffled in that exact order before
Assuming you're shuffling it sufficiently randomly (which takes about 7 riffle shuffles).
Vakieh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:27:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except when you shuffle cards, you don't perfectly randomly shuffle them - there are set patterns everybody follows to some degree or another, meaning that assuming you start with the cards in suit order, you get a higher and higher chance of a unique combination the more you shuffle them.
A better analogy I had seen was if every star in the Milky Way has a trillion planets, and if there were a trillion people on each, each with a trillion decks of cards all being shuffled every second since the beginning of time, and at least 1000 per shuffle were unique only now would we be expecting repeating decks to show up.
Mcoov ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But to be hones, cards have been around for a long time and many many many sufferings have occurred throughout history. How many combinations are there actually?
Sasamus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:18:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now I'm wondering what the percentage chance is to have a previously existing shuffle.
Since we'd need to know the amount of shuffles ever made and what order they where it would be quite hard to calculate.
Things like this is the reason to why my answer to "What superpower would you have?" may legitimately be to know all statistics, even ones using numbers no one knows yet or even can know.
It may be OP as all hell but I regularly think about how nice that would be.
Imagine you had a trillion planets, each one with a population of a trillion people, and each person was capable of shuffling a trillion decks of cards a second, and they had been doing so every second for the whole 14 billion years the universe has existed. There would still only be a roughly 0.00000000000001% chance that the exact same order of cards had occurred.
52 options for the top card, then 51 options for the next card, then 50 options for the next card, [...] , then 2 options for the second-bottom card, then 1 option for the bottom card.
52 x 51 x 50 x [...] x 2 ( x 1) = 8.0650175 x 1067
I mean, d'you know what eternity is? There's this big mountain, see, a mile high, at the end of the universe, and once every thousand years there's this little bird-"
"What little bird?" said Aziraphale suspiciously.
"This little bird I'm talking about. And every thousand years-"
"The same bird every thousand years?"
Crowley hesitated. "Yeah," he said.
"Bloody ancient bird, then."
"Okay. And every thousand years this bird flies-"
"-limps-"
"-flies all the way to this mountain and sharpens its beak-"
"Hold on. You can't do that. Between here and the end of the universe there's loads of-" The angel waved a hand expansively, if a little unsteadily. "Loads of buggerall, dear boy."
"But it gets there anyway," Crowley persevered.
"How?"
"It doesn't matter!"
"It could use a space ship," said the angel.
Crowley subsided a bit. "Yeah," he said. "If you like. Anyway, this bird-"
"Only it is the end of the universe we're talking about," said Aziraphale. "So it'd have to be one of those space ships where your descendants are the ones who get out at the other end. You have to tell your descendants, you say, When you get to the Mountain, you've got to-" He hesitated. "What have they got to do?"
"Sharpen its beak on the mountain," said Crowley. "And then it flies back-"
"-in the space ship-"
"And after a thousand years it goes and does it all again," said Crowley quickly.
There was a moment of drunken silence.
"Seems a lot of effort just to sharpen a beak," mused Aziraphale.
"Listen," said Crowley urgently, "the point is that when the bird has worn the mountain down to nothing, right, then-"
Aziraphale opened his mouth. Crowley just knew he was going to make some point about the relative hardness of birds' beaks and granite mountains, and plunged on quickly.
"-then you still won't have finished watching The Sound of Music."
Aziraphale froze.
"And you'll enjoy it," Crowley said relentlessly. "You really will."
"My dear boy-"
"You won't have a choice."
"Listen-"
"Heaven has no taste."
"Now-"
"And not one single sushi restaurant."
A look of pain crossed the angel's suddenly very serious face.
I hate the fermi paradox video so fucking much. Ever since then Reddit spouts it off as scientific fact, when it's philosophy with absolutely zero basis in science.
Tzalix ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 11:16:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
wat
It's not philosophy. It's a paradox based on conflicts of probability. It has a pretty solid reasoning and basis in science.
It's more a hybrid of both, right? It's a thought experiment loosely based on a pair of scientific hypotheses that aren't exactly on super-solid ground, and which has spawned a hundred different possible "explanations" none with more evidence than the last.
Put down a piece of.... Paper.
But where does paper come from? Well, it all starts with.... Trees.
pops up from the bottom of the screen
So if you light a tree on fire, you'll get... Ash, but what is a Pokemon?
That's what I though, but vsauce's was closer; it had one more step involving the Grand Canyon and mt Everest, and was only 8 times off, not over a million.
To simplify: there are so many combinations for a deck of 52 cards, every time you shuffle a deck it's statistically very likely that the combination you're holding has never existed before.
I always thought this was exggerated. When we open a new pack of cards, it is prearranged in a specific order. Shuffling it once does not put it into a completely random order, and in fact it is pretty likely that one shuffle of a sorted deck will not produce any never-before-existent combinations. Similarly, whenever we play a game of cards, we are putting the cards in some sort of order. It is probably not a perfect order, but there will be more clumps of like cards than there would be in an average randomized deck, so shuffling it once from there is not producing a perfectly randomized deck either.
Basically, I'm sure there are a bunch of combinations that have existed many times over.
lianodel ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 07:44:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're correct! Obviously, if you shuffle a deck of cards, it's still in some kind of order. You won't know how exactly the cards are interspersed, but you know that each half of the deck is still in order, just interleaved with the other half. The 7 of clubs, for example, is probably going to be somewhere between the 6 of clubs and the 8 of clubs.
Mathematicians than figured out how many times you need to do a riffle shuffle before the cards are in a truly random order: seven.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:48:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think you're quite grasping how large of a number 52 factorial is. I understand it seems likely that at least once, because of certain permutations of all the possible orders being more likely than others due to game mechanics, that there's been a repetition at some point. It's literally next to impossible.
I think you may have misunderstood what I said entirely. If you take a new deck of cards out of a box and shuffle it once, there are way less than 52! possible permutations.
Depends what you mean by shuffling it once. If I open a new deck of cards to play a game of Poker, by the time I shuffle and deal the cards 3 minutes later they are as random as they could ever be.
I mean one riffle shuffle. It takes a bit of a leap to think I mean anything else.... One riffle of an ordered deck leaves the cards only interleaved, not shuffled in any randomized way. It takes around seven shuffles to create a randomized deck.
Yes, but when they refer to a "single shuffle", they are usually referring to a single riffle shuffle.
OIP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:06:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
very likely
given the number quoted above, this seems like an understatement
bregolad ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:59:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've read this before, and it's the only one on this thread that I genuinely can't allow myself to believe. I mean, there's only 52 fuckin' cards; how can there possibly be so many permutations from such a small number? I've seen the mathematical explanation and I just can't fathom it. This is probably what it feels like to be a religious follower faced with evidence of the duplicitous origin of their beliefs; or a parent who discovers the secret and sordid crimes of their children. It just doesn't fit my worldview and it has left me in a state of total discomfort.
And yet there are way bigger numbers. The number of combinations, is just 52*51*..*2*1, which is tiny:
eighty unvigintillion six hundred fifty-eight vigintillion one hundred seventy-five novendecillion one hundred seventy octodecillion nine hundred forty-three septendecillion eight hundred seventy-eight sedecillion five hundred seventy-one quindecillion six hundred sixty quattuordecillion six hundred thirty-six tredecillion eight hundred fifty-six duodecillion four hundred three undecillion seven hundred sixty-six decillion nine hundred seventy-five nonillion two hundred eighty-nine octillion five hundred five septillion four hundred forty sextillion eight hundred eighty-three quintillion two hundred seventy-seven quadrillion eight hundred twenty-four trillion
For some reason I calculated 100000*99999*99998*...*2*1 last week. That is a big number
You should think of The number "googol" it's just a 1 with 100 zeros behind it. Just picture that in your mind, now imagine a "googolplex" which is a 1 with a "googol" of zeros behind it, picture that in your head.
You literally cannot. There are only about 1080 atoms in the universe, so even if you tried to write out a googolplex by using individual atoms as the '0's, you'd still be about 20 orders of magnitude off.
Xalteox ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:32:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The exact number of possible different 52 card deck arrangements goes as follows. It is 52 factorial, or 80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883277824000000000000
snpi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:09:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Over 80 unvigintillion
a905 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:44:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well now I know what to pull out of my pocket at boring dinners or meetings! Thanks all!
Factorials are fun lol. Made a quick program to calculate the result of 52! It's:
80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883277824000000000000 seconds which is
933543694108146742727553667319488043695480387047260160000000000 days which is
2557653956460676007472749773478049434782138046704822356164383 years lol.
Some calculators don't handle numbers that large and I always forget which ones do. It's easier for me to write a 30 second program to find it instead of finding one (but this works so I guess it was kinda pointless).
yesat ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:20:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, the amount of arrangements of a deck of cards would be greater than the amount of atoms in the solar system. (repost of one of my comments from a similar thread.)
I checked it out, the arrangements of a deck of cards would be represented 52 factorial (52!), which is equal to about 8 x 1067. The number of atoms in the solar system is ~ 1.192 x 1057. So the arrangements of cards do seem to be greater than the atoms in solar system
That reminds me of how long a second of eternity is:
There is a diamond mountain that takes an hour to climb and an hour to go around. Every hundred years a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on it, and when the entire mountain is chiseled away, the first second of eternity will have passed.
that's pretty big, but peanuts compared to Graham's number. Tom imagine Graham's number, imagine the earth. Imagine that the earth is completely made up of sand and still the same size. Now imagine that each grain of sand on the planet is blown up to the size of the universe, so many many full sized universes. Now imagine that each one of those universes (universii?) is completely filled with lead. The total weight of all the lead filled universes is less that Graham's number.
Another way to think of how big Graham's number is that the number is so big that the information required to store the full number in your head would literally collapse your head into a singularity.
Once you arrive back at your starting location, remove 1 droplet of water from the Pacific Ocean.
Wait, I have to go all the way from Rwanda to the Pacific at this stage?
Why the fuck didn't you tell me earlier? I could have collected the drop when I walked passed. Or if you'd said so, I could have started right next to the ocean.
Jeez, dude.
iizwiz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:19:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now repeat the process of circling the earth, with 1 billion years in between each step, removing 1 droplet of water from the Pacific Ocean upon every complete circulation. Once you've completely emptied the Pacific Ocean, place a sheet of paper down at your feet.
Repeat the entire process of circling the earth, removing a drop of water from the ocean, and placing down a sheet of paper upon emptying the ocean, until the stack of paper reaches from the earth to the moon.
How the fuck do I remove a drop from the ocean when I've already emptied the ocean?
As a fan of randomization in games, I love this kind of stuff...yet am also saddened by it because the virtually infinite number of combos makes it highly unlikely that any player will ever experience the "best one".
Luckily due to seeds, fanbases for games often find and decide which they deem as the "current top picks".
That's obvious. But why does epi*i become negative?
_Verr ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 12:21:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
If you haven't seen this before it's normal to be amazed.
You can probably find lots of very good explanations regarding this online, but this is just how things 'are' if we want to extend the exponential function to the complex plane. It has the same power series as the real version but is no longer a positive (or real) number for all arguments, hence it can be negative.
Edit: If you think about it, i is a complex number so you would not expect ei*pi to be real. The fact it is -1 is just a consequence of -1 being pi radians (180 degrees) 'around the circle' from 1. In fact ei*x is whatever complex number falls on the unit circle x radians around from 1, as illustrated in the link.
Having discovered Euler's Identity before taking a precalculus class in high school, I called bs when my teacher said you can neither exponentiate nor log a complex number. I somehow never saw Euler's Formula, but having knowledge of the identity and a graphing calculator, I actually derived the formula on my own, and made it a habit to always treat exponents and logs as complex numbers whenever I had to show my work
That's not entirelly correct as it involves sort of a paradoxical proof. It starts by assuming a result that isn't quite correct but is assumed, and then passes from it to give such a number. Cesaro convegence for alternate series is sort of a gimmick that doesn't really make sense on infinite series.
Well, if there's anything I know about monkeys, it's that frog = fleshlight.
Thus, we can extrapolate this logic further to gorillas, which will scale in a linear fashion. Thus, we can infer that for gorrilas; chimp = fleshlight.
Kingeryck wasn't arguing that most/all people believe that rats are adult mice. He was responding to you saying "No. Seriously, no one."
I've raised a lot of domesticated rats. It's a misconception that I can promise you comes up. It's not overly widespread, most realize there is a difference (though often struggle to tell them apart and identify them individually). But it is a belief that exists.
Also your logic of Micky Mouse doesn't make a lot of sense. Even ignoring that it assumes someone was suggesting that all or most people believe that, it wouldn't necessarily be the case anyway. Rats have worse PR than mice; but a rat, especially a cartoon rat, wouldn't automatically receive mainstream rejection. Remy from Ratatouille as an example was well received.
If I understand correctly, they're not considered ponies because they're built like mini horses, and not like a pony. Ponies tend to have shorter legs and rounder tummies.
I could be wrong though. It's been a long time since I was a horse crazy little girl.
The funny thing is, this confusion stems from "pony" being a derivative of the old-fashioned French word "poulenet", which means "foal" or a baby horse. The official modern meaning of the word has changed, but it did originally mean baby horse, and that has somehow stuck around in some areas. I'm sure somebody more educated than me can explain why.
I actually thought a pony was a baby horse until fairly recently.
[deleted] ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 03:31:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe I'm an idiot but I've always thought pony meant baby horse, like a puppy is a baby dog or a kitten is a baby cat. Now I don't know what a pony is
hmblm12 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:04:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A kitten is also a baby bunny
[deleted] ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 03:38:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol But how did you explain fully grown mini-horses to yourself?
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 03:44:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That they are....fully grown mini-horses...
[deleted] ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 03:45:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is your opinion on Lego-horses?
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:53:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have no idea if that is a type or horse or you mean the toy Lego
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I saw a comment like this on reddit once and my boyfriend SERIOUSLY WOULDN'T BELIEVE IT, not sure if he does even now. When a notion takes hold in our minds while we're young, and we live our lives for many years without that idea being corrected, it is extraordinarily hard to get rid of it even with overwhelming proof to the contrary.
Personally I grew up with adult ponies and adult horses who had foals so there was never any question in my mind that there was a difference, but it's not like anyone ever specifically told me there was one. When you don't have a ready example, and a misinformed person rattles off some "fact" they heard from some other misinformed person...those ideas can propagate very well among people who have no other knowledge of the subject.
So yeah, it seems silly to people who know the obvious truth, but that's just because we had the opportunity to educate ourselves somewhere along the way that not everyone else had. Unless pony school is part of the standard curriculum now...
But to make matters more confusing, there are also separate horse and pony breeds and they tend to have different physical features from each other. They are then further divided by height for showing and general reference. So, you can have a Shetland pony, which is a pony breed and has typical pony characteristics, but can be taller than 14.1/14.2 and be referred to as a horse height wise and can show in horse classes.
Nope baby horses are called foals or you can be gender specific and called them either a colt (boy) or a filly (girl). The term pony when referencing height, wouldn't be used until they reach maturity and stop growing.
Technically a baby horse is a foal. The definition is referring to when the horse is fully mature. Though the wiki page linked does go on to say, "However, the term "pony" can be used in general (or affectionately) for any small horse, regardless of its actual size or breed."
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:19:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you cut the green part off and plant it and take care of it for a few years, it will eventually grow a new pineapple out of its center. You'll probably have to do it indoors unless you live in Hawaii or some other tropical hellhole.
Exactly. I once bought a really nice gyroscope from Japan, and a book about gyroscopes, and watched MIT open course videos about physics, just to try to understand the damn things.
The framework can be tilted at any angle and the wheel (as long as it's spinning) will maintain it's position. And I just don't get how.... and sometimes it kind of fights against you when you try to move it? I just... it boggles me....
sirin3 ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 15:47:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gravity is created when something spins very fast.
Thus you can create artificial gravity on a space ship by building a spinning wheel around it in which you live. It also means, if Earth suddenly stopped spinning, we would all float away into space.
I hope you're just trolling, but spinning things do not make gravity. In a spaceship, it simulates gravity because the centrifugal force pushes the things inside the ship outward, toward the floor. Gravity is created by the curvature of spacetime, which is done by having a high mass.
I'm currently reading a book about anti-gravity. I just can't put it down.
gonwi42 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:33:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
not really. tie the middle of a string to the middle of a pencil. pull both ends of the string. did the pencil move to be perpendicular to the string? if yes, that is what a gyroscope does, nothing else.
dinomic ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 13:14:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ducking under a desk or behind a wall a wall and covering yourself when you see the flash from a nuclear blast can will save your life. The fact that the public thinks duck and cover is a joke is one of the biggest threats to public safety for a country at risk of nuclear war.
mattemer ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 13:25:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I'm going to rely on this as my nuclear failsafe and put desks all through my house, I'd like more info please.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:26:32 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can find photos online of people from Hiroshima and Nagasaki who had unburned skin where their skin had been covered by fabric. If you're far enough away from the epicenter it can make a huge difference.
After helmets were introduced in battlefields, the number of head injuries went up.
This is because before helmets, head injuries meant death. So high death count, low head injury count. After the introduction of helmets, however, lower death count but more head injuries.
That was more a sequel than a revival though. Now, the people that liked That 70's Show are older and nostalgic and would potentially watch a good remake.
Edit: I think Fuller House proved that point. Season 2 will be the real defining point though.
I loved full house as a little kid but the nostalgia factor couldn't get me to actually watch more than 15 minutes of that trash. My point being nostalgia alone isn't enough to get a real viewer base, it will draw people in sure but it still has to have quality content to keep them
The reason "That 80s Show" failed is because it was too focused on the 80's as an entity. 70's show didn't focus on 70's in that way. It just happened to take place in the 70's and the decor and references were 70's. Other than that, it was just a regular sitcom. 80's show tried to play on all the 80's gimmicks and focused on the pseudo culture that was the 80's. The real problem is that anything from the 80's that would be entertaining to see would not be able to be broadcast during prime time and off premium channels. Also, they had it all wrong. It seems a lot of people don't know or are in complete denial of the 80's. Day-glo, leg warmers, those "sunglasses" that were plastic with little slits, hatchbacks.
plexust ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 08:51:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And Hip Hop, Indiana Jones, Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, Prince, Michael Jackson, the Gandhi-movie, the Cosby Show (not so funny in hindsight), Ghostbusters, The Blues Brothers, Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cop....
idwthis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:41:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sigh.
Just because a show was made in the 90's does it mean it's a show that takes place in the 90's.
If Friends were still on the air, it still would not qualify as a show about the 90's either, because it would be episodes taking place in our current/present time.
At some point there will be. "Happy Days" and "Wonder Years" and "That 70's Show" we're all set ~20 years before their air dates. It would be a good assumption that there will be an attempt at a show set in 90's suburban white America.
More than wanting to see a "That 90s Show," what this makes me think is... we're living "That 2010s Show" right fucking now. Be careful... don't blink! A decade will pass! It goes fast and gets faster, and before any of us know it, they'll be making a romanticized and tragic show about this time. Kids will look back and wonder what it was like, just as many of us younger people have about the 50s, 60s, and 70s. I don't think many of us, myself included, can really appreciate that.
atglobe ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:59:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean teenagers in a 90's Foreman's basement.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:34:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
full of meth and nirvana
idwthis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:43:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sigh.
Just because a show wasย madeย in the 90's does it mean it's a show that takesย placeย in the 90's.
If Seinfeld were still on the air, it still would not qualify as a showย aboutย the 90's either, because it would be episodes taking place in our current/present time.
I just explained this to someone else about Friends haha
I would watch it if it was a British show. The era of britpop, homosexuality suddenly being cool, etc. They could have a token North American who's obsessed with grunge music and someone who's obsessed with Princess Diana. Part That 70s Show, part The Young Ones.
The "manicured idiot" hasn't even presented a budget yet, so I fail to see how any further debt has been accumulated at all by the current government.
Also, this George Soros conspiracy whispering is starting to get ridiculous. Typical /r/conspiracy-level Jew blaming filtering into mainstream politics. What a time to be alive.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:19:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
At one point does /r/the_donald and /r/conspiracy cross over so that you can't tell one from the other? Is Hillary going to be a Trilateral/Illuminati/Freemason next? Is Sanders really a member of that old whackjob bugaboo, the Frankfurt School? It would really tie the red-baiting and the latent anti-Semitism together nicely.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Trump has literally talked about wanting to eliminate any media sources who oppose him, that's fascism. He wants to ban Muslims from entering the US and put them all in a database to track their every movement, that's fascism. He encourages violence against supporters of other candidates, anyone who opposes him, and ultimately the entire US if he fails to be elected, that's fascism.
The "words" quote was Trump talking about how smart he is. The full quote is "I am very highly educated. I know words, I have the best words." He speaks a 4th grade reading level so he appeals to people who aren't very smart.
No, Trump has not spoken about wanting to eliminate any media sources who oppose him.
Trump has spoken about wanting to be able to sue media that intentionally lie about someone in order to harm their reputation. That's libel and is indeed against the law.
It's nothing new, he'd just reinstate it, no longer exempting media from it. Intentionally lying is something different than opposing.
lol, I'm glad to know Canada has idiots just like the US does.
If I supplied quotes you'd still find a way to discredit them because they came from "the media" or whatever.
Instead of me proving to you why Trump is awful, how about you explain to me what exactly it is about Trump that you think he will do well. What policies of his do you agree with?
Trump is doing everything he can to get the disgruntled, impotent rage vote. His rhetoric has validated masses of angry bigots. While most people value egalitarianism, and bigotry is seen as socially unacceptable, ol' Donny is reviving, giving renewed license to, and encouraging antisocial behavior.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:38:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Hooliganism opposing trump is not a counterpoint to trump encouraging bigotry. In fact, it is the predictable really of his irresponsible and polarizing rhetoric.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:15:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Did you forget the part where he said to bar entrance to the country anyone who is Muslim? Are you a troll, a shill, or are you just not paying attention?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:53:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Even if Trump had the best policies (he doesn't), I would never want someone that advocates violence against people that don't support him or believes we need to keep people that aren't white Christians out of the country, to be President. He said we need to go after and kill the families of terrorists, because that will get their attention. On national television he very easily said war crimes are a great idea. That is not the America I grew up in and it scares/shames me that he may be what America has become.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:09:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
There are a lot of other examples. I think part of the problem with Trump is people are willfully ignoring the things he says or giving him a pass when he says he wasn't being serious. It's dangerous.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:22:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The fact that he literally says "seriously" in it yet you say I'm interpreting him as being serious is proof to me this conversation is a waste of time.
uniptf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:18:03 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Violence against people. who don't support him. Right.
โIf you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you?โ Trump said, drawing cheers and laughter. โSeriously, OK? Just knock the hell โ I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise. I promise.โ
At a casino rally in Las Vegas last month, Trump pined for โthe old daysโ when demonstrators would be โcarried out on a stretcher, folks.โ
Although he sometimes urges crowds to be gentle with those getting kicked out of his rallies, he often does not.
agreed. the circle jerk is too strong against this one. it's funny, reddit prides itself on being intelligent and seeking the truth, and yet they are very selective about what they choose to look into
The concept of "deck thinning" is statistically and mathematically so incredibly insignificant that the entire concept of deck thinning as a benefit of a card is invalid. The actual benefit is mana fixing, allowing you to decide which land type you need more at any given time.
geking ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 06:09:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
There used to be colorful parrots on the us east coast. Carolina parakeets.(actually a conure) they made great pets. we killed them all.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:15:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yeah sucks, he never went in the pool and we've had dogs around that pool for 14 years without issue so it was really strange, he was doing some weird little head movements for about a week before and whining more than usual so we think he might have had a seizure or some illness or just accidentally fell in, don't know for sure
[deleted] ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 10:27:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've worked for both, and in 2 different professional careers, and can tell you that incompetence isn't limited, or even more prominent, in government.
The bigger problem with government is the blame game, and layers of crap people have to go through to avoid becoming the butt of that game. I spent a good 80% of my time in government sending emails and filling out paperwork for the sole purpose of CYA/putting the ball into someone else court; regardless of whether progress was actually on me or not. That, and the budgetary process...
IT guy here, can confirm. Most my business is cleaning up or fixing what some other guy screwed up, or actually giving support to guys that should already know how to accomplish their task.
Zuldark ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:48:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Has also something to do with the Peter principle. You are always promoted for the performance on your current potion, so you will stop getting promoted once you hit a position you are not cut out for.
de-ionized is the appropriate term, but "distilled" is inherently de-ionized at least initially.
Kitty015 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:06:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"de-ionized" specifies a result; "distilled" specifies a method
While it is possible to de-ionize water by distilling it; distilled water may or may not be de-ionized depending on how rigorously the method was applied and how long ago.
It's kind of like bread vs baked dough. Sure, you can get bread by baking dough. But you can also get a lump of charcoal.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 08:51:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not exactly. It will work for a while, but distilled water is really good at stripping ions off of metal, so pretty soon your distilled water will start conducting electricity.
rhobes ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 06:54:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you mean mineral oil, not mineral water. Do not submerge active electronics in mineral water :)
Sybre ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:14:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:32:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have to be careful with this. If you disconnect power to something that involves switching a charged capacitor's energy into some other component, the water can short the capacitor. This can potentially damage the device.
washed ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:44:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not always true though. Many relays will be damaged if submerged. Some plastics will dissolve or become brittle if exposed to mineral oil. LCDs don't like to get wet at all. There is also always the issue with corrosion of contacts, tracks on the PCB etc.
Who_GNU ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:14:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Distilled water works too, just not mineral water.
Also, water destroys LCDs, if it gets inside, and it can also interfere with the iron cores in inductors and transformers. Some components, especially switches and microphones, are not likely to dry thoroughly, so they may oxidize (e.g. rust) before they fully dry.
Mar1eC ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:20:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think my dad mentioned he washes old keyboards in the shower?
I washed an old keyboard a few years ago in the shower. Completely took it apart, washed it with water and some soap. Let the components dry for about 3 days then put it back together. Looked as good as new.
esach88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:45:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you can also submerge electronics in mineral water ON
I saw your Edit but I fear you've just destroyed countless electronic devices!
When I was growing up, a friend's brother owned a small electronics manufacturing company. They assembled little circuit boards. I shit you not, they cleaned them after assembly by running them through a dishwasher.
FranTBW ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:28:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That reminds me my biology 101 in college. The teacher enters the classrom, draws a tube on the board, and says "this here, is a living organism". Turns out we evovled our brain to make that tube happier.
So numbers can be placed into sets. For example, the set of all whole numbers, the set of all numbers that are solutions to x2 =9, or the set of all odd numbers between 1 and 10. The first set of numbers is obviously infinite{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ...}, whereas the second and third sets are finite{-3, 3} and {1, 3, 5, 7, 9}. Most people are familiar with the concept of finite and infinite sets, even if they don't know the terms for it.
Now here comes the tricky bit. As /u/strayce pointed out, there are different "sizes" of infinity. The way most set theorists do math, there are two sizes: countable and uncountable. While both are infinitely large, an uncountable set is infinitely larger than an infinitely large countable set.
One test for whether an infinite set is countable or uncountable is if it can be ordered, i.e. a 1st number, a 2nd number, a 3rd number, and so on. For all the whole numbers this is pretty easy: 1 is 1st , 2 is 2nd , etc. So the set of all whole numbers is a countably infinite set.
But, if you can prove that there is no way to order a set, then the set is uncountable. If we took the set of all real numbers between 1 and infinity and tried to assign a 1st , 2nd , 3rd ...we would run into problems. If we tried to order them from least to greatest size, we would never even get to the 2nd number! 1 is obviously the lowest and thus 1st but what next? If we said 1.1, then where does 1.01 go? If we say 1.01 is 2nd there where does 1.001 go? Every time we try to come up with a way to order the real numbers, we find another real number that doesn't fit in the ordering! Thus the set of all real numbers between 1 and infinity is an uncountably infinite set. (There are several proofs that the reals are uncountable, one of the most famous of which is Cantor's Diagonal Argument)
What about the set of reals between 0 and 1? Is this set countable or uncountable? Well, can you come up with a way to order them? Take your time, I can wait...
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probably didn't get anywhere, because they can't be ordered! (if you think they can be, feel free to post a possible ordering and I will give you a number that doesn't fit into it) So the set of real numbers between 0 and 1 is uncountably infinite, thus the same size as the set of all real numbers between 1 and infinity.
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Another way to explain this is that two sets of numbers are considered the same size if there can be a direct 1 to 1 mapping of ALL the numbers in the two sets. For example the sets {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7} and {2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14} are the same size because the first set can be mapped to the second set by multiplying each of its elements by 2, and the second set can be mapped to the first set by dividing each of its elements by two. In the case of all the numbers from 0 to 1, and the set of all numbers from 1 to infinity, we can map each set to the other by raising each of their elements to the power of -1. For example {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ...}-1 ={1, .5, .333, .25, .2, .1666, ...} and {.1, .01, .001, .0001, ...}-1 ={10, 100, 1000, 10000}. Obviously these aren't the complete sets, but for every number in one set, there is a single corresponding number in the other set and vice-versa, thus the sets are the same size!
*i think what youre trying to say is that {1, ..., โ}=โ*{0, ..., 1} therefore {1, ..., โ}>{0, ..., 1}? If that's the case, there a few problems with that.
First off, โ isn't a number that we can do math operations on quite like we can other numbers. As an example, if we take 0 from the set {0, ..., 1} and multiply it by โ, what do we get? 0? โ? Somewhere in between? Any attempts at making this work will lead to logical inconsistencies like 1=2. We just don't have math compatible with that. But let's ignore that and just say โ is a number you can do math operations on.
If that's the case, and {1, ..., โ}=โ*{0, ..., 1} is true, then we just came up with a 1 to 1 mapping of one set to the other. Therefore, the two sets are still the same size
My thinking is that {1, ..., โ} contains {1, ..., 2}, {2, ..., 3}, {3, ..., 4} and therefore would be a larger infinity, though both are uncountable, one is at least finite. Why's that not so?
My thinking is that {1, ..., โ} contains {1, ..., 2}, {2, ..., 3}, {3, ..., 4}
Correct
therefore would be a larger infinity
As stated, there are two "sizes" of infinite sets, countable and uncountable. To prove that infinite set A is larger than infinite set B, you must prove that set A is uncountable and set B is countable. "{1, ..., โ} contains {1, ..., 2}, {2, ..., 3}, {3, ..., 4}" proves nor disproves neither of those, it is only a statement of set membership.
*To clarify on this point, one set containing another set is a rough indicator of size when talking about finite sets, but we are not talking about finite sets. We are talking about infinite sets, something humans are not very good at conceptualizing. So here's an analogy to help: Think of the Mandelbrot set as being {1,..., โ}, it has an infinite number of points in it. Now even if you take a smaller slice/subset of it, as long as you choose the right slice/subset (of which there are many infinite) you can still keep zooming in forever. That's kind of how this works.
though both are uncountable, one is at least finite
This is a contradiction. How can one set be uncountable and finite? All finite sets are countable.
I love talking about this stuff so feel free to throw more questions my way
You can zoom in AND out forever looking at {1, ..., โ}, whereas you can only scroll in infinitely looking at {1, ..., 2}, not out. It terminates, and not having that difference acknowledged feels incorrect.
You can count every whole number from 1 to infinity, while you can't for every real number between 1 and 0. If you had a list of every single real number from 1 to 0, you can just take the first digit from the first number, write down something different than it, take the second digit from the second number, write something different than it, and repeat for every number in the list you'll end up with a number that isn't in the list.
You would think this is everywhere. A "Sex worker" is someone who literally uses sex as a profession. They would know and understand the ins and outs of protection.
Tszemix ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:24:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sex workers in Australia have a lower rate of STIs than non-sex workers.
Straya
[deleted] ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 09:11:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The word niggardly. It means not generous; stingy. The word has been used innocently in public and the users were harangued for it.
I have personal experience with this after driving from east Texas (maybe two hours from Louisiana border) to southern California. Getting out of the state was more than half the trip.
In heavy flow traffic, you are not suppose to merge immediately when you see the lane closed sign 1 mile ahead sign... You are supposed to zipper merge at the closure.
Edit - suppose changed to supposed, hat tip with my middle finger to r/HauntedShores
[deleted] ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 03:55:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I still think this is bullshit - it only works if everyone both knows about it and is ok with having their current follow distance halved.
DaSaw ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 08:00:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not in my experience. In my experience it's actually much harder to merge prior to the merge point than at the merge point. When I was younger, I would anxiously try to force myself in before getting to the merge point, fearing that I was going to get run off the road/into the cones/forced to a stop at the merge point. In reality I am always let in at the merge point.
I learned this the first time I drove eighteen wheels in Los Angeles. I was convinced I was going to be stuck on the side of the road for a few minutes until someone finally made space for me. Nope; merged right in with no problem. And it works as well on four wheels as on eighteen.
When there's still room ahead of you, the guy next to you thinks the next guy will let you in. When there's not much room left the guy next to you realizes that if he doesn't get the fuck out of the way, there's a very real chance it's not going to go well for either of you.
I see this a lot, but the problem is it assumes people drive perfectly. It assumes that some asshole won't cut you off out of turn, or some old lady who is terrified to merge at speed won't slam on her brakes, or a teenager who wasn't paying attention won't jam up the whole lane behind them.
Just merge when you see the sign. It's easier for actual people to pull off, and then it lets at least one lane flow smoothly.
Zipper merging isn't realistic. Merging at the earliest opportunity upon realizing it's necessary is both realistic and effective. Not every car will leave a gap suitable for the car next to it. Cars come in different sizes and people have different depth perceptions and opinions about what a suitable follow distance is.
When I merge, I get over into a gap where I can fit ASAP without causing the person behind me to brake. The dick move is when the person behind me knows why I'm merging yet chooses to blast past me and try to merge at the last second which, since most people have already merged and filled in the gaps between cars, inevitably makes someone brake to give them room which then causes traffic.
Your "dick move" driver is doing it properly. The problem is the lack of driver education causing people to consider it a "dick move" because they're seeing that driver to be cutting in line.
The dick move isn't driving to the end of the closed lane and then signalling to be let in; it's the drivers already in line not allowing it and closing up their gaps. They take it as a personal affront because they're uneducated about driving.
Careful. It's mostly a book of inflammatory opinion. Fact check before you become another person spouting freakanomics snapple facts.
ChefTeo ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 04:36:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Agreed. There are too many other factors at play. Lead gasoline was phased out around the same time, and educational attainment has steadily risen. These probably aren't fully explanatory, but probably more so than "all the bad people took a coathanger to the dome."
Here are some of the rejoinders to Levitt and Donahue, some of which they responded too. Many, but not all are available online, just check out Google Scholar:
I think for a lot of people it's more about the morally loose culture that birth control promotes. We marry later, have far more sexual partners, more single parent households, which causes children to not reach their full potential.
Sexual theory 101 is that women are the gatekeepers of sex, while men are the gatekeepers of commitment. A man who has sex with many women is viewed by women as a man who simply hasn't met a woman good enough to commit too, while a woman who has sex with many men is viewed as a woman who isn't good enough to earn a man's commitment (hence the whole "society's double standard" complaint that feminists make).
We'd probably all be a lot better if we made sex less about the number of people that we sleep with, and more about finding people who are actually compatible with on a longer term relationship basis.
If anything it actually increases the number of pregnancies. As people are less worried about becoming pregnant as they can "just get an abortion" and so are likely to engage in more risky sexual practices. It may even have a partial increase in the number of births as people who were going to use abortion as a post conception form of birth control, after becoming pregnant then change their minds.
Any facts to support this? I've never seen any stats that support any number of people using abortions or even Plan B as their birth control. This makes sense as abortions cost hundreds to thousands of dollars, can be more difficult to obtain, and can be obtained ironically from the same place trying to help them get free birth control.
I think it definitely increases the amount of babies born out of wedlock. If you know that you can go buy Plan B, then who cares that Jamal didn't bring any condoms?
Legal abortions increase the amount of babies born out of wedlock because Plan B is available if they didn't use a condom? What?
I included Plan B because its the "next step up" from birth control. I could care less if a woman wants to throw away money on multiple Plan B pills, I have no moral objection to her use of Plan B at all.
Well, it's really more of a society thing, not a planned parenthood thing. A culture that praises and supports and even promotes pre-marital sex is going to have more babies born out of wedlock and more abortions.
The point about "plan B" being available is really just saying that we live in a world where we're not thinking about the consequences (good or bad) of sex anymore. So when Sarah and Jamal hook up, neither is going to worry about the possibility of a baby.
Thats not true at all. A culture that praises and supports sexual education and health is going to have less babies born out of wedlock and less abortions. Plan B is a pill that prevents pregnancy (it really sounds like you think Plan B is a nickname for an abortion), how is having a pill available saying that we live in a world where we're not thinking about the consequences? This pill is a solution to the consequences and its name literally suggests its the second line of defense. It means we are living in a world where we are realistic and far more aware of the consequences.
So when Sarah and Jamal hook up, neither is going to worry about the possibility of a baby.
And... they should be worried? Why should they worry about the possibility of a baby if there is no possibility of a baby? I fully disagree with the statement but it deserves response anyway. it really just sounds like you want to impose extremely conservative ideals in people you have no control over.
A culture that praises and supports sexual education and health is going to have less babies born out of wedlock and less abortions.
Yeah I agree, but for the record, I never talked about sexual education, I simply said "A culture that praises and supports and even promotes pre-marital sex is going to have more babies born out of wedlock and more abortions.". There is a difference between supporting sexual education and supporting pre-marital sex.
it really sounds like you think Plan B is a nickname for an abortion
Nope, I'm pro abortion, and anti-religious. I know that you're probably used to arguing with people who very religious and that's why they hate sex-education... I'm not one of those people. I'm an atheist, who views our sex-obsessed culture as hurting all people, parents, and children.
how is having a pill available saying that we live in a world where we're not thinking about the consequences?
Having a pill available is not bad. But having a culture that promotes lots and lots of sex with as many partners as possible, where adultery is glamorized, and where divorce is common, and most children are being raised in single parent households... that's indicative of a culture that cares less about the kids (the consequence of sex) than it does about sex itself.
It means we are living in a world where we are realistic and far more aware of the consequences.
Then explain why MORE children are born out of wedlock today than were before the pill was invented. The fact is that the pill opened up the floodgates to a culture which is absolutely obsessed with sex.
Why should they worry about the possibility of a baby if there is no possibility of a baby?
Because there IS a possibility of a baby, no form of contraceptive/birth control is 100%, and history has demonstrated that once this care-free attitude became prevalent, boys and girls who decided to indulge and engage in lots of risky sexual behavior have returned to us a culture of single parent households, decreased happiness, and increased poverty and reduced full potential.
it really just sounds like you want to impose extremely conservative ideals in people you have no control over.
No, I just don't believe that we benefit from supporting child abuse and promiscuity since we now have enough data to prove that single parent households are dramatically inferior to in-tact family units and single parenthood is proven to reduce the parents and childs happiness. If you support child abuse, and a less happy population, then I would call you morally inferior and evil.
Pat117 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:28:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But you're literally talking out of your ass. You have no facts
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:12:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The argument is that children who are born from unwanted pregnancies are more likely to repay their patents mistakes than those who were born from intentional, desired pregnancies.
There's a lot of true facts driving this logic but idk of an actual study of it.
jcpmojo ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 03:28:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess I just don't see an abortion (up to a moment when the CNS develops) as killing.
From my perspective it is (simplified): "ok, so unwanted children have X greater chance to be mistreated and people mistreated as children have Y chance of being maladjusted. Maladjusted people turn to crime in Z percent of cases, so if these things stop happening the crime will statistically drop by XYZ."
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:14:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Claiming something like that as a fact when you know perfectly well that many, many people disagree is kinda pointless. That's like telling a Christian that being gay isn't a sin and that alone somehow negates all their arguments about it. While it should, the point is that you can't be so obtuse as to not understand that someone might have a differing opinion and therefore be uncomfortable with certain things, like abortion=less crime.
I'm super tired and I'm not sure what I just typed out makes sense.
Oookay, lemme try this again. To YOU it might not be a real thing, but to your Baptist Aunt Kathy, it is very much A Real Thing. Therefore, you should understand that she may feel differently towards it than you do, the same way Christians feel uncomfortable with abortion because they consider it actual murder. Making blunt statements like "abortion isn't murder" isn't going to change the way anyone feels about it, it just informs others of your point of view. Does that make more sense? I mean, we can say all day that being gay isn't a sin or that sins aren't real things, but simply saying that isn't going to make your homophobic neighbor suddenly totally comfortable with you making out with your same-sex SO in the driveway, now is it? You have to explain why it's okay.
My point is that it shouldn't be compared to a "sin" due to that not being a thing that exists outside of belief, whereas abortion and murder are real things (preventing a fetus from reaching farther stages, and killing someone), also murder is a legal thing, so whether or not abortion is murder should be determined on the definition of "murder" and not your own beliefs unless you're the one writing the law.
famously ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 01:21:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't it pretty clear that limiting what constitutes a crime will reduce crime?
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 06:35:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And that people who can't afford children don't have to have them, thus reducing the number of children living in poverty and therefore the number of people resorting to criminal activity.
Joke's on my murderer, I'm always dead on the inside.
Surge72 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:15:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh look. Reddit's favourite sentence.
EzraT47 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:56:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No only the lesson that most people who visit Reddit need to learn first. If Reddit were a tavern then the phrase ought to be posted over the bar right next to the "No patron's under age served alcohol" sign.
It's like reddits love of fallacies. We just totally glaze over the fallacy of fallacies. Just because someone uses a fallacy doesn't automatically make them wrong.
III-V ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:40:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For anyone wondering why, legal abortion reduces unwanted pregnancies resulting in fewer unwanted children. Those unwanted children commit crimes at an increased rate from the norm as teens and adults. Also creating more unwanted or unstable families (sometimes due to incarceration) creating a cycle of unwanted people struggling to survive...there are many factors at play but abortion side steps the cycle.
There was a distinct drop in crime rates about 18 years (prime crime-doin' age) after Roe v Wade. The logic is that if the abortions hadn't happened, more children would've been born into shitty situations and ended up as criminals.
Mac_H ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 01:41:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The trouble I have with the logic is that the same drop should have occurred (but larger) when 'The Pill' became widely available.
But it didn't . So the logic seems plausible - but wrong.
So the drop in crime rates might be linked to something else ... perhaps it is more than a coincidence that it occurred at around the time the crack-cocaine epidemic came to an end ?
If the logic was correct it would also mean that we'd see a reduced crime rate in younger individuals first - while older (non-aborted) individuals would have the same crime rate as before. In fact - the opposite occurred. The drop in crime rates about 18 years after Roe .v. Wade was most prominent in OLDER criminals, not younger.
You can also argue that the drop in crime correlated perfectly with the drop in leaded gasoline use. This theory would explain why older individuals (who are more susceptible to most things than young people) would show the effect first.
If you want to see the data re-analysed, correcting for mistakes in earlier analysis, see this:
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:00:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I dunno about the pill idea. Abortion is quick. The pill requires daily diligence, which is something a lot simpler if you're not poor or working erratic hours, or stressed, or hungry, or any number of things which may have you forget to take your medicine at the exact right time.
It's really effective with perfect use, but has nearly a 10% failure rate with the way most people tend to use it.
Then timewise, too, the BC pill wasn't made widely available to everyone at once, it was first made available to select people, then to married women 5 years later, then more than 5 years later to unmarried women, and the social implications around it (since it was something you had to go to your regular doctor for, and carry around constantly, versus a much quicker process for abortion) didn't lead to the same kind of uptake at once.
And then, abortions were something when pregnancy was actually a conceptualized thing in these girls' minds. For many poor families, being educated without the problem seeming imminent, especially sex ed, was neither accessible, nor at the top of their lists.
I have no real opinion on whether it happened as a result of abortion, but there are many reasons why the same drop wouldn't have occurred for the pill.
Someone has shown that it correlates strongly with the removal of leaded gas, and that this pattern holds true in every country that used leaded gas, too. That's actually pretty plausible because childhood exposure to lead can cause developmental and behavioral issues that put people at a higher risk for criminality later on.
If that was the case then you'd expect that you'd see crimes committed by youth drop first. i.e. 18 years after Roe v Wade, you'd see a drop in crimes committed by 18 year olds. The next year you'd see a drop in 19 year olds. 20 year olds, 21 year olds etc etc.
But that's not what happened. The reduction in crime that is supposedly due to legalised abortion happened because fewer crimes were committed by old people, while youth crime rates remained more-or-less the same.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:29:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, but you're probably aware that OP meant something else.
mk2ja ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:01:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Legalizing rape, assault, murderโฆ legalizing these would all reduce crime. Because they wouldn't be crimes any more.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:07:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
bullshit debunked pseudo-science for people who think they're smarter than they really are.
Cutting lead out of gasoline: that reduced crime.
ChefTeo ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 04:37:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you sure that crime doesn't cause leaded gasoline?
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 04:38:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As mentioned in the article, Freakonomics actually goes into the other contributing factors and they are right. It is probably a combination of factors, not a single cause.
People seem to forget this or actually haven't read the book or saw the documentary.
IIRC they only attributed 40% of the drop in crime due to abortion. The other 60% were from a combination of other reasons.
Your link also doesn't mention anything about gasoline and lead.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:27:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As mentioned in the article
yeah, as mentioned by some no name blog operator. His opinion is irrelevant, I'm linking Pinker.
And if you actually read the rebuttal you'd see the reasoning behind why abortion couldn't even lead to a 40% drop.
And how the fuck have you not heard the lead hypothesis yet? How far behind can you be? It's been dominating the public health and sociology fields for the past 3 years.
What's wrong about that? Less abortions mean less overcrowded families, less babies no one can afford, less people being driven into desperate circumstances or forced to abandon families they can't support. Seems like a pretty obvious correlation to me.
guepier ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:21:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Itโs a very plausible hypothesis, which is why serious researchers have entertained it.
But there are problems with it. For one thing: legalising abortion probably does not increase abortion rates [1]1. Instead, thereโs a multitude of factors at play here, all feeding back into each other.
1 Yes! Now that is a fact that sounds extremely wrong.
That is pretty interesting. Also horrifying. But it's true, abortions will either get done by professionals in safe environments or they'll be performed with coat hangers or flights of stairs.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:32:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah it was intuitive to me. Pretty hard to say it wouldn't reduce crime.
immski ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't even think of it trivially in that way. Abortion is a super powerful tool for controlling reproduction and so poverty and then crime. I thought this was extremely well know
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:31:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so does legalized extermination of poverty stricken communities, as it turns out.
Aroumia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:40:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Having a child can put pressure on a financial situation. If that situation wasnt' stable and you can't abort your baby it'll push you into poverty. Beeing in poverty increases the chance of desperate actions like crime.
This is a correlation, not a proven causation. From arguments presented to me, it seems more likely that lead reduction reduces crime, which happened to coincide with legalized abortions.
Yes. Some situations are with people who are too poor to handle a child, too young, or flat out don't want a kid (rape or whatever other reason). If the child is raised in a "bad" environment, it goes back to the " nature vs. nurture" bad childhood mostly yields bad adulthood.
In particular, it reduces the number of illegal abortions.
Z_Coop ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:43:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nothing to do with abortion specifically, but doesn't crime technically always decrease when something becomes legal because you're decriminalizing it?
Yes but the argument in the book I read said it cuts all crime because the low income people who get abortions are the most likely to raise children who commit crime, especially if the child is not "wanted."
javilla ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:01:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like this one is a bit wierd. I mean, if you legalized theft you'd see a reduced crime rate as well.
I'm neither pro nor against abortion, just wanted to point it out.
Of course it does. Just like legalizing theft would lower crime. If it's not illegal, it's not a crime.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 01:55:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, shit. I wanna murder someone, but I don't wanna go to jail for it... I'll just hump the hell out of this girl, and she and I will get an abortion! Loophole!
draldan ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 12:56:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are insanely more ways to arrange a deck of cards than the universe's age.. in seconds
AES512 ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 13:58:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The amount of different ways to shuffle a deck of cards is 52!. And 52! Is a very high number, 80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883277824000000000000 to be exact, or 8x1067. Meanwhile the universe is 'just' 4.32ร1017 seconds old.
In fact, there are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards then there are atoms on earth (approx. 1.33x1057)
For a population of roughly a billion or more, it is necessarily true. In my original statement I meant to include body hair. If we just mean hairs on the head, then a couple million should be more than enough. In that case there would be 100% certainty unless you can explain why it is possible for someone to have a million hairs on their head.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:34:34 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure, that's true but it is totally irrelevant. Let's try something simpler. There are only 7 days of the week. There are much more than 7 people on Earth. Therefore, it must be the case that there are at least two people who were born on the same day of the week. It's not just highly likely, it is a logical fact.
By the same argument, there must be at least two people on the planet with exactly the same number of hair follicles on their bodies. This will remain true as long as the number of people on Earth remains higher than a few million.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:14:15 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Read my comments again. I never said that there are at least two people born on Saturday, only that there are at least two people born on the same day of the week. Maybe everybody was born on Monday, I don't care. I meant everything I said in this thread exactly as I said it.
I doubt you are 5 so I will just explain. As long as "number of hair follicles" is a well-defined discrete quantity, then the statement I gave is automatically true by the pigeonhole principle (read about it if you like).
Everybody has far less than a couple billion hair follicles (average around 5 million on the entire body), and so it is not possible for everyone to have a unique number of hair follicles as long as the global population remains relatively high. If everyone had a unique number of hairs, then there would necessarily be people with billions of hairs. There's just not enough surface area on a human body to accommodate such a thing.
Most cruel, sociopathic people live full, rich lives of bountiful plenty, and die warm, peacefully, content, and unrepentant; fully convinced they died a winner.
No shit? That doesn't mean we shouldn't respect the idea though... Most socially constructed ideas are fantastic. Like don't kill people. Or don't rape.
[deleted] ยท 97 points ยท Posted at 00:16:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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SPacific ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 02:54:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The idea of childhood also didn't exist until the early 1900s.
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 02:46:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lloyd deMause, the founder of that widely criticized theory, is the founder of the hilariously unscientific Journal of Psychohistory.
Its biggest contribution to society has been publishing this quote, which anyone whose used a Japan-related forum in the 2000's should be familiar with (the Humboldt University of Berlin website has stopped hosting that article series for whatever reason):
The average Japanese today sleeps with his or her children until the children are ten or fifteen years oldโ
Western observers even today often notice that Japanese mothers masturbate their young children during the day in public and at night in the family bed-in order, they say, "to put them to sleepโ
Japanese mothers often teach their sons how to masturbate, helping them achieve first ejaculation in much the same manner as with toilet training. A โmental health hotlineโ in Tokyo recently reported being flooded with calls about incest, 29 percent of them with complaints such as that the mother would offer her body for sex while telling the son, โYou cannot study if you cannot have sex. You may use by bodyโ, or โI donโt want you to get into trouble with a girl. Have sex with me insteadโ
Parents usually have intercourse with the children in bed with them; and "co-sleeping," with parents physically embracing the child, often continues until the child is ten or fifteen. One recent Japanese study found daughters sleeping with their fathers over 20 percent of the time after age 16.
Co-bathing is equally significant, continuing until the age of six and beyond. Mothers sometimes wash their children even after they have reached adolescence. Although sexual motivations are vigorously disavowed during these activities, research reveals a pattern that links co-sleeping and co-bathing to incest. For boys, this incestuous activity with mother is so traumatic that the notion of sexuality with other females is repugnant, marriage is often impossible, and fears of impotence are common
I'm not talking about psychohistory. I'm talking about how the concept of childhood became institutionalized through laws and social projects in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when juvenile courts were invented, "problem child" schools were founded, and a substantial difference between adults and children were put into place legally.
The concept of childhood as a time of innocence and needing more than basic protection didn't really exist in the West until after the industrial revolution. Children were another member of the family that worked, they were just smaller adults. There weren't differences in sentencing between minors and adults for crimes, because being a minor didn't exist. You had the same accountability as an adult.
Kids aren't innocent. They purposely test their parents, and teachers to see where the boundaries are. They throw stones, they bully each other. In fact kids can be so f**in mean to each others its unbelievable. They waste food like no one else without a care in the world about the cost of having it. They don't give a shit about money or how much of it is spent on them. I'm talking kids that are old enough to understand that mummy and daddy have to work to make money. they expect everyone to clean up after them too. They take everyone for a ride.. they are assholes!
I think when people talk about childhood innocence, they are not referring to definition that you're using, which is more of a guilty/innocent situation. I think it's referring to keeping "adult experiences" away from children, for example, children used to work from really young ages to help support the family, and now that societies idea of childhood has changed, this in no longer acceptable.
Many people forget that kids are just miniature people. Miniature people that are going to almost certainly grow into full-sized stupid shitheads. While kids may be naive and lack education or experience, people don't give them enough credit and try too hard to shelter them and or take any responsibility away from them. Children may start out far dumber than the average pet, but after a certain point they have an absolutely firm grasp of what's right and wrong, and are well aware of how to manipulate situations and adults.
I don't hate kids, I really don't. What I hate is the sub-par, apathetic parenting that most people practice, and the fact that they'd rather rely on completely censoring what their kid is exposed to over having difficult (but necessary) conversations with them. A child is not a dog or cat. If you aren't prepared to invest a huge part of yourself into actually raising them and ensuring they don't become a detrimental drain on society, then you shouldn't have any in the first place.
They waste food like no one else without a care in the world about the cost of having it
Holy shit so much this. Kids buy $10 worth of lunches, and end up throwing away half that (it's not even bad stuff, its like chips, pizza, ice cream, etc.) instead of you know... even when they could give it to someone else.
Innocent is not the same thing as good. Being wasteful can also mean being innocent as they are entirely unaware of the repercussions of their actions.
Yeah this is definitely looking at the stereotype of a spoiled modern American kid. Children of different cultures or kids who are raised with more boundaries don't necessarily behave that way.
Innocence and not being an asshole are different things. You can be ignorant of social mores, have no concept of the values of food, dignity, personal space and human life, and still technically be innocent.
TIL reddit hates children. Nice I should fit right in.
No mom, I'm not getting married and making you a grandson this year. Or the next. Or ever. In this shithole of an economy, I kinda enjoy whatever little free time and disposable income I have. Gimme a couple million in cash for a house and car, then we'll talk about it.
Ethics in general is a socially constructed idea that is derived entirely from empathy. From the perspective of a fully objective, omniscient being, there is nothing bad about something tremendously horrible like, say, massacring and raping millions of children in the most violent way possible. We use personal empathy and learnt social rules derived from empathy to determine whether something is good or bad.
Before the NSA puts me on a watchlist, I do experience empathy and I would never be able to bring myself to hurt anyone. Except maybe Greg.
Your mailbox is property of the federal government (if in the US).
snhvnc ยท 106 points ยท Posted at 05:07:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Postal Carrier here. That's not entirely accurate. If you have a roadside box that we drive right up to, you own that box. You're charged with maintaining it, not us. USPS is just the only ones allowed to put anything into it. If you live in an area with central delivery, there's a good chance that USPS owns those boxes, but not 100% of the time.
Also, when I worked for UPS they told us the same thing.
snhvnc ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 05:55:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's only considered federal property in cases of vandalism and theft. If you want to walk down your drive way and destroy your mailbox and rip it off its post, you're free to do so. You just won't get mail until you fix it.
Huh, thats confusing. You probably know more than I.
Sll3rd ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 06:59:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm, it makes sense. In the eyes of the law, the mailbox is still yours, with all the rights and priveleges that bestows. But if somebody screws with your mailbox, then the law chooses to recognize that as screwing with Federal property, with all the scaryness that includes. A legal deterrent.
chobi83 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 07:38:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
USPS is just the only ones allowed to put anything into it.
I know I'm being pedantic, but laws can be this stupid. Does that mean we can't put anything in it ourselves? Mail that the mailman is supposed to pick up for instance?
snhvnc ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:47:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course you can put outgoing mail in your box, that's what the flag is for. However, people can't just walk down the street and throw fliers for whatever homebrew business they're starting into your mailbox.
Most mailboxes have a (usually) red arm thingy on the side. When you send mail by putting it in your box for the carrier to pick up, you have to flip it from horizontal to vertical. That signals that the mail in the box is outgoing mail. They take it, and flip the flag back down to tell you that your mail has been sent, and that if there's mail inside, it's incoming mail.
derefr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:10:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not living in a place where these curb boxes exist, I always assumed the flag was a "new mail" indicator that the postal carrier would flip up if they put mail in the box (whether or not there was already mail in the box), and you would flip down when you visited the box (whether or not you took all the mail.) Like an app notification badge.
In Aus too. Also, if you're running from the cops and have something you need to get rid of quick, if you can jam it in a postbox you're good. Here only federal police are able to open them legally and rarely do.
Vaspir ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:40:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're fucked in the ACT then, they're all AFP here.
act5312 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:20:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I won something online and the dude giving the prize happened to live in the same town as me. He just dropped it off in my mailbox. Told me it was there.
When I checked there was nothing, but the next day a mailman came to me and told me I'd have to pay a shipping fee to have it.
He actually took the package back to the post office, weighed it, and brought it back to me.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:16:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So in all those American teen movies I've seen where they drive along and destroy mail boxes with baseball bats they are in fact committing a federal crime?
This always pissed me off a little, if it's theirs then they should freaking pay for it when those damn kids go whacking at it with their bacchi ball bats
Which is why it's a felony to bash mailboxes. You'll get in less trouble if you're arrested for robbing a house.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:23:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've always thought this one was interesting. I can go buy something with my own money, nail it to the side of my house that I paid for with my own money, with a hammer and nails that I bought with my own money, and the U.S. government can tell me what I can and can't do with it.
At first I was expecting an explanation of the water-breathing thing in The Abyss.
and_rice ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:21:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
important sidenote, no it certainly is not breathing amniotic fluid. While the umbilical chord ( and placenta) is still connected and functioning, the baby is not breathing. Oxygenated blood from the mother is being used to supply tissues of baby with oxygen. This means that until you cut the chord, that little dude could be submerged in anything and still live (if not for the fact that they dont do super well with cold temperatures)
Xannin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:06:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The baby would not live very long.
snpi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can technically live you entire life doing anything. It's just a question of how long your life is.
This whole argument can be summed up by realizing that "vegetable" is strictly a culinary term. It has no basis on biology. Fruit is used in both the culinary and biology fields, and has slightly different definitions in each.
When this arguments comes up, it is ALWAYS someone comparing the culinary definition of "vegetable" with the biological definition of "fruit".
Nope. I promise you that there is no strict scientific definition of "vegetable" whereas a fruit is just the "fruiting body" of a plant.
When it comes to culinary definition it usually goes something like: is it sweet and soft? Fruit. Is it hard and nutty tasting? It's a nut. Is it the leaf/root? Vegetable. Is it ground up into a powder? Spice.
mattoly ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:41:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not right at all.
Botanically, it is a fruit.
Culinarily, it is considered a vegetable. Since most people talk about foods in a culinary sense and not a botanical sense then they also think about it as a vegetable when, in fact, it is taxonomically a fruit.
Vegetable isn't a scientific term. It's a culinary term which by definition means, "Any part of a plant that is consumed by humans as food as part of a savory meal."
Tomatoes are almost always used in savory applications, hence can be called vegetables.
jahmoke ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:28:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yet it doesn't appear in fruit salad or fruit cocktail or fruit cake or fruit pie or fruit juice
I learned just today that we think of them as vegetables and not fruits because the natural sweet-tasting sugars were accidentally bred out of them by scientists trying to get them to have a solid red color instead of the multiple red/yellow/green hues that occur naturally.
John Tyler, who was born in the late 1700's and served as President pre-Civil War, has grandchildren still alive today. His youngest child died after World War II.
Consider the strategy of always changing doors. What are the possible outcomes?
1) You pick the winning door (1/3 chance) and change after the host opens any other door. You lose.
2) You pick a losing door (2/3 chance). The host opens the other losing door, as he will never open the winning one. You change to the remaining, winning door. You win.
Therefore, using this strategy, the only way to lose is by choosing the winning door first (1/3 chance). Therefore, if you always change doors, you win with 2/3 chance.
vineetss ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 05:01:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just do it with 99 doors instead of 3. Say there are 99 doors and you pick one. Then 97 doors are opened to show that there is nothing behind them. Do you think the one you picked out of 99 doors is more likely to have the prize or the one that just happened to be not opened by the host.
Not at all. If the two doors at the end were the only two doors, then yes. But they aren't.
Assume that there are 100 doors. You pick one. The odds of you picking the door with the prize behind it is 1/100.
If you picked the correct door (1/100): Switching would get you to the wrong door, and thus in that situation, switching would not work.
If you didn't pick the right door (99/100): 98 of the other 99 doors do not have the prize behind them, but the other one must. Since the host has to open 98 non-prize doors, the non-open door that you didn't pick is the door with the prize.
Therefore, switching will cause you to not get the prize with probability 1/100 and will cause you to get the prize with probability 99/100.
It helps if you know how the game works. Monty has to leave it so you have the choice between an empty door and the prize door for your second choice.
Imagine there were 100 doors, 99 without a prize, 1 with a prize. You make your first choice, Monty eliminates 98 empty doors. You either picked right the first time (1% chance) or chose wrong (99% chance). Now, you get to choose again: would you stay with the door you had a 1% chance with, or switch to the door that Monty narrowed down for you?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:32:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But... the chances have still changed for both of them! Why isn't it still 50/50? Why do the chances of the unopened doors magically migrate to only the one you didn't pick?
The chances migrate because there are only two options for Monty's door: prize or no prize. There are 100 options for your door: prize, no prize, no prize, no prize [...] and no prize.
No, because it's the same game. The whole thing includes both rounds. The chances don't change because you're still working with the same doors.
Try not to think of the second round as 50/50. The second round is a choice between 2, but the first affects the second. It's actually the opposite of the Gamblers' fallacy: the first round does influence the second.
It is true that you will have two doors to choose from once the host has opened one. It isn't 50/50 though, because your possible choices now doesn't consist of any to doors. They consist of the door you picked first and the door which the host didn't open, and that matters because you know the host will never open the door with the prize. When your first pick is a losing door (2/3 chance), the host will have to open the other losing door and by doing that he will be telling you that the prize is behind the unopened door.
His explanation is the best. Basically you initially have a 2/3 chance to pick a bad door and 1/3 chance of picking a good door. Since you will pick the bad door most of the time, the door you switch to has a higher chance to be the good door.
It isn't 50/50 because you know something about what's behind the doors. Redo the problem with 5 doors and you're allowed to choose two at the start. If I then open two doors you didn't choose and ask you if you want to switch to the one I didn't open or let you open both of your doors, what would you do?
I know you've has a lot of other good explanations, but this is the way it makes most sense to me. If Monty just randomly chose to open one door and it happened to have a goat behind it, you would be right in saying it's a 50/50 chance. But actually he knows what's behind the doors and always opens one with a goat, so that gives you additional information. He won't open the one you picked, he won't open the one with the car either. 1/3 of the time he'll have two goats to pick from, but the rest of the time he has a car and a goat, and he will pick the goat. He basically eliminating one bad option for you and increasing your chances of winning on e you switch.
newtoon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:35:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Some years ago, I pondered a lot on finding the right straightforward explanation.
Now, here it is : think about "GROUPS" of choices (chosen doors and not chosen ones).
Of course, during the first choice, you have the "bad group" (less probability of winning, typically 1/3). Then, TV host offers you to switch to the best group (biggest probability of winning, obvious, remember ?). The fact that he opens one bad apple is just SMOKE ! It does not change anything to the initial probabilities of each group. Only the switching of groups counts. If you switch, you then have a better probability of winning.
dpash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:41:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You were given extra information. Assuming 50/50 is ignoring that extra information.
I have explained it in different ways to someone in my post history but im not gonna search for that as its 5am here and i should be sleeping. Good night!
What are the odds of choosing wrongly the first time? (Of course, 2/3). Well which door does he open when we choose wrongly? There are only 2 remaining doors, one right and one wrong. He has to choose the only other wrong door (He's not going to open the door with the car behind it, you'd just pick that one!). That means that 2/3 times you will choose wrong and he will eliminate the other wrong choice, leaving the right choice as the only option! However, 1/3 we'll choose correctly first and be switching into an incorrect door.
You can also actually map out every possible decision in a decision tree and see that when you switch doors you will ALWAYS get the opposite result of what you originally chose. If you were right, you'll be wrong, if you were wrong, you'll be right. So what are the odds of being wrong first? 2/3. Therefore 2/3 times when we switch, we will be correct!
It helps to try to skew some of the probabilities involved. Imagine instead of 3 doors there are 100 doors. After you pick a door, the host opens 98 non-winning doors and offers to let you switch. There's a 99% chance you initially chose a non-winning door and thus a 99% chance that the door you switch to must be the winning door.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:40:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I like this explanation as well.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:33:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, it works because the 98 doors opened by the host weren't randomly selected (except in the 1 in 100 chance you initially picked the right door).
When you select a door think of it as splitting the doors into two groups; the door you picked and the other 99. In effect you're choosing between the two groups of doors; is the car in the group of one or the group of 99. Because if the car is anywhere in the group of 99 he'll open all of the other doors and you'll be left only with the car door and the group of 1.
w2g ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:41:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Think of it like this. You have three doors. You choose the left door. That door has a 1/3 being the right one. There is a 2/3 chance that the correct door is to the right of the door you chose. Now say the host opens the middle door and shows there's nothing behind it. He then closes the door and keeps it there. Now there's still technically a 2/3 chance that the correct door is to the right of the first door you chose, but now that you know one of those doors is wrong the remaining door is the one has a 2/3 chance of being the right one
Imagine a deck of 52 standard playing cards. Imagine if you pick the ace of spades you get a prize.
First you're allowed to randomly choose a card from the deck without seeing any of them.
Second I flip over and reveal every card in the entire deck besides 1. None of them are the ace of spades.
Now which is more likely the ace of spades? Is it the 1 card you randomly chose from a deck of 52? Or is it the 1 mystery card left after I knowingly eliminated any other possibility on purpose?
You need to differentiate two things first. One is the chance something will happen, and one is the probability you can logically infer from a situation. If someone offers you a coin toss, it makes no difference if you choose heads or tails, because coin flips are assumed to be 50/50. However if it turns out the coin was weighted then obviously this was a false assumption.
Now when you're offered two doors and asked to guess, assuming we have no other information, it's logical to treat it as a 50/50 chance to win. However, ultimately the prize is behind 1 door, and if you pick that door there's a 100% chance of it being correct, and if you pick the other 0% chance of winning.
The thing about the monty hall problem that people don't realise is that eliminating one door is a bit like saying "The coin is weighted towards heads". Because the person who eliminates one choice knows the winner and is unable to eliminate the winner, they are giving you a hint so to speak about which door has the prize behind it.
Which door wins is set and never changes, the probability is actually to do with the chance you'll guess correctly, and not the chance that a specific door will win. The elimination informs your guess so it's no longer logical to treat it as a 50/50 chance of winning. Many people mistakenly think of probability as a fixed part of reality rather than a question of what we know, so they mistakenly think it's magic when the swapping increases the odds of winning, as if it's some mysterious magic force that's changing the location of the prize. Nothing so exciting I'm afraid, it's as simple as the reality that the act of elimination is indirectly giving you information about the probably set up of the doors.
This is a good way to understand the intuition. Instead of doors, use a deck of cards. Say you want to pick the ace of spades from a pile of face down cards. You pick a card at random and hope it is the ace of spades. The rest of the deck is 51 cards, so it's almost certain that the ace of spades is in that second group, right?
Well, now the dealer gets rid of 50 cards and tells you that none of them were the ace of spades. You can stick with your original card, which had a 1 in 52 chance of being the ace, or you can switch to the other. Well, the other card IS the ace of spades as long as your first guess was wrong, and chances are your first guess was wrong.
edit: deleted my original post. oops. recopied it here.
You don't have just 2 doors to choose from. You have 3 doors to choose from.
So you have 3 doors. They are mixed up so you don't know whats behind them.
[$] [๐ฉ] [๐ฉ]
you pick 1. 1 of them has money in it, the other two has poop.
3 doors. You choose a random door.
[1] [2] [3]
^
The host, me, tells you "okay, so one of the remaining doors has a poop in it."
From here, we're gonna go 2 directions. First, I'll show you which one has the poop in it.
[1] [๐ฉ] [3]
Now you have to choose between 1 and 3. You think its 50/50, but its not... but lets rewind.
Let's say I show tell you "okay, so one of the remaining doors has a poop in it."
... but I don't show you which one has poop in it.
[1] [2] [3]
You have a choice - keep your first door, or don't keep your first door. Do you still have a 50/50 chance?
No. You have 1 out of 3 chance. The fact that the host shows you one of the doors you didn't choose has ๐ฉ in it doesn't change anything. You knew that when you picked your door.
The choice isn't whether you choose door 1 or 2, or 1 or 3, or 2 or 3, but whether you leave your original door.
Just because there are two choices, doesn't mean both are equally likely. For example, a person is shooting free throws. Either the ball goes in the basket, or it doesn't. But not equally likely. To imagine this, just stand further and further back. It becomes harder and harder to make a basket. Yet, there are still only two choices. Either you make it, or you don't.
Odatas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:16:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do it with 100 doors. You pick one door and I open 98 doors so 2 doors are left. Would you still Stick to your door or Switch?
I never understood how people had so much trouble with this. It's not like it's a paradox or something, it's like a hs probability problem that should make sense 5 seconds after being explained.
One thing you have to remember that most people leave out when explaining it is that the HOST has to know what the winning door is so the host will not pick a winning door. That means that when you picked the first door, it's possible that your door was not a winning door so the host was not able to choose it. That means that it's more probable that the door that was left was left because it was the winning door.
Think of it this way. A deck of cards is shuffled randomly and you get to pick one card and you win if it's the Ace of Spades. The game show host reveals 1 card (not the AoS) and asks if you want to switch out your card. You'd probably say no.
However, if the hosts reveals to you 50 cards, all not the AoS, would you switch? Remember that he's never going to reveal the AoS. Do you think you luckily picked the AoS on your 1/52 chance, or do you think the host has it because he'd have a 51/52 chance of having it?
Simplistically we want to think its 50/50 because of the options available.
A key factor in the problem, which is often understated, is that the host always knows what is behind each door and always intentionally chooses to reveal a goat. If the host randomly revealed one of the two unchosen doors instead, then switching wouldn't matter. Staying put would win a third of the time, switching would win another third, and the last third would be an automatic loss when the host reveals a car.
Eain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:44:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your edit hits the nail on the head: you THINK you have two doors. You do not. The actual problem is three doors. You have three doors to choose from, and then you get asked whether you think you chose correctly. The entire system is designed to make you THINK you're choosing two doors, but you aren't; you're betting on whether the choice you made was correct when there were three doors.
You have to think in terms of the starting odds. You have a one in three chance of guessing correctly the first time. After one door is revealed and you swap, it is 2 chances in 3 to get it right.
To make it intuitive imagine 100 doors. Choose one, the chances of you getting it correct 1 in 100, right? Now imagine that 98 doors are opened, this leaves only 2 doors closed, the one you initially chose, and one other. There is a 99 in 100 chance that the other door has the prize behind it, it is therefore logical to always swap.
The latter problem is identical to the original problem, it helped me to understand by imagining the open 98 doors open and only 2 closed.
The thing is that Monty knows where the car is, and he isn't randomly eliminating a door. He has extra information about the problem, but by eliminating one door he 'unwillingly' exposes part of that information. That is what you take advantage of by switching doors
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:39:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, because which door the host opens wasn't random -- there were rules guiding which door he could open. He can't open the door that you picked, and he can't open the door with a car. So essentially, the door that he opens tells you nothing.
So, you pick your door, knowing that there's a 2/3 chance it's in one of the doors you didn't pick. Then, when he opens one door and reveals a goat, we've already said that 'the door he opens tells you nothing', so there's still a 2/3 chance it's in one of the doors you didn't pick.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:56:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I want to present another explanation that I like:
Doors 1, 2 and 3.
You choose Door 1.
Monty can open door 2, or door 3, to reveal a goat. Let's say he opens door 2.
If door 3 has a car, there is a 100% chance that he will open door 2.
If door 2 has a car, there is a 0% chance that he will open door 2.
If door 1 has a car, there is a 50% chance that he will open door 2.
So, we know that we picked door 1, and he opened door 2, and we know the above information. We can obviously disregard the middle possibility, because we see that there is a goat there behind door 2.
Either we put Monty Hall in a situation where there was a 100% chance he'd open door 2, or we put him in a situation in which there was a 50% chance to open door 2. If you normalize these probabilities, 2/3 goes to 100% and 1/3 goes to 50%.
I don't know if that's more confusing... :S
Restil ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:07:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have 2 doors to choose from along with information about the winning door that has a 66% chance of being accurate.
A lot of people are using a very similar argument, so let me try something else.
Let's say you're playing a 3-case game of Deal or No Deal with 2 goats and a car instead and that you've picked Case #1 as "your" case. When you ask the host to reveal Case #2 and it has a goat behind it, you're learning something meaningful. Now there really is a 50/50 chance Case #1 has the car.
The only reason the Monty Hall problem works is because the host knows which door the car's behind.
People really had (and still have) problems with that one. The proof is logically sound and correct. One can also prove it in other ways, using epsilon delta proofs (and the mathematical definition of 'the surrounding' of a point). It gives the exact same result.
deshe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:25:45 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I actually disagree that the proof above is sound.
It kind of assumes that 9.999... = 10 in one of its stages.
Of course, the proposition is still true beyond doubt, but if you want an actual proof I don't think you can get around defining what 0.999... actually is (in terms of limits).
Edit: If you disagree explain yourself rather than being a downvoting coward
[deleted] ยท -26 points ยท Posted at 14:42:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is no final digit. This is what students often fail to understand. There's no 1 or 0 at the very end - there is no end. Never. There's always another 9. Hence the proof is sound.
[deleted] ยท -22 points ยท Posted at 20:50:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Galle_ ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 21:24:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is no 0 at the end of the number, infinite repeating decimals doesn't have a "end", the same way conventional infinites don't have an end. If they had an end, there would be a number between 0,(9) and 1. Which is technically impossible.
For starters, 1/9 = 0,111...
And naturally 0,111... x 9 = 0,999... , which is the same as 1/9 x 9 = 1
On the other hand you can take 0,(9) as an infinite series of the type 9/(10n+1) and by convergent series result you get 9/10 x 1/(1-1/10) which is 9/10 x 10/9 = 1. So 0,(9) equals to 1 by convergence.
Are you saying that, for example, 1.23*10=1.230? With decimals, multiplying by ten does not put a zero at the end.
deshe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:20:09 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
By the way the real numbers are constructed, it follows that two distinct numbers have a positive difference.
I.e., if 0.999... != 1, then |1 - 0.999...|>0.
So assume that |1-0.999...| = E for some E>0.
For a large enough finite amount of nines, you get that 1-0.999....9 < E. And since 0.999.... > 0.999...9, it follows that |1-0.999...| < E, a contradiction.
This is less confusing if you stop to define better what 0.999... is. Let a_n be a decimal point followed by n nines (a_1 = 0.9, a_2 = 0.99, a_3 = 0.999, etc.).
One can prove using basic theorems of infinitesemal calculus that this sequence has a limit. I.e., that there exists some number r on the real line such that |a_n - r| approches 0 as n approaches infinity (for example, because this sequence is increasing and bounded, so it must have a limit). We define 0.999... to be this limit, and the argument above proves that r has to be 1.
Okay, so getting back to our original train of thought, you're saying that 0.999... (that is, 0.9 followed by an infinite number of 9s) is not equal to 0.999...0 (that is, 0.9 followed by an infinite number of 9s followed by a 0)
Which of them is bigger?
sfurbo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:31 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It makes no sense to write 0.999...0. What 0.999 means is the number where every decimal is a 9, so there is no place to put the 0. There is not final digit, just an endless list of 9's.
I got into such a ridiculous argument with a friend of mine in high school about this. He wouldn't listen no matter how I explained it. I proved it the way you did, by using explicit definitions of what the repeating bar actually means, I proved it graphically, he wouldn't believe me. Frustrating as hell.
An easier to understand, although less convincing proof is this:
1/3 = .33 repeating
1/3 * 3 = 1
.333... * 3 = .999...
1 = .999...
Edit: formatting
Edit2: Damn, I must've been tired and wrote a whole bunch of 3.3, 9.9, etc...
Don't look at this unless you really want to learn about Differential equations.
Edit: You can also use math fuckery to prove 1 = 2.
Assume that we have two variables a and b, and that: a = b
Multiply both sides by a to get: a2 = ab
Subtract b2 from both sides to get: a2 - b2 = ab - b2
This is the tricky part: Factor the left side (using FOIL from algebra) to get (a + b)(a - b) and factor out b from the right side to get b(a - b). If you're not sure how FOIL or factoring works, don't worryโyou can check that this all works by multiplying everything out to see that it matches. The end result is that our equation has become: (a + b)(a - b) = b(a - b)
Since (a - b) appears on both sides, we can cancel it to get: a + b = b
Since a = b (that's the assumption we started with), we can substitute b in for a to get: b + b = b
Combining the two terms on the left gives us: 2b = b
Since b appears on both sides, we can divide through by b to get: 2 = 1
lokoom ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:33:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To everyone who lost fate in math :
When he canceled (a-b) he have to assume it is not zero!
But!! If a-b โ 0 we get aโ b contradictory to our assumption
Well let's say you have 1 inch and it is as close to 1 inch as physically possible even down to the sub atomic particle level. 0.999... Still isn't the same as 1 in that sense right? The reason we might say it is is because the measurement would be too small for us to detect so it would appear to be the same.
Oh yes, yea in the real word we have rounding errors. We can only be so precise, but no more. That isn't to say 0.999... = 1, but there becomes a point where we can't tell the difference.
Please be clear that the person you just replied to is incorrect. While there are rounding errors, this is not one of them. .999... is exactly equal to 1, no rounding involved whatsoever. That infinitesimal bit that appears to separate .999... and 1 does not actually exist; there are no infinitesimal values in the real numbers. It would need to be finitely small, not infinitely small, in which case it would not be equal to 1. 0.999... where the number of 9s is finite (it can be larger than the square of every particle in the universe, but still finite) is not equal to 1. But what we mean when we use those dots is an infinite number of 9s. In this case, .999... is exactly equal to 1.
When you have a set distance that equals say exactly 1 inch, 0.999... wouldn't actually be the 1 inch because you are measuring the distance to exactly the distance that is 0.000...1 less than the 1 inch?
They are exactly the same. That .000...1 inch doesn't exist, because that would involve numbers (that 1 on the end) coming after an infinite amount of other numbers (000...) which is intuitively impossible. There can't be anything after something which never ends (in the real numbers, which is what we generally assume we're working with). In other words, .000...1 is not a (real) number. This is one way to show that .999... and 1 are the same: there are no real numbers between them.
For people who think that this is untrue because 0.9 repeating only gets closer and closer to one, consider this:
You are standing on one side of a room, opposite the door. You walk halfway to it, now you walk halfway from that point to the door.
You keep doing this. You can deduce that there are an infinite number of halfway points between you and the door. If you keep repeating this process, you'll never get to the door. You'll keep getting closer, but never actually there unless you repeated the process infinite times, which you can't do, right?
Wrong. There is one way you can, just fucking walk to the door. How did you do this? Simple, you repeated the process infinite times.
There were infinite halfway points, and you tackled all of them. Therefore, you repeated the process infinite times.
That's what the bar above the 9 means. That's what repeating means. It doesn't mean it repeats for a while. It doesn't repeat until it gets bored and goes home. It repeats INFINITELY. You could write out all the nines if you wanted until you die trying to do a simple math problem, or you could write the repeat bar once, and everyone understands what you're saying.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:09:43 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm going to steal this example for the future. What a wonderful way to put it.
Here the standard rounding operation for integers is that you round any number to the nearest integer. If a number has a mantissa equal to .5 you simply add .5 to said number.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:55:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How is this true?!
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:00:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Isn't this more of a flaw in our number system rather than some sort of odd truth? It's only "true" because there is no way to accurately illustrate thirds in a base-ten system. It's true within the confines of that system but if you can't disprove something so obvious within that artificial system, why should I place any value on what that system claims is true in this case?
The way I'd look at it is that it's not true, but we live with it because it's easy enough to overlook and doesn't really create any unmanageable complications.
EDIT: Can someone at least explain why I'm wrong rather than just downvoting me?
You're wrong because there is a way to accurately illustrate thirds in a base-ten system. 0.333... (or put a bar over the 3, if I weren't typing on a keyboard.)
j909m ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:17:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
.9 repeating is equal to 1.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:04:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Oh oh oh I can prove this. Set x=0.999...
Multiply by 10 to both sides
10x=9.999โฆ
Subtract x from both sides:
10x - x=9.999โฆ - x
Since we set x=0.999โฆ, we can substitute the x on the right side with 0.999โฆ:
10x - x=9.999โฆ - 0.999โฆ
And simplify: 9x=9 (every 9 in 9.999โฆ after the decimal place is being subtracted by another 9, so the end is 9.000โฆ=9)
Divide by 9 to both sides: x=9/9=1.
I proved that x=1. But what's x again? It's 0.999โฆ, like I defined in the beginning. Thus,
For those wondering it can be proved using limits in addition to changing 1/3 to decimal form (although that one is more due to the limitations of our number system)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:14:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Proof:
let s = 0.999...
therefore, 10s = 9.999...
10s โ s = 9s
or, 9.999... โ 0.999... = 9
9s = 9
s = 1, s = 0.999...
0.999... = 1
maz-o ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:00:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
another cool math thing.. there are different size infinites. infinite isn't just an endless number, they can vary in size.
for example take every whole number from 1 upwards: 1,2,3,4,5,... and so on. you will have an infinite number of numbers.
then take every even number; 2,4,6,8,... and so on. you will also have an infinite number of numbers.
but which ever point you look at, there will always be 2x more whole numbers than even numbers. thus the one infinite is 2x bigger than the other infinite.
Actually, it's even stranger. Those are both the same size infinity โ you have to think differently about orders of infinity since it's not a number. They're the same size infinity because for each object in your set of whole numbers, there's exactly one corresponding object in your set of even numbers.
If you can imagine a hotel with an infinite number of rooms that's totally filled, you can still accommodate an infinite number of additional occupants. If an infinite number of people barge in and want rooms, you can accommodate them by telling the current occupants to go to the room number that's double their current room number. Now you have a full hotel with an infinite number of people.
Stranger still, there really are different orders of infinity, though. The one you were talking about is called "countably infinite". There's also " uncountably infinite". The number of real numbers is "uncountably infinite". In other words, there isn't a one to one mapping of whole numbers to real numbers. If you try to do it, you will inevitably miss some of them.
wanze ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:39:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, there are different infinite sizes, but your example does not demonstrate that.
Since you can create a bijection between 1,2,3,... and 2,4,6,..., they share cardinality and are therefore the same size.
If you try to create a bijection between the natural numbers and the rational numbers, however, you'll fall short. Those are of difference sizes. The former being countably infinite and the latter uncountably infinite.
As others have said, 1,2,3,4... and 2,4,6,8... have the exact same "ammount" of numbers which is infinite, but also the same type of infinite.
I can build a function f(x)= 2x
In this function i can order each element from the second set with an element of the first.
f(1)= 2
f(2)= 4
f(3)= 6
f(4)=8
etc. so for each element of 1,2,3,4... i can find an element in 2,4,6,8... that is correspondent to it.
It's not. The proof is wrong, and it comes from a complete misunderstanding of infinity. It bothers me a lot when people perpetuate this completely untrue "fact".
aahdin ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 05:31:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Isn't the reason the thinking is wrong about this is that you are moving the decimal over to go from 0.999... To 9.99999 which is a completely different thing? Unless that's exactly what you are saying. Sure you can write it out to make sense but on a practical level it's impossible?
It's a whole lot simpler than that silly person. Three perfectly shaped slices of pie (3 * 1/3) equals one pie. The falsehood comes from representing .999... as somehow being the same as 1/3, and sure, .999... can represent a decimal representation of 1/3, it's not the actual same number. The same way actual pi is represented in math by 3.14... but it's not actually a rational number so it goes on forever, but that's not what pi IS, pi is a ratio between a circles circumference and it's diameter.
I don't think that the argument '0.333...=1/3 therefore 0.999...=3/3=1' is one you should ever actually use, really. To avoid being dishonest you'd then have to demonstrate why 1/3=0.333...
Edit: I assume that's the argument you were trying to put across, because I don't think anyone tries to say that 0.999=1/3
The point I'm trying to make is that you're asking the reader to believe that 1/3=0.333... Which is the exact same as asking someone to believe 1=3/3=0.999...
Which means that the proof is actually just restating that 0.999...=1 in a slightly more intuitive way.
You're not explaining why 1/3=0.333... So clearly you must be assuming that as an implicit fact. You can demonstrate the result easily as the sum of a geometric progression but you could do the same for 0.999=1.
I understand the argument completely, I'm just saying that it's incomplete at best and dishonest at worst! I also seem to remember the linked thread appearing in /r/badmathematics so I wouldn't be too keen to reference that.
Mate, if you'll look at my post history you might notice I'm a mathematics student. I'm not trying to argue over the results, and I'm actively trying to avoid being overly short. What I'm trying to explain is that by stating that 0.333...=1/3 you're employing circular logic to provide an explanation, replacing one question with another of identical nature. This is because the proof for 0.333...=1/3 would be identical to the proof for 0.999=1, if we were to aim for a watertight explanation.
There are plenty of examples where different symbols denote exactly the same number.
The symbols 1+2+3 are different from the symbols 1*2*3, but both sets of symbols happen to have the same value, namely 6.
The fact that 0.999... is exactly equal to 1 is part of mainstream mathematics and is not seriously disputed by mathematicians. This has come up many times on Reddit. Read the links I provided in my other comment.
Mathematically speaking, 0.9999 repeating tends to 1, not equal to 1
Wsweg ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 02:46:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mathematically speaking, it is equal to one. There are plenty of proofs that support this. http://www.purplemath.com/modules/howcan1.htm I think this explains it better than I can.
aitigie ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 03:28:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not going to debate your main point, but 0.3 is in no way equal to 1/3. Multiply 0.3 three times, and as you've noted above you'll arrive at 0.9. Divide one by three (or, take 1/3 of it) and you'll find yourself with 0.33 repeating.
More precisely: 0.9999... is a fixed quantity as is 1.0000... Being two fixed quantities one can not tend to the other. Indeed, they are the same quantity - the decimal system does not have unique representation for numbers.
You are thinking about the sequence of numbers x_i = 0.999 [9 repeates i times]. And indeed x_i tends to 1 as i goes to infinity.
However, the more standard way to define real numbers is as a sequence of digits d0,d_1, d_2 ,d_3...., where the number they represent is sum{i=0}infinity d_i*10{-i}. In particular, 0.999... is a real number, not a limit.
True, but what's your point? 0.999999.... is a symbol representing a particular real number, and it is the same real number represented by the symbol 1.
wldmr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:32:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds like 0.99... and 1 are two different numbers (that happen to have the same value) Is that what you're getting at?
Well the way my AP Calculus teacher explains stuff like limits and L'Hopitals is this:
On exponential equations with limits like 1/x for x>0 that as you approach infinity on the x-axis, the y-value is (by this time he's yelling) SO SMALL IT MAY AS WELL BE ZERO, DON'T YOU THINK?
Same would apply here, it is approaching one to where the space in between .999.... and 1 is SO SMALL IT MAY AS WELL BE ZERO, DON'T YOU THINK?
0.99... is defined as the limit of a geometric series, yes. The series converges to 1, but 0.99... is defined at the limit of the series.
Philosophy does not have much of a place in math anymore, mathematical theorems are proved using math and only math.
deshe ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:46:11 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Philosophy does not have much of a place in math anymore
This is far from correct. There is a very exciting debate about what formal system should stand at the foundation of mathematics which has been pretty much going on continuously since Russel. It has been ferociously rekindled in the 70s when the consequences of Paul Cohen's work made apparent how problematic ZFC is.
This is an exciting, live, and massive interdisciplinary debate in which philosophers have a very strong standing, and for good reasons.
Yes, once you have a formal system you can't use philosophy to prove theorems. But philosophy still plays its roles, for example, in determining what should be true before trying to prove it, or in determining what properties a definition should have, and revising it in case it doesn't.
jywn4679 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 14:55:38 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ZFC is the standard set of axioms, there is almost no debate there. Even when choosing axioms (e.g. large cardinal axioms) the debate is more over which gives interesting and useful mathematics. I know of very little that is done philosophically.
Philosophy used to have a place in mathematics, but it seemed to do more harm than good. Philosophical questions like "do imaginary numbers exist" are irrelavent now, but they used to be key questions. Now we care less about some philosophical notion of existance, and more about what mathematics we get from them.
deshe ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:26:19 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ZFC is the standard set of axioms, there is almost no debate there
Nope, no debate at all. Only entire fields of research which bother themselves with this questions. Only outstanding efforts to find better foundations for modern mathematics, some efforts so outstanding they have been awarded a Fields' medal.
What you mentioned here (large cardinal axioms, etc.) are extensions of ZFC, not alternatives. There are many proposed alternatives for the foundations of mathematics. Some offer alternative axiomatizations of set theory, while other (actually most) try to abandon the idea that sets should be the basic notions of mathematics altogether.
I suggest that you do some elementary research on the subject, as your above statements are severely outdated ("ZFC is the standard set of axioms, there is almost no debate there") if not downright wrong and baseless ("but [philosophy] seemed to do more harm than good [to mathematics]").
jywn4679 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 15:34:22 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you are refering to things like catagory theory (as your link suggests), and less wel known ones (topos, type theory etc) then they are studied because of the math they give, not because of the philosophy behind them. Foundations are not decided by what people think is more philosophically accurate, but by what makes math nicer and easier. This is very different from how things are done philisohpically.
deshe ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:48:29 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The entire debate about which math is "nicer" is a philosophical one. You can't debate aesthetics formally. Philosophers of math are concerned as much as mathematicians about aesthetics.
You make claims about how things are "done philosophically", but honestly, these alternative approaches would not come to be if it weren't for philosophy. Whenever you are thinking outside the boundary of a given formal system you are doing philosophy. And it is physical considerations that led people to be curious about certain approaches over the others.
From what I gathered it seems that you are under the impression that the way new approaches are formed is through either or an exhaustive search of all possible approaches followed by an attempt to derive all of mathematics from each approach, or pure guesswork.
In practice, though, there are considerations external of math which are useful in constructing a new approach. Philosophical considerations which have been tremendously crucial to the research process.
I have no idea what it is exactly that you think that philosophers of mathematics do, but what they (well, a lot of them) actually do is to contribute towards a better, more unified, aesthetically appealing version of modern mathematics. And they do it with reasoning outside of a formal system.
Your urge to attribute the advent of, say, topos theory, or homotopy type theory, to mathematicians alone mostly reinforces the impression that you haven't the slightest clue how these theories came to be.
edit: Yeah, downvoting everything I say totally makes you right, asshole.
jywn4679 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 16:23:17 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have said that I think that ZFC is the one true foundation of math, but I don't think that at all. I actually reject ZFC, because of the axiom of infinity. The axiom of infinity is just some philosophical bullshit put in, infinity does not actually exist and so ZFC is flawed and inconsistent.
deshe ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:37:48 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The axiom of infinity is just some philosophical bullshit put in, infinity does not actually exist and so ZFC is flawed and inconsistent.
Oh man this just keeps getting better.
jywn4679 ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 16:39:16 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The axiom of infinity is a perfect example of why philosophy should stay out of mathematics. It introduces loads of contradictions for some vague notion of philosophical gain.
jywn4679 ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 16:46:24 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An example of where infinity causes problems, we can use it to construct the real numbers. Now take the real number 0.00...01. This is a real number as the reals are defined using decimals, and this is a decimal. Call this number x. What is x/2? x/2 is smaller than x, and yet x is (clearly) the smallest possible number that isn't zero, so x/2 must be zero. Agree so far?
deshe ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 16:49:33 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my dear god, what have I gotten myself into...
No, ffs, there are no infinitesimals in the real line. That "thing" you wrote, 0.00...01, is not a number. And if it is, I dare you to... wait, what the fuck am I doing trying to debate someone who clearly views stalking me throughout several subreddits in order to downvote everything I say a legitimate rhetoric? Fuck this, go read a book or something.
jywn4679 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 16:51:05 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I haven't downvoted anything of yours, though I'm tempted to now just to prove a point.
Real numbers are numbers which have decimal expansions right? And 0.00...01 is a decimal, so it is a real number. What's wrong with this?
deshe ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:57:18 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A decimal expansion assigns to each integer a digit, which integer was the 1 in "0.0....01" assigned to? Neither one. Hence, this thing you call "0.0...01" is not a decimal.
For the record, there are ways to extend the real line to include infinitesimals, but you're doing it wrong.
jywn4679 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:58:18 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The 1 is assign to infinity, which exists by the axiom of infinity duh.
Of course, I reject the axiom of infinity, so there is no nonsense infinitesimals in my math.
deshe ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:13:23 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
First of all, I don't understand why the existence of infinitesimals even bothers you so much. But nevermind that. What you are saying is simply not true. That any real number could be represented as a sequence of digits is a property, but not a defining property. This does not mean that any transfinite sequence of digits has to correspond to a real number, neither does this follow from any construction of the reals (simply because it is not true).
You mix properties with definitions, and then generalize these properties without considering how the definitions might be affected, which results in a broken argument.
You want to reject the axiom of infinity? Fine, go right ahead. Just... how do you construct the real numbers without it?
jywn4679 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 17:18:53 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The real numbers are decimals, you learn that in high school. It's how we define them.
I don't construct the real numbers, the real numbers don't exist, because they give contradictions. Another contradiction is 0/0. We know that sin(0)=0, and that sin(0)/0=1, so we have that 0/0=1. Agree so far?
deshe ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:21:48 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The real numbers are decimals, you learn that in high school. It's how we define them.
That might be how you define them, but that's not how a mathematician would define them, because that is not even a definition.
We know that sin(0)=0, and that sin(0)/0=1
You have no idea how the notion of a limit works, huh? One thing it does not do is to allow spurious statements such as sin(0)/0=1. Again, you are circumventing conventional definitions to produce non existing contradictions.
jywn4679 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 17:26:25 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's wrong with defining reals by decimal expansions? Are you saying that some real numbers don't have a decimal expansion? Because that's just rubbish.
As for sin(0)/0, try using taylor series and you will see why it's true. The taylor series of sin(x)/x is 1+x(bunch of stuff). Plug in x=0 to get 1, so 0/0=1.
deshe ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:29:56 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's wrong with defining reals by decimal expansions? Are you saying that some real numbers don't have a decimal expansion? Because that's just rubbish.
So if cats are furry I can define cats as "things that are furry"? C'mon, you can do better than that.
As for sin(0)/0, try using taylor series and you will see why it's true. The taylor series of sin(x)/x is 1+x(bunch of stuff). Plug in x=0 to get 1, so 0/0=1.
The Taylor series of a function is not the function itself, for example, because it might be defined in points where the function has a removable singularity. You completely ignore the difference between convergence and equality, again, circumventing accepted definitions to recreate the problems these definitions were made to do away with.
The Axiom of Infinity doesn't state that "infinity exists." It states that the Natural Numbers exist. The counting numbers. The numbers we count with. There's an infinite number of them. If you disagree, please tell me what the biggest number is.
The Axiom of Infinity is necessary because without the Axiom of Infinity, you can only construct finite sets using the other Axioms of ZFC. Furthermore, infinity is not a natural number and therefore is not assigned in the decimal expansion. The number of decimal places there are is the same as the natural numbers, and so there is no "infinite place." Infinity is not a natural number.
There's certainly more real numbers than natural numbers, so they're obviously not able to be constructed without the Axiom of Infinity.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:25:03 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The 1 is assign to infinity, which exists by the axiom of infinity duh.
What do you think the axiom of infinity says? Because that's not what it says.
jLoop ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:05:58 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not actually a decimal expansion. A decimal expansion is a sum like the one shown on wikipedia
(or an infinite sequence of digits), and there is no way to express 0.000...01 in either form.
The reason for this is that there is no largest counting number, so no digit is the last - that "final" one cannot be one of the decimal digits, since if it were, there would be another digit after it (if it's digit n, for any n, there are digits n+1, n+2...)
Only if you're a masochist. Typically, it's done with Cauchy sequences or Dedekind cuts. But you can do it with decimals, which brings me to #2:
this is a decimal
No. A decimal representation is a sequence of digits. And a sequence isn't just something you can write down willy-nilly. A sequence in X is a map from the natural numbers to X. So which natural number maps to 1 in 0.00...01? Not a sequence => not a decimal representation.
Despite all that, if you're really stubborn, you can assign a meaning to 0.00..01. And interestingly enough, you'll get that 0.00...01 = 0, just like you proved. To do this, we'll have to pin down what ... means. It means to take the limit as the number of [whatever pattern is implied] goes to infinity.
So 0.333... means "the limit of 0.3, 0.33, 0.333, ...". Or if you're bothered by me using ... again: it's also "limit of sum_{i = 1}^N (3/10i ) as N goes to infinity". It's a geometric series with starting term 3/10 and rate 1/10. So the sum of all terms is (3/10) / (1 - 1/10) = (3/10) / (9/10) = 1/3.
In the same sense, 0.00...01 is the limit of 0.01, 0.001, 0.0001, ... . Or more formally, it's "limit of 1/10N as N goes to infinity". And that's zero.
King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509โ47) was a tennis fanatic and had multiple courts at his palaces. It's actually a very early sport, starting in the 14th century (with even earlier predecessor's from the 12th century on). Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn, was watching a match when she was arrested and King Henry took a break from a match later to get the news she had been executed.
I don't think she was unfaithful, they were unfounded charges brought against her. Also if some people don't know, the girl they had together eventually became queen - Queen Elizabeth I.
She probably was unfaithful, in all honesty, and probably did so because Henry was pretty gross at that point and he couldn't get a child to her aside from Elizabeth. I think that if she was unfaithful, it was because she was a young girl and also probably trying to make an heir (albeit it an illegitimate one).
Actually Nationalsozialismus means National Socialism. The party was called Die Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), or The National Socialist German Workers Party in English.
Well........... that may be true........ CPR rarely works outside of a hospital setting (and then rarely works in a hospital setting) and almost everyone who is revived dies within a month anyway (hearts don't usually stop because they're bored) and of the very few who do end up surviving almost all of them have measurable brain damage.
But chest compressions themselves cause some movement of air into and out of the lungs.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:50:35 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think at that point anything and everything helps. Getting oxygen pushed into your lungs is a good thing.
I still can't get my head around this, even though it's apparently true. Then again, I don't know calculus, which would help. Actually, it would help if I knew maths.
That's nonsense. Reversing the words of a sentence can completely reverse the meaning.
ademnus ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:08:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It can reverse the meaning of complex sentences, yes, but simple subject and object sentences, no. Also, it's just a general tip to avoid making common errors, it's not meant to be a rule etched in stone to apply to any sentence in creation.
Here's another trick.
A common mistake people make is saying "me and Billy are going to the store" instead of "Billy and I are going to the store." If you ever find yourself stuck for the right answer, just get rid of Billy. "I am going to the store" makes more sense than "Me am going to the store."
If I ever forget the grammar rules I learned at age 7, I'll refer back to this page.
ademnus ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:08:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Obviously you've forgotten the lessons in manners you learned at age 7. Also, if you are insisting that the majority of adults don't make common grammatical errors, you're out of your skull.
You condescended to me on the internet and I made a slightly mocking return, and now you're complaining about my manners? Marvelous.
In case I wasn't clear, I was taking exception to you assuming that I need helpful tips on grammar.
Even a three word sentence when reversed could result in the object becoming the subject and vice versa. I'd say that would probably change the entire meaning.
It makes complete sense to me since I started learning German. The noun used after the link verb is in nominative, not accusative ("Das ist der Tisch" not "Das ist den Tisch").
To rephrase DarkMacek in a more approachable manner... Essentially, if there's a form of the word "is" in there, you have to be able to flip the two words around and have it still make sense. You don't say "This is her", because you couldn't say "her is this".
Really not incorrect unless you're going to go by what dusty old librarians say. The language people use defines what is correct. More people say "It's me" than "It is I" these days, so that's the new correct way to do it.
The verb "is" is a linking verb. When using linking verbs, the object of the sentence takes the same case as the subject of the sentence. Since "she" is the form that's used as the subject ("her" being the form that's otherwise used as an object), when the verb is "is", you would use "she" as the object of the sentence, rather than "her".
Wait that's actually correct? I've been mocking my mother (silently) this whole time because while English is her second (or 3rd) language, it's hard not to laugh when she says stuff like "confisticate" (confiscate) or "aguacuado" (avocado). Combined with her accent, "this is she" has always sounded wrong to me.
[deleted] ยท 232 points ยท Posted at 00:43:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
George W. Bush's debt to GDP was the lowest or one of the lowest of modern presidents. His taxes to GDP was the lowest and his spending to GDP was, too.
But there's another way to look at the deficit -- to compare a president's first deficit as a percentage of GDP to their last. This shows what direction the deficit went during their tenures.
And on this one, George W. Bush does the worst of any president dating back to Eisenhower.
The younger Bush went from a 1.3 percent surplus to a 3.2 percent deficit, a decline of 4.5 percentage points. The best was Clinton, who moved the deficit from a 3.9 percent deficit to a 2.4 percent surplus -- a positive change of 6.3 percentage points. The other presidents all had changes up or down that were roughly two percentage points or smaller.
natched ยท 250 points ยท Posted at 01:57:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a lot easier to not accumulate a lot of debt when the previous guy leaves you a surplus.
bobsp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:44:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He left a slight surplus....once.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:29:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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narp7 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 07:27:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No... It depends on what the regulations are. Externalities such as pollution can have huge costs such as increased medical bills. In many cases, removal of regulation can decrease GDP. In addition, growth of an economy does not mean that the majority of the population sees an increase in wage prices. While the US economy has been growing for many years, median family income has been dropping.
Regulations do a lot of good. They keep lead out of our food, they keep our air breathable, they make sure that people can't be paid $2 an hour, and they keep our highways safe and funded.
Saying that all regulations are good or bad is inaccurate. Some are good and some are bad.
In many cases, removal of regulation can decrease GDP.
Considering that GDP calculations often include money spent by the government enforcing these regulations in the first place (money that would otherwise not have been spent), it's not much of a big deal.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:02:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your medical bill example shows how GDP is not the best thing to go for. Making everyone sick and incurring huge medical bills is by definition an increase in GDP.
Well that's how the market works. Walmart probably values a department at a certain amount, if if the labor is too expensive, they just don't do it. In this case, the labor cost X, but after Walmart implemented it, the cost went up, Walmart said "Never mind", and cut their losses.
My point is that the reason the USA doesn't have strong unions could be because the unions have nothing to offer... Or, it could be because major corporations block attempts at unionising by their employees. Which they wouldn't need to if the unions had nothing to offer.
Right. Think of all the things unions provided workers decades ago. Now it's basically all mandated. Government regulation as pushed unions to the side and essentially made them useless. All that's left the unions can offer is to try and extort more money out of a company with threats of strikes. It's no wonder companies don't care for them.
TL:DR; Unions have been replaced by Govt, and are essentially useless in the current state of things.
So what kind of extortionate demands have the unions made?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:54:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Violent repression by the state is a more likely explanation, combined with the owning class using race and ethnicity to split the working class.
bam2_89 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:14:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They keep lead out of our food
Tort liability is a far greater deterrent than FDA/USDA supervision.
they make sure that people can't be paid $2 an hour
If you're in that territory, your options aren't $7.25 or $2.00, they're $2.00 or nothing.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 10:27:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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bam2_89 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:34:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Just how the hell is that expected to be done!
Mass toxic torts and class actions are a thing. So are rebuttable presumption laws and market share liability. How do you think we do it now? This is not a new concept.
I prefer a society that prevents harm, rather than allowing it.
Hence the word "deterrent."
robstah ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:47:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you have all this money so why not spend it?? it's sorta like when rich people leave inheritance to their kids and they go fucking crazy and spend all that shit
Edit: Wait, I'm off too - it was actually a surplus of just over 236 billion dollars. Hard to believe, but that's what the spreadsheet says. And this was after Bush the First left Clinton with a deficit of over $290 billion.
It was a surplus of 2.3% of GDP - to put that in perspective, last year was a deficit of 2.5% of GDP.
Where they take office on the business cycle will pretty much entirely determine this. Bush had two recessions in his tenure, and the second greatest economic event troughed as he left office.
Your other example Clinton has a huge economic peak right as he left.
If bush took office a year later and left a year earlier it would look entirely different.
The annual deficit topped $1 trillion for each of Obama's first four years in office, including a record $1.4 trillion in 2009. ... The government had a shortfall of $483 billion in 2014.
[deleted] ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 02:45:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Clinton did it with the help of a GOP congress; Bush did it with the help of a democrat congress (America's first since the early 90s).
Led_Hed ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 04:47:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah nope: Bush's first year in office the Senate was 50-50, the House had a Republican majority. From 2002 through the beginning of 2007 the Republicans controlled the Senate and the House. Then the Senate was split and the Dems held the House for the end of Bush' term. By then, the damage was done.
bobsp ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:45:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You misspelled "despite".
ademnus ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:39:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
political party pooper
ovenmitt ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:34:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm guessing this doesn't include all his war spending
That surplus was probably gone after bushs first year in office. Is Clinton responsible for the next seven years too?
natched ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 02:31:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How about a fair comparison then? Compare how much Bush added to the deficit each year relative to his starting point to how much Obama has added to the deficit each year relative to his starting point.
Bush started with a surplus and turned it into a deficit. Obama started with a giant deficit and has turned it into the smallest deficit since 2007.
I judge them by what they changed, and one increased the deficit while the other decreased it.
Going on fair comparisons, Obama took office right at the bottom of the recession and has rode a seven year boom in the markets. Bush left at the bottom. Those have huge impacts on government deficits as well.
natched ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:39:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't claim any of them are responsible for what they started with - they are responsible for what they left us with.
Clinton left us with a booming economy and a surplus. Bush left us with a global economic collapse and a huge deficit.
Unless some crazy shit happens over the next couple of months, Obama is going to leave us with a steady, though certainly not ideal, economy and a deficit that is lower than he found it.
Two terribly mismanaged wars, one of which was completely unnecessary? The worst economic disaster since the Great Depression? The 9/11 Attacks still unavenged? That's "lucky"?
Yours may well be the single stupidest sentence I've ever read in my life. And that's not an insult - it's just an observation. I actually feel a strange kind of awe that someone could honestly write something so utterly foolish.
natched ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:46:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bush's presidency saw the development of, not just one, but two recessions. We had a break of just about 6 years between the two Bush recessions. If Obama was really as bad as Bush we would've had another recession by now, no matter that the country was in recession when he took the job.
Considering the economy boomed through the 90s thanks to the tech bubble, a recession was near inevitable in the early 2000s, especially combined with 9/11. And the 2008 crisis was a catastrophic failure that takes blame from many sources, and going all the way back to Clinton. To say that Obama would have to have three recessions to be worse then bush is completely ignorant of economics and financial markets. If we're gonna criticize bush (and he deserves plenty of criticisms) let's at least do it for things he deserves. There's plenty of material, we don't have to make things up to artificially prop up obamas shitty presidency
So, wait, you don't think that any of Obama's policies have had an impact on growth?
Dodd-Frank?
Stimulus Package?
ACA?
Auto bailout?
Reduction of PMI for FHA loans?
raising the salary required before overtime pay disappears? (forcing employers to either hire another employee, or pay time and a half for the low paid managers they work 60 hours a week)
You genuinely believe anything good that has happened in Obama's term is luck? Let me guess, most anything bad that happens is totally his fault though.
I mean, just because I acknowledge that Obama's policies have assisted the recovery doesn't mean I think Bush's policies created a bad economy.
I like to look at the U.S. as though I'm looking at another country I have no attachment to. It allows me to look more objectively by disconnecting my biases.
Bush's policies didn't contribute to the financial meltdown. The continuous, multi-decade, bi-partisan removal of regulations and lack of oversight created the financial meltdown. The elimination of Glass-Steagall regulations by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 was a central piece, signed by Bill Clinton.
*Bush was ideologically opposed to TARP, but Hank Paulson was able to convince him that the cost of staying ideologically pure and opposing TARP would be a complete financial meltdown. Bush's leniency here saved the global financial system from destruction.
*The Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 used $152 billion of progressive tax rebates to halt the slowdown in February 2008. Even though we now know the recession started in Q3 2007, GDP statistics showed GDP was still growing at that time... So Republicans supported spending $152 billion on a stimulus package when they thought the economy was still growing, but were opposed to the February 2009 stimulus when it was clear we were in the deepest recession in 70 years.
*Dick Cheney successfully lobbied for a provision in the 2005 Energy Policy Act to exempt fracking operations from the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974. Over the next 5 years U.S. natural gas prices plummeted as a boom in fracking natural gas created hundreds of thousands of jobs, boosted manufacturing, and lowered energy prices putting billions of dollars into the pockets of middle class families. From 2010-2014 this boom spread to oil fracking, which led to similar results for high paying job creation, manufacturing components for drilling (even a massive boom in the sand industry), and saved the average American $540 on gas in 2015. The rapid rise in U.S. oil production ALSO significantly impacted the U.S.' trade deficit thus raising the value of the U.S. dollar - making goods cheaper for all Americans and lowering interest rates.
**That morning of July 10, the head of the agencyโs Al Qaeda unit, Richard Blee, burst into Blackโs office. โAnd he says, โChief, this is it. Roof's fallen in,โโ recounts Black. โThe information that we had compiled was absolutely compelling. It was multiple-sourced. And it was sort of the last straw.โ Black and his deputy rushed to the directorโs office to brief Tenet. All agreed an urgent meeting at the White House was needed. Tenet picked up the white phone to Bushโs National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. โI said, โCondi, I have to come see you,โโ Tenet remembers. โIt was one of the rare times in my seven years as director where I said, โI have to come see you. We're comin' right now. We have to get there.โโ
Tenet vividly recalls the White House meeting with Rice and her team. (George W. Bush was on a trip to Boston.) โRich [Blee] started by saying, โThere will be significant terrorist attacks against the United States in the coming weeks or months. The attacks will be spectacular. They may be multiple. Al Qaeda's intention is the destruction of the United States.โ" [Condi said:] โWhat do you think we need to do?โ Black responded by slamming his fist on the table, and saying, โWe need to go on a wartime footing now!โโ
โWhat happened?โ I ask Cofer Black. โYeah. What did happen?โ he replies. โTo me it remains incomprehensible still. I mean, how is it that you could warn senior people so many times and nothing actually happened? Itโs kind of like The Twilight Zone.โ Remarkably, in her memoir, Condi Rice writes of the July 10 warnings: โMy recollection of the meeting is not very crisp because we were discussing the threat every day.โ Having raised threat levels for U.S. personnel overseas, she adds: โI thought we were doing what needed to be done.โ (When I asked whether she had any further response to the comments that Tenet, Black and others made to me, her chief of staff said she stands by the account in her memoir.) Inexplicably, although Tenet brought up this meeting in his closed-door testimony before the 9/11 Commission, it was never mentioned in the committeeโs final report.**
Obama began his presidency by permitting the largest deficit in modern history. The subsequent years in which the deficits were less than the largest deficit in modern history are not passing marks.
natched ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 02:53:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Perhaps you missed the bit about the current deficit being less than it was in 2008, a year before Obama took office.
Not to mention that the budget for the 2009 fiscal year was planned for and started before Obama took office.
You're only seeing what you want to see. Obama and congress the last eight years (in both parties) have an abhorrent economic record. There is a reason the Fed is afraid of their own shadow right now and it ain't because our economy is "too strong."
natched ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:14:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're only seeing what you want to see.
Actually, I'm seeing objective facts. Whether you want to see it or not, the deficit is currently lower than it was in 2008.
Obama and congress the last eight years (in both parties) have an abhorrent economic record
Similarly, Obama, who has been President for 7 years, not 8, has a good economic record. That is an objective fact, based on things like GDP and job growth. Even though you deny it, it is still true.
If you want to link to any actual evidence for your positions, please do so. Here's some GDP data:
That's like saying blaming the firemen for fires or blaming doctors for disease: Obama ran up ginormous deficits to help the country survive the economic disaster Bush gave us. Obama could have chosen to cut spending on unemployment and food stamps, but that would have destroyed the American middle class for a generation. Real life is not an Ayn Rand novel.
He didn't count the wars in his budget. Also from your link:
...Count a President's first deficit as a percentage of GDP to their last. This shows what direction the deficit went during their tenures.
And on this one, George W. Bush does the worst of any president dating back to Eisenhower.
The younger Bush went from a 1.3 percent surplus to a 3.2 percent deficit, a decline of 4.5 percentage points. The best was Clinton, who moved the deficit from a 3.9 percent deficit to a 2.4 percent surplus -- a positive change of 6.3 percentage points. The other presidents all had changes up or down that were roughly two percentage points or smaller.
Shaz201 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why would that sound wrong? Republicans have a reputation for fiscal responsibility, at least in their own minds.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:56:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The statistics favor democrat presidents in terms of reducing national debt. I'm not sure what measure OP is using, I can't replicate his conclusion so I think we may be talking about different stats?
Because what Republicans say and think is wrong, that's common sense.
PvR12 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:51:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Im not American so may I ask why this should surprise people? I know Bush as a republican isnt really populair in redder but was he known as a big spender too? Is this related to the wars he started? Also isnt the debt and GPD during a presidents term also largely to be attributed to his predecessor? Since the influence of policies on such matters is some what delayed?
Yearly deficit after Bush: $1 trillion. Yes, much of this is because of massive military spending.
You're right, there is a delayed reaction to a president's policies, and presidents can't control everything that happens during their time in office. But you have to look at what happens during his term and what policies he puts into effect. He gave huge tax cuts to the rich while increasing spending, including over $1 trillion on wars in the Middle East. Year after year, the deficit grew larger and larger.
The statistic you're responding to is "surprising" because it's a misleading piece of information. Bush was increasing spending, but because we started at $0 deficit, his 8 year total isn't that high.
Obama started out with a $1 trillion per year deficit, and has cut that down to $439 billion. But despite the fact that he is cutting back on irresponsible spending and Bush did the opposite, far more debt has accumulated during Obama's 7 years.
PvR12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:21:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly what I suspected, thank you for clearing that up!
[deleted] ยท -11 points ยท Posted at 02:47:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The political left thinks Bush was crazy with the deficit.
I'm not sure what oh mean by "crazy with the deficit" but the fact that spending increased under Bush is relatively non-controversial.
Clinton left in the midst of a surplus, mostly by his--and the congress'--doing. Then Bush got elected and spending increased by a very large amount. Attribute the increase to whatever you want, but to argue against the increase itself is to fight a losing battle.
Yeah, Clinton and the bank deregulation had nothing to do with any of it. Subprime mortgage lending on a mass scale that almost destroyed this country was brought on by letting banks get "too big to fail." Please explain how George W. Bush crashed the economy with his influence on the tech bubble?
[deleted] ยท 138 points ยท Posted at 00:05:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Ryckes ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:23:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
dens421 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:59:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think Basque is older and the only one not related to other indo-european languages... the old words for "knife" and "axe" contain the root from "stone"
0.999... (where the 9s continue indefinitely) is exactly equal to 1. Not just "as close as possible to 1," but exactly equal to 1. It's just a different way of representing it. To help get your head around it, 1 / 3 = 0.333..., and 0.333... * 3 = 0.999..., and 1 / 3 * 3 = 1, therefore 0.999... = 1.
It was "inflammable", people started using "flammable" for some reason. Language evolves
Gramage ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:39:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
English is the language equivalent of cross breeding a squid with a fox, and then a pigeon with a monkey, and taking those two offspring and cross breeding them. So its a monkey/squid/pigeon/fox. It works but it shouldn't.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 09:18:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Incorrect. This is addressed ITT somewhere.
Keram_ ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 11:43:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australians had a war against emus, fought with machine guns.. and lost.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:59:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Anno Trumpinae?" This is America Trumperica and in Trumperica we speak Trumperican! It'd be Year 1 of the Trump Era (TE), with all previous time being Before Trump Era (BTE)
uniptf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:54:21 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except when the rabid evangelical base howls in fury at that, and then he'll trot out that bible again and swear it's the one his dear mother gave him for Christmas when he was just a little boy, and go right back to BC/AD. Because he never actually means any single thing he says.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:23:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Time to start saying "in the year of our Trump..."
That's pretty promising, every historical leader with a month named after them was great, and every historical leader who reset the calendar was even better!
Hey I just thought of that right now. What a good idea. I have a great brain. I can do this all day. What other questions? I will consult with myself. I'm smart my brain is huge. -Trump
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:57:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like the French revolution and Julis Caesar, and Nero. Maybe Trump can instead rename "a meter" to "a trump", that way the US would finally become a somewhat modern country.
Nope. This year has a designation. It's 2016. He didn't say within a year or even within the year but later THIS year.
If I tell you "I'll pay you back that money I owe you later this month" and it's March 19th, I damn sure don't think you'd be ok with me paying you back on April 18th because that was less than a month later. I specified THIS month, so you would expect payment to happen sometime before the end of this month. Just like the end of THIS year is December 31st, 2016.
"Hey Murica, remember how Al-Quaeda got into your country? Well..there's this big border here...."
[deleted] ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 01:03:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a Canadian - I don't think you Americans realize how hard it is to move to Canada. All this cool shit is ours. It's seriously fucking difficult to get in.
If you have no job, no prospects, no family and basic education, why would we want you? Same goes for us moving to the US. I need a job before I can move down there permanently, or I need a special visa that they only have so many a year of. It's difficult to just move to a country
itz4mna ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:06:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently there's a lot of public support for a free movement zone between Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. Can't really see the US being involved though, sorry chaps.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:30:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Odd that Americans are so mad at Donald Trump for saying things like it should be hard for illegal immigrants to stay in the US, that they want to move to a country that has made it extremely hard for Americans to move there....because they see that country as superior in terms of its policies.
Could you tell me about Canada's practices with respect to people who are found within its borders who have not followed the rules with respect to immigration?
Full disclosure: I support Bernie were I to have my choice of candidates, but I think that much of what Donald says, while designed to be inflammatory and thus newsworthy, contains kernels of truth. And I see such loathsome behavior in his opponents (both within the RNC and in the general public) that they have little leg to stand on when criticizing him as a candidate....
356afan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:14:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hell with that; British Virgin Islands gets my vote!
Can't wait to see the shocked realization of those fleeing to Canada that much like Trump is calling for with the United States, Canada does not welcome illegal immigrants.
BREAKING NEWS: President Trump announces the reorganization of the United States into the Greater North American Empire. Says the reorganization along with the annexation of Canada will guarantee a "safe and secure society" which "will last for ten thousand years."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:52:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn, my birthday is November 8th... that won't be a good late birthday gift.
I just got a message from the bot based on my typing of the r emind me bit. I thought I'd seen the bot make replies in threads before, so since I didn't see one, was trying to help out. Live and learn.
Trevsky ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:49:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remindme! November 9th, 2016 "Did they stump the Drumpf?"
Face it.lets stay realistic he didnt win yet but what do you expect to happen now
SmoSays ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 01:55:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it will. Here's how.
Bernie loses to Hilary (not happy about it but it looks that way) and she represents the Dem side. Trump represents Rep.
Since that is a choice between 'shit' and 'slightly less shit', most people will go, 'I want neither' and either not bother to vote or write in Mickey Mouse or something. The hardcore ones on either side will be the ones who come out to vote. I think Trump's supporters outnumber Hilary.
I think you seriously underestimate how many left-leaning people would prefer Hillary over Trump if they can't have Bernie, even if they don't particularly like her.
Also, and I don't quite know how likely this is to happen but I know it's being seriously talked about, there is a growing number of Republican party members talking about running a third candidate independently as an alternative to both of them - which could very likely split the Repub vote and give Hillary an easy win.
I'm not saying Trump won't win, but I don't think it's as surefire as you do.
Yup. I'm not a Hillary fan, but I would vote for her in a heartbeat if meant keeping Trump or even Cruz out of office. I know it's anecdotal but I know a lot of people that feel the same way.
SmoSays ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:12:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I sincerely hope you are right.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:40:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hope you realize that Hillary is the only one of the three with literally any foreign policy experience. That's kinda sorta marginally important.
hawaiims ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 05:19:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah ummm... about Hillary's foreign policy history:
Probably also a lot of slightly conservative but mostly centrist people who don't love Hillary, but would still vote for a relatively mainstream centrist candidate instead of Trump.
Yeah but most of them won't pull away from their XBox long enough to take the bus to the polling station.
cobysev ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 04:41:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Bernie supporter here. If Sanders doesn't make the nomination, then we're screwed and I might as well vote Trump. No way I want Hillary in office, and maybe Trump will fuck it up so bad that the American people will finally stand up and reform the whole damn broken system.
I love Bernie, but I urge you to reconsider. This is the same argument that Nader made back in 2000: Gore and Bush are indistinguishable. I don't agree. I think Gore would have done better than Bush, most certainly on global warming.
There's that old saying that "politics is the art of the possible." I think Hillary is definitely the lesser evil, and I doubt that Trump will really catalyze any kind of revolution.
This will happen but it will favor Hillary. Hillary's supporters far exceed Trump's, he just has more cultish support. Trump getting the nomination will be a godsend for whoever opposes. This isn't always clear when you spend all day on reddit, but Trump is deeply unlikable. He can kiss liberal, moderate, and minority votes goodbye.
for real. Hillary has this shit on lock, the only question at this point is whether the Republicans will fuck things up so badly that the Dems can retake Congress too.
Ha, it's funny because that's the point of this thread. We all hate it, but it's more likely than we like to think (especially with the normal low democratic participation, but high Republican turn out, and trump has brought more out)
Primary turnout for a party doesn't correlate to general election turnout. It's mostly about how competitive a primary is. On the left, you have a feeling of inevitability guest starring a surprise challenger who gave her a decent run for about a month. On the right, you have holy fuck the GOP is going to hell--rather than a big tent, the right has multiple small, mutually incompatible tents each satisfied by a different candidate or combination thereon. Evangelical vegetarian? Evangelical judicial originalist penny-pincher? Pro-immigration hawk? Pro-immigration moderate? An IBM CEO! Two governors! The Donald!
Literally five or six other candidates, but you can see why that might generate more voting than "I saw this coming from a mile away" vs. "maybe a socialist this year?"
[deleted] ยท -58 points ยท Posted at 00:05:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 00:07:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The suffering that is within you when someone uses God's name in vain is caused by none other than yourself. Rather than searching for the solution to this suffering outside of yourself, why not look within?
vtec375 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:56:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I upvoted because I thought "smashing pissers" is a hilarious euphemism for sex. I'd smash pissers with her too.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:44:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's alright. We've all been in denial one time or another.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:32:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i think you're drunk
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:39:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're not wrong.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:05:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well, me too. let's by nonpartisan friends
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:15:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm an independent that has no idea who I'm going to vote for this campaign season. I could've voted for the last to presidential elections. I will shit myself if it actually does come down to Trump and Bernie. I somehow like them both.
Sadly I think it will, it's between Trump and Hillary or Bernie, none of them should be president, but trump supporters outnumber Hillary and Bernie supporters. Any way you spin it we're fucked.
I know it ain't a popular opinion, but I'm still thinking that Trump is playing a game, and the result will be Hillary in office. Didn't he spend a lot of money on Bill's campaign, registered Democrat for the longest time, and even have the Clintons at his wedding?
I know it's a conspiracy theory, and I hope I'm wrong because it would be a perversion of democracy.
Even if this theory were true, it says a lot about the other candidates if he can beat them. He says terrible things about Hispanics and he still gets the majority of hispanics to vote for him. That right there shows you how bad the other candidates are on these issues.
Well, Cruz is even worse than Donald when it comes to Hispanics and especially gays. On the Hispanic issue he wants to build a wall AND triple the size of the border patrol. Rubio has flip flopped to a more tougher stance against Hispanics too.
His speeches are at the level of a middle schooler, I just don't see him out debating her without resorting to completely offensive tactics. His side won't bat an eye but it would piss off neutrals who see him as a joke to the process.
He might try to belittle her in some way, but honestly who knows. He could go the other way and say that he's friends with her, and that she came to his wedding and then elaborate how she is bought and paid for.
Trump should (and I think will) definitely attack her on the things I listed and they will all be valid points against her. Trump talked about the media trying to downplay him by not showing the vastness of his crowds. I'm a Bernie supporter and I wish Bernie was more forceful against the media for doing almost the same to him (even worse, cause Trump gets so much airtime on any major cable news channel) Trump will fight Hillary and not let her walk over him on issues that she has said one thing and voted the opposite.
Hillary is a bad debater too. She goes on the offensive, lies, and also manipulates time to speak longer. Trump will not let her go on long rants and he will put her in her place.
His side won't bat an eye but it would piss off neutrals who see him as a joke to the process.
Yeah, but if he hits her hard enough on the ongoing indictment of her emails, her terrible gaffes, how hawkish she is...etc. those are issues that it will be hard to argue against. Yes, he's a self-centered, egotistical asshole...etc but if he makes it hard for people to vote for someone who is all lip-service it might keep neutrals/undecideds, independents and democrats from voting for her. Not to mention those disenchanted because Bernie won't be the nominee.
Trump's biggest problem is how he feels against women and minorities (sexism and bigoted remarks). If half the women in the country aren't going to vote for Trump, he's fucked. Then a great portion of the Latino and Muslim voters on top of that. Even more fucked.
I'm not a fan of trump, and he does say some ridiculous things from time to time to grab the media's attention ( he has really mastered the phrase "there is no such thing as bad publicity".) But I wouldn't call him a misogynist by any means. He's brazen and a narcissist, and he doesn't have the filter of career politicians. He's never been a tea party religious nut, and he could have just as well run as a democrat instead of as a republican. He's always been a moderate, and his statements like insinuating that many of the illegal immigrants were criminals were just a ploy to get the really conservative voters to rally around him. Then progressively, he softens his stances just enough to keep those really conservative voters while also rallying a new base of more moderate voters.
He's a manipulator if anything, he knows exactly how to get votes from people who are sick of politicians.
He will definitely come more center after he gets the nomination, but these anti-Muslim and anti-hispanic comments could be how he really feels. Regardless if he's pandering to a republican base or not it hurts him incredibly.
Trump usually has a good majority of votes in general between the 4 (before Rubio dropped out) so I'm sure he has a higher percentage of Hispanic, black, gay votes than everyone else. Cruz is terrible when it comes to his opinions on gays; the absolute worst. Plus, everyone else in the field has terrible immigration policies.
In an interview with Fox News, host Bill OโReilly asked Mr. Cruz whether he would โround up all 12 million illegal aliens here, and if so, how?โ
Mr. Cruz replied, โyes, we should deport them. We should build a wall, we should triple the Border Patrol. Federal law requires that anyone here illegally thatโs apprehended should be deported.โ
"You've got a candidate who sponsored a bill that I supported to finally solve the immigration problem, and he's running away from it as fast as he can," Obama said.
"He may express strong anti-immigration sentiment, but you've heard that from the other candidates as well," Obama said of Trump.
So insulting women in much the same fashion as you insult men is sexist? Isn't that equality?
Obama and Jimmy Carter have both closed our borders to Muslims at different times, we're at war with radical Muslims, it's in the constitution that the president has the power to close borders to any group of people who they believe poses a threat to us. Do you believe either of them were racist?
As to anti-Hispanic, the comment was specifically about illegals and referencing a salon article about the findings of an Amnesty International study. Is Amnesty International racist for saying at least 60% of undocumented women and girls traveling to the united states through mexico are raped in transit?
Like all things, actions speak louder than words, and Trump has a long history of being forward thinking in terms of equality. He was the first to put a woman in charge of a major construction project when he built Trump tower and his businesses have averaged 50% women in senior executive positions (the wage gap has never been a thing for Trump employees), and has fought discrimination wherever he's encountered it, such as the palm beach golf circuits http://netrightdaily.com/2016/03/trump-insisted-on-including-jews-and-blacks-at-palm-beach-golf-course-in-1990s/ .
So insulting women in much the same fashion as you insult men is sexist? Isn't that equality?
How has he insulted men in the same fashion? Calling someone a liar or little is nowhere near the same as saying "you would look good on your knees" to a woman.
Obama and Jimmy Carter have both closed our borders to Muslims at different times, we're at war with radical Muslims, it's in the constitution that the president has the power to close borders to any group of people who they believe poses a threat to us. Do you believe either of them were racist?
Where in the constitution does it say that the president has the power to close borders to any group of people? Obama and Jimmy Carter never did that. You're making shit up.
As to anti-Hispanic, the comment was specifically about illegals and referencing a salon article about the findings of an Amnesty International study. Is Amnesty International racist for saying at least 60% of undocumented women and girls traveling to the united states through mexico are raped in transit?
Show me this Amnesty international study? Trump said that they're not sending us their brightest they're sending rapists, murderers and drug dealers. That is incredibly bigoted. Most that do illegally immigrate do it to better the lives of their families in Mexico and in other countries as well.
He also has a longer history of sexist and bigoted comments. One or two stories of him doing something good doesn't negate all the racist and bigoted comments he's made.
Trump said Mitt Romney would have dropped to his knees for his endorsement when running, which is the same implication and more insulting. He literally treats men and women the same way. I think you can tell which women appreciate equality and which want to be treated like delicate little princesses by how they react to that. The woman he said that to didn't even recall the comment and stated she was never offended by him.
He has a long history of progressive hiring that any CEO would be proud of and attacking racist and sexist institutions well before culture dictated the change. Feel free to provide me with further examples if you still think he's at all sexist or bigoted but maybe Google the facts I respond with yourself moving forward? It gets a little tedious.
Clearly, Carter's fourth sanction pertaining to visas for Iranian nationals was in no way a security measure. Sanctions by definition are a tactic short of direct military conflict to elicit cooperation by other nations, issued to achieve compliance through discomfort or inconvenience. Throughout his remarks, Carter emphasized that the sanctions were a result of "patience" on the part of the United States government in securing the hostages' release, sanctions that were imposed only when the U.S. felt certain that the Iranian government was complicit in the detention of several American citizens in "inhumane conditions." The situation was critical, and the sanctions were a last-resort measure.
Carter explicitly outlined the reasons behind the issuance of sanctions (including visa cancellation for Iranian nationals) and underscored his intent to pressure Iran's regime. By contrast, Trump's proposal was markedly different: not a sanction, but a security measure framed as a counterterrorism strategy, and one directed at all adherents of a particular religion (regardless of their nationalities) rather than citizens of a particular country. Moreover, Carter's sanctions occurred during a lengthy period of escalating conflict between Iran and the United States (while U.S. hostages remained in foreign captivity), but Trump's proposal came in response to a mass shooting perpetrated by an American citizen and his immigrant wife.
Article on terrors of illegal immigration including a link to the amnesty international study:
Yet, though thousands of women are passing through Mexico, the unit reported that itโs seen only six cases of assault against migrant women this year, which includes kidnapping, rape and armed robbery.
Trump's own words were โWhen Mexico sends its people, theyโre not sending their best. Theyโre not sending you. Theyโre not sending you. Theyโre sending people that have lots of problems, and theyโre bringing those problems with us. Theyโre bringing drugs. Theyโre bringing crime. Theyโre rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.โ
This is not the same as women migrating through different countries and getting raped. He specifically said that Mexico is sending druggies, rapists and criminals here.
The implication is he'd suck dick for an endorsement, pretty much everyone took it that way, it's the same and you can find numerous examples of trump being equally insulting to others, he doesn't pull punches for anyone, and the comment you're talking about wasn't even poorly received.
From the article I pulled the legal code link from
โWhenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate,โ the 1952 law states.
What carter said for the reasoning was irrelevant, the message is clear. Both dealt with hostile situations with temporary bans, and we are in a hostile situation with radical Islam, the United Kingdom has the second highest rate of Muslims leaving the country to join ISIS outside of the Middle East, there's not a country we can associate this problem with, it's religious extremist group, trying to disassociate religion from them is insanity.
I'm not seeing the issue in regards to the comments on Mexico, the numbers are clear. Who do you imagine rapes 60 to 80% of those women? Do you think American vacationers are doing it while they spend the week in Cancun or do you prefer calling Mexican nationals rapists as opposed to illegals. Likewise are you denying that Mexico is a narco-state? Do you think more people transporting those drugs are entering the country legally and submitting themselves to CBP screenings than are trying to enter illegally with it? Likewise do you not associate those things (and human trafficking besides which we haven't gotten into with crime?). This is why Trump supporters talk about common sense, these aren't just facts, they're obvious, common sense facts.
Are you really equating temporary holds on immigration and foreign travel with internment and concentration camps? That's incredibly disingenuous. Read about the refugee crisis in Sweden and Germany right now, I can't tell you what news sources to believe and what not to, it's hard to tell, but regardless of how bad it is or isn't what's clear is two remarkably progressive, tolerant countries are becoming less progressive and tolerant by the day due to a large group of unscreened refugees and/or economic migrants being loosed in their countries without the systems in place to vet them. If you want a less tolerant country, with homosexuals and Jews fleeing to other nations and women dying their hair dark and avoiding areas of their own cities out of fear, then we should follow Sweden's example and that's where we'll be in a decade.
I agree that his issue will be getting most women and minorities to vote for him. For Romney it was just minorities, although I don't know his final women count. He had to convince them that he will protect them and erase their disadvantages and he has to have actual plans for them. I'm interested to see how he deals but I don't see him succeeded in carrying that much minority vote.
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Sources? It's been a long time since I formally studied political science but back then it was generally accepted roughly 40% of the population identified as Democrat, roughly 40% as Rebublican and 20% as independent. As such it was pretty critical for a candidate to pick up that independent vote.
A few of the articles I've read in the past year suggest a trend of more people identifying as "independent" indicating a split that is somewhere in the neighborhood of 30/30/40 assuming accurate data.
I'm not sold yet that we'll see a Clinton v Trump contest but it does appear likely at this point. Assuming the 30/30/40 split is correct, I think we can safely say both candidates will have to soften their rhetoric in an effort to capture more of the independent vote. It will be interesting to see how far and exactly what the softening entails.
November is still a long way off. I think it's a bit premature to call it for Hillary.
Dude, Trump is going to fucking schlong Hillary in the GE. She has so many skeletons in her closet it'd make your head spin. She's going to go to jail, and guess what, the Clintons are going to pay for it.
To clarify, Most of the things I said in the sentence above are actual opinions of mine, but they're dipped in memes to give it this fine layer of meme magic.
Literally said he wanted to kill the families of terrorists
No, he said he wanted to go after them. Perfectly reasonable, actually, because a lot of the time, unfortunately, the family knows.
wants to increase torture
Ah, the unfortunate waterboarding thing. Look, it's not a good thing to have to waterboard, nor is it a good thing to have to bomb a country. But can you say that if you knew a guy knows the location of a nuclear bomb in New York and wouldn't tell you, you wouldn't do that in order to get that information? You'd rather let thousands die than waterboard one person?
siding with the government in the fbi vs apple case
I don't want the government to be able to access all phones, no, but I can guarantee you Sanders and Hillary would both do the same thing if it weren't politically bad. First of all, the government is going to get into that particular phone one way or another, and I'm relatively sure he was referring to that one phone, which apple could easily help the fbi with. It's the phone of a terrorist. What's wrong with checking it?
calling the majority of illegal immigrants rapists
Considering 80% of women crossing the border get raped, I'd say it's not too much of a stretch. Also, he didn't say most.
saying he wants to fucking ban muslims
I guess we shouldn't have banned Germans during WWII. Islam isn't a race, it's an ideology. Obviously he doesn't mean citizens of the US or citizens of other countries who have legitimate passports. I don't want people to be banned from coming here, but unfortunately, there's a lot of radical Islam in the middle east. Look at Europe, they're going down the toilet. The crime rate is going up. It's not a coincidence. We've fucked up the ME, and we can't just leave and go "Welp, deal with it fucks". We need to fix it, but do it right, like we did with Japan (no, I'm not referring to nuking them, I'm referring to what we did for them afterwards)
building a wall between the US and mexico
What's wrong with that? Countries have built walls for thousands of years, not only will it bring revenue into the country (tourism), but it will give people jobs (along with all the other infrastructure things Trump wants to do).
Flip flops on literally everything that comes out of his mouth
Top kek, a video without a like system and without a comment section. How thin skinned are you liberals? Anyway, a lot of examples in the video aren't flip flops, they're changes in opinion that everybody has. I don't see what's wrong with that. As much as I like to narc on Hillary, and I love to narc on Hillary, a lot of flip flopping that she's accused of is simply how humans are. By that same token, a lot of the stuff she's accused of is actual flip flopping. The other ones, like the healthcare thing, aren't him supporting government run health care, he's supporting government funded healthcare. I don't see how those two are the same. And you want to talk about flip flopping, Bernie Sanders was for the exact same immigration policies that Trump is talking about. Now, this can be attributed to him changing his opinion, but he also flip flopped on gun control (which makes me like him more, actually), and on his campaign website (while they were building it), he was very anti-crime (I can't find the source for it, but I've already posted more sources than you have).
talks about his dick size on the stage of the debate
After Rubio did, I don't see anything wrong with him defending himself. If Bernie had said that Hillary had a smelly cunt or Hillary had said that Bernie has an unclipped disgusting penis, or alluded to it, I don't think anyone would blame them for defending themselves.
retweets and doesn't disavow white supremacists and KKK members
Holy shit dude, he did disavow the KKK member. But if you really want to go down that road, both Hillary and Bernie were friends with a former KKK grand wizard.
he lead the fucking birther movement
What's wrong with asking questions? He didn't keep at it after the fact.
doesn't believe in fucking climate change
Actually, he's said that he does believe it, but he doesn't think humans have as big a role to play as some people say.
thinks vaccines cause autism.
Yeah, not anymore. He was shot down by Carson, and now Carson is endorsing him. I don't think he would if he still thought that.
he has zero tact in diplomacy and would get flustered the moment he realized he can't push around the leaders of other countries
That's not even a true statement. Sanders has zero experience just like Trump has, so we don't even know that. The fact is, he would probably better our relations with Russia, which isn't something to sneeze at.
So go ahead, add another thirty if you'd like. I'll respond to them, and then I'll cite reasons not to like Sanders.
No, he said he wanted to go after them. Perfectly reasonable, actually, because a lot of the time, unfortunately, the family knows.
"The other thing with the terrorists is you have to take out their families, when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families. They care about their lives, don't kid yourself. When they say they don't care about their lives, you have to take out their families"
Is what he said, not, "We have to interrogate the family members of terrorists" (a reasonable stance. He's literally saying that we need to take out the innocent families of extremists.
Ah, the unfortunate waterboarding thing. Look, it's not a good thing to have to waterboard, nor is it a good thing to have to bomb a country. But can you say that if you knew a guy knows the location of a nuclear bomb in New York and wouldn't tell you, you wouldn't do that in order to get that information? You'd rather let thousands die than waterboard one person?
Except the fact that Torture doesn't work. It's as simple as that. Aside from that, we're a 1st world country. In this day and age we shouldn't be advocating for torturing people and killing civilians.
I don't want the government to be able to access all phones, no, but I can guarantee you Sanders and Hillary would both do the same thing if it weren't politically bad. First of all, the government is going to get into that particular phone one way or another, and I'm relatively sure he was referring to that one phone, which apple could easily help the fbi with. It's the phone of a terrorist. What's wrong with checking it?
I have a degree in computer science so let me explain why you don't really understand the issue at hand. The FBI wants to have apple give them a method to access EVERY iphone. Not just this one phone. If the court sides against Apple, than theres a precedent for apple to do this with any phone the fbi wants them to. The government can and will get in that phone, it's easy. The problem for them is if they get into it illegally, the court won't allow that evidence. This is how our legal system works. Apple can't "easily help the fbi with" it. They've said it would take weeks for a team to even be able to crack it in the first place.
Considering 80% of women crossing the border get raped, I'd say it's not too much of a stretch. Also, he didn't say most.
"What can be simpler or more accurately stated? The Mexican Government is forcing their most unwanted people into the United States. They are, in many cases, criminals, drug dealers, rapists, etc.โ Well he did say that so... Also in many if not most cases it isn't the other immigrants doing the raping, but border gangs, border crossing assistants, and even government officials.
I guess we shouldn't have banned Germans during WWII. Islam isn't a race, it's an ideology Obviously he doesn't mean citizens of the US or citizens of other countries who have legitimate passports. I don't want people to be banned from coming here, but unfortunately, there's a lot of radical Islam in the middle east. Look at Europe, they're going down the toilet. The crime rate is going up. It's not a coincidence. We've fucked up the ME, and we can't just leave and go "Welp, deal with it fucks". We need to fix it, but do it right, like we did with Japan (no, I'm not referring to nuking them, I'm referring to what we did for them afterwards)
That comparison is just nonsense I'm sorry. Islam has over 1.5 BILLION members. The fact that he wants to ban what makes up 20% of the global population is just absolutely ridiculous. This country was founded on people trying to practice their religion in peace, and now this so cold constitutionalist wants to revoke that right. Just ridiculous.
What's wrong with that? Countries have built walls for thousands of years, not only will it bring revenue into the country (tourism), but it will give people jobs (along with all the other infrastructure things Trump wants to do).
First of... lol. You think building a wall across the border is going to bring tourism...? Are you kidding? We already have walls across the border. Please explain to me how in the world a wall is going to solve any of the problems. You think these multi-billion dollar drug cartels can't just bring a fucking ladder? Also, you realize the majority of drugs are brought over the border by mules on planes? Also, could I have a list of some of the other "infrastructure things Trump wants to do"? Because all I see is that he said that he likes to build, he wants to build, and he likes to build under budget! (Paraphrasing a direct quote from the donald himself). Nowhere, not his website or any interviews I could find, do I see a specific plan for infrastructure.
After Rubio did, I don't see anything wrong with him defending himself. If Bernie had said that Hillary had a smelly cunt or Hillary had said that Bernie has an unclipped disgusting penis, or alluded to it, I don't think anyone would blame them for defending themselves.
He brought it up at one of his rallies and it was an aside. Not a big deal. But to then bring that to the debate stage just shows how absolutely classless he is. Instead of assuring us there was no problem with the size of his jonhnson, why not criticize rubio and say something like, "Marco has been saying some really nasty things about me, even insinuating that since my hands are small something else must be to, so I just want to say that I think that's a totally classless thing to say and that shouldn't be your attack for a politician." Something along those lines would've been infinitely better compared to bringing up the size of his dick to the audience. Show how he's better than marco, but instead... nope.
Holy shit dude, he did disavow the KKK member. But if you really want to go down that road, both Hillary and Bernie were friends with a former KKK grand wizard.
After the fact. He was literally told 3 times that he was the leader of the KKK and each time Trump said he didn't know the guy, so he wouldn't disavow him. Then that night he goes oh no I completely disavow this dude.
What's wrong with asking questions? He didn't keep at it after the fact.
Because it was 100% racially motivated. Sanders is the son of two immigrants. So why did no one ask for his birth certificate?
Actually, he's said that he does believe it, but he doesn't think humans have as big a role to play as some people say.
I mean he literally doesn't? He said it was a fucking hoax by the Chinese and that "I Believe It Goes Up And It Goes Down, So I am not a believer, and I will, unless somebody can prove something to me, I believe thereโs weather."
lol
Yeah, not anymore. He was shot down by Carson, and now Carson is endorsing him. I don't think he would if he still thought that.
I'd love a source on where he has since said he doesn't think vaccines cause autism. Also, you should hear Carson himself explain why he endorsed Trump. It's fucking hilarious. He flat out admits to only endorsing him because Trump offered him a position (against the law by the way) and that he doesn't even think Trump will be good, but that he thinks Trump will probably win so it's the best move for his career.
That's not even a true statement. Sanders has zero experience just like Trump has, so we don't even know that. The fact is, he would probably better our relations with Russia, which isn't something to sneeze at.
Sanders may have the same experience in literally interacting with the leaders of other nations, but Trump literally has 0 experience in anything in politics, compared to Bernie who has consistently been right on a lot of foreign policy decisions and has been praised on his foreign policy multiple times.
When Mexico said there was no way they'd pay for a wall, Trump said "It just got 10 feet higher!"
You think that's how real diplomacy works? He's a joke to the rest of the world, the UK parliament held a discussion on wether or not to ban the guy from the country.
Now, turnabout is fair play, so let me explain to you why Sanders is a bad idea. First of all, if you crunch the numbers, you wouldn't be able to pay just for the college even if you taxed the top 10% (that's those earning over 150,000 a year, those assholes) and cut the military entirely, it would only get to about 16 trillion a year. The college is going to cost 18 trillion a year. Not only that, but we have to throw in medicahe for awl in there, and that's going to cost a shit ton, and we've got to add on the fact that he'll inevitably drive business away from America with his shit policies. And honestly, it's not the taxes that I'm too worried about, it's the fact that there are hundreds of bureaus in America that shouldn't exist but do because they survive on tearing businesses down. Somebody said that they had a restaurant in new york that was doing great, but they got fined for shit like dented cans. Because these federal bureaus won't exist unless they find things that no longer apply to fine businesses for. Which Donald has said he will take care of. Bernie not so much, Bernie loves big government. And as far as the dream of single payer healthcare being great, dream on, here is a video of someone going through the whole process. And it costs Canada a shit ton of money! They're going into debt! We need someone to do things that other politicians don't do. Sanders is an ideal president, but we live in a less than ideal world. I'd love it if his policies work, but they don't and it's been proven time and time again.
the fuck kind of math are you finding... college isn't going to cost anywhere near 18 trillion. Are you delusional? Is this really the bubble of misinformation Trump supporters live in? Free public tuition would cost 75 billion dollars. 18 Trillion? What the literal fuck is that number from.
and literally every other site if you just google how much would free college tuition cost.
They're going into debt!
literally every country in the world is in debt
I mean I'm sorry, I'm not even going to respond with anything more than this. Your comment is 100% ancedotal, there's no facts, the tiny bits of facts you do have are completely wrong.
I'd love it if his policies work, but they don't and it's been proven time and time again.
Except for every other 1st world country in the world has universal healthcare.
Finland, Austria, Norway, Germany, Brazil, and Sweden all have free college tuition.
There's a reason we've fallen behind them in every category of math and science rankings. It's because they're getting free higher level education, as opposed to the ignorance in the united States. Especially in your comment alone. I'd suggest you actually do some research, and not just repeat the shit you see in /r/The_Donald. Don't bother responding, because I'm not going to reply again. I don't care who you vote for, but at least know what each candidate stands for.
Alright, so don't even fucking open the video I gave you. I opened every single one of your goddamned videos and watched them all the way through, and you can't even give me the courtesy of giving my videos a watchthrough? It's not anecdotal evidence, it's video of a guy going through several different ways of getting healthcare in Canada. Don't be an idiot. Also:
literally every country in the world is in debt
That doesn't mean it's a good thing.
There's a reason we've fallen behind them in every category of math and science rankings. It's because they're getting free higher level education, as opposed to the ignorance in the united States.
Way to capitalise United. You've had spelling errors all throughout, and there's really no excuse for it considering spellcheck. And common sense. Anyway, I think a large part of the reason we're failing in education is because of Common Core. Since it was instituted, New York has had a worse literacy rate than it did in the late 1800's. It doesn't work. You know what's been proven to work? Charter schools, where you get a classical education. They put them in Harlem and Harlem's been doing much better since then. As far as college, not everybody can go to college. And by that I mean, not everybody should go to college. Somehow in this country we have a high rate of unemployment (the official numbers are low, but they include people no longer looking for a job, which is kind of fuckin' stupid) and a lot of open positions. That's because those open positions are trade positions. How about we encourage trade schools? Colleges aren't for everyone and it's stupid to think that they are.
Anyway, I screwed up a little when I said just colleges would be 18 trillion, that's all his policies.
Is what he said, not, "We have to interrogate the family members of terrorists" (a reasonable stance. He's literally saying that we need to take out the innocent families of extremists.
But it's clear, given the fact that he said "They say they don't care about their families, but they do", that he's clearly talking about an interrogation tactic. "Take out" their families means get them out of the whole situation so they can't do it again. That could mean arrest and it could mean kill. And it depends on the situation, obviously. Nothing is "100% all the time".
Except the fact that Torture doesn't work . It's as simple as that. Aside from that, we're a 1st world country. In this day and age we shouldn't be advocating for torturing people and killing civilians.
I know it doesn't work, but that's if you're trying to figure out something like "Did you do this". However, if you have irrefutable proof that someone knows something, like the location of something (which you can't lie about), then it's better to waterboard than it is to let hundreds of people die. I don't like waterboarding, but again, if you knew that someone knew the location of a bomb, you wouldn't waterboard if it meant saving even just a few lives?
The FBI wants to have apple give them a method to access EVERY iphone. Not just this one phone.
And I disagree with that, but the president doesn't really have a hand in whether or not they do it. I do think that Apple should help the FBI though. Now, the thing you don't understand is that Trump is a negotiator. A good negotiator comes in with the highest/most extreme thing, that way he can make it seem like he's going down, when really he's just reaching the place he wants. He says a lot of extreme shit, yes, but a lot of the time it's because he wants to be able to go down on it, as in less extreme, so that he still gets what he wants, but the other party thinks that they're also getting what they want.
That comparison is just nonsense I'm sorry.
Not really, Islam is an ideology just like any other religion. Also, he didn't say indefinitely, he said "until our leaders can figure out a way to do it better". Which is good. We can't just willy nilly allow people in our country. There's gotta be a system. I want us to be able to have these refugees come it, but we can't do it the way Europe is doing it, it'll destroy the country.
This country was founded on people trying to practice their religion in peace, and now this so cold constitutionalist wants to revoke that right.
Yes, in peace. There's a lot of radical jihadists that aren't peaceful. That's the problem, and it's a problem we can't ignore. We have to address it one way or another. Christianity went through a reformation period, and I can assure you, it was a lot messier than "Well we gotta figure out this shit before we can let them in".
First of... lol. You think building a wall across the border is going to bring tourism...? Are you kidding? We already have walls across the border.
I guess the Great Wall of China doesn't bring tourism then. Look, I understand, it's old, whatever. If we build a decent looking wall, and one that you can walk on, there's a good chance that people will want to visit it.
Please explain to me how in the world a wall is going to solve any of the problems. You think these multi-billion dollar drug cartels can't just bring a fucking ladder?
Lol a ladder. Fuck off with that shit dude, you can't "just bring a ladder" to a wall. I guess the Huns could just bring a ladder to the Great Wall of China. That was the solution.
Also, you realize the majority of drugs are brought over the border by mules on planes?
The majority of illegal immigrants aren't though. It's not just drugs
Also, could I have a list of some of the other "infrastructure things Trump wants to do"?
"We need to rebuild our bridges, 60 percent of our bridges are in disrepair". That's a huge one for me. Obviously he wants to rebuild our roads, that's part of infrastructure, and that's also important. He's mentioned airports, hospitals, power plants, etc. I don't see what's controversial about that.
Nowhere, not his website or any interviews I could find, do I see a specific plan for infrastructure.
Because infrastructure is boring to the average american and doesn't make or break a campaign. You can't run on infrastructure.
He brought it up at one of his rallies and it was an aside. Not a big deal.
Of course when someone else mentions it, it's not a big deal.
But to then bring that to the debate stage just shows how absolutely classless he is.
So now being classy is all that matters?
Instead of assuring us there was no problem with the size of his jonhnson, why not criticize rubio and say something like, "Marco has been saying some really nasty things about me, even insinuating that since my hands are small something else must be to, so I just want to say that I think that's a totally classless thing to say and that shouldn't be your attack for a politician."
Because that sounds forced and fake, and that's because it is.
After the fact. He was literally told 3 times that he was the leader of the KKK and each time Trump said he didn't know the guy, so he wouldn't disavow him. Then that night he goes oh no I completely disavow this dude
Gonna completely ignore the Bernie and Hillary friendship with the former KKK grand wizard huh? Whatever dude. Honestly, he probably didn't want to randomly disavow a dude just because the reporter was telling him that he was bad. What's wrong with that? Maybe he was thinking "Huh, maybe this guy is a former KKK member and he's a good guy now, I wouldn't want to disavow that". Seriously dude.
Because it was 100% racially motivated. Sanders is the son of two immigrants. So why did no one ask for his birth certificate?
"BECAUSE IT'S RACIST". You guys are cheapening that word. It used to mean something. As far as Bernie goes, that's because it's well documented that he was born here. Obama has a sibling in Africa, and you know, he was born in Hawaii not long after it officially became a state, and often in the mess of that type of thing, you sometimes get the records wrong. Especially considering there were a lot of people in Hawaii that became citizens of the US, so some people came to Hawaii right when that was happening to become a citizen.
I mean he literally doesn't? He said it was a fucking hoax by the Chinese and that "I Believe It Goes Up And It Goes Down, So I am not a believer, and I will, unless somebody can prove something to me, I believe thereโs weather."
lol
He later said that he was clearly being sarcastic with that tweet, which is backed up by the fact that it was a common thing to be sarcastic about when he said that.
I'd love a source on where he has since said he doesn't think vaccines cause autism. Also, you should hear Carson himself explain why he endorsed Trump. It's fucking hilarious. He flat out admits to only endorsing him because Trump offered him a position (against the law by the way) and that he doesn't even think Trump will be good, but that he thinks Trump will probably win so it's the best move for his career.
He never even said he thought that by the way, he said that "I think we should check into it". Big fucking deal. He was likely trying to get attention. He knows what gets attention, and that was it. And guess what, it worked? Have you ever read the Art of the Deal? Because he's basically doing what it said to do in the Art of the Deal. His campaign would make a whole lot more sense if you read it. He's literally fucking doing what it said to do in his book. Seriously, read it if you haven't. Now anyway, he didn't say "I don't think he's going to be good" he said "Even if he's not a good president, which I don't think will be the case because he's surrounding himself with good people, we're only looking at 4 years", and he's also talking about Supreme Court Justices. I don't want a stacked SC, for either party. If the Democrats win, we're looking at a stacked SC for years. That's terrible. That means the laws of the country, the actual constitution, will be in the hands of one party. How can you support that?
Sanders may have the same experience in literally interacting with the leaders of other nations, but Trump literally has 0 experience in anything in politics, compared to Bernie who has consistently been right on a lot of foreign policy decisions and has been praised on his foreign policy multiple times.
To say that Trump has 0 experience in politics is dumb, he was literally in the game of betting on politics (by supporting certain candidates).
You think that's how real diplomacy works? He's a joke to the rest of the world, the UK parliament held a discussion on wether or not to ban the guy from the country.
Because they're authoritarian as fuck and don't have 100% free speech. I don't give a fuck about the British government, they don't have a say in what we do.
I think my support used to be 90% a meme and 10% serious, but I'm afraid I've been nimbly navigated over to the Trump Train. I think it's about 40% a meme at this point. Meaning 40% is just because it'd be funny and I want to see what would happen, and 60% is because I've actually grown quite fond of his policies.
Sorry I can't take you seriously when literally all of your posts are on circlejerk or the donald. Even in this paragraph you use another meme to describe your support.
Dude, I'm just having fun. What's wrong with that? What's this world coming to where everything, even a dude shitposting on the internet, has to be 100% serious?
Also, yes, I used to go on /r/circlejerk, I don't anymore. A lot of link karma was gathered from /r/circlejerk. Don't knock it 'til you try it.
p3tey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:48:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hate this, yet I still up-voted it?
Endulos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:53:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And it'll be Hillary vs Trump.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:11:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When we are getting loaded onto the trains to the camps, I'm gonna remind everyone in the cattle car that I voted for Kasich in the primaries.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:15:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How come torture is illegal and violates the Geneva conventions, and when a civilian does it they go to jail, but we are legally able to elect someone who has stated he WILL be a prolific torturer? For that alone he should be immediately disqualified. People shouldn't get to shit on human rights because they have a lot of money and power, or because they're part of the government, It's still just as fucked up and illegal. Imagine if I said I was going to torture someone. The FBI would be knocking on my door, and so they should be knocking on Trump's too.
An outsider to the US here.
I thought Congress proposed bills of law so that even if a crazy person like Trump did get in he couldn't mess America up that badly?
Xazrael ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:43:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you so much for providing something for both audiences. Can't tell you how many links I've avoided clicking because I don't have the patience to watch a video for ten minutes.
So before I go waste the next holy shit it's 6 AM hours on reddit, thank you.
Let's say there's a room with 100 people. If 1 person had only 1 leg while everyone else had 2 legs, then the average amount of legs one person has would not be 2, but something along the lines of 1.9, thus making a person in that room that has 2 legs have more than the average.
The whole thing about this is actually a fantastic way to explain the benefits of using median as an alternative to mean (average) in statistics. Most people have legs, so we'll call anybody who has fewer an outlier, since they are significantly different from an overwhelming mode (2). I assume there are a few people with more than two legs, but not enough to make a difference compared to those with less. So if you find the mean of the data, you are going to get slightly fewer than two legs because of the amputees bringing the number down. However, if you use median, which is basically lining up all the numbers in order and selecting the number in the middle, you will get 2 legs because people with fewer only take up a tiny section on the left side of the spectrum.
94% of China's population lives east of that line.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 13:22:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The plural for "fish". If I see a school of fish, I always say "look at all the fish", however, the correct thing to say is "look at all the fishes". I know this, but I'll keep saying it the first way as long as I live cos "fishes" just doesn't sound or feel right to say!
So there i am in an adult nursing scool an the whole class is women. Anatomy and physiology is the class. More than half the class didnt understand their pee hole was not involved with or part of the clit. (For those wondering, its just a hole on its own, a bit south)
If you point that out people will say "well it's a problem that women don't have the same jobs!" which is true, but irrelevant.
thumpas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:19:00 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly, this is because on average, women work comfy less dangerous jobs that pay less. coal miners and high voltage line technicians make a lot of money and there are very few women who do those jobs. When the researchers came up with that 77 cents, they took all the wages earned by woman divided by woman in the work force and compared that to the same calculation for men, which is horribly inaccurate.
No offense, but the popular image of dinosaurs is wrong. Many dinosaurs had feathers. A velociraptor looks kind like a chicken. But they have huge claws and 10ft. Verticals.
All the DNA in your body, if unwrapped and stacked end to end, would stretch from the sun to Pluto and back about 6 times.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if we took someone's DNA and made a bridge out of it that stretched from New York City to London to Cairo to Shanghai to Sydney to Los Angeles then back to New York City?
The end of the compass that points north was named so, before it occurred to people that two north poles repel. Therefore, the north end of a compass is attracted to the earth's magnetic south pole.
Similarly, electricity actually flows from negative to positive. We just didn't know before defining it. This always confuses me when wiring any sort of circuits.
agort ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:50:08 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to live like five miles from Albert Woolson
Trippid ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:53:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm always super late to these, but the fact that highway 401 in Ontario Canada is the busiest highway in the world.
If you don't know anything about Canada, maybe that doesn't sound too crazy, but when the state of California has a larger population than all of Canada combined... It's crazy. How does one highway in Canada have more vehicles per day than any of the other highway in the world? No one ever believes me when I tell them this either, hah.
"The sentence uses three distinct meanings of the wordย buffalo: the city ofย Buffalo, New York; the uncommon verbย to buffalo, meaning "to bully or intimidate" or "to baffle"; and the animal itself,ย buffalo. Paraphrased, the sentence can be parsed to mean, "Bison from Buffalo, which bison from Buffalo bully, themselves bully bison from Buffalo."
"Charlie wanted you and me to go with him to the mall."
Most people have it ingrained in them to say "you and I", however, that only makes sense in the subject of the sentence and not the object. You wouldn't say "Charlie wanted I to go with him", you would say "Charlie wanted me to go with him". Therefore, "you and me" is the correct usage in this sentence.
Yes! Similarly, photos captioned "A photo of my mother and I". It's surely not hard to understand that this is wrong?! It fills me with annoyance. Or should I say "it fills I with annoyance". (I'm from the UK for the full stop can go outside the quotation marks).
Does the trajectory of the fired bullet count? I'd assume this wouldn't apply if firing skyward.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:46:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, you have to fire it parallel to the ground, straight forward. Gravity affects the bullet whether its dropped or fired, so the fired bullet descends on the vertical access at the exact same speed as the dropped bullet. All of the force from the explosion that propels the bullet moves is horizontally, so it moves a very great distance as it falls, but it's airtime is the same as the dropped bullet.
It's a bit hard to say whether it counts but, the capital city Theodoro of the Principality of Theodoro remotely administrated by the Byzantine successor state the Empire of Trebizond across the Black Sea on a southern sliver of the Crimean peninsula actually fell to the Ottoman Turks in December 1475. The truly last physical fragment of the Roman Empire lies in ruins at the outskirts of modern Russian-occupied Sevastopol.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:05:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The people of Nazi Germany were just like you and I, and a comparable tragedy is absolutely possible "here" (wherever "here" is for you). Nationalistic extremism (and other horrors) can creep upon a society very subtly and incrementally, and those swept up in it may not even realize that it's happened.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:58:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
And "THE SCARY TERRURISTS" is only one of many reasons for that spying.
A lot of it has to do with industrial espionage on foreign corporations to give US based companies an artificial leg up, another aspect is spying on the diplomatic cables of foreign governments etc...
The terrorism scare is a perfect scapegoat. You're a million times more likely to die by getting hit by a car when walking to your local park than you are to get beheaded or killed by some ISIS bomber.
I knew this already but to me when I first heard it it was surprisingly uplifting because i'd rather die because of some car accident than some fucking extremist killing me in a futile attempt to further their campaign against any who disagree with them.
Not illegally. The NSA actually has very strict rules on collection of intelligence from "US Persons". Everything is done as carefully as humanly possible to make sure it's legal. Otherwise anything collected couldn't be used in court for a conviction.
You make it sound like the end-goal of the NSA's collections is to secure a conviction in court.
If the NSA is actively using illegally obtained intel and tipping off various law enforcement agencies, those agencies will then use parallel construction to build their case:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
For the most part the NSA is going to vacuum up as much information it can get it's hands on and store it, the vast majority of what the NSA saves is never even looked at, but it gives them the ability to go back and look at it later if it deems it necessary.
For example, if you have the current attorney general and his or her predecessor at a press conference. You have two attorneys general present. If they were doctors, you'd have two surgeons general.
Also, I am not an alumni as I sit alone at my computer, I am an alumnus.
It's possible but requires a really flukey play to happen. You can score a safety on a PAT, and this is worth one point. It's happened at least twice, in college, and the videos are on youtube.
However, in those cases, it was the team on offense (that just scored the touchdown) that got the 1 point safety. To get a 6-1 score, the defense must get the one point, which requires the ball to be downed on the opposite side of the field from where the try is attempted. This is of course extremely unlikely, but it's not impossible.
One way this could happen is: The offense decides to go for 2, and they pass the ball but the pass is intercepted. The defender runs it back almost all the way, but fumbles on the 5 yard line. An offensive player recovers the fumble and, seeing defenders closing in, backtracks into the end zone. Unable to escape, he is tackled in the end zone. This is a safety, and counts as one point because it happened on a PAT play.
If this is the only scoring all game, the final score is 6-1. If the winning team also gets a (normal) safety at some point, they win 8-1. There's no way to get the score to add up to exactly 7-1.
It's not a true fact. A return on a PAT is worth two points not one. You can't have a score of one. I am an American and therefore football is my religion (I mean the real kind, not soccer).
If football is your religion, you have not been paying attention in church lately. No better way to look like an idiot than to be pedantic and wrong at the same time.
Soccer is the real football numb nuts. If the whole world calls an OLDER sport football but only one nation does not than its pretty obvious which one is the original/real one
It cannot. A return of a blocked PAT or pick or fumble on a two try is worth two points for the defense, not one. This is the case in the NFL, the NCAA, the Queen of England's rarely used winter chalet, Canadia, and all of football. It is impossible to have a score of one.
I thought that was only in college or Canadian football.
2 point tries just fail in the NFL. In college a recovered fumble or interception returned to the opposite end zone is worth 1.
As far as we can tell the 'shape' of the universe is a bubble. The part which sounds incorrect is that we exist on the surface of that bubble, not in the cavity.
DaSaw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:16:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I deny this one. Don't care if its true. I deny it with all my being.
Galle_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:15:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The simplest proof of it I've seen goes like this:
0.9999... multiplied by 10 equals 9.9999... (simply move the decimal point one place to the right)
0.9999... multiplied by 9 equals 9 (9.9999... - 0.9999...)
9 divided by 9 equals 1
The problem is that while there are real numbers that have an infinite number of digits, like 0.9999..., there are no real numbers that have an infinite number of digits, followed by a finite sequence. If 0.9999... didn't equal 1, then 1 - 0.9999... would have to equal something like "0.0000...001", where the "..." is short for "an endless sequence of zeroes". But you can't attach a 1 to the end of an endless sequence for obvious reasons, so that number can't exist.
When you snap your Achilles tendon it doesn't shoot up to your knee.
Can't remember how many times I've been told that it does. I've torn my Achilles tendon and I've been told I'm a liar when I tell people the separation of the two pieces was only 1.5cm.
You can serve a longer jail sentence for copyright infringement than for second degree murder
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:50:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's the same time of day in a state on the East Coast of the US and a state on the West Coast.
(Alright, it's only for an hour a year, but still. The westernmost part of Florida is on Central Time. The easternmost part of Oregon is on Mountain Time, 1 hour behind. When the Central Time Zone switches from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time at 2 a.m. on a Sunday morning in the fall, it becomes 1 a.m. At that moment it's also 1 a.m. in the Mountain Time Zone. The relevant parts of Florida and Oregon thus have the same time for exactly 60 minutes.)
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:53:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you held a bullet at the end of the barrel and fired a bullet at the same time you let the one go that you are holding, they would both hit the ground at the same time.
When you're riding a motorcycle or bicycle around a high speed curve, you have to turn the handle bars in the opposite direction. It's called countersteering, and most people don't even realize that they do it.
There are a number of weapons, or variants of them, from WW2 that are still in active use today with professional militaries (not counting insurgencies and the like which just use whatever they find).
These include, but are not limited to, the M2 Browning, Bofors 40mm and the MG3 which is a variant of the MG42.
Pretty sure that a handful of ww2 warships were still in use in the earlier stages of the War on Terror too.
za419 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:30:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, the US did reactivate the Iowa class battleships under Reagan's presidency. They were refit with more modern weaponry though, although the big 16-inch guns stayed for artillery fire.
rydan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:56:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is actually much hotter just outside of the sun than on its surface. Also same deal with the outer layer of the Earth's atmosphere.
LikPik ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:35:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
iceland is not all icy and cold and greenland is not sunny and green,, its the opposite.
If you start flipping a coin, the sequence HTTTT will occur before the sequence TTTTT with 98% probability, even though both sequences are equally likely.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:04:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eli5?
dens421 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:10:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
on your first flip you have a 50/50 chance of H/T if you get T you might be on your way to your TTTTT goal but it's highly unlikely you get there without first getting a H in between...
If you keep flipping to get your TTTTT you will do so after having had a H so you will get you HTTTT right before you get (H)TTTTT
The only time you can get TTTTT without getting HTTTT first is if you get it from the start and you have only 2% chance of that happening (didn't check the OP's maths but seems about right)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:21:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police...
and so on into infinity is a grammatically correct sentence.
As long as you end the sentence, even if there are 1e100,000,000,000 "police"s in the sentence, it makes sense.
It works because police is an adjective, verb, and noun. For example:
"Police police police police".
The first police is an adjective describing the second police. The third police is what the police police are doing. The fourth police is the direct object, or who is being policed by the police police.
And so on. As long as your sentence ends, it makes sense.
James, while John had had "had," had had "had had;" "had had" had had a better effect on the teacher.
For instance, the teacher quizzed the two students on whether or not the correct tense to use in a sentence would be "had" or "had had" (the past perfect tense of "had"). The correct answer was to have the word twice, so "had had" produced a better effect on the teacher.
Mathematician checking in: there are infinitely-many different types of infinity, each one bigger than the last. (See the section on general sets here.)
Leuia ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:03:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the moon landing than to the building of the pyramids.
This one messed with my head because for the longest time I assumed he was a renaissance artist like the people who inspired him. Nope. Maybe I'm just stupid though.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 09:14:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mean. The median number of legs and mode number of legs are both almost certainly 2. Since there are likely to be more humans with fewer than two legs than there are humans with more than two legs, the mean is slightly less than 2. Slightly.
During WW2 a German soldier who disobeyed orders and completed their mission would be rewarded. A soldier from one of the democracies would be punished.
German soldiers were trained to think for themselves, Allied soldiers to shut up and follow orders.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:30:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I'm sorry, should I do some research so I can individually write out about the tens of millions of soldiers who took part?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:33:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, clearly, one philosophy worked better. Also, were that truly the case, then the Nazi's wouldn't have lost North Africa because Rommel would have told Hitler to shut his bitch mouth and let the big-boys do the warring.
Um...... Rommel was ordered to NOT go on the offensive in North Africa. The whole battle for North Africa was because Rommel disobeyed orders. He was promoted to Field Marshal for doing so.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:40:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He also told Hitler what he needed to complete the campaign that he was winning with very little difficulty and instead, Hitler decided to cut off his supply lines. Had Hitler listened to what was undoubtedly one of the wisest generals of the last few centuries, that war could have been considerably different.
Yeah but that's how you lose a war. The Allies won because that same idea of thought was used for everything. All parts of the war planning were coordinated to work efficiency. It's a lot easier to get your war plans together/mobilize when everyone is on the same page and knows their place. Plus at least for the United States, showing courage, thinking for yourself and showing problem solving often lead to earning a higher ranking. Of course people would get punished for disobeying orders when you are trying to launch a massively organized counter offense, everyone needed to know their place and job. If you look at a lot of the big names on the Allied side of the war like MacArthur, Patton and Eisenhower, they all quickly jumped up the leadership ranks after showing how effective their methods were.
This also can be applied to the war technology. The German tanks such as the Panzer were way more complex machines, but the American produced tanks were simply designed and could have parts switched out. The Allies rigid system of organization and rank ended up being way more flexible and reliable when it actually came down to it.
And how do you think they managed to organize and control those numbers? That's exactly what I was trying to say. It doesn't matter how well your soldiers can think on their feet when your whole organization and deployment of forces is a mess. Germany had several chances to turn the war around and blundered it due to the high amount of internal fighting.
On top of that you can't deny that the British, Americans and Soviets won some very decisive battles against the Axis powers. The Battle of London, The North African theater with Rommel and Stalingard all illustrate how dysfunctional the German war machine was.
So wait you defend the Nazis for being able to think for themselves, yet when Rommel does it and breaks orders, you claim it was a loss because he wouldn't let his soldiers think for themselves? What? I don't get what you are trying to get across here. Germany lost the war because of how unorganized their ranks were along with all the internal fighting. The Allies won because they had their shit together and worked as a system. On top of that Allied Generals did get promoted to too commanding roles for showing leadership, while look what happened to Rommel. Nothing your saying makes sense.
boaza ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:56:50 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is not always true. A quick google search told me that this effect (known as the Mpemba effect) is not always readily reproduced, and only occurs under certain conditions.
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 23:50:40 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How is it ill defined? Take two containers of water, one with a higher initial temperature than the other. Freeze both, and time how long it takes. Boom, reproduced.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:48:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My theory about this is that hot water molecules line up better than cold ones. Like they have more energy to move into position than cold water molecules.
Also I'm totally commenting out of my ass, I'm pre-law, not a molecular physicist.
Now that is not true. Hot water will change temperature faster, but once it get to the same temperature as the cold water that freeze at the same rate.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:58:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it because of the larger differences in energy between the water and its surroundings?
Vaccinations also increase your likelihood of getting cancer.
I wonder how the odds work out when you take into account that a couple of them (particularly the HPV vaccine) prevent cancers like cervical and penile cancer. I would imagine that for the HPV vaccine at least, the odds balance is still favourable.
SmoSays ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:37:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'i before e except after c' is actually correct fewer times than the opposite.
Assume earth was perfectly round and you tied a rope all the way around. You'd only need ~ 6 more feet, to have the rope 1 foot off the ground all the way.
Oxford University is older than the Aztec civilization.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:05:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Hegiman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The same could be said about numbers ending with any number as there is an infinite number of numbers. So technically there are an infinite number of numbers ending in zero (or any other nobler) just as there are an infinite set of whole numbers.
dens421 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:58:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man I love math but still I san't understand that one...
If there are as many nimber that ends by 1 as there are number that don't ...
Then there are as many numbers that finish by 1 or 2 as there are numbers finishing by 1...
And come on there should be twice as many ....
But infinity is a strange place
Hegiman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:28:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Indeed it is
Hegiman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The same could be said about numbers ending with any number as there is an infinite number of numbers. So technically there are an infinite number of numbers ending in zero (or any other nobler) just as there are an infinite set of whole numbers.
pkulak ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 07:52:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I'm wrong about something. Could someone please respond to me in the most condescending way possible?
Firzen_ ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:38:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Citing yourself and being wrong is kind of embarassing.
Two sets have the same cardinality when a bijection exists between them. In this case the bijection is obviously multiplying the natural numbers by 100.
Because -stein is a common ending to a last name, so if you actually haven't seen one of the books in a while, it makes sense that you remember it as a more sensible name. Our long term memories are really shitty
Vast over simplification. It is possible in certain conditions for hot water to freeze faster than cold but if and only if the conditions exist that the evaporation process of the heated water is drawing more energy out of the water than the it takes to cool the water by normal thermal conditions.
EDIT: Sorry sir I stand corrected. After doing the math, there are a bit over 1.28e50 atoms on earth and 8e67 combinations of a 52 card deck. This calculation was excluding carbon, hydrogen, and all trace elements so the actual number of atoms on earth is higher but still likely not over 8e67. Most of the versions of this fact that have been posted here usually say more than the solar system or even the universe, which is definitely not true. Just estimating I would say there are around 8e67 from just the sun to the earth, without having to go farther out into the solar system.
There are at least more than 5 peppers and counting that are hotter than the ghost pepper.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:28:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Entinu ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:37:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's actually entirely wrong as capitalization is considered a different spelling. The only time they are spelled the same is if polish(to make something shine) is the first word in a sentence.
Rick0r ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:38:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vikings never wore horned helmets. They were just an afterthought that some Norse artist stuck on a decorative helmet, thinking it looked neat.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:36:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, there were horned ceremonial helmets as far back as the bronze age. And it was in the Romantic period that the horned Viking helmet was added, not in old Norse times.
Oh man, thanks for dropping a bit more knowledge on me! Point still stands, there were never any burly, horned Scandinavians running around like Skyrim.
I've been disproving a lot of stuff on here and really don't feel like doing any more research but isn't this debated? Sure the skates create friction that should melt the ice but it also applies pressure which would have an opposite, negating effect.
No, the pressure lowers the freezing point. The temperature of the water remains the same, but the ice directly under the skate turns to liquid because it is no longer as cold as it needs to be to remain frozen at that pressure. Source: Materials engineering class.
A quick look at any water phase diagram clearly shows that increasing pressure pushes water from vapor to liquid and finally to solid. Please explain to me how you concluded that pressure lowers the freezing point. Granted it's not the normal solid phase of ice, but rather ice VII or ice X. But it is still a solid phase nonetheless.
Out of 80,000 lobster eggs laid only 1 will make it to adulthood, making the probability of survival 0.00125%, roughly about the same chance as getting struck by lightning.
I wonder if this was mentioned. There's an old story about a guy who cheated the king out of all his rice stores with a simple trick. It was either pay him a massive amount of gold, or all the rice he could fit on a chessboard. Sums up like this:
Take a chess board
On the first square put a single grain of rice
On the second square put 2 grains of rice
On the third square put 4 grains of rice
Continue on like that.
Basically, it ends up being the entirety of the rice stock.... so fucking much rice.
The continent of Australia is better dubbed 'Australasia' as it also encompasses the surrounding islands such as PNG and Timor. Mainland Australia is, in fact, not a continent.
Zeos42 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:49:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump is the current Republican front runner in the race to the presidency.
This. Or the fact that it is much, much further north, than New York. It is in fact more to the north than each and every of the major Canadian cities (even Vancouver, which is at 51ยฐ north, Berlin is at 52ยฐ). New York is at the same latitude as Rome.
Edit: nvm, Canada has that little 'peninsula' reaching into the USA lol..
Wait really? Do you happen to have some map projection showing that somewhat?
I am curious and can't really wrap my head around how this would work given that a 'straight' line southwards would need to go through the atlantic to not hit any Middle- or Southamerican country.
If two vehicles run into each other traveling in opposite directions, it is not the same as running into a stationary object at twice the speed (eg 70mph and 70mph don't make a 140mph crash). They actually would be similar to a 70mph crash into a stationary object.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:04:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
China has a reputation of having an insanely high population, but India has 94% of China's population in only 34.25% the space. (34.13% of the area of the US)
The US has only 23.6% the population of China in roughly the same area.
When adding insulation to a pipe, if you only put enough insulation where the total radius doesn't pass this critical radius, you're actually increasing the amount of heat lost. If you add enough that your final pipe radius is above this critical radius, it will actually insulate it.
So you could end up insulating a pipe and only making it worse.
In the United States, you'd think with chemical regulations the government would treat an unknown chemical as dangerous until proven harmless, right? Well they do the opposite; they treat chemicals as harmless until they're proven dangerous.
Now that people have used the word "literally" incorrectly so often that Websters has added the incorrect usage as an additional definition, the English language literally no longer has a word with an unambiguous original definition of 'literally'.
Because English is an "active" or "living" (depends on who you ask) language, definitions change and new words appear all the time. Hell, LOL and BRB have actually been put into the dictionary.
Oh, I understand why. There's just something interesting about a word being used as hyperbole so often that it's official definition changes to include the direct opposite of what it actually means.
Dumava ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:14:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remember when gay ol time meant something totally different.
The "literally" in "I'm so hungry I could literally eat an hippopotamus" doesn't change the definition of "literally" for the same reason it doesn't change the definition of "entire."
The best way I've heard of this explained is to think of a stack of donuts. The holes in the donut represent your digestive tract. Something isn't in your body until it crosses a membrane.
Ted Williams debuted in 1939. Julio Franco played in MLB until 2007 and still plays independent baseball. They both faced Jim Kaat in a major league game.
Shuffle a standard 52 deck of cards a few times. You have now created an arrangement/order of cards that has very likely never existed before, nor is likely to ever exist again.
As a thought experiment, I would bring up that a volume of hot water, must at some point be equal to the starting temperature of the cold volume that it is "racing" to the freezing temperature. From that point on, the times required should be the same, correct?
Unless you are saying that water somehow has a memory of what temperature it was previously. In that case, I'd ask how far back in time does this memory effect go?
Honestly, I'm not a scientist, so I can't answer, but I can relate my own experiences, and what I've read since.
I had a roommate once who told me this scientific "fact". I called BS, told him no way - the hot water has to unload the extra heat before it can even start to freeze, so the cold water has a head start. This was before internet was common, so we couldn't really research, so we decided to test. We filled 2 ice trays - one with water heated to a simmer, and the other with water chilled in the fridge, and put both trays in the freezer at the same time. The results - our hot water tray did freeze just a bit faster than the cold water tray.
After I got internet, I looked into it, and was surprised to find that scientists couldn't explain it. It was named the Mpemba effect for the person who introduced it into modern scientific discourse, but it had been known a long time before then (Aristotle stated it was already well known in his time).
A lot of different hypothesis involving evaporative cooling or convection currents, or some such had been put forth, but none of the answers were satisfactory to the scientific community until the answer about hotter molecules having an increased rate of hydrogen bonding was put forth (see the article I linked to).
It makes it easier for me to grasp if I use the phrase "becomes solid" instead of "freezing" in my mental description. Again: not a scientist, but the molecular bonding explanation makes me feel that what's going on is more about converting from the liquid to the solid form, and less about temperature lowering.
In other words, the ice that started as hotter water went solid even though it still contained more latent energy than the ice which started as colder water - for both to reach the same absolute temperature after becoming solid, the one which started hotter would still have more heat to lose after becoming ice.
The chemical composition of both remains H20 the entire time. If you heat it to 205 degrees, it's no longer a liquid, and then you're talking about a rate of sublimation (direct gas to solid conversion) and comparing it to a rate of freezing, and is so different it might make it a completely different experiment.
Edit: I'm an idiot and misremembered the freezing point of water, so disregard the part about being a gas. Sorry. I didn't check the exact temperatures of my own ice tray experiment, but the simmering water was almost boiling, so it might well have been 205 degrees.
I think that if you boil water, you drive off impurities which will alter the freezing temperature.
If the water was simmering, then that is pretty much 212 F.
I brought up the numbers to make sure that the hot volume was NOT boiled. And to also make an extreme case, where the hot volume was 1 degree away from boiling, and the cold volume was 1 degree away from freezing. Certainly, in such a case the hot volume would not solidify faster than the hot volume, regardless of what the solidification temperature was, unless the solidification temp of the hot volume was something like 211 F, but then we are not really talking about water, are we?
"Hot water freezes faster than cold water" should be be changed to something like, "Under some circumstances, hot liquids comprised of some portion of water, will solidify at a higher temperature than cold mixtures comprised of a portion of water."
Your hypothesis may be right. It would be a good question for actual laboratory scientists. My first guess would be that one of the first things they would have done would be to distill the water to remove impurities, though.
savor ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:40:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From Wikipedia: The Immaculate Conception, according to the teaching of the Catholic Church, was the conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the womb of her mother, Saint Anne, free from original sin by virtue of the foreseen merits of her son Jesus Christ. The Catholic Church teaches that Mary was conceived by normal biological means, but God acted upon her soul (keeping her "immaculate") at the time of her conception.
The Immaculate Conception is commonly and mistakenly taken to mean the conception of Mary's son Jesus Christ in her own womb, and the Virgin Birth of Jesus.
da5id1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:24:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Part of Florida is west of Chicago.
da5id1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:26:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Greenland was named by Eric the Red to attract settlers. Early example of medieval marketing?
Well, I know because I've been fortunate to do it over 100 times; I've dedicated a lot of my life to it. It's the most unbelievable thing, far beyond anything words can describe.
Donald Trump is the winning Republican primary candidate
*phone typo
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:09:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I knew he didnt drink beer.
Happ4 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:08:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you misspelled whining.
PhreeBSD ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:49:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Household electrical. You are presented with two wires, black and white (and ground, obvious). The logic goes: White, good-- Not harmful. Black, bad-- Hurt you. It's actually the opposite.
EDIT: I realize after posting this it somewhat sounds racist. Racial bias shouldn't be taken into consideration while attempting to presume engineering decisions. White is light, light is good. Darkness is bad. Better?
Naldaen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:00:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
White is light, light is good.
White is heat, heat is power.
Black is dead, dead is ground.
_Ceddy_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:35:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you saying it's the opposite of what you said first? That would be wrong.
Black - Hot/Phase - 120 volts - Bad Touch
White - Neutral - Grounded Conductor - 0 volts
Green - Ground - Grounding Conductor - 0 volts
Still not a good idea to touch the White/Neutral as it is current carrying. Open neutrals are very dangerous and can/do kill.
I agree, Jinx was very good upon release, but ever since they hit her with those Attack Speed nerfs, I feel like she has been lack luster when it comes to being a good ADC. It also just feels unsmooth switching between your minigun and your rockets, I keep canceling auto attacks when I use the rockets.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:50:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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dens421 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:18:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have three doors in front of you. Behind one door is a prize. You guess which door hides the prize. The announcer will then open one of the two unchosen doors that does not hold the prize. You are then given the option to change your guess on which of the remaining two doors holds the prize.
The question is: are you more likely to get the prize if you change your answer, or if you stick with your original answer?
The answer is: you are more likely to get the prize if you change your answer. You have a 2/3 chance of winning if you switch your answer, and only a 1/3 chance if you stick with your original guess.
Most people find this intuitively unbelievable... in fact, Nobel-prize winning scientists with backgrounds in probability have been fooled, but it is true.
severoon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:46:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The explanation is...
Say there are 100 doors. You choose one (1/100 chance you got the prize).
Monty opens 98 doors, leaving only one shut and asks, "Would you like to keep your original choice or switch to the other door?"
You'd have to be nuts to keep your 1 in a hundred shot when he basically just showed you the door that had the prize, unless you happened to get lucky enough to pick it in your first shot.
Basically, the decision boils down to: Would you like to choose one out of the available doors, or all the other doors?
That's the part that confuses people. You'd think so, since there are only two doors left to choose from, but no, it's 2/3.
hughby1 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:24:35 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
you can drink oxygen.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:56:09 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
*oxygen
Also, it boils at -300F, so yeah you could drink it but you'd also die. Some crazy Russians made juice drinks that are 'enriched' with gaseous O2. Basically a foam where the gas in the bubbles is oxygen instead of air. That might be what you're thinking of.
hughby1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:01:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ive been awake for 29 hours...i lose all sense of spelling when i'm sleepy.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:05:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I actually had to google it because when I typed it out neither way looked right. Oxygen. Still looks weird.
Sounds extremely wrong, but could actually be correct...
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 23:31:41 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More than once?
hughby1 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 23:36:55 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
yes, their is such a thing as liquid oxygen. When you drown it isnt because your lungs are full of water, it is because their is not enough oxygen in that water.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:51:13 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I realize it's a thing, but wouldn't it be like -200 celsius?
hughby1 ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 00:00:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it is closer to 0 degrees actually when drinkable not to create, but when drinkable. you can last about 30 min drinking it without harm. Unless you get a tube straight into your lungs and poor it down that. The only issue with that is it is highly uncomortable.
In water, it's bonded to hydrogen, I didn't think we could separate it? Also, pure liquid oxygen would cause hypothermia wouldn't it?
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:57:24 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's also gaseous oxygen dissolved in the water. That's what fish breathe. But humans don't have gills, so it doesn't work out great for us if we try.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:57:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, jonnyp11 is correct when oxygen dissolves in water it forms strong attractions to hydrogen in water in a process called hydrogen bonding, human lungs aren't adapted to deal with this so you would drown in most oxygen concentrations of water.
(source:A Level Chemistry)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:23:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure if troll or just wrong but I'll assume the latter:
In water molecules, hydrogen is bonded to oxygen. This is true. But it doesn't happen when oxygen gas mixes with water. The water already has it's oxygen atom or it wouldn't be water. You could create water by mixing H2 and O2 and lighting it on fire, or as a byproduct of a lot of other reactions such as the catabolism of carbohydrates, but that's not happening in normal liquid water.
On to hydrogen bonding: hydrogen bonding occurs when hydrogen is attached to a highly electronegative atom (N, O or F primarily and possibly exclusively? Not sure.) The electronegative atom pulls electron density away from the hydrogen, creating a relatively strong dipole. The negatively charged N, O or F in one molecule is attracted to the positively charged H in other molecules, often of the same type. Water, for example, hydrogen bonds to itself very well, which explains a lot of it's properties like high surface tension and boiling points. Oxygen does not hydrogen bond because it doesn't have any hydrogen. It's not even polar because it's just O2.
Source: Am chemist.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:19:35 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I could be, and probably am wrong, I'm only in my third month of A Level Chemistry and you seem more knowledgeable on the subject, I completely forgot diatomic oxygen is non-polar. I must have been applying concepts that only apply to oxides
hughby1 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 23:58:38 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you can drink it for about 30 minutes without damage.
You would most likely die as liquid oxygen is โ183 ยฐC or -297ยฐ F.
hughby1 ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 00:07:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Basically, you have to have a tube down your trachea and a circulation pump to force the fluid in and out of your lungs fast enough to provide the needed oxygenation and carbon dioxide removal. This is said to be deeply unpleasant for conscious people, and therefore is not in use on adults except for limited experiments
Ohhnoes ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:48:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NOT liquid oxygen. You're talking about breathing liquid perfluorocarbon. Liquid oxygen would cause massive damage to your lungs because it's so cold.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:43:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When Alaska's loan to the USA expired, the Soviets did not want to take it back because it was a deal the Tsar made and they wanted nothing to do with it.
Except that it sounds exactly like should have in contraction form. Its not illogical if you think of it like that.
Northus ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:44:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sound-wise it may make sense, but not meaning-wise. We say we "have" or "haven't" or "ought to have" done our homework, so naturally it's "should have" done it rather than the nonsensical "should of".
I know FFS who invents these lies. Firstly because it discredits the truth in South Africa which is unacceptably high. And also because there's are probably countries in which this may actually be true.
[deleted] ยท -19 points ยท Posted at 07:52:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OP is misquoting the original statistic, which was that a girl born in Africa is more likely to be raped than learn to read. Literacy rates among women of all ages may be 93.1%, but if there's a large increase in child rape (which there has been) and a significant decrease in the availability and quality of education (which there has been since apartheid ended), then literacy rates won't debunk this.
asshair ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:53:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...Why do people rape children [instead of post-pubescent] girls?
This was something that I was told in highschool and don't really have a source so take it with a grain of salt. Apparently the reason they road children there is because they have a weird misconception that it cures AIDS and other diseases to have sex with a child.
Because they're fucked up. But also, culturally, I think there's a belief that having sex with a virgin will cure AIDS. So I would guess some men rape young girls because they're more likely to be virgins.
jarod467 ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 03:19:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, i heard this and it just did not sound right. Googled it, it's bullshit, because as you said the female literacy rate is 93.1% so that's obviously untrue
I did some research. CIA worldfackbook agrees with /u/illiterati - females do have a 93.1% literacy rate (you can check for yourself here). Wikipedia claims that about 40% of women in South Africa will be raped within their lifetime. So yes, by this OP is incorrect. However, OP may have misremembered or made a typing error and in fact meant Southern Africa - which in all honesty still seems somewhat fishy because areas closest to the south of Africa tend to have decent literacy rates (Zimbabwe - 84.6%, Botswana - 88.9%, Nambia - 84.5% - All from Wikipedia, so numbers may be off). From what I've read, this 'fact' almost holds true for Sub-Saharan Africa, in which it seems 50% of women are literate and about the same number are victims of sexual violence in their lifetimes (I wouldn't take this as fact either, though - there were few articles that I scrounged up from google but most did seem to agree).
I have another tab open with some thread about Fun facts, I got confused and thought I was reading that one instead so I thought to myself "Well, that's not a very fun fun fact."
That's actually horrible and not very fun at all.
[deleted] ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 00:46:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
If there is even a chance you can teach your shed to read you should take it. You and shed could be best friends and start a book club, and read Huck Finn and talk about it. That sounds so cool. I wish my shed could ready.
rjolly ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:03:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's because of differing definitions and feeling free-er to report it to the police. If you would use the same definition all over the world, I doubt any European country would make the top 100.
paper product companies are actually huge conservationists by way of prevent large swaths of land from being developed. instead they grow timber and provide habitats for lots of critters. i know about this because my family use to be part of a hunting club that had a lease with Georgia Pacific. if we kept up with the roads and we could hunt on their land.
If you accidentally dunk your phone in water, submerse it in rubbing alcohol (after removing the battery, and SIM & storage cards).
dratjr ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:41:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is actually a really good tip. I work for a Digital Repair place and our water damage treatment goes as follows: take apart > dehydrate board(s) > use ultrasonic cleaner (warm alcohol bath) > dry > test. I can't say that your screen will come out undamaged, but you have the best chance of saving your board(s) and subsequently your data. (Works best with 91% Isopropyl Alcohol)
Methanol would work better. The kind for adding to your fuel lines more precisely. Rubbing alcohol has a bit of water in it. Fuel line methanol is meant to absorb water.
HALP! I put my graphics card in the oven cause Windows said it crashed and now I have a bunch of chips in my oven. Also, when should I take the cookies out of the computer (to make sure their done)?
Seriously it's true, if the connections are broken to oven melts thw solder and can fix the connections. It ruins your warranty but its sort of a last ditch attempt to fix it beforw you throw it out.
I get that but saying "you can fix broken part" by putting them in the oven could result in a fire or more damage to the board if your not careful. There are uses for it but for that guy who broke off part of his PCI connector: it's not going to help.
No fire, provided you don't set your oven to temperatures above 300 C (575 F). At those temperatures the PCB will delaminate and the damage is irreversible, but if the part is broken anyway, what is the risk?
Google the temperatures needed before trying, though.
State10 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:57:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you burn the trash in the bar the smoke goes up into the sky where it turns into stars
Dietary Fat doesn't make you fat. Sugar makes you fat.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 00:09:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Canada is a state. State-a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government.
Canada is certainly a nation organized under one government.
[deleted] ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 00:44:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Greece had city-states a looooong time ago, Athens and Sparta among them. They had spats with each other occasionally. Tell your friend he needs to read more
dlawnro ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:04:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's in for a surprise when he learns about Mexico.
He probably confuses the actual definition of state with the American connotation of country or nation, which have very different definitions but are often conflated in America because we happen to be all three and contain the former, but only think of ourselves as latter two, containing the former.
And the United States, technically speaking, has 50 provinces in one state.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:12:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, during the times of the Articles of Confederation, where the states had more power than the federal government, they technically WERE states due to that fact.
Is this true though, because there are three different types of government in Canada; provincial, municipal and federal. So by your definition a state could be a city, province or the whole country. So Canada is a country made up of states from provincal states from the state of Canada? I'm thinking into this too much aren't I...
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:33:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably because they have a special deal with the EU. EU member states have to pay into the budget of the EU as well as follow all laws created by it.
This gives the background on it. No form is really more correct than the other because all are used in English, but if you're trying to make the case for "the most correct" octopodes would be correct etymologically.
I don't know which one of you is right, but as soon as I can knock up the wife and get her to pop that thing out, we are gonna see of Mermaids are real.
jahmoke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:18:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
only if the umbilical cord hasn't been cut, right?
Vaspir ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:07:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's bad mathematics.
thumpas ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:32:10 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, it's a divergent series, there are processes that can find the limit of a divergent series as if it were convergent, but for all practical purposes outside of some math, the limit is infinity.
It's isn't something you would run across in everyday math unless you were a professor or something. Basically zeta(s)= the sum of all fractions 1/Ns where N is every natural number (1-infinity). S is a complex number but only directly yields a solution(the series converges) if the real part is greater than one. So for example example Zeta(2)= 1/12 +1/22 +1/32 ...=1.645...=pi2 /6. In this case s= 2+0i, or just 2. Zeta(-1) is the sum of all real numbers and, as you probably noticed, isn't actually in the domain but using something called analytic continuation you can evaluate it as if it was in the domain, which gives -1/12. -1/12 actually does have application in certain areas of theoretical math and math heavy sciences. The zeta function itself has some very interesting properties that can be read about in Wikipedia.
Sorry about the shitty formatting, I am on mobile. Edited to fix all sorts of stuff.
987asdf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:37:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Many disagree. It rests on 1-1+1-1..=1/2 but it could ewually be argued that 1=1/4+1/4+1/4+1/4. So 1-1+1-1...=1/4+1/4+1/4+1/4-(1/4+1/4+1/4+1/4)+...=1/4-1/4+1/4-1/4+...=1/4-(1/4-1/4)-(1/4-1/4)...=1/4-0-0-0..=1/4.
In fact you could get 1-1+1-1+1... to equal irrational numbers to (infinite sums of rational jumbers)
So you could get 1-1+1-1... to equal all real numbers.
This proof shown in the video hasnt been proven wrong but is far from agreed upon
How can such trollish idea be taken seriously is something that baffles me
987asdf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:51:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Proof that 1+2+3... cannot be less than 0 (by induction):
Basis:
1+2=3>0.
Inductive step:
Suppose a+(a+1)>0 for some a>0. Note since a>0, a+2>0 by closure of natural numbers under addition. Also by closure of natural numbers under addition a+(a+1)+(a+2)>0.
(Since this is induction, note that this process can be repeated an infinite number of times)
I think what you mean is there are more bacteria in you than the number of cells you are made up of. There certainly isn't 'more bacteria than you' though, because a lot of your cells are hundreds of times bigger than the average bacterium so your body is collectively bigger/heavier.
It's funny being inside, innit? 'Cause when you are inside, you're still actually outside, aren't ya? And then you can say, when you're outside, you're inside, because you're always inside your head.
Jesus lived closer to today than that of when the first Egyptian pyramid was built in 2700 b.c.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 07:39:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Gramage ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:48:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All religions come from older religions/stories which got them from even older cultures' stories which got them from bedtime stories which got them from stories told before beds even existed which came from a species with blossoming intelligence as yet unable to explain the world around them and made shit up. Kinda makes sense when you think about it.
When "Star Wars" first showed at the cinema in 1977 it was only Called "Star Wars". The whole Episode IV business was added years later when they decided to make a sequel.
Really cool that they called it Episode IV instead of I, since it essentially starts in the middle of the story.
On the topic, pretty weird that the off-hand mention of Clone Wars in ANH has lead to another movie trilogy, two animated seriesnever forget the 2003 Clone Wars and countless of books, toys, games etc.
Grug16 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:50:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You flip two coins and one of them lands heads. The probability that they are both heads is 1 in 3.
drcl ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:53:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't you mean 1 in 4?
Grug16 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:02:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. It's 1 in 3.
drcl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
do an experiment. You will see I am right. Flip 2 coins 100 times and you get 2 heads approx 25% of the time.
I would explain it to you mathematically but there are plenty of websites that will do that for you.
Grug16 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:20:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then I will explain logically.
There are four possible results: HH, TH, HT, and TT.
Since one coin is heads, the result cannot be TT. That leaves 3 possibilities. Therefore, the chance of both being heads is one in 3.
drcl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:35:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Before you throw any coin there are 4 possible outcomes
(aH bH) Coin A heads, Coin B Heads
(aT bH) Coin A Tails, Coin B Heads
(aH bT) Coin A heads, Coin B Tails
(aT bT) Coin A Tails, Coin B Tails
OK so lets thrown Coin A:
Coin A can only be heads or tails. I think you will agree that there is a 50 % probability of Heads.
Now lets throw coin B:
Coin B can only be heads or tails. I think you will agree that there is a 50 % probability of Heads.
So there is a 50% probability of coin A being heads and a 50 % probability of coin B being heads.
Now you might not know this but when you have 2 independent probablities and you want to find out the combined probabiliy of both occuring you multiply the 2 probabilities. 0.5 x 0.5 = 0.25 or 1 in 4.
The simpler way to look at it is like this though:
These are the 4 possible outcomes - ALL EQUALLY LIKELY WITH A 1 IN 4 CHANCE
(aH bH) Coin A heads, Coin B Heads BOTH HEADS
(aT bH) Coin A Tails, Coin B Heads NOT BOTH HEADS
(aH bT) Coin A heads, Coin B Tails NOT BOTH HEADS
(aT bT) Coin A Tails, Coin B Tails NOT BOTH HEADS
The most likely outcome is actually heads and tails.
In high school I used to make money from people like you because most people have a really bad understanding of how probability works.
Grug16 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:46:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would be a one in four chance if you were just flipping two coins. However, in this problem the coins are already flipped and you know for a fact that one is heads, which is really a way of saying "The result is not TT". Therefore there are only three possible combinations remaining, one of which is HH, hence 1 in 3.
drcl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:11:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
OK if you say so. Just do the experiment. Seriously.
dens421 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:10:45 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No it's not, it is 1 in 2!
When you say that one coin is H it's not the same as saying it's not TT. It also implies that you have to eliminate either TH or HT since you cannot keep them both!
In you one of them lands H you have to know which one it is you are talking about from there the other can either be H or T with a 50/50 chance of each.
Grug16 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:20:40 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The premise is "two coins were flipped and one of them lands heads". You don't know which got heads, which is the point. It could have been the first or second. The only thing you can know for sure is that it's impossible for both to be tails. That allows you to eliminate one of the four possible results. Since HH is one of the three remaining possible results, the answer is 1 in 3.
dens421 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:02:30 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't matter that you don't which it is. What matters is that the person telling you, knows which it is.
That information means that you are either in the situation ?H or H? with a 50/50 chance.
In both situations the probability to get ?=T knowing H is 1/2.
Another way to put it :
Indeed, after excluding TT, HH is 1/3 but non-HH is 2/3
Therefore after excluding TT the probability to get HH is (1/3)/(2/3)=1/2
Grug16 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:06:57 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For your first example, 50/50 means that only one or the other can be true. But if the result is HH then both ?H and H? are true. You're saying that the possibilities are TH, HH, HT, and HH. You're counting HH twice, which is why your math is breaking down.
For your second example: By your logic, if I have a box with 1 red ball and 4 blue balls, I have a 1/5 chance of getting the red ball and a 4/5 chance of getting a blue ball, so (1/5) / (4/5) = 1/4 chance of red ball. What if we have 1 red ball and 1 blue ball. (1/2) / (1/2) = 1, so it's a 100% chance of a red ball? Dividing the probabilities merely says that HH has half the odds as non-HH, not that HH has a 50% chance of happening.
dens421 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:47:52 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're counting HH twice, which is why your math is breaking down.
Actually no it's where yours break down you HAVE to count it twice if you are ignoring the fact that you already know if you are in the ?H or H? situation.
Let's put it another way you toss two coins that I can't see (in a cup).
If at least one of them was H you show it to me by sliding it out of the cup.
Now the only unknown is what is the chance that the other one is T and that is 50/50 (a coin toss).
It doesn't matter which one it was I know this one is not T for sure
so TH has been removed from the choices as well as TT (since the coins are tossed simultaneously you order them by which one you show me first).
Maybe it's more obvious if you have a blue coin and a red coin you toss them both
If Blue is H the chance that Red is T is 1/2
If Red is H the chance that Blue is T is also 1/2 because they are independent.
As for dividing the probabilities it is what you do when you have conditional probabilities it's the chance of X happening knowing that Y already happened in this case what has already happened is EITHER ?T or T? not both.
Both is still only a 0.5 probability knowing that either ?T or T? is true and this is why you count it twice as you put it.
Cannot comment on your balls exemple since you didn't say if you pulled them at the same time or not but yes if you have a box with a blue and a red ball and you pull them both the chance of having one red is 100%.
dens421 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:39:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would say 1 in 2...
When you throw two coins and you only counts the trows where at least one coin gives H the chance that the other is also H in 1/2.
you get 50% chance of AHBH knowing that AH OR 50% chance of AHBH knowing that BH
They already have and I've disproven most of them. Except for the one about there being more combinations than seconds since the Big Bang. That one is true. I was really surprised.
English is so much fun; so, "Nine Inch Nails is going to release a new album!" or, "Pearl Jam are going to release a new album." would both be correct?
91Jacob ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:43:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Theoretically speaking, if you managed to fold a piece of paper in half 50 times, it would be so thick that it would reach from earth to the sun. Unfortunately 8 times is pushing it, as shown in Myth Busters. If you can't believe this, remember we're dealing with powers here: each fold is an extra power of 2.
In Denmark you're allowed to buy alcohol in shops/stores with up to 16,3% alcohol in and drink it on the street without the fear of being arrested. Popular shots that got low volume come with 16,4% - you have to be 18 to get into clubs and stuff though.
It's also legal to have sex when you're the age of 15.
Thought this would shock Americans.
wh33t ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:53:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flammable and Inflammable mean the same thing.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:42:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is a substance made from something highly flammable and a flame accelerant. If you pour it on a fire will extinguish it rather than explode. Its water. This has always fascinated me.
The whole issue with the core Adkins (no carb) was the body basically overloads the liver (enlarged liver) AND causing ketoacidosys. I can source that if you'd like.
Woman has sub-20 carb diet but is not diabetic. Has multiple ketoacidosis episodes and uses diabetic insulin (for a few days after) to recover from it before Gives a technical explanation for how it happens.
As a country or government, the United States is actually older than Germany, France, Italy, Russia and a whole lot of other nations. For instance, the Constitution and founding of the US predates Germany by nearly 100 years (Germany didn't actually become a country/unify till 1871 and even then the modern version isn't the same as the Empire started by the Kaiser). The culture and people are the same, but it's not the same consistent nation or government.
Water is lighter than air, but is also much denser at room temperature. But when heated, evaporates and floats up. It's why clouds can be suspended in the sky.
You'd think with all the efforts by Washington to ban assault rifles ( a small percentage of rifles sold ) that crimes with rifles would be common.
I cant find a chart that breaks the statistics down by regular rifle and assault rifle , but we usually have more people die from lightning strikes each year than by Assault Rifles.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:45:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
natched ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:24:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Constitutional federalist democratic republic.
HW90 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:41:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A republic is voting for those who vote. Most countries elect representatives but also hold referendums so are a hybrid between a democracy and a republic. There are likely a handful of pure republics but no pure democracies because it's a rather ineffective way of doing things.
yperite ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:44:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is a republic at the federal level, but a democracy at the state level. We vote all the time for state laws, deemed issues on the ballots, hence a democracy. However in terms of federal laws, our elected officials vote, thus a republic.
Seadgs ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:13:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nuh-uh, you just tick republican or democrat then turn ESPN back on.
A republic has an elected head of state, a democracy has an elected government. The US is both. The UK is an example of a democracy that isn't a republic, as the Queen isn't elected.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought we do get a vote and we are a democracy. Lots of people go vote, and I believe that vote counts.
RyanU406 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:47:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
As far as voting for a president, the vote kinda counts. You the voting citizen don't decide the president, you tell the members of the electoral college in your state how you want them to vote. They are the ones who actually vote for president. As far as laws (city, county, state and federal) you vote for representatives to vote for you on them.
Technically the United States is a Democratic Federal Republic. Democratic in that the people vote, a republic because instead of voting on laws directly we vote on individuals, and Federal because of how our government is organized.
But you get to decide who represents you. Doesn't that mean you get a vote?
HW90 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:42:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a republic rather than a democracy, being in a democracy means the people directly vote on laws and policies, or in other words you get to vote in referendums. Most countries are a hybrid between a republic and a democracy as you elect officials to do most of the voting but have the occasional referendum.
Here's the scary part, this doesn't sound wrong at all, it sounds absolutely right, but people still call it the other thing.
natched ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:12:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well however it sounds, it is wrong. The US is both a republic and a democracy.
Democracy does not mean direct democracy where the people vote on the laws. Democracy means a government where power is derived from the people, as the first sentence of the US Constitution states our government does.
This is wrong on a number of levels. First, the U.S. is a federalist system. That means government exists at state and federal levels. For many states, those government have provisions for direct democracy. For example, in my state measures can be put on the ballot through direct efforts, and are voted on directly by the voters.
In addition, the federal government is a democracy. It has a house of representatives and a senate. The House of Representatives is a representative body elected democratically, hence House of Representatives. The U.S. is thus both a republic and a representative democracy. As representative democracy is a subclass of democracy, the U.S. is therefore a democracy.
If you cut another paper in half and cut that piece in half and cut THAT piece in half and repeated that cycle infinitly, you would never have as much paper as the first piece.
You mean if you add up the pieces? Because if you do you actually end up having exactly as much paper the second time. The key here is that when you repeat the process infinite times you converge to a specific sum, in this case sum i=1 to infinity 0.5i.
apinc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:35:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every time you cut you lose an almost immeasurably small piece of paper. Keep cutting and eventually you'll lose enough to make a noticeable difference.
That and good luck making the cuts 100% perfect every time.
Skirtz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:50:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think this is a problem meant to be explored mathematically, not with human error and real world limitations
If you throw a dart at a board, the probability of hitting a point on the board is 100% (let's assume you're not going to miss). That being said, the probability of hitting any one point is 0%.
He's defining "point" in the mathematical sense of an infinitely small one dimensional point and is assuming the dart is infinitely sharp.
So on this mathematical dart board you have an infinite number of infinitely small points, and the probability of hitting any one point is infinitely small. 1/infinity=0.
So even though the dart has a 100% chance of hitting the dart board, the chance of it landing on any particular one of the infinite number of points is 0%.
Of course, in real life the head of the dart isn't infinitely small, and the dartboard can't be divided into infinitely many points, so that chance of it hitting a given point isn't zero when you actually throw it. This is really just a thought experiment to show how bizarre infinity is as a theoretical concept.
The dartboard model is just for familiarity in explanation really. I'm pretty sure there are plenty of situations where effectively infinite parameters like this do apply, and thus the field of probability evolves to suit them!
Unfortunately, however, I'm no longer studying math, and my knowledge and explainability continues to wane... But the field is full of this kind of interesting stuff
snpi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:27:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
kind of like a 2 dimensional version of Zeno's paradox.
It's really weird but it's a convention we have to follow for math to make sense!
The reason is there is an uncountably infinite number of points in any space (in this case two dimensional) and if you assign each point a probability greater than zero then the total probability will immediately go to infinity which can't happen; the total probability has to add up to 1, or 100%.
Remember a mathematical "point" has no dimension, it just is. For example the coordinates (1, 2) and (1.0000001, 2.0000001) represent different points.
This makes probability class significantly harder though....
A "point" has no dimension in physics and math. For example, a point exists at the coordinate (1, 2) and nowhere else. (1.000001, 2.000001) is a different point, and so on
But you're right in a way. We effectively change the size of points by simplifying the probable outcomes to make calculations doable, or at least easier.
Xannin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The word "inflammable" actually means combustible but because of the pre-fix "in" most people think it means that it is flame-proof. As a result, manufacturers and retailers use the term "flammable" (which is not a word) to describe a product likely to go up in flames.
ijklmn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:56:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
8 is half of 13. To prove it, all you have to do is take the Roman numeral XIII and make a cut line down the middle horizontally.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:07:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Social justice warriors and sharia law proponents are one and the same.
Inherent to both are radical views of right and wrong. Each is militantly intolerant of any ideology but its own and will seek to suppress by extreme means any divergent viewpoints.
Wtf did you think? He grew antlers hung out with his other two male friends, fought off that rambo-bambi, pretty sure is addressed as son by his dad, and becomes the next prince.
For Havanese dogs it is one of the most popular female names. That is where I named my dog from. A lot of places put the name Bambi as female though the movie was not.
queefy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:44:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't they breathe through a hole, have babies straight out of the snatch and swim with their tail going up and down? What doesn't classify them as whales? I am very ignorant on this subject haha
If you go far enough back in the taxonomy you will get 'all dolphins are whales, but not all whales are dolphins'. Dolphins are a branch off of the whale tree. Whales separate into toothed and baleen, delphinodiea (notice the 'no idea' in the word) are a branch off the toothed branch. That then branches off into dolphins an porpoise.
Evolution is a pain in the ass sometimes.
Food for thought - The hippopotamus' closest living cousin is the whale.
It's just really weird. An app I made at work had a 'Receipted Orders' section. I argued unsuccessfully that it was not common parlance. Apparently in supply chain management, that is a thing.
More ways to shuffle a deck of cards (52) then there are atoms on Earth.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:16:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now the problem is learning them all.
snpi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah it's tricky because each neuron would be responsible for remembering 806581751709438785716606368564037669752895054408832778240 combinations. A tall order.
EDIT: Sorry sir I stand corrected. I did the math and it turns out there are more combinations than atoms on earth. As far as there being more combinations than atoms in the solar system like others have said, that is doubtful, and there being more than the universe, definitely not.
If a solid object is hot enough, water will turn into beads on contact and slide off if the surface is flat (liedenfrost effect). I can't explain it really, but I know water is turning into vapor slowly and has a pocket of vapor on the bottom to try to keep it away from the surface
No, its that the water that is in direct contact with the hot surface turns into steam before the water at the center creating a gas bubble around the liquid water.
A pound of feathers weighs more then a pound of gold.
Precious metals are measured in troy pounds, whereas feathers in the standard avoirdupois. In troy pounds 12 ounces are a pound instead of the regular 16. Feathers therefore weigh more.
I still don't understand the physics of this but when you're making a turn on a bike, you're moving the front wheel in the opposite direction of the turn. If you're turning left, your front wheel is pointing right.
mrord1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe at the very start to force the bike to lean into the turn, but that would be an extremely short moment.
Vaspir ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:26:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope! Bikes, more visibly on motorbikes, fall into turns by turning the wrong way.
The mathematics is beyond my ability to explain but there are tons of videos explaining how it works for motorcycles and the mechanics are the same for a push bike.
He's actually correct. It's called "counter steering" and is incredibly counter-intuitive, but is a fact.
And leaning does not cause turning, counter steering causes the lean. This has been demonstrated with bikes that have fixed steering, and it's basically impossible to balance, no less turn.
Vaspir ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:23:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Motorcyclist here, you're wrong and it works the same for both. It's called counter steering and is well documented.
dunecan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:53:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are the best.
rfrostm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The solution to the Monty Hall problem is completely counterintuitive.
There's a game show, where there are three doors. Behind 2 of these doors is a goat; the other has a new car. You get to keep what's behind whatever door you choose. You pick door number three. The host, who knows what's behind each door, opens door number two, revealing a goat, and asks if you want to change your choice. It is ALWAYS in your favour to switch doors.
Intuitively, this makes no sense. It shouldn't matter - your odds of getting the car haven't changed, the car hasn't moved. What has changed is the information you have. When you picked door number 3, you had a 33% chance of picking correctly. Now, given the choice between door 1 and door 3, you have a 50% chance of picking correctly.
You actually have a 66% chance of getting it correct if you change doors.
TheBari ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:15:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup. Because you had a 33% chance of being right on the first guess which means you have a 66% chance of being wrong. The door that opens will ALWAYS have a goat. So in the end, you are betting on weather or not your first guess was correct.
NuteIla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aluminum is a toxic metal.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:29:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everything is toxic when it reaches a certain amount.
NuteIla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:27:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah vitamins can kill you in large amounts but aluminum is specifically toxic. You should never cook anything acidic in an aluminum pan. Also if you are cutting or fringing aluminum you need an air mask
It is physically impossible to suffer aluminum poisoning from eating food cooked in an aluminum pan, regardless of the acidity of the food. The quantity of aluminum just isn't large enough. If it was, your pan would be gone after a few meals.
TVLL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:29:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let the Kolmogorov complexity of a bitstring be the length of the shortest program that outputs it. Kolmogorov complexity is uncomputable (basic result), and only finitely many strings have provable Kolmogorov complexity (Chaitin's incompleteness theorem).
Much like the buffalo sentence: police police police police police police policing police
Is also a valid sentence as police can be a verb, adjective and noun.
The infinite alternating mathematical series 1 - 1/2 + 1/3 - 1/4 + 1/5 - 1/6 ... and so on, when in that order will sum to ln(2). But, depending on the order in which you sum the terms, the series can be summed to any real number.
Taking one "had" out of the first sentence changes the tense from past perfect to simple past. (I will admit that "that that" is usually redundant, but mostly that's because the first "that" is a weird part of speech and is rarely actually necessary.)
Ok. I did all of the math and turns out I wasn't totally correct. But im still pretty sure there more atoms in the solar system than combinations of a 52 card deck.
Earth ~ 5.97e24 kg
32.1% iron = 1.91e27 g
@55.845 g/mol gives 3.42e25 moles
30.1% oxygen = 1.79e27 g
@15.99 g/mol gives 1.12e26 moles
15.1% silicon = 9.01e26 g
@28.085 g/mol gives 3.21e25 moles
13.9% magnesium = 8.29e26 g
@24.305 g/mol gives 3.41e25 moles
Total moles: 2.12e26
1 mol = 6.022e23 molecules (or atoms in this case)
So (2.12e26 x 6.022e23) = 1.28e50 atoms of iron, oxygen, silicon, and magnesium here on earth. This is excluding carbon, hydrogen and all other trace elements. Seeing that a 52 card deck has at most 52! (52 factorial) combinations, which is in the area of 8e67, there seem to be more combinations than atoms on earth. But like I said, this is excluding carbon and hydrogen. Carbon is essential for all life and hydrogen is the element with the most number of molecules per given mass so I would think that doing a full calculation including the sun and first few planets would definitely put us in the ballpark of 8e67. And considering that the sun is just a big ball of hydrogen, I am pretty sure that there are more atoms just in the solar system from the sun to the earth than there are combinations of a 52 card deck.
It goes against every survival instinct that is screaming to escape the source of your pain. Of course, science tells us know that if we remove the object we could bleed out in seconds.
If you flip a coin and it lands on heads 10,000 times in a row, the chances of the next result being heads is 50/50.
hsfrey ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:54:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If a flipped coin lands on heads 10,000 times in a row, you are probably justified in determining that the coin is biased and does not have a 50/50 chance of coming up heads.
zeek0us ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:03:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is a slight bias in human coin flips - start with heads up and heads results slightly more often than chance. True randomness is difficult to achieve.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the USA you don't actually vote for president. You vote for a slate of electors to the electoral college who are pledged to vote for your preferred candidate for president.
If a trillion stars had a trillion planets with a trillion people shuffling a trillion decks of cards once a second for the entire age of the universe we still would have only visited 0.1% of all deck orientations.
I'm gonna phrase this wrong but... It's possible for you to have a lab test result indicate you are infected on a test known to be "99% accurate" and there still be only a tiny chance you're actually infected. I phrased it wrong because I still don't understand it. I saw it discussed on /askscience and I really wish I had seen it on /eli5 instead.
Netsuko ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The shortest flight path between Asia and US east coast takes the aircraft over the North Pole, due to the curvature of the Earth. Flying straight east over the ocean would add thousands of miles to the distance flown, but due to the strong jet-stream, can shorten the flying time on particularly strong jet stream days.
The more mild flavored and lighter the coffee, the more caffeinated it is. The coffee bean is inherently caffeinated, the roasting process leaches a portion of that from the beans.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:42:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bill cycles from A to B and back. He has a tailwind on the way there, and averages 30km/h. He has a headwind on the way back, and averages just 10 km/h on that leg.
Over his whole trip, his average speed is 15 km/h.
Entinu ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:50:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stupid question but wouldn't it be 20km/h as 30+10=40 and then 40/2=20?
A plane on a treadmill will take off in the same amount of space/time as the same plane on a runway.
The backward momentum of the wheels is irrelevant because they're free spinning. It's the air being pushed that moves the plane, not the ground being pushed.
But the wheels are free spinning. This means they can rotate backward at 5,000 mph and the plane can still take off forward. They have no effect on the position of the plane while it's under power, such as trying to take off.
if the plane was not under power on the treadmill, and the treadmill started moving, the plane would move backwards because of the wheels' friction, and the plane has to make up for this small amount of speed as it takes off.
Sure, but because the wheels are able to spin at any speed relative to the plane and the plane is still able to provide the power to move forward it would always, and quickly, overcome any backward momentum inbided by the treadmill.
but wouldn't the plane on the treadmill be stationary relative to the air around it making the upward thrust from the wings not exist because the planes wings cant get the air around the to move fast enough. this is probably the reasons aircraft carriers don't have a treadmill and use a slingshot for takeoff.
Why would it be stationary? What is stopping it from moving forward under it's own power? The wheels are NOT connected to the power system of the plane, they're just there to reduce friction to the ground, as opposed to sliding on the plane's belly.
The plane pushes against the air to move forward so it doesn't matter what the wheels are doing.
Found this out earlier today while eating dinner at a restaurant, courtesy of my eight year old stepbrother- there's a bird known as the Cock-of-the-rock. He was practically shouting this and no one could stop laughing.
Example: "I have drunk an inordinate amount of Irish whiskey in the past two days. "
'Drank' is correct when conjugating the word 'drink' in the past tense, for example, "I think I drank too much last night. I woke up naked in the backyard to the neighbor's dog licking puke off my face."
If I broke into your house with every intention of robbing you and in the process I broke my leg by tripping over your couch. I could sue you for failing to provide me with a duty of care and claim damages for my broken leg!
Now that's some fucked up shit...
I'm Australian and this is precisely what happens here!
It was in the news a while back... some guy tried robbing a store and the shop attended started hitting the robber with a hockey stick. The robber sued for damages and won.
What about a guy who snuck onto someone's property without permission to use their bathroom and slipped and broke their leg. They sued for duty of care and won
... long ago, the four states of matter lived in harmony. Then everything changed when schools decided plasma was too difficult. Only the higher education, teacher of all subjects could stop them. But when the world needed it most, it got too expensive...
Cleopatra was alive closer to the moon landing than to the building of The Pyramids of Giza
Namiez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:08:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Say you had a single piece of rope surrounding a sphere the size of earth. To lift that rope one foot off the ground everywhere and still have it be a complete loop you would only need to add a little more than six feet of rope.
once a year we take down their flag put up our own and leave a bottle of whiskey. they in turn take down our flag put up their own and leave a bottle of schnapps. it's debateable whether it's canada or Denmark.
Gramage ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:10:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If war broke out between Canada and Denmark over that island, it would actually be a drinking contest. And nobody would care who won. :)
Hans Island is considered part of Canada as well, not sure how exactly it's split, I don't think either country really cars seeing as it's also uninhabited. Saint Pierre and Miquelon on the other hand is fully under Frances and has a population of approximately 6000.
Crocodilians birds and turtles make up the archosaur clade. Whales are actually more closely related to Artiodactylylids; even toed ungulates (deer, elk, etc.) than they are to porcupines (rodentia)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:30:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I know... I was just picking a random mammal that was very dissimilar to a whale. Oh, and I'm pretty sure that turtles aren't archosaurs.
I apologize in advance if this fact had already been submitted. Laid end-to-end, an adult'sย arteries, viensย and capillaries would stretch for about 100,000 miles - enough toย wrap around the world nearly four times.ย
There are more ways to arrange a deck of cards than there have been seconds since the big bang. Any random shuffling of a deck of cards is almost guaranteed to produce an arrangement no one else has ever held.
krogger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:23:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:54:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It means that the southern-most part of Canada is further south than the northern-point of California.
Jebb145 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:26:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Too late for the party but most people use the word random completely incorrect. Almost every time someone uses the word random they should replace it with stochastic. It is not random when you meet someone from high school at a bar. There is a statistical probability that you will meet someone you know when you go out in a crowd. That is not random, its stochastic.
blukes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:38:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The computer, jet engine, taxi, alarm clock, vending machines, automatic doors, and simple robots all existed well before we invented sliced bread. In fact, the ancient Greeks and Romans had all that stuff (except their computer was analog and non electric). Even crazier, the Jet engine, vending machine, and automatic doors were all invented by one dude Hero of Alexandria.
iZombs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:27:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Islamists strap bombs to themselves because of their religious beliefs, not because of politics.
polยทiยทtics
noun
the activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power.
Strapping on a bomb must have some purpose outside of worshipping god or Islam would've blown itself up completely. I think they're using (twisting) religious ideology to further the power of their religion, which brings us into the political sphere.
Americans are all people living in North America, Central America and South America. It's usually used incorrectly to refer to the citizens of the United States only.
Obama is the 44th white president.
Tiger Woods was a successful Asian golfer.
The Wachowski Sisters have double the ratio of female to male directors in Hollywood.
The Sun is quite a massive star (just that most stars are less massive than the Sun) and so while the mass of the Milky Way may be 100b solar masses that comes out to about 400 billion actual stars.
And just looking it up the Milky Way is about 1 trillion solar masses. A lot of the mass is in dust clouds.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:00:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:47:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well yeah, like attornies general or courts marshal
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:39:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When doing chest compressions for CPR you cut off the clothing with scissor even the bra if it's a woman and you don't stop doing chest compression even if you break there sternum.
The main German fighter plane of WW2 was not the Me 109.
It was the Bf 109.
TheTyke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:56:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Romans discovered Brazil, but it fucked up so much of Brazil's history they decided to just cover the Roman shipwreck with concrete and deny it ever happened.
Something about angry buffalo from Buffalo, that bully other bullying buffalo from Buffalo. Or something like that. Though the sentence may be grammatically correct, it's a nonsensical nightmare.
An increase in pressure causes liquid water to shift toward a solid phase. Look up the phase diagram of water. This is why it is still debated how ice skates work etc. ice skates cause friction which should melt the ice but the increased pressure at the boundary point should have an opposite and negating effect.
Degru ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:54:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, I see.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:07:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
oh askreddit... the question has now turned into "What are facts?"
Despite featuring impressive vistas of Earth and the Moon, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey was released in 1968, a year before we first set foot on the moon or had seen Earth from space.
sirgog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:16:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ePi*i = -1.
Dutchan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That every planet in our solar system would easily fit between earth and the moon, with room to spare. The distance between us and our moon is farther than most think, and the diagrams of our solar system are all inaccurate. The space shuttles that went to our moon traveled for several days at 20k+ mph.
edit: this video is one of the few accurate portrayals of the planets and the distances we're talkin bout with our solar system https://vimeo.com/139407849
thewpo2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:19:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of these are just American geographic things
In Australia we have farms that are bigger than Texas!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:21:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are the same amount of real numbers in the interval [0,1] as there are in [0,100]. Or between any two infinite closed intervals on the real number line. Infinity is weird.
I can only confirm that there is no way to know how many stars are in the universe. The observable universe, maybe, but that only tells us something about our own technological limitations.
Well, it's the same for microbes, I think. You cant sit down and count them. The most you can do is calculate the amount in a given area and even that is loosy-goosey.
Okay, I texted him and he says:
The number of stars is estimated by multiplying the number of stars in our Galaxy (300,000,000,000) by the number of galaxies (100,000,000,000): 1023. Number of bacteria is by multiplying bacterial concentrations in differing environments by the volume of that environment. The sea alone has 1000,000 per ml: 1028 in total (ie 10000000000000000000000000000).
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:24:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you start at the North Pole, travel South for 100kms, travel West for 100kms and then travel North for 100kms, you end off at exactly the same spot you started at.
Also, If you heat a metal washer, the hole in the middle of the washer expands.
Take one grain of beach sand and consider it at the atomic level. There are more atoms in that single grain of sand than there are stars in our galaxy. However, there are more stars in our galaxy than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth.
Electric cars came before gas ones and for a while were more popular. In 1914 there were public charging stations on most street corners in New York City.
Also, rebreathers came before Scuba.
Lovurr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:38:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry but this is totally wrong. There are about 8e67 combinations in a 52 card deck and at least 4.5e46 of atoms of water in just our earths oceans. Not including air and solid matter. I can assure you there are at least close to 8e68 atoms just here in our solar system if not more.
Cros3n ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:49:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And never being satisfied going the speed limit again...unless it's icing or snowing...and then you're sitting on the highway to-da-looing along at the speed limit, listening to Four Seasons, and rude people who have no idea how to drive are honking at you.
During the first six weeks of human development in the uterus, male and female human embryos are essentially identical. During this time we have both male and female genitalia.
You can sail downwind in a circle from Europe to Africa to New England and back to Europe. The winds and currents make a circle, but the route was called the triangular trade.
tip_off ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:05:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can shatter a diamond by hitting it with a hammer.
But gravity on the Sun is only 28 times that on earth!, but the magnetic field strength at any one point is 20,000 Gauss (which is HUGE) A super strong NIB magnet (but tiny) is 2000 Gauss. But the Sun is slightly bigger than a strong pocket magnet.
Pretty weird that the off-hand mention of Clone Wars in Star Wars Episode IV/ANH has lead to another movie trilogy, two animated seriesnever forget the 2003 Clone Wars and countless of books, toys, games etc.
Oh, another weird thing is that Disney has officially said (obviously not in these words) "Lol nope, these decades of material that kept Star Wars alive (the Thrawn books and other old EU stories kept the series going after the original trilogy) are not canon. Fuck y'all, we are ignoring decades of work people put to stretching the universe."
All of these facts. The Cleopatra fact is what always gets me!
rafner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:32:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A normal deck of cards can be organized in more ways than the amount of atoms in our solar system.
Every time a person shuffles a deck of cards, the chances of that exact organization/order of cards having existed before throughout history is unfathomably small.
The US decided that tomatoes are (legally) vegetables, although botanically they are fruits. As a European it makes no sense to me to call them vegetables...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden
If you pointed the Hubble at the Moon and took a picture of the Apollo landing sites you wouldn't see anything. In fact, if we built a football stadium on the Moon the HST would be hard pressed to see it. It'd be about a pixel in size.
BULLSHIT. Cleopatra and Julius Caesar had an affair so she was living about 2100 years ago. Pyramid-building continued until about 3700 years ago. A few notable ones like the ruins at Saqqara or the Great Pyramid at Giza are old enough that you can make that statement, but the pyramid-building culture was far more recent a thing to Cleopatra than she is to us
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:20:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cleopatra was a Greek, not an ancient Egyptian though. Egypt pretty much stopped being a sovereign area by 525 BC and Persian conquest.
Suppose you have two bullets, one in your hand and one loaded into a gun. They are at the same height from the ground (doesn't matter what the height is.) Provided you drop the bullet in your hand at the instant you fire the bullet from the gun, both bullets will hit the ground at precisely the same time. That's because the force of gravity is independent of the sideways velocity of the fired bullet.
I can't remember how many vids by supposed physicists have stated that bullets rise after coming out of a gun.
za419 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:22:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If the bullet pulls up at all, then it probably gets a small lift force to keep it aloft longer. But I don't see any reason that, wind or something notwithstanding, the bullet shouldn't fly straight
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:05:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If there is no rise in the bullet fired from a chamber, this is still assuming no interference between either bullet and the ground on their given trajectories.
For example, if there is a chair beneath you and you are firing into an open field, the bullet fired may hit the ground first.
On the other hand, if you are firing into a tree, the bullet dropped may hit the ground years before the other.
When you watch a movie with CGI in it some poor prick had to sit at a computer screen, all day, every day, doing nothing but trace around everything frame by frame so that the CGI could be added in.
krepkee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:22:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more foreigners in London than English people.
'Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo' is a grammatically correct sentence.
Also if you read it too many times your brain starts to question whether 'buffalo' is actually a word
No. The inbreeding just causes shorter life-expectancy, lower IQ and a pandora's box of slightly disabling side effects
Add these genetically sub-standard people AND a religion that - like many others - has a lot of violence in it, AND a region with a lot of geopolitical problems, AND poverty then you have the middle east problem.
There's a good argument to be made for the low levels of Vitamin D in Middle-Eastern cuisine being partly responsible too, vitamin D deficiency is known to science to cause violent behaviour. Maybe we should be bombing them with jars of marmite.....
CRU-60 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:32:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not just in the Mideast; It is perfectly legal for you to marry your first cousin in the state of California.
Anne Frank and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. we're alive at the same time
max252 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:42:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Finland isn't real
Dobias ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:43:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If Alice tosses a coin until she sees a head followed by a tail, and Bob tosses a coin until he sees two heads in a row, then on average, Alice will require four tosses while Bob will require six tosses, even though head-tail and head-head have an equal chance of appearing after two coin tosses.
Basically, it boils down to gravity having maximum effect on the projectile when it is acting perpendicular to the bullet. But if the bullet is fired at, say, a 45 degree angle either up or down, the reduction of the gravitational effect is the same.
I'm sorry but no way. The total number of combinations of a deck of playing cards is 52! (Factorial) or about 8e67. The number of MOLECULES of just water in earths oceans is about 4.4e46. Multiply this by 3 for the amount of ATOMS in a molecule of water and you see that this is already pretty close (considering astronomical orders of magnitude). Now factor in that this is accounting for only water and only on planet earth and you see that there are a lot more atoms in our solar system than expected. If you were to account for air in our atmosphere and every other bit of solid matter, that number gets much much larger. If you factor in the sun, I'm pretty sure there are more than 8e67 here in our solar system.
I'm sorry but no way. The total number of combinations of a deck of playing cards is 52! (Factorial) or about 8e67. The number of MOLECULES of just water in earths oceans is about 4.4e46. Multiply this by 3 for the amount of ATOMS in a molecule of water and you see that this is already pretty close. Now factor in that this is accounting for only water and only on planet earth and you see how wrong this actually is. If you were to account for air in our atmosphere and every other bit of matter, I can assure you there are much much more atoms just on earth than there are combinations of a deck of cards.
EDIT: after doing the math more completely... Turns out there in fact seems to be less atoms on earth than combinations of a 52 card deck. However, after factoring in the sun, I think it's safe to say there are probably more atoms than combinations of cards in just the first 3 planets from the sun.
Haha no worries it's a bit confusing. I was kind of guesstimating before but after doing the calculations there are actually more combinations than atoms on earth. That really surprised me. As far as there being more than the solar system though... I really don't want to do all of the rest of the math for all the planets so I guess I can't definitively say for sure but I'm highly doubtful. Then again you never know.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:56:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:54:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As somebody who makes his own beef jerky...this is not quite correct.
It's cooked at low temperatures (typically 150ยฐ F), but it is cooked.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:03:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:11:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Technically speaking, even the 140ยฐF to 145ยฐF range is still 'cooked.' It may not be cooked 'properly' per FDA standards on some items, but it is still considered 'cooked' nonetheless.
This just has to do with the heat capacity of certain substances. It takes very little energy to heat the air so our bodies create a microclimate of warm air around us. On the other hand, water takes a great deal more energy to raise the temperature by the same amount. Because of this, our bodies cannot warm it up as quickly and we feel a difference in temperature.
icithis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:36:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I majored in physics, but it's not intuitive.
Many languages change so little that it's not uncommon to be able to read texts which are ancient. However, with English we struggle to read texts which are only hundreds of years old.
There are more possible games of chess, than atoms in the known universe.
blockey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:14:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you put a rope all the way around the earth and then lifted it a meter up everywhere around the earth, you would only need an extra 7m of rope for the ends to meet
Iihemc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:14:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The 400 richest people in America have so much money they could give $5000 to every man woman and child in the country - and STILL BE BILLIONAIRES!
(The combined net worth of the Forbes 400 = $2 trillion. Subtract out $400 billion so they so they can remain billionaires, and you've got $1.6 trillion.
1.6 trillion dollars / 320 million people = five thousand dollars per person.)
Except viruses (if you would consider them living). They are simply random strands of dna that has evolved on its own parallel to the rest of life on earth.
More time had passed between Star Wars: Episode I โ The Phantom Menace and Star Wars: Episode VII โ The Force Awakens than the time that had passed between Star Wars: Episode VI โ Return of the Jedi and The Phantom Menace.
Episode 1 was released in 1999; Episode IV was released in 1983. George Lucas made prequels for the original trilogy, and, as such, the numbering goes 4,5,6,1,2,3,7. (Yes, it's confusing.)
Sorry but incorrect. You are thinking of adderal, which is in fact amphetamine (racemic salt mixture). Ritalin, otherwise known as methylphenidate, is more closely related to cocaine.
Germany's indecent exposure law (ยง 183 StGB) only applies to men, not women. It's also not illegal if the only reaction to the indecent exposure is laughter, curiosity or pity.
It takes 4 hours to get to Cuba from Nova Scotia, Canada by flight. It takes 13 hours to get to Alberta by flight.
Crazy
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:48:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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CRU-60 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:10:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
While it is true that Bob reached the rank of Master Sergeant in the Air Force, he was never an MTI at Lackland Air Force Base; He was a squadron First Sergeant at Eielson AFB in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a prize; behind the others, nothing. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has nothing. He then says , "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?
The answer is yes. By switching your odds go from 1/3 to 2/3
The word astronaut comes from the Greek word "Astron" which means star and "nautes" which means sailor.
The Russian cosmonaut has a similar meaning from "kosmos" meaning universe and again "nautes" for sailor
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:15:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are less days in a year now than there used to be. Around 350 million years ago a year was 385 days and around 620 million years ago a year was around 400 days. This is due to the gravitational effect of the moon on the earth.
That Courtney Stodden & Dakota Fanning are the same age of 22 years old. Courtney married Doug Hutchison (55) in 2011 after dating for 2 years; so...um...go ahead & calculate that.
There is a club for survivors of attempted suicide off the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, CA. Also as I am typing this 500 people died around the world.
Mental retard. I think its changed now, but when i was a nursing student, i charted 'mentally challenged' and my instructor shamed me by saying, "Are you trying to insult?" She then said to cross out 'challenged' and write 'retard'.
The oldest professional football club in the world is not an Association Football club, nor is it even English. It's the Melbourne Football club, which was founded in a city only 23/4 years of age at the time. Australian football in general also is the oldest form of modern football (codified 1859).
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:27:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sentence 'i need to find the one which suits me' is grammatically WRONG. It drives me bananas. It's like screenwriters think the word which makes their characters sound smart, but they all failed 8th grade English.
'i need to find the one that suits me' is correct. Which is only used to introduce a dependant clause that isn't necessary to the meaning of the sentence. Also it comes with a comma
'i found this one, which suits me' is correct.
I get that nobody cares about this. It's just my personal beef.
"All's well that end's well" implies that nothing is alright when you factor in the inevitable heat death of the universe. Everything that currently exists without question or any possible recourse inevitably will go to shit in the very end because all matter and energy will be gone forever. This is irreversible too.
It doesn't matter that it will take 999999999999999999999999 etc etc whatever many years to happen, once it does it will be just as real to everything that's ever existed as you waking and putting pants on is whenever you wake up from sleep.
can someone confirm if the following is true: i heard it as an explanation of how small atoms are.
if you take a gallon of liquid and dispersed it evenly throughout all the oceans, then dipped a gallon of water back out of the ocean from any point, you'd have 10 million atoms of the original liquid.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:09:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you have more than 23 people in a room there is a higher than 50% chance that two people in the room share the same birthday. Invite a few more people, with 40 you're near a 90% chance and with 60 there's a higher than 99% chance of two people sharing a birthday.
Obviously, in order to reach 100% you'd need 366 people.
A lot of states have vote thresholds. In Texas, that threshold is 20%. This means that if you vote for an unpopular contender, your vote is literally removed and placed with the leading party contender. This means that everyone in Texas who voted for Rubio, Kasich, or Carson LITERALLY voted for Ted Cruz.
the state of Virginia's name is not officially 'Virginia', its the 'Commonwealth of Virginia'. same goes for Kentucky, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania.
also interesting, Massachusetts does not have an 'e' before the final 's'.
Until just recently or maybe its still true... In the state of Virginia it is ILLEGAL to have sex with the lights on, or in any position other than missionary.
I'm going to call bullshit on this one. Not that I don't believe you, I am just really excited about the proof.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:54:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I heard it from a cyber security podcast yesterday called "The Cyberwire".
Basically, many viruses come through email. Most of those emails originate from countries like Russia or Nigeria where they don't speak much English. The emails often have several grammar and spelling mistakes. The good ones will fix most of those mistakes using automated spelling/grammar checkers... but those checkers will still miss some things like homonyms. If you spot a homonym used incorrectly in an email, it might be a sine :)
Seems like it's more about being less likely to fall for phishing scams, since they almost always LOOK legit but a close examination of the text will reveal problems with grammar.
If you are in a pinch and need a fast way to refurbish the shine on your dress shoes you can use shaving cream to buff them up quickly. Warning this only works on properly waxed shoes/boots and ruins those with paint on shine...
my boyfriend and i got in an argument about whether or not grasshoppers eat grass. i was wrong!
taybul ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:34:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The correct spelling for the word "appall".
Xeeroy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:34:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Monty Hall paradox.
If you're on a game show where you pick one of 3 doors and each door has either a donkey or a car behind it. There is one car and two donkeys and you goal is to pick the door with the car to win it.
The confusing part is if you pick a door and the game show host ask if you want another door instead, you will have a 2/3 chance of getting the car by taking the door he suggest compared to the 1/3 chance you had before.
Etzix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:38:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You forgot to mention this only works if the game host REMOVES one of the WRONG doors after you have picked once!
Xeeroy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:49:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No I didn't forget as that has nothing to with the Monty Hall problem. If he had removed one of the wrong doors you have a 1/2 chance and not a 2/3 chance as is the case.
Etzix ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:00:50 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump is the front-runner for the Republican nomination for President of the United States.
lasoxrox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:40:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Steve Martin and Edie Brickell have written a musical, now on Broadway, called "Bright Star." Steve Martin has also taken up the banjo and performs blue grass original pieces.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:44:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more possible combinations in a deck of cards than stars in the visible universe, and every time you shuffle a deck, it is likely you end up with a new combination which has never existed before.
Cause the Allies couldn't read their maps right and the Germans and Italians could. Not the Swiss' fault that other people don't respect their borders.
fyreNL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:16:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, i am well aware why. A number of Swiss villages were also bombed to hell and back by the Allies as they mistook it for Southern-Germany. Makes sense why the Swiss were pissed off about it.
ricdesi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:17:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump once bought a team in an NFL rival startup just to kill the league and move his team into the NFL. He sued the NFL for monopolization and won... and was awarded three dollars. The USFL summarily died, and so did Trump's team.
My so and i argued about the whole several doesn't mean seven things yesterday
delibes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:19:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nobody seems to think that it's weird that the speed of light is the same no matter how fast you go, or that matter has a wave-particle dual nature?
These are so fundamentally in conflict with what we observe in day-to-day life that it's hard to grasp the ideas even with many different scientifically repeatable experiments to prove it.
cwmma ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:19:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have an above average number of hands (almost all of you)
Ernesto Miranda (of the famous Miranda rights) did not get his case dismissed because of the Supreme Court case that bears his name. The Supreme Court sent the case back to Arizona and told them to give him another trial (without using his statement this time). Arizona gave Miranda another trial, convicted him again, and sent him back to prison. (Dismissal of the case never was, isn't now, and never will be the remedy for a violation of the "Miranda" rule.)
djzang ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:21:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The latitude at the most northern tip of California state is the same as the most southern tip of Canada.
Imagine the average (or mean for the nitpickers) intelligence of a person, then realise that half the people in the world are dumber than that.
I always have to thank George Carlin for pointing this out to me. I am also kinda cursing him right now for the difficulty of turning this joke into a reliable statement.
Situation: You are playing a game show in which you pick a prize from behind three mystery doors. You pick one door. Before opening it, the host opens a different door which contains a goat (goat meaning "no prize"). He then asks if you'd like to stick with your current pick, or switch to the other unopened door before opening it.
Unofficial mathematician Marilyn vos Savant wrote a column describing that the game is weighted in the player's favor - if they switch doors every single time the host asks them to, their odds of winning a prize increase from 1/3rd to 1/2. Needless to say, mathematicians all over the world wrote in to explain why she was terribly misguided.
She elaborated on her proof multiple times, and turned out to be correct: When the goat door is opened, information is added about the door you didn't pick, but is NOT added about the door you first picked because the goat door would have been opened anyway. (Not in the article I found, but as I remember it, if you pick the goat door immediately, you lose right away) There's more to read if you like.
inavda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:22:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Spanish word "embarazada" means "pregnant" in English.
Because most of an atom is empty space, if you froze time and put the entire universe's protons together, they would briefly fit within Jupiters' orbit.
Then KABOOM.
Amanoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:31:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're American, the word "negroid". It simply means "resembling black", making it much more accurate than "black". In fact, it's the word "black" that's considered derogatory in some countries.
mcprof1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:31:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That on some inkjet printers manufacturers made the printheads irreplaceable on purpose to force people into buying new printers when they get clogged or worn down. They are a replaceable consumable on older printers and higher end modern printers.
Providing the cannon is level. If the cannon is at a 45o angle, the ball will take time to go up, and then down compared to a cannonball dropped from the height of the muzzle, which just has to go down.
Actually I believe that depends on context, hanged if you're talking about a person, hung if talking about an object. If someone asks you "what did you do with your certificate?" you don't say "I hanged it on my wall"
If you sail in a perfectly straight line from the correct location off Canada's coast in the correct direction, you will finish the journey on Canada's opposite coast without hitting any other land.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:18:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
A felon can't be charged under the federal law concerning suppressors or machine guns because of the requirement to register them to be legal. It's considered a 5th amendment violation since they can't own firearms period.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:10:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For 90's kids currently in college, the person you marry probably won't even be in college until you graduate, considering our generation parents have a 4+ age gap from each other.
Jim Morrison's dad was a top admiral in the United States Navy. He witnessed the attack on Pearl Harbor and was the commander of the fleet during the Gulf Of Tonkin incident, which led to the escalation of US forces in Vietnam. While his son Jim was off starting the Doors (living it up in the late 60's and becoming a counter culture icon), he was a top military leader who was helping push the agenda in Vietnam.
The guy in the numberphile video says they don't use "mathematical hocus pocus" to make this work, but I disagree a bit as a layperson. He's assigning different values of infinity for regularization since this mathematical model is applied to the real world (Casimir effect) where there are real, not infinite, values. But I guess that's part of the fun.
Thine and Thou is actually the informal version of You and Your. So when you read and it and think the the author was trying to sound fancy, it's actually because they were more familiar with the person they're speaking to.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:40:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The time difference between the extinction of Stegosaurus and the extinction of Tyrannosaurus Rex is greater than the period of time between the extinction of Tyrannosaurus Rex and now.
As of 2013, there were more gamers in the United states than registered democrats & republicans combined. (Over 190 million gamers playing at least 13 hours a week, less than 180 million registered republicans and democrats)
Nicktoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:04:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you choose one door out of three on a game show and the host reveals one of the other doors is not the prize and asks you if you still want your original choice, you are twice as likely to win the prize if you change your mind.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:14:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you use silver duct tape on a wart it will go away. You have to put a piece of tape on, leave it for 6 days and then soak it and use an emery board or pumice stone. Repeat this process and usually in about 2 months it will be gone.
Long ago, a single primordial replicator was produced by chemical reactions. This replicator slowly diversified and became more complex over time due to slightly imperfect reproduction and environmental selection into all the diversity of life we see around us today.
The size of the set of positive integers is the same size as the set of rational numbers (numbers that can be written as fractions of integers). Even if you include negatives.
"Impactful" isn't a real word. I got hit with that one on my midterm paper, but when I looked it up there was this whole huge analysis about it and everything.
tjgamir ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:20:31 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can sail from Eastern Canada to the Western Canada in a straight line without hitting any landmass. GIF
1> In terms of population, Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is larger than all the countries in the world but 5.
2> In terms of population, India spits out an Australia every year.
3> India actually holds a lesser percentage of world population now, than it used to in medieval ages.
India is Euuuuge!
No. State schools are cheaper, usually but it often comes with a party or poor reputation. There are quite a few state schools that are much more expensive than some private schools and it really sucks for residents of those states.
For example Penn State's nursing program, for Pennsylvania residents, for tuition only, is about 22k/year. This does not include administration fees, books, housing, medical equipment (blood pressure cuff, etc), scrubs, medical and malpractice insurance, meal plan, parking pass for the school, parking at the hospital you have rotations at or any of the other expenses. Add about another 8 to 15k depending on the year of study, housing situation and if they are paying for health insurance.
This is a correct sentence:Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. Paraphrased, the sentence can be parsed to mean, "Bison from Buffalo, which bison from Buffalo bully, themselves bully bison from Buffalo."
Lenny97 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:46:27 on May 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the context of the current dominant monetary system, fiat currencies such as the US dollar are instruments of debt. Specifically, every dollar is loaned into existence from a central bank like the Federal Reserve. The bank expects to be repaid that dollar with interest. Since the amount of money extant at any time is essentially the principal of a loan, and the bank is only willing to accept dollars as repayment of that loan, then there is literally no way to pay back the loan with the associated interest. This is intentional, and forces many people and businesses into default, bankruptcy and foreclosure. This is why it is worthless and destructive to humanity.
I looked through your comments and you seemed pretty eager to take a $20 an hour job doing something you hate. You also seem to be a big believer in bitcoin. Which is also money, albeit purely digital.
So tell you what. I'll gladly take that $20 an hour, and all of your bitcoins. Rid you of some of that debt.
I'll also be sure to let you know when the federal reserve comes calling for the $0.50 in my pocket.
By itself, it technically is worthless, as worth is defined by how much people want something and what it can be used for. So if money wasn't used and nobody had any possessions, then it would be worthless. But people want money and you pretty much need it, so therefore it is not worthless
But without a way to balance resources like water and food between people, civilization would have never been a thing. Agriculture would have been a huge failure, because selfish people could take all of the food without anything stopping them. Money is a very easy way to make sure that a civilization that is just starting can keep the resource allocation fair.
Do you believe that our civilization is just getting started? Do you think it is fair to the people of Flint, MI as to the quality of water they're receiving? How about the many starving children in the world, is it fair to them that they are not allocated decent amounts of food? What about the air quality in China, is it fair to them that they cannot see through or breathe the air easily? Nothing in the monetary system is fair.
You can't even help yourself to know that the term "magnetic resistance" has no meaning in this context. Don't just use big words in an attempt to appear to be bright, learn what the words mean.
I, for one, won't argue that it's not a race (which I think is obvious).
kaltkalt ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 08:27:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In other posts on here and elsewhere, i've had people viciously argue with me about how it most certainly IS a race, and thus I'm a racist for opposing islam.
If the Soviets had figured out they could call communism a "race" we would all be speaking Russian right now, waiting in line for soup.
I haven't encountered such thing yet, but some people strike me to be so ignorant that I wouldn't be surprised. I know Islam is preached in many different parts of the world and I think it's just enough to mention, say, Sudan, Turkey and Indonesia to know that we're speaking of very different people (concerning their race).
Well, muslims have figured out that they can silence their opposition by calling them "racists." This works because they're both a minority group and because, on average (at least stereotypically) they have browner-than-white skin.
Most people simply are not able to realize that islam is nothing more than an ideology. No different than capitalism or dadaism or any other. It's based on a book (well, the koran plus the hadith) just like Marxism. It's no different.
But muslims will never sit back and let islam be judged on the merits.
The bible is horrible, no question about it. They're both horrible books and every copy of them should be rounded up and burned. It's the only case I'd support book burning - they're just too dangerous to leave sitting around.
But as bad as the bible is, the koran is far worse. I'd say it's more evil than the bible by at least one order of magnitude.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The letter t is silent in the word often. It's pronounced offen (think soften).
I'm glad you asked, a uncountable nouns is a substances or concept that cannot be divide into separate elements. For example, you can't count "milk". But you can count "bottles of milk" or "liters of milk", but not "milk" itself.
You can't count them without using another unit of measurement. You can say you have six apples, thats counting apples. But you can't say I have six milks, or six broccolis, that doesn't make sense. You need a unit of measurement to count them, like gallons or pounds. There are many things you can't count without units of measurement.
When riding a motorcycle at high speed, you turn in the opposite direction you want to go. For example, turn left to go right and turn right to go left.
Not that crazy to some people, but to those who have never been on a motorcycle it's a strange concept to grasp.
marx2k ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:45:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Countersteering doesn't even have to be at high speeds. I use this when turning corners on city blocks.
*edit: Well, ok maybe not. Thinking about it, I actually push the bars in the opposite direction of the direction I want to turn to make the bike "fall over" and turn for me.
This is also true on bicycles, and many cyclists do this without even realizing it.
When I was learning how to ride a motorcycle, this did sound wrong, but I had just taken a physics class and realized that this is easily explained with torque and conservation of angular momentum.
In this context, "as many" must be taken to mean that the two sets (natural numbers divisible by 2, and natural numbers divisible by 3) have the same cardinality, which is a concept not often taught before post-secondary education.
Brit here, I will argue this to the grave. Oregano sounds better then Or Ree Ga No. The way Americans say it just rolls off the tongue Brits say as if you don't know how to pronounce as if it's a foreign word you have heard the first time. I know this is loosely relevant but it's the first thing that came to mind
Edit: there are more bacterial cells than human cells because bacterial cells (prokaryotes) are many times smaller than eukaryotic cells which contain many organelles
And you misunderstood it. Human cells are massive compared to bacterial cells so while bacterial cells may outnumber human cells inside the human body due to the mass difference you are still like 99% human by mass.
Check my edit but I never said that if you ground a human up you'd have more bacterial cells by mass. You'd have a bucket of water, a large mass of eukaryotic cells, and a half gallon of prokaryotes
And? Your wording is still wrong. Your body is more human than bacteria because of the difference in mass between the cells. You're missing some vital words in your claim.
Looking at your comment history you seem to like pointing out this sort of nitpicky bullshit so I'm stopping it here but I'd suggest you get off your goddamned high horse
It comes from ancient meanings of awe and terror. God was considered awesome but his wrath was awful. He was terrific and his wrath was terrifying. Thus his ability to scare the shit out you was deemed bad and good. Horror doesn't have this because it came to be more recently.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:28:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans are a species of ape. This gets funny when someone describes someone (usually with malicious intent) as being "ape like" because it would be like calling a Lion "cat like".
aakkaa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:32:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Nazis were not socialists. They were not left leaning. Doesn't matter that they had Socialist in their name. In 1934 Hitler had the left wing faction of the party purged (as in murdered).
It takes the force of biting into a baby carrot to chew someone's finger off.
midgaze ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:46:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The chance of getting HIV by having unprotected insertive vaginal intercourse with an infected woman is 1 in 2,500. Add in condoms, and the chances go down further, by a lot.
It's nearly impossible to get HIV unless you have sex with men who have sex with men, or use IV drugs.
j-shonk ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:39:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wow, you are extremely clueless, misinformed and naive, you should educate yourself on this subject before expressing any opinions publicly.
HIV is transmitted through infected bodily fluids (primarily blood) so maybe your adolescent pencil dick has never made a woman bleed during sex, but the rest of us have .
, and BTW add in condoms and the chances go way down no matter who you are having sex with
midgaze ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:12:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
j-shonk ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 11:12:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the only numbskull I see is you, and if you are interested in this sort of thing why dont you check some HIV awareness sights rather than outdated goverment stats which are ALWAYS wrong.
your ignorant stats come from simply counting the number of people who came forward after contracting HIV vaginally compared to the number of people who came forward after contracting HIV after having gay sex, DUH .
if you have unprotected vaginal sex with a woman who has HIV your chances of contracting HIV are EXACTLY the SAME as they are having sex with a gay man who has HIV, infected blood has no sexual orientation ! .
catch a clue fool
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:51:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reno, NV is further west than Los Angeles, California.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mount Everest while being the highest mountain in the world, is not the tallest mountain in the world. The tallest mountain is actually Mauna Kea, which rises 33,600 feet from base to summit. The catch is that the first 20,000 feet of it is underwater. And neither mountains are the farthest point from the Earth's center. That honor goes to Chimborazo in Ecuador. Because of the Earth's equatorial bulge, the summit of Chimborazo is actually 2km further away from the core than the summit of Everest.
82Caff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An American can travel to England without leaving the continental United States.
If someone can't breathe, sometimes you just need to slice open the front of their neck and jam a bic pen in there (with the inky part removed, of course).
Entinu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:39:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not even a little wrong and it's called a tracheotomy.
If they are 99% water, it means 99 pounds of water and 1 pound potato. If it is 98%, and the 1 pound potatos are the same, you need 49 pounds of water for it to be 98%.
soliss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Axl Rose has a higher vocal range than Freddy Mercury, Mariah Carey and basically all other singers, because he has the highest vocal range of any frontman. Too bad his voice sounds like shit (CONTROVERSIAL UNPOPULAR OPINION)
since you sound hysterical, I'm going to assume you have between 1.0 and 1.2 legs. I don't think you would be this sensitive if you had 1.9 legs or more.
Seriin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:58:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"My boss wanted to talk to Martha and me."
Despite what a lot of people are taught early on, "and I" is used when it is the subject. When it is the object of the sentence, "and me" is technically correct.
I remember being so resistant when I first learned about this. The trick that helped me "relearn" this grammar rule in the proper way was to remove one of the pronouns in the sentence: "My boss wanted to talk to me." You wouldn't say, "My boss wanted to talk to I." After I learned this trick, the correct way didn't sound quite as foreign to me.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:28:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always heard if you could remove the 3rd party and the sentence still sound correct, it was the proper form. You wouldn't say "My boss wanted to talk to I"
unprotected sex via the pullout method is almost exactly as effective as using a condom in terms of preventing pregnancy. Every time I post this on reddit I get down voted to shit from people so sure they're right they don't even bother to check and find out I'm actually telling the truth.
The downvotes have already started. When it comes down to it, condoms being used perfectly is more difficult than most people know - "perfect use" includes proper storage, lubrication, pinching the reservoir as you roll it on, etc, hence why average use failure rate is not that much safer than coitus interruptus. I'm not saying you shouldn't use condoms, just that they are more for disease protection than pregnancy protection.
Gramage ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:25:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only when buffalo from Buffalo get pushy with other buffalo from Buffalo. Aaaand now I've typed that word too many times and it looks like I spelled it wrong.
amagas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:45:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The last execution by guillotine in France was in 1977.
"Buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo." Is a correct sentence which means "Buffalo from Buffalo will buffalo(meaning to bully) other buffalo from Buffalo."
Degru ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your explanation is the only one I've actually understood.
Monty Hall was the host of the TV game show, Let's Make A Deal.
The premise of the show was that a player had to pick 1 of 3 doors, behind one of which was a prize.
The Problem was/is, after selecting a door, Monty would open one of the remaining two doors that didn't have a prize behind it, and ask the player if they wanted to stick with their first choice, or switch their choice to the other remaining closed door.
The odds of winning are better if the player switches to the other door.
The US is older than the UK, and is in fact one of the oldest countries in the world.
Now, this requires some explanation. The 'oldest' is poorly defined, and there are several ways you could do it. By border, but borders change all the time. By constant culture, but culture too shifts and also if a country is conquered but maintains its culture that shouldn't count. So, arguably, the best yardstick for age of a nation is duration of government. Britain had fairly substantial restructuring of their government not too long ago, which makes them only about a hundred years old. The US on the other hand has had very little change since the 1700s
In the past, inflammable meant "able to be inflamed" and uninflammable or unflammable meant "not inflammable," but nowadays most of the world uses flammable and inflammable to mean "able tk be set aflame" and "not flammable."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:12:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:13:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Are there any downsides to this? If it makes my laptop faster I could REALLY use that!'
Edit: That's actually bullshit, because system32 contains... well, your entire operating system. Besides, you can't delete system32 because a popup shows up saying you can't as a safety measure to make sure you don't delete Windows by accident.
That's fine but it seriously is an old 4chan troll/joke. Someone asks for computer help and then some asshat pretends to be helping you out only to discover that you just deleted the OS from your computer. 4chan really is the cesspool of the internet.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:49:32 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think Windows allows you to delete system32 anyways, because system32 contains the procedures to delete things in the first place.
In other words, you're deleting the thing that's doing the deleting.
Actually I have deleted that file before on an old pc but I do believe that newer versions of Windows, like anything above 95, has that feature built in. Again it started as a JOKE on 4chan. People seem to keep missing that part.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:40:39 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know that it's a joke, I just mentioned why you can't delete it.
Knowing that it's 4chan, it's no surprise that it's where the joke originated.
If someone asks you to take a look at three doors, tells you there is a goat behind two of them, a car behind one and asks you to pick. After picking one they open one of the other doors to reveal a goat. Always switch your choice of doors! Your odds go from 1/3 to 1/2 only if you switch at this point. This is called the Monty Hall problem.
You can find a lot of videos explaining this. It's actually wrongly described above it goes to 2/3z Think of it this way. Switching always gives you a win unless you choose correctly to begin with, which was a 1/3 chance so 2/3.
You could also change this to 100 doors, you pick one, Monty Hall opens up 98 wrong ones. Which do you think is more probable, you choose the correct one initially or he left the correct one unopened?
We faked a fkn moon landing. Anyone can land on the moon, but to pretend you did it and get everyone to STFU about it, that takes fkn skill --Bill Burr
I think he's talking about the center of gravity? The center of gravity of certain objects can be located outside the objects themselves. That's the only center I can think of
it's an analysis that could be true, but is uncertain because it's a "soft science"
if I say unemployment will rise in 2016, is that an opinion or a fact? (it's a fact)
now if I say "unemployment is bad" that's an opinion
we all know that /u/PKKer probably posted this with a political bias but still, it's not an opinion nor a true fact either
edit: adding this quote from wikipedia, because people aren't believing me
In economics, other social sciences and philosophy, analysis of social phenomena based on one's own opinion(s) is referred to as normative analysis (what ought to be), as opposed to positive analysis, which is based on scientific observation (what materially is or is empirically demonstrable).
I was watching the Kelly File (I know) the other day and they had this Black Lives Matters representative that was promoting these protests at Trump rallies. He was convinced that trump was racist and accused Trump of saying things like, "Let's make America white again!" Thankfully Kelly challenged on that by asking for a source and he didn't have one. I just thought it was interesting that someone probably told him that and he just flat out believed it. Look, I don't like Trump either but it always annoys me when people make up things about him. If you want a credible argument, don't make shit up.
Szygani ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:22:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Be he does promote violence against people who don't share his views, which is still pretty damn bad.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:28:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Citation needed
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:49:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:54:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Link me a video of a rally where trump is encouraging violence against people who don't share his views instead of the "LOL GO EDUCATE YOURSELF SHITLORD" bullshit.
EDIT: Oh and it better be him encouraging actual violence and not the bullshit kind of "violence" feminists and BLM are pushing.
I don't think Trump personally is a racist. I think he's someone who's so self-centered that he will do or say anything to magnify himself. And he realizes that right now, racism sells. That's actually worse, in my opinion, than having a genuine mistaken belief that one race is better than another.
The proper, or at least "common" method of pronouncing the plural of words like octopus or cactus is:
octopuses
cactuses
Same for focuses, platypuses, and lots of other words that "i" is used to pluralize a lot of the time. Using "i" just doesn't match the consistency of words in the English language and doesn't look good. As someone learning German, I'm eternally grateful to our plural rules: don't change it, or add s for non-s and es for -s ending words.
German? Quite literally just do anything you want. Make the first letter an accent. Or the second. Or add an -en.
Oh, and the proper way to form a singular possessive of a last name that ends with an s is as follows:
Jesus's
James's
and it's pronounced "Jesuses" or "Jameses", so you just add an 's like usual and pronounce it as if it's an -es.
hicow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:55:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For names ending in S, both are considered grammatically correct in English, James' or James's
Both are correct, yes, but both fulfill different roles. The problem I have is when people use them interchangeably or incorrectly say that one way is correct for both.
The plural possessive is James' while the singular possessive is James's. So, here's a few examples:
I am going to James' house. (I am going to the house of the James family)
I am going to James's house. (I am going to the house [owned] by James)
James' implies multiple "James", or more often the entire James family, possesses a particular thing. James's implies singular possession. That means one James possesses a particular thing.
It's focuses more often and "foci" is not math/science specific and is not more common/correct.
Focuses is used the same in math and sciences. The plural of "focus" is just more commonly seen in math and science due to orbit and ellipses and other things. So in those places you see foci used more often.
I'll admit it's a shorter way to right it, but typically not used often enough to justify that shortened form. Maybe if you've got a mathematical/scientific theory relating to focuses? Otherwise no.
Same here, but it's properly, or at least the common way of using it would, be focuses.
Foci, like octupi, has no real etymological history outside of some English speakers randomly using the i to pluralize some words. That can count as "etymological history", but it's illegitimate and can't be counted as correct. Much like octupi, foci probably stuck instead of being changed to focuses because focuses are talked about a lot in geometry. The more common usage means they're less likely to change.
It's not really incorrect by some counts because of how overused it actually is. By my count, I'd say it's entirely incorrect since it's a Latin pluralization used on whatever word people want to, Greek or Latin or other languages of origin.
Where in my comment am I making a statement that isn't a fact?
Sure, you can do both, but using the "i" method doesn't make sense or etymological sense, so shouldn't be used. Is that method accepted? In any context, sure. Is it very correct, in any context? Not really.
(Includes math and science; they've just used it more.)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:29:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fluent in german. Can confirm your overall point. There are a fuck ton of different ways to pluralize things.
The English plural of cactus is cactuses. The plural of cactus, in Latin, is cacti... But the word itself has Greek origins. To give it a Latin pluralization is just not very correct, and in the very least, makes no sense.
That being said, don't take what I'm saying for shit. There's this:
I know. It sounds extremely wrong, but it is correct.
Here. These guys explain it far better than I ever could
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Gramage ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:39:08 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll be damned. I like the term "mathematical hocus pocus", and it does seem like that, but... damn. It's a credit to the human mind that people can figure that out. I'm gonna cry myself to sleep and question reality now.
The physics explication is that if you center your coordinate axis on the Earth, the path the Sun takes is a circular one around the Earth. This Frame of reference is just as valid as one where the Sun is the reference. The galactic center is also a valid point as well.
Which is the exact reason why terms like "orbit" exist. It is valid to say that the Sun circles the Earth while it is incorrect to say that the Sun orbits the Earth.
Gullex ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:59:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That seems like a kind of silly idea. If I spin in a circle and watch a tree in the distance, the tree isn't circling me. I suppose you could make some kind of semantic argument for it but it's pretty meaningless.
Snote85 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:25:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That if I agreed to work for you for one month. On the first day, you paid me $0.01 on the second $0.02 on the third $0.04 and so on. Doubling each day. That on the 30th day you would have paid me over $9 million.
I have had people VEHEMENTLY agrue that I was wrong/stupid/lying/terrible at math/making shit up. I mean, like red in the face angry. I don't know what it is about that one particular math riddle that makes people so upset. It just seems so far off from reality that people refuse to accept that they are unable to follow such a simple series of multiplication, that they would rather yell at me, than just calculate the answer.
Trust me, it's not me being a dick about about it, or even just me. I don't know what it is, but ever since I heard it on "The Happening" I have asked people that question and have about a 1 in 3 chance of having someone act like a complete asshole when I give them the answer. Which, I guess, is why I keep asking people. It's just such a weird reaction, that I am intrigued enough by it, to want a larger sample size.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:49:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or, you know, you could have just used a geometric sequence calculator, f(n)=f(n-1)*2. n=30. 5368709.12 paid on the 30th day and the sum is as you said.
Oh one of those irrational atheist idiots. I wonder when they will be gone.
GK_Gats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:45:58 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being brainwashed during your childhood doesn't allow you to insult me. And using the word irrational knowing that you believe in an invisible guy who created the world is really laughable.
Being an atheist is just as irrational as being religious because there is no proof either way, so being proud of being an atheist because you believe it is more rational than being religious is extremely irrational.
Then shouldn't that just be "you can't drive from North America to South america"? Plus I'm pretty sure you can drive over the Panama Canal or take a ferry.
The irrational number e to the power of the irrational and imaginary numbers pi and i is equal to exactly negative one. Two irrational and one imaginary number can became a rational and real number.
non US person here, why does that sound extremely wrong?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:53:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Las Vegas is further west than Los Angeles.
Bob Feller (former baseball player and pitcher, also a member of the Hall of Fame) once threw a pitch 107.6mph and could throw fast enough that the ball would beat a motorcycle going 55mph to a target 100 yards away, (the motorcycle got a 50yd headstart)
Rickey Henderson could run 20mph, and as a result stole over 1,000 bases in his MLB career, 50% more than the 2nd place player. He also walked to leadoff an inning 768 times, more than 56 other Hall of Fame members walked leading off, combined!
There are three doors. Behind one is a million dollars. You pick one door. The host reveals one of the two remaining doors as empty. He then offers you to switch your door to the one you didn't choose (that remains unopened).
Mathematically, you should switch. Mind still blows each time I read about it.
Yeah, an ounce is an ounce. They're both the same weight measurement.
But gold is heavier than lead, however, with lead being about 11.36 g/cm3 and gold being 19.32 g/cm3.
fungol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:41:31 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
... And? A Troy ounce is just another weight measurement, so unless you're saying an ounce of gold is in Troy ounces and lead is a normal avoirdupois ounce of something, an ounce is an ounce, if they're both the same type of ounce, yes? Or am I missing something here?
fungol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:09:56 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you buy gold, they sell them by troy ounces. My initial wording was specific for that reason.
With out the Nazi rageam humanity and their lust for advantages over their enemy's humanity and many areas of science would be far behind where we are now. So in effect with the great loss of life from nazi slaughter and experimentation more people would be dead now days from the lack of knowledge.
With out the Nazi rageam humanity and their lust for advantages over their enemy's humanity and many areas of science would be far behind where we are now. So in effect with the great loss of life from nazi slaughter and experimentation more people would be dead now days from the lack of knowledge.
LinoaB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:58:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope
kblaney ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:06:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A sphere can be divided into several parts, then those parts can be broken up and reassembled into 2 spheres each with volume equal to the original sphere.
Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?
Very interestingly, switching doors gets you a 67% chance to get a car, and staying gets you a 33% chance.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:30:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Gaelyyn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:00:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, it's neither. Officially 12:00am and 12:00pm don't exist, they are properly called Midnight and Noon. But taking your point at face value, 11:59:59pm is today and Midnight is tomorrow, assuming you're talking about a time that hasn't happened yet.
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Gaelyyn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:22:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The problem is that you're slightly mistaken in your counting. In time you start with 0. Midnight (the first number you count) is 12:00:00, count 10 seconds from that and you're at 12:00:09.
In this way, with 12:00:00 as the first second of today, and 11:59:59 as the last second of today, you do end up with 24 hours.
The Monty Hall problem it presents a scenario on a game show, where there are 3 doors, and only 1 has a prize behind it. The contestant selects a door, then the host will reveal one of the two remaining doors, showing no prize behind it. The contestant is given the option to change to the last door, or keep their original choice. It's non-intuitive, but staying with the door you select has a 1 in 3 chance of getting a prize (33%), but if you change, that last door has 1 in 2 chance of being a prize (50%).
It's not big government if it's forcing morality on everyone! Big government only means to make you pay more taxes, unless that tax increase is for an increase in military spending.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:53:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most historical 'slavery' was more akin to modern employment than non consensual imprisonment. They were generally provided with housing, protection, clothing and food, and at the end of their term they would often end up with their own riches, in the form of livestock and lands.
tubbana ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:54:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Since I learned that birds are dinosaurs, I've never been able to look them the same way
The Monty Hall problem. Suppose I present you with three closed doors. Behind one of them is a car, the other two each are empty (in the original game show it was a goat behind the other doors). You pick a door and then the host, who knows what is behind which doors, takes away one of the doors with a goat. So if you picked door number one the host might say "Okay, behind door number three is a goat." Then you get the opportunity to switch to door number 2 or stay with door number one.
There is a 66% chance that the car is behind door number 2, meaning your odds of getting the car double by switching to the other door.
fesrtyz ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:37:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
euthanasia
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:45:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
_BsL_ ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:19:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the most difficult thing NASA encounters on its space en devours is not the space travel at all, but the 100km from ground level to the upper atmosphere.
All planets can fit in between the earth and the moon.
CptLou ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:29:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
To say that whales are fish is not incorrect.
There are no (see edit) definitions of "fish" that makes it impossible to include whales in it.
If you for example say that fish don't have lungs, you're wrong - there are species of lung fish.
Edit: /u/WeaklyInteracting corrected me, but see my comments below, because I do not take back that whales should belong to the category "fish" in everyday conversation
The definition of a fish is not "not having lungs". There is unsurprisingly a definition of fish that includes all species of fish and doesn't include whales. It is literally the first sentence of the wikipedia entry for fish.
CptLou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:52:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're right, there is a definition.
But! Different people define things differently. The laymans definition of a fish, i promise you, does not include " member of a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic craniateย animals that lack limbs with digits." As i said, there are species of lungfish that defy this definition. The truth is that true definitions are hard to come by. Even the definition of "life" and "species" are still controversial.
And to return to the point about the layman's use of a term - isn't it so that our use of a word determines its meaning? Take the word "literally". People use it differently than its original meaning. The same thing is true about the word "fish".
There are no definitions of "fish" that makes it impossible to include whales in it.
Emphasis mine, There exists at least one definition of the word fish that makes it impossible to include whales in it (for a specific definition of whale). The definition "fish are everything that isn't a whale" also works. Now you can certainly come up with a definition of fish that includes whales or teapots or anything you like but that's true for anything and has nothing to do with fish or whales.
The layman's definition of fish almost certainly doesn't include whales since if you ask most people they will tell you whales are not fish.
CptLou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:16:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, my initial comment was flawed.
Definitions only work if you can't come up with a counter-example, and the lungfish is a counter-example to the layman's definition, therefore I say there's nothing wrong with including whales in the category "fish", when speaking casually.
The layman's definition of fish certainly doesn't include whales. If it also doesn't include lungfish then that is problem for the lungfish or the layman.
Surely the fact that whales aren't fish is a counter-example to your definition of fish as much as the lungfish having lungs is a problem to the definition of fish not having lungs?
CptLou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:49:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Since anyone (except maybe a marine biologist) would say "yes, that's a fish", after looking at a picture of a lungfish, then lungfish is included in their definition.
Another example is this; If you tell someone to write down as many insects as they an in 30 seconds, chances are that they will include centipedes, ticks and spiders, while none of these are insects.
There are a lot of literature about this sort of thing. All of these examples talk about problems of conceptual categorization; here, here and here
Experimentation and mathematical analysis have shown that a bike stays upright when it is steered to keep its center of mass over its wheels.
While remaining upright may be the primary goal of beginning riders, a bike must lean in order to maintain balance in a turn:
This balances the roll torque about the wheel contact patches generated by centrifugal force due to the turn with that of the gravitational force. This lean is usually produced by a momentary steering in the opposite direction, called countersteering.
It is also why you can still steer the motorbike when you are doing a wheelie (the front wheel off the ground!).
krepkee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:02:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Think of it as falling into the turn.
Sabanic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:05:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I masturbate....with my sinister hand,vi mean left hand
Sophira ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:41:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The word ''piss', meaning 'urine', is old enough to have been used in the King James Version of the Bible (that's the one with all the "thee"s and "thou"s). See, for example, Isaiah 36:12.
I had always thought that the word was relatively recent (as in, the last few hundred years max) slang.
spankx ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:47:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yurei2 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:21:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is no such thing as a "Gravitational Force". Instead, it's more accurate to think of a dropped object as stationary, and the ground accelerates upwards towards it. #physics #GeneralRelativity
za419 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:26:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Technically, both objects fall towards each other. It's rare in relativity for there to be a correct frame of reference, just more useful and less useful ones. Relativity says that, if you drop a book, it's impossible to say if the book is moving and the earth staying still, or the other way around, or both, because it all depends on which frame of reference one chooses to look at it from. From the book's point of view, the earth moves to meet it, from the earth's perspective the book moves to it, and the stars see both move to meet in the middle.
Also, since when do we use hashtags on Reddit? Is this a thing? Why does no one tell me things?
Yurei2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:31:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hashtags have become a general "internet" thing. Like lolspeak.
As for the rest of your post, yeah! Your absolutely right. But the point here was to state something that seems wrong, but isn't so I left that out.
Of course, from spacetime's POV, the book, the earth, and everything, is at every possible state it will ever be in in every possible location it will ever be in all at the same time... SO maybe I shoulda led with that one.
The grammar weirdo in me took over when I saw this. I immediately thought of, when answering the phone it is correct to say "Yes, this is he/she." It just feels weird to say out loud every time.
darkhorn ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:17:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It's considered to be European even if it is right on the 'border' (there isn't really much of a border, it's mostly just semantics) however culturally it's much closer to European than it is Asian, Cypriots tend to consider themselves European (from what I know) and geography is a funny thing that can't be trusted since countries like Turkey and Russia are both simultaneously in Europe and Asia.
It's surrounded on three sides by the Great Lakes, plus the UP adds even more coastline. Also, Michigan is a lot bigger than people who aren't from here realize.
how does the science behind that fit? I mean, if "me" is defined by everything that is biologically part of my being, i'd be touching something per definition as soon as my surface makes contact with a foreign object
yaavsp ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:58:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On an atomic level it is practically impossible for you to touch something else. Straightforward article. This is probably the least incredible thing in quantum physics.
You're wrong, I'm afraid. As below, it's a vowel sound, so unless we should be pronouncing the H, an is correct.
ricdesi ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:26:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you took a deck of cards at the birth of Planet Earth and counted off one unique arrangement of it every second until the sun exploded, you would need to find a new planet and repeat the process 240,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times to expend all unique combinations.
As a European reading these comments, something that stands out the most is how amazed Americans seem to be at where their own country and its states are located.
Sherbet. I feel it should be sherbert, but supposedly its sherbet. it sounds so wrong!
Birthez ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:16:52 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you want a road to be used most effectively, you should have the speed-limit at around 35 mph. That is the speed that cars will be able to pass through at the highest rate.
Nicaol ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:19:18 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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j-shonk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:22:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this is like the ice bucket challenge for you guys, it makes no sense what so ever and it wont actually help anybody with ALS but it sounds nice and all your friends are doing it SO by god you will to.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Before or after they get done licking their own butthole?
Nymbra ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:00:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And eating cat shit.
Troppin ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 00:15:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And licking peanut butter off my balls.
Troppin ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 00:14:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This is untrue. A bite (that breaks the skin) from a dog is less likely to become infected than a bite from a human. The reason is because dog's teeth are sharp, causing a clean cut. Human's teeth create a jagged wound, that will more often become infected.
A cut from a scalpel will heal better than a rough tear.
Either i didnt read that right or im confused. A dogs bite can get infected easier that a humans because it has sharp teeth but humans teeth are more jagged and causes infection easier? Which one is it?
Troppin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:38:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, knowing "your" from "you're" is a hazy knowledge. Why would I take "look how smart I am" advice from someone with such poor capitalization and punctuation?
because that someone managed to learn a foreign language to a degree that he can hold a conversation with you ;)
i somehow doubt that the same is true for you. more importantly you somehow believe that distinguishing your from you're gives you any authority talking about general linguistic topics.
like i said, strong opinions, sadly also very uninformed.
Obama not only one of the Nations worst president's after his first election, America sent him back into office for a second term. Only to lead to him further destroying the wealth this country was rebounding into. America has a lot of political pundits who think sending bernie a socialist or hillary the fascist would be a better move than anything the republicans have. Donald Trump has entered the ring and will now lay down the law and make america great again.
That "God" does not exist outside. The three soinds G-O-D does not have a reference object. It is empty and meaningless - everyone imagines soemthing else. But the concept is useful : we do need some fantasy about where is the boundary of our own self. Unfortunately this word is useless for it. The original One-God concept Yehowe DOES have asimple meaning: it is Ever-Being or Futurator. (Haya means WAs hove means Being and Yehi means Will-be hence it is the active future form of the verb to be to exist - and hance it is correct to translate Ye-Hoveh as Creator or Maker.) It is crucial for each of us to see this meaninglessness issue. Maybe to express this we should use the translation in a meaningless form like Yeah-How-We...To suggest that it should be meaningful. (It also needs to be known that Ye-Shua the original name of "Jesus" is the Future form of shua meaning Pull-Out /=referring to the pulling-out-from the grasp of death: Saviour is the translation/
I would be so happy if people stopped parroting this flat out lie. The sum of all positive integers is divergent, it just gets bigger and bigger. The value of -1/12 arises when you use a very different summation method.
Morthra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:54:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The value of -1/12 arises when you use a very different summation method.
It shouldn't matter which method you use, because the end result is that they should be equivalent. The number is impossibly big if you are evaluating the sum from i=1 to x of all values n and x is a finite value.
You may be thinking of the sum of all positive numbers, which is divergent, but the infinite sum of 1+2+3+4+5+6... is not.
Wow, I didn't know Timothy McVey was Muslim... He must not have really blown up the federal building in Oklahoma city, it was all fake .. Like the moon landing? (This is all sarcasm and you're a fucking idiot)
There are more possible combinations in a 52 card deck than there are stars in the observable universe. In fact even if you cube the number of stars it still isn't as much.
Edit: Apparently this is so unbelievable that people didn't believe it. For reference, the number of card deck combinations is 52! or 52x51x50... = 8x1067. The number of stars in the observable universe is approximately 1022, and 1022 cubed is 1066.
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chaaPow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:34:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Keep in mind that simulations and holograms are not the same thing, not even close. There are a growing number of evidence that our universe could be a hologram of a sort, where the information contained within the 'universe bubble/sphere' can be described using just the surface area of that same sphere. BUT there are no evidence or testable theories about a simulated universe whatsoever, which doesn't disprove it, but it also doesn't make it a correct statement, or a fact.
Ryferg ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 14:43:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I petted my dog.
tksdks ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 14:43:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The "Black Lives Matter" movement doesn't care about black lives. Hard to believe I know, but if they did wouldn't they be protesting where all the black people are killing each other rather than blocking roadways.
They're a movement particularly motivated to address police brutality against blacks. Blacks have significantly higher incarceration rates, significantly higher police brutality reports, and are disadvantaged in many ways by the criminal justice system. I am going into law enforcement, I'm halfway through my degree in criminal justice, let me assure you there is a real need for this to be addressed. I am not a fan of the BLM, but despite my differing of opinion on how to deal with the issues I think it's an unfair characterization to say they don't care about black lives.
Not a bad question, I'm sincerely glad you asked. There have been many different people who asked that question and this is what they found:
โWhite Americans overestimate the proportion of crime committed by people of color and associate people of color with criminality. For example, white respondents in a 2010 survey overestimated the actual share of burglaries, illegal drug sales and juvenile crime committed by African-Americans by 20 percent to 30 percent.โ New York Times
โThe standard assumption that criminals are black and blacks are criminals is so prevalent that in one study, 60 percent of viewers who viewed a crime story with no picture of the perpetrator falsely recalled seeing one, and of those, 70 percent believed he was African-American..." (Same NYT article as above).
It is impossible to use the numbers of the Criminal Justice System to determine whether the Criminal Justice System is bias against black people because it's essentially going to show that blacks are more criminal by default. Black males have a 1 in 6 chance of being incarcerated in their lifetime, and white males have a 1 in 17 (I believe). However in my own research I've found that poverty has a lot more to do with criminality than skin color. Source
Of course it's easier to blame something biological, however in this case I have done enough research โand would be happy to provide many many more sources, I just googled nyt for the most part. I have a number of good scholarly articles I'd be happy to send your wayโ to conclude that skin color is not something that makes you more violent. I write this as a white woman who has a 1 in 111 chance of being incarcerated for a crime in my lifetime. The Criminal Justice System is stacked, look up "Stop and frisk" laws (many of which target blacks), or poverty rates and crime in Europe in the 1930s. When poverty rates rise, crime rises too. Crime is a sign of desperation, I encourage you to do some research into more homogeneous countries (especially European countries).
Cocainus ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 00:49:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any number other than zero multiplied by zero
I have 67 peanut butter cups let's multiply that by nothing...now I have nothing? 0 = Black Hole
So you are saying that Dwight D.Eisenhower - the President who warned of the increasing power of the military-industrial complex -was more in Wall Street's pocket than Hillary is? Seems impossible to believe. I don't.
euming ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:20:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being in Wall Street's pocket is an opinion. That is your opinion based on whatever political bias you have developed from media exposure. You do not have a similar opinion developed about Eisenhower.
Your opinion about her foreign policy is also largely formed from her experience as Sec. of State under Obama. Note that she was carrying out the policy of her Commander in Chief and not necessarily her own policy. If there lies fault there, then the fault lies with the ones to shape policy, not Clinton.
Do we say that Powell initiated the Iraq War? Is he in the pocket of Wall Street because of the Bush Administration. Perhaps. However, that is not the prevailing narrative we hear about him. Yet, it is for HRC. This is a double standard that is typical of the kind of spin media puts on HRC.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:49:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She's not even the least corrupt American politician running NOW, let alone ever.
In the US, there are more museums than McDonalds and Starbucks combined.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:50:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eugenics was invented and first practised in Great Britain and the United States. American eugenics programs were the inspiration for the eugenics programs of Nazi Germany. 'Murica!
ew2x4 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:13:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eugenics was practiced far before the formation of Britain and the USA. Look no further than ancient Greece.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:16:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fine. Eugenics was rediscovered in the US and UK, and these countries were the first to practice it in the modern era.
ew2x4 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:21:16 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Feminism is what has caused the degeneration of our culture. At the core of our culture, the reason for our youth not wanting to work, dishonest political correctness, transgenderism and promoting gay culture is all because of the influence of feminism. This feminism was pushed by the Russian KGB during the cold war to subvert American culture and to weaken their nation.
I thought because there are children that visit this site, the 7 words you cannot say on Television SPFCCMT would also apply here. But then children probably know all those words by the time they get out of kindergarten.
That Islam is actually a religon of peace, and is completely misrepresented by the media. There was interesting video that I saw where two German guys covered a Bible as the Quran and read verses of the bibile to people. Interesting watch. Plus I think by know most people would know this but alas, we live in a world where many are misinformed.
This is because the Bible isn't a book. Rather it's a collection of 66 books written at different times by different people in different circumstances, unlike the Quran. It is the manner in which they came to be that makes them dramatically different types of literature.
[deleted] ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 08:11:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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panzerkampfwagen ยท 5565 points ยท Posted at 04:17:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More people drown in deserts than die of dehydration.
sweadle ยท 1071 points ยท Posted at 04:25:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How?
panzerkampfwagen ยท 2992 points ยท Posted at 04:26:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flooding. When it floods in deserts the floods tend to be fucking massive due to the lack of drainage.
_coyotes_ ยท 399 points ยท Posted at 05:30:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look at videos of flash floods too, shit is fucked.
WordBoxLLC ยท 419 points ยท Posted at 12:52:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yCnQuILmsM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FXvgO-i0xA
^ It looks like they crossed the flood in that car... idk how they would even manage.
Flashflood in a small canyon... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj7WnkgjhM0
ivo09 ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 14:39:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I never contemplated someone drowning in the desert until I saw this.
ep1939 ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 15:07:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't imagine canyons as deserts.
They most certainly are, but I was imaging sahara or gobi.
ivo09 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 15:10:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea me too. I usually image the sandy dunes of Sahara. But this wowed me, you don't really image a 'desert' flooding.
ShortestTallGuy ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 14:55:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That first video where the guy is running in front of the flood and looking behind him, all I could think was: what if he tripped? He'd just straight up die surely?
I_AM_VERY_SMRT ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 16:19:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah exactly. The weight of being hit by that wave of debris would be like getting a dump truck load full of wet lumber and goopy sand poured on you.
If you even survived the initial wave, surely you'd have broken ribs etc and would have trouble swimming to the side after you got your head above water.
feelosofee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:29:28 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you kidding me? That's just some water carrying little branches and a very few slightly larger pieces of wood!!
Iamhereforcats ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:21:48 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I came to make the same comments, those fkin pussies /s
feelosofee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:45:24 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
upvote me then
uniptf ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:55:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't call me Shirley.
WordBoxLLC ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:04:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not important right now.
Heshahakmel ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 14:45:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the first video the debris looks like soggy coco pebbles in milk.
Sipas ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 16:08:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The first video... That wouldn't drown you, that would grind you to death.
andtheniansaid ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 14:56:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that last one looks pretty fun...
alboduck ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:05:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I loved how the kids seemed mor excited than scared. What an experience!
noksky ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 15:28:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Um isn't that small canyon flood video really dangerous? Massive amounts of water could have came speeding through those walls taking them with it and mashing them against the walls for miles... Stupid
wandering_ones ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 18:41:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It definitely seemed like the adults in that one were far more worried about maybe dying or getting hurt than the kids, who were like this is great nothing bad could happen because it hasn't happened.
Invisibones ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:33:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm thankful for Maes Hughes educating me on flooding in the desert in the first video. I guess the path of the travelling water is always the same as it looks like it has actually wore down a little valley after some time. I wonder where it all ends, just slowing down until it stops completely and evaporates or seeps into the ground? Does it pool up somewhere?
WordBoxLLC ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:49:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Face it, you're useless in the rain.
fireork12 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:53:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WOULD YOU LIKE TO FORD THE RIVER?
WordBoxLLC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:03:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To shreds you say?
Gl0we ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:41:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this ones pretty scary - https://youtu.be/wj7WnkgjhM0
WordBoxLLC ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:40:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aye. Spent the whole video wondering if they knew what danger they were potentially in and whether this footage was found lol
peanutismint ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:30:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This was incredible! Thanks for sharing!
WordBoxLLC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:55:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No problem, was curious myself.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:52:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like that guys smile and excessive eyebrow range after he runs after the flood.
GoldfishAvenger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:56:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
After seeing this its easy to see how landmasses, mountains, and the general landscape can change so fast.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:26:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Must be how ants feel.
roxasx12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:39:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn I bet tobogganing on that sand wave would be pretty fun
feelosofee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:42 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The canyon vid wins the prize for the most boring video ever. It's ok to make a couple of mins footage, but 6-7 minutes of left, right, water, left, right, water..... Some goproers should just learn to cut their videos...
Schnobbevom ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 10:52:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ikr. I spent my last Sunday watching flash flood videos. They're cool until it happens in a canyon.
joeJohn_electric ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 11:10:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like a nice little Sunday.
ititsi ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 13:02:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This Sunday: Pyroclastic Flows!
ryannayr140 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 12:07:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thout must provide links for the lazy.
SG553-is-BAD ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:22:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aye, thou shalt.
ititsi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:04:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maketh it so. Upon screen!
ianuilliam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:27:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We get message. Main screen turn on!
LaddyPup ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:42:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everybody knows shit's fucked.
bigsquid69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:10:34 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shit is fucked, trailer park boys taking over
John_YJKR ยท 84 points ยท Posted at 08:59:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was in a flash flood out in the desert once. The storm came on rapidly and within five minutes the water was up to the windows of our jeeps. We barely got out of there.
greenphilly420 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 11:13:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How did you?
QueefChiefKeith ยท 108 points ยท Posted at 11:18:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In a jeep
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 12:16:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Make it go beep beep
c0me_at_me_br0 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:51:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Roadrunner says "Meep meep!"
man-of-God-1023 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:13:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just dont go to sleep sleep
SeniorLimpio ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:26:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or else you're in deep deep..... Shit
imtoonewforthis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:49:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then all your family and loved one will weep weep
dfschmidt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:53:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
or else you're in shit deep deep
FTFY
John_YJKR ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 17:11:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We cross loaded some of the vehicles because they were a lost cause and drove out.
greenphilly420 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:48:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you giving me an actual reply. Love how reddit gives you only 2 up votes but a sarcastic comment got over 100
BillohRly ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 12:30:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAIIIIINAGE. I am a false prophet, god is a superstition.
loptopandbingo ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 13:42:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I. DRINK. YOUR. MILKSHAKE.
BillohRly ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:11:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I DRINK IT UP
Business-Socks ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 11:53:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ground isn't ready for it. It needs a few showers before it's ready for the big show.
Source: I am a tumble weed
brsch57 ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 12:15:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have to get it wet before it can take the pounding.
man-of-God-1023 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:14:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Weirdest boner...
Archer007 ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 11:22:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Also, the fact that desert sand tends to compact to an insane degree as well - the water can't drain through the ground.
moby__dick ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:24:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whatever that insanity might be, it's not bi-polar.
i_hope_i_remember ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:27:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And technically they aren't dehydrated anymore.
simjanes2k ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:54:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would have guessed swimming pools. Civilized deserts (USA, Australia) have a lot of people with houses and pools and stuff.
Nobody dies of dehydration with a 7-11 two blocks down, but your toddler can always fall into the pool.
CamdenCade ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 12:32:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No one in Australia lives in the desert. Like, some people do but only about 20 or so.
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 12:39:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 12:50:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but that whole dingo situation... Bad day. Bad day.
BlindfoldedNinja ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:01:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The dingoes weren't complaining.
loptopandbingo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:44:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MYBEE THA DEENGOW AYTE YOH BAYBEE
CamdenCade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:23:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aww, good for them.
Poromenos ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:13:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Caution. Dehydration takes a while to set in, so most people aren't dumb enough to get caught for days in the desert without water.
Nerdn1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, most people who live in a desert have figured out the water issue. That is pretty much rule one. Sure, if you're an idiot and/or extremely unlucky, you could get stranded in the desert, away from civilization, but it's rare.
WHYAREWEALLCAPS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:46:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And not just in the actual desert, even in the cities. I moved from an area that routinely got hit by huge storms and the occasional hurricane to Phoenix. First sorta big rain storm that happened when i was there left ponds in many parking lots and on some roads. I was flabbergasted at the lack of drainage, but why spend the money on it when it's something that only happens occasionally.
Jaker1120 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:50:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It took me a while to realize that you said deserts and not desserts.
innocuousremark ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:19:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why wouldn't there be drainage? Sand drains really well.
darwin2500 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:22:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that most of the fatalities, or is it mostly just people who live in a desert (like, the majority of Nevada, California, etc) and own swimming pools?
KYLYKaHYT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:37:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also swimming in irrigation canals and reservoirs.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:48:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the lack of footing.
miles37 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:49:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That seems strange since sandy soil drains well compared to clay/loam.
call_me_watson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:12:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Monsoon season is crazy. You can get a foot of water in a mater of hours. The town I was in, a Vegas tour bus was lifted and floated down stream.
MasterTacticianAlba ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:23:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't imagine deserts to be very prone to flooding.
git ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:34:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DRAAAAAAAAAINNNNAAAAAAGGGGEEEEE
SlashBolt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:07:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can't they just like, swim to the top?
thatonecableguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:23:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was on a trip with a Jeep group in Moab, UT last year and we got caught in a flash flood. The 3" deep stream turned into a 4' deep raging river in the matter of a minute. Stranded us for a good 3-4 hours until it was calm enough for us to pass through.
TedTheViking ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:33:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I live in a desert. Many of the deaths and injuries are from people trying to cross flowing water in their cars. It doesn't take that much water to pick up your car and move it - your tires are filled with air and will basically act like a raft.
Moara7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:54:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, this one didn't make sense to me because I'm African and not American, and we don't really get flash floods in our deserts. I wonder what the global statistics are.
KindaMaybeYeah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:13:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No it's because the soil can't absorb the water, like if you run water over a dry sponge. It doesn't absorb that quickly until it is a little moist.
bergie321 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:17:48 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And people tend to be idiots and drive into flooded areas.
Source: Live in Phoenix.
briibeezieee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:08:45 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Never walk or camp in a wash
kkasket ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:08:28 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even then, isn't it easier to due of hypothermia because of the severe temperature drops at night than dehydration?
ragn4rok234 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:21:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Specifically in Australia
xxxsur ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:45:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
better worry about being kangarooed than drown
EsotericAlphanumeric ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:50:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So... drowned by a kangaroo? No thanks.
notapantsday ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 12:53:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People often set up camp in dry river beds because they can get at least a little bit of shade, protection from wind and sometimes even a little water. If it's raining somewhere far away in the mountains, there can be a flash flood, which can turn a dry river bed into a raging torrent within seconds.
chris3110 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:05:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really unlucky.
bronyarse ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:12:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, Alaska is a desert and when spring comes and the ice melts, many people fall through the sheet ice in to water and subsequently drown. The river under the ice moves so fast, they don't have a chance to scramble out and are dragged under the surface ice.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:12:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, many deserts are the low point for a huge area. So floods are compounded. One minute there's a slight drizzle and the next there is 5 feet of water. The Army has a Proving Ground outside of Yuma, AZ. I was involved in some testing there that had to get cancelled and evacuated because it started raining. An hour after we left the entire area that we had been in was under 6 feet of water. It dissipated quickly, but flash flooding kills quickly, we would have all drowned.
ManualNarwhal ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:03:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If the ground was good at absorbing water then it probably wouldn't be a desert.
EZKTurbo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:59:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All those beautiful Slot Canyons get douched out with flash flooding every time it rains
YeahImJustThatAwesom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:01:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I figured since places like california are considered a desert then that would skew it a bit
PhiIadelphia_Eagles ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:43:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's lying. Deserts have no water.
ChulaK ยท 1284 points ยท Posted at 10:30:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder if it's true for people stranded out in sea too? That more die of dehydration instead of drowning, since it's salt water you can't drink.
ShoggothEyes ยท 89 points ยท Posted at 11:35:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hypothermia is probably most common.
not_a_morning_person ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 12:28:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You lose heat 26 times faster in water. It's the cold that gets you.
khaj ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 13:29:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't die Jack..
mamacrocker ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 13:30:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bitch shoulda shared the board, then!
spitfiremk2 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 14:47:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was totally big enough for two people, she is a murderer.
ovoKOS7 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:25:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They explained a while ago that if they were both on the board, it would sink a bit under water level and they would both have died of hypothermia
jtoeg ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 15:35:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice try Rose.
highweelo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:43:14 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mythbusters tested this and it would've floated if they put rose's life jacket under the board. ;)
Peachykeen9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:11:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll never let go
sarabjorks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:19:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People also tend to forget that the ocean isn't the same temperature as a nice beach creek.
Ubernaught ยท 160 points ยท Posted at 10:55:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe if they survived the initial stranding.
PigHaggerty ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 10:58:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, like in a disabled ship or a lifeboat is what I'm picturing.
fleshtrombone ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 12:15:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you have morbid picturings
PigHaggerty ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 12:33:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha I dunno, I figured the drifting lifeboat was as common a trope as the guy shipwrecked on the tiny island with one palm tree.
stilsjx ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 13:01:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Id imagine that a real life raft would have a beacon. But I just saw an article about a guy who died at sea in his boat and became mumified.
Gramage ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 19:31:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
There was that El Salvadorian (edit: not Mexican) dude who got caught in a storm while fishing and ended up drifting the ocean for 400+ days, survived by catching fish and turtles with his bare hands and eating them raw, and collecting floating plastic bottles to gather rain water. And drank his own piss. One tough mofo.
stilsjx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:36:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds terrible.
Gramage ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:39:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously.
iFINALLYmadeAcomment ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:39:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oddly enough, if we're talking about the guy that had a heart attack and was mummified sitting at a table, that's exactly the visual that came to mind reading this thread.
PigHaggerty ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:08:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Saw that on here a few days ago, I was kind of picturing that as well!
BOOOOOMSHAKALAKA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:23:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Link?
stilsjx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:36:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry about the mobile link. http://m.nydailynews.com/news/world/german-man-mummified-body-found-abandoned-yacht-article-1.2548091
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:59:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then you end up on an island in the South China Sea and spend five years in hell.
moltenshrimp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:55:30 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like to think of it more as purgatory.
dedasdude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:51:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i think if you are out at sea in such a situation you would die of dehydration before you die of starvation. body has a lot of fat storages and in emergency can eat our own muscles to get energy. but water once lost is gone.
Ubernaught ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:15:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It isn't about if you'll starve or dehydrate, just drown or dehydrate.
A_Wizzerd ยท 83 points ยท Posted at 12:33:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oceans are the deserts of the sea.
joyowns ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 12:46:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/kenm
LocalOnThe8s ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:01:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Horse with no name
TastyPinkSock ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:11:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
2deep4me
Hanzowins ยท 55 points ยท Posted at 12:25:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just grab a seagull, snap its neck and drink its blood. If you flash something shiny it resembles the scales of a fish and approach you.
jazavchar ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 12:53:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Boy, you got shit figured out, don't you?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:58:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not grammar, apparently.
sapiophile ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 13:59:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Blood is salty, and more "food" than "drink." If your goal is net hydration, you're limited to CSF, vitreous humor and (potentially) lymph.
Boreeas ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:30:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that's pretty funny
patmcdoughnut ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:50:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about eyes?
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 15:15:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He said vitreous humour, that's the 'jelly' portion of the eye.
patmcdoughnut ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:29:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, didn't know that. Thanks for the info!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:17:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vitreous humor
DRM_Removal_Bot ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 14:21:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're close enough to shore to see Seagulls, you're close enough to flag down a boat or row to shore.
_AISP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:39:16 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And if you're close enough to see a bunch of seagulls on the surface, you're close enough to get slammed by a whale.
islandbuns ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 12:53:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I dont think thats how it works at all man...
-ANXIETY ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:55:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this actually a thing?
Hanzowins ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 13:18:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, if you manage to catch a large fish while at sea the fluid around and inside the spine bones as well as the fluid in their eyes can be used also.
ClintonHarvey ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 13:20:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh how delicious.
Vikkly ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 13:34:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it will be.
whatisyournamemike ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:26:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Off to life pro tips!
idosillythings ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:27:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
While that may work for a little bit, it's not a long term solution. Seagulls only go so far from land. If you're close enough to land to catch a gull, you're close enough to sail to land before actually needing to starve/dehydrate.
Hanzowins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:57:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're right. It isn't a permanent solution as blood is full of proteins and will eventually leave the body more dehydrated but the blood may be enough to get yourself to shore or to stay responsive until rescue arrives.
perianderson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:38:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Easy there McGyver!
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 12:18:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Water water everywhere
Kwickgamer ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 12:40:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And not a drop to drink
TheForeverAloneOne ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:11:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lets all have a drink
Djulzzzz ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:52:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More people are victim of fire on boats (especially sailing ones) than sinking actually ! Because of the fact that you can be traped inside and depending on the boat they can catch fire reeaallyy quikly. So yeah fire is a bigger risk than water on the seas !
poopsinmybutts ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:03:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink."
password_is_njkvcxjk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:43:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That doesn't sound wrong at all, though.
owlsrule143 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:44:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How about in volcanoes? Dying of frostbite?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:46:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can drink it. It just has to be drunk through your ass.
TnecnivTrebor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:53:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink
108241 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:58:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe if they survive the initial disaster, but you look at something like the Titanic where 2/3 of the passengers died, they didn't make it long enough to die of dehydration.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:02:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably more drown
beachjammer421 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:05:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of boats and ships have some sort of desalination system to filter the salt water into fresh water
LetMeGDPostAlready ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:19:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Squirt it up your butt if possible. It will absorb into your body more quickly. There was a family stranded at sea on an inflatable raft for a long time, and that's how they survived: killing sea turtles and squirting blood up their poop chutes. Not even kidding. Also, eat the eyes.
Phylar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:29:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's heat and dehydration...which makes a lot of sense now that I read it again.
idosillythings ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:29:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should read "In the Heart of the Sea." Really good book that explores the sinking of the whale ship Essex.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:45:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you want to read a story on this topic, look up the USS Indianapolis (if you aren't already familiar with it). Some of the anecdotes are quite the read, how after a few days of trying to stay afloat in the South Pacific in a group, some of the guys were so dehydrated that they were seeing things. One of the guys said that he was floating there with a few others, and one of the others all of a sudden took his life jacket off, dove down into the water, and then came back up and told everyone how there was a water fountain down there with cool, refreshing fresh water. The guy died not long after that. It's just crazy to read in chronological order, each day the group is smaller and smaller, there are sharks circling them, and so on.
Here's two: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/indianapolis.htm http://www.ussindianapolis.org/woody.htm
GreeneMan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:52:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean.. You can.
Jdub415 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:01:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty sure more people drown in the ocean.
Keithywhites ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:23:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My uncle drowned in a vat of molten steel
YourKneesAreWeird ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 11:00:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you have a source? I understand how drowning could happen, but it doesn't seem like it would be nearly as common as dehydration. I believe you, but I'm gonna need a source of this is going to become my new favorite fact
panzerkampfwagen ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 11:03:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You take water to the desert but do you ever think to take a boat?
YourKneesAreWeird ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 11:07:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I never leave my house without my boat. Now give me a source!!
amargon12 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 11:57:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/deserts/features/
Source! In that there water paragraph.
YourKneesAreWeird ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:00:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice! Thank you
WgXcQ ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 11:36:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People (inexperienced ones) tend to camp in and travel through the valleys between sand dunes or in those convenient uncluttered dry riverbeds. Which is exactly where all the water comes shooting through when there's sufficient rain. And the water is so fast that you don't know you're in trouble until it's right on top of you. The ominous grumbling beforehand only means something to the kind of people who don't think a dry riverbed in a desert is a swell place to camp anyway.
Also, it's not just water, but whatever junk has collected in the places the water comes through. Even if it's not that high a flood, it can trap you, then drown you.
Here's a short thread from last year with a video and someone saying it almost happened to them: https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/2ymd49/flash_flood/
YourKneesAreWeird ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 11:44:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Again, I'm not doubting that drowning in the desert happens. But that alone is not particularly interesting. What I'm looking for is a source that says that drowning in the desert is in fact more common than dying of dehydration
E-135 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:20:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it isbmore likely to die by dehydration in the desert when stranded there without water. But this is obvious and people make sure they got enough water.
Many people have no idea they can drown in deserts though. So they dont take that into account
YourKneesAreWeird ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:37:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But the thread isn't called "what sounds extremely wrong, and is, in fact, wrong"
EulersDayOff ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:19:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Boy, people are really having a hard time understanding your very simple request.
MJWood ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 11:32:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wadi you know?
OmfgWtfWasThat ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 09:43:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought you wrote "desserts"
SchlongMcDong ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:14:41 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So did I. I thought that fatties just choked or something.
epiphone_fan1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:05:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That Heston Blumenthal Creme Anglaise is to die for
no_this_is_God ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:46:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah my parents live by one of the flood zones in Phoenix and when it floods its unbelievable.
Hellzapoppin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:09:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is my favorite :-)
mrglass8 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:48:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Read this at first as desserts. I chuckled
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:57:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Source??
loonthecoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:01:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ffs i thought you meant like a desert after a meal now i feel stupid.
KindaHardToExplain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:18:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thats awesome as shit.
CosmicSpaghetti ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:19:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From all the waterboarding?
autoposting_system ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:39:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is a major problem in Las Vegas, especially because of all the drunk tourists
luntcips ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:48:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How so?
Wyatt821 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:50:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How?
t_Lancer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:01:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read that as desserts and was at first very confused.
edit: I am not original.
blossom-g ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:04:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.
Peachykeen9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:10:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you explain this? Thanks!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:19:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My neighbor tried to pull that on me a couple years ago, he never found out why so when we asked, he made us some shit about they find water and drink it too fast. We googled it and found the real reason.
CJ, SCREW YOUR SHIT
ShaftRaptor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:59:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*then die not than die. Confused the fuck out of me
socceric17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:21:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At first I read it as, More people drown in desserts than die of dehydration. I was like yay America haha
canuckpuckbeaut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:27:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I originally read this as drown in desserts and thought how the fuck do people drown in chocolate soufflรฉ lol
gristly_adams ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:33:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I definitely read desserts. Like someone forged on a delicious, most flan and tragically lost consciousness and died.
Jwast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:37:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm, well, that sounds extremely wrong, but is actually correct.
moreilly69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:56:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No the sounds extremely wrong...
wagedomain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:19:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read this as drown in desserts and, living in the US, did not think it strange at all until I read the replies.
-_-_-_-_-_-_--- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:20:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
as someone who still has trouble discerning desert vs dessert at first glance, I was picturing someone drowning in a giant bowl of ice cream.
cronin1024 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:47:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read that as "drown in desserts" and was confused, but prepared to accept it as possible.
Lemoncholy_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:49:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ffs. I read this as desserts.
babadivad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:05:41 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How the fuck do you drown in a dessert?
linkenski ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:03:45 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm taking that drowning is figurative in the phatamogana oasis
screenwriterjohn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:44:21 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Indeed. Why would you go in a desert without water?
GoldenGateGeek ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:10:24 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I completely misread this and was imagining people face down in a large bowl of melted ice cream.
Faryshta ยท -19 points ยท Posted at 08:25:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
how?
panzerkampfwagen ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 08:48:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You couldn't be bothered reading the explanation?
SmellsOfTeenBullshit ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 10:34:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He probably didn't see it, it's not in the main comment.
doctorocelot ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 10:12:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How?
panzerkampfwagen ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:13:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eyes I would assume.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:45:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Photosensitive tentacles.
Ubernaught ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:56:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
C'thun watch over us.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:01:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yscyigg protects.
Grays42 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 09:21:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't be a dick.
dipshitandahalf ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 09:43:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is Reddit.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:58:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Quicksand?
aedeos ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:10:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flood
devious_astronaut ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:41:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Source? This seems like total bullshit unless they accidentally wander into their lake mirage.
StixTheRef ยท 8125 points ยท Posted at 03:21:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your eyes are only about halfway up your head.
NeverStopWondering ยท 4907 points ยท Posted at 07:30:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This one fucked me up so hard in my highschool art class.
TheTurtleTamer ยท 2036 points ยท Posted at 10:17:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you ok now though?
Ashanmaril ยท 1166 points ยท Posted at 10:43:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think one recovers from that kind of thing.
MikeTheAverageReddit ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 10:59:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm: Have not recovered.
Nerfi ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:08:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He still gets Columbian pastels from this guy I know.
islandbuns ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:51:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some say he never stopped wondering.
retroshark ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:45:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same situation with anyone who took a figure drawing class and encountered Mr Drippy.
You all know who the fuck I'm talking about.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:28:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hang on, I took art classes and I have no idea what you're talking about, is it an American thing?
retroshark ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:37:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha, no its a thing that frequently occurs when dealing with "older" live models (as in people who get naked for money so that others can draw their foldy bits)
There usually is this one older gentleman who... ahem... drips... from his privates, whilst standing there naked and motionless as you draw him.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:46:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, I never did much nude drawing so I never encountered that, I always wanted to try doing it myself but I was worried about random erections.
retroshark ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:16:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh you never really end up with attractive models, because they are less interesting/challenging to draw. Its mainly fat old wrinkly people or people with deformities that make the skin and muscle more of a challenge to the artist. I was never any good at it to be quite honest, but it taught me a huge amount about anatomy and foreshortening/perspective.
CheekyMunky ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:45:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lot of variance in this. Our female model was smokin'.
retroshark ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:12:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There was a mega-hottie in my first ever figure drawing studio. She repeatedly offered to model for the class but the teacher said she would not permit it, as the class was "too overly enthusiastic" and it would "be a distraction from the greater purpose."
She wasn't wrong.
LearnsSomethingNew ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:34:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So do you start with a big cigarette and erase along as you paint the rest or do you approximate how much of the cigarette will be left by the time you're done with the painting from the start?
TheIllustrativeMan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:22:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ours was too - and she stared at me the whole class. It was unbelievably awkward.
Tamespotting ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:43:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drips semen, precum, or urine?
retroshark ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:16:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All three.
LearnsSomethingNew ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:32:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Simultaneously?
retroshark ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:41:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:30:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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skulltrumpetman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:32:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Art classes at my high school were essentially credited study hall.
professorsnapeswand ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 12:40:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some say he's still wondering to this day
NeverStopWondering ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:23:21 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
(โ๏พใฎ๏พ)โ
indiceiris ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 11:23:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
he's never stopped wondering about it (see username)
Anaract ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:29:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
still trippin
Spork_Warrior ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:27:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's Picasso now. So... No.
TheOriginalPenis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:23:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He ded
Cincyme333 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:55:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He puts them both on one side of the head now. Fucking Picasso wannabe.
NeverStopWondering ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:23:58 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No.
RealBuoy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:48:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Obviously he's not...he's on Reddit!
Rosenblattca ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 11:53:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My best friend in high school took that to mean that eyes were halfway down the face, and drew it as such. Fucking terrible, but I didn't have the heart to tell her that her drawings looked like something Napoleon Dynamite would do.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 12:20:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She thought they looked correct?
Rosenblattca ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:20:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I suppose I didn't explain right.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:24:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, I get it. I'm just surprised that your friend wouldn't see how incorrect it looks when smashing the eyes way down the face.
Rosenblattca ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:27:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She, ah, kinda has tunnel vision. She thinks everything she does is awesome. I actually went to art school and didn't have the heart to tell her that her drawings were the stuff of nightmares.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 12:37:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
whats the difference between halfway down and halfway up. thats 1/2 either way
Giraffe_Knuckles ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 12:58:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Face is shorter than entire head
Rosenblattca ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:20:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Face, not head (your eyes are halfway down your head, not your face. Hair covers some of your head, so if you're looking at the face alone, your eyes are in the top third.
NoRodent ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:30:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if you don't have hair? Does that make your whole front part of the head a face?
Rosenblattca ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:10:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know you're joking but here's a shitty 30 second drawing to illustrate.
Oskie5272 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:52:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah when we were first learning how to do portraits I thought there was no way that could be right. Once we finished it and added hair and everything else I was astounded
Excalibur54 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:15:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We learned this in 5th grade when we made self-portraits. I still have mine.
Myfourcats1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:45:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah. You always want to draw them higher then realize that looks incredibly stupid.
sepolelyk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:22:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some say he hasn't stopped wondering.
NeverStopWondering ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:12:17 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ha.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:39:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And for a "straight ahead" gaze, you need to draw the pupils slightly above the eye's midline.
browner87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:37:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eye had no problem with it.
bassnugget ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:41:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hope you didn't try looking up to see them.
DragonToothGarden ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:24:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I still revisit my 6th grade art-class memory of the art teacher saying that eyes were in the middle of our head. I'm in my early 40s.
NosyEnthusiast6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:58 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i just checked and almost started weeping
scary shit
Stepheedoos ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 13:42:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sensing that you are a massively over dramatic person.... Maybe just chill out a bit and things won't get to you so much.
NeverStopWondering ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:15:40 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, not particularly.
Bohnanza ยท 922 points ยท Posted at 10:54:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mom was an artist and showed me this when I was a kid. To draw a face, she'd start with an oval, then mark off halfway down to pick a spot for the eyes, half of that was the bottom of the nose, half of THAT was the mouth.
WatAbout2ndBreakfast ยท 484 points ยท Posted at 11:01:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The rest is just brains
Edit: I can't believe something this simple became my highest rated comment.
cant_be_pun_seen ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 14:57:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All brains and not drawn
timoumd ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 12:41:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mmmmmmmm brains........
II-o-II ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:05:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just meat
Draskinn ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:06:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And that's the reason why we can kill EVERYTHING else. As animals go we are kind of scary.
L3viath0n ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:38:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We are the real space orcs.
Kjartanski ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:33:33 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because we made sharp sticks, passed on the knowledge of tracking and being silent, and then, then we developed incredible long distance running capabilities, so that we could stick a antilope and then track it till it dies.
Humans are literally the best long distance runners in the animal kingdom, barring sled dogs, but they need crazy cold weather to be able to run.
Thor_Odinson_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:19:38 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To explain further:
We sweat out of almost the entire surface area of our bodies, cooling ourselves down very quickly. Many animals do not sweat at all or much, and those that do tend not to do it as much as us.
We can breath at any point in our stride. Animals that run on 4 legs can only breath at once per stride, due to ribcage compression and expansion. This also hurts animals whose primary means of cooling off is by panting.
We run on two legs. While this does free our hands up for using tools, it also allows us to see more across any terrain than an animal close to the ground.
While this last point is contested sometimes, we are able to motivate ourselves past our perceived limits and through pain with thoughts of love, honor, pride, etc. Our prey is generally only thinking of survival, and comparison predators are acting for the sake feeding themselves and/or their offspring.
heystupidd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:38:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
or lack of in some cases
GalerionTheMystic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:19:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
2nd breakfast is going to be ears today, no brains.
Thor_Odinson_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:20:38 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about elevensies?
danguro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:45:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or a badass pompadour
I-baLL ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:59:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and dank memes.
bumlove ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 11:35:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about people with horse faces?
chris3110 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 11:59:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why the long face?
kittyisagoodkitty ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:14:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you get it? Cuz I'm a horse?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:25:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bojack nice
LocoRocoo ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 13:28:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
they see a doctor
edit: well, a vet I suppose
SquatMaster3000 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:38:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They star in sex in the city.
1wsx10 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 14:40:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Horse feces?
reallyloveadventures ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 14:46:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember studying facial proportions in highschool. If i remember right the ears and eyes are on the halfway line of the head. The head can also be divided into thirds to mark other important features of the head: one division at the hairline, one division at the nose, third division at the chin. Halfway between the nose and the chin is the mouth. Overall these proportions make drawing faces easier (I was able to draw faces rather than potatoes with eyes noses and mouths).
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 14:30:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For everything else, there's MasterCard
thatguynamedguy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:08:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Golden ratio
KellyisGhost ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:18:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey... thanks for this.
acole09 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:32:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She's still an artist right?
Bohnanza ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:37:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She's been dead for over 35 years, so no.
acole09 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:42:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm truly sorry for your loss. She sounds like an absolute treasure. Keep those memories close to your heart, they'll definitely warm you up during difficult times. Have an internet hug.
_coyotes_ ยท 1542 points ยท Posted at 05:35:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm uncomfortable now.
kwanasp ยท 167 points ยท Posted at 16:01:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like this http://i.imgur.com/0MXx13J.jpg
Jesusmanduke ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 14:23:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can feel my eyes.
mada447 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:40:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should probably stop touching yourself.
Captainguymandude ยท 530 points ยท Posted at 07:42:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a monster!
bryondouglas ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 12:52:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're going to be all-right
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:51:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Welcome Ho
You're KillingMe, Buster!TheNumberMuncher ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:53:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey you guyyyyyys!
andrepierregignac ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 13:00:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey brother
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:38:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Username checks out
ManualNarwhal ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:04:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother. I call him Gamblor.
SpilikinOfDoom ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 11:10:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't believe you, and had to go check in a mirror.
It feels wrong, no wonder all my attempts to draw faces look odd.
KnightInDulledArmor ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:45:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I don't even try to draw people anymore, but if I do I make sure that the eyes are hidden.
WendellSchadenfreude ยท 62 points ยท Posted at 10:58:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is a good one. I'm completely sure that you are wrong, but I don't dare just looking in a mirror because I'm scared to find out that I really look like a freak with my eyes in the middle of my face.
KnightInDulledArmor ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:48:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is true, on ideal humans at least. That or high school art lied to me.
man-of-God-1023 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 13:08:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your eyes are almost at the top of your face, if that reassures you :)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:21:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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man-of-God-1023 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:26:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well... eh. I tried
dedokta ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 11:13:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone is now measuring their heads.
[deleted] ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 10:06:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 10:56:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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UltraChilly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:16:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
12 y/o me had such a crush on her, I probably would too...
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:22:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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UltraChilly ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:44:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
oh, so that's why I though her career had ended, she's still doing stuff, only with a brand new face... I wouldn't have recognized her TBH
DammitDan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:21:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why wouldn't you?
d_marvin ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 11:16:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
r/Fiveheads
CreepyPhotographer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:36:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh what a rabbit hole I've fallen in...
Damn_Croissant ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:50:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who is that
CasuallyCapitalistic ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 10:48:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How does this sound wrong? :L
[deleted] ยท 56 points ยท Posted at 11:31:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:39:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So is this false for a bald man?
Dragon_Fisting ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:35:26 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The face just blends into the scalp on Bald people, so it still holds.
Wermine ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 11:26:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I bet most people who have never drawn much will draw eyes too high.
haby112 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 13:49:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My art teacher in high school called it "Hair Hat" or "Hair Helmet". She would emphasize that people don't think about the fact that there is head under our hair when they draw and it causes us to conceptualize our hair as sitting just on tob of our head.
straitnet ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 10:57:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't understand.
tocilog ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 11:36:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hair usually hides a lot of the top of your head making it seem like it's closer to the top. Try this. Your eyes are aligned right where the top part of your ears connect to your head. With one hand, place your pinkie on that part of your ear and then your thumb to the tip of your chin. Without moving your fingers, take your hand off your head, put your thumb where your pinkie was and then your pinkie to you head. You'll notice your pinkie will be on or around the very top of your head.
imdungrowinup ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:04:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My pinky went way over my head and my eyes and ears don't align. I am a monster.
Cptnwalrus ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 12:22:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That's great and all, but is this really something that sounds 'extremely wrong'? Like this is the top comment? People read that Oxford university was founded before the Aztec empire and they're like "meh" but stating basic anatomy blows their mind...?
_F1_ ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:14:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
TheNewElite250 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:49:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a very simple thing. Most people wont feel much connection to Oxford university nor the Aztec empire. But something that seems weird about the anatomy they've had for their entire lives that they've never noticed, yes, that will do it.
Plus, the Aztec/Oxford university thing is pretty constantly posted on TIL.
Cptnwalrus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:52:33 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good point.
kristospherein ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 12:26:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless you're Peyton Manning...then they're about a 1/3 up your head.
Ivor97 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:55:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
his fivehead is absolutely massive
HatchCannon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:53:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't unsee this....
nonchalantpony ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:47:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
me too ...uncomfortable. Feel like my head just sqaushed down
professionalevilstar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:33:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wtf
illmar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:22:04 on April 17, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I never noticed this until now. My eyes are right around the middle of my head, and I have a shaved head.
John_YJKR ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:51:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if you're Rachel mcadams?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:11:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your eyes are a developmental extension of your brain.
wedontlikespaces ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:46:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay, own up, who measured heads?
poliscinerd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:58:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you underestimate my fivehead.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:27:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This could be something that would seem very odd to an alien and it would notice right away, even though we don't think about it.
IckGlokmah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:12:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, everything about us could seem very odd to an alien, depending on what they look like.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:33:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
on babies they're even lower!
Doctor_D_Doctor_MD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:40:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And your spine attaches to your head slightly higher than that.
vicman1197 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:41:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Keep this comment at an even number of upvotes.
shapu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:59:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe YOUR eyes are, conehead.
Sirmixalott ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:04:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn it.
cuban_edge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And your elbows are halfway down your arms and your knees halfway down your legs. Go figure, the Creator was really into half of everything.
digitaldeadstar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:26:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I went to go check this and was like "nah, this shit is wrong..." and then my balding head told another story. :(
SilverSasquatch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:26:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought this was only true for Peyton Manning
Speech500 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:35:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's one of the first things you learn in any art class.
mrtweek ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:45:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was pissed at my high school art teacher that she taught me wrong when I eventually discovered this in college.
Elehhhhna ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:46:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm.
icculus88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:52:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Noooooooooooooooo
Peachykeen9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:13:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And I'm a mom, so I have eyes in the back of my head too.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:16:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you have a manly facial structure and a big chin/jaw, this is false.
GPrime85 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:17:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your armspan (fingertip to fingertip) is also your height!
SPCGMR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:27:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The only reason this makes sense to me is i play realistic shooters and know thst even if you can't see the other person, they can probably see the top of you head.
JeedyFromTheBlock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:31:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This makes sense out of why I sometimes perceive people my height to be taller than me.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:41:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm: just went and checked in a mirror.
lawr11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:56:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I too learned this in art class!
tea-and-smoothies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:58:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
mine aren't - they're about 1/3 down. That's why i like to have plenty of the groovy 80's hair volume going on, makes it look more 'classically arty'.
ryan_503 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:04:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The one I couldn't believe is your ears go from the center of your eyes to the center of your mouth.
candycv30 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:05:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless you're Peyton Manning
da5id1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:14:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Head or face? Because someone below recalled a high school art class where they started with an oval (face) and the horizontal line halfway from top to bottom for the eyes. There is no way I'm going to believe that in this picture of Donald Trump, even if you don't include the bottom of his double chin:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeb-bush-self-finance_us_56ed8a4fe4b03a640a6aa4ec
Edit: make that triple chin.
wtfisthisyo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:14:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if I have a 5+ head?
fuck-dat-shit-up ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:16:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even Peyton manning?
BrandenKnab ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:22:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Had to check with fingers... Well I'll be dipped. You've got me.
compwalla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:22:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This became apparent to me when I went bald from chemo.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:59:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, over 99% of human heads are 5 eyes wide, 10 eyes tall and 10 eyes deep all plus or minus 10%.
serioussam909 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:42:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not if you're a Zika baby.
today2day ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:42:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this true for four heads and five heads? Because I have a rather small forehead, so I wonder if it's always proportional like that.
deathuberforcutie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:35:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This just changed my life
catgirl1359 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:01:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Had a huge argument with an art teacher about this. I didn't believe her. Turns out my eyes are just placed weird on my face.
imdungrowinup ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:02:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not true for me. I have a tiny forehead.
coffeeshopslut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:26:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cannot Un see
Scarr119 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:35:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God DAMN IT
TheShattubatu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:31:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God damn it now everyone looks like this to me
blakewrites ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:56:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"My eyes are down here, buddy."
baccaruda66 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:03:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just tried to glance up at my own forehead.
HankF89 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:12:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God damnit I'm high as fuck at the bus stop and can NOT handle this news right now.
Obi-Wan_Kannabis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:50:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't they teach this in school? I swear I remember being told this in middle school.
poonmasterrs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:01:10 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How?
1337Gandalf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:15 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only for people with five heads*
weggles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:23 on March 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not with a chin this big...
Negative_Return ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:28:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Zika could fix that
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:58:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. They're in more forehead.
omgshutthefuckup ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:10:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Say what?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:44:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Forehead. Aren't your eyes in your forehead leaving really long cheeks?
And fuck it, Afro because it's the only hair I can draw.
MilhoVerde ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:23:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, no fucking way the eyes are in the middle of the face. Is this a joke?
Chinoiserie91 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:30:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Google how to draw a face.
MilhoVerde ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:58:30 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like this?
http://webneel.com/daily/sites/default/files/images/daily/05-2014/5-how-to-draw-a-face.jpg
that's not the middle, more like "above a line above the middle". But yeah, not as high as many people think, I guess
archaeourban ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:34:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
unless you are a Neanderthal..
sinisasin ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 11:31:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
omg i though u meant face smh
trimolius ยท 516 points ยท Posted at 12:27:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're supposed to turn your traction control off if you're stuck in the snow.
sunny_person ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 13:37:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait why?
skylinegtr6800 ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 15:40:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
tl;dr: You need all the available power to get any amount of net motion to either gain momentum or creep it's way out.
TCS reduces engine power to prevent wheel spin, generally quite aggressively since it uses other wheel speed sensors as a reference to how much spin there is.
Non-drive wheels indicate 0 wheel speed, but the drive wheels indicate 60mph, it's going to try and slow the fast end down.
More realistic example, non-drive wheels indicate 1mph whereas drive wheels indicate 61mph; you have net directional movement, but if the computer stops the spinning wheels, you'll simply stay stuck.
It works left to right as well, and a lot of vehicles don't have limited slip differentials, meaning 1 wheel tends to get the bulk of the power rather than an even distribution. This problem can't be fixed by power reduction TCS though and requires a more sophisticated vehicle dynamic control system that can apply individual wheel braking.
In any case, you're either trying to slowly move out of being stuck or generate enough motion to be able to rock the car fore and aft and gain momentum to clear the obstacle. When you manage to get a little motion from rocking, you can time the application of power to increase the vehicles momentum. TCS will counteract the power application process by reducing engine power to reduce slip.
Cathartic_following ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 14:21:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From my understanding taction control keeps your tires from spinning at odds to keep your car from unexpectedly changing course. By turning it off your wheels that are potentially stuck can still spin giving you the opportunity to use them to get out of wherever you're stuck.
Source: I've spent a ridiculous amount of time rocking people out of snow drifts.
Derpity_Derp ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:35:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In order for your tires to work correctly they need to utilize the siping on the lugs. These are the hairline like slits in the lugs. In order for that to happen your tires need to be spinning in order to eject whatever media you happen to be stuck in. TCS effectively cuts power to your drive train when it senses the tires spinning in relation to your travel speed. Essentially, when you're stuck you need your tires to spin. TCS is more for icy intersections and the like. And the people that use cruise control in the winter on the highway. Source: I drive (and get stuck in) one of those obnoxiously big trucks that everyone seems to associate with a small penis. My dong is fine, by the way.
whostolemypencil ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 14:19:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because sudden braking causes you to skid. You should drive in the lowest gear and let the trasmission control your speed.
NotaGordonRamseyfan ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:06:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're stuck, skidding isn't really the problem. You'll need a bit more power to get out. If needed, switch between reverse and first gear to "rock" your way out, having people push is of course always helpful.
whostolemypencil ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:14:10 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I misinterpreted the "stuck." I was thinking "getting stuck in a snowstorm," not literally stuck on a pile of snow and skidding the wheels.
Dreizu ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 16:02:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or going up a snowy hill. I swear my car tries to kill me.
literally_a_possum ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:48:45 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to work at a place that was at the bottom of a hill. If it was even remotely snowy and I left the traction control on, my Jetta would just refuse to turn left out of there. It would go straight-ish or 45ยฐ at best until I turned the tc off.
Liebonaut ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:29:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't it depend on the type of traction control? True traction control limits power to wheels with low traction, and that you need to turn off; but some cars have "low-tech" traction control that just applies the brakes individually to each wheel that's spinning faster than the vehicle's ground speed, and that type is actually beneficial because it allows you to build torque to the wheels without suddenly breaking loose.
It's for the same reason that, especially in cars with automatic transmissions, if you're stuck in the snow you're supposed to apply the brakes, put the car in drive, gently apply the gas until your engine is hanging at a few krpm, then gradually release the brake.
El_crusty ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:11:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All the modern cars since about 2005 use a combination of applying brakes and limiting the engine speed. since almost all cars are now "drive by wire" throttle control the gas pedal is no longer directly connected to the throttle plate by a cable. The computer reads the input from a position sensor on the gas pedal and uses an electronic stepper motor to move the throttle plate. you can floor it but the computer will detect slippage at the wheel and ignore your wide open throttle request and the engine wont rev more than a few hundred rpm above idle.
Occasionalcat ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:57:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Get all them horses to the wheels
OnRazersEdge ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:26:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My experience, if you spin your tires by revving the shit out of your engine, you make ice under your tires and dig yourself deeper. It sucks.
You make sure your tires don't break static friction, because once you use that much power, you don't have traction at all.
So, you turn your TCS off, sure...it helps you control engine speed. But power isn't what gets you out of snow, it's friction and making sure you got some.
Stumpanator ยท 3413 points ยท Posted at 03:27:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Atlantic entrance to the the Panama Canal is further west than the Pacific's
[deleted] ยท 118 points ยท Posted at 05:03:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Stumpanator ยท 625 points ยท Posted at 05:23:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.skole.hr/upload/portalzaskole/images/newsimg/6087/Image/panama-canal-map.gif
I didn't believe it at first either
lucysalvatierra ยท 256 points ยท Posted at 07:29:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For some reason, this fact made me angry at life.
laforet ยท 195 points ยท Posted at 10:39:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How about that in Detroit one moves south to Canada?
tesseract4 ยท 153 points ยท Posted at 12:22:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or that Reno, NV is West of Los Angeles? Or that the closest U.S. state to Africa is Maine?
Tutule ยท 62 points ยท Posted at 13:21:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the one that got me. The other ones seemed plausible for me since in my country you go North to get to the Atlantic and we're in the tropics.
SilverNeptune ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:03:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just what state would you think it was
Tutule ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:24:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Florida would've been my first pick
SilverNeptune ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 20:04:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well yeah I mean either Florida or Maine. If you guess one of those you aren't stupid even if you were wrong. Anything else makes you a retard
snakkerdudaniel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:27:05 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
um South Carolina? Its a lot closer to Africa than Florida
AGreatBandName ยท 76 points ยท Posted at 13:15:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a part of Canada that's farther south than part of California.
All of Florida is west of all of New York.
AveTerran ยท 64 points ยท Posted at 13:24:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm looking at a globe and this is the only one I couldn't make sense of. To save others some trouble: the southernmost point of Canada is Pelee Island, in Lake Erie.
pongobuff ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:14:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I live in windsor and have visited point pelee multiple times. They have a national park with all the info about it, and maps showing how the latitudes work out
AveTerran ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:01:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I'm from Toledo so the idea anyone would make a national park in Lake Erie seems crazy to me. ;)
DtownMaverick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:08:26 on March 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looking at the map it seems like just a tiny tiny bit of California is above that latitude, must be less than 50 miles
drumstyx ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 15:53:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What? Show me this magical southern Canada or northern california
meh_whoever ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:27:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Southernpost point of Canada is 41'41N (in Lake Erie). Northernmost point of California is 42N.
fatnino ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:37:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you travel directly South from Key West Florida you will miss South America entirely. You will pass to West of the whole thing.
AndyVanSlyke ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:46:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Virginia extends further west than West Virginia
ChesswiththeDevil ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 15:01:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Santiago, Chile is further East than Boston.
Raff_Out_Loud ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:23:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Yup. A lot of people don't realize we're closer to the Pacific than a large chunk of California.
That's part of the reason why All-You-Can-Eat Sushi is what we're known for, food-wise. The casinos order massive amounts of fresh food from the coast (just a four hour drive away) at bulk prices, so the small sushi joints are able to jump on those orders and get stellar quality sushi fish for very low prices.
ConstantlyChange ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:21:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bullshit Snapple!
Angelbabysdaddy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:52:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well... I'll be damned.
dogshenanigans ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 13:29:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What other state than Maine would it be? That would a been my guess
beaverteeth92 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:40:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would have guessed Florida.
ByronicPhoenix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:20:04 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, and the Ambassador Bridge is in/near Mexican Town. Making Mexican Town north of Canada.
Windsor is a cool place.
LordSoren ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:13:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Parts of Ontario Canada are further south of parts of California.
Bipedal_Horse ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 09:31:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you now questioning all of your previously held beliefs?
Kovhert ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 10:18:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, I'm just pissed off.
TheRealPizza ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:57:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But you're not OP
ilikepants712 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 11:04:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think you're the real pizza.
nimbusdimbus ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 15:10:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How about that New York City is further south than Rome.
weedful_things ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:22:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rome New York.
swearrengen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:55:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I felt the same way when I learnt Brazil spoke Portuguese.
[deleted] ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 11:20:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 11:32:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They definitely speak Portuguese at Portugal.
monkwren ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:25:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cool!
zbo2amt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:22:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What would happen if they removed the locks in the Panama canal?
svmk1987 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:00:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That seems inefficient
Rashaya ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 09:24:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I suspect they cared less about making ships go a bit further than they did about digging out less earth.
svmk1987 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:37:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sure they had good reasons, like the one you mentioned. My comment was just a joke.
SeudonymousKhan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:47:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really? I always thought the canal ran the entire width. This way seems much easier.
svmk1987 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 09:52:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay, it wasn't obvious that I was making a joke. Sorry, you're right.
greatGoD67 ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 05:39:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think for me, it seems wrong because I always imagine panama as being long from top to bottom, but in reality it is long from side to side.
goodevilgenius ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:15:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You could look at it on Google Maps
SeudonymousKhan ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 09:48:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But then every other person who was curious would also have to look on Google maps.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:47:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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ganfy ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 13:28:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. Yes it does. Regardless of how pedantic you want to be about the Caribbean and the Gulf of Panama. The the Panama Canal does connect the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. That's why they made it.
King_Neptune07 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 11:44:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you mean NW to SE direction?
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:02:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well the Caribbean Sea is in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Panama is in the Pacific Ocean, so that really doesn't have anything to do with it at all. It's more about the shape of the land than what we've named the seas.
-Yngin- ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 09:39:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read that as 'a NSFW direction'. What's up with Panama
MajorNoodles ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 11:49:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, something like 5,600 people died while building it, so that's REALLY not safe for work.
PMME-YOUR-DANK-MEMES ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:45:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, young beautiful Panamanian women with old white guys, everywhere.
TastesLikeBees ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:15:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's like saying Interstate 40 doesn't connect North Carolina and California because it connects Benson, NC to Barstow, CA.
The Caribbean Sea is in the Atlantic Ocean, and the Gulf of Panama is in the Pacific Ocean.
shadow1515 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:08:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You could just look on a map.
ChornWork2 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 14:49:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The southernmost point of Ontario is south of the northernmost point of California.
SanguinePar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:09:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oooh, that's a good one.
umagrandepilinha ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:11:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How the fuck is this even possible?
KingOfTheBongos87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:08:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. And on a related note, Ecuador's west coast is in the same time zone as NYC.
Samsantics1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:35:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I looked at this on google maps. I was pretty stumped with how that could possibly be the case.....until I zoomed out and realized I was being an idiot and just assuming the northern side of the canal was attached to the pacific.
walterblanco1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:14:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
monkeyfett8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:28:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also the sea level on the pacific side is 20cm higher than on the Atlantic side.
GlassIt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:35:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Panama Canal doesn't have an Atlantic entrance.
sittingcow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:45:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
?
GlassIt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:38:44 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this
sittingcow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:36:53 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you saying the Caribbean is not part of the Atlantic?
Flanyo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:28:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:41:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mind= BLOOOOOWWWWNNNNN
The supervisor of the project must have taken a wrong turn or something...
Matt2142 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:50:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now I'm angry, thanks.
hiramthemason ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:03:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I caught the the on the the first read. I feel productive this morning.
Jacollinsver ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:45:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What?
asamagus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:04:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
if only I knew my geography
jorfrules ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:59:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is a question in trivial pursuit and it made me ABSOLUTELY FURIOUS.
poonmasterrs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:01:18 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How come?
AngelicBastard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:19:47 on April 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ha. I noticed the extra the.
LeonelMarjavaara ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:04:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wait why does this sound wrong to a lot of people?
SanguinePar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:10:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because the Pacific is (almost entirely) West of the Atlantic. But the bit where it's not is where the canal's entrance and exit are.
barto5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:10:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is genuinely shocking. Sounds wrong...is correct.
saisharan007 ยท 841 points ยท Posted at 05:44:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.
Miss_Musket ยท 141 points ยท Posted at 15:07:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And Wales' national animal is the dragon. I'm kind of pissed that we Englanders only get a poxy lion.
LoneWolfe2 ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 15:45:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You guys also got Wales and Scotland though, seems like a fair trade.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:36:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That isn't how it works
LoneWolfe2 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:48:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean to tell me that the three kingdoms didn't get together and decide that Wales and Scotland would get cool national animals and in exchange England would get to essentially control them?
NicoUK ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 21:08:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No no, they mean that Scottish and Welsh people are England's national animal.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:38:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, like I said.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:05:29 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Found the Scotsman.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:44:11 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ye. I don't take no shit.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:54:20 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And so you shouldn't.
topright ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:51:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At least it's fucking real.
Miss_Musket ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:38:10 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but has at no point, ever lived in England.
topright ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 11:50:18 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've seen 'em with me own eyes in Chester Zoo.
NosyEnthusiast6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:05 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ohio's is a fucking ladybug/bird.
My theory stands, the only interesting thing about Ohio is weather.
VerdensDejligste ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 07:50:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of all the facts mentioned, this is the one I had to check. Kinda glad it was true. A unicorn, man!
Gingerchurz ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 13:31:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes it is, and they are real. If you say otherwise you're trying to take my freedom and I will paint my face blue and charge at you in a field with a kilt on while Mel Gibson pratters on about something in the background.
atropicalpenguin ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 14:59:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that it isn't Nessie makes me sad.
1119graves ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:50:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can get that changed for you... But imma need about tree fiddy
grwgoski ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 14:27:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just like their freedom, the unicorn does not exist :(
saisharan007 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 16:05:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sick burn.
thewhitelocust ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:19:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So that's why no one can take it from them...
thesandiiman ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:34:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Harsh!
Sexy_Lovecraft ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:12:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
dude
HarukoBass ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:32:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh well, maybe next time around.
grwgoski ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:33:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hopefully :(
naus226 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:26:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And their national flower is a thistle... Crazy Scots.
ByronicPhoenix ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:29:13 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The only flower that can pierce the heart of an Englishman
JiberybobX ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:17:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm. In fact when I was in Primary we had a "bring your Unicorn to school" day.
sinthadria ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:17:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We have a unicorn on our coat of arms in Nova Scotia.. I guess now I know why
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:51:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unicorns are actually pretty badass. A massive white/grey Clydesdale with a massive horn on its head? That thing will fuck you up.
saisharan007 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:05:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fun fact: Clydesdale is also a bank apparently.
TheRandomScotsman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:54:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BLOODY RIGHT!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:17:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Read that as national anthem. Was confused.
bwut-bwut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:09:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
not the lochness monster?
saisharan007 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:12:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the national reptile.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:56:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Best national animal ever!
Thameus ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 13:57:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/ykwqXuMPsoc
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 15:43:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:40:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
JohnnyAkimbo ยท 1606 points ยท Posted at 03:36:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tittynope is a real word. Tittynopeย (n) tit-ee-n-oh-p A small quantity of something left over.
Torpid-O ยท 3491 points ยท Posted at 06:25:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
My girlfriend had breast reduction surgery, now she has a tittynope.
Edit: I... um... wow. I didn't know my stupid joke was that good. Thanks stranger.
Edit 2: Officially my best comment.
ScribbleMeNot ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 09:30:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you. I just about lost it next to my sleeping SO.
RockFourFour ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 13:08:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Me too, thanks.
sexihunk666 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:39:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now it's only a tittynope?
Robinisthemother ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 15:25:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry about your loss
Jmufranco ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:57:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Relevant: http://youtu.be/dNHb3lZobt0
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 14:14:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Delete Facebook, lawyer up and hit the gym
Torpid-O ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 14:15:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Poor Jim. Everyone wants to hit him. What did he do?
REDDITATO_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:31:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That joke only really works in spoken form.
businesstime101 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:41:58 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
great joke, 2 terrible edits
TrentACenter ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:52:43 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
also your breast comment
Torpid-O ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:54:14 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like such a boob.
christrage ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:09:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A tittynope of breasts. Very good.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:34:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Congratulations on winning best comment, hell of an acceptance speech.
Torpid-O ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:42:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My best comment. MY. I never said it was the best ever, just my best one ever.
Taygr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:32:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My condolences
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 11:17:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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topCyder ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 13:55:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No condolences.
FLAT IS JUSTICE
PkMn_Trainer_AJ ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:19:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Breasts are more likely to look better after being reduced than they are after being enlarged
Snoochey ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 04:22:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Hey mom! Can I have this tittynope of mashed potatoes?"
vizzmay ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:42:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only if you break your arms.
Snoochey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:31:57 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Deal. This situation seems familiar...
chilehead ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 14:13:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you point us to a dictionary that has it? MW and OED turned up nothing, and all google finds for me is UD and hotelier.middleeast.com
greatGoD67 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:44:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But nobody says that because who wants to live in a world with a nope amount of titty
ixiion ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:42:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine trying to use this word seriously in a presentation for college, or even for business. Every single person in the audience will bust out laughing and even the teacher likely won't believe it's a real word.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:06:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tittynope? More like tittyyep!
amirite boys??
bwut-bwut ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:08:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i think I'd like to use this word in a sentence. There's a tittynope of icecream left for you.
FourBox ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:14:10 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I threw out the bag of chips because all that was left was a tittynope. And for some reason spell checker doesn't recognise the word
dman5202 ยท 18133 points ยท Posted at 01:30:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way.
Gullex ยท 10317 points ยท Posted at 02:34:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had to look that one up, totally sounded like BS.
100 billion stars in the galaxy, 3 trillion trees on earth. Damn.
kingofthewintr ยท 3564 points ยท Posted at 05:54:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So we can cut a couple billion and it won't matter right?
CliffordTheBigRedGod ยท 4273 points ยท Posted at 07:25:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are only 100 billion stars in the milky way so cutting a couple billions is actually a pretty bad idea.
Xperr7 ยท 1335 points ยท Posted at 07:33:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you mean a rad idea
drawnred ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 10:12:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you mean stellar
jeremycinnamonbutter ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 08:02:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Waterboarding at Guantanamo Bay? Ayye
altered_state ยท -31 points ยท Posted at 08:19:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol i just realized if you dont know what either means that actually sounds hella fun xD
Zandrick ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 08:50:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's official, reddit is stealing from Facebook.
DAxDG ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 09:19:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The original still came from reddit. It's one of the top showerthoughts of all time.
TwoFatNinjas ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:28:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Not gonna lie, but this is totally me when im waterboarding in Guantanamo Bay"
Papa Bless
Excalibur54 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:17:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'M ETHAN BRADBERRY
REDDITATO_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:53:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's actually the top post of all time.
BlindfoldedNinja ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:09:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I haven't ever seen it before, so like anyone left to their own devices for long enough I came up with it on my own.
BrtneySpearsFuckedMe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:32:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cowabunga, dude!
KingCrabmaster ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:53:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would mean there would be 200 billion half-sized ones.
BeirutBastard ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:56:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dont be ridiculous, it would be impossible to cut them exactly in half
mbw4688 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:52:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
now who is being ridiculous
BeirutBastard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:22:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Still you.
nkorslund ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:16:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean they are gas clouds so there would likely still just be a 100 billion normal-sized ones afterwards.
gesy17 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:57:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you ever cut down stars, on weed?!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:40:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
haha yeah fuck trees lol
theWhoHa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:34:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rufus!!
Whatswiththelights ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:23:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Win a date with Tad Hamilton
sniperFLO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:03:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If by rad you mean super high amounts of volatile radiation, yeah.
Archer007 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:19:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rads would definitely be involved.
turdmogrol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:32:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd totally become a star logger!
KinaseCascade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:36:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well considering all the radiation, technically yes.
PM_ME_UR_GALLADE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:36:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I see you also forgot to set your galaxy to degree mode.
shapu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:59:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, they ARE circles....
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:03:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
+1B RAD. Bad idea.
Acedrew89 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:08:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you mean a brad idea
Xperr7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:37:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GOD DAMNIT BRAD
Lampmonster1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:20:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine how much it would screw with other cultures when stars started winking out.
noggin-scratcher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:26:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To a sufficiently scifi-future perspective, stars are enormous piles of useful raw materials that have unfortunately caught on fire.
So the most sensible approach would be extinguishing and disassembling them for safe storage while we decide on something better to do with 1030kg of hydrogen.
Gullex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:23:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stars are not "on fire".
noggin-scratcher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:40:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, yeah, but "have unfortunately started undergoing nuclear fusion in a way that irrecoverably dumps otherwise-useful energy into the void of space" wouldn't be so concise.
An analogy to something more prosaic like a warehouse burning down gets the same point across (rapidly converting into something less useful in an uncontrolled and wasteful way) in fewer words and with greater ease of understanding.
Protodevilin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:44:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I dub thee, Luke Starlogger.
edditme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:23:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I see what you did there
atrich ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:46:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bring starcutter base online!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:52:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There'd be so much more space for activities!
brownix001 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:18:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
PEARCE THE HEAVENS!
slightlybaked ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:29:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A stellar idea
Royal-Ninja ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:48:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck do radians have to do with cutting down stars?
little_seed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:21:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
fuck yeah, someone else who uses the word rad. everybody hates on me for saying that
StevieWonder420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:25:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you mean a rad Madea
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:54:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good to see i mentioned that movie a few hours ago and thte saying is already making a comeback
Xperr7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:40:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What movie?
Rootner ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:56:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let's go cut us some starts.
Quest4life ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:44:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was tthat a pun? Or am I just an extreme nerd?
Xperr7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:39:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I meant it as a surfer dude joke, but after I posted the comment I realized radiation in fallout was called rads
MuthaFuckasTookMyIsh ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:21:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A Tad idea!
Acrolith ยท 168 points ยท Posted at 08:19:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, the old reddit stararoo!
nwnato ยท 188 points ยท Posted at 08:31:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hold my pillars of creation, I'm goin' in!
livin4donuts ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 12:00:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Finally, one that made me chuckle.
Forgototherpassword ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:29:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently ISIS was holding them
LustyHitler ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 09:53:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hold Uranus, I'm going in!
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 08:44:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit! He did it right! I'll have to skip the ol' reddit 'bitcharoo' and dive right in.
Edit: More people have problems with the switcheroo than you will ever know.
uTukan ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 10:46:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aand you fucked up the I'm goin in part.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 11:55:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:03:23 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Found Flowey
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:52:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Sophira ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:06:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or a video game.
REDDITATO_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:56:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On Kickstarter.
Ramoach ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:56:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My next Skyrim weapon shall now be dubbed Starcutter!
OskarCa ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:06:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nerd.
Ramoach ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:34:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just rolled a D20. Turns out you're a dick.
OskarCa ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:36:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good thing I rolled a 20 as well and your insult has no effect on me.
Ramoach ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:50:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wrong. It was super effective.
OskarCa ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:16:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well then you're just a really shitty dm
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:15:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just like stars though, some are born and some die off all the time. Cutting down trees that are dead to make way for new ones is responsible forestry. Also, newer trees produce more oxygen compared to older trees.
Melicalol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:51:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let's just try to cut one first.
red-bot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:28:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But I want to fuel my greed! pleeeaase?
Alsimsayin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:35:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would only be two percent, right?
MrDysprosium ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:12:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ah, the old foliage-a-roo!
ccrcc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:18:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah its the good ol' reddit... Yep it would be bad idea.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:37:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ah the old reddit star-aroo
faithfulpuppy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:04:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, the old reddit tree-
Actually nvm I'm too lazy
eunochorn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:11:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, stars aren't like trees. If you cut em up you only get more stars. Trust me I cut stars all the time
lagerbaer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:43:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If only I want in mobile, this'd make for a great switcheroo
ianuilliam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:44:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good luck with that, bringing a knife to a thermonuclear fusion fight.
FrequentlyHertz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:00:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How else can I power my Star Killer Base?
BuddhistNudist987 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:05:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What do you do with the stars after you cut them down? Can you mill them and make them into beautiful kitchen cabinets?
10gil ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:25:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
key word being only
JeremyArroyo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:27:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He meant trees... Smh
effa94 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:30:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ah, the old reddit fuckit i cant be bothered to make it
The_Butters_Worth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:01:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Something something...
Drewpacabra413 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:05:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, the old reddit star-cut-aroo.
candycv30 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:10:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are we not doing switcharoo anymore?
dex7491 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:17:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, the ole' Reddit galaxyroo
ovoKOS7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:26:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tell that to Aurelion Sol
intentsman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:27:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why isn't it a stellar idea?
bassnugget ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:09:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Several billion supernovas just appeared out of the blue.
1MlbCloud ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:37:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahh the old reddit tree-a-roo
BTJRedwing_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:18:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, the old reddit star-cut-a-roo. (On my phone. Can someone link it?)
Jsdestroy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:47:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But have you tried using star paper or star 2x4. They are a shining example of the future.
Ryan0101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:33:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, the 'ol Reddit didgeridoo
marsgreekgod ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:54:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair cuting a star wouldn't do a hole lot to it unless you like cut it in half.
SpamFilterUK ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:08:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice
momstacosrock ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 11:29:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty sure OP is talking about cutting trees, not stars.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 09:15:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:36:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Woosh.
JackHarrison1010 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 12:29:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A couple billion being the amount cut down every four months.
Scarletfapper ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 10:06:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry, we're already on it.
oriaven ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:30:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trees are renewable, just cut down the fast growing ones and we are good. Clear cutting hundreds of acres of hundreds of years old trees to grow.... corn? That is not good.
voxelbuffer ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 06:55:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have a hard enough time cutting down one tree. If you wanna cut down a couple billion be my guest :P
Trevor_Roll ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 07:49:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to chop down trees in the Sahara forrest.
XiledRockstar ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:19:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lmfao. You got me.
pf2- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:04:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But it's a desert not a forest
Zephyrel ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 08:35:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well now it is...
martytb ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:29:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Captain Slow
ScandinavianBushman ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:43:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If we cut a couple billion on the same area it would have a massive impact. If we cut a couple billion trees randomly in the whole world, it would have a much lesser impact if you exclude lumber roads and all that.
TheBear9000 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:38:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except that we've already cut down half of them. There used to be about 6 trillion.
rusemean ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:51:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, yes. That's why we have
tnethacker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:31:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure. No one cares about the stars disappearing.
arsenale ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:39:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But then you won't see the stars anymore. Pollution cough.
xxxsur ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:43:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
since they only give out oxygens but not wifi, im sure you are right
ititsi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:05:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can, will, have, and can and will some more!
Sirmixalott ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:05:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Logic checks out.
Spork_Warrior ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:29:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
New job title. Star Cutter.
paiute ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:20:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
something something aroo
the_Ex_Lurker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:28:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The issue is clearcutting all the trees in a particular area.
MemeInBlack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:03:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only if they're emo.
ernstoutz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:18:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stars or trees?
alrashid2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:31:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How does one cut a star?
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 07:40:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If there are trillions of trees surely every person in the world can have over a billion each and there would still be extra?
Why are we worried about deforestation when we could destroy thousands a second and have hundreds of years worth of trees still?
ableman ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:48:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
3 trillion trees means <500 trees per person. In short, no we can't.
SamHarrisRocks ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:50:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't mind him, he doesn't math much.
TheSandMen ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:49:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
3 trillion divided by 7 billion is 429 trees per person
Jack_Of_Shades ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:01:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
And while there is 7 billion people, 128 million people are born every year. That means that if every person can consume only 429 trees in their lifetime, enough people are born to consume 55 billion trees in their lifetimes. That means if no new trees are planted, that in 55 years every tree on earth would be consumed.
edit: changed "per year" to "in their lifetime."
pf2- ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:06:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit we humans are parasites plaguing the earth.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:50:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Several reasons. Animal habitats, and nobody is planting enough to replace them...and, ya know, they make the oxygen we need to breathe.
TheTyke ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:54:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And they themselves are living. Which should be and is enough to not cut them down without a genuine reason (need.)
rickmybacker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:49:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually 3 trillion divided by 7.3 billion people is about 410 each
Ace-of-Spades88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:58:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm going to go ahead and assume this is a play on that really dumb math fail that went around social media lately.
OskarCa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:08:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Must be
zenofire ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:48:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's not so much the Trees themselves but the environment and ecosystems that go with them.
dilln ยท 71 points ยท Posted at 06:45:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why are we so focused on preserving the rain forest then. We need to preserve the stars
rottenmonkey ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 09:43:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
!! NO MORE STAR DESTROYERS !!
Cheesemacher ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 09:44:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
#stopsupernovas
roadrunnersk ยท 156 points ยท Posted at 06:27:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow. Fuuuuck me. I didn't see that coming.thanks for doing the research. Mind blown. Also am drunk. But still legitimately mind blown.
Gullex ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 06:30:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol fucking everyone I'm responding to is drunk tonight, also I am drunk.
Wheeeeee!
roadrunnersk ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 06:39:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Welcome to the party! Did you hear about this thing I read that there are a shit ton of trees on earth? Like more than stars? It's crazy
/unjerk edit: this took like three or five attempts to type, damn case of beer.
FILE_ID_DIZ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:57:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, where did you read that?
the_wurd_burd ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:51:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm gonna smoke a bowl. Hit me up if you wanna laugh and talk about stars and shit.
Gullex ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:54:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man hit me up with that bowl.
TropicalCojones ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:22:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm high I wish I can see Andromeda from here oh well I'm high
recordsbricksNchips ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:28:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drunk here. Kinda wanna hit up a bowl too
M3nt0R ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:08:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same but also skiing.
melon_master ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:13:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Try not to trip, friend
ragingchestbeard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I ain't your friend guy
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:19:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm. Am drunk.
Euthyphroswager ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You did seem a little bit too excited.
Dunnsley ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:27:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am as well! (Drnkl!)
superatheist95 ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 06:53:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Im surprised it's as low as 3 trillion. But at the same time I'm not.
Sobertese ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:05:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuckin Captain Planet didn't have to give hoggish greedly such a hard time after all.
cocobandicoot ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:22:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But how many planets revolve around each of those stars?
Hunnyhelp ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:56:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just wait, corporate America is on jt
Gullex ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:57:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why did you say jt
Jareh-Ashur ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:28:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
cos ain't another woman take his trees, my love.
davybert ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:50:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Our logging industry has a lot of work ahead of them...
oorakhhye ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:52:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What qualifies as "trees" here though? Do we remove small plants or grass from the category?
Noble_Ox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:49:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well considering that smalls plants and grass aren't trees I'd say so.
Fizzay ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:53:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Give it time.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:02:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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BlackDeath3 ยท 81 points ยท Posted at 06:29:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure if you're aware, but the Universe is pretty damn big.
pablossjui ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 06:31:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
we talking galaxies here man
crazed3raser ยท 64 points ยท Posted at 06:36:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Galaxies are pretty fucking big too.
SquirtleSpaceProgram ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 06:42:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Though they're unfathomably small compared to the universe.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:16:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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narp7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:29:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure, to the universe, but not to a galaxy. I do agree galaxies are huge, though.
Ether165 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:41:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What this guy's said... how the fuck do we know how many stars their are in our own galaxy?
nedkelly08 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 06:52:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure myself but maybe just looking at a certain area, see how many stars there then get the rough area of the galaxy and get an average? Surely they haven't mapped every star
dontmentionthething ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:06:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Considering I've heard estimates anywhere from 100 billion to 400 billion, my guess is we don't really know how many there are.
We also don't really know exactly what it looks like, because we're in it.
omegachysis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:11:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One way is like /u/nedkelly08 said, another way is looking at the density of energy and mass throughout the surrounding sky. There are ways of extrapolating from that as well.
We also look out to other galaxies similar to us and use those to help us gauge our own. But it mostly has to be guess work.
slydunan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:05:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stars are pretty fucking big too.
BlackDeath3 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:41:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, that we are. You know, oddly enough, that somehow makes the claim quite a bit more believable. As if I can even fathom the difference...
tynorf ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:56:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is a mega-shit-ton of nothing between things thoughโฆ
XxLokixX ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:23:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Universe big != lots of stars. I don't mean to be annoying, I'm just saying
BlackDeath3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:11:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure lots of space doesn't necessarily imply lots of stars. However, my point is that I find it strange that somebody would find it hard to believe that many peoples' intuition would tell them that there's a fuck-ton of stars in the galaxy, even more than the number of trees on earth. Not so hard to believe, I think.
XxLokixX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:12:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can see where you're coming from, but I still stick with my original opinion
BeefPieSoup ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:23:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ummm....a square meter is really not that big
XxLokixX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:45:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's why I said it
BeefPieSoup ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:30:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well....there pretty much definitely isn't a tree for every square meter, is what I'm saying.
ManPumpkin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:13:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The estimate recently went from 200 billion trees to more than 3 trillion, so I wouldn't trust it either way.
greyjackal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
400 billion, not 100. But still.
Gullex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:05:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where did you get that number?
http://www.space.com/25959-how-many-stars-are-in-the-milky-way.html
greyjackal ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:08:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly? Elite:Dangerous :D
But then I looked it up to confirm : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way
100 mil is the low-end estimate, 400 the high-end.
In fact, your link says the same.
Soxviper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:04:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well there are probably more galaxies in the universe than trees on Warth
Gullex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:10:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where the fuck is Warth
functor7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:29:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a lot of trees. A trillion is a damn big number
BucketMaster69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:39:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just imagine how many grains of sand there are..
hurley21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:40:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whos counting the trees? Lmfao for real how do they get that number
phmuz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:44:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please, what?
Just_Move_Out ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:45:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The galaxy suddenly feels so small.
largehoman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:45:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
3 trillion? For real? Thats amazing.
nyjets4life6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:47:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
3 trillion? Holy shit...
Dustman999 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:49:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ELI5:
How the fuck can we count how many trees there are on earth?
...much less count how many stars in the Milky Way?
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:19:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You start at one and work your way up from there.
Ipsaeus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:29:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Take a small area of woods. Count the number of trees in that area. Figure out how big the rest of the woods is and multiply accordingly (so if the woods is 100 times larger than the area you counted, multiply the number of trees by 100). You now have a decent estimate of how many trees there are in the woods. Wash, rinse, repeat for all of the other woods in the world. Same general idea with stars, except we we use computers to make more complex models to model the galaxy better.
It's obviously more involved, but that's the general idea. Measure small and model and/or extrapolate the rest.
Kesild ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:02:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why did it have to be trees!
Upio ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:06:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We should be looking for aliens in the trees, not the sky.
Corund ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:07:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, it's ok. We're fixing the imbalance.
tatsuedoa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:12:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think this one sounds wrong because (for me atleast) we inherently switch Galaxy and Universe.
Also, the U.S is in more debt than there are stars in the galaxy.
theeyeeats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:26:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like it. It's like a "fuck you" to all these facts about how great and full of stuff the universe is compared to earth
Satherton ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:26:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
earths gotta up its tree game. think about what it was like millions of years ago to. holy fudge
CouldntThinkOf1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:29:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who the fuck counted all those trees?
idiotsbrother ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:30:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We'll see. I'm still counting. Stay tuned.
NewYooserMan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:33:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is a stupid amount of trees.
slvglive ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:34:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unfortunatly this fact wont be true forever...
Blktooth420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:37:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait I thought there was a thing where there are more stars than grains of sand? Or is that more general universe?
straylittlelambs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:39:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
USA's debt 6.35x all the trees on the earth or 193x all the stars in the milky way.
pervysage1608 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:41:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WHAT THE HELL
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:49:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its someones job to count trees lol
Garethsbeard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:58:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
3 treellion?
Dunderost ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:59:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and we are whining about harvesting trees in the jungle?
Airforce194Throwaway ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:23:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I got 400 billion stars when I looked it up.
acrylites ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:49:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are approximately the same number of brain cells (100 billion) as the number of stars in the galaxy (100 billion) . Coincidence? Probably
Geronap ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:56:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More like Tree Treelion trees on earth.
Seraspe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:57:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This makes the Earth seem extremely huge to me. A single tree is huge, but THREE FUCKING TRILLION of them on Earth??? Wow.
PurpleComyn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:00:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And that 3 trillion number is pretty far down from the peak.
Tommyboy420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:08:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now this whole deforestation thing sounds like bs. 3 trillion trees!
Saso7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:08:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wanna know who counted them.
TNAEnigma ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:08:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds weird. Three Trillion Trees.
JurassicBasset ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:14:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who counted them?
IlikeJG ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:16:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more ways to rearrange a deck of 52 cards than there are atoms in the solar system.
rgr555 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:42:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
3 trillion. thats a lot. what the heck
killer3james ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:16:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
400 billion
snappysloth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:21:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who do we have to thank for counting these?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:22:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love earth.
alfiealfiealfie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:23:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But someone said there are more stars in universe that all grains of sand on earth
Can't believe there are more trees than sand
alfiealfiealfie ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:25:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It says Milky Way you dumb fuck
sickofallofyou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:26:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
300-400 billion stars.
BirdsAreOK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:31:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So you can say that if you cut down 97,6% of all trees on earth, there would still be more trees left, than there's stars in the Milky Way.
Allstarcappa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:49:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I want to know who the fuck walked around the earth counting all the trees because that is some serious dedication to your job
MrShitz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:07:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can someone use the drake equation on the tree numbers? By all accounts there should be few type 2 civilizations among the trees and at least one type 3
j_walk_17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:22:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At least
[deleted] ยท 2033 points ยท Posted at 05:22:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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he-said-youd-call ยท 1203 points ยท Posted at 10:31:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
did you know there are more cells in your brain than brains in your entire body?
neilarmsloth ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 15:40:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did u know the 100 richest people in the world have more money combined than the 100 poorest people in the world?
[deleted] ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 13:03:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Pikassassin ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 13:49:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We are ALL KenM on this most glorious day. :)
joewith ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:10:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Speak for yourself.
Mercinary909 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:52:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am ALL KenM on this most glorious day. :)
Fermorian ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:14:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, look at this guy, he's over here being Joe! What gives, Joe?
MuffinMillitia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
LIAR!
Science_teacher_here ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:25:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you know if we were to take all the elephants on earth and stretch them head to tail from Earth to the moon, they would die?
Jiffpants ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:45:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless you include bacterial cells...
he-said-youd-call ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 13:46:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...as brains?
Jiffpants ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:57:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hahaha I am still asleep and apparently read that comment all wrong. Whoops!
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:20:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
someone doesnt have many brains in their body
Jiffpants ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:13:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
:( very true
ititsi ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:05:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more brains in the universe than grains of neurons on all of Earth's beaches put together.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:23:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
also there are mor cells in your brain than brains in your cells
DonQuixotel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:33:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this a joke about me not having brains? I guess I'll never figure it out anyway. Well played.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:43:35 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not if you're Ozzy Ozborne
OsakaJack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:32:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I call BS. Lemme fact check that later.
[deleted] ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 13:49:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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he-said-youd-call ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:51:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...why? What are you even talking about?
injeckshun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:56:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Front page. Chinese tourists in thailand
he-said-youd-call ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:07:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So because they stand around naked on a beach, they must not have a brain? Okay, whatever.
injeckshun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:50:39 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm just letting you know what I believe they are referencing. I don't agree with them
PM_ME_UR_SO ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 12:40:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
rekt
FoolsProof ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 08:56:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
hope it a weed joke
wajaba ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 10:55:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
there is only 1 star in our solar system.
CRISPR ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 11:44:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And he is married to a Kardashian.
JohnnyBusinessman ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 12:18:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lamar Odom?
oblivionraptor ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:27:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kendrick Lamar?
vizzmay ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:57:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anna Kendrick?
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 07:29:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you have 2 potted trees or 2 banzais? or..........you live in a tree house?
Cannondale1986 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:02:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So two trees?
maunoooh ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 09:36:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
r/trees?
luckymotherduck ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:36:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've had more boners in my life than there are stars in the Milky Way.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:46:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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luckymotherduck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:51:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But thanks to that my right wrist contains more power than all the stars in the universe
GangreneMeltedPeins ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:56:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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DUQwithaQ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:28:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ayyy it's lit
ReasonablyBadass ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:26:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, you have bonsai stars?
did_it_for_the_flair ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:55:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait wait, trees as in the big old wooden things, or trees as in the little expensive green things?
TheGreatLabMonkey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:16:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Our solar system has only one star - the sun. Our galaxy - the Milky Way - has about 100 billion stars. So OP probably has two trees in his/her/their apartment.
did_it_for_the_flair ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:47:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aaaaand I just got the comment dear God I'm thick as hell
did_it_for_the_flair ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:47:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I uh, I meant r/trees trees, I was being super Secret and subtle
Hunter-X- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:26:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
{{Citation needed}}
deadpa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:34:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kathy Griffin doesn't count.
DeemDNB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:21:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more cells in the brain than there are brains in the entire human body.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:30:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more cells in your brain than brains in your whole body.
english-23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:21:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you're outside?
DcMango ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:51:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I bet it smells great!
puffmonkey92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:59:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mold spores don't count
PM_YO_BOOBS_PLEZ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:54:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you live in a treehouse!
TheKingCapital ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:43:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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supercookieguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:26:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You grow two trees in your apartment?
thiscommentisboring ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:57:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are 2 trees in your apartment?
CloudFo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:23:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ayyy lmao
jaaydogg ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:03:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/trees relevant
Lord_Binky ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 07:52:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No way!
helloiamsilver ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 07:28:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shit. This really does sound so wrong
ForceBlade ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 12:53:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like to pretend it's false as there's no for sure way to just measure how many trees exist [for sure, and reliably] and that it's reddit and who doesn't like to put lies in a thread where there's no lies just to test reddit
don't tell me its real pls
tiif ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 06:59:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I bet the counting of trees went something like this: "1, 2, 3 ... hehe, tree...., where was i? 1 ..., 2....."
Erazai ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 08:39:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tree Trillion
MiniatureBadger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:49:23 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tree Fitty
Smoke731mcb ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 06:35:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Best one so far
MundaneFacts ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:40:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's the first one that I didn't believe.
grapesandmilk ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 02:56:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In order to find this surprising, you'd have to hear enough surprising facts about how many stars there are.
flyafar ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 07:46:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, we're always told how there are countless billions of stars in our galaxy, but how often do people talk about the number of trees?
reslumina ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 05:28:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
deleted What is this?
FantasyKing ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 07:55:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From my calculations I'd say about 3 trillion
Vinnie_Vegas ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:16:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We don't know that. There could be another planet, surrounding one of the billions of stars in our galaxy, that has trees on it
hakkzpets ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:46:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You usually don't count with unkown factors when counting stuff. Or there is a trillion stars in our galaxy, because well, we don't know that there isn't.
nissantoyota ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:21:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If we go by the property that trees only grow on earth soil then yes it's only 3 trillion
Vinnie_Vegas ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 10:28:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why would we do that? That's a ludicrous way to define a tree.
If we find a planet that was compositionally identical to Earth and had trees identical to ours, we wouldn't consider them trees because... Reasons?
ca178858 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:55:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the big unknown... why would life on another planet follow the same evolution? Lets say we find other planets covered with actual trees- maybe not related to ours that we can tell, but with similar cell structure and using DNA - that would be mind blowing.
Vinnie_Vegas ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:07:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It might not, but this was a hypothetical to support the point that a tree need not grow on Earth to be considered a tree.
There are two possibilities in this scenario: that we find trees that are distinctly different from what we have on Earth, or that we find trees that are the same as what we have on Earth.
Both would be mind blowing.
MundaneFacts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:39:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They would be genetically alien to our trees. That's like saying all tigers are lions. Hey! They look very similar. Tigers are lions!.
Unless the alien trees can mate with our trees, they aren't trees.
Vinnie_Vegas ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:03:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But our trees don't all mate with each other... Nor is it necessary to the definition of a tree that they can mate with a different species of tree.
MundaneFacts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:59:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I explained my point poorly. We categorize our animals based on their relatives. Orca(killer whales) are more similar to whales than they are to dolphins. Since they are descended from dolphins, they are considered dolphins.
It doesn't matter if we find tall woody plants with green leaves that collect sunlight for photosynthesis. They will be called tree-like aliens.
DoodleBob88 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:50:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is one of the only posts in this thread that had me in disbelief.
ForceBlade ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:53:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Must have been that PornHub promo
Bangersss ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:24:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Better start burning more trash.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:38:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Bangersss ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 06:41:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, it increases the number of stars.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:43:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
oh right.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:03:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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braindoper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:26:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He just talked about starts in the milkyway. If you count the whole universe, there's a lot more stars.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:00:10 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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braindoper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:29:10 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I never made that connection, but you're right. With one exception, Omega Centauri.
MontRouge ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:57:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This one blew my mind. Woah.
Solvern1a ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:48:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus that's actually amazing
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:20:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please refrain from saying God's name in vain. I find it very offensive and I'm certain others do too.
Prn_thieves ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:44:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Err... Welcome to the Internet, you must be new here. Jesus fucking Christ.
the_wurd_burd ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:50:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To the top with you! Every single one of these I'd heard before AND I thought yours was bullshit. Wow. Just wow.
whateverbruhwhatever ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:02:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
not for long
Jareh-Ashur ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:27:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not if I have anything to say about it
DrunkOnLuck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:31:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not if humanity has anything to say about it!
karuga1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:04:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more red blood cells inside your body than there are stars in the milky way (or trees in the world)
High_Fiving_ur_Heart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:05:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember reading long ago about there being more stars in the Universe than the number of sand particles on Earth. Guess that's gone now.
Kruch ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:30:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Universe vs Milky Way. The Milky Way is only one of the hundred billion galaxies in the universe.
crywaii ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:33:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
maybe in the Paleozoic era
Piratearrrg887 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:00:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I saw this today on instagram
heidoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:04:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Had to upvote because this one totally sounds like bullshit.
SuperCashBrother ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:10:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
On the flip side, there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on all of earth's beaches.
CLint_FLicker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:26:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about stars to dispute it.
Casteway ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:26:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are also more possible moves in a chess game than atoms in the known Universe. I always get downvoted for saying this, but Google both of these facts separately before you downvote me please.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:29:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I still don't believe it
m00fire ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:32:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also the human body synthesises seven light-years of DNA in its lifetime.
Leeeto ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:49:27 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I kinda believe you, but do you have a source on that?
Squiggledog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:34:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trees suck at being outnumbered by local galactic stars.
Hashnacrochs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:41:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Weeelllll....maybe
S7evyn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:50:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sharks have existed more or less unchanged for so long that they pre-date trees by around 50 million years.
gesy17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:57:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's more trees than humans?... why aren't we killing them, so they know this is our planet and we won't take no crap from some stupid trees!
Wilreadit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:09:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You the real MVP man.
thebestbananabread ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:10:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel sorry for the guy who had to count them
OldAngryWhiteMan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:12:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How many Galaxies are there in the universe? In the observable universe it is thought to be one hundred billion galaxies.
GreenFriday ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:16:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But are there more trees in the rest of the Milky Way than on Earth?
OrangeDit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:17:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whaa- ...
ReasonablyBadass ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:27:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Still not enough.
rumbar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:30:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Another one that everyone thinks I'm lying about is: there are more moves on a chess board than stars in the sky.
BLACKAP3RTURE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:07:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People love to confuse "Milky Way" and "Universe". IDK why that is, but we comparatively suck relative to the rest of the universe.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:16:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Calling BS on this one.
IckGlokmah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:15:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Google it. It's true.
Just_a_wet_fart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:27:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To go along with this, there are more stars in the universe than grains of sands on earth.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:34:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more chickens than people.
TooBadFucker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:43:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd probably still disbelieve that even after looking it up. That can't be right.
Ap0q ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:44:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh really, who did count every star in the Milky Way? Who did count every tree on earth?
Just kidding. I know that this is considered "scientifically correct" because someone smarter than us did the math. But it is hard to believe that someone could actually figure out the amount of trees we have on earth when there is no way to keep up with how many trees fall/get cut every second. I mean space on earth is pretty confined. There are only certain areas that can be counted as "tree areas" and those are constantly changing because of industrial mining, fires, natural disasters, even a lake or a river takes place so you can't just look from the orbit earth and say; hey, that area is green, it is 100.000km x 200.000km and there has to be 1 tree per 1mยฒ.
So if someone says or states "yeah, we got 3 trillion trees on earth" then I would like to see the book(s) of paper he had to fill to measure those numbers and prove to me he didn't come up with just a rough estimate that didn't take everything into account.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:00:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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dman5202 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:29:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
STUPID statement from any world view point
Patbach ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:16:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But then, there is more stars in the universe then grains of sand on Earth.
pancarte ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:20:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Give it time.
Kristastic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:34:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is officially the first one that I'm having trouble believing... Damn.
GLOOTS_OF_PEACE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:45:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol get fucked ay
TheSimonToUrGarfunkl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:48:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more stars in our galaxy than atoms in the universe.
OwenMerlock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:51:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Amazing.
DanV_Rev9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:55:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Had a friend tell me this one the other day. I'll admit I called bullshit on it too!
bananabastard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:02:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:05:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For how long though
PhotoandGrime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:10:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And people still don't get why I worship trees..
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:15:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Read this as bees and was thoroughly concerned. Turns out there's 900million bees, 100billion stars.
Autumn_Fire ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:38:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"There are more stolen bikes in my garage than there are stars in the Milky Way"
-Black Science Man
outroversion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:59:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So is there more trees than sand?
johnzaku ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:18:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No fucking way.
....clickety clicky type....
Wow. Fuckin way.
RustyWinger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:22:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OMG, I can't wait for this to become a talking point on corporate climate deniers arguments for clear cutting.
lossyvibrations ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:26:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more stars in our galaxy than atoms in our universe.
JeedyFromTheBlock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:27:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This makes no sense to me. Makes me wonder what counts as a tree.
mannequinbeater ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:40:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's also the one saying there are more stars in the universe than there is sand on earth. I just think that is REALLY unlikely. Considering if almost every inch of the ocean floor consists of sand and the oceans take up around 75% of the earth. That's a metric fuckton of sand.
Retro-Squid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:42:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For now...
adamrsb48 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:45:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bullshit.
Wait, no. It's TRUE!
HOW?
the_glass_passenger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:45:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Had to set my phone down after this one.
Brian9577 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:51:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds obvious though
Panchotevilla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:52:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It finally made sense after I noticed you said the milky way, not the universe.
phate0451 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:53:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not provable and most likely false.
JrOrangee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:54:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wow
TakeMySandAndRun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:14:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Awesome!
AbeLaney ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:25:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This was just discovered recently, I think? Tough to wrap your head around.
pm_me_for_penpal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:50:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the only true mind-blowing fact in this thread.
dumbBeerApp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:50:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn TIL there's more ants than trees.
danby ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:12:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is my favourite
Wolfey1618 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:21:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, give it like twenty years and that might change
wingnut257 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:47:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is beautiful
ThatFag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:54:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
mecrosis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:05:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So deforestation isn't really a big deal?
-dont-believe-me ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:19:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not for long.
AnorexicBuddha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:23:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course there are, not sure why people wouldn't think that.
Razimek ยท 1976 points ยท Posted at 06:23:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
If a disease infects 2% of a population, and a test is developed that is 95% accurate (and no false negatives), then if you are tested positive, the chance you actually have the disease is only 29%.
Edit: This assumes you're just a person chosen at random to get tested.
Population = 1000.
People who have disease X = 20.
People who don't have disease X = 980.
False positive rate = 5%.
False negative rate = 0%.
Of the 20 people who have disease X, they all receive a correct positive reading.
Of the 980 have don't have disease X, 49 of them will receive an incorrect/false positive reading.
69 people tested positive, yet only 20 of them are actually positive. That's a 29% chance that if you tested positive, you're actually positive, for a test that is 95% accurate.
Now let's say you have a 99% accurate test, for a disease that infects 1 in a million people.
Population = 1,000,000.
People who have disease X = 1.
People who don't have disease X = 999,999.
False positive rate = 1%.
False negative rate = 0%.
1% of the 999,999 people who don't have disease X will receive a false positive. That's 10 thousand people (rounded).
10,001 people tested positive, and 10,000 of those are false positives.
So there's a 99.99% chance you don't have it, if tested positive on that 99% accurate test.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive_paradox
Prometheus8330 ยท 128 points ยท Posted at 12:56:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I better move to Madagascar, then.
Razimek ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 13:28:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That reference went over my head.
DukeofEarlGrey ยท 56 points ยท Posted at 15:12:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING!
It's a Pandemic reference. In that videogame, you have to infect people/countries. But as soon as an epidemic starts, Madagascar shuts down its borders and it's really difficult to infect.
herrabanani2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:37:13 on April 13, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Matagasgar: close ALL boat and air traffic. Give people masks and burn dead boddies and lockdown the country.
I_did_naaaht ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 14:37:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
There is a game called Pandemic, in which the goal is to create a plague that infects and kills the whole world. Madagascar was notorious for shutting down its borders at the first sign of any illness, and it was difficult to infect due to being an island.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:13:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You also get it on your phone. And Greenland is a bitch too.
SivarCalto ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:56:26 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I LOL'd and almost woke up the baby. Still worth it. :D
dovahkin1989 ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 15:44:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Slightly misleading since in healthcare, your accuracy is more determined by the false negative rather than the false positive.
I am not worried about a patient being misdiagnosed (since multiple tests then follow which prove the legitimacy of the diagnosis). I am more worried about a test coming back negative when it should actually be positive, because then it is dismissed, particularly if it is large battery of tests. Yes the paradox above is true, but like many paradoxes, there relation to real life scenarios is a bit exaggerated when taught.
Nerdn1 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 18:29:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which is why minimizing false negatives is more important. The false positive paradox explains why when a cheap, quick screening test coming back positive doesn't mean you likely have a disease, just that you are more likely to have it than the general population. Since they found that you have a 29% chance of having the disease rather than a one in a million chance, it makes sense to try a more expensive, invasive, and/or slower test that is more accurate.
Seicair ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:29:02 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In healthcare, you're not going to give certain tests to everyone who comes through your office because the likelihood of someone having that disease is so low. You'd only give them tests for rare or rarish conditions if they were presenting with symptoms that could be indicative of that condition, or if you had some reason to suspect they had it.
If you gave them to everyone, 71% of them would need an expensive secondary test and have undue stress put on them worrying after the first test came back positive.
TimoculousPrime ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 08:00:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bayes theorem is wonderful!
Dangly_Parts ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:45:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Using stats for this thread is basically cheating
Caleb_Krawdad ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:35:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what they say in /r/politics too
effa94 ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 14:50:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i just wrote a test in probability and statistics, i dont need this shit right now
Nerdwiththehat ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 19:43:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The terrorist machine! I've used this to knock down a teacher who insisted that wiretapping every phone in the US was the best way to catch terrorists a few pegs. If we built the mythic "terrorist machine" that performs with 99.9% efficiency, and only like 1% of the population is a terrorist, the machine is almost 99% incorrect. And the "terrorist machine" we have today is maybe 40% effective, and only 0.0001% of the population is a terrorist, maybe. Maths!
marinsteve ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 16:27:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is why new hire drug testing is unreasonable. Most of the time, someone failing the drug test is innocent, but risks losing the job anyway.
6chan ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 12:22:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bayes theorem FTW
organman91 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:22:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Healthcare Triage did some great videos on this stuff:
https://youtu.be/UF1T7KzRnrs
https://youtu.be/Ql2jEJ-6e-Y
AlcoholicBarbie ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:43:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This reminds me of The Thing
I need to watch that movie again.
"Probability that one or more team members may be infected by intruder organism: -75%-"
Cold hard statistics are terrifying sometimes. Especially when you're stranded in an Antartic research station with a parasitic shape-shifter back in the 80's.
techiesgoboom ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:15:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And this is why they recommend you don't get a "routine" cat scan or really any test for that matter unless you actually have a need.
defaultsubsaccount ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:49:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Another way to explain why this is false is the Sperical Cow. We should remove all relevance to testing and the real world if we are going to relate this to a disease because this scenario is impossible. If 2% of a population has a disease you cannot know geographically what your distribution level is. The percentage of a population that has a disease is also a much more wild estimation than a test. It's a less reliable number. It could range from 1% to 10%. That is more like the actual human population and then we're not even talking about demographics or life-style.
On the other hand you have this actual scientific test that is 95% accurate. This statistic is FAR more likely to apply to your subject. I stand by you have a closer to 95% chance of having the disease than 29% in a real world situation and further more this is a bullshit example DESIGNED to make people feel stupid because they haven't bothered to dissect it like I just did. Everyone who had the intuition that this seems wrong you are correct.
If you guys want to derive a new principle out of this then it's this "Real life scenarios require statistics that have equal validity. The also involve their own margin of error."
This is like one of those IQ tests that a really smart person would fail and medocre people would imagine they were competent for the rest of their lives ruining society.
Razimek ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:55:23 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It does ignore that the people who are getting tested, probably have a reason to want to get tested. The examples in the article apply to random people getting tested. Nevertheless there are other examples where knowing the false positive paradox can be very useful, in cases where everyone or random people are being tested for something. For example, DNA testing.
If everyone in the world's DNA was on file, then if you had a computer just test random people and stop when it finds a match, that doesn't mean it's the right person. You need to have at least some other evidence (e.g the person lives in the same country at least).
iamkayfc ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:45:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was doing my Probability tutorial and this question came out.
cragglerock93 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:52:02 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't that assuming that everyone is tested for the disease, not just those they suspect have the disease?
Razimek ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:43:08 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sort of. For any random person that gets tested positive, it would be 29%. But if you're getting tested, you probably are presenting symptoms and have many reasons to be in the doctors office, which the calculations don't take into account. I'll edit the post.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:13:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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BullockHouse ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 15:43:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
IIRC, the tests for Down's syndrome and such are actually pretty accurate. Not convinced that was good advice.
AnonIknow ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:27:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I still tell my patients to do confirmation testing in most cases because of what OP alludes to. The conversation depends a lot on the age of the patient and what we see on ultrasound - both help modify the risk.
Cuntasticbitch ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:24:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know way too many people who had false positives on these tests. The stress levels they had were through the roof and the tests they have to further investigate have higher miscarriage/early labor rates, because they are invasive. If you plan on keeping the baby no matter what, many OB/GYNs recommend opting out of the testing, as many deformities can be seen on ultrasounds. I decided to opt out because 4 people I knew had false positives and amniocentesis the year I was pregnant, including one who delivered 6 days before me. I had enough problems during my pregnancy, I didn't need the added stress.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 15:46:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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BullockHouse ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:13:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm glad to hear that! Yeah, I think the way it works is that they have easy / safe /non-invasive tests with a fairly high false positive rate, but in the event of a positive result, they can pretty much verify by doing more invasive / riskier tests. Which does sound stressful, but probably also like something you want to know.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:14:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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savsavsav ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:50:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had the Harmony test done, it's very easily available. It's just a blood test. This is something you definitely should want to know, and your doctor should have told you about if your child was born only 9 months ago.
AbeLaney ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:31:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, thanks Stat-man.
MineDogger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:19:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit snacks...
mythical_beastly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:39:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had to do a problem like this on my last Probability and Statistics assignment. That class is always mildly blowing my mind, I love it.
_coyotes_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:01:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd just like to say the name Disease X sounds really fuckin cool. I mean what's this pussy "Swine Flu", nobody's gonna be scared of this disease because you can just avoid pigs. But Disease X, I'd probably shit my pants. Who knows where it comes from?
Nerdn1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:37:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One thing that people fail to mention when talking about false positives is the reason we use often test that don't tell you if you are likely to have a disease. Many times there's a quicker, cheaper, less-invasive test that is used to screen the general population (like a blood or urine test). If this sort of test comes back positive, there is often more invasive, slower, or more expensive tests (sometimes a more expensive blood-test, or possibly a biopsy or something).
Shhadowcaster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:20:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How many tests would you need to administer to make the false positive unlikely to happen?
Caleb_Krawdad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:35:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really good MIT video on Probability Theory that dives into this(and much much more!). I freaking love probability!
SixteenSaltiness ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:45:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Practically speaking though, how do you know the rate of infection in a country without an accurate test?
TehMulbnief ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:54:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans are apocalyptically bad at understanding and predicting systems that involve conditional probabilities.
Ehvasion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:17:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bayes Theorem is confusing af if you just try and think about it
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:51:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Classic freshman stats question.
Obi-Wan_Kannabis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:52:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn, this is the best answer here. It sounds completely unbelievable.
micromic1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:25:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kinda the same thing with server uptime guarantee. 99% uptime guarantee means that 3.65 days per year, your server will be down.
ImGrimm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:52:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry, I wasn't planning on using my brain anyway. It's late at night and this really fucked with my head.
defaultsubsaccount ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:28:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Another way to see why this is an impossible situation is:
Sarah says 2% of the population has a disease.
Bill has a test that is 95% accurate.
Bill gives you the test and it says positive.
How certain are you that you have the disease?
You go ask Sarah since she seems to know all the answers.
You are mixing divine knowledge and a dimension where we only know what the test says. This scenarios simply does not exist. In fact it cannot exist because you can never know exactly 2% of a population has a disease unless you already know exactly who has the disease and who doesn't, which means the 95% test is useless because you already know the answer.
Iamhereforcats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:30:22 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean the false positive rate is higher than the targeted rate it self.
TheRealElJefe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:23:19 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How is 1% of 1,000,000 people only 1? Maybe I'm fucking up my math since I got two hours of sleep last night however it doesn't make sense. 1% of 1,000,000 would be 1,000 correct?
Razimek ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:09:06 on March 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I never said 1% (in reference to people who have the disease). I said:
Then I said
That's 1, not 1%.
The false positive rate is 1%, which is 10,000 (not 1,000).
TheRealElJefe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:17:29 on March 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're the real mvp. I must have been tired because I clearly see it now. Thanks.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:08:09 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love this one.
ByronicPhoenix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:24:31 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bayesian Probability!
Darkredsubmarine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:07:18 on June 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a TED talk with this.
https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_donnelly_shows_how_stats_fool_juries?language=en#t-652420
11 minutes in
_ronak ยท -43 points ยท Posted at 08:16:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
dude. of course that math is going to work out that way. you went from a disease that infects 2% of the population to a disease that you indirectly say infects only .000001% of the population (1 in 1 million). so even though you increase the accuracy of the test by a whopping 4%, you're still cutting the disease size by a factor of a fucking million dude. so now you're comparing two statistically independent events and making it look like they have something to do with each other. all this "fact" tells us that probability wise you are more likely to get a correct positive if a larger percentage of the population was infected. but if the disease only infected 100 people in the whole world (~.000001%), probably skip totally unnecessary test cuz it's probably wrong. thanks guy.
Razimek ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 09:24:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Ooookay. Chill.
It's counterintuitive to expect a 99% accurate test can be 99.99% wrong. It's not expected that the rarity of the thing it is looking for will change anything. 99% accurate is 99% accurate, so you've got a 1% chance of it returning the wrong result, right? It's technically true, but misleading.
I was only giving the two
mainbest examples in the Wikipedia article. If I just presented the fact without the explanation, perhaps it wouldn't have seemed so obvious.skullkandyable ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 09:45:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like I learned something valuable. Thank you!
Razimek ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 10:36:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Here's another way to look at it.
You compete in a blindfold competition to walk in the most perfect straight line. You're up against 10,000 people. Everyone gets a medal for participating (had to make this analogy work somehow), but the person who walks the straightest gets a "#1" written on their medal (the others are blank). You have a 1 in 10,000 chance of winning.
Except the people engraving the medals made some mistakes and 5% of the medals have "#1" written on them instead of only one of them.
You complete the race and get given a medal with "#1" written on it. Do you deduce that there's a 95% chance that you really won? After all, there's only a ~5% chance they gave you the wrong medal. Or do you suspect that you more than likely didn't win?
Of course, it'd be really really obvious if only the 1st place winner got a medal, but you saw that other people had medals too. Technically it's the same analogy, but the problem sticks out straight away.
FreeGiraffeRides ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 08:45:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The post is a classic example of Bayes' theorem. If you think it's trivial, you haven't thought about it enough.
rugtoad ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 15:12:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure the guy above is one of them thar "Reddit contrarians"...basically, people who counter-jerk anything they don't understand after quickly skimming over it.
See, they think that people who don't understand things are stupid. And they know they are not stupid, because they've never done anything that would have disproved their mom's assertion that they are, in fact, super duper smart (if they'd only apply themselves more!).
So the conclusion they reach is that the person who said the thing which they don't understand is wrong, then they perform a weird rhythm-less, senseless rain dance of irrelevant thought in which they attempt demonstrate how the person who confused them is, in fact, a retard. Usually, if you call out their rambling for not making sense or being remotely related to the original post, they will follow up with a mess of disjointed run-on sentences demonstrating your mental deficiencies.
That or he's a troll. I can never tell.
FreeGiraffeRides ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:11:50 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You not only nailed it, but buried it six feet deep.
snuffybox ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 08:45:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uhh thats the point?
defaultsubsaccount ยท -28 points ยท Posted at 11:01:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The reason why this is wrong is because it is not taking into consideration that some people may be known to have the disease before the test.
rugtoad ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 15:05:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a well-established mathematical principle, there's not a damned thing wrong about it. What you're talking about is something completely outside of the scope of the comment above.
And you're still wrong.
defaultsubsaccount ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:29:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you are known to have the disease the accuracy of the test doesn't matter. That is why it seems odd because it is. This situation assumes one must be tested by this test and only this test. This situation assumes this is the only valid test and nothing else can diagnose this disease. That is why it seems wrong because it is.
rugtoad ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:18:03 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh ffs.
This has nothing to do with medicine. It has nothing to do with the nature of the test.
It is a simplified example used to illustrate Bayes' Theorem.
There's nothing at all "wrong" about it, what is "wrong" is that you're nitpicking details entirely irrelevant to the point. Tell ya what, let's reword the example and see if that helps:
The point has jack shit to do with the actual test, that is immaterial. It's about statistics, and specifically what the good reverend Thomas Bayes had to say about them.
Again, there's nothing wrong here, and if there is...go fucking demonstrate it, because there's a Fields Medal out there with your name on it if you can do so.
Razimek ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 11:04:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What do you mean? It's stated as a brute fact that 20 out of 1000 people have the disease. The examples require that it's known what percentage of the population absolutely do have the disease. You don't know which individual people, but you know the amount of people.
The calculations are then done on the amount of people who don't have the disease (980).
It should be clear that the amount of people who definitely don't have the disease but get a positive test, is 49. The remaining positive tests, 20, are definitely positive.
Seicair ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:31:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not certain, but he may be saying that in reality, we'd try to only give a test like that to people who are presenting with symptoms of what we're testing for. That cuts down on the false positive rate considerably. If a positive does come back, further (more expensive or in-depth) tests are ordered to rule out a false positive.
Razimek ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:33:00 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, that certainly changes things.
For other analogies where either everyone or random people are tested, the False Positive Paradox is very useful to know about. Another example on the Wikipedia article was about detecting terrorists.
defaultsubsaccount ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:09:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It took me a while to figure out what you were saying, but you are correct in my opinion. We never give tests to EVERYONE in a population. People go in and get tested for things because they think they might have them. The scenario above assumes everyone is getting tested with this test yet there also exists some other divine knowledge that we know 2% of the population actually has the disease. In real life if someone went into a clinic to get tested and we have a rough idea that 2% of the population has a disease and they get a positive result the 95% accuracy result is the one that would be more likely to be true. Further more if we know 2% of the population has the disease then do we have some better test that tells us that? Why aren't we using that one? The scenario also never mentions that everyone takes the test or how we could possibly know until after extensive testing with this 95% chance test that 2% of the population has the disease. That means we couldn't know if the first test had a 29% possibility until we discovered 2% of the population has the disease so we would never be making this calculation. They are from 2 different timelines. 29% would be a conclusion only for population that was 100% tested and then the 29% would only apply in retrospect. For anyone walking in off the street 95% would the number you used.
Seicair ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:15:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We do, actually. We give those tests if they're cheap, have a low false positive rate, and if the disease/condition is common. We don't do it for rare diseases, if the false positive rate is too high, or if the test is expensive/complicated.
Because the first test saves a lot of money. Let's say this hypothetical test has a 5% false positive rate, but effectively 0% false negatives. Let's say it's cheap and quick. A cheek swab, 10 minute turn around, can be done in a doctor's office. You'll give it to anyone you suspect might have this disease. If you get a positive, you send them to get blood drawn for a more expensive test that can confirm or refute the positive result for an absolute diagnosis. The second test is more time-consuming and more expensive, so it's only done if you have a positive from the first test.
You still wouldn't give it to anyone, despite it being cheap and quick, because this disease is fairly rare and 5% false positives would result in a huge number of expensive secondary tests.
defaultsubsaccount ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:45 on April 17, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Blah blah blah. You're an idiot forever.
defaultsubsaccount ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:39:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This example is designed to be a trick because it is mixing absolute impossible abstract knowledge that 20 people have the disease with human derived knowledge that you have a 5% chance of having the disease. The absolute chance that you have the disease may be 29% if you take into account the mysterious 2% that we were given from nowhere. What is the test for that? What is it's accuracy? The only test we have in this scenario is the one that is 95% accurate. You can throw out the knowledge of 2% because we don't know where that knowledge comes from. The only thing you can consider trusting is that you have a 95% chance of having the disease. This is a fantasy world that uses a test for a premise for one statistic and some magical number for the other premise. This is a poorly designed fantasy world that I refuse to accept. I therefore choose to accept the premise that at least has a test.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:13:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ken M?
Dgraz22 ยท 878 points ยท Posted at 05:56:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We went to the moon before we put wheels on suitcases.
JasonDJ ยท 157 points ยท Posted at 16:20:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Luggage isn't that heavy on the moon.
Mmmcheez ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 18:00:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this the birth of the famous term "We can put a man on the moon..." came into play? Someone was so fed up with having to carry his suitcase around that he said "We can put a man on the moon, but we can't put wheels on suitcases?" Thank this man.
HooptyDooDooMeister ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:53:25 on April 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tho the first recorded time a suitcase had wheels was 1987, it wasn't popular until the past decade or so. I remember watching a Simpsons episode from 1995 where Homer says the "How come you can put a man on the moon, but can't make my feet smell good."
AnticitizenPrime ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:52:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The common school backpack didn't become popular until the late 1960's.
Kinda nutty because it seems so obvious. What's interesting is that its popularity is STILL catching on... ten years ago, people in my offices still commonly carried briefcases to hold their laptops/work stuff. Nowadays it's 95% backpacks to hold the same stuff. I guess the idea that a businessman should awkwardly carry a briefcase was a fashion convention that overstayed its welcome.
Dyesce_ ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 09:17:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And before we had anything that we could call a computer nowadays. The everyday thing I hold in my hand that we give our little children to play with is waaaay more powerful than anything they had back then.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:04:14 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For a more specific comparison, the processor in a TI-83 was being used in computers in the 70s and 80s.
edgeblackbelt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:51:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Correction: we put wheels on suitcases because astronauts were fed up with having to carry all their luggage.
r4ndpaulsbrilloballs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:41:58 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ever consider that sometimes progress moves backwards, not forwards?
Now, in 2016, we couldn't put a man on the moon if the Earth depended on it. But the average asshole has so much extra Chinese-made crappy graphic Ts in size xxl and knick-knacks that we need wheels to push that shit around...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:54:02 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
y couldn't we
r4ndpaulsbrilloballs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:06:16 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only Russia still has the tech to send a person to space. But not all the way to the moon. Nobody has the technology any more to pull it off. It would take at least a decade to develop.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:18:48 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So they threw all the tech to the trash? How could we have all the tech in 1969, but not anymore?
r4ndpaulsbrilloballs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:37:51 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty much. Nobody kept up the technology and the skilled teams required to do manned missions beyond low earth orbit over the last 40 years. We have no working rockets capable of taking people to the moon any more. Nor do we have an engineering team with experience doing it any more. We'd have to rebuild all of it. It would be incredibly expensive and time consuming.
Think of it maybe like building the pyramids. I mean, those were done with 6,000+ year old technology. But it would takes us decades and incredible cost to try to remake them today. We simply don't have the active stone quarries in the area, the manpower with the expertise, or the active supply routes they had. We'd have to re-invent it all from scratch. It would take a very long time.
Engesa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:51:54 on May 31, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It wouldn't be all from scratch, though. We have all of the theory still. It could go considerably faster this time if we needed it to.
r4ndpaulsbrilloballs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:11:48 on May 31, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just don't really think it would be that much quicker. Even if the theory's there and you have a handful of experts that really know it, you still need a sufficient number of employees trained in it. That stuff takes time.
I mean, take something like the old analogue computers that functioned as guidance systems for naval ships. Say we needed a ton of those all of the sudden. Even if you have a bunch of software engineers to throw at it, who can with just a little study figure out how to set them up, you still need to train a ton of machinists and operators and assemblers and welders and everyone else who there won't be sufficient supplies of to get the damned things off the ground.
Engesa ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:16:08 on May 31, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, I'm not saying it will be easy. Just that it will be easier.
Toasty117 ยท 845 points ยท Posted at 05:41:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We are closer to 2040 than to 1990.
maybedoctor ยท 683 points ยท Posted at 08:50:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck stop it
Yuli-Ban ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 16:20:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In 4 years (2020), it will have been 30 years since the '90s began. The Playstation 2 will also be 20 years old.
ITalkToTheWind ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 18:56:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Gamecube is about as old today as the NES was when the Gamecube came out. Wind Waker is basically vintage gaming now
soiledPlants ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:10:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...fuck, now I'm sad.
Yuli-Ban ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:13:37 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not only that, but the Nintendo 64 turns 20 this year.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:41:31 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Yuli-Ban ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:56:20 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Dreamcast turns 20 in 2 years. So does the Gameboy Color.
posamobile ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:51:52 on April 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about that piece of shit Virtual Boy
Yuli-Ban ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:31:08 on April 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I just realized that the Oculus Rift is 5 years old. Yeah, I remember the very forum post Palmer Luckey made declaring what he was working on in 2012, and he mentioned somewhere that he built the first prototype in his garage back in 2011.
So yeah.
maybedoctor ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:19:07 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't do this to me pls
ahakimir ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 06:42:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This blew my mind so good
tigerjess ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 13:21:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is actually terrifying! Although it does remind me that when I was 11, I had lived in 3 decades, 2 centuries and 2 millenia
sexihunk666 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:58:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I despise people of your year...
/signed
-2000 kid
imhotep4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:23:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You still lived in 2 centuries and 2 millenia, since the new millenium started in 2001. 2001 kids despise us.
sexihunk666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:10:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but that's not very cool. It's cooler to have been born when the number was 1 instead of 2.
imhotep4 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:51:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Then I'm obviously better than you since I was born in 1997.
Edit: /s
sexihunk666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:57:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, noter.
I shall bow down to you and suck your massive bear cock!
imhotep4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:25:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no need to get butthurt :^)
sexihunk666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:30:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:32:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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sexihunk666 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:34:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Calm down? I was just informing you. I wasn't upset at all! :)
imhotep4 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 17:37:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
shit you're seething with anger
sexihunk666 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:58:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You forgot the '/s ' again! :)
imhotep4 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:08:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
please consider going to anger management meetings
sexihunk666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:09:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...
AP246 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:14:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I despise him
-2001 kid
00yoshi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:21:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why? Why won't the millenia be zero-indexed?
Madness20 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:30:14 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because there is no year 0, just 1, so it started counting on 1 :P
00yoshi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:31:47 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe I worked too much with C-like arrays...
TCONJ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:00:46 on July 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm -signed, a random 2000 kid
TigerMaskV ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:47:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was born in 1980. When I realized I was born closer to the original Woodstock than I was to Woodstock '94 it put so much in perspective for me.
kunibob ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 08:12:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fun fact from another 1980: we were born only 11 years after the moon landing.
I think about how the moon landing always seemed like "ancient history" to me, then realized kids born in 2016 will look back at 2005 as the same relative "ancient"ness, and it blew my mind.
sexihunk666 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:57:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't see 1989 as ancient history. I think it has to do with culture, tradition, history, build-up, and general ideas about the year, not just how long ago it was. 1899 is a lot longer ago than 1900.
kunibob ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:00:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True, I should have used historical events as a benchmark. A better example might be a kid born in 2012 looking back on 9/11. To me, it's a point in history that had massive repercussions worldwide in terms of personal rights, race/religion issues, international relations, and even small things like airport security. To today's 4 year old, it'll be something they learn about in a textbook next to other historical events.
I don't know, something about this realization made me realize how strange my views of historical events of the 60s/70s must have seemed to my parents, or how my views of WWII must have seemed to my grandparents. I don't think I'm adequately describing what I mean, but it blew my mind.
sexihunk666 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:20:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I do believe I understand.
toolatealreadyfapped ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:54:36 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We currently have college students with no actual memory of 9/11.
Wilreadit ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 11:53:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck, I am fucking old.
Sexymcsexalot ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:38:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sweet, I retire in 2040!
AP246 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:14:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This seems weird even for me, and I was born around 2000. I just got used the fact that it was the late 00s/early 2010s, as this was the age at which I was conscious of times and dates, but young enough for time to seem to pass slowly. It's crazy to sit back and think at how it's already 2016, 2020 seemed like the far future back then, and now I'm closer to that than 2010. Oh, well, from what I can gather this will only get worse as I get older.
00yoshi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:24:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
2025 actually looks like far in the future to me... My second monitor is a bit older (nearly 11 years, manufactured june 2005 in china) than the time we need to get to 2025 (9 years).
toolatealreadyfapped ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:51:01 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the moon landing than the building of the pyramids.
s317sv17vnv ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:45:33 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
T. rex lived closer in time to the present day than to the beginning of dinosaurs.
Gullex ยท 9456 points ยท Posted at 01:45:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
green_meklar ยท 4395 points ยท Posted at 03:46:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And humans are more closely related to sea cucumbers than to insects.
hashtagwindbag ยท 2171 points ยท Posted at 07:52:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man, I believe it. I'm always vomiting up every organ in my body as an escape mechanism.
Sometimes I do it to get out of awkward conversations, like when I'm confronted about vomiting on friends and family.
yonicthehedgehog ยท 282 points ยท Posted at 12:40:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"So, Steve, have you found a girlfriend yet?"
proceeds to violently puke his lungs and guts out
"...I'll take that as a no"
poorly_timed_leg0las ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 11:47:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I usually just throw my shit at them
iWamt ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 12:05:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Poorly_timed_leg0las is more closely related to gorillas than to humans.
DemiGod9 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 12:28:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
r/nocontext
kosmoceratops1138 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:52:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An actual, appropriate use if this. And no stupid follow-up. I'm proud if you, Reddit.
kyzfrintin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:11:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mistyped "of" as "if" twice. Is it a double typo, or a habit?
kosmoceratops1138 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:02:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm on mobile and I try to type really fast, so if autocorrect doesn't cath it it's usually an error
SadGhoster87 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:01:28 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Comment checks out
Com_Hurri ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 13:34:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ICANTBREATHEOMG
Fermorian ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:12:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm glad you took the time out of your asphyxiation to let us know
DemiGod9 ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 14:45:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
r/nocontext
gmfk07 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:25:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"This is an intervention. You have to stop regurgitating organs."
"HWAAAAUGH"
SadGhoster87 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:01:43 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Larry.
invader_jun ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:52:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is how the sea cucumber do.
sigma932 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:47:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So you must also have a way to replenish your organs afterwards? Science should tie you up and scare you repeatedly as a way to farm donor organs!
Hawksaw_Jim_Duggan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:01:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Relevant smbc
Triquetra4715 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:04:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Jeff, we have to talk to him about vomiting in everyone."
"You know if we do he'll just vomit and run away."
erddad890765 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:49:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep.
I basically throw up at the drop of a hat. If anything is going wrong in my body, I just throw up.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:16:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...Zoidberg?
fatmand00 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:35:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That just sounds like the next evolution of the nosebleed trope in anime.
vervloer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:02:47 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's because we're deuterostomes and insects (and other animals like crabs and octopi and such) are protostomes, which has to do with which part of the internal cavity is formed as a zygote
howdjadoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:15:53 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh I see
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:48:54 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Makes eye contact...
adamrsb48 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 14:39:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would give this gold, if I had any.
Gullex ยท 524 points ยท Posted at 03:48:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And bats are more closely related to humans than they are to mice.
viceroy_of_ancappery ยท 257 points ยท Posted at 07:13:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's untrue. Bats are laurasiatherians, but both humans and mice are euarchontoglires (notice that Rotentia and Primates are both clades in the tree).
Quate ยท 101 points ยท Posted at 08:45:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, shouts out to you for calling him out. There aren't that many of us who know a ton of taxonomy, but we have a responsibility when things like this happen. Nice job!
BombastixderTeutone ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 10:37:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There aren't many people that know a ton of taxonomy here because we shadowbanned them all.and by all I mean unidan and his alt-Accounts
Foray2x1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:45:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Silent guardians.
Enzemo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:31:58 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not so much a call out, as a correction. Most of us appreciate the corrections as taxomy isn't the most popular subject going.
Anyway I'm just being pedantic as always.
ZippyDan ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 10:02:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
u r a taxonomy
Quate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:28:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ye
Also just looked in your comment history. Is the "u r a" thing a reference..?
ZippyDan ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:58:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
u r a reference
sarge21 ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 09:13:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm glad you have the guts to call a clade a clade
ZorackSF ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:42:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But he said that bats are more closely related to humans than how closely bats are related to mice, is it then the same distance? Impossible to define? I'm a little lost.
ThirdFloorGreg ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:02:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same distance. Humans and mice are siblings, bats are their cousins. It's possible one sibling is more similar genetically to their cousins, but you have to go back the same distance to reach a common ancestor.
green_meklar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:25:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Waiting for /u/Gullex to respond to this now...
Gullex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:33:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh
Zephyrel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:48:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you misread that, he said that bats are closer in taxonomy to humans than they (the bats) are to mice.
Rather_Dashing ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:41:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's still wrong, bats are equally closely related to humans and mice. In the mammal family, humans and mice are siblings, while bats are their cousin.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 08:20:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted]
visvis ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 08:38:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It does. It means the last common ancestor is the same so they are equally closely related.
ZygoMattic ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:43:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bro, do you even clade?
b4ux1t3 ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 06:25:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Duh, Batman.
seashmattle ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:04:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The missing link
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 07:13:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bats are equally related to mice and humans (meaning humans and mice are more related to each other than both are to bats).
gmoney8869 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:32:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so what did bats evolve from if not mouse type creatures.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:04:07 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Appearance doesn't indicate relation, though related animals are more likely to look similar and have similar traits. Mice and "mice-like" animals aren't necessarily closely related. Shrews and mice are not closely related, the former being more related to whales, dogs, cats, bears, bats, etc., and the mice being more related to humans and rabbits. What defines these relationships? The more recently two species shared a common ancestor, the more closely related they are, and that is all there is to it.
Dathouen ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 06:22:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trumps are more closely related to humans than they are to cockroaches.
Gullex ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 06:24:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa now, we're going to need some citation.
PM_ME_UR_STEAMKEYS ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:11:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about orangutangs?
livingthepuglife ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:54:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, orangutans are more closely related to librarians than humans. But only because they prefer to be.
courtenayplacedrinks ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:02:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty sure that's not true. Rodents and rabbits are roughly the next branch over from primates. Bats are somewhere entirely different.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:39:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For some reason this is the one I don't believe.
ThirdFloorGreg ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:10:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It isn't true. Mice are much closer to humans than they are to bats, though. Bats are a totally different group than primates and rodents.
ninjacereal ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 06:26:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And common land snails are more closely related to tree frogs than they are to slugs!
thewilloftheuniverse ยท 74 points ยท Posted at 08:52:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Slug: Phylum: Mollusca, Class: Gastropoda
Snail: Phylum: Mollusca, Class: Gastropoda
Frog: Phylum: Chordata, Class: Amphibia
Conclusion: Bullshit.
F___TheZero ยท 57 points ยท Posted at 07:21:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And jackdaws are quite similar to crows.
turtleeatingalderman ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 07:32:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here's the thing: I was under the impression that they are the same thing.
wolfman1911 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 07:46:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well then they are quite similar indeed!
REPTILE512TB ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:11:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As crowologist, I beg to differ.
Ardub23 ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 07:27:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And I'm more closely related to you than your dad is
Zombie_Jesus_ ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 07:49:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And a deer is more closely related to a horse than deer-surgeons are to real doctors.
saargrin ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:13:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
is that rick and morty reference?
YoungsterJoey99 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:09:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
snaps fingers
Yes
ReferenceExMachina ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:47:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My man
_fuck_me_sideways_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:26:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Slow down!
CouldntThinkOf1 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:34:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well she was a horse surgeon operating on a deer but ya
HonkyDonky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:49:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shhhhh
NicolasMage69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:15:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought they were pirate ships
SuperCrusader ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:16:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/u/Unidan
Never Forget.
Lord_Iggy ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:55:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not true. Snails and slugs are both gastropods, which are molluscs. Tree frogs are vertebrates.
tboneplayer ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:25:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And dogs are more closely related to bears than either is to cats.
nutshack ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:50:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look at the snouts
tboneplayer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:53:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, exactly.
NicolasName ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:02:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you guys source some of this? That's actually really cool to know.
Gullex ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:26:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa. Seriously?
cannabinator ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 07:17:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. That's bullshit
thewilloftheuniverse ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:50:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Slug: Phylum: Mollusca, Class: Gastropoda
Snail: Phylum: Mollusca, Class: Gastropoda
Frog: Phylum: Chordata, Class: Amphibia
Conclusion: Bullshit.
Lord_Iggy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:55:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, it's not true.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:37:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Divergent evolution!
I_l_I ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 07:13:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Convergent in this case
Rather_Dashing ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 09:44:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's neither, slugs and snails are closely related.
Badvertisement ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:45:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See, any of these could be totally made up and I would have no idea.
Lord_Iggy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:26:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The mushroom one is true. Fungi and animals are sibling groups, plants are more like cousins. Our most recent common ancestor with fungi is thus a lot more recent than our most recent common ancestor with plants.
The sea cucumber one is true. Sea cucumbers are echinoderms, like sea stars and sea urchins. Echinoderms are deuterostomes, a group whose two most famous members are the aforementioned echinoderms, and chordates (fish, reptiles, birds, mammals, etc.). Deuterostomes are animals whose embryos develop an anus first. Insects, molluscs and annelids (segmented worms) belong to a different group, protostomes, whose embryos form mouths first. So you're closer to a starfish than you are to a butterfly, and an octopus is closer to an ant than it is to a sea cucumber.
However, the bat one is untrue. Bats are equally close to both humans and mice, because apes and rodents belong to the euarchontoglires (along with the rabbits and tree shrews) while bats belong to the laurasiatheria, along with whales, carnivores, ungulates and the like.
myaccisbest ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:03:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really? I mean the other ones kind of make some sense but bats look a lot like mice, thats like zebras being more closely related to kangaroos than to horses.
TastyBrainMeats ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:29:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I do believe bats are descended from species that held much the same ecological niche as mice, which goes some way to explain the apparent similarities.
clive892 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:18:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Incidentally, bats are more closely related to horses than mice:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9402-bats-and-horses-get-strangely-chummy/
My favourite quote from this article is:
'โWe need to look at fossils from a new point of view, because there must have been a common ancestor of bats, horses and dogs,โ Okada says.'
What kind of crazy common ancestor would a flying bathorsedog look like?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:35:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That would be cool, but it probably looked most like a mouse.
wolfman1911 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:48:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They say that whales descended from a critter that looked somewhat like a wombat, so there might be something to that.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:52:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The earliest mammals WERE small and rodent-like, so really, take any mammal, and it shares a common ancestor with any other mammal that was small and rodent-like, if not the most recent ancestor.
Gullex ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:03:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really.
myaccisbest ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:14:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Organisms are weird.
asparagustin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:39:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Upvoted as I read this as 'orgasms'
Lord_Iggy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:35:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Zebras and Horses are very closely related. They're both from the same genus (Equus), they're closer to horses than humans are to chimpanzees. Kangaroos, on the other hand, are marsupials, a whole different type of mammal. Zebras are closer to horses, whales, and human beings (in that order) than they are to Kangaroos.
But back to the main thing about bats and mice, look up a bat skull, then look up a rodent skull. Compare the similarity of bat skulls to those of dogs or pigs, and then compare them to a rodent skull. Obviously, there's a lot more to evolutionary relatedness than skull shape, but this can help to give you a sense of how different rats and bats really are, despite having some superficial similarities in size and shape.
myaccisbest ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:20:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I do understand this, i wanted a comparison that would immediately be recognizable as being wrong, there could have been better comparisons but it was the best i could think of at the time.
I think the eyes are what do it for me, but even the body of these ones in particular visually look to be shaped quite similar to mice to me.
Im not saying that any of this is wrong, just that it seems very strange to me.
Rather_Dashing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:49:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure why you think bats look like mice? They aren't exactly mice with wings. Theres a huge amount if variation in how they look, but to me macro bats have a dog like face, while micro bats have weird-ass faces they don't look like any other animal in particular. Outside of their face, their bodies don't really resemble any other animals thanks to the whole flying thing.
myaccisbest ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:06:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess it would be the eyes that make the strongest comparison but to me there are similarities in their ears, feet and even body shape (try to ignore the wings for this)
I understand that they arent that closely related but it was just really surprising.
dominickster ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:26:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you explain this one?
I had to fact check and to my (admittedly ignorant) self this seems wrong. According to Wikipedia, horse and zebra are in the same family while a kangaroo isn't... Am I missing something?
TastyBrainMeats ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:31:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Horses and zebras are much more closely related than either is to kangaroos, especially as kangaroos are marsupials.
They were holding it up as a comparison to bats and mice, as an example of something that would be surprising if true.
MolotovJohnny ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:51:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
unless they're 3 blind mice...
positiveParadox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some scientists thought that they were even a species of primates.
Rekane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:28:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that how batman came about?
ameristraliacitizen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:34:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So your saying there are batmen?
This isn't the comment I deserved but the one I needed.
Are you sure this is true? Swear to me
For you, this is a great comment.
sbd104 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:44:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean our skeletons are pretty fucking similar.
whiskeyandyarn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:15:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And bats are fucking adorable.
VyRe40 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:18:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can relate to all of the above.
etaoins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:37:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bats are no longer thought to be closely related to primates. Rodents and primates are members of Euarchontoglires while bats are Laurasiatheria.
googolplexbyte ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:41:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And tuna are more closely related to dolphin than they are to sharks.
derkasaurus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:42:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where is this coming from - DNA tests? Otherwise these sound like lunacy.
DempseyRoller ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:50:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this really true? That's amusing.
PoopButtMuffinTop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:50:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My dick is more closely related to my hand than to any women
Swibblestein ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:16:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This reminds me of my favorite one.
Humans are more closely related to rodents than raccoons are. So Rocket in Guardians of the Galaxy had every right to get pissed off when he was called a rodent, because those calling him a rodent were literally more closely related to rodents than he was anyway.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:00:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And my girlfriend is more closely related to me than my cousin.
SabreToothSandHopper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:33:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the great pyramids of egypt are more closely related to the moon landing than the tyrannosaurus rex
ForeverAvailable ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:52:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well that one is easy because vampires.
SirFappleton ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:04:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Manatees are more closely related to elephants than they are to mermaids
aintnohappypill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:06:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And I'm a little teapot, short and stout.
pollorojo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:36:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And some humans are so closely related that there's a Bat Boy.
ArcticTern4theWorse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:42:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you've got that one mixed up. Humans and mice are more closely related to each other than either species is to bats. That's one of the reasons scientists use mice in their experiments.
IAmLionelMessi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:43:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tomatoes are more related to fruits than vegetables.
jbeale53 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:04:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And you're an eggplant.
pony-pie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:22:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh God GTFO
MotherFockerJones ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:30:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's why Batman is not "Batmouse"
MrGameAndBeer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:15:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And they're sooo cute!
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:44:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your mom is more closely related to solar systems than to you.
Gizmo-Duck ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:51:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
normally, sea cucumbers don't talk.
riselikebread ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:56:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Explains why so many of us are dicks.
OnlySpoilers ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:50:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We're both deuterostomes!
akjoltoy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:44:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And Dawkin's personal favorite: the Hippopotamus is the closest living relatives to the Whale
green_meklar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:03:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And hyraxes are more closely related to elephants than to...well, pretty much anything else.
OrbitRock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:48:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And starfish and sea urchins!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:59:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can't judge all humans by the few that you see at Walmart.
xVeterankillx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:03:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not where it counts.
ThePresentationguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:05:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What wow
redlaWw ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:57:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It makes more sense when you realise that salps have a spinal cord, which is a feature of vertebrates. (i.e. it seems more reasonable that salps are related to sea cucumbers, and that salps are closer to vertebrates because of their spinal cord)
Who_GNU ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:47:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And red tomatoes are more closely related to eggplant than to the green tomatoes (tomatillos) used in salsa verde.
BeerMeAlready ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:05:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why would you think we are more closely related to insects? They have fucking exoskeletons and are tiny. sea cucumbers are mushy like us
green_meklar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:40:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Slugs are mushy like us too. But it turns out they're also more closely related to insects than to us or sea cucumbers.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:42:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And there's more salt in ham than in turkey.
lightningboltkid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:09:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am 60 to 70 percent banana.
green_meklar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:41:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Using a banana for scale wasn't meant to be applied to genetics...
lightningboltkid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:54:15 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're obviously on the 70 percent side of things you big meanie
clmuz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:47:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And humans are more closely related to mice than almost to anyone else including cats, dogs, horses, bats
danhakimi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:44:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sponges are animals.
definitewhitegirl ยท 135 points ยท Posted at 03:42:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean we all live in shit so this sounds accurate
Gullex ยท 57 points ยท Posted at 03:46:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd like to clear up this misconception.
While psilocybe cubensis, commonly known as the "magic mushroom", is considered a dung-loving species in the wild, when cultivated indoors for commercial purposes it is not often grown on manure. Rather, usually a combination of some type of grain such as rye, millet, corn, or brown rice is used as the nutritional aspect of the substrate with coconut husk, vermiculite, and/or peat is used for moisture retention.
Your magic mushrooms probably were not grown on shit.
[deleted] ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 04:14:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why are you specifically talking about magic mushrooms?
Gullex ยท 48 points ยท Posted at 04:20:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because those are the mushrooms people most often believe are grown on dung.
Few mushrooms, in fact, actually grow on dung, even in the wild. Most thrive on decaying wood.
wakingop ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:20:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Um... Your standard white button mushroom from the grocery also grow on shit
Sure, all the fancy ones grow on wood
Gullex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:18:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure that's true. /u/myctyson would know.
MycTyson ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:31:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Our 'manure' is around 5-10% actual horse shit. We use the bedding from the stables which horses are kept in at the race track. The other 90-95% is hay. It is all composted, and broken down, and then further broken down by the mycelium as it grows, and eventually turns this into delicious mushrooms. The shit boosts the yields tremendously, and as far as cubensis mushrooms, they are corprophiles, literally means 'dung loving'.
Wikipedia - Corporphilous fungi
Anyone interested, please join us over @ /r/MushroomGrowers ! We're a fun loving easy going bunch.
Myc
wakingop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:56:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
95% sure they do
Edit- I'm pretty sure he agreed.
Gullex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:05:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep looks like you're right
up2nuts_in_guts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:34:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In Western Australia they grow under pine cones.
Gullex ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:37:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are they p. cubensis or another psilocybin containing species?
sturdy55 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:52:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Psilocybe Germanica or GTFO, gotta stay with the times.
edit: linkified
DaLateDentArthurDent ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:14:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because he's a fun guy
kikidiwasabi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:44:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Heh, "Dung-loving."
definitewhitegirl ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 04:22:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well thank you for the clarification, I truly did not know this about mushrooms...
one time I was told that magic mushrooms actually make your brain think you're dying so you try to kill yourself while you're high as a kite.
I'm an avid supporter of recreational drug usage, do your thang people (responsibly, don't do dumb shit pls) but that fact has never left my brain and is the main reason I have never "shroomed" .. sounds terrifying AF
but I'll fuck up a Marsala any day, hit me with those goodies... as long as pasta is involved. nommmmmmmmmmmmmm
jargoon ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:39:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I haven't tried shrooms, but I've done LSD a few times (from what I understand, the experience is very similar). It's totally not like that at all. Last thing I'd want to do while tripping is kill myself, I was busy thinking about how amazing life and nature were and how lucky I was to even exist. Also, a common misconception is that you aren't aware that you're tripping. You are totally aware that any visuals you see (crazy colors and shifting movement) aren't real, unless you take a very large dose. Other than that, the primary effects are lateral thinking, self-introspection, creativity, appreciation for nature, really interesting philosophical thoughts, feeling connected with the universe, and really good conversation.
I did a lot of research before trying it for the first time, but I was still pretty nervous about it because I didn't know what to expect. Afterward, I was so glad I did it.
I guess a good analogy would be if all your teachers and parents told you how terrifying and dangerous roller coasters were, but then you found out people actually enjoyed them and they were actually really safe. So you finally steel yourself up to go to Six Flags with a couple of trusted friends all day and find out you're having the time of your life.
Also, much like a day at Six Flags, afterward you're pretty drained and probably won't go again for a few months haha (hallucinogens are pretty much the opposite of addictive in that sense)
wakingop ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:26:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't say you are always aware that you are hallucinating. I definitely saw some shit, and didn't realize until later it wasn't real.
That said, it's not like you see wild dogs attacking you, or anything "real" that you are going to have problems if you mistake it
definitewhitegirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:05:13 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well that's some information I didn't know, I've never taken LSD so this is new to me...
when you did your research, did you read about the long term effects? I remember in middle school (D.A.R.E. days) during a Health class, we were told that you could do LSD once and like twenty years later just start tripping again. Is that not accurate?
I don't take all of these stupid facts as TRUE, they're just stuff I've heard over the years about drugs I never really had an urge to do.. so just my curiousity talking more than anything.
jargoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:49 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, from what I've read that's not accurate, and if it is, it is very mild, like you might see a tracer or something very minor. LSD doesn't stay dormant in your spine or whatever that rumor is, you basically just pee it out or it's metabolized very quickly. There is a possible thing where the hallucinations never go away, but it seems to be more hearsay than actual documented fact, and if it's real it is vanishingly rare.
The main results of my research were just that setting and mindset were important, and that it lasts for about 9 hours (it peaks for about 45 min and then you're at a nice medium level for several hours), so you need to just plan out a day around it and be with people you trust.
Kurosaki-Ichigo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:43:54 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I haven't researched in a long time, but from what I remember, there really weren't long-term effects. Maybe if you took it frequently in high dosages over a long period of time, but other than that, there really wouldn't be. The only issues seemed to come from taking them if you weren't mentally stable.
As for tripping again later, 100% false. It metabolizes before the trip is even over, completely gone from your system. The only thing remotely similar to that is a flashback, but it's not as if the drug is going back into your system. All it is, is reliving something from the trip again. Supposedly, if something during the trip is super emotional (e.g. traumatic), you may relive it as you may relive a bad car accident or something like that. It has nothing to do with the drug itself - it only relates to the emotional experience you go through.
Gullex ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:25:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know where you heard that but it's completely untrue.
How can I put this....what magic mushrooms do is remove the filters that we carefully craft through our lives, as a result of societal expectations and a desire to preserve our self image. They allow us to perceive the world with greater immediacy, intuitively, intimately and without the lens of preconceived notions of how we're supposed to see things.
Depending on your mental state before you ate the mushrooms, this can either be beautiful and enlightening on a level you cannot comprehend or absolutely terrifying.
The people I know who say they do not like magic mushrooms are people who I think have a very strong, artificial, self-image they like to present to people. They do not prefer that image be questioned because to remove that image would be to force them to take a long hard look at what they really are.
The people I know who really enjoy mushrooms are the people who have nothing to hide, are honest with themselves, are open to new ways of understanding and seeing.
If you think magic mushrooms are something you would have a bad experience with, then do not try them, because you will have a bad experience.
However, if it's something you want to use as a tool of self-inquiry, then surround yourself with loving and caring people, people you'd be OK crying in front of. Find a safe, warm, comfortable environment, promote a mood of safety, growth, compassion, and happiness, and eat your mushrooms. It's a life-changing experience. Many people have described it as one of the most important experiences of their lives, and they have been permanently changed for the better from it.
labrat420 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:31:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Used to always have bad trips for the longest time but then i realized it was because i kept thinking i was going to have a bad trip because the last one was bad. It really is all in your head. I was just gonna say how wrong the comment you replied to was but i think you did a better job. It's similar to chemicals already in your brain.
Gullex ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:33:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. The mushrooms will just magnify whatever you've already got going on in your head.
definitewhitegirl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:01:27 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thanks for the info! very insightful... I'll have a more open mind in the future! I probably won't go looking for shrooms, but if the opportunity presents itself, I might change my mind.
and for the record, I wasn't saying I believed whatever I was told or that it's true, I was just saying it was one of those comments someone made and it stuck with me, regardless of how irrational it sounds.
MaxHannibal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:39:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like you learned what they do and then put your own psychonaut twist on it.
Studies show though they allow parts of the brain that usually wouldn't communicate communicate by removing barriers that usually keep them from doing so . that's why people experience synethesia and other hallucianations and visuals.
Gullex ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:41:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was speaking from experience. I don't buy into the psychonaut thing, this is just the most accurate way to describe it subjectively.
jake50231 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:51:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So you're saying that if I see a mushroom growing out of some shit in the forest I should eat it to get high.
ethernetcord ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:58:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Life is pain
Chukmag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:17:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's only Indians IIRC
Dirty_Liberal_Hippie ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 06:57:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That explains why people taste so good on pizza.
Splendidissimus ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:58:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Considering that the mushrooms that kill things and take over their bodies to spread their spores and then erupt out of their heads freak me out... this is not good news.
Gullex ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 05:14:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cordyceps? Yeah there aren't any human varieties.
Yet.
Splendidissimus ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:50:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh good.
You villain...
newly_registered_guy ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:01:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry man throw a little athlete's foot cream on there it'll clear ya right up.
TheVeryMask ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:46:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the setting conceit for The Last of Us.
livin4donuts ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:05:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, and compared to most zombie apocalypse causes, it's really not that far-fetched.
meza20 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:08:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a Calvin and Hobbes about this topic.
KneeDeepInTheDead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:08:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
just saw that on Plane Earth, freaky deaky man
ijflwe42 ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 06:34:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Archaea (singled-celled, prokaryotic organisms) are more closely related to humans than they are to any bacteria.
TheGreenTriangle ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:18:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What does "closely related" actually mean in this context? Serious question, no troll
ijflwe42 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 10:26:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It means that humans and archaea share a common ancestor that is more recent than the last common ancestor of bacteria and archaea.
It's the same principle as your brother or sister being more closely related to you than your cousin. The last common ancestor of you and your sister is your parents. The last common ancestor of you and your cousin is your grandparents. The closer the last common ancestor, the more closely related you are.
This field of biology is called cladistics.
PsiWavefunction ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:39:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Phylogenetics rather than cladistics, unless you're a dinosaur and reject any statistical method more advanced than maximum parsimony ;-)
ijflwe42 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:48:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for the correction! What is the difference between phylogenetics and cladistics? I'm not a biologist; I've just studied this casually in my free time, so there's a lot I don't understand within this field.
PsiWavefunction ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:31:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a sociological difference more than a scientific one, and has a very inane cause: many years ago, in the 80s and 90s, when molecular phylogenetics was still a young field (people just started getting DNA sequences for things), there was a massive fight between two camps in taxonomy: One side argued that paraphyletic taxa (think "reptiles" -- the last common ancestor of reptiles is also an ancestor of birds, but birds are not included in "reptiles") are totes kosher and should be valid for formal use, while the other side argued that all taxa must be clades, or that the group should include all descendants of the last common ancestor. The latter were called cladists. The two camps hated one another with the fiery wrath of a thousand dying suns.
There were other issues too: some argued that you cannot define a taxon unless you specify a specific shared derived character (think innovation) only shared by that group -- eg. four limbs in tetrapods. Others argued that's not necessary for definition, all you need is a type specimen (critter in a jar that the taxon is legally based on -- yes, somewhere in a museum collection is a type coelocanth, possibly in a jar of ethanol or formaldehyde...) and characters are a different issue altogether.
Somehow, methodology entered the debate, and this is related to the synapomorphy issue: if you believe that taxa are defined by synapomorphies, then you may be inclined to apply the same philosophy to phylogenetic methods (ie, statistics). Basically, there are methods of comparing DNA sequences that essentially count changes (Parsimony); and there are methods that use statistical Likelihood to pick a possible ancestral state that would most probably result in the data you observe. And then there's Bayesians who say 'to hell with picking a particular ancestral state when we can just multiply out weighted probabilities over all possible ones!' -- which, as you may have guessed, also led to a war of its own, but that war is also among statisticians and thus not solely our fault ;-)
Anyway, somehow, cladists (recall people who would not accept paraphyletic taxa) also became hooked on synapomorphies, and therefore Parsimony methods -- to the exclusion of Likelihood (not to mention Bayes). Back then, sequencing was slow and expensive, so they had lots of time to sit around and argue while some poor shmuck reads out a sequencing gel by hand. Over time, sequencing became cheap and easy, and the field had actual data to work with, so the arguing has died down for the most part. Cladists won the taxonomic terminology debate -- while we still use paraphyletic taxa ("Reptiles") informally, formal taxonomic definitions are generally expected to be monophyletic. The other two issues, however, synapomorphies and parsimony, fell to the side as the field of molecular phylogenetics exploded with shiny new statistical methods, terrifying computational power, and an overload of data. Parsimony methods are crap for avoiding some notorious artefacts (most importantly, they place very derived lineages next to each other regardless of whether or not they're actually related). Synapomorphies... well, some people have by now forgotten there's an organism behind all the sequence data ;-)
The cladists didn't let go of the argument yet, however, and still have their own journal: Cladistics. Which recently put out a hilarious editorial. Fortunately, most of them are inching closer to retirement...
And that's probably more than you ever wanted to know about the cladistics-phylogenetics debate.
ijflwe42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:47:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh man, thank you for taking the time to write this up! I had no idea there was ever a fight within cladistics/phylogenetics like this.
I feel like I'm 20 years behind on all this, since in my high school (2007-2011) we didn't learn any form of cladistics/phylogenetics whatsoever. It was the very-outdated Linnean taxonomy with 5-6 kingdoms. We didn't even discuss evolution, which I think was for political reasons (I lived in a small, Midwestern American town). My teacher, who truly was fantastic, was quite outdated on her information too. We learned the phylum Coelenterata, for example, which has long been discredited as Ctenophora and Cnidaria have been shown to be quite separate.
And then in college I studied history, so I never took another biology class, but this is all still fascinating to me.
I don't want to bog you down with questions, so I'll just ask one: what do you think is the most interesting or revolutionary discovery in phylogenetics in the last 20 years?
PsiWavefunction ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:20:38 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't feel bad about being behind or anything -- it takes a long time for information to percolate down to the general education system. Hell, even intro biology courses in universities are easily a good 10 years behind. Most freshly released textbooks have blatantly outdated pieces of information in them in areas where you're familiar with the field. And non-specialists have neither the time nor the obligation to keep up -- which is why science journalists and communicators have such an important job, dammit!
I have a biased perspective coming from a tiny field that specialises in organisms that are hard to compare without molecular biology, but I'd say the cheap sequencing and tree-building technologies that came with it. Our understanding of how the tree of eukaryotes looks changed completely, which is why I rail against the Woese tree that's often used to show relationships between prokes and euks. Old phylogenetic techniques placed derived (think 'weird', but in terms of DNA sequence) organisms at the base of the tree, regardless of whether they actually went there. This was particularly bad for parasites, who tend to evolve very rapidly (think arms race with the host) and thus end up with weirder-than-usual sequences. So we had this tree where most of the parasitic lineages were deeply branching, and the three main multicellular groups (animals, fungi, plants) at the tip of the tree.
This turned out to be a horrible phylogenetic artefact. Turns out, those parasites are interspersed within non-parasitic groups, and aren't related to each other at all (in terms of sharing an origin of parasitism). Moreover, all these random protist groups that are usually presented as the "grab bag of odds and ends", which they were, turn out to actually have substantial structure to them. The three famous multicellular lineages each arise independently from within protists, with fungi and animals on the opposite side of the tree from plants, separated by at least a billion years of evolving protist lineages. This explains why the organismal biology (eg. molecular pathways) is so different between them! The malaria parasite turns out to be a derived alga that lost photosynthesis; Giardia isn't an "early" eukaryote but a very specific member of a larger group of flagellates that are not all parasitic; microsporidia (another parasite) is now a fungus; and the last eukaryotic common ancestor is no longer an anaerobe! That last bit was also a result of the phylogenetic artefact.
We still have a lot of problems with the tree, but the overall "supergroups" are fairly stable now, even if the deep relationships between them are a bit murky. We also don't know where the root of the eukaryotic tree goes -- it seems like the supergroups evolved so rapidly (perhaps rapidly overtaking other eukaryotic lineages that are now extinct -- acquiring the mitochondrion is a very tempting explanation for that but we simply don't know at the moment. And while phylogenetic methods are still being improved (right now the focus is on getting models of evolution right, which is a very computer science and stats heavy field that I can't really follow), taxon sampling -- getting the sequences of critters in helpful phylogenetic positions -- is currently a bottleneck, and one that takes time. You basically have to discover new organisms, and rediscover long-lost weirdos, to help address that issue. Which, incidentally, is what my thesis project is based on =) Did I mention 'biased'? ;-)
To fully illustrate the beauty of cheap sequencing: just 10 years ago, to build a multi-gene phylogeny (more genes = more signal), you had to individually amplify each of the genes you wanted. Without knowing the target sequences (you'd pick sites you expect to not change much in functioning versions of that gene, but that assumption can be shaky at best), you could spend half a PhD doing just that. Last year, I had an organism I couldn't resolve with usual single-gene methods, and my supervisor advises me to just get a transcriptome. Ie, sequence all the expressed genes in that organism (just 1500-2000$ now). This organism is not even formally described yet, it has no name... and it has a transcriptome. I can fish out the 200-300 genes for my phylogenies without breaking a sweat. That was unheard of even 10 years ago, and 20 years ago we didn't even have a human genome. It's kind of AWESOME! =D
Gullex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa. That is amazing. Like amoeba?
ijflwe42 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:48:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Amoeba are also more closely related to humans than they are to bacteria, yes.
But archaea are much, much more distantly related to us than amoeba are. Amoeba are also eukaryotic (meaning they have a cell nucleus, like we do). Archaea and Eukarya (the group that includes animals, plants, fungus, protists - like the amoeba - and other smaller groups of organisms) split from each other very early on in the evolution of life. Before they split, they formed a single clade called Neomura, which is why they're more closely related to each other than either group is to bacteria.
Here's a cool, though very simplified, chart showing the relationship
PsiWavefunction ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:37:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just a warning: that tree is so ridiculously out of date that it should be phased out in non history-of-science contexts =) Especially the eukaryotes are all completely wrong. And there is some developing evidence, though the jury is still out on whether it could be artefactual, that eukaryotes emerge from within Archaea (ie, there are some archaeans more closely related to eukaryotes than to other archaeans).
ijflwe42 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:46:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks! Do you have any more up-to-date, though still simple, versions of the chart?
Also that's super cool about Eukarya possibly arising from within Archaea. I find all of this incredibly interesting.
PsiWavefunction ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:38:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, we (as a field) really need to make one that's accessible and visually appealing. My focus is on protists, so I have a tree of eukaryotes here, on my cruelly neglected blog. The prokaryote people have their own trees that typically exclude eukaryotes or get them wrong anyway. We should overcome our differences someday and make a simplified diagram that gets euks and prokes right, but I haven't found a tree like that yet. If anyone has -- please do let me know!
Gullex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:54:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man that's crazy. Thanks for the link.
ijflwe42 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:26:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you'd like any more "unusual relationships":
Crocodilians are more closely related to birds than to any other animal, including other reptiles. They form the clade Archosauria.
All venomous reptiles are descended from one common ancestor, and form the clade Toxicofera.
Lizards and snakes form a clade together (Squamata) and are therefore equidistantly related to anything else. Said another way, snakes are just as closely related to the tuatara as lizards are, even though lizards and tutaras are superficially similar.
Echinoderms (starfish and their relatives) are more closely related to chordates (vertebrates + a few small groups) than they are to anything else. Together, they form the majority of the clade Deuterostoma, which is essentially the group of animals (including us) whose anus forms before the mouth as an embryo.
Ctenophores (comb jellies), which are superficially similar to cnidarians (jellyfish and their relatives), may actually be quite distantly related. Their exact placement in the tree of life is currently disputed, and they may be a sister group to all other living animals.
Some sponges, like the calcareous sponges, are more closely related to all non-sponge animals than they are to any other sponge.
OrbitRock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, amoeba are Eukaryotes like animal/plant/fungi cells are.
Archea are very simple (comparatively), more like Bacteria in their simplicity.
PsiWavefunction ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:44:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I must add that this is presumably morphological (shape) simplicity we're talking about. Bacteria are far more metabolically diverse and versatile than eukaryotes are, so overall, it's not so easy to say who's simple.
OrbitRock ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:01:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True that. Morphology wise and size-of-genome wise it's the Eukaryotes, but metabolically it's the Prokaryotes by far!
NeverStopWondering ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:57:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
EDIT: read your other comment, I stand corrected. They are indeed more closely related. Which is fascinating.
Also, this is redundant, IIRC.
ijflwe42 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:33:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're not quite the same. Prokaryotic means they don't have a cell nucleus (as opposed to Eukaryotic). There are single-celled, Eukaryotic organisms, like amoebas.
There are no multi-cellular Prokaryotes though, so I guess I could have just said Prokaryotic, but in general both terms are meaningful and distinct, especially since I was highlighting the surprising relationship between humans (multicellular) and archaea (unicellular).
PsiWavefunction ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:47:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It can be argued that some prokes exhibit multicellularity; for what it's worth, if fungi, especially moulds, are considered multicellular, then so should actinomycetes (a group hyphal bacteria). Some cyanobacteria show cell differentiation: akinetes and heterocysts in Anabaena as a common textbook example. So I wouldn't say that "single-celled prokaryote" is at all redundant.
NeverStopWondering ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:18:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fair enough!
OK_Compooper ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 04:39:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that must be why everyone thinks I'm such a fungi.
jabroni_camembert ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:40:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
applause
BlondieClashNirvana ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:00:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So you're saying there's a chance to find a mushroom soul mate?
kayla666lee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:40:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://shapeshiftingsailor.tumblr.com/image/136020125064
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:47:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Gullex ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:13:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nematodes
TheFlashFrame ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:26:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mushrooms grow from decaying carbon lifeforms so like. Is this why? A mushroom grows from, say, a dead wolf and that wolf is technically more closely related to a human than an orchid so that mushroom, by extension, is more closely related to humans than an orchid?
Gullex ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:28:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, it doesn't have to do with how they get their nutrition. If you look at the evolutionary tree, humans and fungi branch more closely than fungi and plants.
jado06 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:29:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does that make eating mushrooms closer to cannibalism rather than vegetarian?
djmushroom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:31:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm. Am mushroom.
AgAero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:33:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How is this calculated? 'Closely related' seems to mean either something related to the shortest distance between 'us' and 'them' in the branch network that is the hereditary family tree of all life on earth, or something related to the commonalities of our DNA. If DNA is treated like code(a sequence of bits of information actually), how do you decide what the appropriate 'word length' is to compared subsets of ours to theirs?
Latenius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:13:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do you determine this? Just interested because i'm currently reading biology.
asparagustin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:37:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that why I'm such a funghi to be around? (Sorry in advance)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:43:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this really considered suprising?
FuzyDiceBongoInBack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:48:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Care to explain?
metatronsaint ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:04:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And crocodiles are more closely related to birds than they are to lizards.
Xiaxs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:51:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mushrooms are my spirit animal so it seems legit.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:17:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And women are slightly more closely related to chimps than men are.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:36:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TRex is closer to sparrows than to stegasaurus: https://xkcd.com/1211/
InTheFleshhh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:39:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting. Do you know other mushroom facts?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:57:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've met some humans more closely related to plants than mushrooms.
thenumber42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:58:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Save
fucky0urkarma ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:09:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Im about to eat some shrooms when i wake up
song_pond ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:10:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, that does sound like BS.
sideplank ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:15:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can believe that, I'm a fungi!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:56:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans share 35 percent of their DNA with daffodils.
Bendito_Bandit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:49:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well that explains why I'm a fungi.
Political_Diatribe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:53:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And both mushrooms and people are kept in the dark and fed on manure.
teh_tg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:20:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depends on your definition of "related".
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:20:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It depends on what mushrooms you're talking about though, it is not a monophyletic group. But indeed, it's generally true.
Scottland83 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:23:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds wrong to me. The most recent common ancestor of humans and insects would have been the urbilateria, which I would think was a descendant of metazoa rather than Protozoa. I'm not saying it's wrong I'm just curious about the details.
jaycoopermusic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:46:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm: am more closely related to mushrooms than plants
grand_apothecary ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:53:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is why antifungal medications have alot of side effects.
inglesina ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:54:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kept in the dark and fed on bullshit?
aoskunk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:01:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What does that mean exactly? They share more of the exact same genetic material? More ACGT in the same order?
this_guy_did ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:06:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's because I'm a fungi.
HandsOffMyDitka ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:10:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So Mario's obsession with Princess Toadstool doesn't seem so creepy now.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:39:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See, I completely understand how this works... but it's so fuck-y that I can't help but stop and think
"Maybe someone, somewhere, fucked up the classification system."
Like, how is that even possible? Maybe the rules that we use to classify things are a little broken, like a game that's in better. Every like 1000th time an action is done the game glitches out.
Maybe it's similar to our biological classification. In a hundred years perhaps biologists will look back on our time and be like 'lol... they thought mushrooms were closely related to us! They forgot to carry the protein!! HAHA! Barbarians! Alright... let's go get legally high!'
microwaveablegrapes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:40:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like to become #onewiththeshroom
JJ_The_Jet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:42:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean they are a fun guy afterall
drdeadringer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:44:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mushumans.
PsiWavefunction ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:50:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are also more closely related to Amoeba (or most major groups of amoebae, in fact) than either of you are to plants.
Neither of the three well-known multicellular eukaryote groups actually share the same origin of multicellularity. Multicellularity has arisen multiple times independently and is not actually all that unusual.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:58:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't this the premise of the Super Mario Bros?
jarobat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:22:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans are more closely related to rodents than to any non primate.
NoWittyUsernamesHere ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:27:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're into sci-fi, check out Omnivore by Piers Anthony. It's one of his earlier works, before he sort of got pigeon-holed into the Fantasy genre. It's about a planet where the dominant species are all sentient, mobile fungi and the researchers coming to understand and even get to know some of these creatures.
Great read, it's one I go back to every so often.
MyUserNameWasTooLon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:30:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah! Mushrooms really are fun guys!
... I'll see myself out.
Kwangone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:46:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The also breathe oxygen like we do and "exhale" CO2.
Sea-Mammal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:16:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well I too eat shit and live in the dark
liarandahorsethief ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:46:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We are ALL mushrooms on this blessed day :)
DoubleYouOne ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:55:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well... if evolution theory wasnt a good escape from a creator, this example alone would be reason enough for the scientific community to debunk the whole thing.
OMG.
bcimgratekate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:20:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let's hope PETA never finds out this fact..
AccordionORama ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:43:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can tell by the taste.
An_Unfriendly_Brit ยท 7115 points ยท Posted at 01:52:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oxford university was founded before the Aztec Empire.
Zebidee ยท 12214 points ยท Posted at 09:32:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That explains the sacrifices my parents had to make to pay my tuition.
HatchCannon ยท 166 points ยท Posted at 10:56:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People are dying just to get in!
HoundWalker ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 11:09:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That must have put you under a lot of pressure to really put your heart into your education.
Political_Diatribe ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 12:57:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
3 poor children per term?
TheLanolin ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 10:20:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wow
Anglo-Jackson ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 11:34:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A Brit complaining about tuition? That's cute...
cutdownthere ยท 55 points ยท Posted at 12:18:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe hes an international, in which case he has all the reason to complain (so do brits as well tbf)
Anglo-Jackson ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 12:24:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not familiar with international student tuition, but my yearly tuition in the U.S. is usually around $57,000-$60,000 USD
WildBizzy ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 12:52:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A YEAR? Damn that's more than my entire degree + maintenance loan. I can see why there's so much complaint about it now
NadBueno ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 13:13:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, and the Americans have pay proper interest on their student loans and don't have it forgiven when they're old. I can see why they're so pissed off.
bearsnchairs ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:28:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We just got federal loan forgiveness. It is called the REPAYE program.
Excalibur54 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 14:24:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I like community college. ~$1000 a year.
Jdub415 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:03:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Having been to both a cc and a UC, I can say its not the same degree.
Fermorian ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:17:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I would say the quality of education in general subjects is probably on par (like, Econ 101 at your big state school is pretty much the same as at your local CC), but once you get deeper into your coursework the differences really become apparent. All that money does go somewhere. Usually to hiring really good faculty, and good researchers.
Jdub415 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:41:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From my experience, you're not far off. Granted my teachers at UC berkeley were better than at CCSF, but the BIG difference is in how people regard that degree once you graduate.
1573594268 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:13:29 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I definitely prefer cc for general education. There's a new program in my state that allows you to do 2 years free at cc and transfer with all credits to state.
Really the bigger factor for me though is that the average cc student is more mature. Most of the people there are in the labor force paying their tuition and studying seriously.
State undergrads around here just waste their parents money partying.
bearsnchairs ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 14:25:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except you can't get a bachelor's from a CC...
whirlpool138 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:24:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You usually can't get a Bachelors and definitely not a masters or doctorate from a community college. They usually only give out associates degrees. I also went to a CC and there is a big difference between a community college and a university.
Thor_Odinson_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:48 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A state college (which is a proper university focusing primarily on Bachelor's and Master's degrees [not bashing CC, which is great for learning about subjects for the sake of learning, and for educating yourself enough about a subject to get a bse understanding in order to enter a field]) costs at least $13k per year in my state, not including housing, food, and books.
GalerionTheMystic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:21:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Interest starts even when you're schooling? Damn that really really sucks.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:46:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
B.b..bbut freedom.
I_am_Drexel ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 15:21:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not every school though. That's about the most expensive private university you could find. In-state prices for a top public university like UNC is about 20,000. Still a lot, but not as ridiculous as 60,000.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:18:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The only way you pay that much is if you're rich and go to an expensive private school. Schools with tuition that high give tons of aid to less wealthy students. Public schools can cost 1/4 to 1/2 that much. Community colleges get you half way and only cost a couple thousand a year. If you're paying 60k a year, you're either rich or an idiot.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:36:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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WildBizzy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:40:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well surely if the private average is $32k, but it can be done for $13k, there must also be degrees highly above $32k?
calilac ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:06:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you keep yourself at a certain level of poverty and live in the uni library so you don't have to buy books it's possible to do it for free. Pell grant, scholarships, other students or faculty taking pity on your wretched starving body enough to feed you...
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bdogg54 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:17:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For what it's worth, most of the private colleges my friends go to have tuition and fees that are around 50k, but along with room and board, it comes to 60k+. You almost always have to stay on campus at those schools (at least the first two years) making that 60k price tag next to mandatory.
TastesLikeBees ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:32:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not saying their aren't private colleges that charge that, I'm saying there's no actual need to spend that much. There is a distinct difference.
With a few exceptions, no one gives a damn where your degree came from.
A_favorite_rug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:41:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't understand why it's seen as good to many and controversial to change when we are like the only first world (or one of the only) countries to do this.
[deleted] ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 13:10:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 14:12:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a set cap. Almost all good universities charge that amount.
Dammitwebothreddit ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:44:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wtf. That will barely cover some shit state schools in the US
Ndough ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:47:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its called socialism, you should try it.
Sabesaroo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:30:00 on April 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aren't state schools free?
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:20:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Almost all universities charge the ยฃ9k plenty of bad ones.
Also in the UK there is Oxford & Cambridge -> Russel Group. You can go to a good university and still be no where near Oxford level.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:52:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know, I went Warwick. My statement didn't exclude shitty unis, I was just speaking for the good ones which usually always charge the maximum amount (ยฃ9k/year).
XenoliKidd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:02:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bit unrelated, but what's your overall opinion on the uni? I've got an offer for next year and I'm trying to decide which to choose.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:28:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I loved Warwick. Down to earth people, awesome campus, good SU (minus the SJW stuff), remote enough to not be a noisy city but central enough that you can get to Birmingham or London fairly easily. I strongly recommend it.
Any specific questions you want answered?
XenoliKidd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:37:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would you say employability or actual enjoyment of the time at uni is more important? I'm wanting to do PPE and I got all my offers apart from Oxford, so it's mainly a choice between Warwick and King's. I've heard London is a terrible place to study though.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:43:59 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ideally both. Employability is very important, and between Russell Group universities it is about the same overall. But when it comes to the subject you pick it will make a huge difference. For example if you pick Afro-Caribbean Studies, don't expect a job, especially a high paying one, but if you pick almost any STEM job, business degree, and the like you should be fine.
PPE I am unsure about, I'd look up other people's experiences with that degree and where they go. I picked my degree based on passion, but it also happened to coincide with my career passion too (Computer Science -> Game dev/ software dev). Your enjoyment of uni will also be heavily affected by whether your degree is fun. I did some Mathematics before CS and hated it, it was hard, not my passion, and I didn't care. I switched to CS and loved it, every coursework was fun.
So in the end pick your uni based on it's ranking and what you'll enjoy (campus vs city) and degree based a combination of passion and employability.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:55:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
None of what I said disagreed with you. Not sure what your point is.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:14:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haa, just graduated with my master's from Oxford and about half my classmates are waitressing/temping/in retail. The other half are in fabulously exciting and important positions, but they're the ones who already had good connections in their field or come from backgrounds wealthy enough that they could take on unpaid internships throughout their degree. Having an Oxford degree on your CV still isn't very useful when there's not much work around, alas...
ginger_beer_m ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:29:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of people here seem to overestimate the brand value of oxbridge. It's not about the degree, it's about whom you know
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:38:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Beardy_Will ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:45:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only beat out by Cambridge?
bearsnchairs ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 13:27:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why did you go to a school that is in the 99.9th percentile for tuition costs? You can't really complain when you chose the most expensive private school possible or went out of state.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 14:06:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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bearsnchairs ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:12:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
9000 pounds is just the tuition, and coincidentally is the same tuition price as the University of California System. Two UC campuses, Berkeley and UCLA are top world class universities comparable to Oxford. If you haven't been paying attention to the news the US just adopted a new federal loan forgiveness program called REPAYE.
It is fine to complain about anything, but it is also important to have your facts in order. Complaining about $50,000+ tuition when you have full control over what university you attend is stupid. So is assuming that this person's story is anywhere near what the average US student faces.
Even then you are ignoring that average student debt in the UK has recently eclipsed that of the US.
Chao-Z ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:20:43 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
UC schools still cost 50,000 (more or less depending which one) if you don't live in California, so not much help to a lot of people.
bearsnchairs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:29:50 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure but other states have their own great public universities. Check through the Times Higher Education rankings and there are tons of public schools in the top 100.
Per capita the US and the UK have practically the same number of students attending top 50 universities, with a sight edge to the US, so great education is just as accessible here.
Chao-Z ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:39:42 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure, but the point I made was that if you don't live in one of those states (like living in say, Montana or Idaho) you're kinda screwed financially by it.
Plus, that's a pretty damn small pool of schools to choose from that don't cost a lot, considering only public schools in your state will be cheap (less than 25k a year, which still isn't all that cheap), and most states dont have more than one public college.
bearsnchairs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:07:33 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most states have far more than one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_state_universities_in_the_United_States?wprov=sfla1
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:45:05 on April 17, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Harvard is the best university in the world and covers 100% of Financial need
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:20:21 on April 18, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm afraid I'm going to have to stick with university loyalty here on the best university, I'm afraid. Does it? I had a quick look at the costs and it was about $85,000 which is nuts.
TastesLikeBees ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:26:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're either full of shit or pissing money away.
TheUltimateShammer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:52:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Must be a really nice school. The school I'm going to go to is only $11,000 a year commuting.
Zircon88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:09:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah well, jobs also tend to pay near six figures straight out of college if you choose your major wisely so ... it evens out.
Mine was free, but I earn 19,6k euro gross.
zenoob ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:25:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm glad I don't live in the US, the UK or any other country with expensive tuitions when I read things like this...
Beardy_Will ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:44:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
9k a year :(
ArcticNano ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:59:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its expensive as shit here now, they added tuition fees fairly recently. While it may be expensive in America it costs a fair bit here too
ginger_beer_m ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:25:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tuition is no longer free in England, only in Scotland.
cr85teehee ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 11:00:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This should be way higher. Well done.
REDDITATO_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:40:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not possible for it to be any higher.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:07:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How many siblings did it cost?
AlexanderLeGrape ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:25:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Putting you up for adoption/child sacrifice?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:27:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I heard the tuition is now your second born son
A_favorite_rug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:45:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aw, cool. So I see they are a lot more forgiving now.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:33:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually they take your third born if you don't pay
mako-jaeger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:31:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So that's why my parents say it takes hard work and "blood, sweat, and tears"
nightman713 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:07:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My parents sacrificed me to pay their tuition.
Huitzilopostlian ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:28:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ba Dum tsss! He'll be here all week, don't forget to tip your waitress!
Whiskeybent341 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:47:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is an unusually brilliant comment.
Zebidee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:09:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you.
SanguinePar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:18:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes you just get a comment that is SO perfect it seems supernatural. This is one. Well played.
Zebidee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:51:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you. It definitely came together neatly.
bathroomstalin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:45:40 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In order to attend Oxford, your parents had to sacrifice a virgin? Is your name Joseph Heller?
Yalnif ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:56:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this needs publicity
welcometocostco245 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:42:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Genius
PlasmaRoar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:13:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Absolutely Barbaric
Shoose ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:25:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cheeky humblebrag there mate.
Wolfie_Ecstasy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:20:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...
adamrsb48 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:51:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good one.
[deleted] ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 11:01:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa your parents paid your tuition?
Damn, where can I kill some motherfuckers. ยฃ9k a year to spend on tuition is rich guy stuff, I'm on for that.
pylori ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 12:15:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's called a student loan, it's what most people use to finance their education.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:39:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Guy says his parents paid, not a student loan.
Spending ยฃ36k you have is just spending.
Spending ยฃ36k you don't is accumulating debt.
It's that simple.
cutdownthere ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 12:17:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
And if they didnt, it meant they were rich enough to pay ยฃ36,000 up front, which, if they did, meant that it wouldnt have been considered much of a sacrifice to them lol. It would have been like pocket change yadigg
Edit- This is england Im talking about, not america. Anyone can apply for a tuition loan which covers the ยฃ9000 per year fee and is a special type of loan. As is stated somewhere in this thread, the loan interest follows the inflation rate and it is forgiven after 30 years if not paid off by then. It also only starts paying when the user is earning over ยฃ21k a year (a fixed percentage from their income-9% or something, which increases if yearly income increases above 21k). Only someone stinking rich would consider paying it upfront in full without taking the tuition loan.
TeeeeGeeee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:49:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can't assume just because someone made the choice to pay 36k upfront in order to save themselves/their child from having to spend significantly more than that amount on a student loan in the future that it wasn't a big investment for them. Yes, of course there's a few uber rich people who perhaps that kind of money doesn't mean alot, but for most students/parents the decision to pay tuition upfront is something that involves a lot of consideration and some pretty significant sacrifices in other areas of their lives to help front that cost.
NadBueno ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:15:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Student loans in the UK have interest capped at inflation and you only pay back of you're earning over 21k a year, and they're forgiven when you're old. If you have the cash it makes more sense to take the loan and invest the cash.
suuupreddit ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:30:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure if you're serious, but college savings accounts aren't that uncommon.
Just because you saved money so your kid could graduate debt free doesn't mean you're rolling in it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:08:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most undergraduate courses last only 3 years so I don't know where you're getting the 36k figure from but it's 27k.
cutdownthere ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:41:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are a lot of courses now that include masters as an extra year. Also, 36k could include some accommodation costs.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:47:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm quite sure masters are usually more expensive but I could be wrong.
cutdownthere ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:48:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They are (1k more and upfront), but in a course which includes masters it costs the same as 1 year undergrad. So instead of paying 10k up front you can do a masters with the student financing.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:51:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm, that's actually quite interesting.
cutdownthere ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:59:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its like this. Say, I can do a BEng (3 years). When it comes around to it, I would have to pay ยฃ10k up front in cash for the extra year to obtain a masters. That means I have the freedom to stay at that uni or transfer to another to do the masters, or even not do it at all, so its the more flexible option. But, if I have that intention from the start then I can apply for an MEng at that uni instead which adds an extra year of study at that uni (for the masters) and this time 9k to the tuition loans that I am gonna take out, thus meaning I dont pay upfront. So its something to consider before you even start uni. Of course, the loan doesnt get taken out until you actually start that following year of uni (and even then its in installments, so you can still change your mind even if you applied for an MEng, so technically that would be more flexible I guess actually)
Fake_Versace ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 11:48:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck, I wish my tuition was ยฃ9k a year.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:12:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless you just started your tuition would have been either ~ยฃ1,000 or ยฃ3,000 a year. Oxford would cost significantly higher if there was a free market for tuition fees.
TheCatcherOfThePie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:37:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tuition hasn't been ยฃ1000 for quite a while now, and the ยฃ9000 fees were introduced in 2012 IIRC. Unless you're doing a PhD, or in the final year of an unusually long undergrad course, then you've paid ยฃ9000 a year to be at the uni.
Zebidee ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:24:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was that high in the 1400's?
[deleted] ยท 604 points ยท Posted at 09:03:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Zebidee ยท 457 points ยท Posted at 09:34:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd never thought of the problem of inventing universities before printing presses.
[deleted] ยท 797 points ยท Posted at 10:31:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They just used Powerpoints
fluffyponyza ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 10:39:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone back then used Macs, so Keynote was the preferred tool.
Arcaire ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 12:48:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Explains why I feel like I'm having to carve that stuff out on stone tablets every time I use the software. It's just what they're used to!
Archer007 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 11:25:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks Ken M!
FakingFad ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:15:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On their newtons apple?
Paranitis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:33:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damnit Juan, they are called spears and javelins.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:09:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
r/shittyaskhistorians
jhartwell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:49:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah they used Microsoft Works
elboydo ยท 209 points ยท Posted at 11:23:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IT's where the modern names "Lecturer, speaker, reader, professor, etc" come from. Back then the books were often held in the library and could only be retrieved by the highest rated university staff.Often some books could be worth more than the building they were taken to.
The general idea was a lecturer could teach what they knew, a speaker could look at the books, write notes, then read it back to students, a reader could actually take a book out with a professors permission and read it, or most importantly, a professor was free to take a book out on their own accord.
The current hierarchy is based on coping with paper, ink, and th eskills to make a book, being in scarce supply.
nanoakron ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 12:09:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's pretty fascinating. Have you got a reference just to confirm before I tell others?
LearnsSomethingNew ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 16:40:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What do you think he is, a filthy reader?
elboydo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:01:14 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll try to find a solid source, but this was mainly from a professor at the pub (English professor so a properly placed one, not the american type.
Normally this guy is pretty trustworthy for this sort of antiquated information, but remind me and i'll do my best
bl1y ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 12:21:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Today, a professor is someone with a very nice income and infinite job security (provided they don't ask for "some muscle"). A lecturer is a part-time employee probably making close to minimum wage, but teaching classes the university charges full price for. A speaker is a guest, and gets paid for 1 hour about what a lecturer earns in an entire semester. A reader is no one. No one fucking reads.
Robinisthemother ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 14:50:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Adjunct Professors also make that minimum wage.
bl1y ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 15:04:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm very aware.
The university where I teach officially calls that position "adjunct instructor," but has us tell our students to call us "Professor." They say it's for "consistency," but I suspect it's so they don't realize they're getting a cut-rate teacher.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:31:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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elboydo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:01:46 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly I couldn't remember the exact difference, but I'm pretty sure that some places considered it to be the difference of having the book there, or reading back notes or what you remember of the book
MetaCommando ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:36:17 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Still cheaper than textbooks
sirin3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:08:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lectures really became pointless after the printing press was invented
elboydo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:02:01 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
in its original form, yes.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:17:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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JohnFest ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:16:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would still be twenty degrees too hot.
StrategiaSE ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 13:08:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's more interesting is that Education, which gives you Universities, isn't even a requirement for Printing Press.
professorfox ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:56:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's key for a Diplomatic victory, but you also need to be good enough to have some city states with you
whatisyournamemike ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:10:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They just had to memorize more, good thing there was less history back then.
xpoc ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 10:39:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It really wouldn't have been much of an issue back then. People didn't really learn from textbooks like they do now.
Lecturers had to actually teach.
kamgar ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:26:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The lack of printing presses is actually largely responsible for the lecture/note taking format in universities today. It's an outdated way of disseminating large amounts of information to a large audience.
slackjawsix ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:44:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine the cost of those text books!
Dragon_Fisting ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:39:06 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a big reason they were invented at all. If you have to hand copy a book, you keep that copy somewhere nice and safe. But books are useless if no one reads them, so you collect them, and let people read them in your nice big complex. Now if the people want to talk about your book material, you've started a university.
evenisto ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:43:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It probably made more sense then, than now! Think about it: back in the time, how would you go about learning something? The possibilities were rather limited, if not non-existent, so you had to go to a university and actually learn from people with appropriate knowledge or access to it. Nowadays, you have almost unlimited access to sources of knowledge in virtually any field, and nothing is holding you off from becoming an expert in, say, quantum physics - but you still need to go to a university for somebody to confirm you actually know something :)
amishius ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:14:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice not to have all the students bitching about buying textbooks, probably. That said, they probably expected, you know, discussion. Must have been a magical time.
REDDITATO_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:50:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I'm sure it would be just great to live before the printing press was invented.
amishius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:57:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you don't die of a bunch of stuff, maybe! I'm sure like now, they thought things were alright. 500 years from now, folks will look back at us thinking how primitive we were.
Treehousebrickpotato ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 09:52:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"No, you can't take a bank holiday. This university was around before banks"
sirin3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:10:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I heard they already had banks and a stock market in ancient Sumerian
But they lend money to the king and he had to pay a lot of interest. He did not like that, so he seized them all
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 10:05:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Though the more you think about examples like that, the clearer it becomes that it wasn't the same kind of institution as a modern university. It didn't even have a proper library (allowing people to actually read the books!) until the Bodelian was founded in the 1600s. Just before that, the previous collection of books was burnt in case it contained any traces of naughty Catholicism.
intergalacticspy ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 11:21:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Surely the colleges had their own libraries?
Stevey854 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:22:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There were hardly even any books
Accendil ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:17:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should add to the end of this, the fall of the Ottoman empire!!
That will give the list a real sense of: "Whoa this University out-spanned an empire."
toxicmischief ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:36:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Accendil ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:18:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ivan, is that you?
Countsfromzero ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:51:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Speaking of time frames, the one that gets me is that the wright brothers first flight and putting human beings on the moon are well within the span of a person's life.
GangstaCheezItz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:02:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like civilization all over again
GloryOfTheLord ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:59:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's true but none of those are quite old. The Ottoman Empire was the final of the four Islamic Caliphates. The Incan Empire as well was a new player based on previous nations (Cuzco, Wari, Tiwanaku, Moche, etc.)
Also, while the movable type printing press was invented in Europe after the founding of Oxford, movable printing press itself was not. Movable printing presses were used in China after they were created in 1040, but fell out of use because of the massive amount of characters in Chinese vocabulary and language.
intentsman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:25:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think Oxford actually saw the founding of the Inca Empire. Oxford was unaware of several continents at that time.
Noble_Ox ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:21:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The pubs in Dublin just as old, I know of one thats there since the mid 1100s.
Cobbleking32486 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:47:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
rome was still an empire when oxford was founded. well, they were the byzantines, but back then they considered themselves romans.
alamaias ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:14:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I learned about the english civil war in a school that pre dated it by a century. That was weird to me.
ititsi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:19:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Byzantine Empire is something lots of people know of but don't know much about, checkit yo podcasts to the rescue B-boys! It's really awesome actually.
http://12byzantinerulers.com/
Guzzles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:15:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cubs win the pennant
infinitewowbagger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:49:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The cubs winning the world series
Dragon_Fisting ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:06 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always feel like the Aztec were much older than they were because there was a big gap between Aztec and peak Maya that I never think about.
Mortenusa ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 10:01:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is blowing my mind I always just thought the Aztecs were more ancient than this, like before Christ and shit...
MJWood ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 11:38:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aztecs were newcomers to the scene. Before them there were the Toltecs and, going really far back, the Olmecs, IIRC.
KingJulien ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:35:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe the olmecs were further south. The Mexicana were also in the area and a few other civs. My Mexican prehistory is kinda shaky to be honest
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 12:46:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you mean the Mexica? I think that was the actual name for the Aztecs rather than a separate tribe.
KingJulien ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:08:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're correct, sorry. All my knowledge of this is from five weeks in Mexico a year ago :) from wiki:
MJWood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:26:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, further south, between present-day Mexico City and Guatamala, but not hugely further south.
straitnet ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 10:53:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That would be weird seeing they faced cortez or whoever Spaniard in 1500s or something.
ijflwe42 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:34:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was indeed under the leadership of Cortรฉs, from 1519-1521
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_the_Aztec_Empire
kausb ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 12:46:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Mayan are often confused with the Aztec despite being thousands of years apart. You may be thinking of the Mayan.
rickovsin ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:20:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I actually knew that they were around in the 15th or 16th century, I just didn't know that Oxford is THAT old
yaarra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same here. As someone from Europe, I also thought this was like 2000 BC. Turns out they were only around for a short while and wiped out by a Spanish conquistador in the 16th century. Huh.
Ghostiesftw ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 05:02:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay can I get some context on this one?
iCameToLearnSomeCode ยท 75 points ยท Posted at 07:23:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oxford was founded in 1096 while the Aztecs didn't appear until 1428.
[deleted] ยท 158 points ยท Posted at 08:50:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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straitnet ยท 54 points ยท Posted at 10:51:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the real history, but we are taught fake history because no one can stomach nuclear ghandi.
droidonomy ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:39:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that a type of curry?
Garabaduck ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:32:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't the Oxford University a national wonder?
poppinroofie ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 08:54:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oxford has been known to teach since 1096, but the year it was founded is unknown
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 09:58:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Before they started teaching they had to paint all the lecture halls and put in all the carpeting and suchlike.
sirin3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:11:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the dark ages?
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:38:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good point, they would also need lighting put in.
WyclefJean ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:13:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So Bologna University might not be the oldest?
SteveJEO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:14:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
May not.
Records are records. 1096 was when Oxford was officially 'recognised'. There would have been some form of education going on before hand but how and what it was is basically speculation.
Cambridge at 1209 is pretty certain though.
pishposhpoppycock ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:27:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mmmmmmm. Bologna...
AF79 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:11:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oxford most likely wasn't founded in 1096. We don't know when it was founded, but there has been found evidence of teaching there from 1096, so it's at least that old. If the evidence is correct, of course.
Spongyrocks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:49:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's fucking cool
NeverStopWondering ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 07:22:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Aztecs were not around particularly long, and Oxford was founded in something like the 13th century.
Steveopolois ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 05:28:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oxford was founded approximately fifty years before the founding of the city Tenochtitlan.
Iceyeeye ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:44:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...maybe...
An_Unfriendly_Brit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:41:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Aztec Empire was founded in 1428 not long before the Spanish conquest contrary to what one might assume. Teaching in some form existed by 1096 at Oxford and records show that it was recognised as a university in 1231 almost 200 years before the founding of the Aztec Empire.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:01:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tenochtitlan was a bigger, cleaner city than London or Paris at the time. Instead of throwing shit into the street there were receptacles that people would take to the gardens and farms to help support the agriculture needed to feed so many people.
Bonus:There once was a huge temple completed in the city and to dedicate it to the gods they had thousands sacrificed with priests working in shifts for days. The stench of blood and rot was so bad that the whole city was evacuated for a time.
Bonus Bonus: When the Spanish brought Christianity, the locals of the time (post-collapse Maya, or some subculture thereof) jumped right on board with crucifixion. It fit their ideas of blood ritual and self sacrifice.
Bonus Bonus Bonus: Yucatan means "I dont understand you" in the native language. "What is this place?" 'Yucatan.'
Source: no links but I took a Societies of Middle America course a couple years ago.
straitnet ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:49:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cleopatra is closer to time of Internet than time the pyramids wee built.
Pires007 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:31:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When someone takes a hundred turns to settle in civ.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:20:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's amazing to think that when the Aztecs were building their civilisation, and alien civilisation on the other side of the world to them were leagues ahead in terms of knowledge. It's kind of metaphorical perhaps of the human race and some other species out there.
inky1729 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:26:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This statement has already been debunked over at /r/badhistory
https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/3680ke/til_this_repost_about_oxford_is_as_old_as_the/
An_Unfriendly_Brit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:05:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I disagree with his reasoning, yes the culture of the civilization is much older than Oxford university. But the political entity the Spaniards came into contact which is called by us the Aztec Empire had only come into being in the 1400s. The statement might be considered misleading but to call it incorrect in my opinion would be wrong.
Thanks for telling me all the same though it was an interesting post that you linked.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:41:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
40.000 Aztec soldies were destroyed by 1000 Spain soldiers.
Quality>quantity
VehaMeursault ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:36:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good one. I actually couldn't believe that until I looked it up. Thank you.
MJWood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:43:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The temples of Angkor Wat were built over roughly the same period as the cathedrals of Europe, although the earliest ones pre-date the European ones by 2 or 3 hundred years IIRC.
These two civilisations had nothing to do with each other, so the zeitgeist really must exist.
majestee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:50:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And Harvard was founded before calculus.
mcguire569 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:31:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone watches thoughty2
Prometheus8330 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:38:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A university existed before an empire in Latin America.
MrGestore ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:09:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bologna University was founded before Oxford and before the Aztec Empire.
drum_playing_twig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:20:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh.. wut? How?
morgawr_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:53:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And it's not even the oldest University still operating today!
jaycoopermusic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:57:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No it doesn't. They should have paid off their mortgage by now.
JulioNor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:08:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Germany here: No tuition <3
An_Unfriendly_Brit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:18:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sweden here: No tuition <3
GroundsKeeper2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:11:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Source?
An_Unfriendly_Brit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:26:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/oxford-university-is-older-than-the-aztecs-1529607/?no-ist
GroundsKeeper2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:35:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cool, thanks.
Excalibur54 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:23:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's something like 935+ years old now. It's insane to think I might be alive when Oxford celebrates its 1000th (at least) birthday.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:53:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
sageleader ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:57:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For a second I read that Oxford was founded by Aztecs and I was like WTF
Quircky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:02:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bologna university was founded 700 years before the United Kingdom.
albh05 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:42:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, it's very expensive so they surely had to work hard.
Goatus_OQueef ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:25:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that's some serious tech beelining. Was it Korea? or babylon?
CelestialHorizon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:00:04 on April 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow. I didn't believe this. Oxford founded 1096, Aztec empire 1428. That blew my mind. Thanks.
anschelsc ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:58:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe this is less crazy than it seems. Part of the reason the Spanish were able to conquer the Moctezuma's empire (and Atahualpa's) is that it was so new and relatively unstable. Lots of its subjects remembered being independent, and so there wasn't much incentive for them to defend it.
BeefSupreme2 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:08:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have no proof of timeline for either.
Hollyberry3140 ยท 783 points ยท Posted at 05:35:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The rarest form of ivory is narwhal ivory. When they were first discovered, it was sold as a unicorn horn because no one believed in a horned whale.
Hmm_Peculiar ยท 81 points ยท Posted at 10:43:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm still sceptical. In my mind there is at least a 50% chance that narwhals are just a joke played on the public by biologists and everyone who knows is just playing along.
Hollyberry3140 ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 14:37:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe nothing has horns. Biologists just got bored with some styrofoam and super glue.
McCheetoDust ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 15:23:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously. I cant seem to find an irl image of a narwhal for the life of me.
RiversBromo ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 15:51:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know this is a joke, but here. Have an IRL narwhal picture.
http://assets.worldwildlife.org/photos/5900/images/story_full_width/MID_232820_Paul_Nicklen_NAtional_GEographic_Stock_WWF_Canada.jpg?1387482058
McCheetoDust ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 16:09:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fuck I seriously thought they were a joke, kind of like dropbears. How do they not accidentally stab each other while being so close?
robotsongs ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 17:56:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A narwhal's tusk is one of the most sensitive parts of their bodies, loaded with millions of nerve endings. They use then to communicate, to sense their surroundings. My guess is that they would know what's in the water around them and not get all stabby.
JorgeGT ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 16:25:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dropbears a joke mate?
A_favorite_rug ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 16:59:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't fucking joke about dropbears, mate. They are real and they will get you if you diss them.
mrdexie ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 16:23:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're being serious, have you actually not heard of a thing called google images?
Letsbereal ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 17:08:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine in 5 years, people will forget that the internet is a source of information entirely.
usbfridge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:00:55 on April 10, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like a great writing promlt.
skiddelybop ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 13:49:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The "horn" on a narwhal is actually a protruding tooth!
ijoijiojoij ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:47:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This could be a reply to the original question.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 13:58:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But they believed in unicorns.
deyesed ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:54:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bonus fact: the unicorn is Scotland's national animal.
heybrother45 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:22:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My wife just realized they were real the other day
EODgentleman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:43:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Me too!
heybrother45 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:56:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They just look so fake, like the platypus
mackrenner ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:29:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't get over the feeling that narwhals are a big inside joke like drop bears and all the pictures are photoshopped.
edgeblackbelt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:45:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The second sentence is my favorite thing I've read today.
user0947 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:39:11 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unicorns don't bacon.
uniptf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:00:40 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Narwhals are not horned whales. That thing is a tooth.
I_be_who_I_be ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:58:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For some reason this comment cracks me up.
Back2Bach ยท 10752 points ยท Posted at 00:35:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For every human on Earth there are 1.6 million ants.
catfingers64 ยท 18024 points ยท Posted at 01:10:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm still waiting for mine to be delivered.
[deleted] ยท 2938 points ยท Posted at 01:51:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You didn't get yours? Dude, you're missing out.
[deleted] ยท 97 points ยท Posted at 03:35:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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mijamala1 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 10:18:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yogi got to mine first.
certnneed ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 07:08:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've got so many, I've got ants in my eyes!
OwenBelly ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:13:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
First episode I ever saw.
1wsx10 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:43:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This a good show
Hornswabber ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:31:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are so many TV's, microwaves, radios, I think. I can't- I'm not 100% sure what we have here in stock, because I can't see anything!
Judean_peoplesfront ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:11:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They make great fleshlights
straub42 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:39:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but they're a little too small
Demotay ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 07:46:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
not for him
Judean_peoplesfront ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:22:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry, they stretch as they choke
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 08:35:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just look at ants-in-his-eyes-Johnson. He's doing great.
Aberdolf-Linkler ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:12:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would but I can't see, I also can't feel but that isn't as catchy so it kind of goes by the way side.
Max_TwoSteppen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:52:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your name is relevant-adjacent.
OTW_Kiri ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:09:57 on April 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'Relevant-adjacent' is the most useful term I have learned in years.
Max_TwoSteppen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:28:07 on April 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I got you, homie
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:13:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This Valentine's day, nothing says I love you like more than a million ants in a box.
Littobubbo ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:33:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You want ants? Cuz that's how you get ants!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:32:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I got mine! It's just like that movie Ant Man, except they aren't listening to me
vazod ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:20:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What'd you do with yours? I dressed mine up as rice and robed a Chinese restaurant(it was fun till i had to split the earnings)
edit: grammar
GreyReanimator ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:36:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am made up of ants. I belong to my friend Bobby. Don't tell anyone.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:46:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol did you get that from the one-liner comedian on /r/videos recently?
vazod ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:14:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes
BigButterNut ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just killed them then
Jsdestroy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:52:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used mine to build a house and now am training them to pull my chariot. How are you guys using yours?
Mad_Hatter_Bot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:20:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just got a bunch of uncles
Billy1138 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some guy named Scott Lang keeps taking mine apparently.
Zurrkitty ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:44:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The delivery truck must be Stalin.
Dathouen ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:10:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, they're delicious.
Asmetj ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:48:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Put those bad boys on some peanut butter and you sorted
Polaroidfoxx ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:26:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I named one Antonio. :)
PoopButtMuffinTop ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:47:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, you just have to fill out the form in back of the comic book and send in the $16.95 and you should get yours between 4-12 business days.
racc8290 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:30:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can't say I'm a fan of the cheek pinching though. The first couple hundred thousand are okay, but then it just becomes a chore
TheCodeJanitor ยท 1703 points ยท Posted at 02:34:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You haven't got yours? I chose not to get them as a lump sum, so I get a decent shipment every spring.
Iceyeeye ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 05:27:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dummy. You should have talked to an antcountant first. If you got the lump sum, the interest would have easily displaced the ant tax hit.
Riparian1150 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 12:05:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did - mine assured me that the lump sum was inferior to the antnuity.
modi13 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:49:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck. I'll have to tell my boss I want to be paid in lumps of ants from now on.
english_gritts ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 08:25:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unfair to ants
Sir-Loin-of-Beef ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 07:44:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have an antnuity and I need ants now. Call JG Wentworth, 8-7-7-ANTS-NOW
whalemingo ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 11:06:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
MKToastyWINS ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 03:50:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants.
Vacant_Of_Awareness ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:48:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good RnM reference >> Perfect Archer reference
I'm sorry, but that's just how the world is now
Dinomachino ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:06:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're MY ants and I want them NOW!
CoolnessEludesMe ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:36:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think all mine already live in my house.
treefitty350 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:24:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to have an ant problem. Then they destroyed a good portion of my insulation.
Man was that a sadistic year from me. Fun, but very sadistic. No empathy for anything that happens to an ant anymore.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:34:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I woke up me day and found what must have been thousands of ants all over a certain area in my closet. I was actually amazed by the sight for a moment, but I knew that the rest of my day was now wasted.
The-War-Boy ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:44:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just get a matchbox full of me every day.
I like to throw it into cars with open windows while going down the highway.
WhatShouldMyUserBe ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:56:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's fucking evil
oblivionraptor ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:33:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
WhatShouldMyUserBe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:04:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I woke up to your comment and I had no idea what you were talking about
Tsenraem ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:18:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sixteen_weasels ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:26:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you don't get them all during your lifetime they all just come at once when you're on your deathbed
Uncreative_Color ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:58:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's my ants and I want them now!
L8Show ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Smart man. We went with the lump sum and have been regretting ever since.
FeculentUtopia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:01:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does the undelivered portion accumulate interest? If not, then you're likely losing ants to inflation.
NicolasMage69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:09:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whos your ant guy? Mines Tommy Wiseau
dawelder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:09:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Me too usually in my kitchen
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:26:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Personally, I would recommend starting with a small amount to get the feel of taking care of them. Then getting the rest all at once. They are great for body disposal.
Skika ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:18:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
877-ANTS-NOWW
Chezgum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:19:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you have a structured settlement but you need ants now! Call G.M. Antsnow! G.M. Antsnow!!!
server_profile ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:29:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Antnuity is the better way to go
indiebass ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:07:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's my ants and I need it now!!!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:02:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hank Pym got his ants and put them to good use
IHazMagics ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:37:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See I just got mine all in one go, reinvested them, now I get anterest
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:29:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
CALL 1-877-ANTS-NOW!!!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:58:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think UPS delivers mine. They end up in the yard two weeks after I expect them and they're scattered all over.
_thisisadream_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:53:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess this is the method they automatically selected for me, because I don't remember making my claim
ominousgraycat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:45:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My cat keeps eating mine. :(
SubparBologna ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:22:46 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good choice. I took the lump sum and it turns out, after taxes, I'm only getting 1.1 million ants.
snakeoil-huckster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:37:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like you have a structured ant settlement. What happens if you need ants now?
modi13 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:50:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Call JG Antworth if you need ants now!
lyrisis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:34:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know why, but that's how I read this.
indigoreality ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:58:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you earn interest
mixologyst ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:59:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have them delivered every spring, divided up over 30 years, so when my last delivery comes the ones from the 1st have just died.
TheGlenrothes ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:57:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bravo.
corruptrevolutionary ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:25:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just leave sugar on a open windowsill
ASK_ME_IF_IM_YEEZUS ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:19:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't get it
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 11:06:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OP said that for every human there are 1.6 million ants. The second guy jokingly took it literally, saying that he's waiting to get the 1.6 million ants that are "for" him
catfingers64 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:45:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If there's 1.6 million ants for every human, I'm waiting for mine.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:32:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, are you yeezy?
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:16:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's my 1.6 million ants and I want it now!!!
buffbodhotrod ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:07:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dear diary,
Dad cracked me up today. Hopefully he doesn't find out as my diary is a reply to his comment.
One love,
Catfingers64's son.
PS I damn near posted my real name there by accident!
DoubleClickMouse ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:50:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your ants, or your human?
NeverSayOutaPotato ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:25:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Must be nice to not have room mates
pm_me_for_happiness ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:26:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't bother, you'll get juked! They only gave me 1599999!
kookaburra1701 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:16:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just got my annual spring delivery; you can borrow as many as you like.
Waltonruler5 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:33:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I must have gotten yours, this morning there were two kids on my doorstep
AmoebaNot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:58:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you looked in the kitchen?
TheCSKlepto ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:07:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They ship them one at a time, be patient
Purple_Poison ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:25:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They are there. Delivery underground of where you live. Dig em up
AltimaNEO ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:39:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mine are in my kitchen right now
slavior ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:10:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't get antsy about it
tickleboy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:14:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's because the top 10% control 90% of the ants.
catfingers64 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:46:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn fat-cats in Washington!
Ex_Why_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:14:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can have mine, bud.
MaximumAbsorbency ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:15:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hope I get Scarlett Johansson
tnethacker ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:27:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are now ants on reddit waiting for us humans to be delivered?
Revolvyerom ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:40:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just spill some sugar on the carpet and forget about it.
They'll get the invite.
The_Nipple_Tickler ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:05:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You tried shipyourenemiesants.com too?
Inhimility ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:13:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think they delivered them to my address.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:15:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're forming an army in Alaska to take over the world
atheista ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:57:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think they were accidentally delivered to my kitchen.
securitywyrm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:57:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're being delivered now. Don't you feel antsy?
bickering_fool ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:11:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit self entitlement right there.
Redditis4virgins ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:29:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
dont get it, why would ants be delivered?
catfingers64 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:44:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If there's 1.6 million ants for every human, I'm waiting for mine.
Redditis4virgins ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:24:34 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thats fucking stupid
Mechadroid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:35:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your ants are waiting for you to be delivered.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:43:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
also, did you not get your large dog?
rydan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:00:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just throw some donuts on the floor.
Whywouldanyonedothat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:02:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think they were sent to our garden by mistake. We are only three people in our household and we have nearly 6.4 milllion ants rather than the 4.8 million we were supposed to have.
Sorry about the mix-up. You can pick them up whenever it suits you.
Phalex ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:39:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think I saw am episode of Archer where there were some instructions on how to get ants.
useless740 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:42:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Don't let them leave the ants until you have counted to make sure they are all there. They tried to swindle me and only delivered 1,599,984 ants. The nerve of some people.
anomalous_cowherd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:51:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I dare you to post your real address...
radministator ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:58:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think yours got delivered to my house by mistake.
Solid_Freakin_Snake ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:28:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just call Ants-In-My-Eyes Johnson. I'm sure he's got some to spare.
alberthere ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:39:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should get a box of donuts and drop em on the floor. Because that's how you get ants.
wisecode ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:40:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have to make them come to you. Dig your own grave and lie in there.
TheGreatBobbyS ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:46:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do you even function without your complimentary human?
linz_in_the_sky ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:48:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So that's how you get ants.
sshukrun ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:05:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This comment has more up votes than the original post
Pooch76 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:09:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagining Amazon drones....
catfingers64 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:41:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh god...
religionofpeacemyass ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:13:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Blame OP
Wetbung ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:15:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure yours are in my yard. I'd appreciate it if you came and took them.
Rengaw99 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:25:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dad?
cocacola999 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:27:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you complain, ask about the free dog that comes with the cabin too
ianuilliam ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:47:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm still trying to get mine to put the sugar cube in the tea cup.
aoskunk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:57:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry I think I got your shipment as well as my own. I would send them to you but I've been systematically exterminating them as they walk onto my kitchen counter for years now and I'm afraid there aren't many left.
mtewary ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:57:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you want ants? Because that is how you get ants!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:04:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think they might have been delivered to my house by accident.
We've got millions.
automated_bot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:05:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Check the structural timber in your house. Sometimes the delivery driver will hide them there so they don't get stolen.
WhereAreMyMinds ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:07:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you tried dropping donuts on the floor? Because that's how you get ants
5n1p3r_haa ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:18:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe check amazon
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:29:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess you shouldn't anticipate much in life.
self-medicating-pony ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:45:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm missing out on some sort of reference here
catfingers64 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:39:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No reference, just a dumb joke that I got gold for apparently. If there's 1.6 million ants for every human, I'm waiting for mine.
self-medicating-pony ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:12:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I see. It went over my head, haha. Thanks!
Domhnal ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:46:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i need an explanation :(
catfingers64 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:40:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If there's 1.6 million ants for every human, I'm waiting for mine.
RealBuoy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:51:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mine deliver themselves.
LHeureux ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:59:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you want ants? Because thatโs how you get ants.
deadfermata ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:32:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ant in your eye. Sell furniture. Make a commercial.
the-z ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:56:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think mine found me just this week.
MethodicallyMediocre ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:23:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DO YOU WANT ANTS!?
blueocean43 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:00:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think they were misdelivered to my picnic.
metans ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:20:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is this, a wait for ants?
crazyweaselbob ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:25:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
do you want ants? cause' thats how you get ants.
Spax_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:20:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dad, get out of here.
teatimetibbons ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
someone should have been overlooking the delivery, to ensure you didn't get overlooked.
Steakin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:46:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Assuming you're thirty, one probably arrives every ten minutes or so
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:47:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you use prime?
chadsexytime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:00:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mine were delivered, but for some reason, they're equally spread out in shipments each year, and delivered under my kitchen floor
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:07:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you report this to the IRS you'll get a fair sum.
Shirtol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:05:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think they're at my place....
Jesus_marley ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:17:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have mine working on my farm.
iilinga ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:24:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drop some doughnuts on the floor and leave them there. That's how you get ants
WarKiel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:33:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should complain to DMX about that.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:34:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I found one in my bathroom sink this morning.
pepe_le_shoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:34:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait till summer.
lenswipe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:51:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it's been over a week or two, I'd contact amazon support
Yalnif ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:55:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Deliverants?
Shadowchaoz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:02:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't get why this comment was gilded...
Meddi_YYC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:07:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We're still waiting for our human, too
mbrw12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:08:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants.
adsfew ยท 2274 points ยท Posted at 01:50:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And yet we have so few schools for them.
[deleted] ยท 415 points ยท Posted at 06:32:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The problem is we keep building the schools at least three times too big.
Iwearnopantsever ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:10:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's absolutely right
InsipidCelebrity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:34:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you. I have a vision.
KnightInDulledArmor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:49:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At least?
TinglyNaughtyBits ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 05:39:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those inner city ant hills are quite a pile...
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 07:00:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You sound like Ken M.
vault_dweller123 ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 07:22:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
GOOD point
solarjet ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 08:26:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is this? A centre for kids?
ohmtastic ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:35:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or centers
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:01:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I knew of one but something happened to it. http://m.imgur.com/gallery/xdaREQb
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:46:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Derek?
fatboy93 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:12:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But we do have a subreddit for them /r/ents, so that they don't go hungry!
nce2cu ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:26:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because schools are for fish.
rocopotomus74 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:01:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice
skullminerssneakers ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:23:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
but derek zoolander will change that!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:36:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's because of all the fish.
Shinygreencloud ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:41:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, they can read pretty good...
00Deege ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:20:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks Obama.
thegeneraldisarray ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:38:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But plenty of farms.
Calbomb98 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:20:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All of the schools built for them are at least three times bigger than they're comfortable with
rhynoplaz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:26:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's because most of them choose to join the army rather than go to school.
confitqueso ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IMO we have way too many.
pprovencher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:20:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now you think they need separate schools!?
kaeroku ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:33:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah what ever happened to "no child left behind" right?
Fucking speciests.
baconperogies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:37:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember there was a documentary on this exact same subject.
ihaveteeth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No ant left behind!
Vape_Ur_Dick_Off ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:38:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We need affirmative ant-tion
thatlosergirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:47:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is this, a school for ants?
DiggySquid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:01:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's sad, really. We can't offer proper education to them unless you're rich.
JCMusiq ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:42:10 on March 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Especially those who can't read good and wanna learn to do other stuff good too.
Wasted_Thyme ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:37:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I was your 1000th upvote. I feel special.
Edit: Proof -->http://i.imgur.com/ovg1oLL.png
rtwpsom2 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:41:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just spent the weekend removing a nest of carpenter ants from the ceiling of my house. 1,590,000 to go.
TheSpecialBrowney ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:01:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ant that a shame
Zaakery ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:13:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that's ~11,854,400,000,000,000 ants
Wegeman ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:32:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Or 11.18544 quadrillion ants compared to 7.4 billion Humans, we need to prepare for the antpocalypse. They could absolutely fuck us up
iamaquantumcomputer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:41:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You misplaced your decimal... that's 11 quadrillion, not 1
Wegeman ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:43:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
shit
NLP19 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:23:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about the uncles?
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 02:47:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i've always wondered if the total weight of all humans on earth was more or less than the total weight of all ants on earth
Clashin_Creepers ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 03:00:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I read somewhere that ants beat humans by a long shot
mrcowmr ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 03:21:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
agreed, ants are the best humans.
SacredSandstorm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:34:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm gonna say no. Apparently ants weigh 1-5 mg each, so a million of them would be 5 kg at most, and 1.6 million would be 8 kg. Even considering small children, I'm pretty sure the average human weighs more than 8 kg (17.6 lbs). That's like the average weight of a one-year old.
newly_registered_guy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:45:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Regular shitty ants maybe, there are some massive fucking ant species out there.
continuousQ ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 11:26:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some massive humans around, too.
The__Authorities ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:07:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A quick google search of 'biomass of ants' has a bunch of results. Rough estimates say ant biomass = human biomass.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29281253
But then consider all the other bugs, spiders, and creepy crawlies out there and they have us out-bulked.
jargoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:18:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So this means a human weighs about 1.6 million ants then?
hthu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:27:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ants. I heard somewhere that termites outweigh humans 10 to 1. They can kick us off the planet if they so choose.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:35:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We'll build a wall and make the ants pay for it!
RogerThatKid ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:24:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but how many uncles?
saadakhtar ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:10:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is this? A planet for ants?
Mendokusai137 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:28:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Planet blue steel.
rural_juror_insurers ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:12:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The total mass of all the humans on Earth is about the same as the total mass of all the ants on Earth.
2fly2hyde ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:17:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do they all have their own centers for learning to read good?
awkwarddorkus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:28:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So if all the ants on earth somehow united and declared war on humanity, we'd be fucked, right?
xander255 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:44:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the combined weight of all of the ants is equivalent to the combined weight of all of the humans on earth.
AlexJohnsonSays ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An interesting fact pertaining to this:
That wold be both the best and the worst orgy
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:45:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL I have not killed my fair share of ants. Time to get to work.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is a war attrition we may never escape
Schleckenmiester ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:07:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so approx. 7.4 billion is the human population
7,400,000,000 x 1,600,000 = 1.184e+16 (whatever that is, calculators are confusing)
CitizenPremier ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:17:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the strangest Sovereign Citizen conspiracy claim I've heard so far.
aussiefrzz16 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:21:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
all the termites in the world weigh 9 times the amount of all humans
FisterMantasticPHD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:40:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unfair to ants.
StopThatFerret ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:54:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fair to ants.
ElJefeDelCine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:55:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I for one welcome our new ant overlords...
onetwo3four5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:05:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And yet I only have 4 cousins...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:27:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh. I feel like a queen now. I can have my own army of ants. And invade other people's ants' turf to get more food and resources for my ants.
Why am I such a child. lol
Ether165 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The weight of every ant on the planet is almost the same as the weight of every human on the planet. I think we're winning because we got some really fat fucks
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
VANY11A ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:38:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When was the last time they did an ant census though? This fact is old, we need to recount the ants again.
CrazyLord123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:40:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The total weight of ants is equal to the total weight of humans.
Veedrac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:42:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is a completely unreasonable claim. We don't really know the value to an exact order of magnitude, never mind two significant figures.
SaigonNoseBiter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:20:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i knew they had more biomass than us. how many ants weigh a person?
yeezus-101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:24:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do they come up with these figures?!
torkel-flatberg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:25:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the mass of ants is the same as the mass of himans
Lleu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:26:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As wrong as this sounds, I'm surprised the number isn't higher
skyniteVRinsider ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:26:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine if they became sentient and turned on us... I guess there's a reason they've been around since the Dinosaurs.
ABigHairyGuy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:37:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
antlivesmatter
AnAnonymousFool ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:39:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So there are 10.5 million billion ants? How is that possible???
purplesnowcone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:46:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure I've single handedly executed a billion of those fuckers.
I'd like to think the ants say "For every billion of us, there's one of him."
mitchmccluk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:50:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was the only Earth portion really necessary.
fiercelyfriendly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:21:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So if reincarnation were a thing chances are pretty high most of us are coming back as ants.
proletariatfag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:26:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
unfair to ants
Stabilobossorange ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:28:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and yet we think we run this
peenegobb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:46:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
if only they werent retarded. they could take over the earth!
Tinkerella1990 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:49:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As someone who has an ant phobia I have to say... WHERE CAN I RUN TO?! This is HORRIFYING
shrk352 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:51:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also there are more ants by mass on the earth then the mass of all humans.
ecklcakes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:56:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, there are more ants on Earth than stars in the Milky Way!
ZaydSophos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:17:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But. What. How.
Wh1teCr0w ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:25:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is this, a planet for ants!?
onenine97 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:38:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And yet there are far less centers for ants than for humans.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:55:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know ants serve their purpose and all, but sometimes I feel like I need to take it upon myself to be the next Hitler and be rid of them.
But I know that ultimately, I'll end up dead if I take on that front.
Say-no-more ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:00:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just learn that (in the last episode of the BBC "Inside Nature's Giants" serie) approximately at the time you wrote this comment. It's unsettling.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:02:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The weight of all the humans in the world equals the weight of all the ants.
leggit_acc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:06:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If only there were girls like ants
Rhaski ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:10:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We exist only because they allow it
LHandrel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:25:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm.
Source: am Ants-In-My-Eyes Johnson.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:56:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't I just know it.
I have found 13 ants nests up me allotment since taking it over. They're all waiting for me to lay down some seed I think, cunts.
Anchovie_Paste ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:23:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More ants than people by weight.
Awdayshus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:23:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Combined with another fact here, that means there are more ants on Earth than stars in the Milky Way.
TreyDHD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:25:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I built a center for mine.
iamjamieq ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:27:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I killed at least that many on my lawn last weekend. I did my part.
liquidthc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:28:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats all? I feel like I have more in my yard.
jtbeith ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:31:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And ants and humans could have about the same total biomass. (With the upper estimate of ants).
captorrr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:32:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yet I still cant find an ant to date.
LethalLobster8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:37:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've killed my share
Regtik ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:41:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
how is that possible wtf
iamtheowlman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:50:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So Ant Man is actually terrifying.
CRISPR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:51:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29281253
Razzler1973 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:53:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ant uprising any day now ... any day
the_real_grinningdog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:07:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cool, I have an Ant army!
Ihateants ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:24:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not to happy with this one.
mccrackey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:26:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let's get to work.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:33:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So if the average ant has a mass of 2mg, then the average human would weight 10 to 20 times as much as 1.6 million ants.
Latitude6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:47:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Very worried that one day the impoverished ant masses are gonna rise up against us.
affeisAFKIRL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:48:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which means that there are more ants on earth than stars in the galaxy!
Chaotichazard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:48:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I for one welcome our new and over lords
no_myth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:52:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Given a mass of roughly 5mg, those 1.6 million ants still only weigh about 10 kilos. So I feel like us humans could totally take the ant population on! If it came to that.
Jake_91_420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:54:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I see you post A LOT dude, just saying
Deckard_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:54:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One to rule them all
user6688 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:17:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The average GDP per ant is about 0.09 cents.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:19:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would expect there to be more ants per person than that.
book-reading-hippie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:20:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh fuck. 1.6 million ants could definitely carry one person away in their sleeep...they could take over.
Electroniclog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:28:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is this, a planet for ants?! It needs to beat least...three times this big!
Gunnscope18 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:37:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh god I thought that said rats. I was about to be seriously fucked up.
MrsYoungie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:55:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And they are all trying to get into my kitchen.
sethbob86 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:05:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But how many uncles?
JohnnyHighGround ยท 11422 points ยท Posted at 01:14:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The last execution by guillotine in France was in 1977.
najken ยท 4636 points ยท Posted at 03:00:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The same year original Star Wars came out!
k_nasty ยท 69 points ยท Posted at 04:29:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
4 months after Star Wars came out in fact!
May and September
straitnet ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:28:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Use the force! chop
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:11:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Cobbleking32486 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:49:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
he also never got to see episodes 5 and 6.
dauntlessmath ยท 259 points ยท Posted at 04:57:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that the one with Jar Jar?
NiobiumGoat ยท 172 points ยท Posted at 05:23:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BANG
kdem007 ยท 341 points ยท Posted at 05:27:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WHATEVER SOUND A GUILLOTINE MAKES
the_person ยท 172 points ยท Posted at 05:56:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SHWING!
slowest_hour ยท 60 points ยท Posted at 08:34:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wayne and Garth had guillotines in their pants?
dsquared513 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:43:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They were Jewish?
noisyturtle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:14:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NEWT!
mr_grass_man ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:31:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Shit! It didn't cut all the way!"
FearMeIAmRoot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:58:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SCHWING! SCHWING!
craker42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:19:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Party on Wayne!
[deleted] ยท 88 points ยท Posted at 07:18:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SCHHHHH-lonk
Kitty_McBitty ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 08:34:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the correct answer
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:48:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I may need to add more Hs. Especially if it's a tall guillotine.
culohands ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:30:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
YUGH!
Salsentorishka ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:47:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It goes it goes it goes it goes it goes it goes it goes it goes YAH!!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:44:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
kanye
a_likely_story ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:37:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES
agbullet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:17:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
JARRING
KMFDM781 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:50:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Itgoesitgoesitgoesitgoesitgoes
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:04:08 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
JOHN CENA
ATryHardTaco ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 07:41:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that the sound of Greedo shooting first?
NiobiumGoat ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:46:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You sly motherfucker.
jedwards999 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:02:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't you mean Kylo shot first?
Boush117 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:41:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are evil.
3piecesOf_cheesecake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:04:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Greedo never shot
ititsi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:08:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I shot first. In cold blood. I confess right here and now. I don't regret it and I would do it again.
tommy_the_tit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:48:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mike Breen?
ZombieHousefly ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:08:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Greedo shot first
[deleted] ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 06:32:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
people have been executed at the guillotine for less
theseleadsalts ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 12:06:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cab00se600 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:07:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No that's when they started using it again
chilehead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:17:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean execution, right?
A_favorite_rug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:50:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jar
Imperium_Dragon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:32:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, but that was the year Jar Jar was sentenced to guillotine.
-kindakrazy- ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 06:43:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At least they saw a New Hope. Even if they had none.
SithLord13 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 10:32:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He would have at least been spared the irony. Fox wouldn't let Lucas call it Episode IV: A New Hope until 1981 after ESB was released. Until then it was only Star Wars.
REDDITATO_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:09:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, I've always known about the title difference, but did it not even have the "Episode IV: A New Hope" in the title crawl?
SithLord13 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:15:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. Nowhere. Realize, not even George honestly believed he'd get a sequel. He was going to settle for releasing Splinter of the Mind's Eye and admit that his big dream was never going to happen, because sci-fi movies rarely got sequels.
REDDITATO_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:26:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's really interesting. I can't believe I never knew about it. I always thought it said that in the title crawl just to add some mystery even if there weren't going to be any other movies.
G00dAndPl3nty ยท 96 points ยท Posted at 07:34:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I'd rather have my head chopped off than the brutal shit they do in the US like the electric chair or drugs that don't work
Dyesce_ ยท 87 points ยท Posted at 08:27:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's why the good doctor invented the guillotine: to make the death penalty more humane.
Dr-Grozizi ยท 60 points ยท Posted at 09:01:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know if you're joking, but it's actually true.
Dyesce_ ยท 64 points ยท Posted at 09:27:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did mean the fact. And compare it to "modern" techniques of execution you'll find he had the right idea. Well, abolishing death penalty would be even better but not every country is ready for that step in social evolution yet.
Timmeh7 ยท 80 points ยท Posted at 10:16:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I agree it's almost certainly better than many "modern" execution techniques, but there remains the "living head" problem. The cut made by a guillotine may be a little too clean; it severs the head, but doesn't sufficiently jar the brain case, so the head seemingly, anecdotally remains conscious for a few seconds until the massive drop in cerebral blood pressure takes effect. Surprisingly, long drop hanging, or decapitation by a skilled swordsman are potentially more humane than the guillotine as a result.
The best method of execution was explored by an excellent BBC Horizon documentary presented by Michael Portillo, which found that nitrogen asphyxia is by far the most humane method. You don't feel like you're suffocating (can breathe normally), get a rush of euphoria as oxygen starvation takes effect, and then simply fall unconscious and die. No pain, no suffering. I'm opposed to capital punishment, and in a country which hasn't implemented it in 50 years, but that would seem to be the best way to go if a country intends to execute someone as humanely as possible. Ironically, I know some objection's been raised to it by people who feel it's a little "too humane".
antonnitro ยท 72 points ยท Posted at 12:22:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Too humane"... This is why we can't have nice things.
BlindfoldedNinja ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 13:20:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really though. I'm against the death penalty, but there's something about providing them with the most comfortable death anyone ever gets to experience that doesn't really sit right with me. Is there a toxic gas that makes you feel like you're stuck on hold while you've got really important things to do?
MixMasterBone ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 14:28:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just make them call Comcast customer service while they are being put under.
Timmeh7 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:20:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is an interesting point that gets raised a lot when I mention nitrogen asphyxia as a method of capital punishment. I suppose it comes back to... what's the rationale for implementing the death penalty to begin with?
When you consider it, the death penalty doesn't achieve much more in terms of protecting the public than life imprisonment. It isn't cost-effective - in the current American system, implementing the death penalty costs millions; it'd be cheaper to try an 18 year old mass-murderer and imprison them for the rest of their natural life, no matter how long they live (within reasonable limits of an actual human lifespan) than to put them to death. It's also not a good deterrent; counter-intuitively, states without the death penalty have consistently lower murder rates.
I know you're anti-death penalty, but I've asked this of people who're for it, and it always boils down to some form of revenge for the victim's family, getting to know that "animal's been put down" or similar. Which raises the question... why not crucify them? Or let the family of the deceased stone them to death? Of course, that makes all but the most rabid death penalty advocates shuffle uncomfortably. Yet still the feeling that nitrogen asphyxia is too "gentle" a way to die, too kind to a murderer at the end persists. Death must be clean, and "kind" (at least in the context of killing a person), and pretty much painless... but completely painless is a step too far.
I can't figure it out myself. I'm also against the death penalty, but I can't rationalise the idea that a method of killing someone is "too pleasant". Usually someone'll spout "well, it's better than that animal did for their victims!" Well yes, of course it is, and it should be. If the state is going to sanction killing a person, surely it has to be better than the people it's killing. Clearly the current methods of killing are aiming for cleaner, less painful or messy deaths (hence the effective end of hydrogen cyanide gas chambers and the massive decline of firing squads and the electric chair) - so how can something become too comfortable? How does the move from lethal injection to nitrogen asphyxia suddenly cross the line from just painful enough to being too kind? Genuinely curious to poll opinions.
Nalivai ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:11:21 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why the hell it's so pricy? What can cost millions in a such simple thing as murder?
Timmeh7 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:32:32 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's almost entirely trial costs, automatic appeals etc over a non-capital murder case. Obviously, courts and juries make mistakes, and inevitably innocent people can go to prison for murder. Capital punishment cases cost a massive amount more to achieve a greater degree of certainty when a life's at stake - and they should. New evidence exonerating someone you've already executed is flagrantly pointless.
Add to this things like death row cells being more expensive to run, with inmates spending a long time on death row (often 10+ years) and it becomes a very cost-ineffective thing to do, even from the outset.
Oxdeception ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:48:13 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think people feel that nitrogen asphyxiation is too kind because it seems like a better way to die than a lot of natural deaths. Sure it sucks to die before your time, but you're going euphorically and without pain. What are your chances of doing the same if you're not on death row?
With a lethal injection, even if it is done perfectly and is painless, your last moments are going to have you realize that this is truly the end. You won't if you go via the nitrogen chamber. Maybe for a while, but you'll forget that and go out thinking everything is going to be great.
At least, that's what I feel are the reasons. I'd rather not kill anyone either.
ByronicPhoenix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:37:47 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seems unfair to execute 18 year olds but not let them drink without fear of arrest.
HaydnWilks ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 14:51:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What do you propose instead? Torturing them to death in front of their loved ones?
BlindfoldedNinja ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:27:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I made my proposal: a toxic gas that makes you feel anxious and uncomfortable. Your 'torturing them in front of their loved ones' is a good idea too, I'll let them know you like that one.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:58:52 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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BlindfoldedNinja ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:26:35 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shit... I forgot who we were killing again. Ah screw it, who cares? Let the games begin!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:09:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I don't know though, I've always felt that the death penalty, especially a painless one, isn't necesserily so much a punishment for the criminal as much as it is for their family. Because unless you believe in something like a hell, you have to accept the fact that as soon as the criminal is dead, it's done. The period leading up to the execution may have been shitty, or depressing, or terrifying, or whatever; but once you're dead, you're not bothered by the fact that you're dead. Because you're dead. Your punishment is over. Dying was your punishment. You're no longer around to feel anything and the only thing that remains are two grieving families; that of the victim and that of the murderer (if it's a murderer).
Nalivai ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:08 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not about punishment, it's about preventing further crimes. From this person and from others who will be scary of this.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:45:31 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
If that is the goal I think it's pretty obvious it's failing :P Unless you're talking about serial killers. Then yeah, they won't be able to murder anyone anymore I guess. But most people aren't serial killers and I personally don't see the point of executing a person who has, for example, killed someone in a fit of rage. They still need to be punished but there is very little risk of a repeated offense.
And people are still getting killed, especially so in countries that have the death penalty. In fact research shows (I don't have any numbers, sorry) that countries with the death penalty have more crime, and more violent crimes, than countries without it. Makes sense if you think about it. If you kill someone in the Netherlands, you're arrested and after twenty years or so you're free again. There is less incentive, for example, to desparately try to resist your arrest than in a country where you're almost certain to be put to death.
dihedral_prime ยท -18 points ยท Posted at 14:29:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
""Too humane"... This is why we can't have nice things."
Leftist pussy shits like you are the reason why the western civilization is going down in flames.
pyrothelostone ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 15:12:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sigh...
antonnitro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:17:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ what can you do...
dihedral_prime ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kill yourselves maybe?
whirlpool138 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:35:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not the Republicans starting an illegal war with Iraq, dismantling all the fail safes that restricted Wallstreet and protected the economy or the complete refusal to let anything get passed in Congress? Yea it must be the liberals who decided to completely fuck this country back in 2004 and 2007.
Dyesce_ ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 10:24:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've read the head remains alive for up to a whole minute and can see and all.
I don't see how ending a life by force can be right in any circumstance and by anywho. But torturing someone to death by poison or electrocution is even more beyond my comprehension.
I can think of more humane killing methods like an OD of sleeping meds.
I just hope the world will come to its senses.
SithLord13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:30:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And torturing them to death by keeping them in a cage is more humane? Imprisonment is a far greater cruelty than even the electric chair.
Timmeh7 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 10:40:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's quite subjective, however. You'd prefer to be put to death than live out your life in prison, which is fair enough, but personally in a hypothetical choice between the two, I'd live out my days making use of the prison library. The number of people on death row in the US desperately appealing to have their sentence commuted to life imprisonment suggests that most people are in the latter camp, and a painful execution isn't preferable to life in a cage to the majority.
eetandern ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:23:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes, I think about getting sent to prison, so I could finally write that novel.
Dyesce_ ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 10:36:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not where I live.
Also it takes up to thirty years for a death sentence to be fulfilled in the US. 30 years of being afraid to be killed brutally the next day. Yah,way better than therapeutic classes and a minor job to do.
SithLord13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:50:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Executions are scheduled in advance. Most of those 30 years are spent with appeals pending. There's no fear of being killed the next day. In fact, being on death row is better and safer than being in gen pop. It's one of the few places in prison where you're not scared you're going to be brutally killed the next day or that night, without warning, for looking at another prisoner the wrong way.
Nice try though.
Dyesce_ ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:53:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then the report I've read about death row might be exaggarated.
You just confirmed the general inhumanity of American penal facilities to me though.
SithLord13 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 11:05:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY. It's not the guards, it's not the facilities, it's the prisoners. Trust me, I'd love to see an overhaul of the American prison system, but it just won't work with who we are as a people. I don't know a single person for whom the fear of prison doesn't impact their decisions. I've had multiple people pass comments that if they lived in a European country with their "spa prisons" they would actually beat the shit out of/kill a given person. The state of our prisons are a real deterrent to crime. When the only people left are people for whom that deterrent doesn't work, they're going to turn what small comforts there are in prison into something to destroy. Prison library books are regularly defaced. It used to be they accepted donations from the public. That had to stop when books were being used to smuggle in LSD. The problem isn't the prison system, it's American society as a whole.
Dyesce_ ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 11:17:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I see the problem is still with the facility because they fail to keep their occupants safe. I was aware that the imminent danger comes from the inmates.
If our prisons are so ineffective as a deterrent then why do we have fewer murders per 1000 inhabitants and generally less crime, too?
I fully agree that the American society as a whole is very problematic.
There are many aspects to that. A country that feels so superior to any others but where you can lose your job on a whim of your boss. Where you can go broke because of a an injury. Where there's no safety net of any kind at all. But we're the old, backward world. Ok.
Back on topic, I don't even see how imprisonment itself is a helpful tool. I think someone willing to hurt another is not entirely mentally healthy. I believe our goal must be to heal that person, not take our revenge on them. So, our "spa prisons" are a step into the right direction. I think it was Finland that is leading in this. (too lazy to google it)
SithLord13 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 11:32:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless you're going to put everyone in solitary confinement, which is cruel in and of itself, you can't. Many of these people are in here because they're simply to dangerous to be out on the streets.
Because of a difference in society. Size, homogony, and shared history all play a role. You're able to run prisons the way you do because your culture is already less conductive to creating criminals.
If you can find a solution to that, we might actually be able to change our prison system.
I didn't call you old or backwards. (Not to mention the Old world is a distinct geography term with no negative connotation) This is one of the problems that tends to arise in a discussion like this. When an American say "Your solution won't work for us" you take it as an insult.
I absolutely agree. It's simply the least bad tool we have right now.
You can't help someone who doesn't want to be helped. You can't make someone stop drinking who doesn't want to stop, and you can't make someone stop hurting people who doesn't want to stop.
For European society? Absolutely, it seems like it, though I trust actual Europeans would have a better understanding than I would. Of course they're not perfect. There was that guy who went on a murderous rampage slaughtering adults and children because he said the prison system was too lenient, but one man isn't reason enough to say it's not net good. That doesn't mean it would work everywhere.
Destructor1701 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:00:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is it about American society, in your view, that causes this tendency towards criminality?
I think your European interlocutor has a point about the general lack of a safety net - job security and social welfare being very low on the agenda mean crime is a necessity in the poorest socioeconomic environments in the States - for some people trapped at the bottom, it's simply the only way they have to get ahead. There's also the over-prosecution of minor crimes (possession of drugs, for example) leading to the incarceration and potential criminal indoctrination of otherwise law-abiding people.
The fetishisation of guns and the machismo associated with an American's right to bear arms for the explicit purpose of defense against other Americans is another bizarre attitude, from my European perspective.
The solution, you're right, doesn't start with the prison service. It starts with progressive policies - the kind of thing that the Republican party in particular would view as "un-American" - stuff like a social safety net of a basic income allowance (something Europe hasn't yet properly implemented either) coupled with a reorientation of the public school system (currently, I'm led to believe, laser focused on rote learning and standardised tests) to promote civic sensibility and dissuade people from inheriting their parents' combative attitude towards the world.
Given a generation to take root, such policies should make communities more positively cohesive, rather than the ghettoisation along tribal lines that currently exists in lots of poor areas (if I'm to believe my favourite TV dramas).
I babble. Please excuse the length of this - you've drawn the short straw and been subject to my morning-wakeup wall-of-text. I'm interested in your response to my initial question.
Timmeh7 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:54:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm also European, so take my perspective on the US with a pinch of salt. I'm very conscious of the anti-American circlejerk which goes around reddit; really not out to add to that by any means, but rather highlight the differences.
Europe obviously has more emphasis on social welfare programs - so set a level in society through which nobody should fall. The US does this too, but you tend to find the level is proportionally lower. Of course, wealthier people essentially fund these programs through taxes, so taxes are generally higher in Europe, but the lower echelons of society are better-protected from poverty. America, by contrast (and I'm aware I'm generalising a diverse nation) is often heavily anti-socialist as a result of the cold war, and more individualist than nearly all of Europe. Application of healthcare policy is a prime example of this.
The American rationalisation is generally that if you work harder, you earn more, and you have the right to keep what you earn, and use it to pay for better healthcare, education, housing etc for your family, without having to support anyone else - "you do you, I'll do me". Inevitably, while that works for many, many more who're disadvantaged one way or another will struggle to survive. The upshot is that, compared with Europe, the rich in the US usually do much better, and I feel there's a much higher rate of Americans striving to achieve social mobility, but the poor do much worse without the crutch of European-style welfare programs. Inevitably, deprivation and poverty leads to crime, and a cycle which is hard to break.
There're many other factors, with the war on drugs you mention ultimately feeding into the prison-industrial complex (something which, even trying to be even-handed I feel is indefensible), but I think the gap in quality of life between the average European in poverty and the average American in poverty is the primary reason for the disparity in crime rates. Again, I don't by any means want this post to be interpreted as American-bashing, and I'm happy to be corrected in cases where I'm wrong, or've made a misconception, but there are some fundamental differences in the way Americans and Europeans as a generalised mass perceive social welfare, and these, to my mind remain the primary cause of the disparity.
dfschmidt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:07:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
agreement across the Pond.
SithLord13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:57:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I honestly don't know. That would be a great research topic. I think it's the sum of a million different things.
Honestly, I think you hit what may be the single biggest aspect straight on the head. Prohibition specifically and over criminalization in general. When you look at all the laws that people routinely ignore about smaller things (from drugs to speeding), it creates a culture of lack of respect for the law.
I think on this one you have the causality backwards. It's knowing that for many that fear of getting caught is the only thing keeping them from committing crimes makes the need to defend oneself much more paramount. I won't say there might not be some feedback loop, but I think the preponderance of causality flows in the opposite direction you're thinking.
The issue here is there's a concern, and I'm not sure how unfounded it is, that the same societal issues that make these problems will cause issues with safety nets. Personally I favor minimum income, but I don't think the reservations about it are unfounded.
Education is bipartisanally fucked. I'm not entirely sure how to overhaul it. But trying to use the schools to "promote civic sensibility" sounds a lot like propaganda. A school's job is to impart knowledge, not to parent children.
Just to be clear, the ghettoisation is along financial lines, not tribal ones. (Unless you were using that term loosely)
The problem is it's a very multifaceted question. If anyone had a real answer that we could be sure worked, it would already be in action. But part of the issue is that any solution has to come from below and be supported from above. If the people don't support the solutions, they won't work.
Destructor1701 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:22:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Yes, I meant tribal in very loose terms indeed - just that communities with similar concerns band together and shun outsiders - be that along racial, religious or economic lines - all apply.
It's funny that you should say that civic education sounds like propaganda, because US schools look plenty propagandised already, with the pledge of allegiance and the amazing amount of patriotic nonsense that seems to be instilled in kids by it.
By civic education, I just mean a slant on the education that highlights how the local and national elements of government work for the people, and how the people can influence that. To provide a sense of empowerment, and to avoid instilling misplaced pride in a broken system - rather the sense that they can help fix it.
It's not something that should be a parent's responsibility, because Politics is part-art, part-science - it's a complex beast, and that's what schools are for: Teaching the complex. Furthermore, if kids are left to learn the lay of the land from their parents, you just get generational voting with nobody thinking for themselves. (All of which is easier said than done, I know - my own country suffers from a similar inscrutably deadlocked bureaucratic hairball of a government as the US does.)
I agree, solutions need support from above and below - though it increasingly seems these days that never the twain shall meet!
EDIT: Fascinating discussion, btw! Thanks.
SithLord13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:39:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trust me, there's nothing instilled in kids by the pledge of allegiance. It's a joke, and no one takes it seriously.
As far as I know you can't graduate from an accredited high school without a civics class or better. Kids already learn this, though it could possibly be better if it were taught more practically. (ie You're taught the process for amending the constitution, but there could definitely be some benefit to figuring out how to do that practically.)
You see, the issue is that schools shouldn't be telling students what they should or shouldn't be taking pride in. There are a few examples that can be drawn on pretty uncontroversially (for example expanding suffrage), and that's what's generally used when speaking about something like that. Otherwise it's left for the students to draw their own conclusions.
I am going to point out something about the US government that most people even inside the US don't realize. It's designed to be deadlocked. Better no law be passed than a bad one.
I think the bigger issue is that the grassroots solutions never even approach consensus. You might get the wrong idea from reddit, but really there are a whole hell of a lot of people who think that the changes from the status quo that need to happen are all in the opposite direction from what reddit is saying. There are plenty of people who believe that the reason cap punishment isn't serving as good a deterrent as it might is because we don't have public executions any more. America is a huge and very divided country in terms of viewpoints.
Dyesce_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:21:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel very much that we both are agreeing fully and saying basically the same thing.
The old world equals backwards did not come from you. I apologise for projecting. I got the feeling that it's a general American view but probably it's that fallacy that loudmouth trolls get heard more to the point it seems they speak for everybody. Again, sorry.
I wish for peace and prosperity for everybody and it's frustrating to think it just might not be possible in some places.
SithLord13 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:20:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think there are two aspects here. One that you hit the nail on the head (America #1 Trolls) and one that a lot of the European sentiment (particularly here on reddit) is one of superiority, looking on America as savages. It's easy for people to reply angrily when they feel like they're being talked down to. Especially considering when America subsidizes the military and healthcare of a large chunk of the world. We get criticized for having such a large military, right until someone needs a show of force to maintain stability. We get criticized for the price of healthcare when without that spending new drugs wouldn't be able to be developed.
The fact is America is peaceful and prosperous. The fact that how that works for us is not how that works for you is not a bad thing.
Dyesce_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:33:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
So you're saying America is more focused on the big picture with the sacrifice of the individual. Those who cannot contribute fall through the grates. I see. Maybe Europe does look too much at each little person. But at least Germany and GB for example do contribute to medicinal development. It's not as if we don't have technology and development. Germany even builds war machinery for just about the world which I feel does not fit into the whole picture at all (but I sew the monetary potential loss if we didn't).
After all is said and done we all have yet to come quite a way to Roddenberry's vision of a united peaceful world.
Edit for afterthought:
Maybe Europeans react acerbic because Americans promote that feeling of superiority, too. See my wrong assumption about being seen as backwards, it has reasons.
SithLord13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:43:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, but they still sell in the US, where they make money. It's not about where the companies are homed, it's about where they make their money.
Dyesce_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:54:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Umm ... Are you telling me that the market in America (population 322 mil) is greater than in Germany (population 82 mil)? Then I say to this: D'uh. Or are you against exports/imports?
Some meds from Germany are sold exclusively through export because they are not allowed here due to very strict testing. Which I think is very wrong because if it's not good enough for our people they shouldn't give it to foreigners. But money rules the world and I think that's one of the roots of all evil.
SithLord13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:57:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Neither. I'm talking about the fact that the profit made on that 322 million is greater than the profit on the other almost 7 billion of the rest of the world. And I'm not against import or exports. I'm just commenting on the US subsidization of European healthcare. If they can make the research costs back in the US, they can afford to develop better medications that European governments pay a pittance for.
thereal_mc ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:02:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you ever had a general anesthesia? It's like turning the light switch off. Once I have it applied you may as well cut me with a dull saw. I understand that doctors don't want to use the life saving techniques to kill so we have situation that gas chambers could be most uhm humane way to terminate people and are anything but.
Timmeh7 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:26:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You've hit on the problem there. The Hippocratic oath prevents doctors from taking part in lethal injections, so technicians or orderlies insert the needle, and verify that the inmate is unconscious - something they're not necessarily qualified, or adequately trained to do.
This isn't a theoretical: 7.1% of US lethal injections up to 2010 were considered "botched" - 1 in 14. A little further down that same article is a description of one of the more unpleasant failures, which resulted in the inmate dying, seemingly in quite significant pain of a heart attack.
I personally believe that correct application of the process is probably painless, but consistent correct application seems a very long way off. If a government is to execute, surely better to pick something like nitrogen asphyxia which doesn't require medical expertise beyond certifying death (which medical doctors do usually do in all executions), is very difficult to botch, and frankly won't cause the inmate physical pain if something unforeseeable does go wrong.
Hidesuru ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:24:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seems like it would be relatively cheap and easy to implement as well...
Dr-Grozizi ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:48:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No to say that some that have are often talking about bringing it back (French here, and it's the case. I lived in Spain for 10 years, same thing).
Dyesce_ ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:07:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We (humanity as a whole) will get there. I'm convinced of that. Just not within the next few generations.
TrueMrSkeltal ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:28:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How many tax payers are willing to feed and shelter rapists and murderers though, assuming they are truly guilty (let's say most of them are for simplicity)? One might argue it is an inefficient allocation of resources from an economic standpoint. That money could be better served going to schools and programs that prevent people from doing things that land them in prison.
Dyesce_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:45:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've seen (and forgot the source ... I think it was ethics lessons in vocational school) statistics that processing of the death sentence in America is more expensive than lifetime incarceration in Germany.
Prevention through education is the key, I absolutely agree!
Rockburgh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:25:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure processing for death sentences in America is more expensive than lifetime incarceration in America, really.
tamb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:54:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe the next step in social evolution is to bring back the death penalty for many serious crimes, and possibly even forms of torture.
It seems unthinkable of course, but every past social evolution seemed unthinkable before it happened.
Dyesce_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:35:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hard to imagine but you're right of course, we can't see into the future.
Dr-Grozizi ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 09:54:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's awful indeed. I'd like to understand how the fuck an insane mind can have created the electric chair. But, as insane (as well) as it can sound, I think being shot in the head is even better.
larsgj ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 12:53:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Edison... To show how dangerous alternating current (Tesla's concept) was. He made the first demonstration with the electrocution of an elephant in New York.
alexbhood ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:15:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No he didn't. That's a myth. His company had a crew there that filmed it but they had nothing to do with the elephant actually being killed. This is obvious because the elephant (Topsy) was killed 10 years after the Edison/Tesla current wars.
larsgj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:19:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks TIL. Still a good story though. I think I'll keep the myth :-D
alexbhood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:06:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please don't keep spreading that junk all over the Internet.
larsgj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:36:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/s thought the smiley gave it away. Sorry about that. I'm a science teacher but can't fact check everything. I'd need 40 hours per day to do that. I just found the book where I read it. It's actually a science book from a respectable author here in Denmark. Shame on them :-(
alexbhood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:27:31 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh I didn't get the sarcasm. My bad. But yeah that's a really old myth that I heard everywhere for years until someone on reddit said it was junk and linked to a bunch of sources so I read up on it.
larsgj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:21:01 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's one of the reasons I always read the comment section here. Have a good day :-)
alexbhood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:26:05 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You too!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:10:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Totally agree. Just posted this above in reply to a comment, copying it here:
A large caliber hollow point or soft point round from a handgun, rifle, or shotgun blast to the back of the head at the base of the skull at a slight upward angle toward the neocortex would certainly be instant... Immediately destroys the brain stem and the fragmentation spread tearing apart everything else would definitely result in an instant death. An apparatus like the current lethal injection chair that placed and held the head in an ideal position while lying back against the barrel of a weapon firing something like a .308 Lapua, .45 ACP, 357 Magnum, 12 Guage Slug, .30-06, and so on would guarantee instant death...
HaydnWilks ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:51:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really don't understand why the US has outlawed death by firing squad. If I was ever in a position where I had to pick my method of execution, that would definitely be my choice.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:13:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because an execution where the person's body gets maimed or damaged is felt to be too traumatizing for the audience.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:08:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In that case the optimal execution method would be noble gas or nitrogen asphyxiation. From what I understand the reason this method has not been used is because it is too kind and gentle in appearance to the witnesses as the individual being asphyxiated typically experiences a profound euphoria as they die often causing giggling, etc. That somehow is also seen as distasteful.
HaydnWilks ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:27:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If that's the main reason then that's all kind of fucked up prioritisation.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:35:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It basically is. That's why unreliable experimental cocktails are being used over a clean shot in the back of the neck. Public perception. People still want their criminals to die, but not in a too visually barbaric way.
Mindstar48 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:08:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
if i had to pick mine, i'd pick old age.
HaydnWilks ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:26:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Instant old age delivered through injection. No thank you!
SneakyBadAss ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:43:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
True. Especially police snipers aim at "golden cross or god cross". Its spot on your head between your nose tip and top lip Point of this shot is destroy medulla oblongata in the quickest way, so target don't have chance to resist or harm someone. Separating medulla oblongata leading to instant death.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:00:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, so doing it from the back of the head while it was restrained would result in an even more certain fatal result and the time from the bullet hitting the back of the neck to total brain destruction would be shorter than the time for any neuron to communicate a pain signal that it could truly be described as painless.
As far as police snipers go, their goal of course is not to create a painless death but aim at that location because if a criminal holding a pistol to the head of a hostage or something is hit elsewhere there is some chance that they could 'react' and pull the trigger whereas successfully seperating the medulla and brainstem from the spinal cord more or less eliminates that possibility since even spinal reflexes in that case cause the hands to open and hands to raise.
n60storm4 ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 07:48:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Frankly, the fact that the US still uses the death penalty is barbaric.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:28:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wish Canada would re-implement the Death penalty. We are a civilized country , of sorts. But as a human race .. We need less of Paul Bernardo and Pickton.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:35:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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MiniatureBadger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:56:06 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Michigander here, we never did!
[deleted] ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 08:14:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'Cos forcing people to spend their lives in savage cages with violence and murderers is much better for both the criminal and the taxpayer.
TMMWhytefyre ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 08:21:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's at least better for the taxpayer.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:48:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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n60storm4 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:36:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you may have misread the comment above you. He's actually against the death penalty. He's stating that it's better for the tax payer to keep them in prison (which is true, it's cheaper)
fistkick18 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:59:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you say that like the people voted on it. we didn't. we're trying to get rid of that shit.
fuckinwhitepeople ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:21:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You city folks are, the landowners who own 95% of merica is all like "hang em high."
fistkick18 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:12:51 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You think you actually own the land? You don't, the government and corporations do. They will take it out from under you the moment they get a whiff of oil.
fuckinwhitepeople ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:24:20 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Touchรฉ
fistkick18 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:20 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This country is all sorts of fucked up, no matter whose side you're on. The only people that are winning are those with hands in all the right pockets, unfortunately.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:33:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, this is untrue. It takes longer to argue, requires more lawyers, more appeals and in general is just more expensive to house the inmates than the life in prison guys.
Source: a bunch, but here's an article from Forbes
TMMWhytefyre ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:45:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you misunderstood what I say. I am saying that it's better for the taxpayer to do life sentences than death penalties.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:45:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ah, yes I did. I thought you were saying the opposite. apologies.
DonDefo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:49:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think /u/TMMWhytefyre is making the same point as you, so it's confusing that you say it's untrue, then proceed to prove the same point.
n60storm4 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 08:26:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's better than bringing ourselves down to their level and killing them. They could also be found innocent later.
Prison isn't a 'Savage Cage' and while reform is needed it is better than ending a life. Every life is precious and ending one for whatever reason is always unjustified.
Also it's actually cheaper to imprison for life than to give a lethal injection.
B_for_bromine ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:44:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't understand the last part. How come imprisoning for life is cheaper than lethal injection? Could you explain please?
Fart_gorge ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 08:59:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People always get extravagant with their last meal choice.
MisterEggs ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:33:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That made me laugh. Vur good.
n60storm4 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:33:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The appeals process, the actual cost of the drugs (there is a major shortage because medical companies are refusing to sell if they suspect their product is being used for execution), and other extra costs.
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/costs-death-penalty has more information
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:07:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Appeals process is usually the reason.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:06:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In America, it certainly seems like a savage cage.
cinaak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:31:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
prison sucks
n60storm4 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:15:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not as much as dying.
cinaak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:47:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
death is nothingness
n60storm4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:02:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd argue that not existing anymore sucks. If you're correct and death is not just nothingness; it's what it was like for you before you were born. There is no 'you' anymore.
FGHIK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:56:53 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Civilization ain't batman. There's no "going on their level"
fistkick18 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 10:05:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would definitely counter that argument with the likes of Ted Bundy, the Unibomber, Charles Manson, Albert Fish, John Wayne Gacy, etc.
And stop telling people that it is more expensive to give the lethal injection, you know that is false. The appeals process is by far the most expensive part of the process.
There is a huge problem with crime in America, and just repealing the death penalty isn't part of the solution. I do personally believe that the state has no right to kill a human being, but we need to argue this in a factual manner, not with blanket statements that can be disproven.
n60storm4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:28:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is the increased appeals process not part of the cost of the death penalty?
Also the drugs have become more expensive recently going from $80 per victim to over $1500 per victim.
Also, your counter arguments are pointless. The death penalty is never right. There is no threshold where it becomes okay to kill another human.
fistkick18 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 10:37:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The expensive appeals process is not a part of the cost of the lethal injection. It may sound like splitting hairs, but its not. I'm just saying, don't misrepresent what is going on - when people realize that what you said isn't completely true, then they reject everything you say. You need to have an ironclad basis for your argument.
No they haven't, the country that was supplying the US became upset about the use, and artificially increased the price. Again, you are being misleading just to make your point.
All you are giving me right here is an opinion. Opinions like that are completely worthless. If you notice, I even agreed with you!
But you need to back up your arguments with things other than opinions and misleading figures.
n60storm4 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:25:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is a matter of opinion not fact. I've just been at a weekend long debating tournament (which my team won) and I have no desire to worry about formalities when I stated my opinion and refuted a falsehood with evidence.
I would argue that your definition of misleading is misleading. The price for the drugs did go up and whether the increase was artificial or not doesn't pertain any relevance to the discussion as the outcome is still the same.
Also, your exclusion of the heightened appeals process from the costs of a capital punishment is frankly squirreling and doesn't represent the facts. By limiting the scope to just the direct cost of the physical adminstration of the drugs you are failing to understand the wider context of the discussion and look beyond the immediate.
Ultimately cost isn't important to me. I care about human life. This is a discussion over how much you value a human life and anyone who supports state-sanctioned murder and claims to care about life is a hypocrite and needs to go back to the 1800s.
djasonwright ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:31:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
rekt
fistkick18 ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 11:55:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow. With that manner of reasoning, the competition must be pretty low wherever you are.
It does pertain to the discussion, bc for one, its not like there is only one drug that can kill humans. Secondly, lethal injection is not the only method of death penalty that is even legal in the US. Thirdly, even if it was, it's not like they couldn't legalize alternative methods in the first place.
I wasn't excluding it, you just can't read. There is a difference between lethal injection and the death penalty. The cost of lethal injection is purely the cost of the shot, just as the cost of a table is purely it's price. By making the two so inseparable, you allow your argument to be completely deconstructed to its weak foundations. Here are the facts: imprisonment for life is cheaper than making appeals for 20-30 years, not any single method of executing a person. It is misleading to represent it otherwise. If you present it your way, then it opens up the argument that a shorter appeals process should be used, which would bring the costs down to below that of life imprisonment, which would make it the cheaper option, and therefore, better for the country as a policy. Since we have agreed this is wrong, perhaps we should explore some other avenue of reasoning.
Your last paragraph just parrots the recent circlejerk about what time period it is, which accomplishes nothing. People can have differing opinions on things at a basic level and not be hypocrites. It's called having values. It is very likely some of your values are seemingly conflicting to others, but that doesn't make you a hypocrite. If you really were such a renowned debate champion, you wouldn't rely so much on broad generalizations.
n60storm4 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:23:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You misread my comment. I brought up the debating competition because I was trying to illustrate I wanted a discussion and not a debate.
If I wanted a debate I wouldn't do it on the Internet.
fistkick18 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:13:11 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fair enough.
djasonwright ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:37:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like the chance of wrongful conviction makes the appeals process necessary to any conversation about the death penalty.
I'm not sure if it was your intent, but splitting hairs about the cost of execution and the cost of the death penalty may be coming off as a little pedantic (hence the downvotes).
fistkick18 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:14:47 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not saying that it isn't. I'm saying that splitting hairs happens in any part of a public debate, so having really fragile reasoning is a bad idea.
Workaphobia ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 12:04:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bullshit. Some people are turds. Maybe you'd rather let them live anyway but don't pretend they deserve it.
gmoney8869 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:05:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[citation needed]
mass murderers lives are less than worthless
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 09:00:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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n60storm4 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:32:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On a moral level, someone who has killed someone else is morally lower to someone who hasn't. My statement has nothing to do with value of life (which are all precious no matter what moral standing).
Secondly, what do you mean by "your government". I'm not American - my country got rid of the death penalty ages ago (we were also the first country to give women the right to vote, which is unrelated but cool).
junhyung95 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:31:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it costs a lot more to execute prisoners than to keep them in the prison for the rest of their lives
SHAZBOT_VGS ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:42:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
isn't that only true because they stay incarcerated for like 20-30 years before getting executed anyway?
fistkick18 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 09:58:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Incorrect, it costs more in appeals to actually reach the execution than to keep them in prison. When you simplify it that much, you paint an incorrect picture of the process.
Noble_Ox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:07:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mr fuckin Pedantic here.
fistkick18 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:15:35 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you have opponents that are trying to tear down every part of your argument to convince the general public, wording matters.
Noble_Ox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:28:08 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But most people have the common sense to realise that when people say the lethal injection is more expensive than incarceration, they know that it means the whole legal process involved.
fistkick18 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:41 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you met most people?
pancarte ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:25:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't see how this can be true. The injection or electricity cost is more expensive than feeding/providing shelter to an asshole that deserves worse than death?
thereal_mc ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:05:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't forget the lawyers. They need to eat too...
babymah ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 10:27:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only because they take years to go through with it. If it was done within a week of sentencing, bookoo bucks would be saved.
anomalous_cowherd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:52:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The guillotine might seem barbaric but at least it's a quick death and if something goes wrong youre probably untouched - until they fix it, at least.
None of these people spending ages in agony because the drug mix was wrong.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:22:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not as quick as you might think. Severed heads were sometimes observed blinking and looking around.
anomalous_cowherd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:26:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nothings going to be instant instant except something like a trip hammer that flattens you in a split second.
But at least a guillotine wouldn't have the repeated burning that the drugs or electric chairs sometimes end up causing.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:08:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A large caliber hollow point or soft point round from a handgun, rifle, or shotgun blast to the back of the head at the base of the skull at a slight upward angle toward the neocortex would certainly be instant...
Immediately destroys the brain stem and the fragmentation spread tearing apart everything else would definitely result in an instant death.
An apparatus like the current lethal injection chair that placed and held the head in an ideal position while lying back against the barrel of a weapon firing something like a .308 Lapua would guarantee instant death...
ititsi ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:07:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FUCK people who give you drugs that don't work.
Noble_Ox ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:56:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't no why they don't use inert gas, cheap and humane (probably because its humane).
TheArcbound ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:03:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I too watch Vsauce ;)
FreeAsInFreedoooooom ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:56:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or, you know, there are other ways to get that information.
bingo_hand_job ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:52:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:26:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
May the force be with you.
strumpster ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:33:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Force that head right off
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 06:34:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not how the force works.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:40:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The entire galaxy is counting on us.
southernbenz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:43:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With that attitude, not.
anotherawkwardadult ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:06:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It does now
SithLord13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:35:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tell that to Kanjiklub!
bingo_hand_job ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:49:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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PanRagon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:21:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Coincidence? I think not.
youfuckmymother ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:05:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks Vsauce!
J5892 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:21:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Coincidence?
probably
prime61071 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:38:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the person executed was recorded at the time of death, ultimately inspiring the voice of Chewbacca.
I may have made that up...
wauve1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:58:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
May La Force be with you
Diersada0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:02:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a year
pervysage1608 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:42:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lmfaoooo
iguanamonkey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:34:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Coincidence?
tobomori ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:04:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The same year I was born! A good all round year. Except for French people on death row.
Annajbanana ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:18:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And beautiful me was born!
Gizmo-Duck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:34:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so the first execution by lightsaber. I guess France decided it was more efficient than the guillotine.
LethalLobster8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:38:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One of those facts are important
TooBadFucker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:46:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And to further tie France to Star Wars: in Bioshock Infinite when you first see Elizabeth open a tear in her room, she opens it on a street in France with "RETOUR DU JEDI" across a cinema marquee!
lumpyspacejams ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:00:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fun fact: the first Star Wars actually came out before the last execution by guillotine!
The movie debuted on May 25th, 1977, while the last execution occured on October 10th.
TheNumberMuncher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:55:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now we use light sabers.
Mrchezzy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:01:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow. I thought force awakens came in '77
Telepwn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:06:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Punishments for spoilers have gotten weak since then.
MiatasAreForGirls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:34:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...did the executed party spoil it?
Mshake6192 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:42:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Coincidence? I think not
GovernaleJP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:00:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read somewhere the actor that played count dooku was present at said execution. Can't remember the source though so it could be false.
cwood1973 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:00:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are these events related?
noodlemandan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:44:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Coincidence? I think not!
bassnugget ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:23:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That single execution is what caused the War to break out.
cynicalsisyphus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:33:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You watched that vsauce video
SandersClinton16 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:08:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Force Awakens?
Gh05tW4nk3r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:16:28 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
coincidence?
WeedOutTheBS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:44:55 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Once you stop believing in coincidences it all makes since. the illuminati!
herpendatderp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:33:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
:D!!!
Natiak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:09:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, episode four, the first movie in the series
[deleted] ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 06:37:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Calembreloque ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 13:12:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Coupard" doesn't mean anything in French but "couper" means "to cut" or "to chop" and "-ard" is a common word ending, so "M. Coupard" would be like an American guy named "Mr. Choppy". That fits well.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:00:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is particularly fascinating in that Saint-Pierre is such a small island. It is off the coast of Newfoundland, and yes they speak French there (French French, not Quebec French) and the currency is the Euro (not the Loonie). I was going to visit there, but in September the ferry runs only once a week, and, well, a week there is about six days too long. At the ferry terminal are a line of cars parked, Citroeons and Renaults, with French license plates.
It is not a colony, it is France - in the middle of Canada! How freaking bizarre. It would be like Germany having an island off the coast of North Carolina or something.
TheGreatNico ยท 2118 points ยท Posted at 02:28:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And Christopher Lee saw it.
[deleted] ยท 768 points ยท Posted at 03:35:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought he saw the last public execution, in the 1920s?
Qwertycwer ยท 1108 points ยท Posted at 03:46:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was the last public execution that he saw, not the last execution in general, but it was 1939, not the 20s.
INFIDELicious45 ยท 157 points ยท Posted at 05:53:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i feel like there were at least some public executions in france between 39 and 45
rchard2scout ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 11:02:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently not by guillotine.
darsynia ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:48:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ow, yeah.
ewoksareevil ยท -13 points ยท Posted at 07:15:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought he meant Count Dooku being done by Anakin douchebag Skywalker with 2 hax lightsabers in Revenge of the Sith when Palpatine said "Due it!.
But that's just me. And yes, till this day I still hear Palpatine saying "Due" and not "Do", because he's badass that way.
TheYearOfThe_Rat ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 08:05:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He also said 'Nyeow!' instead of 'Now!'
killahdillah ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:49:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He just wanted Anakin to Do the Dew
XheadJr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:20:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My Grandfather smoked his whole life. I was about 10 years old when my mother said to him, 'If you ever want to see your grandchildren graduate, you have to stop immediately.'. Tears welled up in his eyes when he realized what exactly was at stake. He gave it up immediately. Three years later he died of lung cancer. It was really sad and destroyed me.
My mother said to me- 'Don't ever smoke. Please don't put your family through what your Grandfather put us through." I agreed. At 28, I have never touched a cigarette.
I must say, I feel a very slight sense of regret for never having done it, because your comment gave me cancer anyway.
ThePr1d3 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:00:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would say between 1940 and 1945 ;)
freet0 ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 07:47:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly how many executions has this man been to?
HighRelevancy ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 12:36:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He was special forces IIRC so probably more than he talks about.
Naf5000 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:26:26 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any number greater than zero is more than he talks about.
HighRelevancy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:28:34 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well there was the one time he told Peter Jackson he was directing a getting-stabbed-in-the-back (literally) scene wrong, and "here's what it's really like when somebody gets knifed in the spleen".
So there's that one.
Naf5000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:37:01 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean he's dead. He doesn't do anything in the present tense anymore.
HighRelevancy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:15:18 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh. Yeah that's a good point.
Naf5000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:38:40 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't feel too bad, I still don't want to believe it either.
EvilMortyC137 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:53:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Talking performing or just watching?
wggn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:41:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yes
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:32:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know what to believe.
empireof3 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:10:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is even footage of it. NSFW
arhanv ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:54:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone ELI5
getbangedchatshit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:16:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So he's like the guy who goes to executions? Is there a list you need to get on?
Veefy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:32:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The one that Christopher saw (he was 17 at the time) was held in public outside a prison. Anyone could attend it. Because of the behavior of spectators the French president banned all future public executions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Weidmann
diadmer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:46:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did he have season tickets or something?
ititsi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:09:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, he saw many, many executions in private after that. Great actor, strange hobbies.
RandomMandarin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:29:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And then he joined the Special Operations Executive and performed a few executions of his own. Apparently.
RenegadeKG ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:17:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But the first guy said 1977.
Qwertycwer ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 04:30:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The last execution was in 1977, the last public execution was in 1939.
nathanstolen ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 05:30:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And Christopher Lee saw it.
pwaz ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 06:34:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But, it wasn't in the 20s.
LaReGuy ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:36:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guys, guys, Keanu Reaves has seem all of them..
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:23:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From the very first one to the very last one.
catheterhero ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:30:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well look at mr. smarty pants...
toxictaru ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:32:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Correct. After the one witnessed by Christopher Lee, France decided it was probably a bit much, as there was an absolutely massive turnout, and video now actually becoming a thing (the one Christopher Lee saw was recorded, and can be found online. It isn't graphic, as it's black and white, and from a distance, but it's incredibly surreal).
France kept it up for a while afterwards, and, as OP said, stopped in 1977.
barosa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:28:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He saw that one too, dude loves watching executions.
Sloane__Peterson ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 04:02:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a man Christopher Lee was. Between that and a terrifying childhood encounter with M.R. James when he was interviewing for Eton, man was built to be a horror star.
Ohtarello ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 07:35:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Man, I know the story's been told, but I can never get over Christopher Lee correcting Peter Jackson on what a man sounds like when he's been stabbed in the back. It makes me feel like that he was just not a man to be fucked with.
Edit: speeling misteaks
akashik ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 14:28:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Source.
DannyPrefect23 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:17:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lee was a Nazi Hunter after WWII. I think he'd know a thing or two about death.
namtabmai ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:05:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Read Lee's autobiography if you haven't already. It's pretty dry but god has that mad seen and done some shit.
FILE_ID_DIZ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:01:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and you remember, the jingles used to go:
Destructor1701 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:03:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh-wa-oh-a!
fletchindubai ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:38:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus. You're about to get your head cut off, look up and there is Christopher Lee staring back at you.
Late_Dent_ArthurDent ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:47:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How does something that's so absolutely incorrect get over 1000 up votes?
Eurynom0s ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:40:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
\m/
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:36:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Christopher Lee was on the cover of "Band on the Run"
WritingPromptsAccy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:51:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And that Christopher Lee's name? Albert Einstein.
bensawn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:19:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so thats why he released a metal album...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:10:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That man lived such a good life. Had so many memorable experiences.
adoboacrobat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:13:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He also had his head cut off in Star Wars!
Cloudy_mood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:42:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He was pooping and reading a MAD magazine, when suddenly he looked out the window and he saw that almighty guillotine being used again.
Paddywhacker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:15:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, your mixing this up
AgentFuckFace ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:18:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there anything Christopher Lee didn't see or do?
delaboots ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:44:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He saw the execution or Star Wars?
TheGreatNico ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:49:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Both, he was also the only cast member of LOTR to have actually met Tolkien.
DCLB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:59:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Im pretty sure its on YouTube..
Kittens4Brunch ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:16:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who?
pinkjesus666 ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 03:35:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The kid from Winnie the Pooh.
khaelian ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:11:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's Christopher Robin.
pinkjesus666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:58:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, it's Christopher Robin for short.
djasonwright ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:45:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Head canon now. Christopher Lee was called "Christopher Robin" as a nickname, and he spent all his time before Eton in the Hundred Acre Wood.
"Silly Old Bear." - Heard in Lee's voice.
lordbobofthebobs ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:23:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Saruman.
TheGreatNico ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:38:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/christopherlee.html
RookToFMinor ยท 233 points ยท Posted at 04:24:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If there's such a thing as a humane execution, beheading by guillotine is it. Almost instantaneous, and the spinal cord is the first thing severed, which makes the conscious perception of pain impossible. The way we do it in the US - electric chair, lethal injection - is insanely cruel by comparison.
[deleted] ยท 167 points ยท Posted at 06:27:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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darsynia ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 12:01:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I saw a documentary about that--the guy hosting was in a chamber and I can't remember exactly but I think the air density was lower and lower so he could experience what it feels like. When the levels became dangerous, another guy who was in there with him already wearing a mask with a safe amount of oxygen was to tell the host went to lift his own mask. The host had gotten so far in the process of impaired brain function that it actually took a lot of persuading to get him to put the mask on. The trouble is that he was euphoric, and the idea that condemned prisoners would seem in their last moments to be happy and carefree would probably be seen as a problem in terms of a punishment in the US.
Euchre ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 15:19:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The death penalty isn't really supposed to be punishment, it is meant to be abatement and deterrent. People who warrant death penalty are supposed to be those likely to re-offend. Killing them means they can not commit the same act again. The existence of the death penalty is supposed to deter others from committing such acts. The former definitely works, the latter less so.
darsynia ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:57:03 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
While I know this is the case, the thing is that a lot of people in America believe that there needs to be a punishment and that that is the ultimate punishment. What I should've done was point out that I don't believe this myself, but it's definitely a thing here.
russellwilsonsbird ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 07:53:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And it would require very little training for staff, you just put a gas mask on the convict and get the gas flowing. Fairly idiot proof compared to putting in an IV.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:00:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well unless the supply of gas is cut off halfway through and you're left with someone partially brain dead.
REDDITATO_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:13:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That would probably only happen because of something breaking, so still idiot proof.
[deleted] ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 06:40:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A bullet to the back of the head would be a pretty painless way to go, too. The worst part about it would be the loud bang.
But it's not humane because it looks messy. We'd rather inject people with a drug cocktail that may leave you conscious for the pain.
xpostfact ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 07:59:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your brain would be scrambled eggs before the sound wave caught up.
ititsi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:10:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've got tinnitus, last thing I need is the loud bang from a gunshot to my head that close to my ears.
snuggl ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 13:57:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well it would be the last thing you got, so needs fulfilled!
xpostfact ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:27:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, it'll end the ringing...
kaimason1 ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 07:47:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Part of the issue with that is that it's not a guaranteed kill. People do sometimes survive gunshot wounds to the head, even point blank, even if it's only for a few seconds. A violent but not instantaneous isn't very humane, even if most of the time it is pretty much instantaneous.
xpostfact ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 08:03:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A moderately high caliber bullet would ensure practically 100% guaranteed instant and painless kill.
redditor___ ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 12:15:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowing_from_a_gun
xpostfact ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 12:25:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Things did not always work out according to plan at such executions; at a mass execution at Firozpur in 1857, there was an order that blank cartridge should be used, but some loaded with grapeshot instead. Several of the spectators facing the cannons were hit by the grapeshot and some had to amputate limbs as a result. In addition, some of the soldiers had not been withdrawn properly and sustained damages by being hit by whizzing pieces of flesh and bone.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:55:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it's instantaneous, I don't see the problem. I wouldn't care if they dipped me in a vat of poop if my death was truly instantaneous.
And if a shot to the head isn't a guaranteed kill, they should do a double-tap. No method is 100%; there's always something that can go wrong. (And usually has.)
mistixs ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:24:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The first death by electric chair went terribly wrong and the person was alive and in horrible pain.
SandersClinton16 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 21:09:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
good
mistixs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:11:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
????
ititsi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:12:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
New and improved formula, now 97% humane!
craker42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:21:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know, I hear heroin overdose is pretty painless.
Noble_Ox ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:15:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its how I'd like to go, relax so mush your heart stops.
MisterNetHead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:29:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hypoxia is a pretty good way to go, if I gotta pick.
NoifenF ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:19:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Controversial though because of the holocaust.
aaaaaaaarrrrrgh ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 13:37:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Inert gas asphyxation is not what the Nazis used (at least not as the most common method). The Nazis used HCN gas. Which is exactly the same gas that the US gas chambers use, just the way it is generated is different. (They are still the secondary method of execution in a bunch of US states).
HCN is not a peaceful way to die.
Noble_Ox ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:16:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Watch this. People were saying Americans wouldn't go for it because its too humane, not because of anything to do with the holocaust.
NoifenF ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:43:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, but you cant deny the instant mindful connection to the holocaust. You hear "gassing people" you think of the Auschwitz. I wasn't saying that it shouldn't be done because jews died. Just that what people immediately connect it to.
Noble_Ox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:37:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're right, most people would make that connection. But in the documentary he's asks American people and politicians and they all say its because its too easy a way to go.
NoifenF ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:52:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I haven't had time to watch it yet. But really? Too easy? That's horrible. I understand when you want someone to suffer but that doesn't mean they should.
marvin ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:48:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Heh, that's actually a great point. Although controversial only because it makes the (albeit superficial) similarity clear. (Nazi Germany killed people, the United States kills people).
Silvermouse5150 ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 05:44:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read somewhere that after the beheading sometimes the human brain stays active for a small amount of time and you can still see what's going on. I wonder if it feels any pain?
CactusCustard ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 06:08:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It can't. Your head is severed from the spine at this point, the thing thats solely responsible for leading pain signals to and from your brain. I imagine it'd be mighty fucking weird though
TheSecretMe ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 10:04:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So what about the giant gaping neck wound in the part still attached to the head?
The two most contrary things I've read about instant decapitation is that the sudden change in blood pressure would pretty much immediately make you lose consciousness.
And the doctor who told execution victims to blink their eyes after decapitation when he yelled at their severed heads actually got a response, including blinking eyes and eyes focussing to make eye contact for some 20-40 seconds after decapitation.
taytermuffin ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 11:04:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whaaaat that's really creepy
molstern ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 14:37:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The executioner's assistant slapped Charlotte Corday's severed head, and witnesses reported that her face flushed with anger. Obviously that's not possible, but people remembered seeing it, and people are generally great at seeing expressions where there aren't any, on dead people or emojis.
TheSecretMe ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:15:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not quite the same thing as a doctor performing a standardised test on a series of execution victims while getting fairly consistent results.
molstern ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:19:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That still hasn't happened, though. There are a lot of stories about scientists testing the consciousness of decapitated heads, but many of them are fictional, like Dr Velpeau and the executed Pommerais, and the chemist Lavoisier. Dr Beaurieux, observing one executed person, Henri Languille, reported that he blinked when his name was called, and that's the only test that seems to be supported by sources.
The only repeated experiments I can find are extremely doubtful, supposedly carried out by a Dr Sรฉguret, and showed that stabbing the tongue would make the face grimace. You'd think the big gaping neck-wound would hurt enough to grimace if it could be felt, though, making the tongue thing unnecessary. The fact that the only reactions reported are so mild makes it more likely that they are either misinterpreted or involuntary twitching, since horror and agony tends to create at least some response in most people. Thousands of people were publicly guillotined during the French Revolution, and if people were conscious and able to move their faces after being guillotined, there should be enough observations of this happening to be sure.
ferretersmith ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 07:16:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can't know that for sure. I'd imagine the lack of any signal from below your neck would have a tremendous impact on your perception in general. There is no real way to know what that might be.
CactusCustard ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:03:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But.. I can? You no longer have a nervous system. You cannot feel pain. And yes I realize your second point, hence the "mighty fucking weird" part.
WilliamofYellow ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 10:24:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People feel pain in phantom limbs.
ferretersmith ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:16:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You do still have a nervous system your brain. Brains have been known to feel pain from limbs that aren't their anymore. Therefore, how do you know the brain won't feel pain from a whole body that isn't there anymore.
websnarf ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:12:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, there might be total phantom limb syndrome for your entire body. For all you know, beheading might be the most excruciating way to be executed imaginable.
CheekyMunky ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:19:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean your cranial nerves don't pass through your spinal cord so I imagine you can probably still feel your face bouncing down the stairs.
3226 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:17:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not the only thing responsible for pain signals leading to your brain. That's just signals from the rest of your body. There's a load of nerves in your head that don't need your spinal cord.
Also, have you ever had a nerve damaged? It can very easily be like having the pain setting just stuck instantly on 'max'. Imagine that with every nerve coming up your neck.
CamdenCade ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:35:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought that was just spasms?
Noble_Ox ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:18:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its a well repeat myth, no science to back it up.
10ebbor10 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:51:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Extremely unlikely. You loose blood pressure pretty much instantanously.
Derwos ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:18:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's practically an old wive's tale.
AndrewTheBeast ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:09:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humane, you say?
EltaninAntenna ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:51:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, except for the 10 seconds to a couple of minutes (depending on sources) of maybe painless but definitely uncomfortable consciousness to follow...
10ebbor10 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:53:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Blood pressure loss results in unconsciousness almost immediatly.
r1zz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:44:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I think I would rather be put to sleep and then injected with drugs to kill me while I slept then to watch the world for a few seconds with my head detached. People that have witnessed beheadings have said the heads blink and the eyes would fixate on someone yelling their name and other have looked to be trying to speak or inhale, but obviously unable to due to no lungs. Or for more fun reading check Living Heads.
RookToFMinor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:46:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah I'm always up for seeing the world with new eyes :) get a new perspective on things before I die.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:36:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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yatsey ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:38:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being hanged* may be quite good if it goes well and the neck is broken after the initial drop, but there's always a chance the hangee will be strangled instead.
DinoRaawr ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:43:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd say guillotine is one of the cooler ways to die, and I'd totally die like that if I could. It's so elegant, and French.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:10:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think some people just have a problem with a dismembered head rolling down off the stage. It's not a nice image.
faployst ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:50:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except for all the times that the thing failed or was too dull and took multiple tries to remove the head.
If I were ever sentenced to death I would want the firing squad. Lethal injection seems cruel and unusual to me, a bullet in the brain stem seems as humane as you can get.
Noble_Ox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:22:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nitrogen gas is the best. You breathe normally and actually experience euphoria before passing out and dying. Cheap and 100% painless. Americans won't go for it because its too humane.
pjor1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:55:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but now the corpse is in two and it looks fucking weird as weird gets.
Bullet to the head, however... just as humane and you get a full corpse!
mistixs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:22:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think the worst part of the guillotine is the anticipation and fear waiting for the thing to slice your head off. Anyway, what's wrong with lethal injections? Could they put a person to sleep beforehand?
10ebbor10 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:56:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lethal injection relies on medicine bought from European compangnies, which have refused to sell it for PR reasons. As such, they tried alternatives, which were somewhat more painfull.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:35:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think when we're discussing the humanity of somebody who's going to be dead in a fairly similar amount of time no matter which method, we should discuss it from the perspective of the people who are doing the taking away of life.
I'd wager you'd feel quite a bit more shit if you chopped somebodies head off for a job, as opposed to flicking a switch.
RookToFMinor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:34:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Absolutely not - I'd feel much shittier if I had to watch someone jerk around in agony for a few minutes, not knowing whether the current/dosage were sufficient to be fatal. The guillotine essentially works by flipping a switch as well.
ThereIsBearCum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:56:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel that if you're taking someone's life away, the least you could do is make it as painless as possible for them.
Or, you know, just not kill them.
SerbLing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:00:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No its not humane the amount of stress and trauma the person goes through before dead is unreal. Just imagine sitting there tied up waiting for a blade to cut your head off lol.
RookToFMinor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:51:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wouldn't that stress and trauma apply to almost every type of execution?
SerbLing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:03:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. Just getting a needle shouldn't be stressfull imo.
jquintus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:39:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In theory yes. In practice not so much. It wasn't uncommon for the blade of the guillotine to get stuck while falling causing it to not cleanly sever the head.
aaaaaaaarrrrrgh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:38:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They could be very humane, would just have to reposition the head so the blade slices through the right part of the brain.
spacedebris ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:47:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've seen this stated before but it doesn't seem correct. Not challenging you just wondering if you have more information. What I think about with this assertion is that the head is intact and could perceive and process pain for a few seconds while brain death occurs. Maybe it wouldn't feel the pain below the cut line, although phantom pain is well described in amputations, but surely pain would be perceived above the cut line until brain death. Just wondering...
servohahn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:19:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd take head explosion by a 50 caliber bullet. You sparked a conversation about how long the head lives after decapitation and whether or not it can register "phantom" pain, possibly making it excruciating. Also think about the possibility that your whole existence is as a head with no body.
And you're right, the lethal injection is you immobilized just sort of slowly feeling yourself slip away, your body fighting the drugs to stay alive. I can't really think of a good way of dying other than ignorantly in your sleep. But if someone blew up my head with a large bullet, it's the closest thing to an off switch I can think of.
Noble_Ox ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:24:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How about something like the suicide helmet?
servohahn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:24:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I saw this years ago. I imagine it would work just fine.
Noble_Ox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:13:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How to Kill a Human Being. Watch this.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:24:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At least now in France and a lot of European countries, we don't execute anyone.
RookToFMinor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:55:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Amen.
Christopher135MPS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:56:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Erm, wow, no.
The most humane would be to fill them full of midazolam, fentanyl and haloperidol. Wait a few minutes until they're kissing the sky drug-wise, then start a propofol and succinylcholine infusion. They will go from incredibly high, happy and euphoric, to unconscious and paralysed.
Then, just don't intubate/ventilate them. Very peaceful. Very unaware. Very humane.
asshair ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:21:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, drug overdoses have too much potential to go wrong, and asphyxiating someone is just too slow of a process to be humane
Christopher135MPS ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 08:27:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, there is a great deal of potential for something to go wrong. For example, someone could die! :O
If you push 100mg of midazolam, 1000mcg fentanyl, 200mg haloperidol, 100mg propofol and 150mg succinylcholine, there's only going to be one outcome, unless you have a resus team literally standing beside you ready to go. Which would be an odd thing to have standing around at an execution.
Who are these guys?
Oh, that's the resus team. After we kill this poor sap we're going to resus him.
RookToFMinor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:39:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sure it is - please don't get me wrong, I'm not saying capital punishment by guillotine - or any capital punishment is a good idea... I was just musing on the irony that the guillotine seems like it's so old fashioned, but it's not any more barbaric than what we do now.
But remind me to ask for that cocktail when it's my time.
Christopher135MPS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:04:16 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aaah I see what you mean now. Yeah, it's certainly better than being electrified 11 times before actually expiring..... Hanging would be a pretty horrid way to go too if it didn't snap. Hell, even if it did....
As for the cocktail, well I mean yeah, it'll give you a nice buzz, but maybe leave it till last call? Night night finish a bit early otherwise ๐
CruiseBiscuits ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 07:22:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, because everyone knows about fentanyl and succinylcholine.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:43:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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CruiseBiscuits ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:00:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe if the guy I replied to didn't act as if this was common knowledge to laymen.
Christopher135MPS ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:22:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone's already said it, but just because they not commonly known about doesn't mean it's not the most humane way. The guy said "method x is the most humane way to execute someone". His lack of knowledge regarding other methods doesn't invalidate their existence, or make them somehow less humane due to the scarcity of knowledge regarding them.
sweetgreggo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:32:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With beheading there is evidence that the person is still conscious for up to half a minute after the head is severed from the body.
With lethal injection the person is chemically induced into sleep before given a drug that stops their heart. They feel nothing during their final conscious moment except for and unyielding urge to fall asleep. I think lethal injection sounds far more humane.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:08:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
because the emotional build up of getting decapitated is so stress free
RookToFMinor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:31:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha I'm not advocating it, but I don't sure it's any more stressful than the build-up to other forms of execution (I'm only making the comparison because the subtext of the original post was that the guillotine is more "medieval").
jet_heller ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:58:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you need to look up phantom pain. . .of the entire body.
FUCKEN-STRAYA-CUNT ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 07:35:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't agree with capital punishment, but guillotine has got to be one of the better methods. Seems like a sure thing where hangings/electric chairs/injections aren't infallible.
Riff-Ref ยท 75 points ยท Posted at 03:13:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
"Oui! Aftair zeh chopping we shall watch Star Wars!"
seefatchai ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:41:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More like "le chopping"
Riff-Ref ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:48:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aw damn, don't know why I was thinking hanging.
kerradeph ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:54:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guillotine is decapitation, not hanging.
Riff-Ref ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:58:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I swear I'm not retarded.
LGMaster95 ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 07:11:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The guillotine is actually considered one of the more humane forms of execution.
marithefrancois ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:08:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for the tip.
EienShinwa ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:25:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd also add that it's more humane than death by lethal injection.
ottawa1967 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 02:33:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
correction: "public" execution - lips sealed - first rule of execution club.
mrcowmr ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:24:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
itgoesitgoesitgoesitgoes guillotinnneee.
t-bonkers ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:40:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the canton Appenzell in Switzerland, women had no right to vote until 1990.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:47:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also seems wrong: that year is almost 40 years ago.
PenelopePeril ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:20:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The most recent lynching of a black man by the KKK in the USA happened in 1981.
Allinim ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:25:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The last execution in the US was in 2016.
m00fire ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:28:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also the death penalty in the UK was abolished in 1998.
Until then you could be hanged for mutiny.
larkin1842 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:38:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It goes it goes it goes it goes
Anotheraccountdelete ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:19:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God damn, this is the second one I've seen about execution that is ridiculous. They knew it didn't work well and just fucking did it anyway.
Anonymous_Ascendent ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:16:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guillotine does seem pretty cheap, inexpensive and foolproof method of execution.
Vepanion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:35:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Since this is so difficult to believe, I'm surprised there's no source yet.
Megadeathbot666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:41:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In Moritania slavery was abolished 1981.
lenaro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:53:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The French liked the guillotine so much, that among the 1889 World's Fair centerpiece projects rejected in favor of the Eiffel Tower was a 300-meter-tall guillotine... I'm being serious.
1260DividedByTree ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:19:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doing the "Terreur" in France were organized "balls for the victims" only for aristocrats that had someone close to them killed in the guillotine, to salute they would shake their head in every direction to immitate the decapitation, the family would wear a red ribbon around the neck and the hair pulled up.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:22:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For those interested by the topic, R Badinter wrote a book about how (as a lawyer) he follow is client up to the guillotine (and still filled the paperwork afterwards) the most frightening moment, is when he comes at night in his client cell to tell him that the last appeal failed and that the executionner and the priest are waiting for him.
5 year later Badinter became the justice ministry who abolished death penalty
rubydrops ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:28:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, are we sure it's the last one overall? (Capital punishment)
Guillotines, making a killin' since the 70's.
Boathead96 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:38:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just a stab in the dark, did you find this out from the recent terrorist attacks in France?
007brendan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:39:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The last hanging in the US was in 1996, in my home state of Delaware!
Joe1972 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:45:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Still substantially more humane than the lethal injection, gas chamber, or electric chair.
toothbrushmastr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:20:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now its just beheading by dull pocket knife
Aatch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:28:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Similarly, the last hanging in England was in 1964.
fantechz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:52:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well French loved their guillotines.
phil8248 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:53:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Nazis killed far more people by guillotine than France ever did.
Unthinkable-Thought ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:57:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Last words: I'm just glad Han shot first. I can die now
straitnet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:27:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You freaking serious?
Boredeidanmark ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:39:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here are some pictures from the last public execution by guillotine. It's much shorter than I expected.
http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/last-public-execution-guillotine-1939/
Cookieway ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:11:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well the guillotine is arguably more humane than the electric chair or poison
RSQFree ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:14:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But did people take the subway to watch it?
EsotericAlphanumeric ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:49:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Last execution in Europe that I can find info on, was in 2014. By gunshot.
DJSkrillex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:14:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's when my father was born!
noshoes77 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:24:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think there is video of it too.
mistixs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:20:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Speaking of historical things that sound wrong but are not. Wasn't Cleopatra alive closer to the invention of the iPhone than the construction of the pyramids?
NoMoreDevilsBlend ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:42:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The last witch burning was in 1811.
Barbara Zdunk has been identified as the last person executed for witchcraft in Europe, the official verdict did not mention witchcraft, as this had ceased to be recognized as a criminal offense.
AxeellYoung ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:47:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the last known*
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:13:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The last execution by firing squad in Utah was in 2010.
nastybacon ยท 4459 points ยท Posted at 00:19:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's possible to have ice water that is so hot it can literally burn your face off if you went anywhere near it.
Source: http://futurism.com/the-strangest-exoplanet-ever/
NioA_ ยท 3159 points ยท Posted at 02:24:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, universe!
spartankelli ยท 1376 points ยท Posted at 03:35:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ice planets, they're so hot right now!
-widget ยท 77 points ยท Posted at 06:52:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 12:35:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hoth? Shouldn't it be Coldth?
Prometheus8330 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:37:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's so Hoth in Uranus!
out_of_all_loops ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 07:43:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
icy what you did there
forsakenvixen ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:05:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So far the second Zoolander reference I have seen on this thread. I'll keep going and see how many I can find :)
waitforitdairy123 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:22:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's getting hot in here, so take off all your moons.
wannabesq ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:47:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's no moon...
waitforitdairy123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:09:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay
rumborak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:04:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That damn Hansel!
TheGoddamnPacman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:21:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This food is problematic
10strip ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:08:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The girl can't even figure out how to eat an ice planet!
castellar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:47:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if you crashed an ice star and a fire star into each other? Would they become a neutral star?
GreeneMan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:51:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ICY PLANETS is so hip and trendy! Is ICY PLANETS hip and trendy where you're from? [YES] [NO]
muuhforhelvede ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:03:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:04:18 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're so Hoth right now.
NosyEnthusiast6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:11 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of the opening line to my essay on
IEDs"hoverboards".g01drush ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:52:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is ice planet a new name for OP's mom?
dhoomz ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:41:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats hot
islandbuns ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:55:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Click to download
CAPTAIN_TITTY_BANG ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:31:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ice water. Sooo hot right now.
Guyote_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:21:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hot damn
arch_nyc ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:31:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like you do!
ohhellfire ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:11:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SING IN REVERRRRRRRRSE
sum_force ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:37:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:03:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ice water...so hot right now. Second zoolander reference in this thread. let's keep it going
tehpsy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:26:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're in the know, right?
stonetape ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:59:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's hotter than being ice cold?
Ice hot!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:29:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like I'm having a seizure.
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:04:48 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You sound like Mettaton
trentsim ยท 996 points ยท Posted at 03:12:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Water has the amazing quality that the solid form is less dense than the liquid. Check out triple point if you're interested. But imagine how fucked we'd be if lakes streams and ponds froze from the bottom up.
Eurynom0s ยท 1416 points ยท Posted at 03:42:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember my physics undergrad adviser telling us that the fact that water freezes on the top is the reason that life has made it so far.
100percent_right_now ยท 1322 points ยท Posted at 06:59:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That's absolutely true. Water, and it's phase changes, are so awesome! Did you know that ice itself is not very slippery? It's actually quite jagged creating a huge surface area and therefore huge amounts of friction. But because ice is less dense than water when you apply any pressure to ice at all it turns back into water. This creates a microthin layer of water between you and the ice which causes the slipperiness.
[deleted] ยท 183 points ยท Posted at 09:32:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
AFAIK it's kind of disputed nowadays whether it's actually water on it. Some say that it could be a different phase entirely, something that behaves a bit like liquid but not quite. The phenomenon is difficult to study because the microthin layer of whatever is just too large to comprehensively simulate to a molecular precision, but just too small to take conventional measurements of.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/hockey/skating1.html
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:12:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like we'll need some more jigga-flops!
benmartini ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 12:23:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm, living in MN when it's really really cold for a week or so and you get rock hard ice, it's quite grippy to walk on, like a gym floor.
subarctic_guy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:34 on April 16, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm confirmation. I spend plenty of time driving icy highways at -40. Grip is comparable to asphalt in summer but all the cracks and potholes are filled in, so no bumps/jolts or road noise.
Everything is smooth, white, quiet, and clean. An extremely pleasurable driving experience.
Especially when driving through beautiful country like this.
just_leavingthishere ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 09:36:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not exactly true, it related to surface tension and reaction forces at the surface.
password_is_njkvcxjk ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 13:53:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A common misconception, with no basis in reality. The pressure lowers the freezing point by about 1 deg C, not nearly enough to have that effect.
VersaceMusashi ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:03:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is how ice skates work!
oskli ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 08:50:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry, that's not considered true anymore. Wiki ice skating!
100percent_right_now ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 09:08:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well you're not wrong, but what they don't believe anymore is that it has a thermal interaction based on pressure. That's kind of preposterous anyway because changing the melting point of ice significantly to make it still slippery at -40 due to thermal interactions isn't going to happen under your own body weight.
The pressure aspect is still a factor though. If you press two pieces of ice together they sort of stick together, this is because the outer layer of the ice is sort of 'incomplete' and it wants to continue its crystalline lattice. So when you give it more ice to interlock into it finds a mate to all those bits on the surface that are incomplete.
When you try to do this with ice and something that is not ice the lattice doesn't line up and the surface shifts around in a fluid like manner to try to fit into the right shape. Technically, it may not be water, but it is a thin fluid layer of H2O, so is it not, essentially, water?
I'm going off a few years old memory here of the subject, but if things have changed I'd love to hear about it.
oskli ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:11:07 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, you're spot on, judging from my recent reading.
Nice omission. :)
glightningbolt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:56:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remember the Bauer heated hockey skate blades?
Hmm_Peculiar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:47:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So that would mean if the skates are cold enough they won't create that layer and create extreme friction?
Dammit, I miss Mythbusters already
Nathanael_Greene ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:25:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mention surface area and friction, but I was always taught that friction was only related to mass. Does surface area help determine the coefficient of friction, or was it just a simplification of what happens?
ExtraCrunchyChairs ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 09:48:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The poster is saying that if you were to zoom in and view the microscopic surface of ice, you'd find it to be rough and jagged on the molecular level, despite its smooth appearance to the human eye. And to answer the second half of that, the coefficient of friction is determined experimentally and unique for any two surfaces being used. For example, wood and iron has a different coefficient of friction than iron and iron.
In a way, surface area does help determine coefficient of friction, but when solving the equation for coefficient of friction, all units cancel out, hence it being a coefficient.
To illustrate, a substance with a SA of 1 m2 slid on a surface will get the same coefficient of friction as 1 mm2 SA of the same substance.
Nathanael_Greene ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:39:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, very clear reply, thanks for explaining that.
kurodoku ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:48:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats why we are able to iceskate too :3
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:12:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wat
KinaseCascade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:39:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Science!
DarkPieOverlord ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:44:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cool
clancy6969 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:57:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This layer of water is what you glide on when you skate.
Irisversicolor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:18:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, you just answered one of those questions I'm always thinking but never actually say out loud to anyone. How is it that there was be water puddles and slush on busy streets when it's fucking -40 out there?!?
Thank you. You've helped me more than you'll ever know.
Binny999 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:16:19 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is actually because the tires going on the road heat the rires up, which melts snow and ice. Feel your tires after going down the highway for a while, they will be warm or hot.
Jewniversal_Remote ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:35:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's dope. Makes sense, look at some ice skating rinks right before/after the zamboni comes out
All_Bonered_UP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:45:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck. Off. That's so cool!
bigmur49 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:03:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They actually had skates a few years ago that the blades would heat up slightly which was supposed to make you glide much faster because of this. Don't think they ever made it to market though, I have definitely never seen them.
Sandslinger_Eve ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:13:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anyone that has tried cross country skiing round the -20 Celcius mark will be aware of this. At really low temperatures the snow becomes less and less slippery and eventually it gets to the point where you might as well be skiing on sand.
Same principle applies to walking on ice, There is no need to worry on the really cold days, the ice will grip your shoes better than concrete, but as the day gets warmer you gotta start taking care =)
rainydaywomen1235 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:25:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not that simple, the actual reason is hotly contested
noahsonreddit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:45:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought that was just one theory and people still aren't really sure what makes it so slippery?
Herr_Doktore ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:47:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL ice isn't slippery.
karnyboy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:18:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL something. Thanks sir.
today2day ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:47:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You've explained ice skating _^
ValarMorghulisBitch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:19:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do anorexics slip on ice less often than normal?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:55:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As others have said, pressure melting has been debunked. I have a more detailed proof it is somewhere from my thermo class, but the result of the problem we did yielded a net change in melting point of -3 C for a 100kg skater with a 100 micron thick blade of reasonable length. While it's true that an increase in pressure decreases the melting point, it fails to explain how skating is possible at temperatures much lower than -3 C. See this article as well.
Neurophil ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:19:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's why ice skating works! Yay physics!
Sacket ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:57:13 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also how skiing/snowboarding/ice skating works.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:19:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just so people know, this is a theory and isn't proven yet. Just one of the many theories on why ice is slippery.
password_is_njkvcxjk ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:54:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Theories have been proven as much as anything can ever be proven. The word you're looking for is hypothesis.
And this hypothesis has been trivially shown to be false.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:46:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what I'm looking for. Give me a break it was too early in the morning!
slydunan ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:08:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That explains the tongue sticking to an ice pole
Nvmd, that's completely wrong, that's for the corrections
Blue_Dragon360 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 08:22:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not really... That's caused by your tongue melting it slightly, then it refreezing. Not pressure.
100percent_right_now ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 08:28:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No it doesn't. That happens because your tongue is moist already and metal is a very efficient thermal conductor, relative to your body. So when you touch something wet to something cold the wet thing just freezes. This happens quickly with metal because the metal pulls the heat away quickly.
You can lick frozen wood and you'll be fine, if you don't get splinters, because wood is not a good conductor of thermal energy, it's what's called an insulator, and the heat from your tongue is enough to keep the moisture from freezing because it doesn't go anywhere.
cdude ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 08:54:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nice try but i'm not licking wood. No way i'm falling for this again.
phil8248 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 09:55:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm assuming if that is your patter in a bar you don't get laid much.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:45:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's almost like bars and science discussion on reddit are 2 entirely different scenarios. Screw him for knowing things, right?
iZMXi ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:46:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Surface area doesn't affect friction. Only the Normal Force and Coefficient of Friction affect frictional force.
Surface area does affect the other drag forces associated with sliding objects across each other, such as hysteresis, adhesion, and permanent deformation, just not friction.
franksymptoms ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:44:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...but below a certain temperature, it's too cold for pressure to melt it, and it stops being slippery.
Can't ice skate on it either.
100percent_right_now ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:01:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What? No it doesn't. I live in the arctic circle. I know my ice. You can always skate on it, even in -50. The way the ice is frozen is the largest factor in it's skate-ability, not it's temperature. The only ice I find hard to skate on is ice formed in a humid environment. It's 'furry' and that makes it hard to get going on, since you never really get to glide on it.
aaronis1 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:07:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Putting ice under purely higher pressures would make the ice farther awsy from being water. The melting is purely from to friction
cloud3321 ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 06:28:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ELI5, what would happen if water freezes from bottom up.
Eurynom0s ยท 77 points ยท Posted at 06:30:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Essentially it'd just freeze everything in the lakes to death. To keep it super brief, part of what's so important about water freezing on top is that it insulates everything below it, at a temperature amenable to life, whereas bottom-up freezing would quickly freeze the entire lake.
qwadzxs ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 06:51:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
current life holds his restriction; life possibly could have evolved to hibernate in the mud at the bottom of the pond or some other adaptation.
FeculentUtopia ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 08:18:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More to the point for this example, if frozen water was denser than liquid, ice would sink, bodies of water that stayed below 0 for long periods of time would freeze solid, and then probably never again fully thaw. Most of the world's water would wind up permanently frozen, along with anything unfortunate enough to try to live at the bottom of a body of water.
crackanape ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:15:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If most of the water were permanently frozen, I think that few creatures would be trying to live at the bottom. They'd live above the ice line.
wollphilie ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 08:03:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mud is just dirt mixed with water
merk4ba ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:01:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're not wrong.
slydunan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:12:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A thick layer of water also insulates everything below it. Is current ice formed by water under the surface becoming frozen and rising or from water on top freezing?
GunNNife ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:32:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The way most liquids work: they get coldest at the bottom. That's because of convection: colder liquid goes down, hotter liquid goes up. So the coldest liquid is going to be at the bottom. That means that for most liquids, when it freezes, it would freeze from the bottom up.
How water is different: well, convection works the same for water: the coldest water falls to the bottom, the hottest rises to the top. But, since frozen water is less dense than liquid water, the frozen parts gather at the surface of the water, rather than at the bottom.
Why it would suck if this wasn't true: let's look at say, Lake Michigan. When winter rolls around, and temperatures dip below the freezing point, the lake begins to freeze. It freezes from the bottom up. Since the frozen part is not directly exposed to the sun, it freezes a hell of a lot faster than normal, too. By the time winter is over the entire lake is one solid block of ice. So, two main problems: 1) those fish that normally in the water during the winter? They dead. They all dead. 2) The lake will never unfreeze. Sure, when the temperature warms up the surface of the lake will begin to thaw, but not to any significant depth.
So we would be left with a world where most of the water is trapped frozen in the oceans, with only an insignificant surface of melt.
imFreshYo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:58:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would the water level rise if this were the case?
V4refugee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:51:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We wouldn't have ocean currents.
[deleted] ยท 57 points ยท Posted at 06:00:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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EltaninAntenna ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 11:36:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The weird thing is how people attach so much significance to what essentially boils down to "if things had been different, things would be different".
trevour ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:39:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, more like a reason, not the only reason
good_guy_submitter ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:51:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well... Think about it.
This one particular function allows our planet a system to transport water to literally everywhere within the atmosphere, and naturally stores reserves of it that create filtered pure forms.
Are there any other compounds available in the universe that could be transported from oceans and stored to mountain tops, similar to earths water?
Because if so, this hypothesis would deem that life could form in said substance, given that a planet was able to naturally circulate it in a manner similar to water.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:33:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, if there were oceans of apple juice, I'd say, yes, there's another compound that you'd find on hill tops as well as in valleys. In other words: every liquid that comes in such a quantity as water does on Earth and that evaporates similar to water you could find traces of everywhere.
Ccplummer ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:05:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why?
[deleted] ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 06:23:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it froze on the bottom, lakes and oceans would just freeze over completely. Life originated in the ocean. Frozen ocean = no life.
tahoebyker ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:41:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But it's not like the oceans are at risk of freezing solid.
FullmentalFiction ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 06:53:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Think for a moment about all of the plant life on the bottom of the ocean, and what that might mean as a food source for many fish, even the ones that can swim above the bottom of the ocean when it started to freeze?
EDIT: Apparently talking about hypothetical circumstances in the context of a topic will get you downvoted. Who knew?
BLOODY_ANAL_VOMIT ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 06:54:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Why would the bottom of the ocean freeze?
Edit: What could cause the entire ocean to freeze solid? Wouldn't underwater volcanoes just melt the ice in most places? The only place it might freeze solid is the arctic.
Uncharted-Zone ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 06:59:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...That's exactly the point. If ice sunk, then the bottom would freeze first.
BLOODY_ANAL_VOMIT ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:01:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess I'm not understanding how the ocean could ever lose enough energy to substantially freeze. There's hot springs etc on a lot of the ocean floor for example. Maybe at the arctic poles the ocean would freeze solid, but that wouldn't prevent life from occurring in the warm parts of the ocean.
Karl_Satan ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:43:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it means anything, I understand what you're trying to say.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:17:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is exactly because water as a solid is less dense than as a liquid that the oceans and lakes don't completely freeze over, also that the salinity of the water lowers it's freezing temperature significantly. But it's more than just ice sinking. Think about the density of water vs temperature. When the water is right about to freeze and starts forming small ice crystals. These tiny molecule clusters effectively become less dense than the surrounding liquid phase and begin to float towards the surface. This process also prevents bodies of water from freezing over. If you take away the fact that the lattice water molecules take on when they form a solid phase is less dense than the flowing, cohesive fluid they form in a liquid phase, then there is a runaway freezing effect on our planet. More ice=more sunlight reflected off the surface=less warming. Geothermal activity could still create warm liquid regions, but when could life have had a chance to develop and from what could it have spawned from? It seems like the chances of complex life decreases. If cold water always sinks, the earth is frozen immediately (in the timeframe of evolution, for example multicelled organisms took around 3 billion years to evolve, the earth would freeze far before then) after it cools. When does life spawn during this process of fast freezing? There is also the theory that life did not originate on earth but was merely a guest from a derelict asteroid that found a comfortable home. This theory seems impossible on an ice planet.
BLOODY_ANAL_VOMIT ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:58:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So first, if the bottoms of the ocean froze there wouldn't be any ice at the surface to reflect sunlight so we wouldn't absorb any less heat. The earth might actually be warmer if ice froze at the bottom.
Second with sunlight and geothermal heat being the same, I don't see how the earth could ever lose enough energy overall for the entire planet to freeze, especially with the ocean freezing from the bottom. Maybe the arctic ocean would freeze mostly solid, but in summer little of the light would be reflected once the top thawed.
I agree life might be different, and life is impossible on an ice planet, but I disagree with the premise that earth would become an ice planet.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:34:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The salt content on earth prevents a completely frozen planet, but otherwise it would be like a slushball earth, with perma-ice layers separating extremely cold extremely salty waters. For more info you should check out this link.
Also, you are misunderstanding how the thermo works when ice and cold water sinks rather than being convected to the surface, but I'm pretty sure they go over it in detail in the link I posted.
Life could certainly form and evolve to survive, it is possible. But I think the chances of complex life forming, especially as complex as today, is drastically decreased. It seems we are in agreement there.
EDIT: Furthermore, the current flow created by lower density water floating to the top distributes nutrients and dissolves oxygen. Without this mechanism, it is again harder for life to function. Thanks for the downvotes, you're still wrong.
Nomicakes ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 08:20:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are hilariously missing the point.
The discussion is being glad about the fact that bodies of water DON'T freeze from the bottom up, cause if they did, there would be no "warm part of the ocean". Everything would have frozen and died.
Thankfully, that is not how bodies of water behave.
MeaMaximaCunt ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:44:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He specifically asked about geothermal activity which certainly would create warm parts of the ocean. But never mind, the guy above actually answered the question and wasn't condescending.
FullmentalFiction ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:02:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The original thought proposed life as we know it would not exist if water froze from the bottom instead of the top. I'm not saying it would, I'm saying it would be horrible if it were true, and if water froze from the bottom the entire ocean wouldn't have to freeze solid to screw with the ecosystem.
BLOODY_ANAL_VOMIT ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:05:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Life would have just adapted differently. Some animals can be frozen solid and then thaw and live. Current ecosystems would certainly be messed up if the change happened today.
wolfman1911 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:51:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The bottom of the ocean is cold as balls dude.
MayorMoonbeam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:23:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm with you. There's way too much residual heat coming up from the Earth for that to happen.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:48:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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FullmentalFiction ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:09:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At one point my comment was -2. Now it's +15, so the edit is irrelevant now.
tahoebyker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:03:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That wasn't was being discussed. I was responding to the claim that "Frozen Ocean = no life." I don't think the oceans would freeze. I don't think the bottoms would freeze since thy'll actually be warmed by the Earth and geothermal activity. Even if the bottoms did freeze, that would just make the oceans less deep. Finally, I doubt there is very much plant life at all at the bottom of the ocean since light doesn't penetrate beyond 1000 meters.
BLOODY_ANAL_VOMIT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:43:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's life at the bottom but not plant life, and not that much life. Obviously it depends on how deep we're talking though.
The_Enemys ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:47:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not in our current climate, but the Earth has been much colder in the past; if every ice age scoured the entire ocean it would be a severe handicap for lifeforms all over the planet.
Monagan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:17:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In short, ice forming at the surface insulates the water below it from freezing - freezing being bad for life and all.
shoejunk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:10:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are lots of the reasons though.
F___TheZero ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:19:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, the fact that the earth hasn't crashed into the sun is also a major reason.
NoSarcasmIntended ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:58:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't forget the moon being so large it protects our rotational axis from shifting erratically due to the gravitational pull of the gas giants, not to mention gravitational force it provides to create the tides, hence the tide pools necessary to allow life to evolve outside of the oceans. Also enough atmospheric pressure to allow water to take liquid form at the temperatures amenable to life as we know it. Also the ozone layer. Also the core of the planet creating a magnetic field that protects us from CMEs. Also the distance of the planet from the sun. Also the accidental creation of a combination of molecules that is self-replicating (DNA). When I think of all the astronomical odds stacked against our existence, even before considering the impossible circumstances leading up to the right people fucking at just the right times, it boggles my mind how infinitely close to zero the possibility of our existence is.
RetnuhLebos ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:12:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eli5?
Yoshih9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:28:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could you explain more about this? I'm interested why this statement could be true.
Just_Look_Around_You ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:36:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Although it may seem semantic, I think wording it like that highly misleads the mechanics of evolution, physics, science whatever else. It's more like, it's NOT the reason we got extinguished. There are many many many many parameters of our existence that are in such a narrow range to permit our survival and evolution. You could just as easily argue that if gravity were gravity were inverted then in fact the water would kill us in an otherwise same world. So it's not THE reason we're alive or whatever, because there are no reasons in the universe. There's just all things that don't kill us.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:08:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I learnt it from my A Level Chem teacher
Pivotal_Sweatshirt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:15:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and here we were thinking it was topsoil and rain
MrTotoro1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:17:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, why was it important that water doesn't freeze from the bottom up?
TheSecretPlot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:48:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why?
_____D34DP00L_____ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:09:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But that happens with other things doesn't it? I mean, does rocks float on lava?
lightningboltkid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:11:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would you mind ELI5
miyamotousagisan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:17:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shyah! It'd be like fuckin' Ice 9 in this joint if ice sunk!
MullGeek ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:24:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My Astrobiology lecturer spoke briefly about this in one of our lectures. As I remember he said that while it likely was quite important for life, it's impossible to say that life wouldn't have made it if it weren't the case. His point was that some animals which can tolerate freezing (Wood Frogs freeze over winter) and so there are mechanisms by which life can cope.
EyeTea420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:09:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it's one of the special properties of water that has led to the evolution of life as we know it as a result of hydrogen bonding - the actual underlying reason.
heronumberwon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:18:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ELI5 pls
Acedrew89 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:20:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you/or someone ELI5 this for me? I'm not sure I understand what the difference would be if lakes froze from the bottom up.
Eurynom0s ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:26:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Basically if lakes froze bottom-up the entire thing would freeze solid. Whereas freezing top-down means that you have a layer of ice on top that insulates the water beneath, allowing aquatic life to survive in the non-frozen water under the ice.
Acedrew89 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:58:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for your speedy reply! I guess I was trying to over complicate it in my head when I first read the statement. This makes sense.
entoricore1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:57:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I dont get it wouldnt it just be a smaller cold lake if it froze at the bottom first
Eurynom0s ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:04:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Think about how how water stays liquid under the ice. If water froze bottom-up the entire lake would freeze solid, killing everything that lived in the lake, but freezing top-down means that the layer of ice on top insulates the water below from freezing.
entoricore1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:12:01 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, I get it now. Thanks!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:04:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We can't really know that. For all we know, if water froze from the bottom, creatures would have adapted to deal with it.
We've never observed such a scenario, so we can't really say.
Eurynom0s ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:07:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean sure, if you really wanted to get bogged down in the pedantry of it, you're technically right. But we have no reason to believe that life could survive such conditions.
There's a reason that people get excited by the idea that life is living in the liquid water under the ice layer on Europa and not possibility that life is living in the ice.
mahousu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:06:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you explain why? (I'm on mobile so I can't see if you've answered this already)
incendiary_cum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:12:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why is that?
funbaggy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:30:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that water is a bent polar molecule is extremely important for a lot of aspects of life.
ThachWeave ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:13:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this the one property of water that makes it a crucial building block to life, or are there more factors as well?
Eurynom0s ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:52:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The basic point is that if lakes froze bottom-up life would have frozen to death before it had a chance to evolve.
ThachWeave ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:58:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know; it's just that people say water is a "building block of life" and I'm wondering if this is the only property of water that makes that true, or if there are others as well.
Eurynom0s ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:04:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gotcha. I'm not qualified to dig deeper into this without doing a ton of reading, like I said, the basic point was that life would have been prematurely aborted if lakes froze bottom-up.
chemical_imagineer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:08:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't say it's the reason life has made it so far. Life could still easily exist and make it pretty far on earth without that phenomenon.
fuzzy_egg ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:42:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
why would that be a problem?
trentsim ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 03:55:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If water froze from the bottom up, aquatic ecosystems would be completely different. It would kill (or force a stasis like situation) for most of the bottom of the food chain for long periods. It would worsen the snowball earth periods.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:59:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, it wouldn't. I mean if it froze from the bottom up then it would have always frozen from the bottom up and the ecosystems would reflect that.
Honestly, I don't think it would have had any incredibly major effect. We'd just be saying "but imagine how fucked we'd be if lakes streams and ponds froze from the top down".
fuzzy_egg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:31:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh so instead of the top freezing and the bottom staying warm enough for aquatic life, everything would end up freezing?
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 03:57:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Devam13 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:06:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or life would not exist on this planet anymore.. Since life started from water.
lostcosmonaut307 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 05:44:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The oceans and most deep lakes would never thaw and the only liquid water would be the top 20-30ft. In northern or southern latitudes, the only liquid water would be the top few inches and only in the middle of summer. Life would not be life as we know it if ice was dense and the water columns didn't flip.
large-farva ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:49:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We got mr constant pressure over here
singingtangerine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:33:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't understand. Is water not always less dense in its solid form?
Zanaffer ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:35:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not only that, it would have made migration of land-based animals near impossible. This would actually have been kind of neat because you would end up with a much more varied global ecosystem, until humans start moving shit around with boats. Each continent, or even large island, would have it's own little biome full of stuff that lacked the ability to migrate to the next major land mass.
toofantastic ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:17:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut.
Raszamatasz ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:41:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ice Nine is just a crystalline ice structure with a freezing point in the hundreds of degrees Fahrenheit. A little over 900 if memory serves. But it doesn't say anything about it being more/less dense than normal ice.
trirun ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:31:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it was less than that since they could melt it for drinking water near the end of the book. Or am I just making up parts of the book in my head?
ThomMcCartney ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:43:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ice IX is a real crystalline form of ice with properties that are nothing like Ice-Nine.
scipio323 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:16:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're right, it was somewhere in the low 100's. At one point they used hairdryers to melt all the little shards that had fallen onto the floor.
jargoon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:24:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, you are right. The ants survived by balling up around grains of ice-nine and drinking them when they melted.
Raszamatasz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:47:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Getting a fire up to 1000ห isn't really that hard. Even a cigarette tops out at like 1300ห. soucre
Pit-trout ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:23:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right โ Vonnegut's Ice-Nine doesn't really work scientifically. (He wasn't trying to be Asimov.) But a false vacuum decay event is a scientifically plausible concept that's kind of like Vonmegutโs Ice-Nine scenario on terrifying steroidsโฆ
Raszamatasz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:44:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm well aware of this. However, if one takes Ice Nine to function as its shown in the book, it doens't mention anything about density.
gordo65 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:11:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There would be no hockey!
Thunder21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:53:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What would happen if it froze from the bottom up?;
singingtangerine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:35:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ecosystems would die. When water freezes from top to bottom, large bodies of water are insulated under the ice, so things can still live in the winter.
kieranaviera1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:27:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Never thought of that before. Definitely a good thing.
Creature_73L ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:31:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are 2 rivers in the US that do. One is in South Dakota
Hydropos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:46:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Although this is only true for the standard form of ice that exists at low (sub-GPa) pressure. The reason that the water on this exoplanet is solid is that there are more dense crystal structures of ice that are stable at high pressure.
half3clipse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:47:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that's not all that uncommon actaully. silicon, gallium, germanium, antimony, bismuth, plutonium all do that as do a lot of things that form tetrahedral crystal lattices
the_one_username ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:01:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
andruis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:05:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could you ELI5 why water freezing from the bottom up would fuck us? Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I really want to know.
Reoh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:48:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And there's about 17 different types of water ice.
cadilar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:03:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know if you're into Vonnegut, but cats cradle has a really really awesome conclusion involving apocalyptic ice freezing
doctorscurvy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:24:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would be a lot more difficult to get trapped under the ice?
RubMyBack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:29:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This would primarily fuck us through rapidly rising water levels, correct? Or are there other reasons as well? I'm picturing something like water in the deepest fissures of the ocean freezing/expanding, causing cataclysmic tectonic shits
CapnNoodle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:31:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have absolutely no idea how fucked we would be and now I'm just irritated you brought it up. Because shit like that is fascinating.
But what gives?
FuzyDiceBongoInBack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:48:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ice 9. Cats cradle anyone?
raresaturn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:52:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why? Care to elaborate?
NSA_Chatbot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:01:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We probably wouldn't be fucked up, because we wouldn't exist at all.
Optewe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:05:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is true, and it is why ice floats.
ahoko ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:14:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you explain?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:39:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ELI5 how fucked we would be and why? please!
LiteralPhilosopher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:42:09 on July 1, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are lots of forms of life in ponds and streams that only survive because the ice forms on top and stays there. It also then acts as a moderately good insulator, keeping the liquid water below from losing heat to the environment as quickly as it would otherwise. This results in the water remaining liquid for longer, often all the way through the winter.
If the ice formed at the bottom (or sank there immediately on forming), the whole thing would be much more likely to freeze completely solid, killing almost everything within. This would radically alter the food chain from the very beginning of time forward, meaning that we likely would never have evolved.
7LeagueBoots ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:20:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most kinds of water ice are actually more dense than water. We are fortunate that the simple 'cool it a little bit under low pressure' type of ice floats and is what we have.
MidgarZolom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:31:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's that have to do with the triple point. I think you meant phase diagram.
nsaemployeofthemonth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:08:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why would we be fucked? And why is it so helpful to life that lakes or ice dosent freeze in reverse order?
XXreindeer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:04:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How fucked would we be? I don't understand the danger.
theycallmejaydawg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember this from school so well because my Christian teacher kept saying it was proof of creative design. Checkmate Atheist
TomHardyAsBronson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:03:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
why would we be fucked if they froze from the bottom up? Aside from the lack of ice skating fun.
TheDongerNeedsFood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:19:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Having a total brain fart right now, what would actually happen if water froze from the bottom up?
BAM5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:19:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is like saying "We're so lucky gravity exists! We would be so fucked if gravity didn't exist!" It's just a property of water. It's a fairly uncommon property, but it has it.
eric0017 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:44:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why would we be fucked? Sorry, I'm not that smart in this topic
square--one ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:54:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The solid form being less dense than the liquid is to do with hydrogen bonding that forces the molecules a distance apart from each other when in solid form. The triple point is the pressure/temperature where a substance can exist as solid, liquid or gas. Pretty cool all the same.
SHIT_IN_MY_ANUS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:09:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't understand how that would fuck us over?
MechaDesu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:51:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that true for all phases of ice? Do the different crystals have different densities?
fgjones001 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:54:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why would we be fucked?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:46:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't understand why this would be bad. Can you explain?
ngc4594 ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 04:19:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"You see, after the game, a lot of guys like to ice up their arm. Still, other fellas think that heat is the way to go. But I, have discovered the secret, Henry... hot ice! I heat up... the ice cubes! It's the best of both worlds!"
http://imgur.com/IuYKJOp
lemonylol ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:20:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hot ice. It's the best of both worlds.
new_word ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:43:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Henry Rowengardner
Spearsy23 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:23:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pressure makes chemistry weird.
ForgottenUser ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:24:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, you can do a lot of crazy things with temperatures and pressures. Saying that you can boil water at -67 degrees Celsius sounds crazy until you realize that it requires an extremely low pressure environment.
learn2die101 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:27:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, get to ice VII and then you can heat that shit up. Technically you would die from the pressure long before you could really get burned by the ice... But whatever.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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jargoon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:27:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mostly they can tell its mass by its orbital period, and they can tell what chemicals are there by looking at how the light changes when it transits its star. Put the two together and you can figure out a lot about it :)
LettersFromTheSky ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:56:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Icy hot.
AaronTheAlright ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:22:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/gF8rlghyxJU
You heat up the ice cubes, it's the best of both worlds!
EchoPhi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whole new meaning to "They want ice water in hell". They really don't.
mudbutt20 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:47:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm guessing you are talking about water under pressure or something right?
GameMusic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:26:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the first fact which legitimately sounds extremely wrong.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:31:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ice 7
Twofeetto ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:45:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's called a contrathing. Or an auto-antothing.
The_GreenMachine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:06:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so is that possible to recreate here on earth?
shoejunk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't think about this. It's too much PRESSURE!
pjokinen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:15:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gotta love high pressures. Hot ice is wild!
TheJazzProphet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:25:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As it turns out, things don't necessarily behave the same way in the rest of the universe as they do on Earth.
BabyNinjaJesus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:27:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF8rlghyxJU
holy fucking shit rickman was right
skyniteVRinsider ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:32:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Solid water. "Oh, you mean ice?" No, I mean water compressed so tightly by gravity that it will burn your face.
pruwyben ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:48:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*water ice
Keyserson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:01:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ice water is so hot right now.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:16:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Somewhat related, I believe warm water freezes faster than cold water (in a freezer, etc)
nastybacon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:37:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow interesting.. i thought that it would take longer.. the warm water then becomes cold water which then freezes.
if its already cold, then surely it would freeze faster.
might have to do me a home made scientific experiment! :D
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:02:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's probably due to the fact that water expands when it freezes.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Saw this in a thoughty2 video. Here's the link: http://youtu.be/6KZ1kvIUFrU
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:20:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alternately the hottest and coldest places in the known universe are both on earth and are both man made
tomsnerdley ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:15:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SCIENCE BITCHES!!
Duvieilh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:33:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An induction heater can set ice on fire.
Quastors ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:39:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you might have bigger problems than the water if you got that close.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:57:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Must have an extremely high pressure
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:59:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But on a hot day I would risk it for a glass of that. Like you know when you drink water so cold it hurts your throat.
Infact, can they make beer like this,
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:11:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit. TIL there are many forms of water/ice. 16 phases!
SweetTooth115 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:21:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm never going to use icyhot ever again :c
DyBree440 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:31:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the first thing I thought of when I read this: hot ice
MrXian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:33:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't understand how the pressure keeps it solid. Ice is supposed to melt under pressure, not the other way around.
DovahSpy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:25:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That planet should have been called Hoth.
hotdogmustardandbeer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:59:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hot ice! It's the best of both worlds!
AssholeBot9000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:59:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just like negative temperatures on the Kelvin scale are hot.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:48:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have a crazy idea for an invention..."Hot ice". He was way ahead of his time.
sirin3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:15:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or hot water can freeze faster than cold water
PM_ME_CAKE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:28:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean I get the reason for the sentence structure but it makes it even more bizzare.
carnosi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:31:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like the fact we have four planets with rings in our solar system. Yet we've only found one other planet with a ring system, j1407b. Not only that fact, but this planet's ring system is 120 million kilometers in diameter, 200 times larger than Saturn's ring system. Universe, u so weird.
SneakyBadAss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:56:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, its called frostbite. Also liquid nitrogen.
EltonBong ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:13:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's burning ice on earth. In deep ocean, the pressure is so great that methane gets trapped in ice as a clathrate. When chunks are brought to the surface, you can hold it and it's cold, but then also light it on fire.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:03:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Icy Hot Stuntaz
OutgoingBuffalo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:58:24 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't gliese the system from that new game The Solus Project?
RichardtSA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:04:25 on March 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't understand this, when water becomes a solid it expands unlike other things, if gravity was keeping the atoms from expanding then shouldn't it remain a liquid?
Kittimm ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:09:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They say it's at around 400-700 degrees C... which is not that hot.
I mean a charcoal fire is around 1000 C. Magnesium burns at around 2000 C and I played with that shit when I was a kid all the time.
I mean... it's hot and you don't wanna roll around it in. But it isn't going to melt your face off for looking at it like the covenant of the ark.
AmoebaNot ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:49:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This should be in r/WTF
the_pet_downvoter ยท 9137 points ยท Posted at 00:44:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People took the tube [Subway] to watch the last hanging in London.
Anotheraccountdelete ยท 10707 points ยท Posted at 02:16:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Could you imagine being the last Fucking guy being hung.
"Wait, so after this there are no more hangings?"
"That is correct."
...
EDIT:Fuck you Reddit, I'm not changing it.
Jazz-Jizz ยท 16379 points ยท Posted at 02:30:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"I can't believe you've done this."
DankMemeDepot ยท 2688 points ยท Posted at 03:00:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ah fuck
Neospector ยท 227 points ยท Posted at 07:39:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This meme is posted backwards every time. เฒ _เฒ
DoctorBr0 ยท 54 points ยท Posted at 11:35:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
so, basically, what i was thinking was...
onlyididntsayfudge ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 12:37:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
licks lips, removes sunglasses
kokocijo ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 14:40:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
smack
ZakTH ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 14:43:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah fuck
californication1996 ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 15:02:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't believe you've done this.
Sheazer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:12:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DEEPER
thebrainypole ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 13:03:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because the i can't believe you're done this is the funnier part but someone always feels obliged to add the Aw fuck
shivvvy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:06:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the video, it repeats the "ah fuck" part in slow motion after "I can't believe you've done this"
thatguynamedguy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:10:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"I can't believe you've done this."
[deleted] ยท -71 points ยท Posted at 06:19:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How is this still funny?
melon_master ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 08:15:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I dont even know the reference
JamesR624 ยท 77 points ยท Posted at 08:41:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/8lBO23Dh23I
melon_master ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 10:14:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Amazing
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 10:18:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your life is now on the next level. You can never go back to the way it was, but you will never want to
screen317 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:59:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am so lost
Damage_Inc89 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:29:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It really is one of those things that shouldn't be as great as it is. The "Pepsi bottle, Coca Cola glass" video was a revelation for me recently.
Nalivai ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:24:52 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't believe you've done this to him
DoctorBr0 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 11:46:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also this.
Gigadweeb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:57:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck me I love some KtN/Ewun
wish him and Spor would do even more collabs than they already do. Shit, just go full Ed Rush + Optical.
symphony64 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:19:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
neither do i...
djpokeboy ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 07:39:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because it fits the situation perfectly.
idkaaa ยท 1592 points ยท Posted at 03:01:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"How can they hang?"
Shitpoe_Sterr ยท 50 points ยท Posted at 06:30:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*sobbing* "How can they hang me sir how can they hang"
"HOW CAN YOU HANG HER YOU BASTAHD YOU DURTY BASTAHD"
pm_me_ur_flags ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 06:55:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
HOW CAN SHE SLAP
buffbodhotrod ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 06:05:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously I lose my shit every time someone references this on Reddit.
Very_legitimate ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:11:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've still not gotten to figuring out what it's about
jOinTftwww ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 07:43:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 07:19:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
HOW CAN SHE SLAP
Jareh-Ashur ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:24:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
she slapped me sir :'(
TheDroopy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:26:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's.... it's gone...... removed for copyright claims. The only version left looks like it has a resolution of about 30x20
famishedmammal_ ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:28:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Leeeroyyyyyy jennnnk--- krglglglll...."
ajbpresidente ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 04:34:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
.."How can she slap!?"
Psychegotical ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:37:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What was the context of this show. Game show? Why the sarcasm from the woman.
emperor_of_prydain ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:46:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think she's supposed to insult him and he pissed her off with his cheeky reply.
WAR_T0RN1226 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:01:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From what I've seen, he was supposed to take her insults as part of the show, and then responded with a comeback that wasn't scripted and she either slapped him in actual anger or as a off-script response. It pissed him off and he slapped back
Acquilas ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:57:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How can she slap?!
moeshapoppins ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:10:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shriveled and to the left
Scarletfapper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:11:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Low
whatisyournamemike ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:14:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How they hangin? Low loose and full of juice!
TehMadness ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:56:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a fucking classic.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:01:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I fucking love this website
Sir_Ninja_VII ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:25:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You now me on hang nice
Reverend_Smarm ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:34:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How's it hanging..?.... FYP
OregonHasBetterWeed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:15:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bit to the left
InvictusSanity ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 03:53:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
By the neck, mostly. Sometimes the wrists will do as well.
januarycanyou ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
fucking laughed hard at this one
BrtneySpearsFuckedMe ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 08:24:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Irrelevant.
[deleted] ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 05:33:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted]
ANoobSniper ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 05:50:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look up 'aw fuck i cant believe you've done this' on youtube.
burdgod ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 13:54:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But what's the video have to do with being the last dude getting hanged?
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:30:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I have a mod in Skyrim that makes peoples have random sounds when damaged. Had a guy say that as he died and it was glorious.
Lobstrositiesbitme ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 05:13:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what the fuck, richard?
hitmarker ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:48:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You just need to run away!
thundergonian ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:41:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More like "I can't believe you've done thโ"
xXDaNXx ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:47:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How can she slap?
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:07:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwC6ksO16E4 gets better everytime
DangerAwar ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:34:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
god, the best part is actually the "you go"
he has this look on his face like it was the cleverest thing ever but because of his intonation it sounds more.... confused? unsure?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:53:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I will never forget the look of disgust on that kid's face
Pivotal_Sweatshirt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:14:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"We haven't done it yet, or you wouldn't be still talking"
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:57:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
U wot m8?
oh_no_aliens ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:45:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you look back at your most popular comment, it was for getting socked in the face.
elevenfeathers ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:38:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. I haven't laughed so hard in weeks.
WIENS21 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:59:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My ancestors are smiling at me!
Vatrumyr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:20:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh shit callback to the fucking stone age
pFunkdrag ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:02:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
bro
InsaneLazyGamer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:10:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't get this reference
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:15:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really!
GOBLIN_GHOST ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:15:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FENTOOOOONNNNNNN
TrackAltitude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:38:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
aw jesus christ, FENTOOOONNNNN
Milkyway_Squid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:47:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Oh my god, you're such a pain in the neck!"
CollusorReginae ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:35:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"It's just a prank, bro"
Thismyrealname ยท 145 points ยท Posted at 03:00:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At least he was hung.
[deleted] ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 09:00:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"They said you was hung!"
"And they was right."
d1gg3r777 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:18:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"They said you was hung"
"They was right!"
pants_of_antiquity ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 05:22:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Wait, so after this there are no more hangings?"
......
"Are you going to answer or just leave me hanging?"
ewweaver ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 04:00:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That probably bothered him for the rest of his life.
Ethril ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 06:43:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Aaahhhhh, just fucking with you mate, the last guy was the last. You're getting shot."
bigmac106 ยท 70 points ยท Posted at 03:24:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not to be that guy, but shouldn't it be "hanged"?
GenosHK ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 04:08:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This was the "something that sounds wrong but is right" I was going to contribute, but here we are accidentally doing it in replies to a top level comment.
pjor1 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:57:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He also forgot a question mark like a kindergartner.
Not to mention the incorrect capitalization of the "F" in "fucking".
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:46:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you guys really are crazy about grammar huh?
WhapXI ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:09:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I assume the gentleman was the last man from Fucking to be hanged.
pjor1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:15:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, that's what I thought too.
Nice place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking,_Austria
[deleted] ยท -13 points ยท Posted at 04:22:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted]
yatsey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:42:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You say that like you could use any homophone interchangeably, so why do you bother using 'two' correctly when you could just as easily use 'to'; because the distinction isn't pointless, like the distinction between hung and hanged. I hung up a picture, but I hanged a man.
TinkyWinkyIlluminati ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:47:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your an dum people.
Yeah, entirely pointless distinction.
Lampmonster1 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:43:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not really pointless. To be hung in the past tense doesn't imply execution or death. I was hung from my deck by my ankles many times as a kid. My father thought it was funny. I didn't die, because I wasn't hanged. Now think about the electric chair. If someone was executed in the electric chair you wouldn't say they were shocked, even though that is absolutely correct, because it wouldn't imply that they were killed. You would say they were electrocuted because they were executed by electricity. In the same way, we say that a person was hanged because they were executed by the method of hanging, and while they were hung by the neck, hanged is more specific than hung.
Wolfir ยท 97 points ยท Posted at 02:37:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anotheraccountdelete ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 02:46:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe he was well endowed ;)
alltoocliche ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:40:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You gotta help me, mr 'olmes. I'll be hung for this.
[deleted] ยท -26 points ยท Posted at 04:21:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted]
synackle ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:47:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*any more
I_Bin_Painting ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:17:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It seems you're wrong.
jbarbz ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 08:56:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It gets even worse. In Australia I believe the last guy hanged was innocent too, which was a large part of why we stopped doing it.
Or not. Please be gentle /r/badhistory if I'm wrong
GladiatoRiley ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:32:50 on April 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tom Barrett
RoccoIsATaco ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 07:19:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Last Fucking guy being hung... in London.
In the Delaware, New Hampshire, and Washington, hanging is still an option as the death penalty.
As bad as "Let's take the subway to the hanging." may sound, "Hey, self-driving-car, drive me to the hanging." sounds way worse.
PlayMp1 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 11:46:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, at least here in Washington we've only had 3 executions in the last 20 years and all of them were lethal injection. The condemned chooses either hanging or injection.
Still, I would have expected we would have abolished the death penalty here by now...
KevinK89 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:09:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But do they actually hang people there nowadays?
randstev ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 05:49:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When it comes to hanging people, the correct past tense is actually hanged, not hung. "He hanged himself" is correct.
chazmuzz ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 07:50:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The coolest thing about languages is that if enough people get something wrong then it becomes right
EhhWhatsUpDoc ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:29:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's very "nice" of you to point out
lazyanachronist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:34:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm am hung, he was hanged.
Autumnsprings ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:40:30 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
p7r ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:47:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The incident you're replying to in 1868 was the last public hanging, but executions continued in the UK for almost a century afterwards behind prison walls and so in private.
When they got to the last execution they realised that whoever they chose would be immortalised, and also have this extra punishment over them: knowing they were the last person. It might even make them glad, I mean they are crazy villains, right?
So, what to do?
Kill two people simultaneously. Easy.
So on August 13th 1964, the two killers of a man (Alan West), killed in April that year were hung at the same time. One was a man killed in Liverpool, the other was a woman who was killed at Manchester.
I'd offer their names, but that defeats the point.
luchinocappuccino ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:59:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd have to say that there still exist fucking guys that are hung
LionessOfAzzalle ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 06:22:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
EhhWhatsUpDoc ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 09:28:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think he means the last guy with a large penis
Best_Towel_EU ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:39:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your father was not a tapestry!
TaohRihze ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:58:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You cannot stop with a ... don't leave us hanging.
eversaur ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:33:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
chris3110 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:04:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could you imagine being the first man killed in a war, or the last one?
HoraceDerwent ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:15:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Hang on a minute, I'm the last one?"
OfficialGarwood ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:58:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hanged.
A coat was hung, a man was hanged.
greatslyfer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:36:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Next prisoner "Hah tough luck buddy!"
"There's still the guillotine pal"
...
NickNash1985 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
jazz hands
DarthFlapjacks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:38:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, so you also taught your phone the word Fuck when it was at the beginning of a sentence.
TurboCider ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it was a woman called Ruth Ellis... Or she might have just been the last woman to be hanged. I dunno, it's early.
addysol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:22:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't choke up about it
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:41:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*hanged when it's for a person
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:43:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Executioners hate him"
zeussays ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:56:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now we're going to electrocute them instead.
steven8765 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:42:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
imagine being the last guy killed in a war too. that'd suck. "the wars over. I'm gonna survive after all." -bam-
Boloar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:50:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so fucking hung right now.
Kev-Mo88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:54:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What did he say next? Don't leave us hanging
travelermatt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:23:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's technically "hanged.". He was the last guy to be hanged, weird English language :P
King_NickyZee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:31:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's hanged, not hung. Just so you know.
SomeOtherNeb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:58:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Muffled theme to Curb your Enthusiasm plays in the background
Pterosaur ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:11:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The past participle of "to hang" is hanged, not hung. It sounds (a bit, not very) wrong, but is in fact correct.
sinRes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:19:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then they better make sure he was well hung.
seahawks9091699091 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:22:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They didn't know. it was months before the next bill was passed (yes., they, they robbed a man for ยฃ10 and killed him)
TacticalTable ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:31:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"So what are you doing for executions afterwards?"
"We've found a more humane way to kill prisoners"
"Bruh"
Irishguy317 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:48:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's actually pretty humane (when contrasted with other ways to take a human life): When the neck breaks and severs the spine, blood pressure drops down to nothing in about a second, and the subject loses consciousness. Brain death then takes several minutes to occur, and complete death can take more than 15 or 20 minutes, but the person at the end of the rope most likely can't feel or experience any of it." http://health.howstuffworks.com/diseases-conditions/death-dying/death-by-hanging.htm
Mavgrim ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:52:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That totally sounds like a "Family Guy" script.
InnoSang ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:15:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
You looked at them
Thedeadlypoet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:26:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hanged.*
L96 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:25:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was the last public hanging but not the last hanging. Plenty more people were hanged up until 1954.
L96 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:25:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was the last public hanging but not the last hanging. Plenty more people were hanged up until 1954.
Orikon32 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:33:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"That's so breathtaking."
fiji- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:38:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being hanged. I hate that it's the proper way to say it. It just doesn't sound right.
leavingplatoscave ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:45:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*hanged
XEV4NX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:50:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*hanged
leechkiller ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:51:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*hanged
QuickSpore ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:02:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well in the UK, there was a long lag between when the last guy was killed by hanging and when it was officially abolished. The last guy hung was in 1964. But it was still available as a punishment for treason until 1998. So the last guy hung had no particular reason to think that he'd be the last guy hung.
Evasions ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:06:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hanged
faithfulpuppy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:07:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know man, I'd feel pretty lucky if I was hung
greyhunter4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:23:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't seem like that bad of a way to go.
Electroniclog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:31:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hate to be that guy...
It's "hanged", not "hung".
I love you.
QueenDamini98 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:46:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being hanged*
sexihunk666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:57:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Meat, Sir, is hung. Men are hanged.
shamelessnameless ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:02:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Changing what?
Anotheraccountdelete ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:37:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hung to hanged. I stand by my decision.
HobbitsToIsengard_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He was mightily hung your honour.
Mr_Ibericus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:42:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would be awesome to have the legacy of being the last dude with a huge dick. The last guy being hanged though? That would suck.
ws1173 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:06:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's actually "hanged"
director5831 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:16:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hung is for meat hanged is for people
smilingasIsay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:24:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hanged***
REDDITATO_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:25:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't believe the number of insufferable dicks that corrected you on the hanged/hung thing. Not only is it annoying, but didn't any of them see the forty other corrections?
thelastlogin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:33:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm glad you stood your ground; "hung" is equally as correct as "hanged," even referring to an execution, it's just currently less common and therefore a lot of people think is incorrect. But it isn't.
scotbud123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:06:23 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good, I agree, fuck reddit. xD
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:40:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not being a grammar snob, but this is relevant to the original question. "Hung" is the correct past tense usage of "hang", unless it is by a rope from the neck. In this case "hanged" is the appropriate word.
BOOOOOMSHAKALAKA ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:29:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not that I don't believe you, but "hanged" sounds so wrong
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:22:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I agree
BucketMaster69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:37:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think I'd rather be hung then any other method of execution. That or firing squad. Less of a hassle, more easy, you know? It would just feel more natural and epic. Lethal injection is so lame
Fun fact, Utah is reinstating firing squads
fnord_happy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:19:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bucketmaster69
MegaMonkeyManExtreme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:49:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are plenty of epic ways to be executed that aren't lame.
Ucalegon666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:15:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hanged.
mrbosco9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:15:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In line with this thread. Hanged*; people are hanged, objects are hung.
adudeguyman ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:38:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was he hung well?
phukasomebooty ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:53:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Fuck me right?"
shooterx ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:35:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Meat is hung, Men are hanged
coconuthorse ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:40:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just because I have to...Hanged* ftfy
macr6 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:52:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hanged
Mherje ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:18:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's hanged when referring to people
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:36:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Anotheraccountdelete ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:52:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not by most first world governments.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:44:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Lugia3210 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:49:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There was a joke?
Anotheraccountdelete ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:50:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guys that fuck are hung.
TejasEngineer ยท 1327 points ยท Posted at 03:45:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Also, the London Underground opened during the American civil war.
himit ยท 88 points ยท Posted at 09:47:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm from the UK, and my dad (American) took me to visit a civil war fort during one of my summer visits with him.
I remember seeing the dates of the war and laughing my ass off. I'd always assumed it was in the 1600s or something, but it really wasn't that long ago!
PolarNavigator ยท 145 points ยท Posted at 10:00:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would have been pretty difficult to have a civil war before they became a country in 1776.
[deleted] ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 12:06:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 12:12:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Still makes it a civil war, since the colony was part of the UK until they won the Revolutionary War
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:47:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Kitchner ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:48:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And in the eyes of the South they declared independence from an oppressive federalist government, so they were an independent country before the "civil war".
In the UK no one calls it the American War for Independence, everyone calls it the American Revolution.
We also call an uprising of Indian military during the Empire the "Indian Mutiny" but the Indians call it "The First Indian War for Independence".
So yes you're right, but it's because everyone has different perspectives on these things anyway
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:25:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Kitchner ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:41:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but it's the whole "one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist" isn't it?
Even if the declaration of independence was signed after the fighting started the US wouldn't refer to it as the American Revolution and the Indians don't refer to the first conflict as the Indian Mutiny, because that makes you sound like traitors.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:24:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Kitchner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:26:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting, I (a British person) was under the impression you're not taught that. Maybe it varies between states?
Perpetual_Entropy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:55:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Replace "King" with "Congress" and you've just described the American Civil war. Seems kind of silly to define whether something is a civil war based on which side wins.
falor42 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:45:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Such is war.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:22:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but it was a British civil war, since all the colonies were on the same side.
borkmeister ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:31:29 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If the South had successfully seceded we would probably call that a revolution as well. However, there's a distinction for the US revolution in that the British empire wasn't exactly one big unified nation state. We were colonies, not integral parts of the UK
m1rrari ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:44:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sure we could have figured it out
TejasEngineer ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 10:17:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well the English civil war was in the 1600s
Batbuckleyourpants ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 13:20:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But did they take the subway to the battlefields?
infinitewowbagger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:53:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah the earl of sandwich didnt come up with those till far later.
Sly1969 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 14:35:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, one of them was. ;-)
Miss_Musket ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 14:56:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, there were 3 civil wars in the 1600s - 1642-45, 1645-49, and 1649-53.
Sly1969 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:02:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay, Miss_Pedant...
Well three of them were. ;-)
Miss_Musket ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:33:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry, I used to re-enact the ECWs:) hence the username :)
rumbar ยท 162 points ยท Posted at 10:33:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait until you see the dates of the Holocaust
PigHaggerty ยท 129 points ยท Posted at 10:52:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He'll have a right old chuckle then!
poo_is_hilarious ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 11:16:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a gas!
WhatDoesIIRCMean ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:35:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have your upvote you heartless bastard.
ponchoboy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:23:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
These jokes make me feel dirty. Time for a shower!
xpoc ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 10:02:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a woman who still collects a war pension for her dad who fought in the Civil war.
joebearyuh ยท 55 points ยท Posted at 10:16:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The last civil war widow died when 50 cent was top of the forbes rich list
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:24:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did she get married at 2 years old or something
whirlpool138 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:39:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She married an 80-90 year old war veteran. A lot of young woman/families did this back then to keep that Civil War pension going in their family.
Chinoiserie91 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 11:34:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is why America still had so many race issues probbaly. It was not that many generations ago, I was suprised too when I would out how recent it was but American society makes more sense when you know when it happened.
ajackineverybox ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:46:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is definitely a factor, but race issues exist everywhere. Europe is really struggling with a lot of friction in dealing with a growing Muslim community, while America has had less problems in that area. There is a load of rhetoric thrown around, but considering the size of the country, very few actual major incidents between Muslims & other faiths.
Chinoiserie91 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:23:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure. But in Eurooe the issues are more about culture and religion (and benefits for immigrats). In US it seems to be a lot about sterotypes about people with differnt skincolors and how the people of color are often in lower class.
RobertAPetersen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:15:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Not sure if this is more of an indictment on all American history being 'recent', or of the UK educational system for you thinking the US Civil War occurred before there was a United States.
Hell, the very first British colony in the Americas wasn't until Jamestown in 1607. Guess I'll go to the old joke: "Americans think 100 years is a long time, Europeans think 100 miles is a long distance."
Miss_Musket ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:57:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, slavery was made illegal in Britain almost 200 years before America.
xyzyxyzyx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:06:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, we weren't even a country until the very late 1700's, and it took us almost a century of people dicking around and passing temporary solutions to the points of contention (slavery, tariffs, legislation that favored the industrial north over the agricultural south, etc.) before we got fed up enough to get around to fighting ourselves.
It's ok, you probably know more American history than I know British or UK history. :)
whirlpool138 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:46:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey before you around saying that temporary solutions were passed in favor of the north (legislation that favored industrial north, tarrifs connected to slavery and so on), it has to be known that the Northern states tried to compromise several times with the South. The Missouri Compromise and the Kansas-Nebraska act were both passed in order to satisfy the southern states. Slave catchers were illegally entering the northern states and kidnapping free black men. A representative from South Carolina also caned a representative from New England on the House floor over the issue of slavery, critically injuring and nearly killing him. The Southern states were absolutely in the wrong during this whole time period and continued to push aggressive tactics against the northern states.
It wasn't the North that was dicking around and passing temporary solutions, it was the South dragging the rest of the country through it's backwards ways. At this point the industrial revolution was about to be in full swing and the United States government/northern states knew that an agricultural industry based on slavery (and "king cotton") would not be sustainable long term.
actual_factual_bear ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 05:41:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Technically, so did the Underground Railroad of the United States.
jMyles ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 05:50:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The underground railroad existed long before the Civil War. By 1850, more than 100,000 people had utilized it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad
Jeevadees ยท 59 points ยท Posted at 07:15:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But it wasn't literally an underground railroad.
Tsorovar ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 08:18:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which is not explained enough when people first hear of it.
RiotSloth ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:37:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
About 1.10 in....
https://youtu.be/2j3adcbEwSM
aaffddssaa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:10:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reveeeeeenge!
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 08:05:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Non-American here: Why would you say "utilized" when "used" seems to work perfectly fine?
jMyles ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 12:10:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To "use" something, especially something so life-changing as a system for gaining liberation, means simply to engage it, whatever the outcome (ie, to "put it to use.")
To utilize something means to gain utility (its etymological root) from it.
So, in this case, since slavery was (and actually still is) such an abomination, I think it makes sense to make clear that people gained utility via this awesomely law-breaking, system-crushing movement.
gqgk ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 08:29:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fairly interchangeable. Utilize is slightly more specific. Here's a good article: https://grammarcops.wordpress.com/tag/use-vs-utilize/
aetheos ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 08:38:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're so polite, like a grammar fairy instead of grammar nazi.
The_Sober_Ocelot ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 09:37:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Comma lover
Mabenue ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 08:44:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because Americans like to use unnecessary words to make them appear smart. Like "high rate of speed" which is really annoying.
yes__not ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:17:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not exactly; it mostly helps us cover up our bullshit.
OskarCa ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:16:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reason being, North Americans enjoy utilizing many extra unnecessary letters in their words to have themselves appear more intellectual. Like "high rate of speed" which does happen to annoy me quite a bit if I do say so myself.
PyriteFoolsGold ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 09:51:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unlike the British, who just shoehorn silent 'u's in everything to make themselves seem sophisticated.
actual_factual_bear ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:51:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like how Brits put the "r" sound in words that don't even have an "r"!
firthy ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 10:32:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or Americans who just arbitrarily whipped out the silent letters that had been used in those words for centuries, because they were essentially, a bit thick. Same reason they substituted all the 'z' with 's' - dumbing down and laziness. See also 'donut'.
ClintonHarvey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:21:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DAYUM. What were they riding? Wooden carts?
Lost_Afropick ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:22:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes
p7r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:47:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A small section of it, yes.
chris3110 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:05:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And to be fair it shows.
mugurg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:43:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unrelated but another interesting date comparison: Oxford University was founded before Genghis Khan was born.
OwlSeeYouLater ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:48:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shut up! Really? Omg you're right.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:54:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is a steamy tidbit of information.
saustin66 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:22:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That must have been a real thrill. Riding underground steam powered trains.
beancounter2885 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:19:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is more mind blowing.
hungry4pie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:24:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Another thing that blows my mind is that the French Revolution took place after the war of independence
edditme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't know that genre of music was so prevalent back then. TIL!
lol
deyesed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:56:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Explains some of the ridiculous paths for line changes in old stations.
Jsdestroy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:56:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
America had its own Underground Railroad
thepilotboy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:19:58 on April 18, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It also blows my mind that there are only 4 generations separating mine from the Civil War.
KindlyNeedHelp ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:51:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's always the craziest thing to think about. In terms of countries and how long they have been around. America is barely a blip on the radar but we are one of the most influential politically , financially and militarily on a global scale.
[deleted] ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 07:31:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just wait another 150 years and we will all bow before the military, scientific, and cultural might of The Micronesian Empire.
Paradigm240 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:33:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This sort of makes the original comment a little less shocking.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:42:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Similarly there exists footage of one of the last public uses of the guillotine. nsfw I suppose?
Bibliophilist ยท 74 points ยท Posted at 02:01:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kinda fun how the last execution by guillotine in France was in 1977.
tantalicatom689 ยท 102 points ยท Posted at 02:11:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have an odd definition of fun
poetu ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:28:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
LuciferianAntichrist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:28:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What are you talking about? Everybody loves a good ol' decapitation!
cream_of_the_crap ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:00:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine when he uses expressions such as "that was a fun night" or "we're going to have SO MUCH fun today". Creepy.
luckierbridgeandrail ยท 74 points ยท Posted at 03:38:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kinda fun how the last execution by lethal injection in Texas was two weeks ago.
Ayyeeeee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:27:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Atta boy Rick Perry!
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:55:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 09:25:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One of the last executions in Europe as well. Capital punishment is strictly forbidden by a treaty pertaining to European Court of Human Rights. Only Belarus exercises death penalty anymore, even Russia switched to making "accidents" happen to the people it doesn't like.
Belarus is an interesting country in this regard. Their mode of execution is a leftover from the Cold War - they take the unsuspecting prisoner to an interrogation room, he sits down, he is given a paper to read on the table. While he's reading the paper, somebody shoots him in the back of his exposed neck. AFAIK both CIA and KGB did this back then.
thelizardkin ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:04:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The United States still hangs people in some states actually one state only has the electric chair
gynlimn ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:20:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, this is neat. Is there an easily cited source for this?
72liacon ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:23:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Barrett_(Fenian) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_London_Underground
gynlimn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:16:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's insane. Thanks!
Mackem101 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:08:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Last public hanging, people were still being hanged till 1964.
Deadpool_irl ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:03:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mind the gap
Speech500 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:29:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well the London underground is the oldest system of its type in the world.
Anexium ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:06:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it not inspiring that humans have evolved socially so quickly?
pepe_le_shoe ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:41:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The tube is surprisingly old in comparison to a lot of things.
It used to use steam trains, and there were hole where tunnels opened up to ground level to let steam out.
I can't imagine what it would been like on the platform, but the tunnel full of steam
wheresflateric ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:01:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Metropolitan line is older than Canada, so that's easy for me to believe.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:13:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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TigerlillyGastro ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:09:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They meant the last public hanging, which was in the 1800s.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:06:18 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't see how that changes anything I said in the parent. I guess the idea that this is a "wow, no way!" thing is just alien to me. I guess different nations have different history taught in their curriculum. Apparently in the USA the curriculum is "Nothing 101".
[deleted] ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 05:06:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I think you are confused about what the Underground Railroad is.
Edit: OK, looks like I was confused on the history of underground railroads.
Micia19 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:24:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you're just confused
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:13:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A network of secret routes to help slaves escape to the north?
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:41:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Tube predated the last hanging by about 100 years.
TigerlillyGastro ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 10:09:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, OP means last public hanging.
BemusedTriangle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:51:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
London Underground first carried passengers in 1863, using steam trains! Always blows my mind
marpocky ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:07:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I, too, watch QI
dethb0y ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:45:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
he was a bit of an odd duck, too: Micheal Barret - due to the circumstances of his trial and the politics surrounding it, we may never know if he was really guilty or what, but it honestly looks like he may have been innocent of the crime he hung for.
It's strange how things that were so important a few generations ago are so forgotten now.
L96 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:28:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I looked it up and it's true, the last public hanging took place just after the tube opened in 1867. But back then the tube still had steam trains and wooden carriages, so it's not that surprising.
L96 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:28:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I looked it up and it's true, the last public hanging took place just after the tube opened in 1867. But back then the tube still had steam trains and wooden carriages, so it's not that surprising.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:33:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Last PUBLIC hanging in London. The last execution in London was in 1961
KRosen333 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:29:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i would presume it was tim evans?
kennedybenson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:11:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah yes, free entertainment!
FuzyDiceBongoInBack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:47:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Netflix and hang?
Timmit789 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:59:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you by any chance watch QI?
armorandsword ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:01:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think the interesting thing here is just how old the London Underground is - it dates back to 1863.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:10:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sick that it's like it's a tourist attraction... I could imagine a dystopian future like that..
Mandosquirrel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:23:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was a BS hanging as well, I believe.
VITALY_CHERN0BYL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:54:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Meanwhile in America, we will soon be able to take the Hyperloop to executions.
What glorious times we live in!
kiwihogan13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:09:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They were hanged... Sounds so wrong...
L96 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:28:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I looked it up and it's true, the last public hanging took place just after the tube opened in 1867. But back then the tube still had steam trains and wooden carriages, so it's not that surprising.
juzt_agirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:03:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How did that happen? Last public hanging in London appears to have happened in 1868: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Barrett_(Fenian)
ititsi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:16:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe they should've invested in some cinemas or public parks instead, Jesus fuck how bored do you have to be to make that kind of excursion?
anon1moos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:53:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yeah, well in the US you can take an Uber to go watch an execution.
danby ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:13:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The tube is more than 100 years old mind.
NatureBoy92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:04:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In America they used to sell postcards with lynchings on them. It was like a great and fun cultural event. Disturbs me.
Cobbleking32486 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:50:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
when?
oggthekiller ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:24:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was he well hung? /s
Jack_BE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:10:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
as the hangman said to the convict
"Mind the gap please"
gmoney8869 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:29:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hanging, even public hangings, are not worse than any other execution method, except maybe shooting or guillotine.
Woodshadow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:54:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well it is no longer public but you can be hung in Washington State and a couple of other states in the US. So someone could technically take a subway to a hanging
coffeewithmyoxygen ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:41:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, not in Washington state given that we don't have a subway. You could maybe take the light rail though.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:28:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does Washington even hang that many people? It doesn't seem like a state that would be too keen to exercise capital punishment like Texas &co.
spirrigold21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:15:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking light rail ruining the bus routes in u district and Northgate.
Eelpieland ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:47:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Last public hanging you mean?
TigerlillyGastro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:08:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*public hanging. The last hanging was much more recent, so less surprising.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:28:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They rode sandwitches through tubes? What kind of barbaric time was that?
Jticospwye54 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:31:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't sound extremely wrong to me because of how popular subs like wtf and 50/50 are
p7r ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:40:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe.
They may have done to witness the last public hanging in 1868 at Newgate prison, but at that time the underground was composed of two small sections between Paddington and Farringdon some 2-3 miles away from Newgate, and between South Kensington and Westminster which again, is a couple of miles away. The crowd is reported to be about 2,000 and so there is actually a good chance none of them got the underground at all.
MxM111 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:59:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People were eating the tube sandwiches from Subway?
shamelessnameless ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:02:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eat fresh
helenhellerhell ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:14:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Last public hanging. Last public hanging was 1868, tube opened 1863. Last hanging was 1964.
gettysb ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:01:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The US state of Delaware hanged a man as recently as 1996.
blargmaster3000 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:28:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well he was hung out to dry.
videoflyguy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:00:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why yes, he did get considerably dry with all that wind. Sort of looked like a piece of beef jerky swaying in the wind
demoneyesturbo ยท 1726 points ยท Posted at 07:36:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A million seconds is about 11 days.
A billion seconds is about 32 years.
TransitRanger_327 ยท 408 points ยท Posted at 13:09:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And about 1.5 trillion seconds ago, mammoths were walking on the earth.
EatMiTits ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 13:15:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the Great Pyramids were being built
solarsensei ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 17:31:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And mammoths were building the Great Pyramids.
Octoplatypusycatfish ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 19:36:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's got the pics! It happened!
cynicalsisyphus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:35:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You watched that vsauce video too
[deleted] ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 17:10:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
META
h-styles ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 14:21:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
really puts in perspective how much debt the US is in...
mrjderp ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 14:34:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And how wealthy some people are
SomeRandomBaldGuy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:25:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just some quick math... (not accounting for leap years). If I live to 100 years old. I have to make $19.02 every second of my life to reach 1 billion dollars. Maybe my math is flawed. But that seems rediculous ..
the_ginger_fox ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:07:18 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Wait but if 1 billion seconds is 32 years. Wouldn't you just need to make a dollar a second and you would have a billion in 32 years?
Edit: Ok I did the math. 19.02/sec would take about 2 years to get to a billion. Are you 98 years old?
SomeRandomBaldGuy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:08:21 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lesson to be learned here. Don't drink and do math. 1 billion / 100 = 10,000,000 / year 10,000,000 / 365 ( not accounting for leap years) = 27,397.26 day 27,397.26 / 24 hours = 1,141.55 hour 1,141.55 / 60 minutes = 19.03 minute ( must have missed this) 19.03 / 60 seconds = .32 per second
Approximately. ... I know it still isn't perfect though.
Thanks for making me rethink this though..
demoneyesturbo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:51:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I use his example to try explain things like that. To give some perspective.
xkforce ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 15:57:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually there is evidence that Mammoths had a small population that survived until approximately 6,000 years ago.
scotbud123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:09:12 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good god.....
[deleted] ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 17:34:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
And a gazillion bagillion seconds ago the cell phone hadn't been invited yet!
Edit: May have been drunk when I wrote that.
Freepz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:21:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Invited to earth's birthday party?
GuiltyGoblin ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:13:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about a trillion seconds?
demoneyesturbo ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 14:29:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Plus minus 32000 years.
Exactly? =31,709.791983764 years.
I didn't account for leap years having one less day. So across 32000 years there will be 7927 (rounded down) leap years. That's 7927 less days. Which is 21.7190356053 years.
Therfore it is (as accurately as I care to figure it =31,688.072948158 years.
I don't know why I did that.
Edit: leap years ADD days so I'm the opposite of right. Thanks to AssAssln46 for the correction
Orphanleni ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 14:40:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but leap years have 3 criteria.
The year can be evenly divided by 4
If the year can be evenly divided by 100, it is NOT a leap year, unless
The year is also evenly divisible by 400. Then it is a leap year.
kingkuya777 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 14:42:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just use 365.2425 as the constant for "year".
demoneyesturbo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:48:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shit. I just learned all of that.
AssAssIn46 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:39:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A leap year has 1 extra day not less so it'd be 31,709.791983764+21.7190356053 years = 31,731.5110194 years.
standinyourlight ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:03:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A leap year does add an extra day, but this means the average number of days per year increases (From 365 to 365.25, approximately).
60 seconds per minute, 60 minutes per hour, 24 hours per day, 365.25 days per year. 60 * 60 * 24 * 365.25 = 31 557 600 seconds per year
1 000 000 000 000 (1 trillion) / 31 557 600 = 31 688.087814 years
So while their wording was wrong, demoneyesturbo's maths was right.
demoneyesturbo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:46:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God. You're right. Thanks for the correction.
SarcasticGiraffes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:03:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/TheyDidTheMath
GuiltyGoblin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:36:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, holy crap. This blows my mind! Thanks for the answer.
dedokta ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:53:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You forgot about all the leap seconds.
timothymh ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:45:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
10! seconds is exactly 42 days.
10! = 10 x 9 x 8 x 7 x 6 x 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 (x 1) = 3,628,800
42 days = 42 x 24 x 60 x 60 seconds = 3,628,800
TheChuckNGU ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:02:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A year is 31,536,000 sec
zhige ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:30:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so glad I saw this today, I'm really close to my billion second birthday!
demoneyesturbo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:45:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Many happy returns!
shelchang ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:02:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I put mine on my Google Calendar about two or three years ago. It's coming up this year!
rabidwhale ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:41:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So I can count to 1 billion!
demoneyesturbo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:49:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can go without sleeping for 32 years?! Metal.
Obi-Wan_Kannabis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:01:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well big numbers take more than 1 second to say so it'd be quite a lot more than just 32 years too.
elconquistador1985 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:58:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A year is about pi x 107 seconds, within about 0.5%.
Kalsion ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:52:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not to kill the interesting fact, but a 0.5% margin of error means that every digit after the first 2 digits (maybe only the first digit, I can't be bothered to do the math) can be different from pi. 31222222, for example, is well within .5% of 31415926, despite not having any real resemblance to pi.
elconquistador1985 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:05:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A year is 31536000 seconds, pi x 107 is 31415926 seconds or about 1.5 days short. pi x 107 is more than adequate for order of magnitude estimates, which is actually where you'd use it (it comes up in simple order of magnitude astronomy calculations). If there are other uncertainties that are larger than 0.5%, your final uncertainty will be dominated by that. The reason you'd use pi x 107 in such calculations would be to cancel a pi elsewhere.
Let's look at the previous poster's comments:
11 days is 950400 seconds, or about 5% different from 1 million. pi x 107 in a year is more accurate than that.
32 years is 1009152000 seconds, or about 1% different from 1 billion. Again, pi x 107 in a year is more accurate than that.
Kalsion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:36:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All right I take it back, that's pretty neat.
ftt128 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:07:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
525,600 minutes is a year
akaini ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:15:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
pi seconds is a nano-century, to 3 significant figures.
dogsn1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:26:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not as impressive when you the million seconds one first, you can just work out that it's 11000 days
demoneyesturbo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:47:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The calculations aren't the impressive part. I like th contrast between the two. Or the perspective it gives to a billion.
drumstyx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:01:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Plating around with seconds really shows you why large numbers are simply unrelateable. You only have a few billion seconds to live at best.
Considering that, imagine how that scales with money. You think you'd know what you could do with a billion dollars, but you really, really don't
demoneyesturbo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:10:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You could spend one dollar a second for 32 years. It's not easy to do.
Z0MGbies ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:27:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This was instrumental in teaching me the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire, and was a significant part in realising just how fucked up the global economic system is with that whole 1% mullarky
CrabbyBlueberry ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:54:27 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Computers often store the time as seconds elapsed since 1/1/1970. Some time in 2038, over 2.14 billion seconds will have passed, and this is the largest number that can be stored by a 32 bit integer. It will then overflow to negative 2.14 billion seconds, or some time in 1911.
ConcernedDad22 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:31:30 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or, roughly 11,000 days.
cjlutera ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:18:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's just orders of magnitude.
thiagovscoelho ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:46:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vsauce?
jodonald ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:09:59 on April 17, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh man... Gotta set an alarm for my 1 billionth second celebration
radiv27297 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:45:49 on May 12, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God Bless
Obi-Wan_Kannabis ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:00:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How is this surprising?
11 x 1000 = 11 000
11 000 / 365 = 30 years. Now obviously a million seconds isn't exacly just eleven days so it's going to be a bit more than 30 years. But it's hardly surprising that 11 days multiplied by a thowsand is a lot.
Antreasas9637 ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 13:27:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait how does the math work for that?Let's say the first statement is true.A million to a billion is *1000,so if we do 11 days *1000 we get 11.000 days,right?11.000 days to years convertion on Google is ''0.0301170019 years''.
Gingerchurz ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:41:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1,000,000/60=16666.66mins 16666.66/60=277hrs 277/24=11.57Days so say 12 instead of 11 if you round up
1,000,000,000/60=16666666.66mins 16666666.66/60=277777.77hrs 277777.77/24=11574Days 11574/365=31.71yrs
So the maths is right give or take.
demoneyesturbo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:19:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks. All those decimal point is why I used the word "about."
Antreasas9637 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:16:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ah fuck I'm dumb
TheDualJay ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:34:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Notation. 11000 days ~= 3 years.
IAmA_Catgirl_AMA ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:09:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Google assumes that '.' is the decimal point and ',' is the thousands separator. Also a year is 365(.somthing) days, so dividing 11,000 by 365 gives... 30.something
That result is heavily influenced by rounding errors, but I'd say it inspires supports OP's claim
demoneyesturbo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:17:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
11000 divided by 365 is about 32
oliksandr ยท 1208 points ยท Posted at 05:26:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The word "Strengths" holds two lexical records as being both the longest monosyllabic word in the English language, and also having the highest ratio of consonants to vowels.
The hard to believe part is that it's one syllable.
EDIT: It is NOT the only monosyllabic word of that length, but it also uniquely contains only 1 vowel and 8 consonants.
42nd_towel ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 14:58:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reminded me of this fun fact. Stewardesses is the longest word you can type with just your left hand (using the "proper" hand placement like how they teach typing).
RegulusMagnus ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 17:11:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think 'typewriter' is the longest word you can type using using just the top row of keys on a ... typewriter.
ClurkKent ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 13:27:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about screeched? I always thought that was the longest monosyllabic word with 9 letters? Cool fact about the ratio tho!
Excalibur54 ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 14:34:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are a ton of monosyllabic words with 9 letters, but only one with 10. "Scraunched" is a made up word from the book Don Quixote, but many don't actually consider it a real word :(
ThankYouShark ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 16:07:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are a few more squirreled away in my dictionary.
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 15:32:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*Squanched
FTFY
EightIsD ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 15:39:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's 9 letters and no.
Sonnyjimlads ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:12:00 on April 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you dont squaunch
IngrownPubez ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 18:31:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i like your squanch
Lysandria ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:50:12 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I was going to say 'scrunched.'
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 14:09:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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joequin ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 13:41:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are there certain accents where it's surprising that "strength" only has one syllable? As a North easterner I don't see how that isn't blindingly obvious.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 19:11:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's more from a world-languages perspective. In a lot of languages you can't have more than one or two consonants at the end of a word, and here with strengths we have ng-(k)-th-s (IPA: /ลkฮธs/). A lot of people, even English-speakers, simplify this as either n-th-s or ng-k-s or something like that. /ฮธs/ (that's th-s) as a sequence is really hard for a lot of people, too, as shown by the similar sequence at the end of clothes, often simplified so that it's a homophone of close.
The onset is also pretty packed, all things considered. Some languages like Spanish don't allow s to start words if it's followed by other consonants, so a Spanish-speaker might say estrenks or something similar for strengths.
It's just a packed word. But everything's relative - in Georgian you can get words such as (per wiki) แแแคแ แชแฅแแแ gvprckvni ("You peel us"). That's a single syllable that starts with gvprckvn-.
sh0ulders ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:39:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You peel us? How does that translate?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:47:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It translates as แแแคแ แชแฅแแแ
sh0ulders ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:30:08 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry, I meant the meaning. That may be a literal translation, but the meaning doesn't translate.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:32:22 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I was being a wise-ass :) It works. It's just not exactly a likely scenario. But I assume it's the verb "to peel" conjugated so that the subject is the 2nd person and the object is the 1st person. So it could be used if you were being tortured by Ramsay Snow or something.
sh0ulders ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:36:38 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit - I didn't realize it was being literal, I figured it was just an idiom or the phrase meant something a bit differently in that language. Wow!
And yeah, I figured, but usually calling someone a smartass doesn't get you very far as it sounds aggressive, and I really wanted to know!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:35 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're into this stuff do some reading on wikipedia. It's written pretty accessibly.
Georgian is an agglutinative language, meaning it just tacks on lots of different affixes instead of worrying about stringing together lots of different words like in English. Languages exist on a spectrum of how much they tend to incorporate into a single word (agglutinative) to relatively analytic languages like English (and even more extremely analytic languages like Mandarin).
mudkip201 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:10:01 on May 31, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then there's Nuxalk, where you get stuff like (per wiki) xลpฬฯสทลtลpลลskสทcฬ ("then he had had in his possession a bunchberry plant")
ijoijiojoij ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:45:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, you weren't kidding. Here's a recording of that word being said, if anyone is interested.
JoseElEntrenador ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:06:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is for me (New Jersey). I can post a recording of my voice if you want.
Deep__Thought ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:24:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the 'ngths' is also the most consecutive consonants you can have
HobbitsToIsengard_ ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:54:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about rhythms? Edit: a word
Acaleus_Thorne ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 17:02:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In this case y is treated as a vowel.
HobbitsToIsengard_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:12:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know but it's not a true vowel though is it?
Acaleus_Thorne ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:16:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nor is it a true consonant, by that definition. If it is a true consonant, I'm guessing they didn't count it because it's rather ambiguous.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:17:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It depends on your point of view. The spelling isn't the word, and <y> represents a vowel that is definitely there. In fact, there are two vowels in rhythms; the <y> is read like the <i> in kit and there's an indeterminate vowel called a schwa between the <th> and <m> (for some people; others glide straight from one to the other and make [mฬฉ] its own syllable).
konaya ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:35:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Y is a hybrid. It shares this category with W, which you can find as a vowel in certain Welsh loan words such as cwm and crwth.
MystyrNile ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 13:36:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a good and therefore frequently used example word for demonstrating the phonotactics (rules for stringing together sounds) of English. It has the longest possible onset (beginning of a syllable) with a sequence of three consonants and the longest possible coda (end of a syllable) with four (th is one sound even though it's spelled with two letters).
profoloric ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 14:07:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The coda is just three sounds, ng is the velar nasal ล
MystyrNile ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:43:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I pronounce it something like [stษนeลkฮธs]. I guess some people don't have a stop between the nasal and the fricatives.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:14:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If we're doing narrow transcription I think I arguably have four consonants on either end, because the whole sequence /st/ is retracted: [สtสษนษลkฮธs].
eihongo ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:51:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"strenks"
Screw_The_Illuminati ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:33:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This website is lit.
xkforce ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:01:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's one syllable because it only has one vowel. One follows from the other.
Sniperchild ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:58:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about "why"
Iamhereforcats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:31:28 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you trying to say vowels are girly?
ErlendJ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:33:01 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fun
Tupptupp_XD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:17:05 on March 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would be tied with "Straights" for longest monosyllabic word.
Shhhhhhhh_Im_At_Work ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 13:40:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, "squirrelled" holds the record for longest monosyllabic word in the English language. 11 letters.
[deleted] ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 13:54:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In what dialect does "squirrelled" only have one syllable?
valvilis ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 14:02:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Skwirlt." - Alabama
waycoolcoolcool ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 14:01:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm from the U.S. and say it with one syllable... "skwurld"
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 14:09:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm from the U.S. too, midwest no less, and I say it with two syllables.
Kim_Jong_OON ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:12:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Midwest here also, skwerl is how I did it. One syllable
MystyrNile ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:47:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does it rhyme with "world" for you? What about "whirled"? And btw do you pronounce "world" and "whirled" the exact same?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:53:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
world sounds like whirled syllable-wise, but the vowel sound is different. Edit: to expand on this, "world" has a longer vowel sound when I say it, "whirled" sounds shorter and more clipped, if that makes sense.
And it doesn't rhyme with world, because then I would have to say "wor-eld"
MystyrNile ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:58:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, neat. I'm not familiar with any dialects that distinguish the vowels of "world" and "whirled" outside of Britain.
Btw if you want to read about this stuff you can read here
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:03:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well as I said in another comment that may not have been in response to you, I'm kinda from all over (although all in the U.S.) so I don't really have a normal U.S. dialect, although I'm able to sound generically upper-middle-class suburban to some and lower-middle-class rural to others when I feel the need to fit in.
Cymry_Cymraeg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:41:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lots of British accents pronounce 'world and 'whirled' the same, too.
MystyrNile ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:46:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think most do, don't they?
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 14:35:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:38:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"squirrel" has two syllables, and I see no reason to change that simply because there's a "d" at the end.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:43:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:47:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
According to Merriam-Webster, squirrel has two syllables. According to the OED, both are correct.
So yeah, squirrel has two syllables.
homeskilled ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:44:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've never heard an American say squirrel with two syllables. Skwurl.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:48:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well you haven't met me then. Glad we sorted that out.
homeskilled ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:03:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice to meet you. Out of curiosity, where in the US are you from where squirrel has two syllables?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:13:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Basically all over, which probably has something to do with it. I've lived in North Carolina, Iowa, Colorado, and more. And I've lived in both rural and suburban settings.
homeskilled ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:57:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting. I've also lived all over, but a mostly different set of states. NC, PA, VT, NY, KS, LA, MD, VA, and DC. Always said "skwurl."
Shhhhhhhh_Im_At_Work ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 14:03:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the U.S., it rhymes with "world".
Tundur ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 13:54:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's more like one and a half. Sqwi-relled. But I roll my Rs so ignore me.
Cymry_Cymraeg ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:53:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, that depends on your accent.
Excalibur54 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:35:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That word very clearly had two syllables.
DrVoodoo ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:47:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually looks like the whole one vs. two syllable thing depends on accent here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/squirrelled
Shhhhhhhh_Im_At_Work ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 14:43:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not according to the Oxford English Dictionary, but I'm sure you know better.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:50:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This comment holds the record for the most amount of cunt vinegar poured into a single comment.
Shhhhhhhh_Im_At_Work ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:52:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not according to the Cunt Vinegar Repository, but I'm sure you know better.
Excalibur54 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:53:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did I make reddit history?
Dead-A-Chek ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:18:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not entirely sure it counts considering many dialects don't pronounce it with one syllable.
Side note: Dictionaries don't dictate how language works, they simply record the changes that occur naturally over time.
Cymry_Cymraeg ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:56:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I doubt that it was in the Oxford English dictionary seeing as 'squirrel' is pronounced with two syllables in the UK.
TheCatsBananas ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:55:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you fucken idiot mate you dont think squirrelled is two syllabyles fuck your a dumb cunt
ColdPizzaAtDawn ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 13:06:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rhythms
tobomori ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 13:29:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I would suggest that rhythms is two syllables. Were I writing a song using that word it would require two beats/notes.
MystyrNile ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 13:37:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is, there's a phonemic schwa in between the Th and the M. Or alternatively, the M is syllabic.
ColdPizzaAtDawn ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:42:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh I misunderstood. I just meant it has a crazier vowel to consonant ratio.
dogshenanigans ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:08:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No 6:1 vs 8:1. This is where 'sometimes y' comes in
naemtaken ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:36:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, y can be classed as a vowel now? What is the world coming to?
MystyrNile ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:48:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As far as phonology goes, "vowel" and "consonant" are two different types of speech sounds basically defined by whether you're blocking up the flow of air or not. In writing though, what we call a vowel letter and a consonant letter just depends on which type of sound it's representing.
naemtaken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:52:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But most people would agree that y is never a vowel, wouldn't they?
MystyrNile ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:45:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not in a word like "rhythm", where it represents the same vowel as the I in "kit".
naemtaken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:49:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was always taught that even in that case it's a consonant. Maybe it's different across the Atlantic.
MystyrNile ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:23:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not because i'm American, it's because "vowel" is not only the name of a set of letters, but the name of a type of speech sound.
naemtaken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:32:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But in England they're only the 5 normal vowels.
MystyrNile ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:07:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ih sound as in "kit" is a vowel, and there are a number of ways to spell it, usually with the letter I but sometimes with a Y.
Here are some examples, including "rhythm".
dogshenanigans ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:41:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You ever watch sesamee street bruh?
naemtaken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:51:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did, but can't remember that being on there.
NoRodent ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:04:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This isn't that impressive to me, in Czech, we have plenty of words that contain no wovels at all. The longest being probably "ฤtvrthrst", consisting of 9 consonants and having two syllables. It means "quarter-handful".
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 13:31:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:36:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I count 8, the hell are you on about?
maegan0apple ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:44:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe they were only counting S once? But nobody ever said it contained 8 different consonants
MystyrNile ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:50:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe they were counting phonetically (stษนeลkฮธs) and felt like saying that calling a consonant letter a "consonant" is wrong.
RanShaw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:07:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Technically, there are 6, although there are 8 letters representing consonants. <ng> is the representation for the consonant /ล/, while <th> represents the consonant /ฮธ/.
Aprils-Fool ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 15:52:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're confusing consonants with phonemes.
RanShaw ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:57:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, I'm not. Consonants and vowels are phonemes. You're confusing them with letters.
Aprils-Fool ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:41:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Consonants and vowels are letters. Consonant sounds and vowel sounds are phonemes.
RanShaw ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:09:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's really not how the terminology is used in linguistics. Consonants and vowels are two types of phonemes, and in writing these are represented by letters. And letters are just that, a representation of language, and not actual spoken language. That's why different letters can be used to represent one and the same phoneme, or why different languages use different letters to represent their phonemes. Consonants and vowels make up the phonological system of a language. In writing, letters are of course also referred to as consonants and vowels, for the sake of simplicity and because not everyone can be expected to be aware of phonology. However, the fact remains that consonants and vowels are, in essence, a part of human speech, i.e. of phonology, and therefore, the terminology of 'consonant' and 'vowel' applies first and foremost to phonology.
Those are the linguistic facts. As I said, the terminology is in everyday language of course applied to the letters as well, for the sake of simplicity (which is entirely normal and acceptable, of course), but if you want to get technical, consonants and vowels are phonemes.
Just take a look at any kind of basic introduction to phonology, or just google it.
Aprils-Fool ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:04:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So the terminology differs slightly between linguistics and education, gotcha.
HepBean ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:11:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Phonetically 6, ng and th are each one
M0dusPwnens ยท 805 points ยท Posted at 10:17:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
You're completely blind in a spot near the center of each eye, but totally unaware of it.
The spot is not particularly small, making it pretty easy to demonstrate: https://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/chvision.html
craftyj ยท 66 points ยท Posted at 14:59:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's mainly because our software does a pretty decent job of filling in the spot.
hotel2oscar ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 15:38:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also does an excellent job of filtering out your nose unless you focus on it
alx3m ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 00:12:55 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FUCK YOU YOU MOTHERFUCKING FUCKER
FUCK
Disgruntled chaotic screams
00yoshi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:09:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also does an excellent job of replacing temporarily disabled areas with colorful spots.
HauntedShores ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:03:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks Adobe.
SpeziZer0 ยท 50 points ยท Posted at 14:46:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what the fuck that gif
iwantsometea ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:31:59 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sharingan.
EvilSardine ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 16:22:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for that .gif. I like to blow people's minds with this fact and that gif is the best way of showing it. This is something that really catches people off guard when they notice it because it's THEIR EYES and they've been using them all their lives without ever knowing about it.
00yoshi ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:13:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Especially with that one plugin that shows a zoomed version of the gif. In the zoom you can see it moving but in the gif it disappears...
Serenelol ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:32:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what in honest f-
this is going to be great to show the others at work tomorrow.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:59:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Autistence ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 16:18:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Angle/distance from head to screen.
themage1028 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:39:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WHAT THE HELL?!?
fettman454j ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:00:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit! Help me, Tom Cruise, I'm going blind!!!
ocha_94 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:47:10 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I knew it and had already checked it with a simple image, but that gif just blew my mind
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:08:57 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it bad that none of the tests are working for me?
M0dusPwnens ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:40:44 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Assuming you aren't blind, you're doing something wrong.
For the first one, close your right eye, look at the cross, and then move your head closer and farther from the screen - there's some distance from the screen where you won't be able to see the dot anymore.
Make sure you aren't looking away from the cross at any point - you have to keep your vision fixed on it.
If you're looking at it on a phone with too small a screen, that might also cause problems. They still work on my phone (the dot will still disappear), but you have to get your face very close to it and things will start looking pretty blurry that close up.
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:03:07 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did all those things, and it's a 1920x1080 monitor.
M0dusPwnens ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 14:26:26 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure what to tell you. You're doing something wrong.
If you're thinking that maybe this doesn't work because you don't have a blind spot or something, that's definitely not what's going on. You definitely have a blind spot in each eye. There isn't some genetic variation that leaves some people without one, unless you're a cephalopod that's figured out how to use reddit.
The blind spot isn't just some weird vestigial thing, it's an inescapable consequence of the way vertebrate eyes work.
The vertebrate retina is arranged in a really counterintuitive way - the nerve cells are actually on top of the photoreceptors (light has to pass through the nerve cells to get to the receptors that actually respond to it). What this means is that the optic nerve has to come up through the area where the photoreceptors are to reach that layer of nerve cells, which is how you end up with a blind spot.
Think of it like a tree - the branches and leaves are the nerve cells, the grass beneath the tree is the photoreceptors that actually sense light, and the trunk is the optic nerve. Where the trunk is, there can't be any grass. That's your blind spot.
Most often what people have difficulty with in these demonstrations is in keeping their gaze fixed on the cross while moving their head forward/back. It's natural to shift your gaze without really thinking about it, so it does require a little bit of concentration.
I'm on a 1920x1080 30" monitor and the first dot disappears for me about 10 or 11 inches away, if that helps. The distance for you will depend on the size of your screen and your eyes, but it's probably at least somewhere in that ballpark.
SadGhoster87 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:55:48 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FUCK, MY COVER'S BEEN BLOWN!
OPERATION A23 IS A NO! A NO, I REPEAT!
In all seriousness, I have no fucking clue why it doesn't work. I know I have a blind spot, the illusions have worked before, just... not this time.
throwmesomemore ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:07:33 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stare at the plus sign and don't move your left eye at all, but just acknowledge the red dot without focusing on it (your peripheral). The red dot should jump back to the left of the gif in your peripheral vision about 75% of the way the red dot is travelling.
crackanape ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:39:53 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you focusing on the correct thing?
It's like this:
You are supposed to close your right eye, and then use your left eye to focus on the + symbol. That means your left eye is looking off to the right, across your nose.
Make sure you start fairly close to the screen and then pull back slowly until you no longer see the O in your peripheral vision.
[deleted] ยท 9334 points ยท Posted at 01:25:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Pierce Brosnan was both the lightest and heaviest actor to play 007. He went from 164 pounds in GoldenEye to 211 pounds in Die Another Day.
tollride ยท 19539 points ยท Posted at 06:32:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More like diet another day amirite
age_of_cage ยท 1175 points ยท Posted at 08:34:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All the food in the world is not enough
yaywalter ยท 84 points ยท Posted at 11:25:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nothing beats a delicious GoldenPie
halathon ยท 56 points ยท Posted at 11:53:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Octopizza.
fedebergg ยท 84 points ยท Posted at 12:58:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doctor: "Mr. Bond you need to stop eating so much"
Bond:"Doctor, no"
PinkSugarBubble ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 13:44:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Someone needs to make a shitty Dolan-style comic for this comment.
chrisonabike22 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:51:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doctor pls
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 12:41:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In five hundred years, scientists will mark this here as the point where we stopped making Pierce Brosnan specific puns.
RickRussellTX ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:38:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He should have stopped Rammingthem Meals.
ititsi ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:17:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From Russia with Lard.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:24:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Man with the Golden Crust
exatron ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:11:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man, I must have eaten that food... twice.
greatsalteedude ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:36:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Baconfall
ElCerebroDeLaBestia ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 13:41:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Quantum of Goulash.
Errr nevermind. Non-native English speaker here, Solace is not pronounced the way I thought.
bad_at_hearthstone ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 13:48:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My company had some Russian contractors for a while. They loved making puns, but the puns never worked for exactly this reason. The disappointment on their friendly faces every time a pun floundered was heartbreaking.
ElCerebroDeLaBestia ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:52:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah if English was just like other languages in the sense that there's only way to pronounce a certain combination of letters, everything would be easier. One basically needs to learn how every word is pronounced.
bad_at_hearthstone ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:23:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. And the difference between "that" and "this" is extremely hard to explain... in Russian, they have one word for both ("eto".)
tollride ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:03:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. I am a native English speaker and this is still my favorite one.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:49:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tomorrow Never Pies.
lenswipe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:56:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what about a cream pie?
Imperito ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 12:40:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A portion is not enough
Jay_Louis ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 12:08:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Goldfingerfood
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 12:15:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GoldenDiet
Also Diet Another Day.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:39:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tomorrow never diets
shayhtfc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:09:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Food Inspectre
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:11:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From Russia with Caviar
pm_me_taylorswift ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:59:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FTFW
Delica ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:24:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Orangefinger (from Cheetos)
NewbornMuse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:28:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But it's such a perfect place to start.
Arwox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:05:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You only dine twice.
mikemdesign ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:35:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GoldenPie
Flight714 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:33:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doctor No More Donuts
treebeardsavesmannis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:41:58 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Golden fry
electricmaster23 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 11:24:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GoldenRibEye
Tsorovar ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 08:16:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What do we say to the god of dieting?
xdatlam ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 08:29:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll start after this last donut..
Zephyrel ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 08:39:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not today!
ohlookanothercat ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:41:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A deity?
free_partyhats ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 10:45:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
brosephgordanlevitt ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:39:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Boom goes the dynamite.
lenswipe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:58:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
boom goes the diet
yadamnrite ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 08:11:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ya damn rite.
bra1ndrops ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:20:47 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
username checks out.^
ImInSolitude ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:27:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lmao
astraycat ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:06:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One day amirite will be a real word, and they'll look it up and say to themselves, "deaddove!"
OlliJw ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:10:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All I could think was this http://youtu.be/GiCKzDUbiPg
DingGratz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:07:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Save this for the guaranteed rehash of "What movie title changes dramatically when adding one letter to the title?"
yoshi570 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:33:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wish I had a joke that funny in my life.
CRISPR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:53:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yours or not, jokes are ethereal. It's gone after you laughed at it once.
TheHereticMime ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:07:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To shreds you say?
Kudhos ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:18:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ha! Got 'em!
GameOnDevin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:35:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can't diet so he can't lose those mad gainz.
kabas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:03:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yes
sturmeh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:08:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah my new life motto.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:16:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha nah to be fair you gotta have a decent diet to get 211lbs and not be a chubby fucker.
PlayMp1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:42:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's just cultivating mass!
theworstisover11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:44:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Congrats on doubling your karma with one comment
azigari ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:23:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pie another day.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:34:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I predict a diet
vyrusrama ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:40:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tomorrow Never Diets
gundam124 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:42:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bulking Never Dies
MattTheProgrammer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:47:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It all started with the hot jambalaya and went downhill from there. He felt he needed to destroy food after it tried to destroy him.
ogrejr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:59:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not fat just bulkan
homobonus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:16:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tomorrow never diets
CheekyLemonMan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:23:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
take my upvote ya bastard!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:41:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/shittyfoodporn
Z_E_L_D_A ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:12:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Another Pie Day
MidnightxMadness ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:02:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donuts are forever.
BaronessBlack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:03:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Too much Goldfinger food.
AmiriteFacts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:51:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for signing up for Amirite Facts! You will now receive fun daily facts about the ancient AMIRITES!
Did you know the Amirites survived on a diet of mostly sand until they were wiped out by the Hebrews during the conquest of Canaan?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:05:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You win
Thor_Odinson_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:47:46 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
^ The Man with the Golden Pun.
PayMeInSteak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:50 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sigh
Yes, you are right..
slayemin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:06:57 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When they said, "Die another day", he heard "Pie every day".
irrumare_asinum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:47:07 on April 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Made my nose breathe so hard, it came.
domromer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:38:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tomorrow Never Diet
Camping_is_intense ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:37:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tomorrow never diets
ARealSlimBrady ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:09:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fuck you're my hero, based Pun God
DarthJones1 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:23:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Diets are forever
Targaryen-ish ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:47:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Me too, thanks
Jizzy_Gillespie92 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:57:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
shut up and take my upvote.
Whywouldanyonedothat ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:05:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bulk up, Miss Moneypenny!
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:34:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do Another Gain
[deleted] ยท -11 points ยท Posted at 08:16:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
[deleted]
420Sheep ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:57:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's that, a diet biscuit?
OskarCa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:19:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like he also succeeded
StigDoesntFart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:28:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well...
[deleted] ยท 1908 points ยท Posted at 02:41:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And now I will spend my Sunday watching those movies to compare body composition of Pearce Brosnan. Term papers can wait. O
[deleted] ยท 186 points ยท Posted at 07:20:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"That's what I was trying to avoid. A conversation about body mass, okay? We've had that conversation five times a day for the last month because we keep watching Predator and all you talk about is Weathers and Jesse "The Body" Ventura and how many pounds they can pack on..."
aetheos ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 08:40:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The body mass alone Dennis...
CrimsonKing21 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 14:21:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm cultivating mass
CaptainBW ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:32:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stop cultivating and start harvesting!
mrjames ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:12:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The video store clerk guy huh? I feel like you... can't stop talking about him.
ffolkes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:45:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Came looking for this, was not disappointed.
Lord_Binky ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:53:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just watched that episode less than an hour ago.
pamelahoward ยท 197 points ยท Posted at 04:00:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
O
[deleted] ยท 135 points ยท Posted at 05:53:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
7
fission035 ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 08:08:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We did it, reddit!
wannabesq ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:46:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This makes me wonder what the highest number of upvotes are for a post with a single digit.
Archer007 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:22:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes?
dhoomz ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:33:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Z
pizzaforthewin ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:32:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We did it Reddit !
StopReadingMyUser ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:11:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:18:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
[deleted]
pamelahoward ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 05:19:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
chandler bing
EinherjarofOdin ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:55:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*Cheh-andlah Being!
bullshitwascalled ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:03:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, it's Miss Chanandler Bong.
aetheos ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:40:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The lightening round!
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:38:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:50:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
West Philadelphia
attackchopper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:18:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
B-ball outside the school
First_Man_on_Uranus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:34:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was all a dream
possibly_a_fish4 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
look at
SinkHoleDeMayo ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:47:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's
frame_of_mind ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:37:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
P
mbrw12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:08:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
O7
nipplemuffins ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:07:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
O
starmag99 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:17:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
7
cct_pitchblack ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:05:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With a fuckin peeyncil
ibopm ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:06:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Take screenshot comparisons for us!
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 05:33:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its okay Im binge watching daredevil... paper due tuesday.... havent started....
this is fine
GanjaGood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:47:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DAMN YOU! Why'd you remind me that was out already now? Time to start the binge too...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:22:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Im sorry...Im on episode 9 now... that paper is mocking me
LibraryDrone ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:07:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you could turn it into your term paper. i once made the Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy the subject of term paper in my early American Literature course.
DingJones ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:02:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wrote an Asian-American Literature paper on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Raencloud94 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:31:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I want to read this, too!
AgAero ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:19:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a decent chance based on the phrasing and the interest in Pearce Brosnan that the person you're responding to is not a student, but rather a female teacher that's grading term papers for her class.
Ethril ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:41:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know, this sounds like a thesis worthy of PCU to me.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:58:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I look forward to your analysis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVf08a2nbbI
summerofevidence ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:30:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alright, it's been two hours, are you done watching all of them yet?
AaronPDX ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:50:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buhduh DAH NAH buh nahNAHHH
Ta2whitey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:01:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Solid decision.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:35:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You really don't want to.
gurg2k1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:45:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't forget Mrs. Doubtfire and Dante's Peak if you want a well rounded comparison.
fraynor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:49:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In body mass alone
themamsler24 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:57:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For science!
FreedomBeaver ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Amen to that, sister.
mardh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:41:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what if that was your term paper? I personally have to write one for my film studies class.
HiPeeDiePee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:15:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just change the topic of your term paper to Pearce Brosnan. Fuckin' simple...
SidHat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:54:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Come on, that's a fantastic subject for a term paper.
ZeePirate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:57:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Found your topic for that term paper is more like it
pollorojo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:31:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just write the papers about Pierce Brosnan.
Ltb1993 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:33:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Than you can procrastinate tomorrow
crossmr ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:12:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can't do that. If feminists have taught us anything it is that people only do that about female actresses. If you were to do that in regards to a male actor it would mean everything they've said is a lie, and the world would implode.
beardiswhereilive ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:11:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shoe, meet horn.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:39:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 95 points ยท Posted at 03:52:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 10:19:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like it was mostly hair weight.
Or it looks like he had wax all over his chest when he finally shaved that beard.
DaVinci_Poptart ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 06:50:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm calling bullshit on the 163. That is a picture of a 6'2" man. If he was 163 he'd be skin and bone.
Dr_BrOneil ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 07:36:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am 6'1" 165. Ran four years of college track, and have not worked out once since graduation, 5 months ago. Other than having an uglier face, I look just like that picture.
Wiggles114 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:34:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I'm 6'2'', was walking around at 163 before gaining, wasn't skin and bone.
jelde ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:37:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm 5'10" 180 and look much skinnier than that
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:57:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Party_Monster_Blanka ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 07:05:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that is a very specific scenario
southernbenz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:49:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like a regular Tuesday afternoon.
Dr_BrOneil ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:38:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He brings you sacrificial pigs? I am sure you are worth more than 1/2, but it is nice that gentlemen still exist.
LZ653 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:19:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really doubt he's 'very strong' at his weight. Even with a low body fat percentage he will be no more than average strength.
For anyone doubting me look at pictures of people with that weight and height.
jelde ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:36:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That does not look like a 50lbs difference.
iCameToLearnSomeCode ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:44:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He played bond in his best shape after a vacation and time at home but also bond as malnourished POW. It was supposed to be noticeable.
asifnot ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 05:00:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The most surprising thing about this to me is that Roger Moore never weighed over 211.
southernbenz ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 09:14:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...and Sean Connery. The dude was so tall, Toyota had to make a one-off 2000GT convertible for him in You Only Live Twice.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 11:17:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Connery was 6'2, Brosnan was about the same.
southernbenz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:14:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm 6'2. Back in his heyday, I suspect Sean Connery was taller.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:48:16 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm also 6'2. Not sure how that's relevant? He was listed as 6'2 in his heyday, gave his height as 6'2 in his heyday, and looked 6'2 next to other actors in his heyday. He's a tall dude, but 6'2 in the 60s would have been similar to 6'3 now rarity wise.
Vinnie_Vegas ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 10:24:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd doubt that Connery and Moore let anyone weigh them later in their runs as Bond.
EGuardian ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:05:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I quite liked his scraggly look in Goldeneye. When he fights Xenia that first time it made sense for him to have to pull his gun to subdue her.
Gozal_ ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:27:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't really suit the character though
Duck-You-Sucker ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:50:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wasn't bulky in the novels. Won fights with his judo skills, not brute force.
ConciselyVerbose ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:57:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
210 at 6 2 isn't all that much brute force. You'll need skill to handle yourself against reasonable skilled adversaries.
Gozal_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:19:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Judoka might be the bulkiest of all martial artists, just so you know
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:54:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sumo.
Dr_BrOneil ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:39:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ooof. Sex fantasies galore.
EGuardian ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:59:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Famke Janssen was my #1 most 'Beautiful' as in "omg, you are literally the most gorgeous woman i've ever seen" for almost a decade.
When he pulls the gun and goes "No no no" and she growls, i basically passed out from blood loss.
Mayor_of_Smashville ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 03:36:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Best Bond Ever. Even if The World Was Not Enough was meh.
MayhemMessiah ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 04:08:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Goldeneye was the only good Brosman film.
Fite me m8.
Joking aside, it's odd that the Bond I grew up watching is my least favorite, despite Goldeneye being one of my top 5 fave Bond movies.
G00dHumor ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 06:31:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
not his fault that his movies were poorly written. he killed it doe
MayhemMessiah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:39:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He played his roles fine, but his movies were too awful for me to think any higher of his tenure as Bond. There's only a handful of loose set peices I personally like from his movies outside of Goldeneye.
Mayor_of_Smashville ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:09:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love Die Another Day, even though it crossed a line into Science Fiction and could have been more suited to a Mission Impossible Movie.
MayhemMessiah ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 04:23:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
... I think Die Another Day and Diamonds are Forever are the absolutely worst movies in the series. Even as as a 10 y/o I thought the car duel, the diamond zits, and surfing a goddam tsunami after outrunning a space laser were absurd to the point of being dumb. They felt like children's movies. It somehow out-camps The Man with the Golden Gun.
afuckinsaskatchewan ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:30:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That surfing scene was also just terrible CGI. The part where the laser hits that Antonov, though, kid me loved that.
Diplomatic_Barbarian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:36:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's why Casino Royale feels so refreshing. It's back to reality.
ivegotapenis ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:31:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's the cycle of Bond movies. Start grounded, gradually get more gadgety and outlandish until it gets to be too much, then "refresh" with a grounded, spy-intrigue movie, repeat.
isaackleiner ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:33:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like the part where Bond defibrillates himself?
/s
robotsongs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:25:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I grew up watching Roger Moore in the theaters. It set my expectations real low, so discovering the rest of the series was a pleasure.
Pyistazty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:33:36 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He aced the perfect mix of suave and action Bond. Overall I like the Craig Bond movies better, but I like Brosnan as the better Bond. Craig could just be playing any action movie, but Brosnan feels like the suave secret agent.
southernbenz ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:46:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The World IS Not Enough, you 007-casual.
Hara-Kiri ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:35:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Other than Timothy Dalton he was probably the worst! How can you compare him to Moore or Connery, that is classic bond.
MaxHannibal ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:25:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In muscle ? I don't remeber him changing that much but it's been years since I've seen the movie.
I suppose I could Google but...meh
Elranzer ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 05:16:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Daniel Craig looks like he's at least 240lbs of muscle in his Bond movies, though.
mrgettingitdone ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 11:53:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you underestimate 240 lbs of muscle. This guy is one inch shorter than Daniel and 250-260.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-J2CbC6vQHVw/U36uwvF0edI/AAAAAAAACQQ/y-hemo0NdOo/s1600/phil5.jpg
johnny_ringo ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 07:45:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
5'10" 180lbs
They did well to make him look bigger
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:12:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've seen reports of him being as short as 5'8.
corylew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:07:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
5'10 isn't that short.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 10:19:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is if you're James Bond.
Downvotesturnmeonbby ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:20:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bond is supposed to be loosely around 6 foot. So two inches in either direction doesn't seem unreasonable.
RugbyAndBeer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:09:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
5'10 is above average.
yumcax ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 07:08:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No he doesn't.
Kardtart ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 07:21:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Arnold was 230. You are completely off.
immoralsjw ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 06:28:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
he short bruh
JSTriton ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:25:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No way, I would guess 180lbs tops
SAGORN ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:24:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think they're height might play a role, Brosnan is 6'2" and Craig is 5'10".
frame_of_mind ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:38:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's closer to 175.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:17:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not. At. All.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 12:38:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're retarded.
Mitchhhhhh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:31:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
His wife still has him beat I reckon.
manfrin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:10:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is Daniel Craig super short or something? Guy looks dense (and possibly more than 211lbs).
acherem13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:14:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He is my favorite Bond.
BungleBungleBungle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:15:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Connery looked pretty porky in Diamonds Are Forever, so I'm surprised by this news.
DelTrotter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:20:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Connery looked quite heavy in his last one, that surprises me.
Mofman1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:21:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More like Pie Another Day.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:23:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Timothy Dalton was the best actor to ever play 007 but was cursed with the worst plot and production and he was the one who ended up being punished for the failure of the films he was in.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:32:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ยฃ211?
He got ripped off
L8Show ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:59:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Neat and his 007 movies were under-rated.
CapnNoodle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:25:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As the movies came out you didn't notice but if you see them together, it becomes apparent that Pierce Brosnan consumed Denise Richards in the late 90s.
Mugros ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:26:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, it's almost like they cast similar body types for the same role.
What_a_Bellend ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:47:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For England, James?
BadfingerD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:59:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How heavy was Sean Connery in Diamonds are Forever.
thegr8rambino13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:16:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
he was the best bond hands down, so smooth, charming, suave
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:31:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I imagine him and his wife just eating and fucking, eating and fucking..and eating..
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:34:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Die Another Day, where he was supposedly starved and tortured in a North Korean prison...
J-1s ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:15:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fryfall
kioopi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:17:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That doesn't sound extremely wrong at all.
Farlsberg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:21:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He has always been my favorite bond, and I bet everyone disagrees with that.
justadude27 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:09:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Huh, he doesn't look overweight to me. Do you think it was muscle?
http://images.askmen.com/entertainment/movie/die-another-day_1.jpg
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:17:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most likely.
WarcraftFarscape ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:40:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair, his invisible rocketpack probably weighed 50 pounds
CommercialPilot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:40:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude he only weighed 164lbs in Goldeneye? When I was a kid I thought he was like a big tough ladies man.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:17:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More like Diabetes another day.
More like tomorrow never diabetes.
More like Golden Pie.
tangoshukudai ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:05:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And yet he still weighs less than I do.
Notorious_Mr_L ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:43:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pie Another Day
[deleted] ยท -11 points ยท Posted at 04:33:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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_pulsar ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:28:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Healthy BMI range is 18.5-24.9.
If you're 6ft 2" tall you have a BMI of 21.1 so yes it's healthy.
KalTM ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for responding with a legit answer instead of just down voting.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:38:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm 6ft and like 150, and I'm pretty healthy.
smellyegg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:13:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guess what, 300lbs is not a healthy weight. 164 is.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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KalTM ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:37:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good info! Thanks
Svartben ยท 79 points ยท Posted at 09:42:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cucumbers are berries.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 19:19:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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00yoshi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:45:03 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Never heard of green smoothies? These with cucumbers 'n 'stuff.
CandyPops1234 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:36:36 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Love me some coconut, cucumber, apple and mango smoothies, yum
00yoshi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:59:40 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Water smoothie
and_rice ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 15:02:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're a berry
Svartben ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 19:11:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know what that means
scotchirish ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:44:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most berries are not berries
thatJainaGirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:58:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pineapples are conglomerations of dozens of smaller fruits.
Gronsha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:37:47 on April 18, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Walt Wut?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:24:04 on August 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stop that
Uppgreyedd ยท 2031 points ยท Posted at 04:18:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In orbital mechanics you need to speed up to slow down, and slow down to speed up.
Meaning that wherever you are in an orbit, if you speed up in the direction you are travelling, it won't change your velocity at that point (too much) but it will cause the opposite side of the orbit to "grow" from whatever body you're orbiting, and your velocity there to decrease. If you reduce your velocity at a point, it will again most affect the opposite side of the orbit, causing it to decrease toward the body being orbited, and the closer it gets the faster you will go there (like a sling-shot effect).
Edit: Source: Former satellite systems engineer.
LordMackie ยท 1934 points ยท Posted at 08:19:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I learned in KSP what you went to college for lol
Uppgreyedd ยท 1394 points ยท Posted at 08:37:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair, I didn't really get it until I played KSP
Simmura_McCrea ยท 496 points ยท Posted at 11:47:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1356/
adamd22 ยท 72 points ยท Posted at 14:44:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1244/
the_noodle ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:33:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is the joke that you can't use the sun for a gravity assist?
flareroller ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:49:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can't? Don't all the planets use it for that?
the_noodle ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 20:00:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
source
welkie ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:41:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This makes me think rocket scientists, no matter how much they're paid, are underpaid.
adamd22 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:07:26 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But the assholes haven't even figured out the 3 body problem yet.
Uppgreyedd ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 14:02:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Painfully relevant :)
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:54:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
how is there always a relevant xkcd. The man's a magician
Z0MGbies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:28:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I should buy & play KSP
Pidgey_OP ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 12:58:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's something about kicking your thrust to full and watching the orbit change in map mode that just makes everything about orbital mechanics click
InstantMusicRequest ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 12:12:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you think games like KSP will create a new breed/wave of rocket scientists with it being so much more approachable than it was before?
ttiwdty ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 12:44:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, it might garner interest, but irl there is a lot more to it than orbital mechanics - that's just one small part of the teams that help design, test, 'fly' satellites.
cowboys70 ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 13:41:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd be willing to bet that there is a not insignificant number of engineering and aerospace students that were at least inspired by KSP to at least look into those programs.
Uppgreyedd ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:26:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hope so! I think it will do it by getting kids/people excited about the concept enough to eventually pursue careers in it. Of course it could all be one of a series of flashes in the pan. For instance, in retrospect actually landing on the moon was one of the worst things that happened to the space industry. Once we got there once, public interest in space and the space program tanked, we only sent 5 more missions to the moon, and funding for public space programs dried up. Obviously there were a lot of other things at play there, and there have been some other great advancements through the ISS, the Mars rovers, New Horizons, etc.. Government funding has a tendency to follow public interests though, so maybe, hopefully that's where the recent resurgent interest leads. And if it doesn't there's always
Tony StarkElon Musk.adamd22 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:46:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Elon Musk, our real life Tony Stark.
loomynartyondrugs ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 12:55:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The 5 forbidden words that must never be spoken at NASA
"Besides, it works in KSP..."
trianuddah ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:15:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
welkie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:43:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
North Korea: "MORE BOOSTERS!"
Prophet_Muhammad_phd ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 10:10:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't even learn it months after I purchased KSP. To be fair to me, I tried for like a week, gave up cause "fuck this, im playing something that doesn't require a fair amount of thought" and did that for a few months.
SHOW_ME_YOUR_GOATS ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 11:49:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I couldn't figure out how to orbit either. I just kept shooting things straight up until hit exit trajectory and figured out I was wrong some where
murderouskitteh ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:03:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats how real rocket science was made!
HairyMongoose ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 12:14:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For the truly authentic experience, I recommend learning KSP with a team of Nazi scientists to help improve technique.
-Badger2- ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 12:31:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't even buy groceries without a team of Nazi scientists.
Hellknightx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:45:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just don't ask them if something is Kosher.
automated_bot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:45:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"NEIN! NEIN, NEIN, NEIN! Ze AtmosphericModel changed in ze latest Update! You must start ze GravityTurn much earlier!"
<Smokes a cigarette in a fucked up way, held between the middle and ring fingers.>
Uppgreyedd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:17:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But Papa, I vant to vork in ze chocolate factory vit all ze ozer boys and girls...
Uppgreyedd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:15:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you get back into it, look up gravity turn.
Hegiman ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 12:15:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man I really need to break down and buy this game.
danstu ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 12:32:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unfortunately, the demo is horribly out of date, but definitely play the demo first. It's the type of game where you'll either get frustrated/bored in an hour and give up, or you'll put several hundred hours into it.
Hegiman ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 12:59:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've tried the demo, I can't figure it out. It's very limited. I built a rocket but when I launched it exploded in the pad. I guess I did t release some mooring clamps or something. Lol. I think KSP will be a game a spend way too much time in once I get it. That's one reason I've not got it.
SirSpaffsalot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:37:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The clamps not releasing is likely due to you're launch sequence being incorrectly ordered with the clamps either too late in the launch sequence or too early. See these orange tabs on the right of this picture? They signify from bottom to top the launch sequence of the rocket. You can grab those tabs with the mouse and move them around to change the launch sequence. You can also mouse over each part on your rocket and it will highlight the rocket part in the launch sequence. If you dont like where it is in the launch sequnce you can even pick them up from one orange tab and drop them in another one.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:43:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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danstu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:25:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Absolutely agreed. It's also one of the most satisfying moments I've ever had in gaming.
Prophet_Muhammad_phd ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:33:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's such a unique game. And it's intellectually rewarding. Sure, the vast majority of us aren't rocket scientist. But knowing you, done maneuvers, burns, orbital changes, etc. all things similar to that of rocket scientists or astrophysicists its pretty cool. And it takes relatively real time. Wanna go to another planet, you're gunna need several hours if not days sometimes irl. I mean you can speed up time but you see my point. Its pretty realistic. It's a game worth playing. Thats for sure.
MagicBob78 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:12:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hell, if you didn't speed up time it would literally take weeks! Actually, I'd be curious to see someone attempt that in real time, just need enough snacks...
stratoglide ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:36:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People have definitely done real time missions in ksp leaving PC's on for several months lol
Njdevils11 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:07:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's the greatest game ever made IMHO. Unlrss you prefer games that don't make you smarter.
iamPause ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 13:23:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
adamd22 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:49:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't inflate your own head too much. Yeah it's complicated but it's only really teaching you orbital mechanics around different bodies. It doesn't even factor in gravity affecting a ship from multiple bodies, only one at a time. It doesn't make you smarter at all, it just lets you use your brain, unlike other (still fun) games like COD.
Uppgreyedd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:20:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm still waiting for the Lagrange point update. Then I will make a secret fort at L-3, and there will be no girls allowed.
Njdevils11 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:21:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Using your brain makes you smarter. KSP requires a ton of forethought, critical thinking, problem solving, and research. All of which are valuable skills and very important for "smart" individuals to possess.
adamd22 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:51:57 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For the record, I love the game as well, but you're overstating it. It requires knowledge of trajectories, and googling of SOIs of planets. Sure it requires more discipline of the mind than most games, but if you go to people and say "hey, I'm smarter because I play Kerbal Space Program", then you're an ass, to be quite frank. It's a very small field of physics that's being applied in the game.
Njdevils11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:28:18 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your reaction is surprising. It's so angry, for seemingly no reason. I'm an ass because I think the critical thinking and planning skills in Kerbal Space Program can make you smarter? I honestly don't even care about the disagreement anymore, you're affect is far more interesting. Do you typically overreact to innocuous comments on the internet?
adamd22 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:42:01 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's funny because I didn't call you an ass at all. I said IF you say to people "I'm smarter because I play Kerbal Space Program". Are you telling me you DO actually do that? That's the only possible way you could be offended by what I said, otherwise you're just overreacting. If you do actually say that to people, then I stand by what I said.
Also, the grammar errors in your comment kind of definitively prove that Kerbal Space Program does not make you smarter. I am affect? You mean "your effect" I assume, and even then it still doesn't make sense.
My original point was that it's kind of a ostentatious to say "this game makes you smarter, which is why you should play it, because other games are dumb", because whilst KSP does require application of a certain, small area of physics, it doesn't simply "make you smarter". If you play KSP on repeat for a month you don't suddenly "become smarter", you simply gain better knowledge of how trajectories and SOIs work in space.
hotel2oscar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:42:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Games like Minecraft, factorio, and ksp would have been so awesome to use to demonstrate the concepts in physics and computer science
Uppgreyedd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:52:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hadn't heard of this game, but holy SimCity on meth!
When I was taking a course on orbital mechanics the guy teaching the class recommended KSP as an aid to understand the big concept stuff, and it really helped. It wasn't a part of the curriculum, and certainly doesn't teach the full science and math behind it, but I feel it went to show how integral hands on and experiential learning really is.
hotel2oscar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:58:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I may have stayed up playing this until 5 am with my friend. No regrets...
AnotherStupidName ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:23:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wish the producers of Gravity had played KSP.
Uppgreyedd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:33:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There should be an /r/itsaunixsystem for space
thiagovscoelho ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:29:06 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I got it from SimpleRockets on the iPad
TheBros35 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:58:14 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BTW I love your username
wankerpedia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:07:43 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This man is college educated and still spells his username with 2 Ds for a double dose of pimpin'.
Afunfact ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 12:26:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:23:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well, has he played KSP?
Swordfish08 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:53:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only, since he went to college for it, his stuff doesn't explode the first ten times.
LordMackie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:57:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair. He doesn't have to contend with the Kraken.
Or deal with random physic-defying rapid disassembly
sullyrb ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:34:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
good luck with the simple maths you have to do on day one. you have learned nothing
graaahh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:11:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Comments like this are why I want to play KSP but based on playing the demo version, I'm definitely not good enough at it to justify purchasing the full game.
Arcian_ ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 12:27:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Watch some of Scott Manley's videos, he knows how all that shit works in real life so he explains how to do it in the game.
MagicBob78 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:16:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Knows how it works, explains how and why it works, how to do it, why what he's doing wouldn't work for real because he's exploiting some game mechanic that doesn't work in real life and he has an awesome voice. He makes me jealous, puts me in awe, and I can't stop listening to him! Help, I think I have a problem.
Ademptis ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 12:23:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
KSP has a really steep learning curve, but after you've got past that it is totally worth it.
Superuserb ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:35:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like he ended up getting paid though
nolanbrown01 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:33:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:24:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah Ksp taught me more about orbital mechanaics, then my phyiscis or astronomy class.
(Pardon spelling, it could be worse)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:38:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but I could land on the Mun within a day of picking up KSP (getting off the Mun took another day).
temp15939393 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:59:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He actually knows what he's talking about and you just think you do lol
Uppgreyedd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:22:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's more than a bit generous.
LordMackie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:35:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was a joke.
EltonBong ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:21:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Punch it at the apoapsis!
elephanturd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:13:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Heyo
fatnino ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:16:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I learned from an exhibit in some forgotten corner of a science museum what you had to play ksp for.
It was an interactive, DOS graphics, shitty CRT with one joystick. The goal was to change your orbit from whatever it was at to whatever the computer decided it wanted to be at now.
lord_gaben3000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:07:51 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Best game you can actually learn something from.
ocha_94 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:38:55 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair I learned more about orbital mechanics with KSP than in my satellites class, where I just learned how to put everything into STK and let it do the math
thepilotboy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:28:27 on April 18, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FUCK. I just built a computer a couple months ago and you've just made me remember all about KSP. My old computer couldn't run it for dick.
paceminterris ยท -23 points ยท Posted at 10:53:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're unemployable and learned less than a wikipedia article lol
LordMackie ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 10:55:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is ok. Is only joke.
SpecialSause ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 08:21:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this because as you speed up you're getting further away from the point you're orbiting, so since you're further from your orbiting point it now takes you further to make that orbit?
I hope I explained my thought well enough.
Sort of like a CD. The bigger the cd, the longer it takes the outer edge to make a rotation. So increasing the speed would make the CD bigger and take it longer to orbit.
Uppgreyedd ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:48:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The CD is actually a good example. The orbital period, or how long it takes to orbit a body, is pretty much based off of the major axis (or the longest part) of the orbit. There can be orbits shaped like perfect circles, or ones shaped like an egg. In the more oval shaped orbits part of the orbit will be close to the larger body, and that's where the orbit is fastest, kind of like how the part of the CD/spinning disc nearest the center moves faster. The opposite is true for the outer part of the orbit/CD/disc.
It's a little more complicated than that when dealing with orbits, but if you're interested here's some good info on Kepler's Laws of planetary motion.
SpecialSause ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:57:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks. I figured it was a bit more complicated than my example but that was the simplest terms I could think of to convey what I was thinking. I'll definitely check out that link.
weltraumaffe ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:26:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't it the other way around? The outer parts are faster than the inner parts?
Uppgreyedd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:54:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now that I think about it, it's not the best example. /u/SirSpaffsalot and /u/SplitArrow have given a better example which would be spinning a ball/mass on a string. It's still not a perfect example, but the closer it is to you the faster it will spin with the same angular momentum, the further out it is, the slower the angular velocity with the same angular momentum. Good catch!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:37:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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SpecialSause ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:24:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I knew it wasn't exactly a correct analogy. I was just trying to confer my thoughts in simplest terms I could think. Obviously I failed. But the up got what I was trying to say, I think.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:43:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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SpecialSause ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:29:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I appreciate that. I'm always for learning something new!
SirSpaffsalot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:15:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The CD is a poor example as the outer edge may be travelling faster than the inside edge, but they still take the same period of time to make a full revolution.
Orbital mechanics however is different as the opposite is generally true in that closer objects generally travel faster which results in hugely reduced orbital periods. Mercury for example which the closest planet to the sun has an orbital period of 88 days and an orbital velocity of 47.4km/s. The outermost planet Neptune (sorry pluto) has an orbital period of a staggering 164.8 years and a mere orbital velocity of just 5.4km/s.
SpecialSause ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:26:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I know realize it was a poor analogy. I was just trying to convey my thoughts in the simplest terms. I've obviously failed at that. But I think the op got what I was trying to say. I think.
2silverseas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:44:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that you are on the "outside track" and have to cover more distance when in a higher orbit is part of it, but it is more that you actually slow down when you gain altitude. In a circular orbit you are not gaining or losing speed. Your direction changes, but since gravity is perpendicular to your direction of travel you don't speed up or slow down.
Now, imagine you fire your engine and speed up a bit. Now that you are faster, the centrifugal force of your velocity is no longer equal to the force of gravity, but rather slightly greater. This means you start to gain altitude. Now at this point you might wonder why you would not spiral out into infinity. The reason for that you don't is that now your direction of travel is not perpendicular to gravity, but rather slightly away, and as such it slows you down. Eventually it slows you down enough that your centrifugal force is now to weak to keep you up and you start to fall, an as you fall gravity accelerates you. As it does you gain more speed and eventually it becomes enough that you have to much centrifugal force. It will continue to follow this elliptical up down path until something else disturbs it.
TL:DR: When you accelerate your centrifugal force causes you to rise, and as you do you slow down. when you come back down you speed up again. On the whole, this makes you orbit longer.
knightsmarian ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 10:50:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I loved studying orbital physics. It is really interesting when the Professor leads the section with "It's falling, but missing the ground constantly."
SilkyZ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:38:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So it's falling, with style
10ebbor10 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:17:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SirSpaffsalot ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 11:01:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ELI5 edition. Higher orbits are slower. Lower orbits are faster. Applying thrust in the direction of travel pushes the path of your orbit on the opposite side of the planet much higher so you slow down. Turning around and thrusting in the opposite way to you direction of travel changes your orbital path on the opposite side of the planet much lower so you speed up.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:33:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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RepostThatShit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:45:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you go faster you'll go farther from the planet, and reaching that point the planet will move you more slowly because gravity gets weaker with distance. If you go too fast to stay in a slow orbit then you'll just escape the planet altogether.
Wilreadit ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 11:22:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man I still can't wrap my head around it. Could you explain it as simply as possible to me? I am interested.
Tobl4 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:29:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly, to really grasp it, I would recommend waiting until KSP is on sale again and playing it. But I'll try anyway:
1) Orbits that are further away from the planet are slower (take longer for a full rotation) than those closer to the planet. This makes sense because the planet's gravitational pull decreases with distance, so we can afford to travel slower without being dragged to our doom
2) When we're in an orbit (i.e. travelling sideways over the surface fast enough to not be dragged to our doom), to get into a higher orbit, we need to increase our velocity in the direction we're travelling. This makes sense because we got into orbit in the first place by increasing our sideways velocity. Similarly, to get into a lower orbit, we need to decrease our velocity (eventually, this ends with an orbit so low that it intersects the planet's surface)
1+2) If we want to take longer for a full rotation (for example so that another spacecraft can catch up to us), we need to get further away from the planet. To do so, we need to increase our velocity. In orbital mechanics, you need to speed up to slow down and vice versa.
Wilreadit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:02:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck now I get it.
Speeding up increases the period of rotation and slowing down decreases the period of rotation.
But the instantaneous velocity increases when you speed up and decreases when you slow down. Because areal velocity is a constant.
Thanks bro. I owe you a beer or a sammich or something.
SirUtnut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1356/
Wilreadit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:23:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One more thing. I thought that orbital velocity was a function of the mass of the center body and the radius of the orbit.
brickmack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:42:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. Which is why if you change the velocity, it changes the orbit
Wilreadit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:03:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Got it. Less the gravitational pull pulls you in.
sniperFLO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:29:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know if it helps or is accurate, but the orbit is elliptical and the increase in velocity here would have the direction of force be tangential to the orbit.
So draw a circle. Draw a line from the center to outline. Draw a line perpendicular to that radius.
Wilreadit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:56:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Instructions unclear. I dunno where I am now.
MagicBob78 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:19:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then I assume you know how fast you're going?
Wilreadit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:24:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Neither momentum nor position uncertain.
ttiwdty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:04:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remember this: all orbits are elliptical.
The line joining the planet to the Sun sweeps out equal areas in equal times as the planet travels around the ellipse. The two highlighted areas are the same area
This can be applied to satellites as well as planets and other 'heavenly objects'.
Wilreadit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:26:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks man, I know that angular momentum and in extrapolation areal velocity is a constant.
Uppgreyedd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:01:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There have been some other good examples posted here, so I'll summarize as best I can. Imagine taking a ball/weight on the end of a rope and spinning it. The closer in to your hand, the faster it can/will spin. The further out, the slower it will spin. Now if you have it closer to your hand, and you try to speed it up, it will want to pull away from your hand even more. In the case of satellites, there's not really a string pulling it into the center, so it does travel further out. The further out it goes, the slower it goes.
There's some good info on the wikipedia page for Kepler's laws of planetary motion. Kerbal Space Program is a game on steam that provides a really good hands on with these concepts too.
sporabolic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:10:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
tie an object to a string, and the other end tie it to your finger, when you swing your hand and object starts to "orbit" your finger, as the string shortens the object speeds up, and the reverse is true, the object slows as the string gets longer
Wilreadit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:23:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm this is a great analogy to get the message through. I got it. My initial doubt was because the word velocity was obfuscating.
ActuallyYeah ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:35:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uppgreyedd is in space. Oh my god. Of course. Ohhh shit.
subarctic_guy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:10:00 on April 16, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Upgrayedd don't care where the time machine is. Now, then, last week, [in space,] he will find a way to come get his money!"
ActuallyYeah ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:07:58 on April 16, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Upgrayedd has risen. Upgrayedd will come again.
HypocriticalThinker ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:05:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
-Integral Trees, Larry Niven
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:02:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why do you spell your name with two D's?
Uppgreyedd ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:38:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's spelled thusly, as I say, for a double dose of my pimping. You see, a pimps love is not like that of a square.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:42:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Collins!
rnought ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:47:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds legit.
Source: Kerbal Space Program
screamingmorgasm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:05:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Source: Kerbal Space Program
miniRNA ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:16:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would crash, I dont get it really... But in case im ever orbiting, I'll remember to speed up to decrease speed...
You never know when reddit will save your life
YupImDrunk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:16:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My brain hurts
sneakysnow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:23:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I too play kerbal space program
Lvl3Skiller ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:24:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this how drum brakes work?
Uppgreyedd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:29:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty much only in that they're both circular/elliptical. Drum brakes work by pressing pads against a rotating cylinder, creating a lot of friction, thus slowing the cylinder.
Greul ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:39:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm.
Source: Kerbal Space Program
j_walk_17 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:41:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I know man. I just finished the Martian.
serekes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:50:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always thought that makes sense, but no one believed me because i had no idea how to explain since i haven't read about it, to me was just a instinctive logic.
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Perunamies ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:53:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
AMa!
Ltb1993 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:57:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you have anymore KSP tips?
Uppgreyedd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:34:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Having enough fuel for a return trip is a lot less fun than a series of unsuccessful rescue missions. Also learn the gravity turn.
Ltb1993 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:43 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gravity turn?
Uppgreyedd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:24:41 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
http://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Gravity_turn
It's an efficient way to launch into an orbit by turning the craft at the right time(s) to both over come gravity and achieve enough sideways velocity to maintain orbit. Once you get that down, you can start to launch a series of crafts, connect them in orbit, offload fuel and essentially having a gas station in orbit. This makes the margin for error for getting to outer planets much greater.
Edit: Another tip is the Hohmann Transfer. I've typed a few explanaitions up for it, and I'll try my best to describe it if anyone's actually looking for it, but it always sounds pretty complicated. The easiest thing is to look at these sites: Hohmann Transfer Orbit, Kerbal Hohman Transfer
Edit 2: There are two things to keep in mind everytime you fire up your engines in orbit:
If you fire your engines for a few seconds at any spot, you will return to that exactly that spot, and the effect of your burn will be on the exact opposite side of your burn.
There are a few spots where burns are most efficient (I'll let you research these yourselves), they are the periapsis, apoapsis, ascending node and descending node. Here's a page on basic maneuvers that's pretty good
Anarroia ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:17:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My brain broke..
Hanzi777 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:26:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Taking orbital mechanics this year, have a feeling this will help a ton.
Uppgreyedd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:36:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you haven't tried out Kerbal Space Program, it actually helped me a ton understanding the concepts. You might not get the equations and specifics out of it, but being able to think about those specifics in terms of something you can actually get your hands on and manipulate helps so much.
Hanzi777 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:56:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll keep that in mind. Thanks!
zzackrules ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:43:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ELI5
Uppgreyedd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:37:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Copypasta from one of my earlier posts:
faployst ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:09:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Still don't get it, need the eli5
Uppgreyedd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:40:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Copypasta from an earlier post of mine:
Niqulaz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:00:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In order to catch up with something in front of you in orbit, you cannot speed up in order to catch up.
Instead, you have to go lower.
And once you wrap your head around that, everything becomes a lot easier.
cmdrxander ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:00:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup. Atmospheric drag causes satellites to speed up.
(Clarification: at high altitudes)
Uppgreyedd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:04:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, hopefully you're not going that low. Stay safe in LEO kids.
Redditpissesmeof ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:16:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So question: in The Martian when they slow down to both slow down and to decrease orbit, are they fucking up the math here?
Uppgreyedd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:37:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I haven't seen the Martian in a while so I'm erring on the side of them getting the science right enough. But if I recall they were correct about slowing down to decrease the orbit, which would increase their speed at the lowest part of their orbit, slingshot around earth, and reach mars quicker. Now if they did it right, and they had a highly eccentric orbit (much more elongated than circular) then at the highest point of their orbit, their angular velocity would be slower than a circular orbit with the same semi-major axis. If I recall there were some scientific liberties taken, but it was in the name of good cinema. I really enjoyed the movie!
Redditpissesmeof ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:01:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I loved the movie and the book. Both were so great, but I was meaning at the end spoiler alert when they have to drop in orbit to pick up Watney. They blow the front compartment of the Hermes and that both slows them down and reduces orbit. Can they do both at the same time with enough force?
Uppgreyedd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:16:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh that part, well they slowed down so they'd go lower. But they'd go lower at the exact opposite point on the orbit, not right where they blow the hatch. When they got to that other point in the orbit they'd be going faster. If I remember correctly it was only so they'd go 100ish feet lower, but they'd also be going a bit faster at that lower point, which if i remember was also one of the things they had to deal with. I think Matt Damon would have become a frozen meat mist.
Hexzul ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:25:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mass is weird lol
edgarallenpoe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:30:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Objects in higher orbits have more orbital energy, but move slower. If two moons are in the same orbit, the lower one eventually catches up to the faster one. Gravitational attraction transfers some of the orbital energy from the moon in the higher orbit to the moon in the lower orbit. The moon in front drops closer to the planet and moves faster, pulling away from the moon in back. Eventually, it catches up and they exchange orbits again.
Uppgreyedd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:39:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And thus begins the never ending cycle of me trying to get my kerbins on to my space station :)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:34:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that's a great comment
Generic_Pete ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:20:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's more true once you actually reach the other side of the orbit, but at the moment you're adding velocity you're just speeding up. The slowing down comes much later, along with the extra distance gained
Uppgreyedd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:54:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Very true
SplitArrow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:06:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is rather simple when you think about it. While on the surface the thought is hard to grasp but when you realize orbit is about controlled falling it makes more sense. If you increase speed you are increasing the centrifugal force on the object which causes it to want increase distance. If you slow down it makes the object come closer.
The best way I have been able to explain to people is imagine a string with a ball on the end. Spin the string and the ball will pull away the faster it goes. Slow it down and it will stop spinning.
trianuddah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:16:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's more simple when you don't think about it.
jamesmon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:37:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't lie, you learned that in KSP
Uppgreyedd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:01:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I learned it in a classroom, but I didn't know it until KSP. This is correct.
JLBeck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:58:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That seems like a very specific career to switch from. After satellite engineer what did you do? Similar field or did you just say fuck it and go into marketing?
Uppgreyedd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:07:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did it in the USAF and got out. It's a very location specific job, and didn't really want to work for the DoD or live in that/those areas. The nice thing about having a background systems engineering is that you can do many engineering jobs without your bosses having high expectations of you.
JLBeck ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:27:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for appeasing my curiosity.
FatherDerp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:10:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you talking about angular velocity?
Uppgreyedd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:12:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, it's pretty much all angular velocity and angular momentum. If you take an instantaneous snapshot of the velocity change, it'll be a linear velocity change, but it translates into angular velocity.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:49:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Uppgreyedd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:41:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Full time student working on a second degree and a masters.
bwut-bwut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:12:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm confused as layman.
SirUtnut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:37:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
By "slingshot effect", they don't mean the famous gravitational slingshot that probes use to get to the edges of the solar system. It's more like the other side of a planet is a half pipe that you fall into and then role back up the other side. (While the other direction, reducing your speed, causes you to go up a hill and down again.)
Gravitational slingshots involve doing this not during orbit, but as they pass a planet, and coordinated with the planet's orbit so that they can steal energy from it.
Uppgreyedd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:02:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True. I used it as an example to make it easier for some people to visualize that one end of an eccentric orbit has a faster velocity than the other. While using in an orbit isn't a gravity assist, they're both the same effect but different conic sections (ellipse vs parabola).
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:11:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
read this and went "fuck that, that doesnt happen in ksp!"
then I finished reading the explination
SmellsOfTeenBullshit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:39:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that because mvr is conserved?
SirSpaffsalot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:58:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
mvr?
Wilreadit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:29:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
L=mvr
L=pr
L is angular momentum, m is mass of orbiter, v is instantaneous velocity and r is radius. P is linear momentum.
SirSpaffsalot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:58:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
mvr?
EDIT: Double bloody phone post.
SmellsOfTeenBullshit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:27:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Massvelocitydistance
Wilreadit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:28:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For those who are unaware that is angular momentum. M is the mass of the orbiter, v is its instantaneous linear velocity and r is the radius of the orbit.
idk_idc_fts_io ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:41:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nope. exerting a force in same axis as direction your spacecraft going in orbit will generate torque and mvr will not be conserved.
Uppgreyedd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:50:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup! It's one of Kepler's laws of planetary motion (the 2nd).
Darkfeign ยท 5881 points ยท Posted at 01:31:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Been said before, but that all the other planets in our solar system could fit within the average distance between the Earth and the Moon. This includes Pluto with some room to spare, if you're feeling nostalgic.
Edit: picture to illustrate here.
Rumblebunni ยท 2289 points ยท Posted at 01:54:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Distance between Earth and Moon = 238,900 mi Diameter of Mercury = 3,032 mi Diameter of Venus = 7,520.8 mi Diameter of Mars = 4,212 mi Diameter of Jupiter = 86,881.4 mi Diameter of Saturn = 72,367.4 mi Diameter of Neptune = 30,599 mi Diameter of Uranus = 31,518 mi Total distance of all diameters added = 236160.6 Fact checks out.
[deleted] ยท 4710 points ยท Posted at 03:41:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
changyang1230 ยท 1206 points ยท Posted at 04:47:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is a well known fact that 62 Earths could fit in Uranus.
getogeko ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 09:14:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But would you want them to?
ceelo56 ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 09:52:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes
freedaemons ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 10:30:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That would cause a Crisis on 62 Earths.
catherinesideways ยท 168 points ยท Posted at 10:25:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
63 if you relax ( อกยฐ อส อกยฐ)
[deleted] ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 10:49:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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imgonnabutteryobread ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 10:58:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
65 if your name is Goatsee
thurki ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 11:46:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
66 if you're OP's mom.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:20:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
67 if you lay down
SadGhoster87 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:09:46 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
68 if all of the above
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 15:14:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted]
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:33:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted]
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:18:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Giggity
The_Third_Three ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:10:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
100 if you're hotkinkyjo
Wilreadit ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:17:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, my anus is just a garden variety anus.
GrammatonYHWH ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:49:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe Urmumsanus
Peculiar_One ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:21:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kinky.
Parthana ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:30:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"I can make that 63 if you relax..."
shadow1515 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:20:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It may hurt a little, but it's something you'll get used to.
Johnny-Skitzo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:26:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Relax, turn around and take my hand."
Often_Tilly ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:04:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
62 earths can fit in my anus.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:08:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
r/earthpegginguranus
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:37:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about Urmomsanus?
AliceBTolkas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:41:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You'd need some lube
MrBobbet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:12:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
63 if you relax.
kaiju-taxi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:46:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Um...
Ryike93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:09:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How many planets are in our solar system? 7 after I destroy Uranus
DickieJohnson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:33:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In a row?
RENOxDECEPTION ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:05:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or half of your mom.
kudeikis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:47:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's when you decide that your boyfriend's idea of anal is going too far.
masked_wankster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:02:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And LOTS of buttplugs
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:30:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is known
ihaveajobtodo ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 11:34:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
62 earths could fit in YOUR MOMS anus.
nick_diesel ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 12:02:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
63 if you really relax.
v99188 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:26:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
700 fucking upvotes for a comment that is funny for people of 8 years of age and lower.
sightlab ยท 72 points ยท Posted at 04:37:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's true. I had a really spicy pad thai yesterday.
Phayzon ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 05:02:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would like to know the diameter of Urmomsanus, for comparison sake.
The_Munz ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 06:24:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They say it's like a black hole, if you get too close it'll suck you in and never let you out.
EhhWhatsUpDoc ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:35:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ever hear of Hawking Radiation? Space farts, bro
Captainguymandude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:18:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice...
ForumPointsRdumb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:33:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shes a maneater.
LemonsForDays ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 05:40:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Classic
peanutbuttahcups ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 06:59:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uranus jokes: making me laugh since elementary school.
threeglasses ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:23:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and this one just felt.... classy?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:08:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sick of this shit. Can't wait for the day when they finally change it to Urrectum.
MrMeltJr ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:34:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ROLL FOR ANAL CIRCUMFRENCE
Haddas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:54:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I rolled a 1. What do I get?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:14:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hemorrhoids.
fuckfaceprick ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 04:43:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rekt
Silv999 ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 06:37:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rektum
BestDuckNA ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:25:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
damn near killed em
herpendatderp ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:35:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
( อกยฐ อส อกยฐ)
smookykins ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:29:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Urectum*
CAPTAIN_TITTY_BANG ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:31:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's a growing boy
NoPlayTime ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:22:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Urmamasanus
Masonity ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:35:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Natural 20 when rolling anal circumference?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:41:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it was actually a D1000 roll.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:40:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
quacksdontecho ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:30:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...on a good day.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:39:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rekt
poorpoverty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:19:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Urmomsanus
RuneLFox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It must be passed down from his mother's side.
Lysergicassini ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:37:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
เฒ _เฒ
vveiner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:43:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Diameter of Ohpeesmomsanus: โ
Kaldricus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:46:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OP's mom
seegabego ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:58:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not after I'm done with it
( อกยฐ อส อกยฐ )
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:58:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Huehuehue
Alarid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:01:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
CrunkaScrooge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:08:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fap checks out
initialgold ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:10:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That ass was fat
PM_ME_YOUR_UNIDAN_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:16:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ASS SO PHAT
Noggin-a-Floggin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:22:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's only after I visit your mom.
FlatAndDry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:42:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uranus is pretty big
Phoenixed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:44:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Speak for yourself.
Reaperof20 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:45:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmhmhmhm
MC_Mooch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:46:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only after mexican food
largehoman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:48:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I've been working out.
Skutter_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:36:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No need to bring his mother into it
JadedEconomist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:44:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Real mature, Bradley!
Stanjoly2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:55:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am ashamed to have giggled at this
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:35:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
oh no!
johnwithcheese ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:08:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ur mum
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:21:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've always seen this expressed in terms of urmom
Scarletfapper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:21:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Slut
-___-_-_-- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:36:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you have 1337 points so i'll refrain from upvoting.
Anchovie_Paste ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:29:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Diameter of Urmomsanus = 31,519 mi
SirFappleton ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:06:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mom?
3scape ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:25:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Upvote because butt joke
islandbuns ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:57:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yo mamas
walterblanco1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:24:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just measured mine, 15 cm.
RodRAEG ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:45:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But where does that put Urmomsanus?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:35:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you seen some of those videos? Jesus Christ.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:26:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OP's mom
Dodgiestyle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:09:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Opsmomanus
Guzzles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:17:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Population: Your uncle.
the8Th-Dr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:57:58 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
( อกยฐ อส อกยฐ)
nuephelkystikon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:04:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Once you go black.
fishfur ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:46:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fact checks out.
Basoran ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:07:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prison was rough.
j33pwrangler ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:13:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To shreds, you say?
RenoGuy76 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:37:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Heh
caesar15 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 04:44:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Underrated.
j33pwrangler ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:14:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought they renamed it to Urectum.
ManyConfusion ยท 742 points ยท Posted at 02:27:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am really hoping you knew all of those diameters without having to Google them.
Mandood ยท 1136 points ยท Posted at 06:00:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I see no point in memorizing anything I can easily google - Albert Einstein if he were alive today
careless_sux ยท 50 points ยท Posted at 06:44:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I see no point in memorizing the diameter of the planets. - Literally Everyone
DigitalMariner ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 09:17:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY. I'm sure a handful of scientists have memorized facts like planetary diameter just from repetition. But I'd bet a year's salary it would be in kilometres, not miles. Literally no one would have reason to know it in miles.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 11:52:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I once worked with a woman who had memorised every suburb's postcode in the state. Worst superpower, ever.
_cortex ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 09:34:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They specially employ a guy for the sole reason to remember all the most important constants in imperial units. In case anything crashes again, they just blame that guy.
schwermetaller ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:05:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where do I apply? - My boss blames me anways.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:34:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This scientist also knows it's .6 miles per kilometer.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:05:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
12800 km
SaabiMeister ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:34:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The meter was originally defined as 1/4000000 the perimeter of the earth at the equator, hence, the perimeter is 40000km. The meter is lately defined otherwise. But:
40000km/PI = 12732.77km
katieya ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 07:17:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Albert Einstein: The only thing that you absolutely have to know is
the location of the libraryhow to google shit.adamd22 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:31:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty accurate tbh. He also said "I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think". Unfortunately in our modern world it seems that Google is removing the human initiative to think. Or maybe that's just me thinking like an old baby boomer.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 07:32:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck you people, I'm retired - Albert Einstein if he were alive today
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:36:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now let's fuck you bitches, I'm getting retarded - Albert Einstein if he were a member of the black eyed peas
legandaryhunter ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 10:32:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Why do I need to memorize my phone number, I am never going to call myself"
prodmerc ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:00:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Verdammt, when is Google Fiber coming to my area?" - Albert Einstein if he were alive today
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:54:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's the theory of relativity again?
Checks Google.
ASDFkoll ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:43:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I see no point in googling anything when I can just download it into my mind - Albert Einstein if he was in the future.
Veefy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:39:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Fuck this memorization bullshit! I'm outta here to go bang some chicks with my wingman, Black Science Guy!"- Albert Einstein if he were alive today.
My_wifii ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:44:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is what I tell myself when taking tests..
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:23:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This memes are dank as shit- Abe Lincoln, if he were alive today. Probably.
metans ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:31:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"E = lmgtfy"
ZacharyCallahan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:31:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mike81890 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:23:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe the meme is "Albert Einstein... probably"
WarKiel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:46:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's been research done on this.
Younger people who've had access to internet are worse at remembering things but way better at finding information than earlier generations.
We have sacrificed the ability to remember stuff like phone numbers for our mad google-fu skills.
TheThieret ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:01:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What did we do before GPS? I can't remember how to get anywhere.
WarKiel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:31:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remember Columbus?
SirFappleton ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:06:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you can't say it simply, you don't truly understand it.
trianuddah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:04:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the beginning, the earth was formless and boring, and the spirit of God moved upon the waters.
And God said, "OK Google, lights."
helio203 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:44:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
memorizing some piece of information has more value than just knowing the fact. It shows that you care about the subject enough to memorize it. It shows that a person has a passion for what their learned about.
That is why some people memorize things .lol.
kookoo_bandit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:05:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's wicked smaht
Hellfire_or_Kirk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:34:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"I see no point in memorizing anything I can easily google - Albert Einstein if he were alive today"
-/u/Mandood
Mandood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:18:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"I see no point in memorizing anything I can easily google - Albert Einstein if he were alive today"
-/u/Mandood
-Michael Scott
Hellfire_or_Kirk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:25:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How did you know my name? I need an adult
Devam13 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:05:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Atleast I hope he memorized the units in kilometers. Miles are a pretty shit unit when doing anything related to science.
MrAppleSpiceMan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:19:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd like to see if he memorized it in nautical measurements. How many nautical miles? Chainlengths? Fathoms? Leagues?
Devam13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:20:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of one of my favourite youtube videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7x-RGfd0Yk
P.S: This video is in response to this video about paper sizes.
khrollo ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:56:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a kid, the only place I could find those facts is through encyclopedias. I must be really old.
itisonlyaplant ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 05:14:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I'm 27 and I would do the same thing in the elementary library. I feel like I had perfect timing being born and being able to experience the 90's watching technology change our lives in so many ways. I get a feeling that younger generations will not appreciate how bad-ass technology has progressed! I'm still amazed that I own a smart-phone and what it can do.
gill8672 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 05:33:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm, I'm 16 & not amazed by it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:31:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They will witness other things. Like curing all diseases and being forever young.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:30:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/u/Andromeda321 might
Andromeda321 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:43:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hi! I know the Earth's and I know each one's relative size to the others, but I don't know the numbers off the top of my head or anything. I suspect few people do.
3point14159orgasms ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:29:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love it when she pops up. She always has awesome info!
strumpster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ha what a nerd!
JoseMaria15 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well I guess someone's going to be disappointed.
_oceanix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:25:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Neeeeeerrrrrrd
lawlolawl144 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:32:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
STOP TALKING ABOUT THE SUN!
6chan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:57:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WolframAlpha, all you have to do is type "Diameter of x + diameter of y+..." to get the answer.
thundergonian ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 03:59:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Better formatted:
Even if you include Pluto (diameter of 1475 mi), you still have about 260 mi, or an error of 0.1%, to play with.
Ardub23 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 07:51:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a lot of people don't consider is that the distance between the Earth and the Moon is generally the distance between their centers, not the actual space between them. You have to subtract the radius of the Earth and Moon to get the amount of space between:
Less than our planet lineup by a couple thousand miles, unfortunately. Luckily we can still make it work! We can wait until the moon is at apogee, the farthest point in its orbit around Earth:
Or we can line the planets up pole-to-pole, since they're a bit narrower that way:
Euchre ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:44:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was wondering if the measurement of Saturn includes the rings. If not, the rings are going to make things interesting.
Ardub23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:40:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The measurement is just the planet itself, not the planet plus anything orbiting it.
PHealthy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:22:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Average distance= 238,900
Perigee=251,968 miles
Apogee= 225,804 miles
At apogee there isn't enough room so it's a bit cherry-picked.
getefix ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:18:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice formatting, now all that's left is to write it in metric since astronomy isn't done in imperial
thundergonian ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 06:26:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 07:35:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How the hell can American and British people use miles in an astronomic discussion?
That is a thing that puzzles the rest of the world!!!
tetroxid ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:21:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Who calculates these kind of things in miles?
Heywood__Jablowme ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:33:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uranus is a lot bigger than I thought. Uranus must get pounded constantly by asteroids
theniceguytroll ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:33:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But Uranus is really gassy, they would just go right in without any pounding.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:09:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes..
MrsEveryShot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:34:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You forgot to account for the radius of both the Earth and the Moon, since the distance between the two is the average distance from the center of each.
Matthiasad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know for a fact my anus isn't that big.
Itsapocalypse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:47:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those numbers are really relatively close to one another. What a strange coincidence
Dirnol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:32:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love that the numbers are so relatively close, like you really have to squeeze the other planets in there to fit, but they'll just make it
tatsuedoa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:14:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With 2,000Mi to spare... we should fill that gap with paperclips
Moksu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:09:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about Planet X?
ivegotapenis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:45:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It'll be tight if Pluto and Eris get in.
yppers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:32:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn... for some reason I've though for the longest time that mars was bigger than venus and the next closest in size to earth.
captorrr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:41:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If we add pluto, they wouldnt fit. Pluto is not a planet anymore for a reason.
blacksheepghost ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:44:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If Planet Nine turns out to exist, this won't be true anymore.
Edit: Added a link in case someone has not heard of it.
SFButts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:56:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So you could not fit all the moons in as well?
Anivair ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:31:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemath
Ageir9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:58:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Distance between Earth and Moon = 238,900 mi
Diameter of Mercury = 3,032 mi
Diameter of Venus = 7,520.8 mi
Diameter of Mars = 4,212 mi
Diameter of Jupiter = 86,881.4 mi
Diameter of Saturn = 72,367.4 mi
Diameter of Neptune = 30,599 mi
Diameter of Uranus = 31,518 mi
Total distance of all diameters added = 236160.6
Fact checks out.
I made this readable.
DuplexFields ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:42:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With 2740 miles to spare. If the extra space were evenly distributed, the Earthmost planet would still be above the orbit of the Space Shuttle.
brownix001 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:21:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We went to the fucking moon and back. Always amazes me.
Willie9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:27:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Radius of Earth = 3,958.8 mi Radius of Moon = 1,079 mi
Total distance of all diameters plus radii of moon and earth = 241198.4 mi.
Fact doesn't check out
Distances between celestial bodies are reported as the distance between their centers, so you have to include the radii of Earth and Moon in this calculation.
Now the distance between them that you found is the average distance between them, so this can work, but only when the Moon is near its apogee (greatest distance from Earth)
Sceneselector ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:19:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The diameter of the sun is 865,000 miles--- you could fit all of the planets between the moon and the earth...Several times.
Jsdestroy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:02:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OP's mom - 93,728 mi
schnoibie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:32:29 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemath
Le9gaggger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:49:11 on March 31, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I googled this and got 230 thousand miles between the earth and moon
noahwhygodwhy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:56:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemath
adenzerda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:30:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's uh
Actually kind of creepy how close that is
andrey_shipilov ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:18:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's mi?
nice_comment_thanks ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:17:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Miles, 1 mi = 1.6 km
andrey_shipilov ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 11:35:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why not use kilometres?
nice_comment_thanks ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:13:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know, ask /u/Rumblebunni...
Temido2222 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:44:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Diameter of OPs Mom- Infinite
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:12:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Ardub23 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:30:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cuz it's not a planet, duh
Honestly it doesn't deserve to be, since it can still fit in the extra space...
Zidane3838 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:11:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP in peace Pluto.
I_Xertz_Tittynopes ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:29:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's room for Pluto.
Jrfrank ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:41:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemath/
DaveTheHalfElf ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:07:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemonstermath
the_one_username ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:02:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Heh. You said Uranus.
stiff-vag ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:03:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about Pluto?!?
a-dark-passenger ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:03:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemath
reditte ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:49:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pluto, PLUTO!!
kholto ยท 67 points ยท Posted at 02:56:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The cool part is that they fit almost exactly.
HurricaneHugo ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 05:20:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Checkmate atheists.
BrtneySpearsFuckedMe ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 08:34:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why is it always chess? Why not Yahtzee?
GIGATeun ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 09:26:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'Yahtzee, atheists!' just doesn't have that ring.
BrtneySpearsFuckedMe ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 09:31:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like it.
Getjac ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:41:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did she really?
Bigbysjackingfist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:28:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You could yahtzee and still lose.
JackFlynt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:42:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From u/Rumblebunni 's numbers, the remainder is smaller than the smallest planet (Mercury) is. Given how crazily massive some of them are, that's pretty impressive.
RoofShoppingCartGuy ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:39:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every time I read this I refuse to believe it, even though I know it's true.
Phayzon ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:04:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every time I read this it just sounds like utter bullshit. Mostly because I can't grasp the idea of the Moon being as far away as it really is.
buffbodhotrod ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:11:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But man would we be fucked! Gravity would be all like, "whaaaaa?"
hylian122 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:10:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right after it got back from its vacation, regretting that it allowed this to happen in the first place.
And then it would destroy us all.
serioussam909 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:47:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, Jupiter would just eat everyone else.
arch_nyc ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:33:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It may be my ignorance but I never knew that! Going to google an image depicting this!
Diagram:
http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/02/01/planets_linedup.jpg.CROP.original-original.jpg
TK-427 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:01:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine what that would look like. Even just having Jupiter at the moon's orbit
The_Prince1513 ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 03:17:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well jupiters mass would immediately cause all the other planets to crash into it so i imagine it would look like a quickly accellerating giant red patch in the sky
Kahandran ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:39:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, how so? Wouldn't it just disrupt the orbits of the planets?
iwasacatonce ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:52:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The gravitational distortion from Jupiter at that distance would be extreme compared to what the sun exerts on them from their current distance. We are affected by Jupiter's gravity even now, just not very much, definitely not enough to throw off our current orbit. Imagine a rubber sheet with a bowling ball in the middle, and a pea rolling around the depression several hundred feet away. That's earth orbiting the sun. Then throw in an orange a few inches from the pea, it would immediately roll into the depression created by the orange, despite its original trajectory.
Tommy2255 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:56:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think he was referring to the original question, where all of the planets were between the Earth and Luna, not the newly proposed scenario where it's just Jupiter.
rottenmonkey ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:57:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
luckily for you, there's a video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB32ykkiJk8
another one at day time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usYC_Z36rHw
arshaqV ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:18:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know why, but this video made me extremely uncomfortable
Toeflesh ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:39:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Woah that's actually a really cool fact. Idk how to spell it w/o sounding sarcastic..
snackwiches ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:36:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If that actually happened, gravity would seriously fuck shit up
Kahandran ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:36:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And here is a picture illustrating this concept. Pretty cool.
EDIT: someone already found it but damnit I had this picture saved so I'm going to use it
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:59:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Huh, that's about the same kms on my car.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:41:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People always underestimate both how big the moon is and how far away it is.
PushingTheRope ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:36:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is true, but an ill-advised space exploration policy. Please, let our planets stay where they are.
whycantusonicwood ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:01:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does this count that giant waay out there planet they just recently found?
Darkfeign ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:29:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it's as big as they expect, then no, this would no longer be the case. However as it stands you can still include Pluto for old time's sake and it still holds true.
whycantusonicwood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:01:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does this count that giant waay out there planet they just recently found?
vodkalesbian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:16:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh that is a very cool fact
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And that the Earth-Moon system could fit inside the sun slightly over 3 times
Shit-sandwich- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:41:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but what fits in Uranus
fresh72 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:49:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I need a visual representation of this
Tommy2255 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:53:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most people have a poor understanding of just how much nothing there is in the universe.
BucketMaster69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:42:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nah man, the other planets would pull the earth and moon inward, wouldn't work
look_behind_youuu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:23:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Diameter of your mom's Uranus is 99999999mi
wiserloon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:48:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the Moon is only twenty times the distance from US to Australia.
moyno85 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:25:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a really confusing way of making that statement.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:30:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Darkfeign ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:07:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Enough for Pluto, but that's about it.
thenumber42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:00:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Save
p7r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:52:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just because they could fit doesn't mean they should. Putting them together like that sounds pretty dangerous to me. Please don't do try this at home.
mydogmarilyn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:01:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tgrttet
CRISPR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:01:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That would slightly complicate the determination of the start of Ramadhan for me.
marcopennekamp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:06:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I see it coming already: That new planet is going to destroy this fact.
mbrw12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:11:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've never heard this but holy fucking shit. That's insane.
Also if I ever looked up at the sky and saw every planet lined up like this (firstly we'd all be dead) but I'd shit my pants and expire right there on the spot
ItsSansom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:15:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What would actually happen if the planets were suddenly to shift into this arrangement. How quickly would we be fucked?
jukes24 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:34:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's way more room on Jupiter. We should move there.
markmargles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:48:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is Pangaea right?
ruorgimorphu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:51:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Woow it's close!
marvin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:52:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not an expert on the nine-body problem, but I think it's likely that this setup would not be gravitationally stable, though.
dewso ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:58:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To add to this, the Sun is 100,000,000kms closer to Earth than Mars is.
Som__Tervo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:02:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This can't be a coincidence
( อกยฐ อส อกยฐ)
hylian122 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:11:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it had never been said before, I probably wouldn't believe you.
RamenJunkie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:27:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why wouldn't you include Pluto, the 9th planet of the solar system. #Pluto4Lyf
Landrin201 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:30:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's also a well known fact that if we were to try this experiment with the planets, we would all die.
Diabetesh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:38:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That makes going to the moon super impressive.
death_awaits_there ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:43:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd like to see you try.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:47:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It boggles my mind because the moon looks so much bigger than that picture lets on
dmckenzie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:50:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We should so try and do this. If we put nukes on the far side of each planet in exactly the right spot we could move them right? Then we'd just have to nuke them but slightly less in the other direction and they will stop. Nasa can figure out all the details
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:50:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those saturn rings would really mess with the natural flow of the planets.
Wackytobbacy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:00:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pluto is no longer a planet
Darkfeign ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:04:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Correct, but the point is that all the actual planets would fit, with enough room that we could even fit Pluto in. The new planet they believe exists will most likely falsify this fact.
Dark_messengeR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:06:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jupiter has a pimple
leonprimrose ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:08:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People see models of pretend distances. Most people dont realize how absurdly vast the space in between anything in deep space is. The fact that we even made it to the moon in that tin can is still a marvel
Wolfie_Ecstasy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:21:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the actual fuck. I think I need to lie down..
sycophantasy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:25:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess that's why they call it SPACE.
Battle_Claiborne ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:33:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gravity is weird...
uroldfrienddarkness ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:40:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man... Space is big!
Lochtide7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:47:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No way! I still can't believe that
flexmuzik ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:01:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
THIS is the most insane comment here
YahwehNoway ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:05:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what's even crazier is that the diameter of the sun is 3.6 times that size - so less than a third of the sun would fill that same gap by itself.
BroJackson_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:11:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That would freak me out if I woke up one day and they were arranged like that.
Pachi2Sexy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:22:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man it always scares me how fucking massive Jupiter is.
therealslimbatman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:27:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Potentially a stupid question, but I just wondered. Would all the planets collide and explode due to their combined gravitational forces if they were to be placed next to each other?
Darkfeign ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:31:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm no physicist but yeah without a doubt they would collid if they were aligned like that. As for the part about exploring, i'd imagine they would be severely crushed but I have no idea if they would reach a fast enough speed given the remaining distances between them.
lsraeli_Shill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:49:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Very interesting, that may change depending on the existence of Planet X
Darkfeign ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:57:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It should definitely change considering they believe it to be quite large.
gmdski117 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:04:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This also lends some perspective to how far away the other planets are
today2day ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:43:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why is it easier to go to the Moon than Pluto?? Surely if it's actually farther away to visit the moon...
I_be_who_I_be ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:59:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pluto isn't a planet though!
Darkfeign ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:27:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Indeed, so with or without Pluto the fact still holds.
yungcheeselet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:50:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My brain!!! How???
larryblt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:44:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But could you imagine the tidal forces from being that close to Jupiter?
Imperium_Dragon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:33:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know, if all the planets were teleported like that, how long would it be until all the planets violently ripped themselves apart?
tuutruk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:51:03 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about that new planet some think are out there?
PlentyofFishinthePee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:17:13 on March 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I could have sworn I was being trolled when I saw this on Facebook.
NosyEnthusiast6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:49 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm going to stab you in the breast for making me realize this.
SrirachaFlash ยท 148 points ยท Posted at 10:52:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Antarctica is technically a desert
ZanzaraEE ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 15:34:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the third grade I went out of my way to correct my teacher when they said it wasn't a desert.
Tl;dr: I was a smart-ass little shit in the third grade.
scotems ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 01:23:49 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for the TL;DR, your single sentence was too long for me to read.
(Sorry I'm still a smart-ass little shit)
matjojo1000 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 12:42:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The biggest of the planet.
Prometheus8330 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:04:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And so is the Arctic, and not all deserts are hot.
yahumno ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:05:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Yup. Lived six months in the Arctic. My skin was so dry.
Eta- autocorrect sucks.
AP246 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:31:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, it is both an ocean and a desert? Geographers, get on this please, we can't let this just stand...
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:07:29 on March 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The driest desert no less.
NosyEnthusiast6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:39 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Little to no rainfall = desert
Searing heat and camels =/= desert, but you're pretty damn close.
nachtegaal930 ยท 5264 points ยท Posted at 01:37:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Shakespeare invented the name Jessica.
EDIT: spelling of the name because apparently some of you disagree with my assertion that Yiska, Iesca, and Jeska are not the same thing as Jessica.
lonelady75 ยท 529 points ยท Posted at 07:04:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This reminds me of something I heard in passing at a writing seminar given by a group of authors. They referred to something they called the "Tiffany problem", and when asked to clarify they said that the name Tiffany was a really popular name in, like, the 1500s or something like that, but you cannot use that name if you are writing historical fiction, despite it being appropriate to the time because it would sound ridiculous.
TleilaxTheTerrible ยท 212 points ยท Posted at 11:33:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
According to this post, it's not just limited to the name Tiffany. Even funnier is that according to wikipedia the name was given to girls born on Epiphany, making the girls Tiffany of Epiphany, which is a great way to get teased in the playground.
OXOXOOXOOOXOOOOO ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 12:14:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
oh wow. I can imagine an innocent convo turn into the opposite direction.
"Jess, don't be so rough with little Phanis, oki?"
[deleted] ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 14:14:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Phanis the manis
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:23:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
โชโชโช Tiffany, you said that you had an epiphany โชโชโช
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 17:06:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tiffany of Epiphany, thy name art so fucking stupid!
redlaWw ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:30:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thine*
Atario ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:51:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it were me, I'd use the name specifically so that thousands of conversations would happen where someone explains this
Inoka1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:29:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, here's an apt one for this thread. The root word for "seminar" is "semen." :D
Thin-White-Duke ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:06:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seminar = circlejerk
hxcn00b666 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:03:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why would it sound ridiculous?
Tir ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:38:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder if Terry Pratchett knew about this with his Tiffany Aching series...
csrster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:49:40 on April 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd bet a dollar he did.
skalra63 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:24:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Speaking of wrong names, i was under the impression that Jesus' name was yeshua (hebrew) which translate to joshua in english. However if you translate yeshua to greek and then to english you get jesus.
So if this is right, most of his devotees are getting his name wrong!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:20:13 on May 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not entirely related but it boggles my mind how Romans would give all their children the same names. Say your name was Julius and you were the father of 5 children, two boys and three girls. Your sons were named Julius and your daughters Julia.
Like how the fuck do you keep track?
Downvote ยท 1695 points ยท Posted at 08:11:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NOWWWW JESSICAAAA
samcuu ยท 1002 points ยท Posted at 10:53:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
COME BACK HERE JESSIIICAAA!
hextree ยท 487 points ยท Posted at 12:20:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
LET GO OF ME JESSSIICAAAA
[deleted] ยท 434 points ยท Posted at 12:24:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I bought your old childhood home JESSSIICAAAA!
TransitRanger_327 ยท 234 points ยท Posted at 12:40:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now Smile.
Lyress ยท 121 points ยท Posted at 13:30:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[Fake smile intensifies]
TransitRanger_327 ยท 67 points ยท Posted at 13:36:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tell me you love me!
thegraymaninthmiddle ยท 56 points ยท Posted at 13:43:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love you! crrrack
ZamboniZombie ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 14:24:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
rip
Naggins ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:10:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jessica Jones: The Cliff Notes
jmz_199 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:02:29 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That ending to me was so good but David Tennant played such a good villian I almost wanted his death to be worse.
TimS194 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:39:48 on April 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it was great. Points out that Jessica is strong enough to have just up and killed him at pretty much any time (if not for fear of the fallout).
jmz_199 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:34:45 on April 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I agree honestly there wasn't really a point of a drawn out fight. I liked how it got straight to the point rather than the usual "about to kill someone" speech.
TimeTimeTickingAway ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 13:51:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Perfectly read out in David Tennant voice in my head.
rilsaur ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 15:03:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jessicur.
NewbornMuse ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 15:33:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jhesecah!
rilsaur ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:41:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can see the slow mo.
Pancake98 ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 12:08:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought me and my friends were the only one to randomly yell this at each other whenever the name Jessica comes up.
This made my day, thanks bro.
celica18l ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 14:00:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I need more of my friends to watch Jessica Jones. I've been doing this but no one in my house understands it.
your_mind_aches ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 15:11:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tell them to watch Daredevil first. If there are any SHIELD or Marvel movie viewers, tell them Jessica Jones is part of that universe.
If all else fails, Kilgrave them into watching it.
PM_ME_CAKE ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:37:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Speaking of, hot damn Season 2 was/is amazing. Even the finale, which for Jessica Jones and Daredevil Season 1 fell flat a bit, was amazing. The last two scenes left me wanting so much more.
your_mind_aches ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:58:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I loved the JJ and DD Season 1 finales. I loved the Season 2 finale as well.
I think of all the MCU seasons, DD Season 2 had the weakest ENDING. Like, the last few minutes. Still amazing though.
PM_ME_CAKE ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:01:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean don't get me wrong, the finales are amazing also, but the fight scene particularly in the Season 2 finale just felt so well choreographed as opposed to the slightly anticlimactic fight with Fisk in Season 1 where it was the only place that episode really faltered for me because the jump up to smash Fisk felt just a bit too odd.
your_mind_aches ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:01:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahhh. Understood.
celica18l ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:21:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I haven't watched Daredevil yet it's my next task.
Love me some SHEILD.
your_mind_aches ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:27:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You'll love Daredevil. It's amazing. Look out for those SHIELD and Jessica Jones references when you watch it! They're subtle, but they're there.
Also. You should watch Agent Carter.
celica18l ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:25:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I need to watch Carter. I meant to pick it up but it came on at such a random time I missed the chance to record it. Now I've got to stream it and it'll take forever but it'll happen. I really love the Marvel universe right now and how they have connected everything especially SHEILD with the different movies.
quantumSpammer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:01:31 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought so, too! :D I was genuinely surprised when I say reddit doing it too.
RandyPistol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:14:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I, too, understand this reference.
NazzerDawk ยท 50 points ยท Posted at 12:04:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As soon as I saw this fun fact I said "someone will be referencing Jessica Jones".
Sexy_Lovecraft ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 17:10:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fun fact: David Tennant is considered one of the best Shakespearian actores out there.
shamelessnameless ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:04:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He was so gosh darn polite in his on screen scenes it was hard to reconcile that with his deeds
MrGodyr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:52:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
JESSICAAAA
Heroshade ยท 10377 points ยท Posted at 04:10:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh so he's responsible for my cunt of a sister.
poopieschmaps ยท 3069 points ยท Posted at 05:10:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet...
jairom ยท 142 points ยท Posted at 06:21:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When everything's worse our work isย complete...
Waterstealer ยท 449 points ยท Posted at 06:38:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Meowth that's right!
doodwhatsrsly ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 11:18:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Something seems wrong here, but I don't know any Shakespearean works so I'm not sure what.
patrizl001 ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 12:04:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait I can fix it.
Wooooobufffet!
A_favorite_rug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:03:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It just ain't team rocket without wooooobufffet.
DudeImMacGyver ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 14:05:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, that's from Much Ado About Pokรจmon.
Catalclyst ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:32:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't see anything wrong...
F4ST_M4ST3R ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:59:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
dammit i missed out here
ecklcakes ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 09:18:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Perfect mate. For anyone who doesn't understand, this guy's saying that a cunt's a cunt so don't blame Shakespeare.
Nerfi ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 14:12:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought he was saying he banged that dude's sister?
rhysdog1 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 08:26:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this retires /r/shakespeare
OxvFer0cdak ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 09:40:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God, that's a beautiful line.
Peculiar_One ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 10:23:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not if you called them stench blossoms.
The_Shambler ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:46:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or crap weed.
Disgruntled__Goat ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:41:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd sure hate to get a dozen crapweeds for Valentine's Day.
doctor_pointless ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:02:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd rather have candy.
The_Prodigal_One ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:01:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this comment deserves so much more appreciation
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:18:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:34:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way."
tabdeeli ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:47:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OPs sister by any other name would be just as cunty.
CallMeJakeyBoy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:23:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My sisters name is Jessica Rose. Shakespeare made her confirmed.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:32:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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LyonesGamer ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:04:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, trust me, we all know.
SirIlliterate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:27:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And a turd by any other name would still ruin the sheets
AcreWise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:41:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So if his sister's name were Rose she'd be just as cunty.
Pidgey_OP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:57:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To gild refined gold, to paint the Lilly. To throw perfume on the violet, is just fucking silly
WIENS21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:01:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not if you called em stench blossoms
GangreneMeltedPeins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:04:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A rosey smelling cunt? Mmm
Darkstar_98 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:30:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most roses don't smell like fish
swerrrve ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:30:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A cunt, by any other name...
IHazMagics ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:42:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
roses really smell like woo hoo hoo.
DammitDan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:25:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Roses really smell like poo-poo
elschultheis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:43:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"A Jessica by any other name would be as much of a cunt" - William Shakespeare
Fortwyck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:51:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A nose by any other name would still smell...
whatisyournamemike ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:25:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prickly stench bush?
IDontBlameYou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:27:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you named a kid "Rasputin", do you think that would have a negative effect on his life?
10strip ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:11:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not that dumpster Rose Tyler. Yikes!
fettman454j ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:03:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You probably shouldn't be smelling his sister's rose...
thebrose69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:13:08 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not entirely true. Rose happens to be my last name and my farts can be absolutely brutal
Scarletfapper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:23:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure Heroshade is interested in his sister's cunt...
Bowman_van_Oort ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:08:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...but this one smells fishy.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:37:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 09:20:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not what it's saying at all. It's saying that something is special not because of its name, but because of its intrinsic qualities.
Also Juliet's the one saying it.
phil8248 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:58:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But would a cunt by any other name smell as rosy?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:28:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Try enjoying one thinking their name is "Fart Breaths" doesnt quite seem so nice lol
NicknameUnavailable ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:36:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it doesn't smell like fish she's hiding something.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 10:37:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I bite my thumb at thou
silverblaze92 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 05:03:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, just her name. Blame your parents for the sister.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:50:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And that hot chick at school
DSquariusGreeneJR ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:07:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude I have bitchy sister named Jessica too!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:45:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is she single?
faployst ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:06:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've never met a Jessica that wasn't a total bitch, just saying.
llovemybrick_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:59:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
:(
r3liop5 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:32:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think I dated your sister
Classiccage ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:38:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or that cunt of my ex
CrystalChris1709 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 05:02:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your ex's cunt was named Jessica?
jesuswig ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:58:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, the ol' Reddit cuntaroo
maybe_punts_badgers ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:20:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hold thou pre-nup, I'm going in!
Lysdestic ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:51:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hear, hear!
BernieEffingSanders ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:37:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
But yea verily, who is responsible for your sister's cunt...?
alfredhelix ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:34:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OP is responsible for her cunt. Entry fees and all.
Zebidee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:17:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the theme tune to Top Gear.
jhoudiey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:52:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i feel you, man.
oh_no_aliens ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:49:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But who's responsible for your sister's cunt?
6chan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:58:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, just her name.
dynoraptor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:07:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine if you parents would have called her Jennifer.
GamerKey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:52:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A Shakesperian cunt, so to speak.
Thatseemsright ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:24:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Somebody shoot that cunt with a bazooka!
GovernaleJP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:03:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And my girlfriend!
GovernaleJP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:03:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shakespeare, you dick!
voice_of_youth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:27:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
REMEMBER THE DOLPHINS
Donkey__Xote ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:39:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, he just coined a term for it.
Nahmmastay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:25:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All Jessica's are jessicunts
GarrisonFjord ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:04:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually that would be your parents.
Hearthing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:03:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's possible. Your mom got around a lot.
Thrasher9294 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:19:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you think I meant country matters?
WhatUpMilkMan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:27:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, your cunt mother is
PM-Your-Tiny-Tits ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:39:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is she fit?
graustanding ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:00:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I spittled a little of my brew, A+
menides ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:34:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
id actually blame your parents
durhal ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:41:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And my cunt of an ex.
KrazeeJ ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:58:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And my cunt of an aunt.
Alarid ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:08:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Much Ado about Jessica
J5892 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:25:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you my brother?
Physics_Unicorn ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:29:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably the Allman Brothers, actually.
[deleted] ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 04:16:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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shinylotus ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:51:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, from what I read from my copy of the play, it derived from calling his pal friendy-wendy or something of that sort.
AN_ANGRY_BONER ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 07:16:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, it's a contraction of Gwendolyn, if I remember correctly.
mothrafucker ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 08:46:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the spirit of correcting things, that's not a contraction. It's a diminutive.
rderekp ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 09:46:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was very uncommonly used that way and it doesn't seem like Barrie knew of that Welsh nickname. So both are true.
Diphylleia_Grayi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:49:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mallory Tower memories.
ALittleNightMusing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:47:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gwendolyn was such a godawful whiny bint. I wanted to smack her on every page.
onenotwonworld ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:29:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Barrie
Phooey138 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:39:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The name is older than the play Peter pan. It's not difficult to Google it.
Unthinkable-Thought ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:09:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's on an American Census form long time before Peter Pan came out....Honest
EltaninAntenna ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:39:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And Jonathan Swift invented Vanessa.
gordon_ramasamy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:17:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And I invented the name kalgzoshchkystifghxc
Splendidissimus ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 05:00:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And Jonathan Swift invented the name Vanessa.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:30:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think he also invented Miranda
Infibacon ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:57:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And Olivia I'm pretty sure.
FuckKarmaAndFuckYou ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:19:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no that was the chick who kept yapping at cops and the cops used the shit she said against her.
Thinks_Too_Logically ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:29:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Miranda was a man's last name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_Miranda
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:19:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always thought Miranda was some Greek/Roman goddess due to its use in space stuff.
unrighteous_bison ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 04:27:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well, not really. the modern spelling of the name came from Shakespeare, but the name itself dates to ancient Hebrew. that would be like saying "jesiica" and claiming I invented the name.
nachtegaal930 ยท 62 points ยท Posted at 04:37:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You did, in fact, invent the name Jesiica and if jesiica were to completely replace Jessica as the 'correct' spelling then you would be credited as the first person to use it. Just because it evolved from an existing name doesn't mean they're the same.
unrighteous_bison ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 04:42:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well, I guess it just depends on whether you think a name is a spelling or a meaning.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:51:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a spelling to me at least. Hayley, Haley, Hailee, Hailey etc are all different names, but share a common ancestor. Kinda like how all primates are different, but we share a single common ancestor. This particular branch was formed when Shakespeare went name-making.
fyeah ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:14:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let's be honest, how many people think a name is a meaning?
"I am forest dogs"
Cool. We get it, Carl. You're spiritual or whatever. Just finish your ham salad and shut up.
unrighteous_bison ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:48:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I meant more in a traditional/origin sense than a literal sense. If you name your kids Mark, Mathew and John, you're probably aware those are biblical names. I'm sure some people don't think about it, but many people look up name meanings and origins before they name a child
GOBLIN_GHOST ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 05:26:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah mate. When it comes to hebrew-derived names the rules get all kind of wacky. Example: some dude named "Josh" bas managed to convince everyone it's pronounced "Hay-soos."
AN_ANGRY_BONER ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:17:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More accurately someone named Yeshua is having his name pronounced as both "Josh" and "Hay-soos".
kingkuya777 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:47:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was because of a Roman translation and the limitations of Latin.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:04:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We have three words written by Shakespeare, all of them are his signature, how do we know how he spelt Jessica?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:00:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See his edit. I disagree that any of those examples he gives (if those are what you're referring to) are close enough to "Jessica" to be considered simply a different spelling of it.
unrighteous_bison ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:16:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well, I couldn't find a source that disagreed with me, I took the consensus view that Jessica was a anglicanization of Iessica (which would have been spelled with a J in shakespere's day), much like Yeshua became Jesus. so, if you want to disagree with most sources, including the Oxford dictionary of names, I don't care enough to argue, that's just what I based my post on.
Fuzzyphilosopher ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:42:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
EDIT: Taken from the wikipedia article found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_(given_name)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:50:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Um, is that a quote from somewhere else? Because I'm fairly sure that's a quote from somewhere else.
Fuzzyphilosopher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:33:58 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oops sorry I meant to include the link to the wiki page where I took that from. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_(given_name)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:40:56 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ah, k.
Sackyhack ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:20:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the word "scooch"
Gwendilater ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:28:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you have a source for this? I can't find one. I recently had to explain the word to a group of German friends, I know the'd love the background!
RogerThatKid ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:38:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Also, the name "Wendy" was significantly popularized by the original Peter Pan play in 1904.
Edit: more accurately phrased.
_52_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:30:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The name is found in United States records from the 19th century; the name Wendy appeared over twenty times in the U.S. Census of 1880.
MarcDLoeb ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:15:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My Ducats!
whiskeyx ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:01:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NOW JESSICA!
robdiqulous ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:13:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jehova begins with an I!
Gakimir ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:21:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Source?
nachtegaal930 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:39:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bam
Gakimir ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:43:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All that says is that he had the oldest written record of the name with that specific spelling. It also cites that the name is derived from Hebrew origins, with words that give the same (or near exact) pronunciation with a different spelling.
That doesn't mean he created it. I keep seeing this one floating around without any good backup. Maybe you could try something less douchey than a lmgtfy link?
nachtegaal930 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:47:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean all the information I know about it I got from googling it for myself after reading merchant of Venice so it's not like I can cite any sources other than those you'd find through lmgtfy/Google. Do your own research and decide for yourself if an original spelling counts as inventing a name
Elranzer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:30:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
J.M. Barrie invented the name Wendy.
L8Show ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:09:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A. A. Milne created Wendy.
PringlesXD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:21:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Keep Jessica Safe.
smeggyballs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:51:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And apparently Imogen is a misreading of the original name, Innogen.
llama_delrey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:53:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/keming
chappersyo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:56:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The name Wendy was created for Peter Pan
robophile-ta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:56:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't he also 'invent' the name Imogen by accident? It was originally 'Innogen' but someone must have transcribed it wrong and the two n became an m.
OrangeDit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:24:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I ... would really say that is wrong.
bobisagirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:32:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And a mis-spelling of the name Innogen on the poster for one of his plays resulted in the name Imogen!
DrNolanAllen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:43:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Woah! So, is Iosefka a primitive version of Jessica?
MisterPEJ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:54:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'Swagger' too
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:01:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The name 'Imogen' was 'invented' by Shakespeare but, in fact, was almost certainly meant as the very traditional 'Innogen' and then was mistranscribed later.
Innogen is used in Much Ado About Nothing and there's a written legend of Innogen the quean that predates Shakespeare. Innogen is married to Leonato in Much Ado and Imogen in Cymbeline is paired with a male character who has the nickname 'Leonatus'.
Also, in 1611, Simon Foreman saw the play and records the character is being called Innogen.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:10:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
J M Barrie popularised the name Wendy. Although he didn't invent it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:15:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The name Wendy was popularised by JM Barrie. It was his nickname for Margaret Henley who was the daughter of WE Henley, the man who inspired the creation of Long John Silver by RL Stephenson!
7LeagueBoots ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:21:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anyone can misspell a name, that doesn't mean they invented it.
afunkyguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:51:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jessicaaaaaaaaa!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:51:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the word mountaineer.
_lukey___ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:04:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey youuu...
mbrw12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:12:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
COME BACK HERE JESSSSICCCAAAAAA
AviatorKangeroo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:16:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you work for BT? That fact is on our internal screens today.
BeepBloopBeep ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:25:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder if everyone called her Jennifer too... I hate my name.
April_Fabb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:35:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe he was responsible for about 1500 words, expressions and idioms, so this one in particular doesn't seem unreasonable.
suburban_hyena ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:36:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
JM Barrie invented the name Wendy.
SubatomicDuck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:42:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Suddenly, Killgrave comments.
tigerjess ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:49:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shakespeare invented my name? Wooot! My claim to fame!
Alton1231 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:53:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also invented the word assassin. Assassinate and all its forms had existed, as did Hashashin, but assassins only existed in his plays for a long time.
the-iron-queen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:54:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Likewise, J M Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, invented the name "Wendy."
ShadowWriter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:00:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And JM Barrie invented the name Wendy.
jusjerm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:14:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shakespeare is created with the invention of 1700 words, including alligator
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:20:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The first known use of the name Wendy was in Peter Pan.
fordycreak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:21:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I once knew a girl named Jethica, I want to punch the person who thought that up
giantspeck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:21:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I want to know who is responsible for creating the name "Jessie" and making all the lives of male Jesses living hell.
mistixs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't he also say the first yo mama joke?
rztzz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:28:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
side note: the list of phrases coined by shakespear is long and impressive. So many things like "havnet slept a wink", things have gone "full circle", "alls well that ends well", etc. came from the guy http://www.pathguy.com/shakeswo.htm
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:29:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol... just plain loling over here... yeah... mhm... shakespear invented the female version of the biblical name "Jesse"...
i invented the [spelling of the] name capnflummox
pulls out hand for you to talk to
dogshenanigans ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:33:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it was Greg Allman...
emeraldarcana ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:38:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The movie "Splash" in 1984 invented the name "Madison" (as a first name acceptable for girls).
EarthBoundMisfitEye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:46:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and did NOT invent Juliet- which many believe he did.
colourfulcoffee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:05:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He also invented the name Miranda.
Hellknightx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:34:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shakespeare never spelled his name as "Shakespeare" either. We have several original signatures of his, and none of them are spelled that way.
So technically, someone invented the word Shakespeare after Shakespeare died.
GodofWitsandWine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:49:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
JM Barrie invented the name Wendy - or so I've been told.
nagelwithlox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:11:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The name Wendy didn't exist before Peter Pan
blubox28 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:20:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The name Wendy comes from the story Peter Pan.
xkforce ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:45:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Shakespeare invented over 1700 new words in the English language many of which originated as nouns that were converted to verbs. Olivia is another name that was invented by Shakespeare.
whitekeyblackstripe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:47:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And Olivia
mulduvar2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:24:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think he also coined the word crocodile
A_favorite_rug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:00:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He created a lot of words. Also his lewd jokes are awesome.
Triquetra4715 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:37:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And a whole bunch of idioms.
OccasionalCynic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:47:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Author Jonathan Swift invented the name Vanessa in the 18th century. His secret mistress was a woman with the name Esther Vanhomrigh. He took the at that time common nickname Essa for Esther and combined it with the first three letters of her last name to create Vanessa. The name became popular because he also worked it into several love peoms which got published.
DAZTEC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:32:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can I thank him for making like all the Jessica I know fucking beautiful? Coz hot damn, I want to hot jam myself in there.
bassnugget ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:04:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
shakes beer furiously at the thought of it
Zylvian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:13:22 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Justin Roiland invented the name Tensica.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:18:29 on May 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read somewhere that he also invented the name Imogen, but I'm not sure if that's true.
I DO know he invented the word "bedroom."
Zalwol ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:53:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jessica is in the bible. She's Abraham's niece.
fuzzyperson98 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:54:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jesca, not Jessica.
Zalwol ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:07:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Inventing a new spelling for a name is not the same thing as inventing a new name. Especially if the name is from a different language and the English spelling is arbitrary to begin with.
hawaiims ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:47:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Along with thousands of common phrases and words:
http://www.pathguy.com/shakeswo.htm
ojalt ยท 4487 points ยท Posted at 02:57:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When the Declaration of Independence was signed, Mozart was 20 years old.
Mindsweeper ยท 6302 points ยท Posted at 09:23:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When the Declaration of Independence was stolen, Nicholas Cage was 39 years old.
Prometheus8330 ยท 105 points ยท Posted at 12:46:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, he's born in 2238, 39 years before the Lone Wanderer left his Vault.
ThatEuropeanDude ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:33:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Weeeell, I'm the type of guy that likes to roam around.
thumpas ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:28:45 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wherever pretty girls are, well you know that I'm around.
ThatEuropeanDude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:36:42 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I kiss 'em and I love 'em 'cause to me they're all the same.
lord_gaben3000 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:10:26 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I roamed around so much in that game the first time I got it I jumped ahead 4 quest lines because of a bug that happened when I talked to someone before I got the main quest.
sexihunk666 ยท -36 points ยท Posted at 14:04:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol. I'm so old, having been born in 2000.
vullnet123 ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 15:13:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Relevant name
sexihunk666 ยท -14 points ยท Posted at 16:11:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How?
Tstrace87 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 17:21:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It seems like a fuckboy name that a 15-16 year old straight white male would have
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:30:29 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Tstrace87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:07:29 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok?
sexihunk666 ยท -24 points ยท Posted at 17:31:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
#niggered
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:39:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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SadGhoster87 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:12:36 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, it's so weird how nobody can spell Nicolas Caje.
jaycoopermusic ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 13:58:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey should make a movie about Mozart starring Nicholas Cage.
Blue_gecko ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:10:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have an add-on in my browser that turns the word god into Nicholas Cage, so I'm not entirely sure to which one you are referring...
A_favorite_rug ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:16:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's even better when you mix /r/Christanity, /r/atheism, and /r/oneturegod. It can be like mixing /r/theonion with /r/nottheonion.
ZamboniZombie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:28:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/onetruegod
Nickl140 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:36:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fixed
bluthscottgeorge ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:20:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
r/onetruegod
warmbutteredbagel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:27:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Still is.
NosyEnthusiast6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:21:38 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Today, Cage is still 36.
ClintonHarvey ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 13:26:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He looked damn near 57.
demon_ix ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:40:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Motherfucker, you look thirty.
DRM_Removal_Bot ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 14:32:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously, Dude named himself after Luke Cage.
bluebehemoth ยท 76 points ยท Posted at 07:16:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why does it sound false? He's obviously classical ( even people who don't know music know that) and classical go from 1730 to 1820 (many educated guess would have put it in the 18th century). I don't see why it would seem wrong to anyone.
Legault_Revan ยท 75 points ยท Posted at 07:40:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think that most in the us without music history knowledge lump most composers further back in history
tobiasvl ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 09:55:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When in history is that?
i_love_boobiez ยท 52 points ยท Posted at 11:13:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Further back
jusjerm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:18:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Renaissance, I assume.
eekstatic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:46:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The early Back-Age.
ChulaK ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 10:10:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here's my train of thought: Mozart, Beethoven, fancy fancy, Italy, Renaissance, Rome, not Spartans too far back, Caesar maybe, still a bit far, but somewhere there yeah
xpoc ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 10:19:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You really need to learn some history dude.
ChulaK ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:32:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, the fact that the main comment is way upvoted shows I'm not the only one. Calm down bro
he-said-youd-call ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:52:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think that was too bad, but I'm sorta confused what you think about Caesar. Two sentence summary of what you know about him?
SirLoinOfCow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:09:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pizza! Pizza!
xpoc ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 10:51:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That just shows that a lot of people need to learn some history, to be honest.
Classical music happened thousands of years after Caesar and the Roman empire.
[deleted] ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 11:09:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, because lots of people need to know that.
xpoc ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 11:19:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone should know this by age 6...
glenomenon ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 11:25:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
โซ Now I know my ABC's
And also the historical timeline correlation between the birth of the Roman Empire and western classical music โซ
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 11:49:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you fucking kidding me? You actually think that kids know when Mozart was alive in correlation to important historical events?
They barely know who Mozart is at that age
xpoc ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 13:27:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
By six I was learning stuff like Aesop's fables and Greek mythology. I certain knew that classical music came a very long time after the Roman Empire ended.
Please don't send your kids to whichever school you attended.
tobiasvl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:58:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're not aware that Caesar lived right before Jesus was born?
1337bruin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:39:56 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which Caesar?
tobiasvl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:28:17 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Julius.
Amenemhab ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:23:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's weird because there are very few really famous composers further back in history. Those from the decades just before Mozart (Bach, Hรคndel, Telemann, Vivaldi...) are well-known, but before that the only really famous one is Purcell (I mean there are loads of them but they're not famous).
I never encountered this misconception where I live, I assume it's an American thing. I imagine you guys don't learn much the chronology of the rest of world after 1776 so some people assume everything they heard of in Europe etc. happened before that.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:35:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's just because you form chronologies of a single subject โย my classical music timeline goes from Hildegard von Bingen to now, but it's filled with composers and their interrelations, not with painters and empires. It's really hard to integrate timelines with each other, it takes a conscious effort in the very least. I really can't blame people for being surprised that Schubert was born just after the treaty of Tripoli. After all, for that you have to know when Schubert lived (i.e. locate him on your music timeline), and counterpoint that with your American History timeline (i.e. know when the Barbary treaties were signed) โย and who the hell does that intuitively? History education anywhere is narrative-driven and insulated while history itself is a complex chaos, I don't think it's a particular American thing.
Amenemhab ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:50:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, my point is that I actually didn't learn history the way you describe. In middle school we had old-school world history mostly in chronological order, and in high school we had a quick chronology to tie everything together, that included both political and cultural events, and apart from that what we did was concentrate on a specific time and place and study everything from that era, politics, trade, arts etc. It wasn't "narrative-driven" at all.
(Also, I never heard of the treaty of Tripoli :)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:22:15 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With "narrative-driven" I did not mean some idealogical narrative, but exactly that kind of chronological kind of history teaching which aims to give an overview of the large issues. It's very important and useful of course, but it's such an abstraction that it becomes hard to do anything with it. For example, when you give the chronology of the Napoleonic wars you can talk about the French Revolution, crossing the Alps, the wars with Britain, Egyptian expedition, the invasion of Russia, exile in Elba, return & Waterloo, exile in St. Helena, and numerous other events.
However, there are several issues with such an approach:
For the sake of brevity and clarity you have to focus on the large happenings, but you ignore so much important history if you do that! Not only the (relatively) small historical incidents that had the most impact on peoples' lives, but also the various happenings that lead to or caused big historical events. This causes history to be become a series of events that are hardly related to each other, which makes it really hard to mentally place them.
Learning those lists of factoids leads to knowing that something happened, but not how and why something happened. The abstraction takes so much of the knowledge out of history. "The ancient Egyptians built the pyramids" says almost nothing. When did they build the pyramids? How? Why? Who where these Egyptians โย what were their customs and lifestyle?
What I meant with narrative-driven is that in telling the story of the Napoleonic wars, you are carving out a piece of time and marking it "Napoleonic Wars โย 1803-1815". That piece of history is now predominantly the story of Napoleon and not of Jane Austen or Beethoven, the Anglo-Spanish war or the Argentinian Independence war. It's not wrong, and it the Napoleonic Wars were by far the most important events of the time, but it can be hard to realise that you've only got a small piece of the 1803-1815 period. After all, there were lots of people who were not or hardly involved with the wars, and for many people, life just went on. By labeling periods in that way, you are creating an abstraction (again), and make it really hard to connect to history in a mentally meaningful way (again).
I'm not saying we need to change the way we teach history or something since having a global overview is definitely important, but I can't blame people for not knowing how to place historical events or people. If the difference between the 17th century and the 18th century is a few battles and some numbers, how can you expect people to know whether Telemann lived in one or the other?
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 10:48:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Robinisthemother ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:59:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is really interesting
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 09:02:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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alfonso_x ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 12:55:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pro tip: Unless you're a big music nerd, you've probably never heard of a composer who lived as far back as Shakespeare. (Besides Henry VIII, Pythagoras, and others who were known primarily for things other than composition.)
Robinisthemother ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:13:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is some great music from the Renaissance. It's so old sounding that it has become fresh again, at least to my ears. I love it.
Carlo Gesualdo https://youtu.be/GNb6y0q4n2A
alfonso_x ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:25:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I actually love Renaissance music. (I was in a madrigal group once upon a time.) I'm a big fan of John Dowland and Palestrina, but I wager OP has never heard of either.
PlayMp1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:00:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But that's the Renaissance!
Robinisthemother ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:06:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Monteverdi? Gesualdo? Josquin de Prez? William Byrd?
Some of the greatest composers came from the Renaissance.
PlayMp1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:44:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure but those are Renaissance composers, Mozart was classical...
LotsOfMaps ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:20:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a common conceit that no one in "old Europe" really knew about the Americas until the US was a country. The tendency in US teaching of world history is to skip over the Early Modern Era in Europe, and go straight from the Renaissance to focusing strictly on what was going on in the American colonies.
Makes for great fun when reading the Comedy of Errors and seeing references to the discovery of America (100 years prior) in there.
AcreWise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:35:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thomas Jefferson never saw a train.
madman19 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:16:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd say because in the US you generally learn about us history and world history in different classes and/or grades. So you probably perceive the two happening at different times
BonerPorn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:53:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I teach music. A shocking number of people seem to group composers in a vague era pre-America. Even if they recognize that say Mozart is an 18th century composer. They rarely consider what else was going on.
I swear some of my students think that all classical music was made immediately after the renaissance and then went untouched until pop music came around.
thedeadlyrhythm42 ยท 78 points ยท Posted at 05:42:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So were a few of the guys who signed it
thendcomes ยท 111 points ยท Posted at 07:38:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The youngest was 26. The average age was 44. For the curious: https://allthingsliberty.com/2013/08/ages-of-revolution-how-old-1776/
d_marvin ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:42:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love how much the made up "facts" following the top facts are getting upvoted.
Iceyeeye ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 05:54:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't imagine myself being 20 and signing a document like that.
SoldierOf4Chan ยท 95 points ยท Posted at 07:34:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It really is a young man's move, though. They were signing their own death warrants if things went south, and that's the sort of thing that appeals to young men more than older men. Just think about all the high school kids nowadays signing their names to a document that says they'd be willing to die for a principle.
Zebidee ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 09:21:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Better than high school kids willing to die for a principal.
MrJed ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 09:50:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where's your school spirit?
Zebidee ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:53:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Soon, they will all be spirits...
SneakyPope ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 10:01:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wolverines!!!
amishius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:35:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If we don't hang separately, we'll surely hang together!
watchoutfordeer ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 06:01:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And having a bunch of future idiots obsess over your wisdom.
Iceyeeye ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 06:30:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh god. It is bad enough only I obsess over what a fuck-up I was and am from time to time. I don't think I'm father material, much less Founding Father material.
EDIT; words is hard.
Martenz05 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:57:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry about the former. The fact that you even care about it makes you better father material that a significant amount of actual fathers.
Jay_Louis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:15:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Republicans comprehending the Constitution is like monkeys trying to understand the Monolith in 2001. Both end only with the discovery of weapons
Minion666 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 08:16:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Am I wrong to assume that you believe the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are for 'idiots'?
lord_tubbington ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:26:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just that a lot of idiots don't let the document breathe to accommodate modernity or criminally misinterpret it into supporting idiotic arguments.
Revolvyerom ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:24:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From my reading of his statement, yes, you are wrong. That's a weird take.
One has only to imagine Donald Drumpf attempting to address the will of the founding fathers to understand /u/watchoutfordeer 's intent.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:27:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about after removing Franklin from the data set? He was a lot older than many of them
civildisobedient ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:52:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You might if you only lived to see 40.
One of the unfortunate byproducts of our increasing longevity is that we're turning adolescence into extended childhood. Our culture could produce a usable member of society, capable of independent thought and reason, at a much earlier age two hundred and fifty years ago.
Notmyrealname ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:19:47 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most 20-year olds sign lots of stuff without reading it first.
bssmx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:08:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who
DouchecraftCarrier ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:27:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And George Washington died 6 years after him, in 1797.
Bipedal_Horse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:26:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Marquis de Lafayette was 18 when the Declaration of Independence was signed.
amgisaro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:12:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bullshit. Austria has been independent a lot longer than that.
cutiebug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:28:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then stolen by a 43 year old NIC Cage
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:50:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why does that sound wrong? I don't get it.
albions-angel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:55:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The whole history of europe is screwed up in peoples perceptions. From about 400 to 1700, people condense, lengthen, swap history all the time. But when you stop and think...
400, the Romans leave Britain. The dark ages begin, and the Anglo-Saxons turn up. And most people think "welp, they stayed for a bit and then got their asses handed to them a couple hundred years later by the Normans". No, because then you remember it was 1066 before the normans showed up. 600 years later. But then things get even screwier because its only 200 years before you get your full plate knights riding around, even though people think of those as being shortly extant before the Renascence, which is still another 400 years away.
Meanwhile, the Huns attack the roman empire before 1000, but people think of Atilla like some sort of viking raider type person, picturing chainmail and braodswords and metal shields, but even thats not quite right because the vikings as we think of them existed from 400 right through to 1200 at least.
The Mongol invasion of Europe takes place in the 1200s. People think of it as early middle ages. But thats the SAME TIME as the 3rd crusade, Richard the Lionheart, Saladin type thing, which people attribute to late middle ages.
The holy roman empire fits in there somewhere though no one knows where. Same with the moorish invasion of Spain.
People think "well, guns turned up in the Renascence", and by that they mean 1700, except guns were first used in large amounts in Britain at the Battle of Bosworth Fields by Henry 7ths forces in 1400s. 1400s!
The age of stone castles was really only about 400 years, from the 1100s to the 1500s when cannon became common. But people think of it being this massive era.
The dark ages and middle ages of europe are one, huge, historical mess. One day I will sit down and try to understand the timeline of events.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:42:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Speaking of Mozart, Ben Franklin gave Mozart the glass harmonica he developed. Weird to think they both knew each other.
Frictus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:54:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the shit I love. Knowing that while in the US they were running around signing shit over in Europe some guy was making wonderful music. They never connect these dots in history class. They teach it as if when the declaration was signed nothing else was going on. Fuck that.
rbnstl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:57:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why are people shocked by this?
MandMsPasta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:58:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This one f led with me the most.
zeekar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:53:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Mozart and the Founding Fathers were contemporaries, yes. Franklin and Mozart met at least once; Franklin showed off his glass harmonica and Mozart composed some pieces for it.
Worst_Lurker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:05:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In my music literature class, we had to write an essay on a composer's life and then make a timeline of events in their life, works released, as well as world events. That timeline really helped put things in historical context
Titanosaurus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:13:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The founding fathers are older than napoleon.
Bob9999999999999 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:56:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Incidentally, Napoleon was about a month shy of his seventh birthday when the Declaration of Independence was signed. Also, when George Washington died, Napoleon, who was leader of France by then, ordered ten days of mourning throughout France in Washington's honor.
curiousiah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:03:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And he'd already been playing for European royalty for 15 years.
Nerdwiththehat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:48:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I still remain incredibly amused that Mozart was the young upstart when George Washington was a freedom fighter in the young United States.
Mozart was basically the punk rocker from across the sea that the rebel anarchists were listening to during their revolution.
Olibor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:33:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
His mother died when he was 20 ):
Co-incidence...?
serioussam909 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:26:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That doesn't seem wrong. The USA isn't an ancient country.
Notmyrealname ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:19:10 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why would that sound wrong?
courtenayplacedrinks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any particular declaration of independence you're thinking of? There's about 100 on this page.
bigcalal ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:49:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Surely he's talking about the Haitian one...certainly no way to guess.
whangadude ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 10:16:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/iamverysmart
Ubernaught ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:58:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh. He's not using his thesaurus enough
Adamsandlersshorts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:26:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like this one. Thank you
Puffyshoes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:06:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
as a music major, this one fucked me up
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:52:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should switch to History major.
peenegobb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:16:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, thanks. There's a lot of facts here that are like "damn I knew this but it's still pretty crazy" but I actually didn't know this. That's awesome
Jentelus ยท 3190 points ยท Posted at 01:02:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you could fold a piece of paper in half 42 times, it would reach the moon (assuming it is of average thickness ~ 0.01cm)
Fadman_Loki ยท 2091 points ยท Posted at 01:15:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unfortunately, it's nearly impossible to fold a piece of paper in half more than seven times.
ThereShallBeMe ยท 304 points ยท Posted at 04:01:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Myth busters did 11. They started with a paper the size of a football field.
MattMakesPhotos ยท 93 points ยท Posted at 15:04:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They also did the awesome 2 phonebooks joined page by page not being able to be separated by anything but two tanks in the end due to friction. Super cool.
askburlefot ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 15:39:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Recently a physicist and TV host bungee jumped using two phone books as a link between the bungee cord and the bridge.
MattMakesPhotos ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 15:47:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Makes for dramatic tv I guess! Probably stronger than the bungee coord although lacking elasticity.
p90xeto ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 15:49:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought you wrote "lacking electricity" and for a moment I really doubted my understanding of how bungee cords work.
A_favorite_rug ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:19:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scientists can be crazy.
A_favorite_rug ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:18:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was what got me into them and even science in general. Blew my fucking mind at the time. Still does now.
UwasaWaya ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:11:09 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They did this at the museum for a Mythbusters exhibit. You could sit on a swing held by these interlinked phonebooks. Pretty awesome.
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:13:44 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How the fuck does that work anyway?
MattMakesPhotos ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:31:26 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think all the roughness of the paper kinda locks together page by page. And cumulatively it's very difficult to pull a telephone book apart from each side without twisting. But my basic comment does a disservice to the bit which is worth watching.
RenaKunisaki ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:20:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And ended up using a steamroller to fold it.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 12:49:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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carvex ยท 115 points ยท Posted at 13:38:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude your commas are floating
DigitSubversion ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 14:47:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn gravity... probably the moon again!
Bert_the_Avenger ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 15:30:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, it's all these planets some idiot crammed between Earth and Moon to show that it's possible.
fireork12 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:57:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, I can see urectum from here!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:38:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Meta af
LexLol ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:03:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a [10] comma.
RHeegaard ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:10:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IIRC, the paper was thinner than regular paper, so it doesn't really count.
emkat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:12:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
still paper.
fistisalsoanadverb ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:39:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sadly this is the final season. :(
mephisasmoth ยท 1856 points ยท Posted at 01:33:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, or BOOM
mecrosis ยท 4809 points ยท Posted at 02:20:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
"wha da fahk" - Hydraulic Press Channel Guy.
Edit: link
manlightning ยท 1102 points ยท Posted at 05:51:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It some kind of exploded
ProllyJustWantsKarma ยท 423 points ยท Posted at 08:11:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Source for the curious. You will not regret it.
Technical_Machine_22 ยท 195 points ยท Posted at 08:43:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ELI5: Paper has calcium carbonate mixed in to give it stiffness and color, it can't handle the folding and fails much like a cement column.
uoaos ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 09:40:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ha...but... but the world record is 13 times.... edit: source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ0QWn7Z-IQ
BthreePO ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 12:50:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a dick, taking a world record away from a 16 yr old girl by using HER equation for finding the size of paper required.
Clarityy ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 14:57:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She doesn't own the equation, she merely invented/discovered it. And they quite properly accredited its discovery to her. To the point of including her in the video.
YourChips ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 13:12:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that's what I was thinking lol
thatwaffleskid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:23:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well now she has more proof to her formula, so that's a plus.
ridicalis ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 12:37:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL that eating paper fixes your heartburn.
Ask_me_about_WoTMUD ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:03:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn. You just scienced that bitch.
phil8248 ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 10:05:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So many more people doomed to watch every video on the Hydraulic Press Channel.
liquidthc ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 11:37:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love that the guy has started making videos again because of all the new subscribers and views. From one of his comments on youtube: Hydraulic Press Channel: I start make videos today again now they have some viewers, Thank you all for support.๏ปฟ
7LeagueBoots ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 11:27:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He turned it back into wood.
CouldntThinkOf1 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 08:43:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, what the fuck
The_Sober_Ocelot ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 10:01:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nono "Wha da fahk?"
spali ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:01:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Family show.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:14:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Moral of the story: don't divide by 0
FlyOnDreamWings ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:06:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL paper can explode.
EndDeer93 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:45:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Made me lol, thank you for this
Bradalax ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:09:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Went here expecting the press to have exploded (failed). Was mildly disappointed.....yet still amused.
Rhurabarber ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:34:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"What did you do this beautiful spring Sunday, Rhurabarber?"
"I went birdwatching, washed my car, ate half a tube of Pringles, had a glass of Jack&Coke. Spent half an hour watching Hydraulic Press Channel. I regret nothing."
Ask_me_about_WoTMUD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:02:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hahaha. He said "What the fuck?" at the exact moment I did.
JLBeck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:05:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are too many amazing things in that video to comment on. Thank you.
Wyneon ยท -15 points ยท Posted at 10:47:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Meh. Kinda regreted it. Not that interesting.
livingthepuglife ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 12:34:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry your parents beat the wonder out of you :(
Wyneon ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 12:43:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry i don't find Paper Folding interesting.
ProllyJustWantsKarma ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:09:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not mostly the paper, it's the guy.
pf2- ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 08:20:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Turned back into wood
nietzschetsefly ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 11:23:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aur peippรถr samkaind of eksploudid
Kryojen ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:34:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It legit fuckin shattered
withbob ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:21:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It turned back into wood.
cguy1234 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:05:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just like this thread!
DAZTEC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:52:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, she's some kind of wonderful...
vortigaunt64 ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 06:41:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that was easily the second most entertaining time I've heard somebody shout fuck in my life.
ManBearPig1865 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:18:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's the first?
vortigaunt64 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:29:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was walking down the street, and I see this pickup truck with a trailer pulling into a parking lot next to a big ditch. As I'm getting closer, he starts to pull out again, and knocks over this stack of 55 gallon oil drums, and they start rolling into this ditch. I hear in the distance- FUCK. You really had to be there.
ebullientpostulates ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 06:57:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuG_CeEZV6w
IamBatmanReally ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 07:52:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
all META jokes should be like yours: source-including
ACryingOrphan ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 03:25:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Vhat does the Fox say vhen in the hydraulic press?"
Spellmage ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:19:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"EEEEEHH"
GaryTheFed ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 03:44:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably rabid barking, followed by a shrill howling as the press smashes it's head, followed by the crunch of its skullled and finally the lowering soft barks as it dies.
Sorry, not a sadist, I'm just playing the Sims...
TheRealClyde1 ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 06:39:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
crushed skull
lowering soft barks
choose one
FourBox ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:28:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gary!
SmellySlutSocket ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:57:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha gaaaarryyyyy!
Peap9326 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:43:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'ehh'
pervysage1608 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:54:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
his channel took off
Phyfador ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:53:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well...he was right. "WTF, it some kind of exploded" I really wanted to see him try 42 times.
mathent ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:50:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What does the fox say? Hhhhhhhnnngggg
ofortuna_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:50:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
link to vid?
sdglksdgblas ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 07:04:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
somewhere on top of /r/videos
captainzigzag ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:04:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Press is not blended.
JooJoona ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:24:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
AHAHAHAHA! Reddit knows?
CollusorReginae ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:38:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Hydraulic Press Channel" - lol
tidarjoey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:31:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
our paper..
i_hope_i_remember ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:36:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I only watched that last night.
Debasers_Comics ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:39:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love his accent. I've never heard the word "help" given two syllables: HEL-up.
Storrytime ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:29:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I swear it's like someone divided by zero or something.
ChewyGums ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:33:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The uneven folds got to me.
DanielGames ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:38:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's like the 'will it blend' guy but cooler.
aaaaaaaarrrrrgh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:43:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And he sold out to Jukin Media so the video can no longer be played in the RES embed.
BAM5 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:27:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fuck that's a good way to lose a finger. Better procedure would have been to lower to a certain point where wedging the paper in would hold the paper in place, then press it. Or use some pliers. Pancake-ing body parts is worse than breaking tools.
weedsmokingscientist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:20:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Our paper some kind of... exploded"
Guatemalaptb ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:33:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you that channel is incredible. I have never felt like my life was complete until I saw these videos of a finnish guy crushing things
flamingspew ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:07:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damnit I just posted this. Didn't realize that channel was so popular.
GrilledCyan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:57:25 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where is Hydraulic Press Channel guy from? I think somebody said Finland?
mecrosis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:24:36 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah that's what a bunch of people have said.
SquirrelicideScience ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:49:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't understand.
ncwarrior ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:01:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We've gone meta
pFunkdrag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:09:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is such a reddit community comment. Crazy how I immediately was thinking the same thing, but normal people out there would have no clue wha da fahk you're talking about.
nietzschetsefly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:21:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Finis piipl spiik inlis laik tis
bad_at_hearthstone ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:55:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah've got th' beeeast in mah siiiiiiiiights!
rabidwhale ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:45:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Boom bots may explode if folded seven times.
uniptf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:07:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like that Chinese guy's head.
James29UK ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 03:30:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
But Mythbusters
followedfolded a piece of paper 11 times (albeit it was the size of a football pitch).Monagan ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 07:26:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That record's been broken already (I think it's 13 times by now) but if you're making the paper thinner you're kind of cheating.
sharkpunch850 ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 08:51:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't call it cheating its just that i kind of defeats the whole point of talking about a piece of paper folded 42 times. We talk about this anecdotally to try to grasp the concept of exponential growth and how insanely large the numbers get very quickly.
It's all insane though trying to really understand infinity and then understand that some mathematical equations go there way slower. Also I have an infinite series test on monday and should definitely be going to sleep
Plokhi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:22:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why is it cheating? It's not like there's a standard thickness.
furlongxfortnight ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:40:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kind of. 80 g/m2 is what people are accustomed with.
Plokhi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:10:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
still, "kind of" and "accostumed with" is far from "if you're making thinner you're kinda cheating"
I can try folding a 600g/m2 paper and then say it cant be folded more than 3 times and everything else is cheating. There's an equation that predicts that kind of stuff.
This paper thing sounds extremely wrong and is actually wrong.
furlongxfortnight ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:20:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Cardboard" is what people call 600g/m2 paper.
Let's say that the whole thing is extremely wrong for unbearably pedantic people.
Plokhi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:41:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and you call me pedantic! I laughed tho, touchรฉ.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:18:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He said nearly impossible.
faithle55 ยท -19 points ยท Posted at 07:03:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So it reached a quarter of the way to the moon?
Would have thought that would make the news....
mangoshakes99 ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 07:09:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. Paper folding is not linear.
derleth ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:34:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right, it's exponential: Every fold doubles its width, so it grows as 2n for n folds.
faithle55 ยท -18 points ยท Posted at 08:18:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whoosh.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:32:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Start with 1, double it: 2. Double it again: 4. Keep going: 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024. We only doubled it 10 times and it's already over 1000.
faithle55 ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 10:03:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also whoosh.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:19:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay start from the other end. 42 folds gets you to the moon. So 41 folds would only get you half way. Each fold doubles the thickness. So 40 folds gets you a quarter of the way.
Your reasoning was that if 42 folds gets you to the moon, then one fold would get you 1/42th of the way. But that's 5680 miles, just from folding once, so that can't be right.
faithle55 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 13:51:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...and whoosh again.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:51:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay, if you say "whoosh" to this, we're done:
You said "So it reached a quarter of the way to the moon?" What train of thought did you follow to come up with that?
faithle55 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:14:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was a fucking joke, dude. The Whoosh! sound is it going completely over your head.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:39:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, I know what Whoosh means. I'm just speaking to you as if you're an idiot.
faithle55 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:42:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's very common on the internet.
Insecurity is at the heart of it, I suspect.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:03:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You keep reaching for the stars, kiddo.
Plokhi ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:23:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not whoosh, it's just a bad joke that's only funny if you completely lack understanding of exponential growth.
mohself ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 08:24:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
actually that is not true. If the paper is long enough, you can fold it as many times as you can. The current record is either 12 or 13.
Src
stickmanDave ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 04:41:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I won a bet once by doing this. The poor sap didn't specify the size of the piece of paper i could use, so I unrolled a role of toilet paper. I got to 8 or 9 folds.
imright_anduknowit ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 01:26:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It'll explode.
Highbard ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 02:52:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, it shatters.
banfromallsubreddits ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:43:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"What da fawk"
DanTastic_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:16:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was pretty cool.
BrassBass ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:55:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love that channel so much.
mattoly ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 02:31:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which, honestly, is the fact that sounds wrong but actually isn't.
Aaaaayyyyylmao ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:59:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depends on what size paper we are talking.
butler1233 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:04:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No it doesn't. It's all about Exponential growth/decay of the surface area of the layers and the amount of layers.
marioinfinity ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:02:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually some high school girl did it like 12 times...
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:01:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if you tired with a hydraulic press?
Fadman_Loki ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:09:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Boom.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:03:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We're going to the moon!
ur_meme_is_bad ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:36:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, this just proves the moon landing was faked.
Sabedoria ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:46:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I don't fold It. I just tear it in half each time. It's the same thing but easier (it does start to get hard really quickly though).
Lupin_AAGL ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:26:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Put 42 pieces of paper on top of each other. Tell me if you get to the moon.
Sabedoria ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 05:36:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well that would be linearly additive rather than exponentially additive which is what you get when folding or tearing the piece in half each time. It isn't like I am tearing a single piece into 42 pieces. I am tearing it in half, putting the pieces on top of one another, and repeating. So the tearing goes 1 piece, 2 pieces, 4 pieces, 8, 16, 32, etc. If you just fold it, the same thing happens.
Lupin_AAGL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:45:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Still deciding if your username fits. Probably does, I suppose this all makes sense
Sabedoria ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:49:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You still run into the problem of just too many layers. Eventually there's nothing holding the stack together and it just flies everywhere. Also, cutting that many is hard, but there are work arounds at least thanks to various paper-cutting technologies.
TheVeryMask ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:49:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
You can also describe this as additive growth vs exponential growth. At the next point of additive growth, you add 1 to the previous total. For linear/proportional/multiplicative growth, you increase to the next multiple. With quadratic growth, you increase the base while keeping the same exponent, and with exponential growth you increase the exponent. There are also sublinear growths of several kinds, but they aren't as dramatic.
To use 2 as an example, it's the difference between 2+n, 2n, n2, and 2n. That last pair look similar, but they behave very differently. There are even bigger growths as well, like arrow notation for nesting exponents like 2โโ2 being 222 if I remember right.
It's important to know at least the smaller ones and how to spot them. f.ex Savings and sales both act additively: the final total is the largest concern. You can't save money by spending it unless the purchase was inevitable and would be worse later. It can also prevent future purchases, but that's about lifespan which isn't really to topic. Fairness however is proportional: if you and I make a thing to sell together, it's a 1:1 split, and we sell 5 items, then later I make it so the split is 99:1 but we sell 10k, that's really unfair even though you're making objectively more money. Folding paper is exponential growth: every time you make a fold you double the number of layers. 42 folds is a ton because it's 242, not 2*42.
I could go on about other important shapes like bell curves, well curves, pareto distributions, kinds of means, how possibility spaces increase as cardinality increases, etc but this is off topic enough.
The labels are less important than the concepts, and being able to tell the shape of growth is more important than remembering what to call it. Still, do point out standard terminology if I misnamed anything.
E: Included an extra term in my digression.
canyoutriforce ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:18:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have to cut the stack in half and put one part on top of the other
Folseit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:19:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's nearly impossible to fold a piece of 8.5in x 11in paper in half more than seven times.
crackanape ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's super-easy if you unfold it again between each attempt.
tboneplayer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:34:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I once folded a large piece of thin paper in half eight times. So it can be done... but there was no way I could fold that same piece of paper in half nine times.
elmariachi304 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:47:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mythbusters got to 11
jonbristow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:48:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it is possible. just get a bigger paper, not an A4
birdnerd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:56:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://pomonahistorical.org/12times.htm
Account__Compromised ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:08:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Myth busters busted this. Boom roasted
ifCreepyImJoking ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not with appropriate area to thickness ratio it isn't - try tissue paper, or reaaaally big paper. Mythbusters got to 11 or something with a football field of paper. So... Get a galxy-spanning sheet of paper, and origami us up a nice space elevator.
WarLordM123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:23:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
mythbusters, eleven times.
J_Frey93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:23:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With standard paper, yes. Mythbusters folded a football field size piece in half 11 times though.
junglemonsterr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:23:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
mythbusters did it 11 times,
so not that impossible
immortal_joe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:59:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I kinda got to 8, but it didn't really stay flat at all.
I am baffled by this 7x rule.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:02:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a damn shame. Really would've saved a lot of work back in the 60's.
websnarf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:24:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sigh. No it's not
minuswhale ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:32:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mythbusters once folded a sheet of football-stadium-sized paper 11 times in half.
Trikk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:40:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So if you take 6 of those and put them together, you'll reach the moon?
njmh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:53:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I might be wrong, but from memory, I think mythbusters got up to 11 folds. The "piece" of paper was the size of an airplane hanger though and they had to use a fork lift to make the last few folds because the paper was too heavy.
thardoc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:20:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mythbusters got 11, highest I've seen.
Zaelot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:33:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here's 11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRAEBbotuIE
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:45:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MythBusters tried it with a huge piece of paper and a steam roller.
msbabc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:54:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But not completely impossible.
mystahead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:01:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They debunked that myth on mythbusters. I know you said nearly, but they took a sheet of paper the size of a football field and folded it more than seven times
bredman3370 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:04:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So you're saying it can be done?
kasper117 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:19:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would very much like to disagree with that
Thundergrunge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:26:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mythbusters did it 12 times I believe.
shadow1515 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:29:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Encyclopedia Brown taught me that if someone claims to have folded a paper 7+ times then everything they say is therefore a lie.
April_Fabb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:38:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe the record is 12 times, however.
Thaweed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:54:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
tell that to the mythbusters, the tried it with a football field sized paper and foplded it 10 or 11 times.
AssholeBot9000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:06:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Psh, mythbusters did it like 10 times or something.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:09:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't the record like 9 or some shit like that.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:11:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If only we had a hydraulic press...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:15:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So how did we get to the Moon then, smartass?
MrGestore ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:17:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it's possible up to 12,with toilet paper nonetheless
dogshenanigans ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:44:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I couldn't get past six. And now I can't read the song I wrote on the paper
lesbefriendly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:45:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some schoolgirl figured out the formula for calculating it in the early 2000s.
I think the maximum she got was 12 folds with some toilet paper.
Edit: yep
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britney_Gallivan
Fromafuture666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:49:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This can't be possible :/
TrekkiMonstr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:53:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Incorrect
sirin3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:20:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is why problems without polynomial algorithms are called intractable
moea123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:14:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Myth busters proved this as a myth!
I_be_who_I_be ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:02:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've gotten 9.
conejitobrinco ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:49:18 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This has actually been disproven by the myth busters. 11 times is what they got.
sneetric ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:58:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
just make bigger paper
boom, now we go to moon quick
fatalcharm ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:15:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not in half, but you can still fold it. I tried this out myself. I couldn't fold the piece of paper in half accurately, 7 times, but I could still fold it. The paper doesn't need to be folded in half 30-something times, it just needs to be folded to reach the moon.
Alarid ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:16:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have to account for the curve created by the fold. Highest I've seen was 12 folds.
[deleted] ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 01:57:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah the power of exponents ;)
[deleted] ยท 132 points ยท Posted at 01:47:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait... What? How?
[deleted] ยท 248 points ยท Posted at 02:14:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
So when you fold it once, the two 0.01 cm sides make one thickness of 0.02 cm.
3) 0.04 cm
4) 0.08 cm
6) 0.16 cm
7) 0.32 cm
8) 0.64 cm
9) 1.28 cm
10) 2.56 cm
11) 5.12 cm
12) 10.24 cm
13) 20.48 cm
14) 40.96 cm
15) 81.92 cm
16) 163.84 cm
17) 327.68 cm
18) 655.36
19) 1310.72 cm
20) 2621.44 cm
21) 5242.88 cm
22) 10485.76 cm
23) 20971.52 cm
24) 41943.04 cm
25) 83886.08 cm
26) 167772.16 cm
27) 335544.32 cm
28) 671088.64 cm (=4.1699514 miles)
29) 8.34 miles
30) 16.68 mi
31) 33.38 mi
32) 66.76 mi
33) 133.52 mi
34) 267.04 mi
35) 534.08 mi
36) 1068.16 mi
37) 2136.32 mi
38) 4272.64 mi
39) 8545.28 mi
40) 17090.56 mi
41) 34181.12 mi
42) 68,362.24 mi
EDIT: As someone pointed out, I somehow skipped five, bringing the actual total to 136,724.48 miles
TheGreatNico ยท 434 points ยท Posted at 02:36:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
why switch from metric to imperial half way through?
MetroA ยท 964 points ยท Posted at 03:04:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because the moon is American territory
sabrefudge ยท 223 points ยท Posted at 04:27:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pfffffft, well I don't see your name on--
Oh.
Niles-Rogoff ยท 78 points ยท Posted at 05:08:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fun fact, the sun has bleached that flag white by now
sabrefudge ยท 179 points ยท Posted at 05:09:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's just the Moon People surrendering to us.
FourBox ยท 60 points ยท Posted at 05:27:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or the French got there and surrendered pre-emptively.
dnl101 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:20:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it means it's french territory.
AP246 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:32:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was about to say this. You beat me to it.
Manadox ยท 68 points ยท Posted at 06:16:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Doesn't matter, American flags are stitched together, meaning no matter what color it turns it will still be recognizable as the stars and stripes.
[deleted] ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 07:05:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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PM_FOR_GENITALIA ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:44:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That comment gave me an ameri-gasm
pcy623 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 07:47:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think they brought a cheaply made plastic one up there... just a blank sheet of plastic by now.
Manadox ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:17:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, they're all stitched nylon.
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Flag_Assembly
dominickster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:50:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The moon surrenders!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:25:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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NeededKoalafications ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:06:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It belongs to the French
MetroA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:34:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Time for another moon landing.
amishius ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:36:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BART! Stop writing your name on the carpet!
EndotheGreat ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:19:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, anything past Lagrange Point 1 must be measured in freedom units.
poerisija ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:48:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://xkcd.com/984/
xternal7 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:57:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Moon is metric though
aDAMNPATRIOT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:46:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
PoglaTheGrate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:51:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
German rockets got them there, however
Kim_Jong_OON ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:17:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How bitter are Germans about this when Americans say they made it first?
PoglaTheGrate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:27:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Since it was largely ex-Nazi party members, generally not much
[deleted] ยท 76 points ยท Posted at 02:38:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm American, we use centimeters fairly often but never kilometers. Didn't even think of it !
hbc07 ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 02:44:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's this we business? I don't use any of them commie units.
Bodybombs ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 06:22:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ever buy a 2 litre of soda?
Awdayshus ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:41:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, in America we have 2 liter bottles. Because if we're going to use metric, we're at least going to spell it phonetically.
xbtdev ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 12:20:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean leeta?
Awdayshus ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:30:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only in New England states.
Bodybombs ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:08:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I also live in America I spell it litre because of where the word came from, litron, which was Greek.
Awdayshus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:30:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But in America, the bottles themselves have it spelt liter. You can spell it however you want. This is America, after all.
eihongo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:43:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FREEDOM
eihongo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:44:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you spell it like that, you have to pronounce it lee-tray.
tiger8255 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:33:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Naw man, 2 pints of soda's where it's at.
cloudstaring ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:54:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man you seppos gotta get with the times.
MasterGamer1172 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 08:03:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, Freedom units are better than commie units.
TheGreatNico ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:14:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but for anything involving large numbers or unit conversion, I would stick with metric due to the ease of going from small(cm) to large(km)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:31:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly if you aren't actually doing the conversion it doesn't matter. You can just type in however amount of cm into miles and it will do it all for you.
JarasM ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:49:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You do you cm? I though you guys deal only in inches and feet and stones and shit.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:07:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you look at an American ruler, you've got inches on one side and centimeters on the other. Inches are too big for some measurements, although it's also common to just use fractions of inches, so idk.
BoredomHeights ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:29:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Stone" is a British thing. I've only ever seen it used on British television. Unless you were joking that we measure with stones, which is obviously correct. I'm about 6 stones 4 rocks high.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:05:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And grams, but only for illegal drugs.
Anrza ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:53:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Glad to see you're slowly making progress.
Ommageden ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:17:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
These just raised further questions. What if you have to convert?!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:31:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How often do you guys measure things, honestly? Our engineers and scientists and stuff use metric. I was taught in science classes that 1 inch = 2.54 cm but I've never actually had to convert.
Ommageden ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:33:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm in physics so, a lot. :P but that makes me heavily biased towards imperial.
Edit: so you never really need to convert between thing? Honest question as I'm using units and such everyday
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:37:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I'm a high school student right now. I measure things for sewing sometimes, sometimes for furniture or something? And I guess sometimes I have to convert (although I don't remember any specific time). Every ruler or measuring tape I've had have cm on one side and inches on the other. But I mean idk, I get that you're in physics, but when you're not doing work do you often measure things? And even then, when is it very important to convert or be very precise?
This is probably the most I've thought about this lol.
Ommageden ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:21:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same ahaha. To answer your question, the desire to have things precise is just engrained into you to the point where you still want things to be accurate. For example when people approximate the conversation of Celsius to faerenheight (?), they use a factor of 2 when it should be 9/5ths etc.
I don't really know how to answer. I guess besides labs and such I really don't measure things that often, it's just easier for me to relate the quantities given t me in metric, especially if I need to do some offhand thinking. Basically I like to be precise even if it's not required.
This is an odd discussion, thank you sir
shadow1515 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:35:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like miles are just more practical when talking about distance because you can use smaller numbers and you're usually just talking about distance where ballparking it is enough for most purposes.
On the other hand, centimeters are more convenient when you're talking about something on a small enough scale that inches/centimeters make any sense because then you're probably more interested in precision, so the smaller unit makes sense.
whizzer0 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:13:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably British. We do such strange things.
AssAssIn46 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:53:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
British.
Wenix ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:20:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He couldn't remember how to convert from cm to km? The metric system is so confusing ;).
Noisetorm_ ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:02:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Google says that the distance between the Earth and the Moon is 283,900 miles. That would make it 44 times.
ahundredpercentbutts ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 05:12:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. He skipped numbers 2 and 5.
voxelbuffer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:49:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That would still make it 44 though Edit: wait no that would be 46 curse my tiredness
BlissnHilltopSentry ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:37:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, he skipped 2 and 5 as in he went from step 1 of 0.02 to step 3 of 0.04, which is wrong, so he got to 42 but only did 40 steps, so it is 42 steps.
voxelbuffer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:33:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aha! Curse my tiredness. You are better at simple observation than I
Pat117 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:08:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you skipped #5
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:56:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well shit. edited
Vitztlampaehecatl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:08:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exponential!
nobodylikedwesley ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:34:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should be a lawyer or something. I didn't believe this until you did it.
_zoot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:54:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please tell me you wrote a script to do these calculations and to format everything :)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:08:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope! Just typed it out. Didn't even use a calculator since x2 is pretty simple math. :b As you can see, I did somehow skip 5
dpking2222 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:51:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
655.36 what?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:52:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol
SeudonymousKhan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:22:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wouldn't folding it stretch the paper making the average thickness less each time?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:51:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, this is all if you could fold a paper this many times. In reality, literally any piece of paper cannot be folded more than like 7 times.
StinkyLeek ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:03:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mythbusters did 11 starting with a HUGE piece of paper.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:08:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nice
minotuarslay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:22:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemath
entoricore1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:01:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats crazy
l-0_o-l ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 02:26:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fold in half 1 time = 2 layers (0.02 cm thick)
Fold in half 2 times = 4 layers (0.04 cm thick)
Fold in half 3 times = 8 layers (0.08 cm thick)
Fold in half 4 times = 16 layers (0.16 cm thick)
Fold in half 5 times = 32 layers (0.32 cm thick)
....
10 times = 1,024 layers (10.24 cm thick)
20 times = 1,048,567 layers (10.286 m thick)
30 times = 1,073,741,824 layers (107.374 km thick)
40 times = 1,099,511,627,776 layers (109,951.162 km thick)
42 times = 4,398,046,511,104 layers (439,804.651 km thick)
Distance to moon = 384,400 km
Kai-Mon ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:42:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well...
Distance to the moon: 384,400 km
Every time the paper is folded in two, the thickness doubles. Fold it forty-two times gives us the expression 242 .
Multiply in by the thickness of the paper gives us 0.01โข242 which gives us ~43,980,465,111
=439,804,651 cm
=439,805 km
Math checks out
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:36:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Folding the paper in half doubles the height of the resulting stack. The number 242 is about 4 trillion, so by folding a piece of paper in half 42 times, you make a stack of paper that is 4 trillion (4E12) times thicker than the original piece of paper. The moon is about 400 million (4E8) meters from Earth at its greatest (according to Wikipedia), so you'd need to have a piece of paper about 1 tenthousandth (1E-4) meters thick, or about a hundredth of a centimeter to reach the moon at its farthest with 42 folds.
Edit: Pulled a Dr. Evil. Billion to million.
TheAbyssGazesAlso ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:07:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even better - put a coin on the first square of a chess board. Double it (2 coins) on the 2nd square. Double it again on the 3rd square (4 coins). How high is the stack on the 64th square? 2 metres? 10 metres? A mile?
Hint: it's taller than you think. Nope, even taller than your second guess.
The actual answer is 18 light years.
Sabrayet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:42:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
0.0001 m x2x2x2x...x2 42 times
= 0.0001x2 42 m = 4.4x10 8 m
Every fold doubles its thickness.
distance to the moon (googled) = 384000000 m = 3.84x10 8 m
average_shill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:46:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The power of exponential growth, see bacterial doubling times.
BigEd781 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The number of layers grow exponentially and the assumption is that the thickness of each layer remains the same, so it's then just a simple math problem.
xGr1m ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So it's .001 thick to start. Fold in half makes it .001x2=.002. Fold in half again is .002x2=.004=.001x2x2. Following this pattern, folding it in half 47 times is .001x(2 ^ 47), which is rather large.
Edit: changed * to x
The_MAZZTer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:16:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exponents. The paper becomes 2folds times thick.
ReadingRainbowSix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:07:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Get a piece of paper and see how many times you can fold it in half. You'll understand tea quick
scirc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:14:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exponential growth.
Assuming perfect folding and a piece of paper of thickness t, the height of the folded paper would be about t(2n), where n is the number of folds. Doing the math, a paper folded 42 times would make a tower about 439,804.65 kilometers tall, assuming the thickness given above.
swutch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:17:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Each time you fold the paper you double the thickness of the folded paper. So folding 42 times means 242 times the original thickness. (242 ) * 0.01 cm = 439 804.651 kilometers. The distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384,400 km.
The_Funki_Tatoes ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:17:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
0.01 = 1 fold 0.02 = 2 folds 0.04 = 3 folds 0.08 = 4 folds 0.16 = 5 folds 0.32 = 6 folds 0.64 = 7 folds 1.28 = 8 folds 2.56 = 9 folds 5.12 = 10 folds 10.24 = 11 folds 20.48 = 12 folds 40.96 = 13 folds 81.92 = 14 folds 163.84 = 15 folds 327.68 = 16 folds 655.36 = 17 folds 1,310.72 = 18 folds 2,621.44 = 19 folds 5,242.88 = 20 folds 10,485.76 = 21 folds
As you can see multiplying by two can easily escalate into unimaginably large numbers. Folding it 8 times will have a thickness of 1cm. By 21 folds the piece of paper is now 100m heigh. Repeat that sequence 23 more times and it doesn't seem as unlikely for it to reach that far.
On the 30th fold the piece of paper will be 28,823,037,615,171.17cm heigh, which equates to roughly 29 million km. On the 40th fold that increases to 2.95*1016. My estimates may be off since I was using a simplistic calculator and multiplied the numbers repeatedly by 2 and might has multiplied too much.
DoubleClickMouse ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:57:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It has to do with the volume of a sheet of paper, and stacking the total volume linearly. how many 0.01cm3 bits of paper do you suppose are in a sheet? if you continue to fold the paper well past its physical boundaries, the math assumes the you would end up with what is roughly a 0.01cm circumference cylinder that is approximately 238,855 miles long, the average distance of the moon from earth.
Lews-Therin-Telamon ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 02:07:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck.
Spax_ ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 02:26:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And if you folded it 103 times it would span the length of the universe.
HypocriticalThinker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:08:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
False.
You fold in half 103 times, you get a macroscopic distance between molecules - at which point it's not paper by any stretch of the imagination.
Spax_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:40:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depends how big your piece of paper is I guess.
StabbyDMcStabberson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:31:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And if you told it 11 times, you're done folding. Mythbusters tested it and couldn't get any paper to bend enough for another fold past that point.
Spax_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:36:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well the world record is 16 times, there is an equation to maximise the folds so it's theoretically possible. It would just be an insanely huge piece of paper.
Mythbusters is a TV show, not scientific proof guys.
Schleckenmiester ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:25:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no because the universe is ever expanding
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:32:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Schleckenmiester ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:48:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so he should have said
Armagetiton ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 07:17:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think he meant to say galaxy.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:40:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, that would be 83 times, I think.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:32:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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HypocriticalThinker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:12:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You shouldn't.
It neglects the distance required for bending the paper around itself - or, to put it another way, it assumes that the thickness of the paper is negligible.
A rather bad assumption.
Noisetorm_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:02:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Google says that the distance between the Earth and the Moon is 283,900 miles. That would make it 44 times.
dasbiggin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:14:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wouldn't the starting piece be wider than the known universe?
sanjithecook ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:40:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's mind-boggling. And we can fit the entire solar system in between the earth and the moon... Having trouble comprehending lol.
idrissrocks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:00:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you fold it in half 100 times, it would be denser than the known universe.
PlatesAndIceCream ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:12:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Yup, .01cm(2)^42 = 4.39(10^10)cm 239000mi(160934 cm/mi) = 3.84(10^10)cm
Unreal, I didn't believe it until I checked it. That's ignoring space between folds, too.
Edit: I don't know how to make the carrot show up for exponents, but you can imagine where they should go.
Edit 2: thanks u/Razimek for helping me format that
Razimek ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:29:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you type \^ you will see ^
PlatesAndIceCream ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:18:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you!
Ireddittoolate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:41:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
When you fold it, the thickness becomes 0.02cm, then 0.04 cm and so on and so forth.
Folding it 42 times will result in a thickness of 0.01*2rt42 cm.
Same thing with the rice on the chessboard. Place 1 grain on one box, then double it for the next box in series. Eventually you'll have 2rt64 grains of rice or 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 grains. A grain of rice on average is 2*10rt-8 cm3 in volume, which means the grain of rice will occupy 147.5 olympic size swimming pools.
jmutter3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:40:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shit, that sounds way easier than building a rocket
Neoixan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:05:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why can't i just take 42 pieces of paper and reach the moon? Px
Armagetiton ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:15:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Multiplication is fun. If you could take a pill that would double the length of your cock every time you took one, you'd have a cock as long as our galaxy is wide after 73 pills, assuming average size to start with.
If it took a month to take full effect but grew at a steady rate, your cock would exceed the speed of light after 54 pills.
keshav710 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:58:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And you would reach the end of the observable universe if you fold it 103 times
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:13:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please eLI5
GreenRanger90 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe if the paper was the size of your moms ass
itzgreg20 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:20:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Heh, i can just imagine if it was possible to fold paper like that, i would try to tap astronauts on their shoulders from my back yard
MyNameIsSushi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:20:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't get it.
Impeesa_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:28:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you could fold a piece of paper that was 768,800 km long in half once, it would also reach the moon.
EconomicEvolution ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:10:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder what the mathematical equation of this would look like. (Say, I was to put that equation into wolfram alpha and get the height of that folded paper.
Gottabecreative ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:23:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So ... in theory, you could use a piece of paper to reach the moon?
dedservice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:35:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so basically .1 mm x 242 > Earth->Moon?
ubergorp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:38:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even more nuts: if you fold it 93 times it would be the length of the observable universe.
DeXes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:41:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That's not true unless my math is fucked up somewhere. 42 folds will result in 0.01*241 (cm) which equals to 136,640.97 miles, while the distance is 238,900 miles, which means you need to fold it 43 times.edit: it is fucked up.
Scarletfapper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:31:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How is this one even remotely possible? I grew up with it but it still aounds like bullshit.
Seventy9Inchez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:28:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Further so, it doesn't take more than 103 folds to make it the entire diameter of the observable universe. Exponential growth is real shit.
Knotwood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:48:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What point does the folding in half exceed the size of the paper? I mean the paper is .01cm thick.
There isn't that much thickness to reach the moon.
CervixAssassin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:00:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you fold a piece of paper in half 102 times, the resulting fold would be thicker than the whole observable universe.
Astronomers kindly ask you to not do this at home.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:04:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fold it in half 103 times and it'll be as thick as the universe.
CaptainDread ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:52:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
102 times and it's thicker than the observable universe.
MalnadGowda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:03:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have to Inform NASA
Melesani ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:18:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ok now, this is bull shit
faithfulpuppy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:19:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But that would have to be a piece of paper that's wider/longer than the distance to the moon to begin with, otherwise you'd just be stacking paper molecules
markaupo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:28:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well why not fold another 9 times and go to the sun! cant be that much more effort
zzackrules ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:43:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay, is there any chance you could explain that again a different way? I don't understand it. In my head folding a piece of paper is making it smaller, so how could that reach the moon?
OminousShadow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:47:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What... that doesn't even make sense. How does that work?
redraja190 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:51:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What do you mean it could reach the moon? Wouldn't it be 247 * .1 inches thick?
pakattack461 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:03:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea, but by then the width of the paper (assuming it started out 8.5x11) would be less than the width of an atom
amanguupta53 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:30:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aha, the power of squaring!
HighQualityNinja ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:31:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've seen this before but can I have an explanation?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I still don't get how this works.
loadsoffun17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:36:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember this from Dan Brown's book inferno. When (I forget his name) is explaining the potential exponential growth of the human population to the kidnapped director of the W.H.O.
KeybladeSpirit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:40:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How many times do you need to fold a piece of paper in order to reach the moon?
42
Well, it fits.
beete17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:51:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you could fold it in half 101 times it would be as wide as the observable universe.
odguy34 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:55:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And if you fold it in half again, it'll go to the moon and back :)
tynamite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:06:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ELI5?
Cash091 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:09:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exponents man! It's 241 .
Edit. Or 0.0142 .
Andrew_Squared ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:10:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or, it could go through all the planets lined up.
BlG_KlTTY ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:11:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The paper exploded as if the laws of the universe shouted: "THE LAW OF 7 FOLDS IS SET IN STONE, WE HAVE DEEMED IT SO. THEREFORE, THIS OBJECT IS NO LONGER PERMITTED TO CONTINUE AS PAPER."
SSLPort443 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:12:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If the distance from the Earth to the moon was scaled down to the thickness of a sheet of paper then the distance from the Earth to the Sun would be a stack of paper that would reach from the earth to the moon.
adamdavenport ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:21:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the first post to overlap with /r/trulyimpossible
KingHenryXVI ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:32:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How? Why? Explain yourself! I demand answers.
MasterTacticianAlba ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:34:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
42 times and it reaches the moon.
43 times and it reaches the moon and back.
Hunt_Gatsby ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:35:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Still hard to wrap my head around this one.
Yuri-Girl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:38:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...and she folded it a hundred times
manubr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:02:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This was a test problem in physics once...I didn't want to calculate and so I just wrote "It's not possible to fold a paper more than seven times" Still got a point for it:)
Beecher_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:40:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would also be the diameter of a nucleus
Sozhalet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:56:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So you could combine this fact and the other fact in this thread that you can fit all the planets between the earth and the moon and come up with a crazier sounding fact.
If you could fold a piece of paper in half 42 times, it would be as long as each planet lined up next to each other.
yongpareeh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:11:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you fold a paper 7 times, "it some kind of explodes" and turns very hard and brittle
BobisBadAss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:38:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But 4 times is plenty enough to fix that rickety table leg.
dfeld17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:53:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
challenge accepted.
bowser0000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:02:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you fold it in half wouldn't it get smaller?
flamingspew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:06:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here's an attempt. I won't spoil the surprise. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KuG_CeEZV6w
Guzzles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:20:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Conversely, if you fold a piece of paper in half it will reach the moon assuming it is Distancefromearthtomoon/2 in thickness.
Viryzon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:38:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And also if you fold a piece of paper 104 times it will reach the edge of the observable universe.
theloudestshoutout ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:23:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Too bad it explodes after 7
stellastar2000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:02:23 on March 31, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this makes me want to cry
wefwegfweg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:07:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See, this doesn't make sense to me. Assuming we're talking about a standard A4 sheet of paper, there physically isn't enough material there to cross that distance, so the problem becomes less about whether or not you can fold paper 42 times and more about whether or not you have sufficient material to reach the moon. Essentially, this conundrum translates to, "If I had enough paper to reach the moon, it would reach the moon" which is way less impressive.
It's almost like saying, "If this matchstick was long enough to reach the moon, it would reach the moon." And then everyone is all like, "WOAH." But I'm like, "the fuck does that even mean."
I just don't geddit.
TheNintendo29 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:43:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fold it 103 times, it would strech beyond the observable universe.
HypocriticalThinker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:09:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
False.
You folded it that many times, you would end up with a macroscopic distance between adjacent molecules.
At which point I don't think it could be called "paper" by any stretch of the imagination.
TheNintendo29 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:01:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice username.
HypocriticalThinker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:14:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, I suppose?
I am not purely rational by any stretch of the imagination. No-one is.
TheNintendo29 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:06:26 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human nature. Just have to maintain an open-mind and humility.
HypocriticalThinker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:00:26 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Just", you say.
It's figuring out how to balance having an open mind and nonetheless maintaining well-grounded beliefs that's my downfall.
faithle55 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:06:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Geometric progression, everybody.
Similar statistic: put a grain of rice on the first square of a chess board, 2 x 1 on the second square; 2 x 2 on the third, 2 x 3 on the fourth, and you'll need more rice than has ever been grown for the last square. - 18 trillion, trillions of grains.
hexag1 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:06:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you could fold it a hundred times, it would be as thick as the known universe
CapedDebater ยท 2989 points ยท Posted at 03:49:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Winston Churchill and Eazy E were alive at the same time.
vaticidalprophet ยท 486 points ยท Posted at 06:33:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had to google this one to confirm.
For the curious, Eazy E was born September '63. Winston Churchill died January '65.
cannabinator ยท 239 points ยท Posted at 07:27:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL Eazy was older than my dad
Wetbung ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 13:39:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I still am!
On a related note: I was alive at the same time as Winston Churchill AMA!
Gynocentrist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:43:30 on March 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read this as a reference to a subreddit where historical figures do AMAs. Is that a thing?
Wetbung ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:17:30 on March 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really doubt Winston will be doing an AMA and even though I was alive at the same time as him, I don't think I could do a reasonable job doing an AMA for him. You may want to suggest this in a history subreddit. I'll bet there are some historians who would be up for it.
AvenueMan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:44:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was he nice?
Wetbung ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:01:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As nice as a black and white drunk who is constantly spewing insulting quips can be.
foolishnun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:13:34 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's it like being dead?
Wetbung ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:54:43 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll try to remember to reply to this after I die.
N0ahface ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:27:03 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remindme! 30 years
Wetbung ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:49:27 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We found the actuarial.
DrossSA ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:10:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And at 33 I am older than Eazy lived to be.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:33:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL Eazy-E is a week older than my dad
OriginalFernando ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:35:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL Eazy E was my dad
theoreticaldickjokes ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:15:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mine too!
pickadamnsoda ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:45:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL Eazy was the same age as my dad.
alamaias ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:25:21 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I only have the faintest idea who Easy E is because of the insane clown posse.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 07:30:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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cannabinator ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:33:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
31? Not that young
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:37:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
not young at all, actually
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:33:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Too young to die of the AIDS he thought was an asthma attack. :(
Jayfire137 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:39:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ah neat! so my dad was alive when Churchill was alive ( he was born in 61) but not my mom (born in 66)
sueca ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 07:06:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
... Who is Eazy E? Sounds like a rapper?
BcTsarIvan ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 07:12:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Yes. He was huge in the late 80s and early 90s till he died from aids. The people that hung out with him said that he was notorious for never using condoms, bad idea.
Terminalspecialist ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 12:44:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have a feeling most rock stars didn't either. In the 80s/early 90s, HIV/AIDS was seen as a "gay disease" that straight men weren't as much at risk of contracting.
PlayMp1 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 13:21:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then Magic Johnson and Eazy got infected and they realized "oh shit."
banglafish ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:33:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also Marion Hugh Johnson has made implications that he was injected with blood from someone with aids as a form of assassination. It would sound insane if anyone besides Marion said it.
dj_soo ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 08:01:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the theory is that it was a hit contracted by Suge Knight
PlayMp1 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 12:03:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Suge Knight: quite possibly the worst person in hip hop, and that is in a genre that is no stranger to murderers, rapists, and generally horrible people.
banglafish ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:15:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I heard Marion and Suge were both in on it.
Natiak ยท 83 points ยท Posted at 07:15:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just another moment that makes me realize I'm getting old. Too bad Easy E didn't.
MissChievousJ ยท 114 points ยท Posted at 07:28:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're not getting old, man, stay positive. Like Eazy-E.
ShadowMercure ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 07:42:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Savage.
ProllyJustWantsKarma ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 08:08:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn
Caboose_Juice ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:52:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
fuuarrr
Jay_Louis ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 12:22:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If Easy -E had gotten old eventually he would've gotten hearing aids. Just sayin
Hegiman ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:41:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you see "Straight Outta Compton"? If so what did you think? I liked it but thought it was more a Dre/Ice Cube biopic. It should have had more focus on E as he was the founder of everything. He started the label, he wanted Dre to do beats for him so he could get out of the dope game. Eazy was the only real gangsta in the crew. Dre was a DJ who was making records with world class wrecking crew and cube was a kid still in high school who wrote hardcore poems about ghetto life. E brought them all together on ruthless. Cube wrote the rhymes, Dre produced and Eric Eazy-E rapped. NWA was a result of the "Eazy-Duz-It" recording sessions.
vaticidalprophet ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 07:10:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, from the influential group NWA. If you've watched or heard of the film Straight Outta Compton, it's partially his life story.
sueca ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:21:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah. Heard of the movie, never seen it. NWA was definitely before my time. First rapper I ever heard of was Tupac, but even that was after his death.
SpecialSause ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 07:54:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tupac is somewhat relevant. Tupac was heavily associated with Dr. Dre (until Dre left Death Row records and their relationship turned to Tupac dissing Dre to which Dre never publicly responded) who was part of NWA. NWA was Easy E, Dr Dre, Ice Cube, MC Ren.
Spoang ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:56:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and DJ yella
SpecialSause ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:30:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks. I was going off memory. The weird part is I have like 300 songs on my Spotify playlist and as I was typing out my answer, Straight Out Of Compton came on.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:32:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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GuyBelowMeDoesntLift ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:14:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's like calling Hell Rell a member of Dipset
dj_soo ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 07:59:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well he's Eazy-E, he's got bitches galore You may have a lot of bitches but he's got much more Wit his super duper group coming out to shoot Eazy-E, muthafukas cold knocking the boots
PlayMp1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:21:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"We wanna fuck you Eazy!"
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:23:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You might know him as Eazy Mutha Fuckin E...
Mesaj ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:07:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, from N.W.A.
stumblebreak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:55:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The greater good
A_kind_guy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:37:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Once again a question is downvoted on reddit.
itsnickfury ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:38:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just want to listen to Eazy-E now
adonis98 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:43:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had to Google to find out who the hell Eazy E was.
foolishnun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:14:18 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Easy-E was born Sep' 64 according to Wikipedia.
FormerShitPoster ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 07:19:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're dead at the same time too
TheLeastJoshestJosh ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 13:15:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aloso, Albert Einstein and John Travolta were alive at the same time.
TheLeastJoshestJosh ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 13:26:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nicola Tesla and Paul McCartney were also alive at the same time.
Gizmo-Duck ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 11:07:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who is Eazy E?
BAM5 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 15:38:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah! I don't have time to google it! I need to read more unbelievable facts!
ghan13 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:36:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eazy-E
konaya ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:48:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some rapper.
Belesevarius ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:27:00 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
more than just some rapper, easy-E put together N.W.A and is probably responsible for 90's era hip-hop like Biggie and 2pac.
Cobradactyl ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:33:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you think they hung out?
thehumanboy69 ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 07:43:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, Churchill flew to Compton and delivered Eazy-E himself. Shame he died before watching Eazy-E thrive.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:51:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/nocontext
Beelzabubba ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:18:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're both dead at the same time too.
YourBrothersMother ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:46:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't thing they woulda liked each other
roadkilled_skunk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:31:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Woke up quick, at about noon, just thought that I had to be in Moscow soon.
Bob9999999999999 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:01:10 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At the other end of his life, Winston Churchill was alive at the same time as Hans Christian Andersen.
PoopButtMuffinTop ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:06:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Winston Churchill died in 1969 so he was also alive when Michael Jackson, Donald Trump, and anyone over the age of 46.
Magic_pie18 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 13:00:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Winston Churchill died in 1965...
Your__Dog ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:27:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BOTH DEAD NOW
Garconanokin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:57:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a time to be alive?
Choekaas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So was Lillian Gish (female lead in "The Birth of a Nation") and Miley Cyrus.
DuckIsStuck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:16:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And their mixtape was straight fire.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:27:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But unfortunately they never got together to colaborate on an album.
Trill_billl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:31:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And their mixtape was the bomb
dungeon_plastered ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:33:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We need that collab album!
looklistencreate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:49:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So were Picasso and Snoop Dogg.
icantbenormal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:38:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Martin Luther King Jr. was born the same year as Anne Frank.
AP246 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:35:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The first person to fly in a plane was alive at the same time as the first person to walk on the moon.
pat1million ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:41:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, they were dead at the same time.
drvp1996 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:17:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Charles Lindbergh and Pharrell Williams were alive at the same time
Howthefckkk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:54:54 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On the same note, Charlie Chaplin and 50 Cent were alive at the same time
emperorhirohito ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:21:31 on April 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where'd you think the sick mixtape came from?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:04:32 on April 16, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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emperorhirohito ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:06:51 on April 16, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah. Sorry
leonprimrose ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:21:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is really amazing. I cant imagine parents naming their kid Easy E.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:26:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With all the fucked up names these days it's not too far off.
TejasEngineer ยท 517 points ยท Posted at 03:47:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Beretta the firearm company began in 1526(Renaissance) when guns were just starting to become popular in war.
Imperito ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 12:55:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, that's one I haven't heard before! Something new on Reddit!
WendellSchadenfreude ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 16:29:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm gonna go post it on TIL.
... dammit...
Imperito ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:36:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair the most recent was 9 months ago, nothing wrong with posting it :p
ditchtwicker ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 15:59:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's also been family owned the entire time. Although the current Beretta married into the family and changed his last name to Beretta.
Baron-Harkonnen ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 16:28:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Their 'Employee of the Month' wall must be HUGE.
Nerdwiththehat ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:50:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/u/xboxAHOY, any comment?
0-1-1-2-3-5-8-13-21 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:43:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Checks under the bed
Then under the dresser
He looks at the closet
I pull out my Beretta
He walks up to the closet
He comes up to the closet
Now he's at the closet
Now he's opening the closet...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:12:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Zildjan cymbals started in like the 1600's
Mahler5 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:09:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kongo Gumi has been in operation since 578, independently until 2006.
NosyEnthusiast6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:26 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guns didn't until about the 1360s so I'd say they were a bit popular before that.
1573594268 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:22:30 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't what?
NosyEnthusiast6 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:31:56 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They just didn't
Baud_Olofsson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:51:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's fascinating that they're that old, but guns started becoming popular in Europe around 200 years earlier.
ManualNarwhal ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:10:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm glad to know they have a long and storied history of "Meh" production.
[deleted] ยท -22 points ยท Posted at 14:00:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This is like common fact if you're into guns.
djab1 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 20:58:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could I get a slice of your pretentiousness, please?
jetfuelcantmeltbeams ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 14:49:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ahem
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Freepz ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:32:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
your wrong.
Guy_You_Dont_Know ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:37:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what about my wrong?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:50:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My family is super into guns, we even own a few Berettas and I didn't know that lol
jdambr1811 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 17:37:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If they have had that long to develop weapons then why are their weapons still shit?
walt333 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:09:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I dunno, I think modern weapons are quite good a making you dead
LessThanHero42 ยท 3925 points ยท Posted at 01:59:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
There are 10 Popes per square mile living in Vatican City.
Edit: To alleviate confusion (and maybe quiet my inbox for a while), There are two Popes living in Vatican City. Francis and Benedict XVI both have the title of Pope. Though he is no longer the head of the Holy See or the Roman Catholic Church, Benedict XVI retains the title of Pope even after resignation.
Vatican City is about 1/5th of a square mile. (Technically speaking it's .17, but I didn't remember the second decimal point and just rounded)
2 popes / .2 mi2 = 10 Popes per square mile
pm_me_ur_flags ยท 2783 points ยท Posted at 07:05:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Popeulation
EltaninAntenna ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 11:41:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Overpopeulation.
drdeadringer ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 14:49:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go forth and popeulate.
[deleted] ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 08:03:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh fuck off and have your upvote.
Scarletfapper ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 10:27:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let my Popele go!
pm_me_ur_flags ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 10:45:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
bismillah
NO I WILL NOT LET HIM GO
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:15:37 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wrong meta
seemedlikeagoodplan ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:20:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you mean Popeulation Density.
chris3110 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:21:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Overpopeulation.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:09:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They better have this on the welcoming sign.
Torger083 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:20:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Papal density.
ChadHimslef ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:45:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bravo
puffthemagicdragoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:30:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My good sir I've seen duller shite be given gold and I'll be dammed if you don't deserve it instead
rendezook99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:25:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Get out
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:15:27 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know your username has been bleached white by the sun by now.
SkyF1y ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:12:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Get out.
goatysix ยท 275 points ยท Posted at 07:24:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Place has the highest pope density in the known universe.
MinecraftHardon ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 14:32:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Papal*
Edit: not trying to be pedantic, papal just sounds cool and it should be used any time it's appropriate.
uniptf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:52:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah man, then you're discussing the density of the pope, and then we have to decide it we're going to use BMI or water displacement method to do that. I think the word you want is Popelear.
tommytraddles ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:58:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uh, don't forget the Space Pope.
He's reptilian.
goatysix ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:23:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It will be a cold day in robot hell before I recognize the space pope.
LeWigre ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:10:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You never know honestly, could be 1.6 million antpopes going 'bout their business somewhere and we don't even know about it.
Amadan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:18:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, no. Pope Francis himself has pope density of about 11 popes per cube meter. (calculated using 210 pounds per one Pope Francis and 1.01 kg/l as average density of human body).
imadeaname ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:28:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
10strip ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:12:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're forgetting hell.
edgeblackbelt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:47:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except that planet where all the dead Popes go, which only has a surface area of about 1 square mile.
allora_fair ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 07:11:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is a boys' school in my city that is larger than the Vatican City.
Not_Porn_Trust_Me ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:48:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it in Australia?
allora_fair ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:52:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is indeed
Macaronimonster ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:20:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kings?
allora_fair ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:44:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The combined total of Scotch College actually :D
Macaronimonster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:56:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh. Awesome!
naryn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:49:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Vatican City is only 44 Hectares in size, my university campus was over 3x the size of it easily so I'm not surprised schools are too
furlongxfortnight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:42:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And someone from the Vatican City would really like to be there.
allora_fair ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:31:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seeing as how they're Presbyterian, I really don't think they do
Itsapocalypse ยท 75 points ยท Posted at 07:07:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But there is also 1 per square mile. This is simply a case of extrapolation error
jpepsred ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 07:34:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GO HOME
hoodie92 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:25:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, there is less than one square mile. Otherwise the joke wouldn't work.
Itsapocalypse ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:11:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what I was saying. There's what sounds to be .1 sq mi of land for Vatican City, and one pope. If you extrapolated the data, .1x10 is 1 sq mi and 1x10 is 10 popes. But popes are a constant with respect to square mile.
uniptf ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:53:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No man, you missed where he explained that "both have the title of Pope".
hoodie92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:37:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but your way is boring.
noisymime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:18:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is no square mile.
TheDude-Esquire ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:11:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But there are two popes...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:25:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Extrapopelation
[deleted] ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 03:23:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But I thought there was only 1 pope...
act5312 ยท 182 points ยท Posted at 03:26:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vatican City is only .17 square miles according to Wikipedia so Pope Density would be above 5.
[deleted] ยท 226 points ยท Posted at 05:16:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you did it. you finally found a use for the phrase "pope density".
[deleted] ยท 48 points ยท Posted at 07:18:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
p/mi2
john_dune ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 09:45:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it should be P/mi2.
LessThanHero42 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:13:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It's either 10 or 4. Some places have the area at .4 miles.Nevermind. I mistook that for the square km measurement.
iknoudouknoi ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 08:01:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It still isn't accurate to say there are ten popes per square mile, though, because there...are not ten popes...per square mile.
Amadan ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:24:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If Usain Bolt can achieve the speed of 44.72 km/h on a 100m dash, then Vatican can have 10 (or 12 or whatever) P/mi.
Hellknightx ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:37:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, it's actually closer to six.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:52:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess that makes sense.
LessThanHero42 ยท 77 points ยท Posted at 04:17:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are currently 2 (Benedict XVI is still alive) and it has an area of .17 square miles
crazyfingersculture ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 07:50:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Making the OP's edit irrelevant; and, the original number of 10 Popes per square mile absurdly more correct.
hetero-scedastic ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:32:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, very good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNK2jGNdcEY
coredumperror ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:12:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does he still count as "a pope", though? Former US Presidents are afforded the courtesy of being called "Mr. President", but I've never heard the same being applied to popes. But that's most likely because I'm very ignorant about Catholic dogma.
kjmitch ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 10:06:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a question that's very easy to be ignorant of, as Pope Benedict XVI is the first pope to resign since Pope Gregory XII in 1415, a space of 598 years. Apparently, he is Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, so his current title refers to his past holding of the position, and I'm a bit surprised that that information was as easy to find as it was.
greenphilly420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:38:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not I remember reddit was all up in arms when benedict retired because he still wanted to be referred to as Pope, still receive all the benefits that come with being pope but do none of the work
PlayMp1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:58:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Has Benedict XVI said much on matters of theology since he resigned? He might still be working in that regard or something.
actual_factual_bear ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:59:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Theologically speaking, of course, I'm still a pope"
-- Benedict XVI in a private conversation after he resigned.
108241 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:55:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.formsofaddress.info/FOA_president_US_former.html
coredumperror ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:13:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Huh, interesting. I've always seen the media refer to former US presidents as President X, so I just assumed it was the correct way to do ti.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:09:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But he doesn't live in the Vatican.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:52:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know Benedict XVI is still alive, but he's not a pope anymore.
dank_imagemacro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Two last I checked.
Kyddeath ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:26:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Popes are like highlanders there can be only one
fatalcharm ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 07:16:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Put it back to km please, the majority of the world uses that measurement. Why change it to suit a small minority?
LessThanHero42 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:24:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I will change it if you will give me a promise to only use measurement systems that have a base of 10
RQK1996 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 08:30:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
like the metric system?
MiiNiPaa ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:07:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We will stop bugging you about this if you give us a promise to only use measurement systems that have a base of not 10
fatalcharm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:01:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well that is what the metric system does, so yes. I am happy to fullfill my part of the deal. Now it's your turn.
Qaysed ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:18:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is a problem with time, though
UnluckyLuke ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:20:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, not really. Time is typically expressed as powers of tens of seconds. It's just that it isn't much used outside of scientific fields.
LessThanHero42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:21:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Cool. But first, what is the current date and time where you are? Keep in mind days, years, months, hours, minutes, and seconds are all non-base 10 measurements.
Nearly all of them are based off of the rotation or revolution of the Earth. A period that most planets don't share. Why change it to suit a small minority, right?
Also could you approximate your current longitude and latitude?
Peacehamster ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:11:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Riiiiight, since there's all those people on the other planets...
LessThanHero42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:44:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are a lot of countries I don't live in, and I'm being asked to make the switch.
Peacehamster ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:58:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because you're holding everyone else back.
LessThanHero42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:04:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Me personally? Cool. I'm going to keep it up out of spite.
Peacehamster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:48:19 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's such a great attitude to have, I'm sure it has gotten you far in life.
LessThanHero42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:11:36 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, I should adopt your your attitude of "everyone who doesn't think exactly like me is holding the world back."
Peacehamster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:42:15 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should try to accept obvious, objective advantages.
But I guess you probably wouldn't even notice those if they punched you in the face.
LessThanHero42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:06:43 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. My ability to use both imperial and metric is hampering me. My preference shouldn't matter.
I'm sure your way of thinking is always superior and you're known far and wide as the world's greatest visionary.
Peacehamster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:07:08 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Surprisingly close to the truth. I'm impressed, that's one hell of a conclusion, coming from an intellect such as yours.
raeliena ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:43:53 on May 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The cost-benefit analysis has been done already and unfortunately, the metric system lost that one.
AssholeBot9000 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:05:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because america, bitch.
I_did_naaaht ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:24:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly I do it for the Burmese.
Cryzgnik ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:02:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the Liberians.
Oh, and that's the whole list of imperial countries, too.
Plyhcky4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:52:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You had one job
TDNR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:13:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How does that work?
SeudonymousKhan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:39:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Vatican City (in Rome) is 0.17 miles with one Pope. Meaning on average, there is 6 Popes to every 1.02 miles. So if that's what Op is referring to they are wrong.
Possibly they thought that Benedict XVI counts since he is still alive, however Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi made it clear that any titles he holds are purely ceremonial. Not to mention it would be closer to 12 Popes per square mile, so Op is still wrong.
Basically this is just a sneaky trick that doesn't count.
xternal7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:58:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Semi-relevant xkcd
Riffler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:06:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vatican City has a birth rate of zero. Everyone there is an immigrant.
ecklcakes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:32:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Pope Density is actually 11.7 popes per square mile.
compliancekid78 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:39:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can beat that.
As a Discordian Pope I've known a lot more popes than that and have excommunicated almost all of them. Incidentally, if you can read this - you're a pope. If you're already a pope you've just been excommunicated.
Now that you're a pope you're absolutely infallible. So don't take no shit from no one. Also, now that you're a pope, you'll have to Pontify as many people as possible. Anyone you know to be a Discordian Pope must be excommunicated immediately. After all; we Discordians must stick apart.
Unless you've been excommunicated. In which case you'll have to reinstate at some point.
Praise Bob!
theblader9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:45:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Papal density
Sizzilinbuns ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:15:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*cardinals
I'm pretty sure there is only 1 pope.
TheMightyWaffle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:15:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sq km is the only logical one.
Matmatmats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:54:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
10? It's 2.27 per km2 or 5.88 per Mile2
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:10:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
does that factor in the pope emeritus?
DonQuixoteReference ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:43:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At first I thought it said Pepe
Heroicis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:06:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Read that as Pepes
brickmack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:45:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Quite a bit more, actually. A lot of dead popes are buried in Vatican City, and dead popes are still considered popes by the church
idejmcd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:46:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really don't follow. I thought the Pope served for life. How are there more than 2 living popes right now (considering that Benedict resigned).
TrekkiMonstr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:59:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What? It's 5.88 popes/sq mi, where'd you get your number?
The-red-Dane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:05:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, there are currently four popes.
The Pope of the Catholic Church.
The Pope of the Palmyrian church ( a minor heresy that rejects the last few popes as true, and consider themselves the true papal authority of Christendom.)
Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.
And the patriarch of the Orthodox Church, is also, technically a Pope.
sapiophile ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:31:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://xkcd.com/605/
whatisyournamemike ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:28:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not counting the dead ones, correct?
beb1312 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:31:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are we talking binary here?
looklistencreate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:47:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does Benedict still live in Vatican City?
icantbenormal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:37:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, there are 11.76 popes per square mile
Mocha2007 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:56:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In that case, it's 12 popes per mi2
ComputerSavvy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:11:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vatican city is also known to have the highest crime rate per capita too!
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-the-Vatican-has-the-highest-crime-rate-per-capita-of-any-country-on-earth
https://www.intellihub.com/vatican-city-highest-crime-rate-world/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Vatican_City
Imperium_Dragon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:36:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But shouldn't it be there's 2 popes per .2 square miles of the Vatican City?
Or just two Popes in the Vatican City?
500babies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:24:37 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The first time I heard this it was 5 popes. Funny to realize.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:07:00 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Technically, Benedict is Pope Emeritaus.
notabaggins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:15:18 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dope...but that's still too many popes.
continentalcorgi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:46:19 on April 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Another fun pope fact- in certain non-catholic theologies, the Pope is actually the antichrist.
Sockratte ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:32:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does this even count? I mean it's logical but not true.
Monagan ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:21:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can I have that in oppression units?
TenNinetythree ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:04:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
2.91 per square kawtha. You did mean Burmese units, right?
chilehead ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:54:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
109 acres = .170313 square miles
So there's 1.7 Popes there now? I guess if you count his milk jugs full of cum as equivalent by mass....
ASlowLoris ยท 2640 points ยท Posted at 00:56:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Broccoli, cabbage, and collard greens are all the same species.
[deleted] ยท 1532 points ยท Posted at 01:41:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Gullex ยท 297 points ยท Posted at 02:09:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not lettuce. The other ones are though.
bridpath ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:00:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm assuming you knew that off the top of your head. I don't know if I'm impressed or not
slydunan ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 08:16:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lettuce assume that he just knew it.
yaywalter ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:30:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have the right to Romaine silent for that pun.
dens421 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 13:22:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank Salad for that intervention!
Sparrowethedude ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:35:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't get what that was trying to accomplish
Ecclescakes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:05:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks a lot? Thanks-a-lad? Dunno.
LaughingVergil ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:17:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably trying to start a cult of salad worshippers.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:24:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good try
Mr-Korv ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:21:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lettuce gets you high, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactucarium
peppigue ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:52:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We want to be part of your group, but you won't let us...
JasonDJ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:48:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I fucking love reddit sometimes.
Cruzzfish1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:25:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, since when is lettuce not even a Brassica? I swore it was listed last week.
Gullex ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:28:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had to look it up because I wasn't sure. It's a different plant.
Cruzzfish1 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:12:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, lettuce is Lactuca. It's pretty close to dandelions and sunflowers though.
Bourbone ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:11:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe you were correct originally. The genus of all of those is notpizza
tavissd1 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:03:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Had kohlrabi for the first time a couple of days ago. Boiled it tastes almost exactly turnip, but raw it's on the sweet side.
k0alaonvertigo ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:38:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So...anything we don't want to eat and kale then?
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 14:27:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who doesn't like broccoli and brussels sprouts?
Damn heathens.
NamelessNamek ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:39:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eli5 pls
[deleted] ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 03:49:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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NamelessNamek ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:04:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So then why are black bears and brown bears considered different species but those things aren't?
Cruzzfish1 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 04:09:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A brown bear is U. arctos and a black bear is U. americanus. They're actually pretty different and cannot produce viable cubs, so I'm not sure what you're asking.
NamelessNamek ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:13:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well I'm not a biologist but it's just strange that two things that seems to be so similar are different species as you said. But these plants are all the same species. It's strange
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 04:15:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Gastronomicus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:34:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are actually many examples of species that can interbreed, particularly in the plant kingdom. The definition of a species is a bit subjective and has no one unique set of criteria.
OrbitRock ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:04:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We selectively bred the plant species into as many varieties as we could. Very similar to what we've done with dogs.
Meanwhile, the Bear species have just spent a very long time in their evolutionary history seperated, and while they have not changed that much in appearance, they have changed enough to not be able to reproduce with each other (apparently).
corvus_sapiens ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:15:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's the internal changes that matter, not the external changes. Black bears and brown bears are very different internally despite looking like different colors of the same thing. These vegetables are very similar internally.
Jiffpants ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:53:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's because each of the vegetables we know in the Brassicas family have been need for specific traits over time - broccoli and cauliflower for flowers, Brussels for leaves, etc. They have the same genes, just different ones turned on. Similar (albeit not the exact same) as domesticating wolves to breed dogs over time for their personality and working/physical traits.
Edit: missed the comment which already explained this. I am a dummy. Apologies for the redundancy.
datorangeguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:30:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If two animals fuck and make something that can't reproduce itself, then they're different species. Scientifically a species is a group of organisms that can mate and produce fertile offspring among itself.
Jiffpants ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:51:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for inspiring my summer challenge... Cross breeding my brassicas
Cruzzfish1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:53:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm doing that too with bok choy and some other stuff.
FeculentUtopia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:07:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Plant genetics work in ways animal genetics can't. Animals like us always have only two copies of our genome, one set of chromosomes from the mom, one from dad. Any more or less than that, and it's almost always fatal. Plants can have multiple sets of chromosomes, and rather than being fatal, it radically changes the resulting plant. So all of these plants have the same genetic code, but differing numbers of copies of that code.
burf ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:56:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So basically all of our superfoods are one species of plant. That's nuts.
It's also a little nuts that a chihuaua and a great dane are the same species.
Jiffpants ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:55:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Species with many varieties of subspecies :)
uniptf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:11:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, man, nuts are a totally different species.
burf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:28:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aw, nuts.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:40:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And mustard.
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 03:01:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:49:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh yeah, I guess I knew that... thanks.
Cruzzfish1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:51:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Although technically I bet broccoli and them count as mustard.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:33:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Cruzzfish1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:38:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but there are many kinds of mustard and most of them are various kinds of Brassica.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:09:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Cruzzfish1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:11:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Field mustard is.
batfiend ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:18:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rutabaga, turnip, mustard seed and rapeseed too.
The Brassica family
Cruzzfish1 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:26:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those aren't quite the same species. The ones I listed are B. oleracea while mustard is actually several different kinds of Brassica(elongata, juncea, tournefortii, rupestris, narinosa, carinata, and nigra), turnip is Brassica rapa, and rapeseed and rutabaga are Brassica napus.
batfiend ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:28:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh shit my bad, op said species. I read genus. Disregard everything I said.
Dokt_Orjones ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was it all originated from a mustard plant?
Cruzzfish1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:17:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what people think anyway.
greyjackal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:57:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nothing gets past you, does it Sherlock :D
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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pdxamish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:16:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In most instances it reverts back to a wild mustard like plant. I'd say 25% will look like parent.
Cruzzfish1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:36:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure people doing that is how some of these happened in the first place. And yes, I've seen some weird stuff on r/gardening a couple months ago that was romanesco/red kale.
tboneplayer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:30:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...they are variants of the MUSTARD plant.
Cruzzfish1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:34:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. Kinda. Mustard of various species is in the genus, but is not this species.
TheJazzProphet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:31:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also bok choy and napa cabbage.
Cruzzfish1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:33:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Different species. Scroll down.
TheJazzProphet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:38:09 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh yeah, I guess some of these are Brassica rapa and some are Brassica oleracea.
darkangelazuarl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:36:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lettuce is just crunchy water.
jupiterfloater ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:40:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tomatoes, tobacco and potatoes are all in the same family. The nightshade family.
USCanuck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:45:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So are you saying that you could cross brussel sprouts and broccoli to make some new variant of the species?
Cruzzfish1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:32:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
Who_GNU ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:54:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also romanesco is more closely related to cauliflower than to broccoli, yet it is often called romanesco broccoli.
shenuhcide ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:56:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lettuce is not in the same family. Lettuce is in the same family as sunflowers (Asteraceae), crucifers (like kale, broccoli, cabbage) are in Brassicaceae, the mustard family.
Cruzzfish1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:32:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know. Scroll down.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:58:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea, but what about endive?
Cruzzfish1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:32:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not close at all.
is_he_from_Gabon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:05:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brassicas.
wam_wambo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:10:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Had to Google to be sure; turns out I did know these plants are all in the 'mustard family', also having the mustard plant as their brother
Annon201 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:41:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let's not get started with the Rosacede family.
Cruzzfish1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:41:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wasn't familiar with them, so I googled it. Fuck that. Apples should not be like strawberries, although it isn't as bad as the brassica, where all the diversity is in the same species. Squash are like that too.
cmunerd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:06:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cultivars!
TigerlillyGastro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:18:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brassica, brassica, brassica.
oh_no_aliens ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:50:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm hungry now.
ricecracker420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:52:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
don't forget cauliflower and mustard
Cruzzfish1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:31:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't.
WIGGIE_FIFES ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:02:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And don't forget that LETTUCE is actually a good band, too
moist_owlett ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:20:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also known as the farty vegetables
pamperskarl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:22:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
plants?
Cruzzfish1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:30:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
pamperskarl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:42:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That really does sound extremely wrong. But still it is correct!
ShadowWriter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:05:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But it's green and leafy
dens421 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:21:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I knew that but I was wondering : can we cross them to make new breed of deliciousness like we do dogs*?
Cruzzfish1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:37:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
dens421 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:47:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't picture brassicae doing it ...
thebrainypole ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:34:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Raw, they all taste exactly the same
BigBillyGoatGriff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:36:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So they can all crossbreed and produce viable seed?
Cruzzfish1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:38:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. What comes out isn't always good tasting though.
catfishjenkins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:16:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gotta love them brassicas.
fuzzypyrocat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:17:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And they're all the veggies that give me horrible gas, right?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:40:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Surprisingly awesome has a good podcast about that
RedditWhileWorking23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:07:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So explain why all of those things you just listed taste like absolute shit while Broccoli is pretty good and even better with some cheese and butter and cabbage can be seasoned to taste good but no matter what you put on greens or sprouts they taste like shit?
Cruzzfish1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:11:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Different parts of the plant is the most likely reason.
uniptf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:08:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eeeeeasy there, Unidan.
EltaninAntenna ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:43:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not religious, but if Satan doesn't exist, how do you explain Brussels sprouts?
Cruzzfish1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:30:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Satan.
mattoly ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:33:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And yet somehow I only like about half of them.
Keep the broccoli and brussel sprouts away, please.
4LostSoulsinaBowl ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:32:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Question: why do we continue to cultivate this same species in different ways when 90% of the results tastes like shit? Maybe we should try a different species.
stellarguymk ยท 61 points ยท Posted at 02:20:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Out of all of these, this is absolutely the one I can't wrap my head around. Can someone prove it to me please?
abontikus ยท 174 points ยท Posted at 02:45:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://also.kottke.org/misc/images/brassica-oleracea.jpg
artificial selection, basically. same thing goes for dogs
stellarguymk ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 02:47:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wow that's interesting
abontikus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:36:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i know right, at first I was also confused but when you consider that their traits have been specifically chosen for hundreds of years (not really sure in this one, but I'm guessing around 200 years..?), it kinda makes sense.
schrockstar ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 13:43:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Weird how that list goes: Ca, Br, Kl, Kl, Br, Ca
abontikus ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:11:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
im more surprised you noticed that lol
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:41:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I throw a bunch of sweetener packs to the floor, will you be able to tell how many there are without counting?
EmdeeAhr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:16:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My neighbor's dog is a dumb shit. I can believe that he's a cabbage!
NerdMachine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:04:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But aren't they now different enough to be considered different species?
abontikus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:49:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
appearance-wise, yes they are very different. but if we look closer to their DNA and stuff, they still have the same number of chromosome which still enables them to pollinate each other and have fertile offspring. by the rule of taxonomy, they are still considered the same species, but different subspecies I think.
lookatmeimwhite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:46:22 on April 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does this mean we could somehow have one plant grow all of them?
abontikus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:18:46 on April 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no, because their genes that code for their appearance is already fixed when the seeds are germinated.
however, with human intervention, I think this is the closest and most possible method to create that kind of organism. I am not really sure if it is feasible though, but there are many cases where you can have multiple fruits or flower color using this technique.
ASlowLoris ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:53:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well it is due to artificial selection, similar to how we have bred dogs from wolves into poodles. Broccoli et al. all come from the wild cabbage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica_oleracea
Juswantedtono ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:29:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're just different cultivars that emphasize different plant parts. Broccoli is the flowering body, kale is the leaves, etc.
KingGorilla ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:11:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its like dog breeds, all the same species.
m1rage- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:12:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am currently growing seedlings for vegetable garden. I have brocolli, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, cabbage, kale and they all look exactly the same 1 week in.
ademnus ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:37:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A species called "delicious!"
froggyjamboree ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:11:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I participated in a fun experiment a few years ago to see how many plant species I could eat. This really didn't help my numbers. Same thing with beans. Many are the same species.
PubliusVA ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:29:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And peppers.
supergaro ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:15:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh oh
Knight_of_autumn ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:17:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aha, I always said that broccoli tastes exactly like cabbage and most people don't agree with me. Suck it, my world!
bimbamboozlebird ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:02:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They were all selectivly bred by humans from wild mustard.
CyberneticPanda ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:52:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also cauliflower and brussel sprouts, and a few other cultivars.
zuraken ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:16:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai-lan this as well. Very popular in Chinese cuisine.
VeritasAbAequitas ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:17:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's insulting, they're called Martian Americans.
silver_tongued_devil ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:36:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not to mention all the things derived from beets.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:59:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can actually believe that.
edselford ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:15:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NOOOO!
loonylucas ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:57:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's why I hate them all, never knew they were the same though
GlamorousHousewife ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:43:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Roses, peaches, and almonds are also the same family.
euprymna ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:28:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So are apples, pears, quinces, apricots, plums, cherries, raspberries and strawberries, but the name of the family (Rosaceae) is a bit misleading, in that it calls to mind a specific kind of flowering bush, but encompasses almost 3000 species, most of which don't resemble it at all.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:24:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Coloured greens?
PleaseAnswerCMSAF ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:27:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, not eating broccoli is racist?
kali_the_destroyer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:46:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mustard, horseradish and rapeseed also belong to this genus, although they are different species.
PurpleComyn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:09:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And all citrus came from 3 original fruits: citron, mandarin, pummelo.
WankMeHarder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:50:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Chiddy Ching Ching could buy anything.
Anchovie_Paste ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:35:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone knows to plant brassicas at the same time
funnyonlinename ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:44:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
cruciferous vegetables boi!!!!
Cockrocker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:46:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's coloured greens, collard greens doesn't make any sense.
Phiau ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:57:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Weren't broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, and cabbage all bread from the mustard seed plant?
SiriusCyberneticCorp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:19:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know what collared greens are and this point I'm too afraid to ask.
kasper117 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:22:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They were the same species until about 2000 years ago, when chines farmers selectively bred them and resulting in them being genetically different
AlonsoFerrari8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:56:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That doesn't make sense, you don't call them "collard people"
CoRd420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:57:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spinach isn't in the same family as lettuce
dyslexicbunny ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:09:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That species is delicious.
youruswithwe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:43:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cucumbers are in the same family as cantaloupe
C0lMustard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:09:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Goddam GMO's
giraffesinspace2018 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:11:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even weirder they're all technically the mustard seed plant
UEMcGill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:36:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So is Mustard and Rapeseed (canola).
All in all a pretty useful plant.
thecrispyb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:45:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not according to schoolboy Q
milletseed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:28 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So are Swiss Chard, Beets, and Sugar Beets (from which we often get table sugar).
p1mrx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:15:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apples and wood are also the same species (in some cases.)
TheGreatNico ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:32:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wood? What? what kind of wood? Apples come from trees, which are wood
sabrefudge ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:12:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haven't you ever heard of Applewood Smoked Bacon?
I rest my case, your Honor.
TheGreatNico ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:19:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it is the same species. apple wood comes from apple trees. It's not like cherry blossom trees or dogwood, you don't get the things from the trees that they're named for
sabrefudge ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:32:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know. I was joking.
I'm not really sure what p1mrx was talking about.
p1mrx ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:54:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
http://imgur.com/3Gpey
In the specific case of wood which came from an apple tree, apples and wood are the same species.
chickenwing95 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:21:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't know vegetable was a species
Ihavenofriendzzz ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:38:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It's colored greens... They don't call them collared people. Edit: Person who downvoted me, I'm sorry for you that you haven't watched The Office or have any sense of humor whatsoever. โบ๏ธ
Elranzer ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:26:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And they all taste like bitter shit.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:46:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah and get this: dogs are the boys, and cats are the girls :^)
gordo65 ยท 173 points ยท Posted at 05:08:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Rumsfeld was both the youngest and oldest Secretary of Defense in history (43 years old in 1975, 74 years old in 2006).
marktx ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 12:10:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And also a world class piece of shit
escalat0r ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 12:55:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
War criminals tend to be that, yeah.
[deleted] ยท 395 points ยท Posted at 03:16:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Sun is actually white. It only looks yellow to us because the sky stole its blue.
Tsorovar ยท 75 points ยท Posted at 08:51:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That makes sense, but I still don't get why it wears sunglasses.
chookalook ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 11:54:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No! It doesn't wear sunglasses. It wears sun's glasses.
AP246 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:41:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I never got that. Why would the sun wear sunglasses? To protect its eyes from the light from... what, exactly? The light is coming from its face, all its doing is trapping more light in front of itself.
skalra63 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:34:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sunlight is reflected off of planets
AP246 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:26:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nowhere near as much as behind the sunglasses.
SadGhoster87 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:29:07 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sun glasses.
Glasses for the sun.
babadivad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:34:02 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Logic checks out.
slomantm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:19:25 on June 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any glasses the sun wears are sun-glasses.
TurdusApteryx ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 11:32:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds like a fairytale.
When the sky stole the suns blue.
A writer could probably come up with a better title.
JonesMacGrath ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 05:18:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't make a habit of staring at the sun, but when I do catch a glimpse of it, I always thought it looked white.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:02:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, people discribe sun as yellow or orange is only because papers are white.
martene1965 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 09:09:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Makes me wonder what else are we falsely representing just because the fucking papers are white.
bloodal ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 11:46:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wake up sheeple.
toomanyattempts ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 14:26:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm really trying to understand that sentence, but I can't.
00yoshi ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:31:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What? Papers?
kasper117 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 12:42:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, the wavelength of light the sun is emitting at with a peak intensity is the one for green light. You see white light, because that's the average over the range of the electormagnetic spectrum that's visible to humans. Animals (or aliens) that have a different visual spectrum than humans might disagree on what colour the sun is.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 14:09:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Yep, the intensity of the spectrograph peaks in the green. But that's different from the color green (which is a perceptual experience). For that you can't just look at the peak wavelength; you have to look at the whole visible [to humans] spectrum.
That only means that if all the light except the photons near the peak intensity wavelength stopped existing (or lessened in intensity), the Sun would be green.
...but they do exist, so the Sun is white. ;)
harbinjer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:46:56 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But doesn't it actually emit more green light than any other? It's just that our eyes/brain are white balanced that way to see it as neutral?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:13:09 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
And that's what "white" means. :)
edit: for reference, this is the color of the Sun
(remember to disable F.lux et al)
kasper117 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:58:00 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Indeed, but I'm just saying that if we had a broader or narrower visible spectrum, it could be something different from white.
But then again, it is also true that our eyes evolved to see the wavelengts in which the sun is emitting most of it's intensity.
I also just realised this: if we would only be able to see the sun at a narrower part of the spectrum, it would probably ben around the green peak. But we probably would not call it green, but be able to differentiate between the greens and that would be our colours. Just because that's how our brains work.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:59:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I told my teacher this in grade 3 (I was a nerd), and she made my whole class laugh at me. Fuck you Ms. McDonald.
doctorocelot ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 10:33:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sun is actually green.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:27:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See this post
doctorocelot ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 20:36:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That person is wrong though.
Jaredlong ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:15:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
โซโซGreen's not a creative colorโซโซ
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:54:57 on April 2, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/MildlyHomestuck
doctorocelot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:21:11 on April 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure what homestuck is, apparently it is a webcomic but I don't know enough about it to get the reference, could you explain it to me please.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:54:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:00:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Purple doesn't exist.
KimoCroyle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:55:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah that's muave bruh.
skalra63 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:35:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Purple does exist... Its pink that doesnt.
Kingy_who ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:38:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sun is also black and green.
White because it emits light all across the visible spectrum. Green because it emits green light more than any other colour and Black because it absorbs all light that hits it.
00yoshi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:34:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It should reflect a bit of the light that hits it.
XenuLies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:32:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so wait, does this apply to all stars, or just our sun?
Like, when we have red Dwarf stars, are they actually white and just look red through our atmosphere?
In DC comics, the whole idea of Superman needing a yellow sun, was that all because of the atmosphere and not the star itelf?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:41:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, there are honest-to-goodness colored stars! This page shows the true color of various stars (including the Sun).
http://www.vendian.org/mncharity/dir3/starcolor/
00yoshi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:37:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a star called Betelgeuse, did they steal that name from HGTTG?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:25 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Other way around. The star's name is 11 centuries old. ;)
TILalotman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:45:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wish someone would take my blue
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:28:57 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But what about colors of stars representing different temperatures?
Iamhereforcats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:33:32 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
racist
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:20:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it was classified as a yellow dwarf. Is yellow used to refer to its temperature?
scotchirish ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:52:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe those classifications were made based on what is visible here, until we start living in space, there's not much practical reason to do otherwise.
krukson ยท 13776 points ยท Posted at 00:06:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
New York City is further south than Rome.
[deleted] ยท 9104 points ยท Posted at 01:46:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And further west than Santiago, Chile.
caroline_ ยท 3310 points ยท Posted at 02:14:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok now that is interesting.
camdoodlebop ยท 52 points ยท Posted at 07:23:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most of South America is way more east than North America
indoordinosaur ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 08:17:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just learned this today. I kind of associate Pacific Coast with being west which is why it completely blew my mind how far east Chile is
Ged_UK ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:15:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And south
12INCHVOICES ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:16:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really convenient if you have friends and family on the East Coast of the US. Depending on the time of the year we're either at the same time, one hour ahead, or two hours ahead of the eastern time zone.
subarctic_guy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:14:43 on April 16, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And more than half of US states reach farther north than Canada's southernmost point.
thismantis_dontpray ยท 96 points ยท Posted at 06:19:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just looked at a map. It's true!
Edit: It's also further east! Woah!
Jipz ยท 141 points ยท Posted at 08:45:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
:o
My imaginary brain map has been a lie!
mainman879 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 12:03:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Um that map doesnt start at New York City.
Jipz ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 12:34:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh shit you are right I just read New York and plotted somewhat randomly in center state
Rockburgh ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:19:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
uh
NYC isn't anywhere NEAR the center of the state
tarareidstarotreadin ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:10:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're not wrong, Walter.
mjwanko ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 12:09:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, it looks like it starts close to Syracuse.
pootchie ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 14:30:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ayyy go orange
dozerbuild ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:09:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 14:39:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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TerraOrdinem ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:45:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not DC either.
Rather_Unfortunate ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 10:56:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's so weird that we see a world map probably hundreds of times a year, yet somehow have no idea what much of it looks like.
heartless559 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 16:07:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Part of the issue is the projections used on many maps distort where things really are.
ycz6 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 09:36:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, if you start from Key West, Florida and go directly south, you won't hit South America. You'll pass it on the west.
portlandtrees333 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:51:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One time, I actually thought I caught someone pretending to be Chilean because they must have gotten time zones backwardswhen they reported the local time.
Then I looked it up and it was Bearenstain Bears all over again.
[deleted] ยท -63 points ยท Posted at 05:46:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:09:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm glad we have you around, to tell us all what interests us. I don't know what I'd do without you.
bregolad ยท 2138 points ยท Posted at 02:44:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I seriously thought you were joking so I had to check. I'll be damned. Unless you're in cahoots with Google maps for this prank, of course...
capellablue ยท 1131 points ยท Posted at 03:23:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Despite looking at the map a lot, I have to be reminded how further west North America is compared to South America. Had there been some great seafaring culture in like Sierra Leone, they probably would have discovered Brazil around the time that Leif Erikson discovered Canada.
thedeadlyrhythm42 ยท 134 points ยท Posted at 04:36:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The first time I flew to Guatemala from California I thought it was stupid that we had a layover in Dallas since Central America is obviously South of California and our route to DFW would obviously take us way East of where we were going and we would have to fly back to the West.
Nope, we actually had to fly a little bit more East from DFW once we took off.
prancingElephant ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 07:51:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read "from Guatemala to California" and was a lot more shocked than I am now.
dpash ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 12:57:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like the fact that you have to travel east to get from the Atlantic (Caribbean sea) to the Pacific when travelling through the Panama canal.
Jef_Costello ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:30:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WHAT
dpash ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:33:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Colon on the Caribbean coast of Panama is slightly to the west of Panama City, which is the Pacific entrance to the canal. Panama is a sort of S shape on its side. It's mostly north-south direction of travel though.
Also, there's locks on the canal, not just because the lake in the middle is way above sea level, but also because the Caribbean sea and Pacific differ in height by about 20 centimetres.
chaoshavok ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 07:03:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you never looked at an atlas before?
thedeadlyrhythm42 ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 07:21:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course I had. I knew to some extent that Central America is not Due South of California. What I did not realize was just how far East it is.
TigerlillyGastro ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 10:12:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not the discovering that's hard, it's the getting back to tell everyone about it.
loptopandbingo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:49:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like engine maintenance. Any idiot with some tools can take an engine APART, but putting it back together again...
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 07:03:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you look at a globe from the top, you will see that the Nordic countries are a lot closer to Greenland and Canada than you realize when looking at most projection maps.
Mo_Dex ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 13:20:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And Maine is the closest US state to Africa
loptopandbingo ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:53:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
THAT i did not expect. damn you, robinson projection!
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 10:06:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't there something about winds around those latitudes that made it incredibly hard to sail straight west? I vaguely remember something from my meteorology classes.
Dictato ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 05:16:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Despite all the evidence mounting against it the sea voyage of Abu Bakr II of the Empire of Mali is a fascinating mystery
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:10:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
?
abrokensheep ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 12:11:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IIRC he belived there was land further to the west, amd thus sent out a huge expedition of canoes into the atlantic. Whem they didn't come back, he reasoned they must have found somewhere so nice they decided to stay there, so he personally led the second expedition, and was also never heard from again.
[deleted] ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 12:21:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He sounds blindly optimistic...
Hegiman ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 12:23:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most likely he just left because everyone was pissed their friends and family were gone.
loptopandbingo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:51:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"yo fam i know u angry, ima scope it, brb"
sprocket_monkey ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 09:01:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No trade winds along the equator.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 11:08:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a good thing then that Mali is well within the Northern Hemisphere
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:58:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know ocean currents, but maybe that had something to do with it.
zyme86 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:51:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Draw a line south from florida and you miss all of continental SA by a waise
rumbar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:39:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought a lot of it had to do with prevailing winds and ocean currents.
TheGreyMage ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:12:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alternative history novel confirmed?
rodrigorrb ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:20:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More like: Alternate ~ real ~ history novel confirmed?
EntTreb ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:25:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Leif Erickson didn't discover Canada. His father, Bjarni Herjelfson (probably not spelled right), AKA 'Erik the Red', discovered Canada and decided against it. His son, Leif, then went back and created the first European colony/village in Canada, following the maps and guidance of his father to island hop.
AndrewL78 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:34:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is evidence to suggest that the Phoenicians did make contact with South America.
fillingtheblank ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:35:54 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Before the conquistadores there was a Malian king who departed with ships from Senegal wanting to find what was at the other side of the sea and was never heard of again. I'd google him to you but I'm lazy. I read about him on a BBC article a few years ago, so it's not a conspiracy from shady blogs.
paranoid_egyptianoid ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:17:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you by any chance Norwegian?.
capellablue ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:45:25 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, American of Irish heritage.
baminy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:55:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hinga dinga durgen!
tef_gong ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 05:05:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's actually solid evidence that Africans travelled to Central America and the now Gulf of Mexico around that time frame based on archaeological discoveries in those areas.
CriolloCandanga ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 06:20:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No there is not
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 05:19:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Citation?
watchoutfordeer ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 05:28:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/u/tef_gong
tef_gong ยท -17 points ยท Posted at 05:31:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol here is a source that provides an overview
http://www.globalresearch.ca/before-columbus-how-africans-brought-civilization-to-america/5407584
[deleted] ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 05:33:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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tef_gong ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 05:57:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yikes it was the first result! I'll look deeper into it
freshthrowaway1138 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:51:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aren't they the ones that also claim the chinese discovered the americas in the 1200's? I don't think I'd trust them to understand magnets at this point.
tef_gong ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:58:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yikes it was the first result I'll look deeper into it
contrarian1970 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:42:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is a theory out there that all of the world's pyramids were designed by a blue eyed, light skinned group of people who were great explorers. It's kind of like Adolph Hitler's ancient "Aryan Race" stuff with subtle alien overtones.
freshthrowaway1138 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:50:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
but but that sounds so plausible! I mean, I just read it on the internet and I only know what's on the internet!
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 05:38:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ehhhh. you probably won't find any: it contradicts the current orthodoxy, and the evidence is sketchy at best.
I won't do your googling for you, but the major points are:
the supposed presence of coca leaf and tobacco leaf in Egyptian digs
the argued antiquity of certain central american statuary that resembles Roman busts
the argued antiquity and authenticity of certain coin finds and engravings throughout the Americas
I don't believe that there is definitive evidence of such a cultural exchange -- the evidence is insufficient -- but there's certainly no negative evidence, i.e. there's no reason to believe that a per-columbian Atlantic transfer is impossible.
It could have happened, and I personally feel that occasional Atlantic transit during the Mediterranean bronze age or even earlier is likely.
The sea-going vessels employed by the Phoenicians were not intrinsically inferior to those employed by the Norsemen who colonized Iceland and made abortive forays into Newfoundland. Neither vessel was suited to Atlantic transit, but the journey from north-west africa to the west indies is arguably easier than the transit in the north.
Honestly, the issue is a lack of definitive positive evidence, rather than some confident assertion that it would be "impossible".
lightgiver ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 07:29:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is not because the idea is contrary to current orthodoxy, it is because extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence.
We know the technology existed to travel far distances, just look at the vikings and Polynesians. We also know empires financed trade and expiration missions before like the Ming dynasty. But finding concrete evidence is tougher.
There are claims that the Olmec was a civilization started by African settlers. But these are mostly based off the heads in artwork look kind of African.
There are claims that the Egyptians were great sea fairer and even cocaine and nicotine were found on a mummy. However two later studies failed to find the cocaine. There was tobacco remnants on it but it could of been from being handled so much in the 1800s.
There are stories from the Mali empire that there was a storm that blew 400 ships in a fleet off course and only 1 made it back with tails of a new world. A Mali prince then abducted to go explore what laid across the ocean with 2,000 ships never to be heard from again. They could of very well made contact, but the currents make it a 1 way trip. They had a 0.04% success rate after all.
Most of them are listed here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_trans-oceanic_contact_theories#Claims_involving_African_contact
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:19:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a bit of both.
There are two strong tendencies in science: A tendency for the views of older, more established individuals to be treated as 'fact', even long after evidence indicates otherwise. And the tendency of older, more established individuals to deny that this is true.
but the adage, 'science advances one funeral at a time' for a good reason.
lightgiver ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:40:03 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
There is evidence, just not concrete evidence, even the report of Africans in South America by Portugal is a bit odd. "from the south and the southeast had come black people whose spears were made of a metal called guanรญn...from which it was found that of 32 parts: 18 were gold, 6 were silver, and 8 copper."
Guanรฌn was a known alloy of copper in the America that did not use tin because tin was rare in the new world. If they were really Africans they would at least have bronze tipped Spears instead of guanรฌn. The Portuguese most likely called anyone with darker skin black.
The reason why science tends to champion older ideas is because they had more time to gather evidence for that idea and ideas with more evidence are favored. They only drop an old idea if it is without a doubt wrong. Then we have people like you and u/LordDwia champion new competing alternative theories along with pseudoscience ideas because no one can be bothered to look up citations and check to see if there is any science backing up their claim.
explain_that_shit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:25:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wasn't there also Roman-style galleys off the coast of Brazil? Swear I read that somewhere
krazykieffer ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:02:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is correct, and the jars were dated to the time of Rome, personally more likely a Carthage ship. When the dive went back it was buried by the government and was kicked out of the county. Alot of people say no evidence but PBS has done documentary on it and History channel.
ValAichi ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 07:23:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let's be honest, at this point that is probably evidence against it actually having happened.
DigitalMariner ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:54:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When they find underground ice roads for ancient alien truckers at the bottom of Oak Island, you'll be eating those words...
krazykieffer ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:11:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like below that some have said you won't find proof but you will find many ways why some think think that. Carthage was interested in traveling west. There's history n PBS documentary on this. Also a while back a diver was diving off the coast of Brazil and found a ship dating to that age. Took jars n other things to be studys, it was dated to 100ish bc. He went back to find a military ship over the location dive and the ship with sand dumped over it and he was kicked out of the country. Look it up. *Grammer
tef_gong ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:28:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read a book about it years ago, can't remember the name right now but google search pretty much covers it
http://www.globalresearch.ca/before-columbus-how-africans-brought-civilization-to-america/5407584
eriiccc ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:05:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any articles or anything you've seen? Would love to read more about it.
FifaMadeMeDoIt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:40:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nope
TheTyke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:56:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Romans discovered Brazil, actually. - Infact, I'm gonna make a whole new comment for this!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:28:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Lord_Iggy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:13:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pyramids are pretty simple structures, lots of different cultures have come across that same idea independently.
ArguingPizza ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:18:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really they're one of the most simple large structures to create. Just stack slightly fewer blocks on each subsequent layer.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:17:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's really just that pyramids are the easiest thing to built. Large base, tapering top... if you want to build something grand without any real advanced techniques, it pretty much has to be a pyramid.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 11:06:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Malian empire did find the Americas but it went into decline before Columbus. However, nothing is discovered unless white people do it. This is true of so many things e.g. the Earth being round (proven in Egypt b.c.), that the Earth goes round the Sun (proved by Malian mathematicians 300 years before Gallileo), vaccines (invented by an Edward Jenner, testing a theory brought back from the Ottoman empire). We still live in an age of historical whitewashing. They may have recorded it but we will never know. Not enough of the thousands of Malian writings have been translated - nor are they a priority for translation. Mali is too poor to do it and the idea of a great black empire are too horrific for the wealthy European/American/Arab nations to bother investing in... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUtAxUQjwB4 - If you're interested, this is a great video for the anti-whitewashing of black history.
ZipTone ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:17:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WE WUZ
JustaPonder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:13:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
good book or docs about Africa you could rec?
greenphilly420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:32:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Abu Bakr II might have found the Americas but we'll never know for sure
ZyklonBae ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:01:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:03:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Insightful
ZyklonBae ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:59:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry. I thought you were trying to make a joke when you conflated civilization with sub-Saharan Africa.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:16:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm no expert on sub-Saharan Africa but there seems to evidence of civilizations as early as 2000bc.
CosmicSpaghetti ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:43:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah man (get your tinfoil hat ready) it's the /r/MandelaEffect
el_lley ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:46:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is a story about the Mali Empire discovering the Americas...
Forgot_My_Rape_Shoes ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:56:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lake Tahoe is West of LA.
tollofthetroll ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:36:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bullshit! I'm sorry, Snapple
eli9567 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:42:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My wife is from Peru, we live in Indiana. Same time zone. It blew my mind that Peru is like directly south of Indiana
laybros ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:02:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait is your wife from Peru or Peru, Indiana
sabrefudge ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:53:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I'm looking at Google Maps too.
Is Alaska really that huge? It looks like it could almost cover the whole United States.
bregolad ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:03:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think that Google maps is more accurate when going west to east (or right to left) along the screen. North to south is way less accurate, because it doesn't really express the way the planet moves outwards in the middle. Basically, the pattern of a sphere (the planet) is never gonna work on a rectangle (computer screen).
I'm explaining this like a jackass, but put it this way: from Google map, you might think Greenland (in the north) is the same size as Africa (in the middle) - it's not: Africa is way, way, way bigger than Greenland.
Dont_trust_them ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 04:28:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Africa is 14 times larger than Greenland. Google maps uses the Mercator projection which skews land near the poles.
Shitpoe_Sterr ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:32:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its about time we start using globes for most maps in general
Wildwoodywoodpecker ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:37:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How else would you pick a random place to move to?
Shitpoe_Sterr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:23:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Took me a little while to get it. Neat
Joncat84 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:05:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stuff on the top of maps appears bigger then it really is. As you get closer to the middle of a map it becomes more accurate.
GlyphGryph ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:13:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have to switch to "Earth" view to get good comparisons of size, since otherwise the stuff at the poles gets all stretched out.
sabrefudge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:24:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a little better, I think.
Still looks pretty gosh darn big.
DigitalMariner ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:03:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, but it's still fucking huge
DivineJustice ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:24:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't believe you fell for the ol' hack Google maps trick.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:44:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.reddit.com/r/MandelaEffect/comments/3zjwr8/pol_experiences_the_mandela_effect_xpost_r4chan/
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:13:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that's why I always use bing maps takes cover
Mecha_Derp ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:57:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man changes entire planet's geography to fool redditor
cguy1234 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:25:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The long con! 1. Modifies google maps. 2. Waits his sweet time for the right Reddit thread to come in and reaps the sweet karma.
bregolad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:30:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like he had better things to do with his life!
Iliketrainschoo_choo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:58:58 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know, we don't see the word cahoots enough.
j4kefr0mstat3farm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:09:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Atlanta is further west than Detroit.
JMS1991 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:18:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Greenville, South Carolina is closer to Detroit than it is to Miami.
KRosen333 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:23:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BRADBURY!!!
blatzphemy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Upvote for cahoots
Boostin_Boxer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:50:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it just me or is cahoons like one of the funniest English words? I get the biggest grin on my face whenever I hear or read it.
skiman13579 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:51:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, Key West Florida despite technically being half on the Atlantic Ocean, is due south of Cleveland Ohio
Quorum_Sensing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:02:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Standing in the fucking inferno that is Rome in the summer, this possibility would never cross your mind.
fuckmattdamon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:57:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I'll be double-dog damned!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:31:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What do you think the word 'prank' means?
scfoothills ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:12:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, Maine is the closest state to Africa.
ucantsimee ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 07:14:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reno NV is also further west than Los Angeles.
mdrxd100 ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 02:51:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, someone mentioned the place where I live. That's nice.
lucysalvatierra ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:14:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I never hear anything bad about Santiago, Chile.
AgoraiosBum ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:37:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It can be smoggy...but it's a cool city. Not pricey for a capital city either.
smokecat20 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:46:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You in NY too? Awesome not a lot of us around.
Track-tor ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:28:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You live in further west??? Nice.
iZacAsimov ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:20:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the US state closest to Africa is Maine.
bighootay ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:26:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
TheSandyRavage ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:00:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bullshit. I'm gonna check.
Edit: Sweet Mother Theresa on the hood of a Mercedes Benz, you're right.
a-dark-passenger ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:57:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, Reno, NV is further west than Los Angeles, CA.
rckid13 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:22:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I learned how far East South America is when my wife spent some time in the Galapagos Islands. The islands are ~600 miles west of mainland Ecuador but are in the US Central time zone. We were on the same time zone when I would call her down there. I assumed she would be at least a few hours different from me.
Skrappyross ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:10:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And Rena Nevada is further west than L.A.
Reading_is_Cool ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:15:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this a joke or am I being confused by something?
Jipz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:47:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's true http://i.imgur.com/gVm2KHe.jpg
Reading_is_Cool ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:50:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well color me surprised and slap my ass
Qonic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:58:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well dress me up pretty and call me Samantha
xbigarmx ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:08:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was there twice last year!
SkyPork ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:12:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I finally looked critically at a map when I heard something like this the first time. Most of South America is east of the US.
GDMFusername ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:29:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Santiago, Chile.
Santiago, Chile.
Quito, Ecuador...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:42:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
San Diego is further east than almost all of Washington, Oregon, California, and a third of Nevada.
robinson217 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:01:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I figured this out when I went to Rio and was shocked to see how many hours ahead of the west coast it was. I always pictured it being on the same longitude as Boston or Maine. Nope. Middle of the fucking Atlantic
Typo-Kign ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:11:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And further east than Dallas, Texas
kaptainkeel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:14:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The southern-most point of Europe. What would be the comparison to this point in the U.S.?
Pizzarcatto ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:23:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is all I can see.
TryAnotherNamePlease ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:06:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That really is crazy.
TrillianSC2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:16:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jacksonville, Florida is further west than the whole of South America.
ern999 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:34:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I cannot tell you how much this blew my mind. But Chile's on the west coast and New York is on the east coast! How? What?
I'm looking at the map and I still can't believe it's true.
the_loner ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:07:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you heard of the estadio olymipico? I built the celinto cateyante....towers.
wutsgudhomz1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:23:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Further east?
QuantumTM ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:39:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wish I had the Ron burgundy I don't believe you image to hand.
firthy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:09:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
<Round trip to Google Maps> Wow...!
NeuroBill ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:17:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What... No.... Wow. That's crazy
CloudLighting ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:26:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And Virginia extends further west than West Virginia.
istandabove ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:33:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Woah
regenzeus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:22:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ehm I have a dumb question! Is there such a thing as the "west-pole"? I think not. If thats correct then how can a place be further west then another place?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:23:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lines of longitude.
kchoudhury ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:33:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This fucked me up when we went down there a few years ago and I didn't have to change my watch.
I was very confused for a moment.
CouthDecay ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:32:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*farther. jesus.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:24:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not exactly true.
fanamana ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:46:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And apparently their salsa is for shit.
TheChileanWay ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:47:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Chilean here, can confirm, I realised this because of time zones.
ryants ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:25:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy living fuck.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:47:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good map http://geology.com/world/world-map.gif
Alt-Tabby ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:52:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm. In Santiago but live on the west coast of the USA, when I call my family they're like, "What??? What do you mean you're five hours ahead, I thought you were in our time zone still!"
Eagl3ye91 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:54:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And further west than Rome
h-styles ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:57:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I interpreted this as Rome being further west than Santiago, Chile (probably bc I'm still a little drunk) and I was SO confused.
teahugger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:02:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa. Pretty much all of South America is east of New York. How could I not notice this before. http://imgur.com/pszQWNQ
derpaherpa ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:10:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's also further east depending on how you look at it so that's a pretty meaningless fact.
explodeder ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:22:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And Reno is further west than Los Angeles.
smpl-jax ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:23:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously!? Who's been to Santiago, Chile twice in ONE year man?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:27:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And yet NYC gets as cold as Montreal, go figure!
hnefatafl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:48:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And when you travel through the Panama Canal from the Pacific to the Atlantic, you actually move East to West.
cwood1973 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:54:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And Santiago, Chile is further north than Cape Town, South Africa.
patrickfatrick ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:42:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, I think these facts are the ones really blowing my mind. My impression of planet earth is far different than reality apparently.
On a smaller scale, NYC is less than a degree of latitude north of Denver, and actually south of Salt Lake City.
t0comple ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:48:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no fucking way
bmwhd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:12:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was shocked to learn that great circle distances from Dallas and Toronto to Sao Paulo are virtually identical.
luke_in_the_sky ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:48:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And Santiago, Chile is further south than Cape Town, South Africa
edgeblackbelt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:53:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And further West than San Diego, CA (In that you can get to NY by going West from San Diego).
mytinyson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:16:46 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This honestly fucked me up 10x worse than the "further south than Rome" part.
PARKOUR_ZOMBlE ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:06:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here's a good one: "Farther" sounds extremely wrong to some people but it is actually the correct adverb when describing relative distance. Further is a verb.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:10:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not exactly true.
El_Dumfuco ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:42:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I furthered twice yesterday.
Newaccountusedtolurk ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:56:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That doesn't work does it? Like what is the starting place we are meausuring the westness from
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:00:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lines of longtitude, starting from the Prime Meridian, which runs through Greenwich, England.
Newaccountusedtolurk ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:02:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ok then that works
Emperor_NOPEolean ยท 1075 points ยท Posted at 02:24:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This one amazed me. Toledo, Ohio, is on the same latitude line as Rome.
sinatra22 ยท 340 points ยท Posted at 04:29:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy Toledo!
the_short_viking ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 13:33:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Holy Toledo Empire.
loadsoffun17 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:26:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know what they say, when in Toledo...
rugtoad ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 14:49:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drink to make the time go faster.
Also, eat at Packo's.
Oh and Gino's.
And if you have an iron stomach, stop by Stanley's. The kielbasa is among the best in the nation, but the indigestion from it is usually just short of a medical emergency.
But after you've hit those places, probably best to just start drinking. You've seen most everything worth looking at.
daver914 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:52:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Feh, let the out-of-towners have Packo's, I'll stick with Rudy's or Ideal. Also, stop by the zoo, it's great.
Tchocky ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 12:09:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Somebody had fun.
machalllewis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:54:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Say Hello to your brother.
zbo2amt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:43:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well done
andersjnielsen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:16:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, when in Toledo..
schammy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:41:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My favorite line from die hard 3.
CrimsonGlyph ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:11:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Knew that was gonna be said. Last time I was in Ohio we were so bored in the car, that we decided that every time we see a sign for Toledo, we say "holy Toledo." It was difficult to keep score. Pretty sure I won.
ZippyDan ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:06:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, Gumby!
Donkey__Xote ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:41:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go home, Jamie Farr, you're drunk!
Snoochey ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 10:07:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mom?
SlinkyAstronaught ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:00:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I'm near Washington DC and I'm further south than Madrid!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:53:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which make sense because you Americans are weird, happy, positive, talkative southerners. :P
Pandom91 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 04:49:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Checking in from Toledo!
Dirty_Old_Town ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 07:07:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Say hello to Tony Packo for me.
Moodleveler ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:23:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck Tony Packos; Rudy's is king!
smokedustshootcops ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:42:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rudys cant fuck with a Packos fried pickle
spiffysimon22 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:11:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doc Watson's fried pickles kill Packos! Can confirm, had them yesterday
smokedustshootcops ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:47:38 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
holy shit i forgot about docs.
spiffysimon22 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:13:57 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How can forget about dollar taco Tuesdays?
smokedustshootcops ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:41:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ex-Toledoen Right here... South Ave nahmean!
meverett38 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:42:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also checking in from Toledo
becomearobot ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:10:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my god you said something about Toledo and it wasn't about unemployment or human trafficking. Have an upvote.
thebestdefect ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:04:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm from Toledo, I have never heard this before. That's awesome.
SecretlySatanic ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:54:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aaahhh Toledo, truly the Rome of America.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:55:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dat jet stream.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 07:00:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Eh, oversimplified and not really the full truth, though that is the usual rhetoric weathermen dish out. Yes the Jet Stream dips low in the Eastern US, but that has underlying causes. The Eastern US is on the eastern side of the continent, for one. The westerlies won't be coming directly off an ocean like they would in Europe or California. Hence we have a continental climate (hot summers cold winters) compared to their oceanic climate (mild winters mild summers). Fully exposed (no high mountain ranges or deep bodies water) between the Canadian arctic and the gulf of mexico, allowing continental (extreme) cold air masses to move freely and unmitigated east of the rocky mountains. That allows the Jet Stream to dip so far south.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:00:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This makes so much sense...every time I look at the weather channel when it's hot and humid it looks like air is coming from the Gulf of Mexico up to us, and every time it's really cold it looks like air from Canada is swooping down to us. I wish that Canada air would stay up there!
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:20:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We should build a wall.
DigitalMariner ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:09:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
We should build that wall first. It would be lesser quality and take a lot longer to complete without Mexicans to help.
EDIT: Guess I did need the /s after all....
The_Real_dubbedbass ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:18:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think the biggest reason it throws people is because in the northern hemisphere the ocean currents flow counter clockwise. Because the earth spins about its axis so the water nearest the equator gets hotter but because we're spinning the water gets pushed into currents and the stuff in the northern hemisphere rotates counter clockwise so western coasts are generally warmer than eastern coasts. For example, look at the US, both Eureka, CA and Philadelphia, PA are at 40 degrees N (roughly). Technically, Philadelphia is just a touch further south than Eureka. But you think of Philadelphia and it's not cold like say Maine or Minnesota but you're not thinking of going surfing there either.
And you see that the world over. Like London is farther north than Augusta, ME. But the temperature average is about five degrees warmer in the British Isle. So I think the perception that time is warner makes you think it's farther south than Toledo. So I'm with you it seems strange. But if you stop and think about it it makes sense.
nanoakron ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:11:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have a look at the latitudes of most things in North America vs Europe - London is just south of Moscow, but still about the same latitude as Calgary!
Sutrahero ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:35:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's my hometown! When in Toledo, do as the Toledoans do...drink beer and play cornhole.
shespunkindrublic ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:38:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Toledoan here. TIL
Yebi ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:59:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which also means that Toledo is pretty much on the same latitude as Toledo. That's pretty cool.
Kujo_A2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:06:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Toledo, Spain is about two degrees further south, which is non-trivial. It's at about the same latitude as Philadelphia and Denver.
There's also Milan, Italy, which is well North of Milan, MI.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:01:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At least people from Toledo have something to brag about now.
aviator94 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:54:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also Dublin and Moscow
catfish314 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:56:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lived here all my life, never heard that before. TIL
chazcope ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:30:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stopping by simply to say I'm from... Near... Toledo.
Bye.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:46:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like Lima Close
chazcope ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like closer than Lima.
Jackpot777 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:38:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That's why I'm amazed we Americans aren't jumping on the idea of solar power. Germany is, has done for years, and their most southern point is around the same latitude as northern Maine.
Edit - it's further north than Maine. They get over a quarter of their electricity from renewable sources. On some days it's close to 80%.
aoskunk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:54:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This one seemed intuitive to me, did you think Rome was more north or south?
Emperor_NOPEolean ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:58:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everybody I've told this to thinks Rome is much farther south, because of the weather there. People think of it as more sub tropical, like Florida.
aoskunk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:44:27 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay cool, I guess I just don't know much about rome so I didn't have it in my head that it that warm. I fell asleep staring at a world map in my childhood bedroom. So I guess one of the main things I know about room is it lat/long.
edditme ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:25:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rome wishes they had Klinger
BrassBass ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:45:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dear Ohio,
Fuck Toledo and fuck you.
Sincerely, a Michigan man.
P.S. Fuck your football team as well.
skiman13579 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 10:53:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry, maybe sometime in the next decade you might get lucky and come close to beating us
Emperor_NOPEolean ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:47:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We do have better roads going for us, and none of our large cities have been poisoned for two years.
catfish314 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:59:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, there are plenty of Wolverines here too!
crackanape ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:19:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shhh! You're supposed to lay low and not identify yourself until the start of Operation Enduring Pierogi.
NormanConquest ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:02:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why is this so amazing? The one is in Europe and the other is in the United States. You can look at a map and clearly see they're on similar latitudes
MrTurkle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:39:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Slightly less culturally relevant though.
ExplainsSocialEnigma ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:30:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also Toledo, Spain.
garythedog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:29:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I grew up in Toledo, never heard that one before.
wggn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:12:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tokyo is on the same latitude line as Malta
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:29:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tokyo too
zoicyte ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:39:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
there are 90 degrees in latitude. the 42nd one will amaze you.
RockyTheSakeBukakke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:00:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How underwhelming for Rome
unit220 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:08:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, the beautiful Mediterranean climate of Toledo.
RepresentingSpain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:28:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And how does Toledo, Ohio, compare to original Toledo, Spain?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:54:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd rather be in Rome.
NosyEnthusiast6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:24:22 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Something interesting about Ohio!
Nevermind, then.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:50:57 on March 27, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When in Toledo...
thedoze ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:41:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you know Toledo is in Ohio? And Ohio is the home of pool toy fuckers.
ZenTriBrett ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:36:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Toledo is Latin (Roman) for "Same Latitude."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:20:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And every bit as culturally significant. Some parts of Toledo are even fully populated and have relatively few weeds! And the water doesn't taste like oven cleaner if you filter it first!
Regalbeegal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:15:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scrolling and I see this, born and raised and currently living in Toledo. It's a shithole
Emperor_NOPEolean ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:46:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's little Detroit.
Doubleyoupee ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:02:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you explain why it amazes you? Rome isn't far south at all?
beingforthebenefit ยท 76 points ยท Posted at 03:28:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reno, NV is further west than Los Angeles.
Eurynom0s ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:40:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...looks on Google Maps...well fuck.
washington_breadstix ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:15:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The easternmost point in Canada is the same distance from Croatia as it is from the westernmost point in Canada.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:20:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are SIX US state capitals further WEST of Los Angeles.
beingforthebenefit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:36:45 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For the curious:
lucysalvatierra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:15:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus!
dtn1496 ยท 198 points ยท Posted at 01:38:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This helps give some idea of how far North/South part of America are compared to other continents.
Dont____Panic ยท 158 points ยท Posted at 04:50:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's just that Europe is so damn far north. It's basically Alaska/Yukon, but warmer because of ocean currents.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 06:44:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:06:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Taz-erton ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:55:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We should get a different one.
Scrial ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:53:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Working on it.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:53:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's...not warm...
[deleted] ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 07:01:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was about to call you nuts until I realizes it was farenheit. Still, for the winter and a northern place like Alaska, 7 degrees (Celsius) is really damn warm for the winter. The whole coast is like that. Vancouver barely gets winter with a daily mean of 4 in February and it's almost 5 degrees more north than Montreal.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:07:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh. To be pedantic, it's not that cold. But I get your point.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:22:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:23:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True, but I wouldn't say 45 is warm. Just not that cold.
I'm being pedantic here
Getjac ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 09:39:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're using warm as a perceptive description I'd disagree. After a long winter, 45ยฐ literally feels warm. It just depends on what you're accustomed to.
JELLY__FISTER ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:25:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd call 45 in the winter a warm winter
Grim99CV ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:12:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People in LA freak out when it gets that cold. But then we are supposed to be 75 Fยฐ year round.
Taz-erton ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 15:54:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
mmmmmmmmhyes shallow and pedantic
shadow1515 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:21:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For winter? I'm in NY and considered this past winter to be one long heat wave because we almost never dropped below 0 (Fahrenheit). 45 is like t-shirt weather, as long as it's not too windy.
Dont____Panic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:47:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not terribly ordinary, it's usually colder than that. It's a comparable latitude to Scotland or southern Sweden.
Bassflute ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:13:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This. I moved from Hamburg, Germany to Cologne, Germany and was relieved to once again be "in the south", i.e. more like where I was used to in the UK, where I'm originally from. Cologne is about level with Southhampton, for example. I then thought, jokingly, oh, I'm probably further south in the States, as well.
Hm, except Cologne's latitude is roughly that of Calgary.
I also found this, which helps when working this sort of thing out:
find what parts of the world have the same longitude and latitude as each other
Little_Ticket ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:27:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit, I never thought of it that way. Living in Southern Ontario, that seems ridiculously far north.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:42:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Another fun fact, Windsor, Ontario is at about the same latitude as Redding, California.
JohnnyButtocks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:45:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be precise, only Scandinavia and the far north of Scotland really shares latitudes with Alaska. I live on an island north of the Scottish Mainland, and we are at 59 degrees north. In midsummer you can read a book outside at midnight. In Midwinter it's pitch black by about 3pm.. Makes for insomnia in June and hibernation in January.. I wouldn't recommend either.
ModernPoultry ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:21:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I could easily check but I read somewhere London is basically on the same latitude as someplace in northern Quebec
mechanical_fan ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 06:39:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same as Moscow, if I remember correctly. Really puts in context how powerful the current really is in altering climate.
DJBooks ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:34:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Moscow is on the same latitude as Edinburgh I believe.
benk4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:50:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Around the same as Juneau Alaska IIRC
CRISPR ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:43:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. Find a map view of the globe from the North Pole direction.
That will explain everything.
celer-iter ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:57:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal is further west than the Pacific one.
actual_factual_bear ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:39:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Take that Joseph Smith!
GTI-Mk6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:28:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, would you be going if traveling from Singapore to Amsterdam, you'd have to head back for Singapore when crossing the canal?
crackanape ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:21:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you were traveling from Singapore to Amsterdam you'd take the Suez route and not come anywhere near Panama.
rafael000 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:02:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
or take an airplaine
loukitch ยท 335 points ยท Posted at 00:27:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck off...
auctor_ignotus ยท 54 points ยท Posted at 03:17:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah! Found the New Yorker!
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 07:51:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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igotthisone ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:27:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do New Yorkers generally speak in a Scotts accent?
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:29:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I think both Ireland and the UK are further north than the
entire USentire mainland US also._coyotes_ ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:02:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's weird, I live in Canada in Ontario that sort of bends in into the United States (I'm more north than NYC but more south than Portland, Oregon - I'm about the same level as Milwaukee) and it's weird to think I'd have to fly north west to land in England.
dunaja ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:23:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
North east?
charlos72 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:40:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And miss out on the newfoundland and siberian countryside? Not a chance /s
_coyotes_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:37:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right sorry, North east.
marpocky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:17:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Paris is at 49 North, the same as much of the US-Canada border
GreenFriday ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:13:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
London is about 280 km north of whatever that flat line is called between the US and Canada.
igotthisone ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:28:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's called a border.
GreenFriday ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:21:06 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not the whole border is straight though.
porsche911king ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:08:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, not even close.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:10:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dublin, Ireland has a latitude of 53 degrees.
London, UK has a latitude of 51 degrees.
Vancouver, Canada has a latitude of 49 degrees.
Vancouver sits about 20 miles above the US/Canada border, which is a big straight line that dips even lower on the east side of the US.
Tell me again how the FACTS are wrong?
porsche911king ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:41:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Barrow AK is at 71 degrees, which is part of the entire US. You fail.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:43:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alaska, forgot about alaska. I was 98% right.
omicronperseiB8 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:20:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless Great Britain has moved into the upper Arctic Circle lately, no.
marpocky ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 09:21:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Brexit is more extreme than I thought
MrCromin ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:47:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Outboard motors and a strong British will. Brexodus
ieatedjesus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:11:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Contiguous 48 states then.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:22:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Dublin, Ireland has a latitude of 53 degrees.
London, UK has a latitude of 51 degrees.
Vancouver, Canada has a latitude of 49 degrees.
Vancouver sits about 20 miles above the US/Canada border, which is a big straight line that dips even lower on the east side of the US.
Fack_You ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:24:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck you
bbcslave92 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:32:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
not getting the reference here bud
Gorf_the_Magnificent ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 04:25:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Moscow is closer to New York City than it is to some parts of Russia.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:29:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Everything is closer to everything else than it is to some parts of Russia.
craker42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:10:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Russia is big
Novaskittles ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:04:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maine is closer to Africa than Florida.
ironmanmk42 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:28:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This one blows my mind
[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 03:08:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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IAmNotARobotNoReally ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 03:52:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gulf Motherfucking Stream yo
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:09:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The gulf stream's effect is pretty slight.
More of a general western side of continent vs. eastern side of continent.
Europe's climate can be found on our Pacific coast in roughly the same latitudinal pattern (mild, gets drier as you go south, etc.)
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:56:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Comparing the weather to Newfoundland and saying it's nice doesn't really add up.
GarMc ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:33:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, it's funny because it rains a lot in Eastern Canada.
greyjackal ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:37:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And western. I've been to BC...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:45:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:24:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The weather in NFLD is generally considered to be shit by the rest of Canada so trying to say that the UK has good weather because of its similar latitude doesn't really help.
electrophile91 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:11:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Despite, not because of...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:22:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not saying it has good weather compared to Newfoundland. I'm saying that, given its latitude, it has good weather full stop - compared to all other non-inland areas. I simply chose another place at a similar latitude with a large amount of coastline, similar to the British Isles, as a recognisable example given that people on this site tend to be from North America than therefore fairly culturally and geographically ignorant.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:57:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I read it the other way. Oh well.
hoodie92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:12:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're missing the point. He's saying that though we all complain about it, the weather in the UK is way nicer than it should be.
The weather is "pretty fucking nice" compared to Newfoundland, which is on the same latitude.
electrophile91 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:20:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The point is that it's nice compared to Newfoundland, not that its similar to Newfoundland...
newdecade1986 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:54:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also Edinburgh is further west than Bristol
greyjackal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:35:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No idea why someone downvoted you, you're correct. Also Glasgow is further west than most of Wales.
A lot of people forget that the UK is angled a bit more than weather maps and whatnot imply.
DarthJones1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:42:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Puyallup, WA (about 40 miles south of Seattle) is at the same latitude as the northernmost point in Maine.
greyjackal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scotland's further north than Moscow, too. (Think it's Newcastle that shares a latitude with it)
kellzone ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:08:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Canada is south of Detroit.
_coyotes_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:03:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's true. In Windsor, you can drive north and end up in the US.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:17:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Used to live in that section of Canada actually. Traveled about 45 minutes north to get to Detroit. Felt weird, as anywhere else in Canada you travel south to get to the US.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:50:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Canada extends as far south as Northern California.
SuperArff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:07:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Part of Canada.
prplx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:22:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The armpit of Canada.
Nuclear_Ace ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:35:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Rome isn't that close to the equator though, is it? TBH this doesn't really shock me.
Edit: Spelling
Starrystars ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:29:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but because of currents and air streams Europe is generally hotter than America when you compare Latitudes
whatIsThisBullCrap ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:48:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, but Rome is still hot af
UltravioletLemon ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:40:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, what I am learning from this thread is that Americans don't seem to know where their continent is at all in comparison to others.
RedundantOxymoron ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:26:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cairo and Houston are at the same latitude. The British Crown used to pay an hardship pay to the diplomat stationed in Houston because of the heat and humidity. It doesn't cool off at night because of the humidity. You have to go north to Oklahoma for that to happen.
jilliefish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:42:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This doesn't shock me at all either? Of course New York is further south...
whatwhatinthebutt19 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:41:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
West Virginia is only 200 miles from Canada.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:27:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Um
Impostor1089 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:53:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/twitches
Farther.
RagingNerdaholic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:28:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
California and Ontario share latitudinal lines.
whatwhatinthebutt19 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:44:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My fun fact that I introduce is that Canada's most southern point is further south than California's most northern point.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:31:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The cold part of California shares latitudinal lines with Ontario.
Spearsy23 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:14:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Itt Mercator projection maps fuck with everyone's heads.
hobbified ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:52:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uh, Mercator preserves latitude and longitude just fine. NYC is further from the top of a Mercator map than Rome is, and closer to the left side than Santiago.
Spearsy23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good point, this was just like the fifth geographical thing in the thread and I should have thought before posting.
Raynesa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:43:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ka Lae, Hawaii is the southernmost point in the United States. (I always thought it was over beside California)
snickity-dickity-doo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:57:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
London, England is further north than Fargo, North Dakota.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:08:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
After all the arguments I've heard about American maps being biased and NA-centric, this one is one argument that doesn't even make sense to me. I didn't even realize NYC would land in Europe anywhere...
nimbusdimbus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:45:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, the Alps is what keeps Italy so much warmer. It keeps the Arctic cold fronts from reaching that far south
bensawn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:21:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
london and moscow are on the same latitude.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:23:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Chicago is also further south than Rome.
CeJeH ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:42:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reno, Nevada is further west than Los Angeles.
Snuhmeh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:57:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*Farther
sparkle_dick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:11:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So after spending a good amount of time listening to mating cats outside and looking at Google maps, why isn't Scotland covered in snow? It's above Maine and parts of Canada.
DipDoodle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:37:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So do they get snow like NYC? Or Toledo-lake effect?
ABlackman14 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:46:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lake Tahoe is west of LA
blargelsmith ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:47:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And if you were to fly in the shortest, straight line from Rome to New York, you would start out heading north, despite it being more north.
adidasbdd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:51:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not actually "new"
ivymikey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:52:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The shortest distance between the US and Africa is from Maine.
sprucay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:53:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The UK is level with Canada. Hawai'i is the southern most state.
SimB5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:58:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow that's a good one
cooper2008 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reno, Nevada is further west then Los Angeles, California. And now you are going to google this....
Bbrainss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:10:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And Lake Tahoe is west of Los Angeles
ILikeBumblebees ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:12:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's actually at the same latitude as Istanbul.
FroggiJoy87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And Lake Tahoe is further West then LA
DarKnightofCydonia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:22:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Montreal is further south than Paris, but a hell of a lot colder in winter
LPCochofel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:37:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
New York is also further south than Istanbul!
musicmast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:45:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why is this surprising for some people?
flyafar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:48:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
literally said bullshit out loud as I looked at a map.
what the fuck
malachimusclerat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:49:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Florida and Texas are on the same latitude as the Sahara desert.
angypangy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:01:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why should that seem wrong? Isn't most of the us below Rome?
Dragynwing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:08:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seattle is farther north than most major Canadian cities.
natty1212 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:14:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Paris, France is further north than Fargo, North Dakota.
Lakinther ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:16:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wait wut
TrillianSC2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most of these are confusing/surprising due to map projections and out familiarity with certain maps.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:19:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The closest state to Africa is Maine.
zblofu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:30:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And Reno is west of Los Angeles.
liutprando_j ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:37:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It should be at the same "height"of Naples (200km ish south of Rome)
nick9000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:39:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a kid I thought that the old liners that sailed from my home town of Southampton to New York went out of the English Channel, headed due West and ended up in NYC. It amazed me to find out a due west route would actually end up in Newfoundland.
PoopButtMuffinTop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:42:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To anyone that knows anything about geography this sounds right.
godless_guru ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:44:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reno, Nevada is farther west than Los Angeles also.
[deleted] ยท 1465 points ยท Posted at 03:31:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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sheepoverfence ยท 350 points ยท Posted at 08:46:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
66 years from the first flight to landing on the moon.
barto5 ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 13:35:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And I will always maintain that a person born circa 1900 has seen more profound changes in their lifetime than any other generation has seen or will ever see.
Wesside ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 15:12:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was going to make a counter to this, based on computational power, and tech in general, but the people born in 1900 (at least some anyway) have witnessed all of those things in their later years as well.
They've gone from Horse drawn buggies, to the Bugatti Veyron in (some of) their lifetimes.
They've gone from no one ever flying, to people being able to jump out of helicopters in wing suits and flying through the mountains.
They've witnessed the devastation of the creation and use of Atomic weapons.
They've seen more deaths from wars than any other group likely ever will.
They've gone from Women having no rights at all, to having equal rights (depending on country anyway).
As mentioned above, they've gone from horse drawn buggies, to walking on the moon as well.
They've (likely) seen the most expansion in known species on the planet in their lifetimes.
I don't think there will likely be another generation to see as many advancements as they have likely ever again. We've iterated on everything that's happened since then sure, but we've not witnessed nearly what they have, and short of an alien species coming to earth, curing all of our diseases, and showing us the path to the stars, I doubt we ever will.
BrassMunkee ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 15:52:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I disagree - The generation born in the mid to late 1700's saw just as much rapid advancement.
Some of the most important foundations for modern technology and discovery. Mass production, machine tools, transportation, chemistry, paper machines (news publication and information being more widely distributed,) mass agriculture, gas lighting, etc etc. They saw some shit! It doesn't seem like much to us now, but they didn't call it the Industrial "Revolution" for nothing. The human race really clicked on with science and technology during that period.
Now, the generation born in 1900 didn't go from horses to bugatti because of a singular invention. The combustion engine capable of use within an automobile was designed in the 1800s. It's more likely Ford's ideas for an assembly line and interchangeable parts to quickly and cheaply mass produce vehicles so the average person could afford - this created an industry and industry requires competition to sell more cars. To compete with your cars, they had to be better, thus the rapidly advancing iterations every decade.
A joke published in 1899
While it's impossible to predict what advancements we will see, or estimate how many - I'd say it's extremely unlikely we'll see significantly less than generations before us.
Edit: Just spit-balling here because this is an interesting topic and I should be working right now, but would rather not be.
The birth of the information age - having nearly the entire sum of information known to man in our pockets at all times. That is huge! And seriously taken for granted. In 1920, they wouldn't be able to fathom that in about 80-90 years, every citizen of a developed nation could communicate instantaneously. You could have a device that transmitted video of the other person from the other side of the world. You could look up any information and educate yourself on absolutely any subject you could think of and answer nearly any question you ever had. Within seconds, you could have perfect directions routed to any location you didn't even know existed before routing to it. On a small device, we can zoom in and streetview small cities in Venezuela or, browse photos taken by men from rooftops in Yemen.
sirin3 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:33:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And people born in 2000 will see the largest reduction of those
(unless there will be man made species made by gen tech)
Nighthunter007 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 15:10:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I disagree. With automation and a transition to a post scarcity economy on the way, as well as AI at some point in the future, we're in for some much bigger changes.
barto5 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:43:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's easy to say that, and it may be true.
But if you were born in a rural area in 1900 you had:
No Heat, certainly no Air Conditioning.
A 50 mile journey literally took ALL day by horse drawn carriage. Now it takes an hour. Maybe.
Crossing an ocean took weeks by steam ship, longer if you sailed. Now you can have breakfast in New York and lunch in Paris.
No Electricity - bed time was at sunset because you had no lighting (I know there were candles and kerosene lanterns). Did I mention no heat or A/C? (And the internet was really slow).
No running water. My father was born in 1924. If he wanted to take a bath he had to - go to the well to draw water. Heat it up on the (wood burning) stove. And pour it into a big metal tub.
Need to take a dump? No problem. The outhouse is only 50 yards away - and it's 14 degrees out. Have fun with that.
Get spinal meningitis? That's sad, because you're going to die. Meningitis is still a serious disease, but it's not a death sentence. (Source: survived spinal meningitis, the same disease that killed my grandfather.) And despite the anti-vaxers best efforts, I still don't know anyone on an iron lung or in a wheel chair due to polio.
Children don't routinely - routinely - die of smallpox. Go to a turn of the century graveyard and look at all the tiny tombstones. Born: May, 1904. Died: January, 1908. Some family plots have, 2 or 3 or 4 young children buried alongside mom and dad.
I'm sure the future will bring profound changes, but when you look at the impact of these changes in the day to day lives of ordinary people, it's hard to imagine anything more dramatic.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:31:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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barto5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:11:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess it's a matter of perception.
Manned missions to Mars and private space travel will have virtually no impact on the day-to-day lives of most people. And curing cancer is a marvelous thing when it happens but certainly no more radical than the virtual elimination of polio, small pox and other diseases through vaccination.
I'll grant you that we can't - or at least I can't - begin to grasp all of the implications of AI and Nano technologies.
And by huge global events do you mean something like the TWO world wars this generation lived through? Admittedly, if we manage to have a full scale nuclear war that will mean Massive changes. It would almost be like going back to the 1890's.
Nighthunter007 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:52:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Creation of Artificial Superintelligence is more dramatic. An AI with cognetive powers surpassing us by orders of magnitudes more than the difference between us and mice could quite easily cure mortality. Either that or we go extinct because we programmed it poorly.
Post scarcity, which would also arise from a benevolent AI, means a world where no one has to work. A world where time is no longer our primary currency, and everything is provided, because making it is literally free.
Technological progress from rural 1900 to 1980 is impressive and all, but it cannot even begin to compare to some of the things that are coming.
barto5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:17:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If that happens - and that is a mighty big if - it will change the world in ways I can't imagine. But to suggest that immortality is "quite easy" to achieve seems optimistic at best, and frankly delusional at worst.
Nighthunter007 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:07:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not saying we can achieve immortality, I'm saying a superintelligence orders of magnitudes of orders of magnitudes smarter than us could. There are already some animals, like one kind of jelly fish, that are biologically immortal. That is, they don't age. Surely this would be possible to genralise, no?
We are already theorising on waqys to achieve immortality. There are some things with DNA that might stop aging, and we can think about ways to simulate the brain, maybe even copy an entire brain pattern to software. Surely a being orders of magnitudes number of orders of magnitudes smarter than us could figure out the details.
The big thing to remember here is that this is a best case scenario. If something goes wrong, anything, really, in the programming of this exponetially growing superintelligence, it could quite easily, and quite probably, wipe us out completely as an incedental part of whatever it is doing.
I am not optimistic for our future, there is just too much that can go wrong with an ASI. If nothing goes wrong though, we're in for a treat.
barto5 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:04:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
There are two simple, very basic things that we take for granted. Things which have profoundly changed life as we know it.
Electricity. And indoor plumbing.
Yes, changes are coming. Changes we cannot even imagine yet. But in terms of how we live our lives everyday, they will have to be truly momentous changes to have a greater impact on our lives than these two very basic things that we take for granted today.
Edit: I find the downvote on this comment amusing. Tell you what. Turn off your electricity AND your water for 30 days. Don't use your car. At all. For just one month. And see how profoundly your life changes.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:35:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just want to add my two cents to this conversation. I think that the disagreement you and Nighthunter have has a little bit to do with perception of what invention is.
Invention used to be dramatic. Lots of few, but big, leaps. As we advance, the process of invention will get smaller and smaller, but faster and faster! Yes, we will have conceptual breakthroughs, but those will actually still probably build on lots of little concepts that are already out there.
Indoor power and plumbing were important, as well as temperature control. But importance is not necessarily the only mark of an advancement, but a factor. Improvements still are advancements, which is why I think that each generation will probably see similar levels of advancement as time goes on.
HaydnWilks ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:15:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The one I find might be super interesting is 3D printing going mainstream and how that might disrupt manufacturing-based economies. Think of how important automobile production is to so many economies. Now imagine if every town and city has multiple shady garages you can go to that have big 3D printers that can produce any car you want at a fraction of the normal cost. If you thought illegal downloading of music and movies was disruptive, wait until people start downloading cars.
Nighthunter007 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:22:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
3D printing is really a part of the shift to post scarcity. In the same way that digital distribution removes scarcity from music sales, 3D printers could remove scarcity elsewhere. It's the first step towards Star Trek's replicators.
cavedweller333 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:23:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You wouldn't download a car!
sirin3 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:34:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ofc not, why would I?
In a time where you can download a car, you could download your people carrying drone.
00yoshi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:01:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahh, what... I would send myself over the internet to the location I want to go to.
sirin3 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:31:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That reminds me of an audiobook:
A company creates the ultimate antivirus program based on extremely advanced AI. The AI is so good, it is has a real personality. 5 of these AI programs are made, with weird names, Debug (or Assemble?), or so.
Sadly, there is a brilliant hacker, who creates his a similar group of programs. Minus (perhaps Virus? and Bug? were others) was one called.
The hacker sends his group to attack the company, unaware of their recent research. The groups meet, fight, the bad AI programs are losing and decide to build a trap. They travel away from the company and the antivirus persue them (because these programs are so advanced they cannot be copied. They only move through the computer). The virus group lures the antivirus group in a random desktop computer, there they evade them, and disconnect the computer from the internet after leaving. Now the antivirus are stuck in the random computer, and the virus can freely roam through the company network.
The antivirus have only one chance, they must communicate with the use of the random computer, although they are not supposed to as they are secret prototypes. The user turns out to be some kid/girl, and now I forgot the details. Anyways, they work together and reconnect the computer to the Internet.
Now the point, why I wrote all this: The kid needs to further help the antivirus during their final fight. Either she really wanted, or the bad programs made another trap only a human could bypass. However, that final fight is at the company, not at the girl's house. So what do the antivirus programs do?
Well, these are highly advanced AI antivirus programs. They design a special laser and place it inside the COM port. From their they scan the girl, disintegrate her and reintegrate inside the computer. Now she has the same structure as one of the AI programs and can travel through the Internet to that company, where the AI reactivates his laser, and reassambles her outside the next terminal.
Anyone know how this story was called? The program names are way too hard to google.
00yoshi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:50:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting... Well, that programs can't be copied is a somewhat strange concept. Btw, then I could send myself to everywhere on the world at the same time! Or create a million of myself and start a revolution.
K20BB5 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:40:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
except those materials still cost money, and you have to pay someone to run the machine and keep it running. So you'll probably end up paying more than you would if you bought it from the company, who would be able to provide either cheaper because they're producing it at scale. Not to mention that 3D printing anything other than polymers is extremely difficult and expensive
HaydnWilks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:18:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm assuming the technology will get much, much cheaper over time. DVD players cost thousands of dollars when they were first released.
You may be right about the materials though. I'm not sure how much of the cost of a car is the actual raw materials and how much is for the labour, R&D and company profit.
00yoshi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:00:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha, didn't someone 3D-print a house? Who knows what comes, with advancements in nanotechnology and 3D-printing we might 3D-print our own devices (or at least make our own processors).
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:30:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now we just need a bar on the moon.
callmekennith ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:57:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I saw some jackass riding a horse just the other day. We've gone full circle
500babies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:27:50 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We got a lot more done as a species once we got our hygiene in order.
dramboxf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:17:48 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandmother was born before the car and lived to see men on the moon. What an awesome life.
MissMarionette ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:42:14 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It just proves that once you crack the code, so to speak, the sky's the limits. It's the same with art techniques and simple things like baking or preparing food. It's also something that makes me go "hell yeah, humans are cool."
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:15:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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sheepoverfence ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:36:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea. Also the first powered landing on the moon.
pigeonwiggle ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:17:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and 66 years after that... 2035! imagine all the crazy shit we'll do then!
AP246 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:37:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Incorrect. Does not count balloon flights.
chromiselda ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 10:01:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
3 more generations later, we're still here!
Wetbung ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 13:53:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And people are still riding on horseback and nobody is on the moon.
elmonstro12345 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:38:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is what they want you to think...
Lnfinite_god ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 14:56:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
depends how long you define a generation. I always thought it was 20 years, but for you it's 50+ years?
Gadfly21 ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 06:11:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Source? Horseback riding has been around since 4000bc at the latest.
Torpid-O ยท 76 points ยท Posted at 06:30:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think he means: Gen 1 was only riding on horseback. Gen 2 was using cars and planes. Gen 3 was on the moon.
Then Gen 4 came along and fucked everything up.
Track607 ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 06:48:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're part of Gen 4, you bastard!
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 07:43:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
5th generation master race.
steven8765 ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 09:02:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
we're adding fairy types in gen 6 still right
AssAssIn46 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:22:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ugh, new generations are so lame and uncreative. I like good ol' Gen 1,2 and 3.
Ruby/Sapphire and EmeraldGen 3 was the last good generation.[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:19:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because sewage that turns into more sewage in very creative? Magnets are also very creative. As are pokeball with eyes, and its evolved form upsidedown pokeball with eyes. My personal favorite is snake. What's snake's special abilities you say? Being poisonous. You know, like snakes.
Come off it mate. You try making up 700 creatures and not make a few junk pokemon.
AssAssIn46 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:48:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a joke bro, calm down. I was actually making fun of people who call new generations shit which is kind of a stereotype and that's also why is said "Ugh" at the start.
DoomsdayRabbit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:38:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IV was so much better than III.
Hellknightx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:49:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gen 3 was crap. They removed all the cool features that made Gen 2 awesome, like the day/night cycles.
DoomsdayRabbit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:00:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which is why IV was so much better. It even brought back Johto.
Hellknightx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:47:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gen 4 are boomers.
Gadfly21 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:35:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those are pretty arbitrary standards for generations.
Noble_Ox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:28:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A generation is accepted to be 21 years.
Venafib ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:40:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gen 4 is on reddit
NotaGordonRamseyfan ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:07:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gen 1: Horses
Gen 2: Cars
Gen 3: Moon
Gen 4: Dank memes
SirSandGoblin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:49:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also gen 4 hasn't been to the moon
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:17:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
These pokรฉmon generations are starting to get really weird.
DarthOtter ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:55:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"My father was born shortly after the Wright Brothers. He could barely believe that I went to the Moon. But my son, Tom, was five. And he didn't think it was any big deal." - Charlie Duke
creature_of_horror ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:58:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well this is flat out wrong. Horses were first domesticated about 2000 BC. They were rode nearly immediately before eventually chariots were invented. Unless your three generations each lived over a thousand years, this is just hilariously wrong.
parachutekitten ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:39:42 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He didn't mean from the beginning of riding horses. He meant that 3 generations ago we were riding horses. The next used cars and planes. The next went to the moon.
ScrithWire ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:33:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What definition of a generation are you using?
Real_MvB ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:12:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah ant generations are damn long.
BuddhistNudist987 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:13:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which is pretty amazing, considering how long people relied on horses. They say that Napoleon's army traveled no faster than Alexander the Great's.
karmakeeper1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:43:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The moon landing is closer to the Wright Brothers first flight than it is to today.
Robinisthemother ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:37:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm....did you do the math?
Wright Brother's flight - 1903
Moon landing - 1969
Today - 2016
1903 --- 1969 is 66 years
1969 --- 2016 is 47 years
karmakeeper1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:46:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my bad, I remember hearing it somewhere and didn't bother to check it. My mistake.
Vacuophile ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:26:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Current generations still ride horses, just not on the moon. The EVA suits would just be too expensive.
TheNumberMuncher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:51:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's some slow ass horses
KMFDM781 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:12:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was messing with me now little advancement happened between 1500s and the 1800s in the US ... 300 years!
bleahdeebleah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:17:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My great grandmother crossed the US in a covered wagon and an airplane
SneakyBadAss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:00:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Poles ride on horseback in to WW1. Actually horses were the most used transporters in WW1.
bonushole ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:03:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
people still ride on horseback
TrevorBradley ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:29:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm 41. No person has walked on the moon in my lifetime.
GaiusSherlockCaesar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:31:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but that's already 2 generations ago, where are we now?
YellowishWhite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:49:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think that says more about how long we were riding on horses for, than how fast we got to the moon.
Horses are the MVP of civilization development.
Source: the Mongols
westhemconfess ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:22:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure people were riding on horseback well into the 60s on farms. Normal farmers in the south never bought cars and so no reason to. Note, these farmers weren't Amish, they were normal people listening to the Beatles.
toolate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:18:52 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The first steam train was built in 1804, then there was 165 years until we landed on the moon. How is that three generations?
Sacket ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:07:42 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Old people are so dumb.
FeastMode ยท 11239 points ยท Posted at 01:33:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Due to a couple of its islands being west of the international date line, Alaska is actually the easternmost American state.
NotAnotherWhatever ยท 8117 points ยท Posted at 02:07:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As we like to tell tourists, it's the northern most, eastern most, and western most points in the US.
inthesandtrap ยท 5578 points ยท Posted at 04:11:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and coldest most
anomalous_cowherd ยท 1952 points ยท Posted at 07:59:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Emptymostest.
eaterofworld ยท 64 points ยท Posted at 10:02:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know. I'm still not convinced that there's actually anyone in Montana.
AliceTimbers ยท 54 points ยท Posted at 11:31:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are two or three people in Montana. I don't know if there are more. I've been wandering these wastes for years, and have encountered nary a soul. Send help. And faster Internet.
DinnerForkEmporium ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 14:21:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have some family that lives in Montana, you guys are probably it.
speckleeyed ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 12:38:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wyoming is the least populated state
Euchre ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:54:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Empty refers to people vs volume, and Alaska has a population density that is lower than Wyoming's by 5 people per square mile - which doesn't sound like much, except that the difference is 6 per sq. mile for Wyoming vs 1 per sq. mile for Alaska. The US average is 84, and the top is 1218.
bluehuffy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:06:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People vs area
Caleb-Rentpayer ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:40:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, I've traveled through Montana and I've seen a few people. Nebraska though? I haven't heard of anyone that's seen evidence of civilization in Nebraska. Is it even real?
Kim_Jong_OON ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:09:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Omaha? Has one of the top 20 cities in the us.
Caleb-Rentpayer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:16:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pshaw! I've never seen it, therefore it doesn't exist!
sirius4778 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:31:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DAE live in Nebraska?
imthemostmodest ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:32:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Montana is only technically a state. Nobody lives there, but it would be weird to have an empty spot in the middle of the map.
neocommenter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:20:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Literally a million.
letscee ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 10:55:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Palinmost.
cloud9brian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:18:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let's keep it that way
TamponSmoothie ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 08:51:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Moistest mostest mitosises
[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 09:26:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also the moosest.
Dubs07 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 11:24:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's actually moosiest
Icandigsushi ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 11:36:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, moosest is just like saying you hate moose.
Mr-Korv ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:54:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Epitomeiest.
MechDork ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:32:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's "most moosen" duh
sirius4778 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why is this thread cracking me up so much?
anomalous_cowherd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:09:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mostamusinglymoosest
peppigue ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 10:38:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alaskaest.
anomalous_cowherd ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 10:47:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read somewhere that if New York had the same population density as Alaska there would be 17 people there.
Instead of 8.5 Million+
MiniatureBadger ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:59:45 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NYC, not the state
PocketTheFerret ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:55:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's Wyoming.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 11:23:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not by density. Alaska has about 150,000 more people than Wyoming but almost 6 times the land area. So emptiermostest.
anomalous_cowherd ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:45:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
mostemptymostestest
DrGearheart ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:52:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and we like it that way
arthur_science ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:14:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually that's Wyoming.
GruesomeCola ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:36:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the Biggest most.
tumblewiid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:06:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know why but I like this word like it's fuzzy or somethin
anomalous_cowherd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:48:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know what you mean, it sort of flows in your mind .
dc_n8iv ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:16:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Glaciermostestest
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:33:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that's whats known as the Alaskan Sarah Palin Brain line.
moby__dick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:02:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mooseymost
moloizer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:32:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Murderymostest.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:37:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mostunneccessayrealitytelevisionshowmostest
A_Booger_In_The_Hand ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:43:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Saddestmost...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:02:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Palinist most.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:43:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's Wyoming
FIRST_DATE_ANAL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:52:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Darkest-most
reverie42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:06:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wouldn't that be North Dakota? I mean, at least a few people live in Alaska. I know one. I've never met anyone from North Dakota.
anomalous_cowherd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:44:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think they ever go near the edges of the state.
Vinvect ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:26:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's Iowa.
atheistic-ace ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:45:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wyoming has the smallest population in the US. It has fewer people than even Alaska, North Dakota, Washington D.C, and Vermont.
anomalous_cowherd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:35:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but Alaska is so much bigger
atheistic-ace ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:17:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True. Alaska has the lowest population density. Now I see :)
PM_ME_YOUR_LUKEWARM ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:54:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Palinmost
last_second_shot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:54:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donny Most
Gamecrazy721 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:16:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No that's Wyoming
Guzzles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:22:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And beariest and treeier and snowiest colderer and russianer and Eskimoy and warshing mershineest and and and.
NAspodermen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:31:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ever been to Wyoming?
anomalous_cowherd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:36:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm in England. 100 miles is a long way - but 100 years isn't old...
anomalous_cowherd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:13:06 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can i just say how ridiculous it is that this is rapidly heading towards being my top post ever and it's just one word, and a made up one at that!
Gotta love Reddit.
tzenrick ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 08:01:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The last three winters have been 'unseasonably' warm.
geeky_username ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 08:10:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stop spreding your liberal propaganda
/s
tzenrick ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:47:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nลลลลลลล.
orngckn42 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:51:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You forgot the quotes around 'warm', as anything considered 'warm' by Alaska-standards is a nope for me.
ThellraAK ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:27:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Southeast Alaska has had a much more mild winter then most of the midwest.
orngckn42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:20:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I live in Southern California, pretty sure we have a different understanding of the word 'warm'
tzenrick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:04:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True. lol
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 08:14:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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wannabesq ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:49:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
5 years between posts? Damn where have you been?
TNAEnigma ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:06:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably frozen if he thinks "And my axe!" is still relevant.
ucfboss ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:31:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, International Falls, Minnesota is the coldest city in the US.
inthesandtrap ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:48:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you know which state is the coldest overall? Like, officially?
Turtlewax114 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:30:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You've obviously never been to Ohio midwinter.
inthesandtrap ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:47:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, and thanks for the warning. What is the best time of year for a visit?
themage1028 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:41:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As well as having one town with a cat for a mayor.
Coffee_Transfusion ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:37:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
mostest most
Vlinkeneye ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:23:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Surprisingly enough the Army does it's cold weather training in New York. Even for the people in Alaska.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:36:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Weird that they put the Arctic Warfare Center at Fort Greeley, AK then.
zbo2amt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:39:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/quityourbullshit
mywerkreddit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:40:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is no longer true, they send them to the Northern Warfare Training Center at the Black Rapids Training Site near Delta Junction
tzenrick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:20:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Been there. Done that.
For people stationed at Ft. Wainwright, they don't even bother shipping UA out. It's colder heret than Black Rapids most of the time, so they just make us hunker down in the yard in front of the barracks.
mywerkreddit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:30:41 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is colder in Wainwright, but the wind in Black Rapids sucks! Either way, it was a fun tour
tzenrick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:57 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I concur. Fuck that wind.
I went out there a couple of times as a support element for training, and I'll be happy enough if I never see that place again.
whirlpool138 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:07:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's because Upstate New York turns into an artic tundra during the winter. New York isn't the northern most state but having Lake Erie and Lake Ontario causes it to get freezing here during the winter.
El_Monstero29 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:57:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the grizzlymost
Rootner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:04:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Barrow, Alaska. Average tempatyre of about 12ยฐF. Just checked the tempature, sunny at 2 am and nothing above 0ยฐF for the next week. Yeah, I'd say that's cold.
tzenrick ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:18:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pssssh. You should check the average December/January temps. We regularly see -40F/C in Fairbanks and North Pole in the winter. Barrow is colder and windier.
kreich1990 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:29:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not this year and last year.
BLACKAP3RTURE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:05:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not this year. Except for the past day or so, snow's been terrible. Until a few hours ago, the temperature has been hovering in the 40's.
im_working_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:34:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Last winter, Wisconsin was colder than Anchorage, Alaska every day.
Flammable_Flatulence ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:41:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They mostly come at night.
Alton1231 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:50:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sarah Palinest
faployst ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:07:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the coolest state trooper most
Touch_My_Nips ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:01:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I could see some 14,000+ peak in Colorado or Montana taking that honor. I realize Alaska has it beat by for on latitude, but I don't think their mountains get anywhere near as high...
(I could be totally wrong)... I'm wrong, forgot about Mt. McKinley.
Trollmaster900 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 10:03:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mt. Denali
Thanks Obama
SexLiesAndExercise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:31:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's just Denali. No "mount"!
bregolad ยท 890 points ยท Posted at 02:49:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I've learned anything from Reddit, it's that American schoolkids are fuckin' stupid when it comes to the actual location of Alaska (and Hawaii); so is there potentially a way you could trick tourists into thinking it's also the southernmost point of the US?
NotAnotherWhatever ยท 1254 points ยท Posted at 02:58:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"I mean, Alaska does stretch all the way down to Mexico -- that's why they put us down in that corner on the maps!" ...people might believe that.
Darthpikachu108 ยท 103 points ยท Posted at 03:42:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup. Definitely thought Alaska was an island for 10 years because of maps NOT made with stupid people in mind.
baolin21 ยท 111 points ยท Posted at 03:52:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Were globes hidden from you to make you think that I lived on an island in the ocean?
immoralsjw ยท 60 points ยท Posted at 06:27:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well technically everything is an island in the ocean....
baolin21 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 06:31:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
EXPLAIN AMERICA THAT'S NOT AN ISLAND I LEARNED IT IN SCHOOL ALASKA AND HAWAII ARE ISLANDS AND AMERICA AND IF IT ISN'T AMERICA IT'S NOT AMERICA.
But yea You're right, aren't continents just massive islands? Isn't that the dictionary definition, a large landmass?
NicholeSuomi ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:19:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, islands by definition are smaller than continents.
beccafawn ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:50:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But isn't Australia an island as well as a continent? I seem to remember them making a deal about being the biggest island when I went there.
NicholeSuomi ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:07:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some people claim Australia is an island, though it's not the majority view. The term isn't super well-defined outside of specific disciplines (neither is continent).
Blekanly ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:31:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Indeed, dont touch the continent subject with a barge pole, are there 7? but people only count 6 in some cultures? some combine north and south america even though geographically they were apart, some combine asia and europe to eurasia, some count only populated continents, then as you said what is continent? i always assumed it was to do the tectonic plates but nope! why isnt greenland a continent? but austraila is? it was a larger landmass in the past ...seriously the more you look into it the less sense it all makes. Just walk away if it ever comes up * twitches *
scottmill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shut up! The International Astronomical Union got a taste for downgrading after they declared that Pluto isn't a planet any more, and they might name our continent as "Not a continent, merely a large island" if we're all not careful.
NicholeSuomi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:28:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The plate tectonics is more on your side than the Europe/Asia split. I wouldn't be concerned until after Eurasia is declared one continent.
baolin21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:24:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmmm, I am more educated today before I go to bed, thanks!
InRealLifeImQuiteBig ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:17:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fish aren't islands....
frame_of_mind ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:34:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except for the continents. Because those aren't islands.
Shappie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:22:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or is the ocean an island in the land?
o_O
O_o
kwertyuiop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:09:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If a planet is all land except for a small ocean the size of, like, Germany, is it still an island?
immoralsjw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:14:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no the ocean is the island
kwertyuiop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:10:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
:o
pdubl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:03:00 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When does a lake become an ocean?
immoralsjw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:16:49 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
when it big
crushcastles23 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:16:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Found that annoying guy at the office that starts everything with technically.
You're right, but that doesn't make it less annoying.
immoralsjw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:14:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
hey man, fuck off
crushcastles23 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:34:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was making a joke, calm down. You don't like the damn joke I won't make it to you again.
Hans_Wermhat4 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:35:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As opposed to an island on the land or in the sky
LuciferianAntichrist ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 04:43:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was sarcasm hidden from you to make you think he's serious?
baolin21 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:48:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:23:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you're being too kind here. It wasn't sarcasm...
TheFlashFrame ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:18:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't consider how strange it was that Alaska's eastern side was completely straight?
element515 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:29:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia looks like a dog and Italy a boot. What's strange about a straight line to someone not knowing after that?
TheFlashFrame ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:07:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because he thought Alaska was an island. In nature, there are very few perfectly straight lines. The only straight borders are artificial and over a landmass. If Alaska's border was straight and it was an island, that would just be strange.
GarenBushTerrorist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:52:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As opposed to all of the states that are just straight up rectangles?
PYRRH1C ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:57:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That makes sense though, because they're artificially imposed borders. You can put up a straight fence and, you guessed it, the border will also be straight.
You can't chop off a part of an island, even if you put up a fence.
TheFlashFrame ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:06:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
^This guy gets it.
copperwatt ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:53:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eeeh, Western Canada... The Ocean... Mostly just a temperature difference.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:24:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this a rain joke? I think it's a rain joke.
slaaitch ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:36:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ocean's warmer for about half the year.
mrshawn081982 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:36:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You remind me of my sister. When asked what her country of residence was on a job application, she was so lost she had to call me for the answer.
She also thought Ben Franklin was the guy who invented lightning.
newly_registered_guy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:33:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does she an inoperable brain tumor or a traumatic brain injury or like an extra chromosome or something.
WordsPicturesWords ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:51:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How did you help her out? Were there any follow-up questions?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:59:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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arcticpolar12 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:28:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is she okay...?
Edgeinsthelead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:43:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Had a girl in high school who thought it was the island country of Alaska and that it was crazy how cold it got there because it was right next to Hawaii
MyNameIsSkittles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
... did they just delete Canada from the map?
LoonAtticRakuro ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:50:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. Absolutely. It looks like this growing up in school.
IsThatWhatSheSaidTho ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:34:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That map also makes Alaska look way smaller than it actually is
-Mountain-King- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:47:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, that's completely dishonest.
newly_registered_guy ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:31:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The beaches in Texas must be beautiful.
MyNameIsSkittles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:19:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wtf
Margravos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:12:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you never seen this map layout before? Because if so that's much more wtf than the map itself.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, WTF Skittles?!
MyNameIsSkittles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:48:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am Canadian and Canada isn't split up. When viewing a map of America, Canada is always included. I have literally never seen this map but I don't understand how I would have ever had the chance, considering my country doesn't just delete countries when showing a map.
Margravos ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:16:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here is the Google results for map of usa, there's tons of examples of this map.
This is the results for map of united kingdom, with plenty of examples of Ireland not included.
Several maps of South Africa have lesotho completely blanked out or missing all together.
Is this map of overseas French territories also "wtf" to you?
It's not about deleting countries, it's about saving space. There's no need to include all of Canada when looking at a map of the fifty states.
TheOnlySafeCult ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:44:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No really, in our geography and history textbooks we have maps of our own country that still include Alaska. We just have it shaded in, with it's name without any more identifying features (like capital cities, lakes)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:12:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most countries do similar things. in the UK we just delete the rest of Ireland whenever we're looking at a map of the UK.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:25:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe this is why they're always so angry at you.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:27:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well that and the genocide...amongst other things.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:21:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hear people forget genocide pretty quickly. Being misrepresented on a map, though...
Dephyus ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 06:55:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People do! A friend of mine used to work on an arctic tour in an open train. No interior heat, not walls, just rails and posts. This family came up in December in shorts and tee shirts. It was -25 Fahrenheit. They thought Alaska was off the coast of Hawaii, south east of California. They were from Michigan. Blows my god damn mind, man.
macblastoff ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 07:16:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They were probably from the U.P. -25 F is beach weather for them.
prove____it ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:56:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In high school (many years ago) a girl in my French class admitted that her aunt and uncle came to visit (this is in Palo Alto) with their family and their aunt was excited to visit Japan (thinking that's what was on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge!
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:34:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In sixth grade my teacher told us Hawaii was in the Gulf of Mexico. She was dead serious about it and (obviously) humiliated when we corrected her.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 06:27:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lying for karma is a deadly sin.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:16:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now hat would just be a really stupid thing to make up.
torkel-flatberg ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:23:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, Alaska cross the international South Line
ccm596 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:38:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or even just "There are Aleutian Islands all the way down to Mexico"
Swannie69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:44:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A friend of mine didn't realize until high school that Alaska and Hawaii weren't islands off the west coast of Mexico. O_o
FlameResistant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:10:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From talking to an airline stewardess, I recently realized a new depth of human ineptitude when she told me that one of the most frequent questions she gets from passengers flying over states is 'where are the lines?'
As in, the lines on the map separating states from one another.
So yes...I think a surprising number of people would fall for Alaska being south because of its superimposed, re-scaled location in the lower left corner.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:08:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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NotAnotherWhatever ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:10:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, that is where they stick it on all the maps... and they make it look so tiny, too!
Bubbline ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:19:40 on April 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My stepmother thought Alaska and Hawaii were floating off the coast of Southern California.
NotAnotherWhatever ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:29:35 on April 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So many people do! It's not, I promise.
mywerkreddit ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:47:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Story Time!!! I once told a fellow Soldier that I was being sent to Alaska. When I told her I was planning on driving, she told me that it was not possible to drive to Alaska. We went back and forth with the good old "yes you can, no you can't" until I asked her why not. She no shit told me Alaska was an island down by Hawaii... After gaining my composure, I asked why she thought that and she told me "well, those states are always in a box on the map!"
omicronperseiB8 ยท 88 points ยท Posted at 05:36:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Americans (or any groups) aren't nearly as stupid as le euphoric reddit edgelords make them out to be
YT4LYFE ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 06:14:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From my limited life experience, the specific groups that tend to be singled out are not as stupid as they're made out to be, but the average person from any group is more stupid than I expected.
he-said-youd-call ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 06:33:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So true. Stereotypes are horrible because they claim that stupidity is concentrated when it's a God given right to all peoples.
Don't think that wins you any arguments, though, the people you idealize fall afoul of this rule, too. Christians get Westboro and the Popes, atheists get Dawkins and /r/atheism, Republicans get Cruz, populists get Trump (or Bernie, if you're a Trump-er), Dems get DWS (even Hillary supporters should be ashamed of her), feminists get tumblr-ites, redditors get neckbeards, on and on and on...
And we all point at the worst examples of our opposition and say "at least we're not like them!", at the same time they do it to ours.
Thor_Odinson_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:39:17 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now, Dawkins may be terrible at communicating in a courteous way to anybody with anything less than a Master's in a STEM field, but the man is not stupid. Take a look at his CV if you maintain that he is particularly stupid.
Yes, he is brash and terrible to talk to if you don't agree with him. But that wasn't what was stated.
http://www.fontem.com/archivos/usuarios/cv_521.pdf
he-said-youd-call ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:27 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm. I think he's plenty smart, but a little short of common sense. Or common decency at least. I'm still pretty pissed at him for tweeting that dumbass Sargon video that got him kicked out of that one event.
He's not just abrasive, he really is an ass. And I don't mean to discredit him completely, just point out that some people find him at the very least embarrassing. There's a bunch of different types of stupid, after all.
I'm aware that some people dislike him a lot more than I do, and that's why he made the list. I like a number of people on the list, actually. Well, maybe not the list above, it's shorter than what I was thinking of at the time.
macblastoff ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 07:20:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Is there a sub /r/in
citesightfulcomments, because this post belongs there.shankingviolet ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 07:32:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Inciteful or insightful?
11equals7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:41:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
macblastoff ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:28:45 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would have never guessed auto-correct would take on a subreddit spelling. Thanks for the catch.
ThellraAK ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:30:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As an Alaskan who's worked in the tourism industry, I've been asked how many feet above sea level were they.
This is on the docks, and it wasn't asked facetiously.
Sataris ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:57:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
triggered
spaceman_spiffy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:37:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alaska is that big island next to Hawaii in the lower left.
subarctic_guy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:24:58 on April 16, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They are approximately similar in size and are protected by large white sea walls.
thundergonian ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:18:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
International treaties not withstanding, and under the assumption that any location that flies a U.S. flag nearly year-round can be considered U.S. land, the Amundsen-Scott Research Station is the southernmost U.S. territory in the world.
jkool702 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:49:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This makes me want alaska to buy a small island in the south pacific so that this would actually be true. Sure, it would be highly impractical but still.
NotSoSuperNerd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:36:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was thinking something more along the lines of Antarctica. Either that or incorporate American Samoa into Alaska somehow.
GenXer1977 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:28:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look at a weather map of the country. They will sometimes put Alaska and Hawaii on the bottom of the screen below the continental US.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:22:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They obviously are just floating in the void in an alternate dimension. That's what the maps tell me.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:43:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From what I've learned in middle school history class, flip the map upside down and say that the rivers flow downstream, which means that it is southern, since it's flowing down. This is just my rough understanding of a very complex subject FYI
Optewe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:58:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I constantly meets folks that think Hawaii is "right off" the coast of California or Mexico
(Live in Hawaii)
laddism ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:03:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anyone can miss Canada, all tucked away down there...
Swibblestein ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:10:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A small piece of Alaska stretches up past the north pole, technically making it the most southern part of America in the same way as it's the most eastern.
bregolad ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:56:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That would sound plausible if I was drunk. Nice work.
entrepreneurofcool ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:20:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This reminds me of a show in Australia (The Chaser) where they went to the US and did a piece where they asked Americans to locate North Korea on a map. They had a bunch of doctored atlases that had mainland Australia labelled as North Korea, Iran etc.
Edit: The map bit starts at 3.30, but the whole clip is pretty good. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ3RrqBqk14
Mister_Lady_C ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:12:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My SO and I are planning a vacation. He wants to go to Hawaii and in mid conversation he said the flight shouldn't be that long because it's only 3 hours to Florida... He though Hawaii was underneath Florida.
I told him he hasn't earned Hawaii. But I think I'll be getting him a map to study
DucksGoQuackQuack ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:06:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's closest to the magnetic South Pole, so yes.
Bullseye_womp_rats ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:24:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I work with a person that no shit thought Alaska was an island off the coast of California because that's where it is on maps not big enough to show it. He also is basically functionally illiterate.
cwood1973 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:00:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"An alarming new study released Tuesday by the Department of Education found that nearly 70 percent of Americans are incapable of pointing out a map when presented by researchers with a map."
PScan69 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:04:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A friend of mine recently revealed to me that she thought Alaska was an island
Levitlame ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:37:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My friend thought it was an island until he was 25 years old. He finished a law degree and passed the bar before learning that our largest state is mainland.
An island with a perfectly straight eastern coast....
HellaDawg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:48:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably, my friends thought it was really cool that they built a bridge to alaska when I moved here......they thought it was an island near hawaii
commanderjarak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:17:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bridge from where?
HellaDawg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:41:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm from California originally. My friends, when I said I was driving instead of flying, thought there was a bridge (not sure where they thought it was, maybe southern California) because Alaska was an island near Hawaii.
slippery_salmons ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:14:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've met so many adults that think alaska is an island. An island with a perfectly straight border for hundreds of miles.
antonnitro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:19:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's obviously not a straight border of the island, it's just that this side of Alaska is too dangerous and unexplored so we don't know the exact shape and size of the eastern part of it.
helloiamsilver ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:20:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair, all the U.S. maps just stick them in little boxes in the corner with no correlation to where they actually are or what they're size is
Umbre0ns ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:20:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The southernmost part of the US belongs to Hawai'i actually. It belongs to the big island of Hawai'i and the southern tip of the island is called south point. I was born and raised on the big island and have jumped off a 50-foot cliff there.
TeHokioi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:23:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could always just annex American Samoa
Jericcho ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:20:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair, Hawaii is really fucking far away...Japan is like one and half the distance from Hawaii to the mainland US...
epic4evr11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:34:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Never tried, but it could work
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:45:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You could tell them to Australians it's the southernmost.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:08:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Look at this map, it's right next to Hawaii."
pepe_le_shoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:34:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe if they're australian.
pollorojo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:28:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From FL. How dare you.
foolishnun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:02:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe American tourists...
Pangolin007 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:04:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You really shouldn't believe everything you read on reddit...
wagedomain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:13:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. In elementary school I knew a couple kids who thought this. It's because Alaska and Hawaii were shown in little squares at the bottom-left of the map. Several kids thought this was their actual location.
bergie321 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:14:02 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If we showed Alaska where it was supposed to be, we would have to admit that Canada exists.
iZacAsimov ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:22:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only when bigotry is spewing out of Palin's mouth.
EXCITED_BY_STARWARS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:48:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What? I don't get it :(
toxictaru ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:29:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're kind of dumb when it comes to most geography. I can get not knowing where a bunch of places in Canada are, in the same way that there are small towns in a lot of the US that I couldn't possibly pinpoint. But the other day, I ran in to someone from Arizona who had never even heard of Toronto, let alone where it was.
The problem with that is that Toronto is kind of a major GLOBAL city. First, it's the fourth largest city in North America, behind New York, Los Angeles and Mexico City. Second, it's an alpha global city, putting in the same league as cities like (again) New York, Los Angeles, London, Tokyo, or Seoul. Basically what I'm saying is that Toronto is kind of important. How someone couldn't have possibly learned about it absolutely blows my mind, and honestly feels ignorant.
This isn't like a "don't forget about us up here" kind of thing, it's just that Toronto is a globally important city, and this guy was totally oblivious to what it even was, much less where it was. He literally asked "what's Toronto? Where is it?" I was, and still am, a bit irrationally mad about it.
GATTACABear ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:51:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, stupid little kids...not knowing stuff yet n' shit.
OrangeTabbyTwinSis ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:04:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is probably the most interesting stereotype I've ever heard. First off, American schoolkids are on Reddit claiming that Alaska and Hawaii are in incorrect locations? Weird... Even more strange is the fact that you portray this 'factoid' as being the one thing you've learned from Reddit... How you have 370 kp for this comment, I'll never know.
jomb ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:48:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well that's just not fair.
subarctic_guy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:27:44 on April 16, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also the largest. If Texas starts getting to much of an attitude, we could split AK in half and make Texas the third largest.
copperwatt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:51:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read that as "terrorists", and was like "is Alaska tanking for the rest of America, trying to pull all the aggro up there to keep us safe? Thanks bro!"
DeaconFrostedFlakes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:34:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As the rest of us say since Palin, it's also the stupidmost. You guys really shoulda muzzled that.
NotAnotherWhatever ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:19:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I swear she moved to Arizona, thus absolving us of that issue...
HaveAnotherThe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:43:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ever tell Texans that if Alaska were to be split in half, Texas would become the the third largest state?
NotAnotherWhatever ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:49:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is one of my favorite things to tell people. We just look so tiny on a map.
sassy_squash ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:37:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you annexed Hawaii, you could be the southernmost as well!
HoganGolf-18 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:29:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, wtf, why are you trying to help th-
Oh, tourists
I thought it said terr- nevermind.
copperwatt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:57:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just trying to confuse the terrorists, keep all the aggro up there where AoE attacks don't hurt friendlies.
PhobetorWorse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:46:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eastern most point by travel is in St. Croix.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Udall_(U.S._Virgin_Islands)
loserlame ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:07:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And western most is Guam
Famixofpower ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:27:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What happened to Hawaii?
bigvow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:28:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Aleutian Islands stretch further west than Hawaii does
Knever ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:31:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Couldn't manage to snag southernmost, could ya?
NotAnotherWhatever ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:49:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Had to leave something for the rest of you to aspire to, didn't we?
usernumber36 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:52:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it's also the state you'd encounter first if you kept going south from the base of america
wakingop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:09:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Post this on r/trees
Minds will be blown
Magnatross ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:38:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And southernmost when the meteor hits Earth in 2018 and knocks its axis upside-down
NotAnotherWhatever ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:15:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or the poles shift - isn't that something we're massively overdue for?
BrassBass ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:46:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well fuck my ass and call it coleslaw, I didn't know that.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:58:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now anex Hawaii
NotAnotherWhatever ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:14:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, I mean, it is an island, and we have that island chain thing going, right?
sugarfreemaplecookie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:11:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which means Canada is North, South, East, and West of the US. We have you surrounded!
NotAnotherWhatever ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:14:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
By those same standards, the US has Canada surrounded, too. I feel like we have stumbled into some geographical Mexican stand-off.
sugarfreemaplecookie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:15:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, sorry, you can go first then. And you say Mexico is coming too? I'll have to tidy up a bit.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:18:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or stop taking pictures of my yard
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:33:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The southernmost point being Hawaii.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:40:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And yet you whitewash Sarah Palin.
MiggyEvans ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:40:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depending how far you down you rotate the globe when you point it out, you could squeeze southernmost in there too.
firuzef ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:59:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And when the poles reverse you'll have a much more interesting fact to tell.
MrUncleFox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:59:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the southern most is on Key West, which is technically part of Florida, I think
prove____it ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:00:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Northern most of the 48 contiguous states is.... Minnesota!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:06:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Theres tourists in alaska?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:44:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As I say "it's cold"
reditte ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:42:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go on, I'll throw in southern most for free.
AnotherStupidName ยท 1759 points ยท Posted at 04:08:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They aren't west of the international date line. They are west of the 180th meridian. The international dateline leaves the 180th meridian so that Alaska doesn't cross the international date line.
faithle55 ยท 225 points ยท Posted at 06:58:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you. That's the first thing I thought - why does the IDL take that huge swerve to the west and then still leave islands on the wrong side?
Angelbabysdaddy ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 13:02:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm more curious about why it does this...
http://imgur.com/3IMqlav
hylian122 ยท 59 points ยท Posted at 13:12:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Showing off its muscles.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:46:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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MurgleMcGurgle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:48:22 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It needs more veins.
Angelbabysdaddy ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 13:15:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ba dump bump. Good one
barto5 ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 13:18:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gotta be some islands there, right? Trying to keep all of Micronesia on the same day/date?
Angelbabysdaddy ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 13:24:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea, there are a whole bunch of little islands there. Problem is when you zoom in to see what they are, the line goes away. I'm sure your right about that.
konaya ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:51:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Outline it with markers, then zoom in.
rqaa3721 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:14:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/shittyaskscience
DuplexFields ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:45:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL parts of Alaska are west of parts of Micronesia.
luna_sparkle ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 14:56:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's Kiribati (pronounced "Kiribas"), a nation composed of lots of tiny Pacific islands.
The International Date Line used to go in a straight line there, but it divided Kiribati into two, with some of its islands on one side of the date line and some islands on the other side of the date line.
So they decided to move the date line, to bring all of their country onto the same date.
amazondrone ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:43:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Resulting in parts of Kiribati being in the +14 timezone, fully 24 hours ahead of, for example, Hawaii in -10. Meaning it's the same time in Hawaii and (eastern) Kiribati, but on different days.
faithle55 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:50:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Moar islands. Teeny little ones you only see on large scale maps.
SadGhoster87 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:16:58 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck
Pandoras_Fox ยท 50 points ยท Posted at 07:36:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe that the islands on the other side are the ones that belong to Russia.
tzenrick ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 10:22:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alaska resident here.
Yup.
SirKeyboardCommando ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 12:50:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you see them from your house?
tzenrick ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:40:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not Sarah, so no.
i_am_erip ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 12:44:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's reddit in Alaska?
tzenrick ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:39:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes. I live in a big (for Alaska) city, and my internet tops out at 4mbps...
subarctic_guy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:17:16 on April 16, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/Alaska
RaptorFalcon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:43:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The diomede islands, one is US the other is Russian. I only know cause I went to them.
JD_Cassidy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:16:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which islands did you go to and what was it like there?
amazondrone ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:22:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He visited the Diomede Islands. There's only two of them, one either side of the International Date Line. Pretty cool!
RaptorFalcon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:36:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep sorry for the confusion. There really isn't much there and I wasn't there for long. Pretty much just a cannery on the US side. Russia was just a very small town. It reminded me of Inuit villages but less people.
AnotherStupidName ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:25:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They are actually where the IDL swings east to accommodate Russia.
barto5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:16:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, that was my first thought too! /s
FAX_ME_UR_GENITALIA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:25:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Person who drew it was drunk
faithle55 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:13:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's entirely possible.
He did the Greenwich meridian on a Friday morning but didn't get around to the IDL until Monday morning - after a really heavy weekend!
donotbelieveit ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 10:38:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what thought. The International Dateline actually separates the 2 small islands that are in the middle of the Bering Strait. They are about 1-2 miles apart. One belongs to Russia and one to the US.
amazondrone ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:45:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Diomede Islands. 2.4 miles apart at the closest point.
BrutalTruth101 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 11:16:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At 179ยฐ46' East (in the Eastern Hemisphere), the easternmost tip of Semisopochnoi is, Alaska, by longitude, the easternmost land location in the United States and North America. Semisopochnoi sits only 14 minutes west of the 180th meridian. Wikipedia
Lukin4 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 08:38:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's all just time and space man, it doesn't matter...
Foray2x1 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 10:47:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
woah
Shimmerstone ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:23:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
duuude
greatsalteedude ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:41:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that's so deep
atmorrison ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 10:18:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't matter either way. It's still in the Eastern Hemisphere, regardless of where the date line is.
macbooklover91 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:30:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/International_Date_Line.png
An important distinction.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:46:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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xereeto ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:55:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He made one small mistake, it's hardly bullshit. The fact that Alaska is the easternmost American state is still correct.
that-writer-kid ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:53:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay but that's stupid. Can they not handle a bit of timefoolery?
KaesekopfNW ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 07:34:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not stupid. It makes a lot of sense to make sure no country is divided by the date line, particularly if populations would be separated. It would very much screw with things.
ffghdrtdtyrdhghkgyu ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 08:13:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OH GOD! could you imagine tax day!
pint_of_popov ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 08:47:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean yesterday?
yaforgot-my-password ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 08:54:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are evil
Reinhold_Messner ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:26:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That reminds me, today is Mothers Day...thanks!
Aliquis95 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:34:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, that was last week.
amazondrone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:49:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, that depends where you are in the world. But it doesn't appear to be celebrated today (20th March 2016) anywhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day#Dates_around_the_world
Southforwinter ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:19:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe the closest is American/Real Samoa
edditme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:27:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Since when do facts matter to Americans? They LOVE the uneducated!
Commando_Elite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:43:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So is this fact true or not?
AnotherStupidName ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:16:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That Alaska is the easternmost state is a fact. That a couple of Alaska's islands are west of the 180th meridian is a fact. That a couple of Alaska's islands are west of the international date line is not true, and therefore not a fact.
sirin3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:22:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Afair, in The Symphony of Ages by Elizabeth Haydon, if you cross the right meridian you become immortal, because the date you are supposed to die is in the wrong time zone
Terminus2357 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:39:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're the hero we need.
artishee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:13:57 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"what sounds extremely wrong and is actually extremely wrong"
birdmommy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:44:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That just seems petty.
[deleted] ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 10:03:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You aren't invited to many parties aren't you?
ChemicalRemedy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:02:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Botched ya sentence a bit, mate
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:19:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Se tu o dizes. Vou prestar mais atenรงรฃo da prรณxima vez.
ChemicalRemedy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:44:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
:c
TheAtlanticGuy ยท 72 points ยท Posted at 03:00:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, the International Date Line wraps around the Aleutian Islands except for the two that are controlled by Russia, if I recall correctly.
Some of the islands, however, are still to the left of the Antimeridian and are still therefore in the Eastern Hemisphere.
squarerootofapplepie ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:13:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, why does this never get brought up? This fact is repeated so often on Reddit but it isn't even technically correct.
boredcircuits ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:32:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because what does the international date line have to do with anything?
squarerootofapplepie ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:36:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess it is technically correct, but if it is on the western hemisphere side of the date line then I don't consider it to be in the eastern hemisphere. Plus I go to college in Maine and we want to be important, damnit!
TheAtlanticGuy ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:39:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Don't worry, once Puerto Rico gets admitted to the Union, you won't be important anyways.
squarerootofapplepie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, just barely edged out. What a shame.
safely-afloat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:44:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is no logic to these issues. Spainand Portugal once managed to convince the Pope and divide up the world to their liking under the Treaty of Tordesillas
awildwoodsmanappears ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:56:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No matter what we get the first sunrise!
baolin21 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:53:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're Japan controlled.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:41:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This comes with a giant asterisk.
Northernness and southernness are absolute, westernness and easternness are relative to a reference point - in this case the 180th meridian, but it could be anything.
If I'm standing on Tanaga Island, which lies just east of the 180th meridian, and someone asks me where Semisopochnoi Island ("America's Easternmost Point*") is, am I going to say "It's 80 miles west of here," or am I going to point in the other direction and say "It's 5200 miles east"?
El_Dumfuco ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:06:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, this fact only relies on how you arbitrarily define "eastern". I don't see why that fact is getting so upvoted in this thread
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:18:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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msrachel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:39:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
American Samoa is the southern most US possession. It is also home to the only National Park south of the equator.
butler1233 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 11:45:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're joking, right?
0x800703E6 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:29:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No he's not. (National Park is often understood to mean American National Park, even outside of America, if that's your problem)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Park_of_American_Samoa
butler1233 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:39:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I live outside of America. There are national parks in loads of countries. Not American ones. I don't understand why you say it's common that "National Park" means "American National Park". That's definitely not the case.
0x800703E6 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:51:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the UK, we have national parks, but still a lot of people would a) understand what that comment meant in context, b) understand National Parks to be US National Parks.
National Parks originate from America (the Yellowstone National Park being the first one), and thus the word is connected with the US.
(This obviously only works in English)
msrachel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:03:14 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. It's the only US National Park south of the equator. This makes sense because American Samoa is the only US state/territory south of the equator as well.
Dephyus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:00:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Another fun tidbit: from one Alaskan island to one Russian island, the distance between Russia and the US, and similarly North America and Asia, is roughly 2.5 miles.
I_Xertz_Tittynopes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:28:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the southernmost point of Ontario is further south than the northernmost point of California.
clarkswife ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:40:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Woah
PoopButtMuffinTop ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:44:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Compared to where? all geography is relative.
Kaashoed ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:43:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is not correct at all. The 180 meridian does not define where East and West begin and end. It merely indicates where eastern latitude end and western begins.
bacon_is_just_okay ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:17:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you are a stickler about geography, AK is the northern/eastern/westernmost state in the US.
Terracot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:31:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Easternmost related to what? Greenwich? If you determine the easternmost of "something", starting point should be somewhere within " something". Greenwich is not in US
Woodshadow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:53:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that several states have "islands" is another fact that surprises me. Like basically anyone with a border to the water
modernchic1977 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:00:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, Hawaii must be a real mindf$ck, then? :)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:02:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Little Diomede.
FeastMode ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:05:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Give him a break, that water is cold as shit.
pryos1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:54:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah fuck you Russia! the sun may never set on your wasteland, but we got Alaska that wraps around the globe BITCH.wellkindof
HookDragger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:03:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the westernmost too!
446664 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:07:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea so America is both the first and the last country on earth..
ILub ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:28:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is always my go to fact when this topic comes up at bars or what not. "which is the eastern most state?" pretty much no one says Alaska.
Funkman2000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:04:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How does a compass know where the international date line is?
ScooterPINKHeart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:15:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Point Udall is a lie!!!!!!
TheLegLamp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:16:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The great Alaska reach around
soothslayer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:25:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The western most part of Virginia is to the west of the Western most part of West Virginia.
boCash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:39:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
maybe it's just Baader-Meinhoff, but I've seen this at least half a dozen times on Reddit in the past couple weeks.
maz-o ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:41:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you go south from Detroit, you get to Canada.
a_rainbow_serpent ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:02:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not really.. its just an aleutian
3lectricboy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:39:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
By the same logic, if u look at a map, Russia is the western-most country in the world.
danmilligan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:43:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahh Little Diomede. Was up in Nome the other week. Diomede is a 'dry' village, meaning that it's illegal to have alcohol there. People had tried to smuggle booze aboard the helicopter hidden in a tub of ice cream. I was informed by a local that on the island, a tiny bottle of Vodka costs $600.
TheR-Dog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:20:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Must be close to Africa then
Gbiknel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:57:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://giphy.com/gifs/justin-g-wrong-vince-vaughn-erroneous-3oFyDpijVlI0bSoB8Y
choko_xray ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:28:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
direction and timelines are different measurements
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:31:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't tell Palin, we'll hear that she can see London and Russia from her front lawn
zeekar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:47:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The whole thing was west of the IDL before America took over, so they had two Fridays in a row when the transition happened.
Shihedo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:29:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah meng it's actually in the South West next to Hawaii according to my map.
paiute ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:22:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have to drive east from Reno to get to Los Angeles.
markth_wi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Alaska is 1/5 the size of the rest of the United States, but has a population somewhat smaller than the city of Charlotte, North Carolina.
DammitDan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:15:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL the international date line isn't a 900 number
MeowWowKahPow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:23:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, the state in this sense is completely arbitrary so our "wow" of this fact is, too. "Wow yours a little more west than me?" Everyone is west of everyone.
baconwaffl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:37:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can call the eastern most state, Alaska, about 5500 miles without extra charges on my cell phone. I can mail a letter for the cost of a stamp. I cannot do the same 70 miles away in Canada
Jtothehey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:08:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So...are those "eastern islands" in the same time zone as Japan, while the rest of Alaska is at the beginning of the previous day?
baolin21 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:52:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm from Alaska! Also an upcoming rapper, and in a freestyle with a friend I said "I'm so west so I'm the best, but at least the more west I go I'll end up east" because it's true!
Thought it was funny, and I'm glad that someone said Alaska in a thread.
Face_Roll ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:54:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you explain why it's correct first, then it doesn't sound wrong ya dummy.
You should state it as: Alaska is the Eastern, Western and Northern most American state.
grayleikus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about Hawaii?
Face_Roll ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:15:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hawaii is the furthest South.
B0Boman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:51:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly, I think this one is absolute horseshit. Yes it's 'technically' correct if you define the Earth as a 2 dimensional planet which abruptly cuts off at the essentially arbitrarily chosen 180th meridian, but it doesn't. It's fuckin round. By this logic, Russia is the Westernmost European nation, New Zealand is West of Australia, and the Pacific Ocean is both the Easternmost and the Westernmost ocean, all of which are completely stupid.
Prasiatko ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:24:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Similarly France is both the furthest east and furthest west nation in the EU.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:49:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
only if the world is flat
therealocshoes ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:21:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, I didn't realise Alaska had land over the date line. That's pretty cool.
canausernamebetoolon ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:56:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, it can simultaneously be noon today and noon tomorrow in the United States, due to minor outlying islands in each side of the International Date Line.
[deleted] ยท 234 points ยท Posted at 04:11:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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PM-ME-SECRETS-N-TITS ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:34:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What was the name before?
[deleted] ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 19:01:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In English, Yellowred.
RegularGoat ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:49:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every time I read Old English words, it reminds me just how far removed it is from modern English. Blows my mind.
thatJainaGirl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:48:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The original name for the color "orange" was something "gyelo-rod," (forgive me on that spelling, I've only heard it said, never seen it spelled) meaning "yellow-red."
RoboticPanda77 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:07:29 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which was named after the tree.
NosyEnthusiast6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:24:57 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's cool, because it sounds so much better than aplesin.
bad_at_hearthstone ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 15:35:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wrong, it was named after The Donald.
kingbowsa ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 17:45:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Real carrots are yellow.
Lightning_Kitty ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:35:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, carrots would've been considered geoluread (yellow-red) at the time.
00yoshi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:19:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I actually saw saw red, orange and white carrots.
[deleted] ยท 1066 points ยท Posted at 01:17:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are 27 U.S. states with some part of it further north of the most southern point of Canada.
plaidpaint ยท 1179 points ยท Posted at 01:26:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And if you drive straight south from Detroit, you end up in Canada.
Although you arrive in Windsor, so it's not really as exciting as it sounds.
cat_on_tree ยท 377 points ยท Posted at 02:32:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, you can drink at 19.
cougardraven ยท 57 points ยท Posted at 06:50:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but you're still in Windsor.
killerpoopguy ยท 106 points ยท Posted at 09:50:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but you're not in Detroit.
mycannonsing ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 10:43:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You guys are such haters. I like it.
CaptainSolo96 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:54:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But you have shitty NHL teams
killerpoopguy ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:57:19 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But NHL is shit.
cougardraven ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:28:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can get that same feeling by going to Ann Arbor. Now you're not in either place!
killerpoopguy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:55:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But then you're in Ann Arbor, and not East Lansing. Still terrible.
cougardraven ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:07:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Something smells green around here.
killerpoopguy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:57:42 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A bit white too, I'd say.
[deleted] ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 13:57:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, did you think of that all by yourself? So funny!
milkweed84 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:27:47 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Downvoted you until I saw your user name. Don't care how sarcastic or unnecessary your comment was, have an upvote cuz most people on here have no clue.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:40:31 on March 27, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All good. It wasn't sarcastic at all, I don't really like all the blind Detroit hate, especially the weak ass predictable jokes like that. I fully expected to get downvoted because people just love to hate Detroit. Fuck em.
milkweed84 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:42:07 on March 27, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not the fault of the people of Detroit that it's in the condition it's in. I'm no expert, but isn't it from corrupt politicians? Do you also like Moe.?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:58:06 on March 27, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's from a lot of things. I just don't like how people who have never been here make assumptions and judgements and get all excited about kicking people while they're down. Yeah, moe. is alright.
milkweed84 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:09:00 on March 27, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can't blame ya for that.
infernal_llamas ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 12:41:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know that is just confusing, I mean 16, 18 and 21 all have arguments as they have been traditional ages of majority / being able to judge for yourself. But 19? Did they have a raffle?
Tree_Boar ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 15:34:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ontario used to have grade 13. They got rid of it just after 2000.
With the drinking age at 18, you'd have high school students going out to bars at lunch and coming back to class drunk.
Inoka1 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:43:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which is stupid because it means Quebec has 1 more year of education before we can go to university thanks to the cegep system :c
Tree_Boar ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:45:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TBH i think CEGEP is a good idea
mandyrooba ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:39:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also why some US states and towns are moving tobacco up to 19, so 15 yr old freshman can't easily buy from 18 yr old seniors.
infernal_llamas ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:48:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, surely that would be a school thing "don't show up drunk".
Year 13 tends to get a little odd at times. I do remember a few "Yeah guys, I am thinking of going to the pub after this. I hope I don't see anyone there" from a few of the teachers, mostly the sports ones.
welkie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:46:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now we have college kids drinking at lunch at the campus bar and coming back drunk.
shrugs
Tree_Boar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:53:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
not in first year, 'cause they got rid of grade 13.
welkie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:23:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are 19 year old first year students.
Tree_Boar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:28:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
after january, yes.
welkie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:44:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or before. I was a 23 year old first year student. A group member in a project was a 50 year old first year student.
Though we weren't the ones learning SQL drunk. That be them youngins.
AncientBlonde ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:22:47 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm friends with returning grade 12's who are 19. Almost half my graduating class is 18 before we graduate, and I know barely any drink at school.
Cmethvin ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 06:20:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ya, but you can drink @ 18 in Quebec...
LookMomImOnTheWeb ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 11:18:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but you're in Quebec.
northstar00 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 08:45:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We use to catch the #8 OC Transpo in front of our high school in Ottawa to Gatineau, QC to get drinks after school...one of the few advantages of living on ON-QC border
Cmethvin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:40:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aah, Gatineau... We'd just head across the dam into Portage-du-Fort...
swaglord94 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:19:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And Alberta
Vepanion ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 07:42:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And 16 in Germany for Beer and Wine, but good luck driving there!
TreesnCats ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:41:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can't forget Manitoba!
JesseVY ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 10:49:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't be so confident about that!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:23:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I try, but the hell that is Roblin is burned into my brain forever.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:22:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but then you don't have a job or savings.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:56:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's just a suggestion any ways
C0lMustard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:15:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And really thats just a guideline in quebec.
muskratboy ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:55:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good strip club there as well.
Not-Stoopid ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:00:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just wondering what is the good strip club here? No matter what place I hear people talking about they never say good things.
WRONGFUL_BONER ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:35:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cheetahs. No one gives a fuck about the rules. Had a dancer sit on my buddy's face once. Good times.
uniptf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:26:51 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So your buddy didn't need to cuddle a koala to get the clap?
Deminla ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:32:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a Windsorite, we get TONS of americans under 21 crossing the border to drink
Kaminohanshin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:52:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm still amazed they can get anywhere with how shitty our roads are... 'Let's block off two of the biggest and most used roads in our fucking city for several weeks, I don't see any problems with that!'
Bethanym9884 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:07:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always went to Sarnia. Woo!
zombie-yellow11 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:21:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And if you come to Quebec, you can drink at 18 !
barto5 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:32:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And buy Cuban cigars, if you're into that sort of thing.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:40:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So are there bars with hot 19 year olds?
2fat2live ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:06:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
YES!!!!! And their judgement is normally not in the best condition and they are there to have a good time!!!!!!
usoland-sama ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:42:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A fact I'm well aware of
TajunJ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:55:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But you are drinking in Windsor, so really you are still coming out behind here.
Extra-Extra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:36:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ya, but Windsor.
OneFinalEffort ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:15:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes but then you're in Windsor. Not worth it, really.
-DisobedientAvocado- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:33:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go the other way to Quebec at 18 and you can drink so much you aren't annoyed there anymore.
NoWittyUsernamesHere ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:35:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's just Canada's way of saying we're sorry about Windsor
C0lMustard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:14:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is kind of surprising that Canada isn't inundated with 19 & 20 year old american kids every weekend.
FAX_ME_UR_GENITALIA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:33:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can drink at 9
whirlpool138 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:35:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Niagara Falls, Ontario is pretty much the Panama City or Cancun of the Great Lakes/North East for this reason.
AncientBlonde ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:21:02 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a Canadian living in Alberta, fuck you rest of Canada I can drink next year!
sorry
SuperMyl3z ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 08:28:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But then you're in Windsor, which is basically the Detroit of Canada.
Jugularcrayon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:32:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Couple less murders tho
LordSyyn ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:48:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brilliant. It's after 7pm here, so time to throw some down m'gullet.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:36:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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mynameisnoobish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:23:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the US it's 21.
2fat2live ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 11:05:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1 REASON TO ATTEND WINDSOR UNIVERSITY. GOD BLESS THE DRUNKEN MICHIGAN TEENAGE GIRLS COMING TO TOWN ON THE WEEKEND FOR A GREAT TIME
SheepishLordKOs ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 05:21:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Funny I'm in Windsor right now (from Toronto) for a friend's birthday party, can confirm: Windsor Sucks Ass. Also the girl I'm into is dancing with another guy so I'm bummed out.
sashir ยท 65 points ยท Posted at 06:00:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just a thought, but it might be because you're fucking around on reddit rather than dancing with her.
Juicyb17 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:54:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Another thought, maybe he didn't go in reddit 'til she started dancing with someone else.
uniptf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:27:35 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably still because he wasn't dancing with her.
jawthumbs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:03:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That'll get ya
SuperArff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:28:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everything in Canada southwest of K-W sucks ass.
Source: Lived in London my whole life.
waste-case-canadian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:45:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same bro birthday party for a friend, from london. Actually some half decent night life down here. Lots of good pubs
DBonsmaK ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 07:45:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But there's the added bonus that you got the fuck outta Detroit
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 13:58:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck yourself.
silver_tongued_devil ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:39:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just a city boy, born and raised in south Detroit....
thatdudeman52 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:33:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So the boy from Don't stop believing is Canadian?
deathbymoshpit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:03:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From Windsor. Can confirm. Keep driving
KaiserBear ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:02:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But hey, you're not in Detroit anymore, so you've got that going for you.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 14:03:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You make it pretty obvious that you've never been here and just regurgitate the bullshit that is all over the internet because downtown Detroit is actually pretty fucking cool, especially when compared to Windsor.
The only people who would choose Windsor over Detroit are ages 19 and 20.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:21:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you drive north you'll end up in Port Huron, or "Little Canada"
osufan765 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:47:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, checked a map on this one. I didn't even know Detroit was a border city.
SyanticRaven ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:16:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you go North or West from Buffalo you end up in Canada.
If you go South or East from Detroit you end up in Canada.
Without seeing a map that's a really weird one to get your head around.
ryannefromTX ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:33:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, despite the iconic Journey lyrics, there is actually no such place as "South Detroit."
This_Land_Is_My_Land ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 07:37:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean the southern part of a city could be called "South (city)"
It's not correct or incorrect, it just is.
fishfishmonkeyhat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:24:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can tell it is by how it be.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:59:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure, but nobody in this area has ever referred to any part of the city as "South Detroit." There is downtown, east side, west side, midtown, cass corridor, downriver. No south Detroit.
Joester09 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:16:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but "Just a city boy, born and raised in Windsor" doesn't sounds as good.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:03:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
straight what direction?
doctorscurvy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:30:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you drive in any direction from Detroit, you end up outside of Detroit, so that's nice.
peobey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:13:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And dangerous
raunchyfartbomb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:33:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck?
RestrictedAccount ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:32:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What part of that sounds exciting?
SJHillman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:04:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I live in New York, but Detroit, Montreal, and Pittsburgh are all a shorter drive for me than New York City.
Devadander ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:51:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But you left Detroit, and that's all that matters.
beancounter2885 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:37:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, Windsor, the Reno of Canada.
DTWBagHandler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:43:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cracks me up at Red Wings games when they play Journey - Don't Stop Believin'
Born and raised in South Detroit...
http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/detroit/index.ssf/2012/01/steve_perry_finally_answers_th.html
csimmons22 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:31:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you drive due south from Detroit, you end up in the river, because both the bridge and the tunnel follow a more southeasterly path. But your meaning is still correct: Windsor is due south of Detroit.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:52:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Keep going!.. You are almost at the Montreal Strip clubs!!
C-grij ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:17:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm, I live in Windsor, there's not much to do :/
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:32:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ThatRedPanda11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:47 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey! :(
musman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:04:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this doesn't make sense to me, can someone explain how this would work? Driving south would mean you're driving away from Canada...
Lifeguard2012 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:51:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look at a map. Detroit borders Canada, and directly South of it is a little piece of Canada.
trippedwire ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I honestly never knew that Detroit directly bordered Canada.
viperfan7 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:03:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Am from Windsor, can confirm, boring as fuck here.
But we have lots of nice cars to look at so that's something, hell there's a Porsche 918 here.
windexo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:24:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Avoid that trip whenever possible.
ThrowbacKiP ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 07:20:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nothing exciting about any city in Canada.
patbarb69 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 09:09:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those of us growing up in the northwest US don't realize how Canada swoops way down south in the east US area. Most Canadians live further south than Seattle.
SuperArff ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:29:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It always freaked me out as a kid when I went to Point Pelee on school trips and they told us that we were on the same latitude as California.
jonny_eh ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:34:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Including California.
Kugel ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:34:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I live in that small penis (its about how you use it) that juts down into the US, and when I talk to people from like NY and they ask me how the weather is and how my igloo is doing im just like "you live further north thean me!" like a seriously large percentage of the population lives right around the border and has about the same weather as people in the US.
savageboredom ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:56:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Detroit is immediately north of (a part of) Canada.
pm_me_ur_flags ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:11:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
?ยฟ?ยฟ?
Eudaimonics ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:31:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The UN almost placed their HQ on an island in the Niagara between the US and Canada.
But they chose NYC instead.
d0ntblink ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:42:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it possible to figure out the percent of the US landmass that is north of the most southern point of Canada?
plaidpaint ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:14:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
38% if you include Alaska
Medic0416 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:40:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For some reason it took me like 40 seconds to understand that one. I think I need to sleep. Thats fucking crazy though.
Awdayshus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:01:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I grew up in a U.S. city that was on the 45th parallel, and my dad always said we lived further north than 90% of the population of Canada, but I have never been able to verify whether his take on this is true.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:07:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, the boarder is made up at the 49th parallel for the western provinces. So, population of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, BC and the territories alone is about 8.3 million. With Canadian population being 35 million, that's like 25% of the country. So the 90% estimate is wrong.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_provinces_and_territories_by_population_growth_rate
Awdayshus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:20:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So you're saying my dad doesn't know what he's talking about. How do you know him?
zeinshver ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:39:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Otherwise, known as more than half.
Gbiknel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:02:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, south of Detroit is Canada, which means the journey song talking about "south Detroit" is a lie! (Hey even admitted it just sounded good).
toshi04 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:58:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I still don't know how this is possible.
greetedworm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:13:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I counted 21 before I had to look at a map
Occasionalcat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:02:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm, I live in the (second) most nothern point in Canada.
Geminii27 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:35:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds better if you say "more than half the US states..."
furlreal ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 03:52:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
farther
billboard-dinosaur ยท 10754 points ยท Posted at 01:09:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not really stupid sounding or that interesting but my little sister came home once when she was like six and told us that dolphins were whales and we just laughed at her so much she cried. Turns out she was right.
She's usually pretty wrong about things so we just thought it was some made up crap- but whenever she says something stupid and gets mad because we don't believe her, she always says "REMEMBER THE DOLPHINS" which makes us sober up real fast and we all remember the dolphins
LennMacca ยท 6852 points ยท Posted at 04:00:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Without any context, it kind of makes it sound like your family did something unspeakably horrible to a pod of dolphins.
[deleted] ยท 583 points ยท Posted at 06:17:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or the sister could just be a huge fan of Miami's football team.
TaohRihze ยท 504 points ยท Posted at 08:04:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
... so unspeakable horrible still applies?
Locke_N_Load ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 13:33:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
LACES OUT
glassgun13 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:40:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They are remembering the '72 dolphins.
OkiDokiTokiLoki ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:09:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there any other?
glassgun13 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:14:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I will always the dolphins of 2015 that cost me $1700 on a 10 game parlay.
Torvaun ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:10:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They drove the snowplow.
naus226 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:23:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Squish the Phish"
Coopica ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:59:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"...The greatest football team. We take the ball from goal to goal like no ones ever seen..."
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:17:40 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
savage
terranq ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 08:09:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Laces Out!"
TheVeryMask ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 08:51:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd believe "Remember the Dolphins" as a sequel movie to Remember the Titans. Maybe because I haven't seen it.
ILiveInAVillage ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:05:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh gosh. I remember the day at school our teacher said we were going to watch Remember the Titans. We were all so excited. Then it turned out to be about American Football.
TheVeryMask ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:22:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gridiron is a much cooler word, but doesn't make me any less neutral about the game.
ARealSlimBrady ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:11:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That says more about the family if that line actually works. Maybe it'd make more sense if the family sobbed uncontrollably
daymoonbeam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:49:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Laces out!
SuperHighHawaiianGuy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:00:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
LACES OUT
SwagWaggon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:01:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even more unlikely
probably-drunk-too ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:10:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You had to go there?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:13:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's actually even worse
DarrSwan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:05:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or she eviscerated the pod of dolphins with some sort of superhuman agility and ruthlessness while the family stood (or treaded water) helplessly nearby crying for her to end her bloodthirsty rage, all in a violent warning to the family after a betrayal.
ragn4rok234 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:31:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In which case they're not worth remembering
wENTtobuyweed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:50:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about the children???
Kobluna ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:52:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Laces Out
FuckPencils ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:14:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Laces out!
loadsoffun17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:30:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or denzels team in another universe.
Baron-Harkonnen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:26:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
LACES OUT
10strip ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:15:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
LACES OUT!
[deleted] ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 06:25:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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PeapodEchoes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:46:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Snorky... talk...
tsintzask ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:08:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dolphins have actually raped people.
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 06:37:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They were taking selfies and the dolphins died.
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 07:18:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Too soon
najodleglejszy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:22:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
whatโs that about?
mjmannella ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 10:41:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A while ago, there was a beach party and someone found a baby dolphin. Everyone took selfies with it.
It ended up dying.
najodleglejszy ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:57:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
D:
Rogan_McFlubbin ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:36:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remember the barbecue!
red_zephyr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:58:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you hit the dolphin-people, you've gone too far.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:36:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah they cracked it so the genetically engineered dolphins couldn't awake from cryosleep and wreak their havok on the future.
REMEMBER THE KHAN.
foreignlander ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:58:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hope they are not in the Faroe Islands!
DouchecraftCarrier ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm still not convinced they haven't.
ObscureUserName0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:55:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't let his family fool you, they all work at Seaworld.
chudthirtyseven ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:26:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm going to start saying it randomly in company meetings from now on.
Tuba4life1000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:13:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Blender.
Colonel_K_The_Great ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:17:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like gang-raping them or something...
inflammablepenguin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:35:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like some kind of Prince of Tides shit.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:02:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or vice versa.
NicolasMage69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:04:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or the dolphins did something horrible to them. ( อกยฐ อส อกยฐ)
Bad-Selection ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:09:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"I can never forget the dolphins, Suzie"
takes another swig of whiskey
mountaineer04 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:00:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Silence of the Dolphins.
ih8dolphins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:07:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd be okay with that
leshake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:08:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or they are related to the defenders of the dolphin alamo.
Arborarcher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:28:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remember, remember the Dolphin September the blowholes, the fins, and the nets. I know that we ne'er did trap them on porpoise September I'll never forget.
ptrack17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:37:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is one of my all-time favorite reddit comments.
Murphenstien ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:52:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FUCK YOU DOLPHINNNNN
natedogg787 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:52:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or the pod did somthing horrible to them.
Metabro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:30:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone slaps their mouth shut and just stares off at random corners of things around the room as the silence increases....
evilarhan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:10:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remember the spaghetti incident.
Drowned_In_Spaghetti ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:07:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remember the barbeque!
NosyEnthusiast6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:14 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So long, and thanks; but also fuck you.
momchelle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:18:15 on April 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Love that you said 'pod' of dolphins.
[deleted] ยท 1257 points ยท Posted at 02:26:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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fizz514 ยท 1646 points ยท Posted at 04:18:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dolphins are squares and whales are rectangular, got it.
n33d_kaffeen ยท 91 points ยท Posted at 07:04:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've been saying "all squares are rectangles, not all rectangles are squares" for years and everyone I know has looked at me like I'm crazy.
I'm not crazy.
[deleted] ยท 128 points ยท Posted at 07:06:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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n33d_kaffeen ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 07:08:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not that they didn't see the logic, they just failed to expand it to whatever I was referring to at the time. I also had a habit of saying "Who's on first?" Every time people would talk in circles.
Rev_Up_Those_Reposts ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 07:32:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Some people have trouble generalizing statements such as the one about squares and rectangles. They may simply not understand the parallel you are drawing because they lack prerequisite knowledge and/or a grasp of the nuances involved with the concept.
In a class a few years back, a teacher asked a question about human behavior. I responded to the question by talking about conditioning , and I used the phrase "like Pavlov's dog." A girl in the class got a confused look on her face and promptly raised her hand. She said that my comment didn't make sense because we were talking about humans, and the Pavlov's Dog concept only applied to dogs. She understood the concept from previous study, but she didn't know/believe that it was generalizable.
Edited to be more clear.
idwthis ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 08:10:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To play devil's advocate for a second here, if I may. I wouldn't be surprised for why she was confused if this was in high school or earlier, and the class you were taking didn't need to teach about Russian physiologists and one of their most famous until that discussion/lesson plan came up.
I mean, it's not like they teach about conditioning in general or even physiologists in elementary or middle school. Nor high school, I certainly don't remember it ever coming up in any high school class of mine.
Rev_Up_Those_Reposts ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:02:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good point. I edited my post to be more clear.
The girl wasn't confused because she hadn't studied the concept previously. She was confused because she had failed to grasp the generalizability of it, as with OP's squares vs rectangles.
shadow1515 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:25:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
His/her district may have taught it in a common required class. We definitely went over it in my 8th grade science class. So depending on the school, it might have made sense for everyone to know about Pavlov. It's not like it's some complicated thing, it just depends on whether they spent the 5 minutes to talk about it in whatever class.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:54:32 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Rev_Up_Those_Reposts ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:17:33 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or parallelograms, I suppose.
aaronrenoawesome ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:14:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whenever people talk in circles around me I often just say "THIRD BASE!" Usually no one gets it though, but at least it quiets everyone down for a minute.
n33d_kaffeen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:51:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was caught in one of these scenarios the other day at my new job; I work with a lot of older guys. It took ten years but I finally said, "Who's on first!?" and got some laughs out of it.
shadow1515 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:24:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We did it in like 3rd grade.
But then again in 6th grade because 3rd graders are stupid and everyone forgot.
m1rrari ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:41:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And seventh, eighth, and ninth grade...
They kept repeating that fact like I was forgetful or something.
karmaisop ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 11:59:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sun is a star but a star is not a sun. I don't understand what's so hard about it
SpaceShrimp ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:33:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is fairly common for crazy people to say that they are not crazy. Have you asked yourself why you are telling strangers on the internet that you are not crazy?
InRealLifeImQuiteBig ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:26:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All squares are parallelograms, but not all parallelograms are squares.
luke_in_the_sky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:54:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And not all quadrilaterals are parallelograms.
luke_in_the_sky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:53:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The non-square rectangles are called oblong.
Mousedigits ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 07:28:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sperm whales, man.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:19:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's why it's called a box.
PRGuyHere ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:08:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dolphins are fingers and whales are thumbs.
picklesaredumb ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:28:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or, you know, the opposite
PRGuyHere ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:18:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God damn it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:08:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Kim_Jong_OON ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:22:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
PR guy definitely hitting the head on the nail here.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:08:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Kim_Jong_OON ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:22:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Never forget the Fingers! whales! Fuck, Dolphins.
shepy66 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:18:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
N-no... That's not how that works at all.
Dolphins are rhombuses.
edditme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:29:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's hip to be square.
Do dolphins have hips??
aliasname ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:53:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well its more like whales, porpoises, and dolphins are all parrelograms. Dolphins are like rectangles which is why you have people say killer whales aren't whales they're dolphins. Whales are squares. And porpoises are a rhombus
shutupimthinking ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:07:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Correct. Hipster whalers use square holes in their whaling nets to allow dolphins to escape.
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:18:09 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are 10 dolphin whales per square mile in Vatican City.
NosyEnthusiast6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:43 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll be damned, that actually sort of checks out.
BruceChameleon ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:05:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, that's how they stack them in the tanks.
aatencio91 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:34:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also turtles and tortoises (but maybe backwards? I can't remember...)
ScooterPINKHeart ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:20:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those Dolphins always seemed like a fun bunch to me.
r_slash_squid ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:45:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which of course means dolphins are sharks and whales are fish!
Benzilla11 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:18:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And starfish are circles
CoffeeHamster ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 07:46:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Instructions unclear, Dolphins fed to WALLโขE
Rxasaurus ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:45:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so dolphins are just the thumbs of the sea?
burf ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:52:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Insanity. Next someone will tell me all houses are buildings but not all building are houses.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:24:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yea but what's the purpoise of this distinction?
cannabinator ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:22:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, but they are both cetaceans
andrewsad1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:42:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even ordinary whales are whales!
Condomonium ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:57:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But are all whales whales?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:50:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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pseudoRobit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:26:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every Muppet is a puppet, but not every puppet is a Muppet.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:06:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not all dolphins
Maxpowr9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:25:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep it's how we got stuck with "killer whale" when in fact they're "whale killers". Language is a fickle thing.
Batteriesareexcluded ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:57:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aren't killer whales Dolphins?
hotcereal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:12:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
square ass sea animals
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like squares and rectangles.
gamecock21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:52:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FUCK A YOU DOLPHINE AND A FUCK A YOU WHALE
demostravius ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:44:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Killer whales are dolphins though.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:44:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fun fact about male dolphins. When there are no females around, the males will have sex with each other.
IshKebab ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:50:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wikipedia disagrees:
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:57:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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IshKebab ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:30:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We're not talking about whether dophins are cetaceans or not.
dbbo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:48:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you not read the quote?
It says a whale is a cetacean that isn't a dolphin or porpoise. It does not say that any of the three groups aren't cetaceans.
BourbonAndFrisbee ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:17:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, a 'killer whale' (Orca) is actually a Dolphin. So we've got this coming from both sides.
RockitMane ยท 521 points ยท Posted at 01:49:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Never forget...
NSA-SURVEILLANCE ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 07:43:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DOLPHINS 2016
MoodyBalls ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:20:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Never forgetti the dolphonetti
TurtlesBeFree ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:28:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uhm, mom's spagh...
You know what. I'm not fuckin doing this shit. Find someone else
Magnatross ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:43:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jet fuel can't melt dolphins
celticsupporter ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:27:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah it can
theforemost187 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:56:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
always remember
Schleckenmiester ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:10:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The dolphins...
its-limitededition ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:25:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
THE WHALES
adamrsb48 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:06:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RECUERDE LA ALAMO
A_favorite_rug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:25:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Emu Wars...
luckierbridgeandrail ยท 4615 points ยท Posted at 03:44:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Female dolphins have a higher chance of getting raped than learning to read.
squarerootofapplepie ยท 417 points ยท Posted at 04:16:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But they're closer to Maine.
Sackyhack ยท 154 points ยท Posted at 04:18:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which is more west than Santiago
pm_me_ur_flags ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 07:03:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spherical geometry!
LaterGatorPlayer ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 08:15:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It means a whales vagina
Aberdolf-Linkler ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:30:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which is also more likely to get raped than to learn to read.
Indie_uk ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:06:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But less North than Hawaii
Dolly_Black_Lamb ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:50:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is Maine really less North than Hawaii
civildisobedient ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:32:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. But it is closer to Africa than any other U.S. state.
Johnnybravo60025 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:56:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The bird from Aladdin, right?
metans ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:19:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And Cleopatra's mammoths, or something like that
NoifenF ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:21:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Meta af
i_should_be_twerking ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 05:24:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
2meta2fast
petit_bleu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:03:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but they're still not golden retrievers.
FictionalReasons ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 06:25:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
2meta4me
a_rainbow_serpent ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 10:06:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In dollar terms, female dolphins get paid less for the same jobs.
irisheddy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:09:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
doller*
JustFapping2470 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 05:58:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck
Oenonaut ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 10:39:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd bet that's true of male dolphins too.
vonmonologue ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 06:44:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When need to put an end to this porpiarchy.
tool_shoes ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 10:40:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My dad's a dolphin. I just told him that. He looked at me, peering above his reading glasses.
Satadorus ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:26:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was he writing another Yelp-review, Kyle?
Scarletfapper ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 10:11:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
dolphinlivesmatter
WIENS21 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:50:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just like human females in my hometown
Eriiiii ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:02:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dolphins: they're just like us!
Spambop ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:44:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's basically true of any animal, though.
progdrummer ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:58:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
3meta5me
CXDXOXP ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:24:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, no shit
Hagathorthegr8 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:35:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't that true of male dolphins as well? And possibly like 95% of animals in general?
diadmer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:47:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also true of female humans in many countries today!
Gizmo-Duck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:44:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're welcome.
ninjazombiemaster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:58:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
#cetacaeganykills
vizzmay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:08:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The same is true for female humans in certain regions of the world.
SpermWhale ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:44:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What!?!
MagicPen15 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:13:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Triggered.
A_favorite_rug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:26:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We need reform!
EditorD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:33:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dolphin rape is actually very real.
Bottlenose dolphins particulary like ganging up on their smaller spotted cousins and buggering them something rotten.
imadeaname ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:33:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And a higher chance of being Cleopatra than being closer to the building of the pyramids
Triquetra4715 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:02:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So do most animals, probably.
bassnugget ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:27:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For a second there, I misread that as Family dolphins.
masked_wankster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:45:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also true: female dolphins who learn to read are less likely to get raped. Stay in school little dolphin pups, stay in school.
ITS_JUST_2015_BRO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:26:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
#I need fininism because
OliveGreen87 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:29:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Metaceans...
NPIF ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:49:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I need feminism because Dolphins be raping everybody out here
00Deege ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 10:31:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm. Have raped female dolphin.
dpatt711 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:41:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL middle eastern women are dolphins
Late_Dent_ArthurDent ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 09:59:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
slow clap.
TheHouseOfGryffindor ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was really confused before I kept reading the thread. It seems that it may be possible to meta too quickly.
CarnibusCareo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:18:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only near the coast of SA.
Disney_Reference ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:22:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe if you dropped LSD with the dolphin, it would learn to speak.
Shields42 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:17:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
PorpoiseLivesMatter
daybreakx ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:10:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ugh, can't wait to see this new donation page passed around on Tumblr in the coming days.
m00fire ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:33:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Raped in the head, no less.
doctorbooshka ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:42:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So do female humans who join sororities.
KingDarkBlaze ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:56:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I may be responsible for this one.
throwthisawayrightnw ยท 717 points ยท Posted at 03:59:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What I think is even cooler, and when people don't quite get it and then it clicks it just makes me feel like a giddy child, is that marine mammals all walked on land at one point. Evolved from fish to having legs and walking on land for a long, long time, and then did the reverse back into the ocean long enough to seem as though they were always there. Also, convergent evolution, a la sharks, dolphins, ichthyosaurs. So much cool stuff. Some of my favorite stuff.
moist_owlett ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 11:15:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And tortoises are land dwelling reptiles that evolved from aquatic turtles, which evolved from terrestrial critters, which evolved from aquatic fishy guys.
Pick an environment guys, sheesh!
Rrumbah ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 12:50:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So wait, fish grew legs, chilled on land for a bit, said "fuck this noise" and went back to the sea?
Cool.
SarcasticGiraffes ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:02:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I do the same thing in the mornings: go outside to face the day, get coffee, go back inside because everything out there is not my blankie, so fuck that.
dragn99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:22:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's how I felt this morning.
But work won't take that as a reason to call in sick, so....
Beidah ยท 95 points ยท Posted at 06:15:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is a great point to explain that evolution isn't linear like so many seem to think it is.
pointlessvoice ยท 56 points ยท Posted at 06:51:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i like to imagine the moment when the manaphant decided to stay in the ocean and had to say his final goodbye to his sister the elephanatee that stayed on land and grew out her trunk. It was bittersweet.
Problem119V-0800 ยท 89 points ยท Posted at 07:47:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So sad. I'll never think about those cartoons where the evolving-fish crawls up onto land the same way again. Why are you flopping up there, fish, why are you ready to leave it all behind? Are you searching for something? Or are you running away from your past? Did you shoot a man in R'lyeh just to watch him die?
silverfishing ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:38:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Laughed aloud at your last sentence. Think I got away with not waking up my boyfriend.
TheGreyMage ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 11:16:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lmao same. Sounds like lyrics to a Queen song imo. To the tune of Somebody to Love, 'Did you shoot a man in R'lyeh just to watch him dieeeeee?'
jdndm ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 11:19:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a Johnny Cash reference....
TheGreyMage ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 11:27:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really? Heh.
jdndm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:33:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQcgcmZvv28
silverfishing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:06:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my god now that's playing in my head! Haha
EltaninAntenna ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 10:58:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The main things about evolution are that it isn't linear, and that it doesn't have a purpose or a goal. It's just a process, and so long as there's sex, mutation and environmental pressures, it's inevitable.
Spaded21 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:55:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*Changing environmental pressures
Thor_Odinson_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:43:57 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, the same pressures can still push evolution onwards. It just reduces the survivability outside of their niche environment if and when the pressures do change. You just get better at doing what you do, and since you are better, your genes get passed on more frequently than the guys that do it so-so.
dogfish83 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 12:17:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are at least two different types of eyes, I remember- those with blind spots (where some nerves cross over the optical area) and those without. I think octopi have the latter.
SJHillman ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 12:48:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fitting in with the thread and your post, "octopodes" is a more correct plural of "octopus" than "octopi" is, because the word comes down from Greek (whereas -i would be Latin).
However, in modern English, "octopuses" is also considered correct.
dogfish83 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:50:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I almost went with "the octopus" to avoid having to guess
Alassieth ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:29:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, it depends if the retina is covered by blood vessels or not. Ours is covered by blood vessels (which is why you can see them when you look at a bright light) and there has to be a hole in the retina where all the vessels join and leave the eye. This is the blind spot. Octopuses have the blood vessels behind the retina so don't have this problem.
redlaWw ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 11:39:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whales are also quite closely related to ruminants like cows, sheep and deer.
Thor_Odinson_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:45:33 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Beef of the sea, we call them.
johnoe ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 08:03:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
:)
yppers ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:41:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think I remember reading about one whale like creature that was thought to evolved from a land species that had in turn had evolved from a whale thing that was almost the same as what it would become after spending a long long time on land and going back to the sea.
Kattaract ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:43:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So..... Street Sharks?
anonydeadmau6 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:10:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait are you serious? Do you have a source because you just blew my mind.
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 11:46:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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moby__dick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:06:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also bats are closely related too.
TheGreatLabMonkey ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 12:19:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Source
ccolfax ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:29:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For some reason, I read this in Donald Trump's voice. And it sounded very right.
NervousAboutAngels ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:20:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was the final sentence, I think. I read it that way too!
JasminaChillibeaner ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:05:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, whales are classed as ungulates, aka hoofed mammals.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:57:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow I never even knew this! Do you have any more interesting facts?
dmikalova ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:02:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even better - hippos took it one step further and evolved to go back on land after evolving to water after evolving to land after evolving from water.
MrsSpice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:26:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Favorite link for this?
edditme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:30:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless you live in some parts of America.
delaboots ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:46:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why would they go back in the water? Sounds fishy.
gun_generous ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:50:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't this just a theory still in the scientific community?
Murphenstien ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:51:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL :)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:52:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is why whales have vestigial hip bones!
Also reminds me of Dethklok's Go Into the Water
Metabro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:33:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would you rank evolutionary facts higher than a blowjob?
SHIT_IN_MY_ANUS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:58:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder how that looked...
Jacollinsver ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:37:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't forget the ancestors of monitor lizards doing the same to become mosasaurs. Convergent evolution is one of the most fascinating things ever
Nitsju ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:22:43 on April 18, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even blue whales? Now that is something.
ChoppingGarlic ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:22:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well their precursors walked on land, but no whales have actually walked on land. But I get what you're saying.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:55:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like saying our ancestors swam (permanently). It's true, but no human has ever spent its entire life in the ocean (and not died like a minute after childbirth on a liferaft).
ChoppingGarlic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:52:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Look, our species has never ever been a species that lived primarily in the water. Our predecessors (long before monkeys, did though).
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:24:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, that's what I'm saying (ancestors here means Devonian amphibians).
ChoppingGarlic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:39:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahh, allright.
FundanceKid ยท -11 points ยท Posted at 07:45:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or ocean dwelling creatures evolved to breathe gaseous oxygen and some developed legs and moved on land, while other air-breathing sea creatures remained in the ocean. Either option is plausible
oighen ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 08:38:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We have good reasons to say that marine mammals descend from land mammals, it's not just an hypothesis.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 09:38:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Atherix ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 09:55:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The breathing air is a big clue. It is a big disadvantage compared to be able to use dissolved oxygen for aquatic environments, but essential if you are to live on land. When they returned to water they had to sort out the physiology to hold their breath for ages. Also the flippers still have the bones of digits inside showing they were once limbs of tetrapods.
he-said-youd-call ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 11:04:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, it seems there's a decent amount of consensus that primitive Osteichthyes could breathe air. So all modern fish descended from fish that could breathe air.
I have no clue what the evidence is for this, though. I'm trying to find it right now.
DrStinkyPinky ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:18:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look up homology!
zarthblackenstein ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 12:10:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i like biology because it reminds me of how stupid christianity is :) i love all da meat robots on earth
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:08:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More: Cows are more closely related to dolphins than they are to horses.
whyhellotherejim ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 03:50:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hippos actually originate from the same ancestor as whales as well. Like they're not even close to elephants and rhinos, they almost became some kind of fish thing.
turtleeatingalderman ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 06:58:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you provide a cetacean for that claim?
lucysalvatierra ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:19:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How long have you been holding onto that one? Cuz, this is like the only situation where it would apply.
turtleeatingalderman ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 07:24:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not long at all. Saw your comment, realized an opportunity for a pun, and seas'd the moment.
lucysalvatierra ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:57:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nicely done.
turtleeatingalderman ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:14:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Glad to hear I've served my porpoise.
atomatoisagoddamnveg ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:54:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Took me awhale to get that
whyhellotherejim ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:27:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's in the Wikipedia page introduction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippopotamus?wprov=sfla1
Supersnazz ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 04:31:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not always. Dolphins and whales are all cetaceans, but the word dolphin is a non-scientific grouping of about 40 species of those cetaceans. Killer whales and pilot whales are all considered oceanic dolphins, but baleen whales are not dolphins. Similarly river dolphins are not considered whales.
TastyBrainMeats ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:39:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aren't dolphins all in Odontoceti? That literally means "toothed whale".
Supersnazz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:45:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'ceti' comes from 'cetus' meaning any large sea creature, typically a whale but also a dolphin or seal.
TastyBrainMeats ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:03:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay, but paraphyletic groupings are a pain in the ass.
Supersnazz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:33:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The problem is that everything is a mess. There's no strict way of determining any category for any living creature. There's common names, latin names, scientific names, historic names all of which may lump things together in arbitrary ways.
TastyBrainMeats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:54:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I say we try for cladistic groupings whenever possible. If you're descended from a whale, you're a whale.
Supersnazz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:14:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But then chickens are dinosaurs
TastyBrainMeats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:21:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, they are. Look closely at a chicken and it's obvious.
Pluvialis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:27:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But it also means humans are fish.
TastyBrainMeats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:58:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, "fish" is so bizarre a grouping as it is that trying to make it cladistic may be a lost cause. Ditto "reptile".
It wasn't all that long ago that whales were classified as fish (and not mammals), just due to the gross similarities. I think groupings that more closely match ancestry are a lot more useful.
Ranzear ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:26:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here's the thing...
cryo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:50:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn those polyphyletic terms.
helohero ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 05:46:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahhh "remember the dolphins", only slightly less well known than " Remember the Alamo "
cxseven ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:47:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It makes me remember a signature of someone who traveled in a lot of my same mailing list circles, going by the name Oliver Xymoron at waste.org:
I later read The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon to try to figure out what it meant, but things didn't get much clearer.
LetterSwapper ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:36:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Laces OUT!!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:50:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So long and thanks for all the fish!
batfiend ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:12:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And orca are dolphins.
Some experts believe their name 'killer whale' is mistranslated. In Spanish they were originally named "Whale Killers," or asesina de ballenas
IForgotWhoIAm ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:22:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But then apparently they are also whales now
batfiend ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:26:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, toothed whales just like dolphins and sperm whales.
TheSpecialBrowney ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:05:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remember the titans
LORD_SL0TH ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:40:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But what am I to make of this?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wholphin
UlyssesSKrunk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:05:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Second sentance
Deleriant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's interesting. I thought all chimeras were sterile.
Pluvialis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:07:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't saying dolphins are whales like saying apes are monkeys? Like, technically they're a strict subset of that group but now have new names?
Dolphins evolved from toothed whales and together they're more distantly related to baleen whales.
Apes evolved from old world monkeys and together they're more distantly related to new world monkeys.
But call an ape a monkey on reddit and everyone loses their shit.
Psychobiologist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:12:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apes aren't monkeys because monkey is a paraphyletic classification, not monophyletic. Everyone loses their shit because saying apes are monkeys is wrong.
Pluvialis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:48:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why is monkey a paraphyletic classification and whale monophyletic?
Psychobiologist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:42:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You'd have to ask a taxonomist since that's not really my area of expertise but my guess is that the rules are probably a bit fuzzy when making the distinction. Biologists can't even agree on a strict set of rules for identifying separate species (of course orcas and bottlenose dolphins would be easy enough to separate but in cases like deep vs shallow water cichlids things get a little messier).
Pluvialis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:53:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well according to the scientific journal Wikipedia, whales "are an informal grouping within the infraorderย Cetacea, usually excludingย dolphinsย andporpoises."
Also: "Whales do not form a clade or order; the infraorder Cetacea includesdolphinsย andย porpoises, which are not considered whales."
So not monophyletic.
Psychobiologist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:11:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I never said whales and dolphins were monophyletic. I was merely disagreeing with the statement about apes and monkeys being monophyletic.
TheFlashFrame ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:28:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My brother is the same way. One time he swore that the largest single celled organism on the planet was the ostrich egg. My parents made fun of him for years. While not really entirely correct, the ostrich egg yolk IS in fact the largest single celled organism on the planet. Hard to believe that a yolk is one cell.
semi-bro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:13:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So do you guys just not Google things or what? Both of these facts are pretty easily verified.
CheekyMunky ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:25:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's googling? Is there some way I can find more information on it?
TheFlashFrame ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:05:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We're both talking about stories of the past. Mine takes place before smart phones.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wow that was mean
adudeguyman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:45:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Never forget
HappyStalker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:57:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On that note: toads are a kind of frog.
MaxHannibal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:31:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remeber telling my parents one time that flamingos where pink because they ate shrimp and the laughed at me . It was the first time I realized my parents could be flawed.
valeyard89 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:46:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FUCK YOU WHARE! AND FUCK YOU DORPHEEN!
Jacobie23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:00:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure dolphins are whales, but did you know that killer whales are dolphins?
USOutpost31 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:00:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love this story.
Elliot4321 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:07:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol I learned this in second grade. We did a whole unit where different groups got different animals(I think it was only sea animals) I got the dolphin.
bassinastor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just looked this up because I didn't believe you. Wow. In addition, killer whales are a subspecies of dolphins.
TastyBrainMeats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:40:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like you were assholes.
zambiandoc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:43:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The hippo's closest relative is the dolphin. Go figure.
Marlfox70 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:54:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why was it that funny to yall? "Dolphins.. are WHALES? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA DUMBASS"
peanutbuttahcups ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:57:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lmao, this is adorable.
AlmightyApkallu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:03:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remember the Alam-.... The Dolphins.
pashell1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:11:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But do you remember the Titians?
LazarWulf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:12:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, but I thought killer whales were dolphins, though.
Guyote_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:19:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
#RememberTheDolphins
WaitWhatting ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:25:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
consider the lillies
Natiak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:28:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a lovely family.
Elchidote ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:30:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FUXK-A YOU WHALE AND FUCK-A YOU DOLPHIN!!!
SpecialSause ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:48:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm going to start telling people to "remember the dolphins" with absolutely no context.
cryo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:48:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm, I thought that was common knowledge. They even have blow holes.
LeapYearFriend ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:52:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My first grade teacher made the entire class laugh at me when I was like 5 years old because I said my animal hand puppet a tiger and she thought it was a lion. Yep. The rare white-maned, orange and black striped lion.
I feel for your sister.
wagiwombledog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:52:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nice
Canada_is_gay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:54:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every time someone says, "Remember the dolphins," I'm reminded that the PC police are trying to kill my heritage and cultural history by banning dolphin hunts. So I stand up for heritage and kill one. I like to get the babies because their meat is more tender and delicious. Thanks, mate ;)
mcstafford ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:07:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
-- Wikipedia, Dolphins, Etymology
Smorlock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:08:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wow you guys are a bunch of pricks aren't ya
torontohoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:23:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My friends made me feel stupid the other day for saying this, so thank you.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:40:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Funnily, I have a similar situation.
When I was 5 I told my mother about Narwhals being the unicorns of the sea, and she said yes, they're exactly that. They don't exist.
She proceeded to laugh me out of the room, but I pulled out the dictionary and showed her, and now whenever I want to auto-win an argument, I go "But narwhals exist." and it's done.
Pipsay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:53:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was suprised to learn only recently that moose are a type of deer.
Riffler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:02:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a line in the Terrorvision song "Perseverance" - "I was right about the whales and dolphins."
frettedwgoldenfire ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:11:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What I enjoy most about this is that apparently your sister had a reputation for being pretty wrong about things and making up crap at age 6
BonerGuy69420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:15:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RememberTheDolphins
Coolmikefromcanada ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:26:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Worst battle cry ever
HubertTempleton ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:34:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mom reacted pretty similarly when I told her that Orcas are, in fact, dolphins. She thought I was kidding her.
Thankfully, I'm an adult with my own smartphone so I could prove my point within seconds.
eclecticsed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:36:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel your sister's pain. On a family trip to Florida once I kept insisting that we would get free orange juice when we stopped at our first rest stop across the state line.
Everyone said I was making it up.
But they learned.
Kithsander ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:37:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had a somewhat different occurrence with a guy in one of my college philosophy classes. He would ramble on whenever the teacher mistakenly gave him a chance with some of the strangest thoughts. For instance, when asked about Descartes, "I think, therefore I am.", he launched into a soliloquy about how morality is really like a griffin.
Never figured out how that argument worked as he just sort of trailed off and couldn't elaborate further, but when he was absent a few class sessions later, the whole class had to take ten minutes to rant about his crazy. That's when it hit me. He could come in, say the absolute most enlightened thing that has ever been uttered by human lips, and the whole class would have collectively rolled their eyes at "Griffin-boy".
Late_Dent_ArthurDent ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:58:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You want more interesting? Hippos are related to whales too. A single small bone in a fossil linked a common ancestor.
lightningboltkid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:05:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"And the Dolphins made me crrryy"
notwearingpantsAMA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:11:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A moose bit my sister once....
Peculiar_One ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:17:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The laces were in!
dinomummy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:25:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently Orcas are dolphins, not whales and the name Killer Whale is a mistranslation and should actually be Whale Killer.
JibJig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:31:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The dolphins will be saying "so long" to your family first.
Whywouldanyonedothat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:45:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't understand why the idea seemed that foreign to your family. If I didn't know that they were whales, I'm pretty sure I would find it less than surprising that they were.
Did you think they were fish? I don't mean that to sound condescending - so sorry I'm sorry if it does - I'm just curious.
Treefingrs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:50:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This only sounds extremely wrong if you're a fucking idiot.
ParkJi-Sung ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:57:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dolphins are actually giant douchebags that trick you into liking them because Humans are fucking stupid.
sir-came-alot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:18:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tell her that dolphins can be gay!
frosty121 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:27:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like the straight to DVD ripoff of Remember the Titans
pepe_le_shoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:37:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, in korean, the name for a dolphin is stone-whale, because they're grey.
Until I learned that (27) I never made the connection between dolphins and whales
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:54:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My family do the exact same thing
dirtyapenz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:05:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Laughed so much you made her cry? Man, you sound like an arsehole of a brother/sister.
mcguire569 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:08:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lest we forget
TonyJPRoss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:15:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of the time I said birds and fish are animals and got laughed at. :( Or the time I talked about music "genres".
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:16:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
neverforget #dolphins don't lie
luxii4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:21:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, how did I teach 2nd grade for ten years without knowing this?
Kugel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:24:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remember the Dolphins sounds like a dumb ripoff of Remember the Titans but it takes place in florida.
viperex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:40:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vindication is a sweet thing
Hikari-SC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:43:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Orcas (Killer Whales) are dolphins and can even interbreed with bottlenosed dolphins.
Earl_Satterwhyte ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:49:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remember the Dolphins ... Such a heart wrenching feel good story of the racial integration of the Miami football team.
UpSideofDown ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:50:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, six year olds make up stupid stuff all the time, not on porpoise though.
Lakonthegreat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:50:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did the same shit to my dad. Also told him Emperor Penguins can grow to be up to 4 feet tall. He called bullshit, so at parent teacher conferences, I made my teacher pull up the very laserdisc we had watched that planted this small nugget of wisdom into my cranial cavity, and he sat there watching it slack jawed. He didn't say another word until we got into the car. What were those words, you ask? "You did that on purpose. Good job. Let's go for ice cream."
He always appreciated a good long con.
biscuit_mcniggs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:07:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now imagine if she said something stupid sounding and said "remember the titans?" You'd feel like a real jerk then.
DucksGoQuackQuack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:08:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remember the Titans, as well
kioopi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:16:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And chickens are cows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUbZJcdlcSc
asianwaste ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:18:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TLDR: His stupid sister was right about one thing.
kapachow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:22:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"And we all remember the Dolphins" ๐
Ayahuascas ยท 2777 points ยท Posted at 01:38:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In a room full of 23 people, there is a 50% chance that two people share a birthday
quacksdontecho ยท 1156 points ยท Posted at 05:36:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I moved 300 miles away, and got a job working with 8 other guys. 3 of us share a birthday, plus one of the guys daughter.
umbrellasinjanuary ยท 5888 points ยท Posted at 07:15:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's weird that you share his daughter.
IDanceWithSquirrels ยท 1265 points ยท Posted at 08:44:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what he moved 300 miles for.
bregolad ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 13:18:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And I would walk 300 miles!
thewritingtexan ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:03:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And I would walk 300 more!
babygrenade ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 12:29:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's part of the benefits package
getbangedchatshit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:27:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alright Jeff, that's enough from you !
tarion_914 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:50:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably worth it.
peppigue ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:58:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They figured she was a gift to the three of them.
bluthscottgeorge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:29:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh reddit.
washington_breadstix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:16:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The job he took must have been at Subway.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:22:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
she's 13
BrutalWarPig ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:58:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I squint my eyes she's 18.
zulu-bunsen ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:06:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
( อกยฐ อส อกยฐ)
Hungry_Horace ยท 64 points ยท Posted at 10:03:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, the old reddit sex-ring-a-roo
rookie_e ยท 52 points ยท Posted at 10:21:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hold my relatives, I'm going in!
apparaatti ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 14:41:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds kinda rapey to me.
rookie_e ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:13:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
เฒ _เฒ
Draconius42 ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 14:07:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
can i just say i love how enduring this meme has been
SadGhoster87 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:18:53 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It should have been daughteroo
orchardtemplar ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 09:20:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love you
RedditIsAShitehole ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:14:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He moved to Utah
quacksdontecho ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:33:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Im pretty sure shes just using us and isnt as emotionally invested as the rest of us.
hadilee92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:47:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"You fucked my wife? Jimmy too?"
J2383 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:13:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those three men hadn't perfected the science of keeping her a baby forever, she had to grow up sometime.
Chinoiserie91 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:43:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Clearly a Mamma Mia case if 3 guys share a daughter.
Jupiters ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:29:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What ever happened to predictability? The milkman, the paperboy, the evening TV?
LetMeGDPostAlready ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:28:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you take turns, or is it like a group thing?
MagicPen15 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:20:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or really hot.
ohnoitsZombieJake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:28:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah the ol' reddit daughteroo.
SandersClinton16 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:25:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
is she at least 13?
japko ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:25:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sharing is caring.
heronumberwon ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 13:27:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All of them share the daughter. ( อกยฐ อส อกยฐ)
NihilisticOpulence ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 06:08:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well that must be a very special day for the office
ChefBoyAreWeFucked ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:56:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They call it "Gangbang Steve's Little Princess Day"
hypotheticalhawk ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:54:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is your birthday in the middle of November?
jtb3566 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:12:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I share a birthday with my father. When I was younger I used to think that was the most impossible coincidence ever.
Now I realize that 1/365 isn't that crazy.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:01:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's your birthday
quacksdontecho ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:32:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
December 6th.
Toof ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:08:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That puts conception right around St. Patrick's Day...
You may have all been drunken accidents.
quacksdontecho ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:25:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty much every aspect of my life can be described as a "drunken accident".
ZamboniZombie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:38:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you Sinterklaas?
Dawdius ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:40:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
haha I go to school with 8 other guys (the rest are girls) and 3 of us share a birthday.
i_hope_i_remember ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:41:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My partner and my daughter share a birthday and my son and my grandson also share a birthday.
Noble_Ox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:07:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My ma and da had the same birthday, born a year apart.
abedneg0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:45:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The date nine months before your birthday must be one sexy-ass day of the year.
jamboman_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:06:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
can confirm. I'm Mr One of the Guys.
dens421 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:32:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I sense a "Boys from Brazil" twist reveal
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:59:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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quacksdontecho ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:39:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its like a firing squad. Two of us are firing blanks, so we'll split the child support between the three of us.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:05:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The three of you share the guy's daughter?
quacksdontecho ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:40:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We share the same birthday as her. She loves bukakke.
RGiss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:42:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Without knowing it's either around the tenth of November or mid-late september
jackpackage913 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:58:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In 8th grade science, we were randomly assigned tables/groups, 4 to a table. Three of us had the same birthday in my group.
quacksdontecho ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:42:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you sure that you weren't a science project?
Mark3h194 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:55:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the duck does the move have to do with anything?
quacksdontecho ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:45:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I moved 300 miles upta Central Maine ayut, and besides missing all muh teeth, Boy I was surprised to share so many in commons with muh coworkers.
dhillonaire ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 03:15:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Explain?
vwlqu ยท 56 points ยท Posted at 03:30:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Google "The Birthday Problem". The basic explanation is that there are so many possible combinations of people that could share birthdays that you need less people than you'd expect to hit a high chance of having a shared birthday.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:55:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here is one: http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.birthdayprob.html
coadyj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:45:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
my math teacher in school did this and come up with 80% which is clearly wrong.
he normally spend the first 30 min of ever class recovering from a hangover so this doesn't surprise me one bit.
psilorder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:26:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
So A and B = 1/365, A and C = 1/365, A and B or C = 2/365= 1/182.5
Edit: nevermind.
iCameToLearnSomeCode ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 06:57:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are 253 pairs of people in a group of 23.
parrotpeople ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:28:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sounds like my kind of party
[deleted] ยท 108 points ยท Posted at 06:40:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 09:10:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Plus you can bet most people are conceived during holidays/events. Subtract 9 months from when you were born and you can likely figure out what night your parents got freaky.
This would increase the chances of a match tremendously.
(Mine was likely New Years or Christmas.)
CVBrownie ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:32:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
huh. My birthdays in February. Dad's is in June. Almost 9 months to the day.
deadnought ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:19:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
September buddy!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:00:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's some fairly consistent clumping iirc. September is the most common followed by October and August.
thatissomeBS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:24:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Halloween. Mine was Halloween.
jakeduhjake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:36:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Indeed. I'm American, Valentine's Day is a big deal here, and many of my friends have birthdays in mid November.
stankhead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:19:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
math
LotionATV ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know some of these words
warm_n_toasty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:37:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
maths is so neat.
calm_cool_pete ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 06:13:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine this scenario as 23 people walking into a room. Consider the first person who walks into the room. That person can't possibly share a birthday with another person because he's the only person in the room. So, for the first person, the probability, p, of everyone having a unique birthday is 1. Then, the second person walks into the room. For every person, two at this point, to have a unique birthday, the second person must have a birthday that isn't the same birthday as the first person. The probability of that is 364/365. For this to be true for the next person, the third person must have any birthday except for the two birthdays of the other two persons. This still isn't that unlikely as only two birthdays have been "taken" so far. The probability of that occurring is 363/365.
Now, loosely speaking, the probability of two, three, or n numbers of events happening is the probability of those individual events multiplied together. For example, the probability of rolling five one's in a row is (1/6)5 or whatever that comes out to as a fraction.
So back to the birthday case. As these 23 people walk into the room, the odds of them each having a unique birthday drop and fractions smaller than one when multiplied together give fractions smaller than 1. And given the probability of events happening together is equal to the probability of the individual events multiplied together, 23 people having unique birthdays begins to look like 1x(364/365)x(363/365)x(362/365)x...x(365-(n-1)/365) until that happens 23 times. That gigantic fraction approximates ~0.5 or 50%.
chunkybearcub137 ยท 93 points ยท Posted at 06:36:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A good teacher takes a complex problem and simplifies it. I think you did the opposite
ecklcakes ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:50:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oddly enough this is the only explanation I'm understanding the problem with so far.
StillUnbroke ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:10:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Since it's the likelihood that any two people share a birthday, there are (23*22)/2 pairs of people (253) that could potentially share a birthday. This makes it a lot more likely that some pair were born on the same day.
If the question were "what is the likelihood that Billy shares a birthday with another person in the room" there would be 22 possibilities.
That's a pretty simple explanation.
calm_cool_pete ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:02:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
:(
AvatarGoku ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:08:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks! Out of all the explanations here, yours made the most sense to me :) It's easier for me to think in terms of math rather than abstract concepts so you did the trick! Don't listen the others here, your comment was the first one where it all clicked for me and, coming from an actual teacher, you did a great job :D
Noble_Ox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:09:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You just made that way more hard to understand. Never teach.
skullturf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:47:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a little harsh.
The fact is that the details of the birthday problem are complicated, so if you want a detailed explanation, you have to get into the details.
Not everything in life has a simple explanation.
jhaluska ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:42:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Imagine shooting at a target that has 365 ways to hit it. Each time you shoot it, it leaves a hole. After the 23rd shot, there is a 50% chance you two of the holes lined up. In other words, the more people, the harder for all of them to miss each each other.
TheLeftFoot-of-Bobby ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 10:06:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That analogy does not explain it
funkypot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:56:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
but its way more than 23 shots
dweller_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:41:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The bias which produces the paradox is because we immediately frame the question in terms of "what is the chance that one in 23 people have my birthday", which is indeed fairly low (1 - (364/365)23 = ~6%).
When in fact we are just curious if there are any two pairs. For a problem that avoids the paradox of framing:
Exact same question, but 50% doesn't seem so perplexing.
Here's the actual solution:
Suppose there are just two kids. The problem is easier to solve if you ask "What is the chance that they don't have any two in common?"
The first kid can pick any piece of the 365 pieces (365/365). And to avoid having an issue of duplicates the second kid has to choose any of the 364/365 remaining varieties. So the probability of two kids not choosing the same pieces is: 365/365 * 364/365 = 99.7% chance they don't have dupes.
Now for 3 kids: First can choose any 365/365, the second again just has to pick any of the remaining 364/365 and the third 363/365 = 365/365 * 364/365 * 363/365 = 99.2%
The general form for n kids is 365/365 * (365-1)/365 * (365-2)/365 ... (365-(n-1))/365
For 23 the probability of NO dupes is 49%, so the probability of a pair is 100%-49% = 51%
What also helps with the intuition is that as soon as there 366 the last terms is (365-(366-1))/365 or 0/365 meaning as soon as there are more than 366 kids it is impossible to not pick a duplicate pair, which demonstrates our mathematical model aligns with the obvious facts that no amount of cleverness can avoid having at least one pair of matching candy if you take more than there are varities.
MrJed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:51:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then the leap year guy walks in and finds a discontinued candy hidden at the back. Bam.
Good explanation though.
puzl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:26:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
23 combinations of 2 is 23*22/2 = 253
Bad_Decision_Penguin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:38:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Imagine you are with the 22 other people (23 total including you) comparing yourself to the other birthdays in the room. You ask everyone in the room what their birthday is to see if they match. 22 people answer your question with a 1 in 365 probability of a matched birthday. All 22 of those questions had unique independent 1 in 365 chance of being a "yes." Think of them as an individual 1/365 possibility of a "yes." Add all of those independent chances for a "yes" up and you get 22/365.
Now think of that fraction as a percentage. The added up chances of a shared birthday with you is 22/365=0.0602, or 6.02% chance of a shared birthday.
Now the person next to you has to compare their birthday to all of the other people too, but remember you have already compared your birthday to them. So they only ask 21 other people if they share a birthday. The other 21 people all have a 1/365 chance of sharing a birthday with this second person. Remember you were already crossed off of their list whey you asked them. All those individual 1/365 chances are again added up to 21/365 possible "yeses"" or as a percentage (21/365=0.0575) it is 5.75%.
Now here's the trick you have to remember. Your percentage of a "yes" (6.02%) is independent of the second person's chance (5.75%) in that your birthdays are not on the same day but the other person has to compare themselves to everyone else in the room; the other 21 people. So we have to add the percentages together to have the stipulation be true, that there is at least 1 shared birthday among the 23 people in the room. We no have a 6.02% + 5.75% = 11.77% chance of a shared birthday in the group.
Remember everyone has to compare themselves to everyone else.
So the 3rd person to ask the shared birthday questions to every one else does the same thing, and their fraction and percentage of possible "yes" to sharing a birthday with the 21 other people is now 20/365 or a 5.48% chance of a "yes", remember you and the second person already compared birthdays. Again add the possible 5.49% chance of a shared birthday to the possible percentage, 11.77%... We now have a 17.25% of a shared birthday.
We keep going with this on down the list of people in the group, keeping in mind we exclude all the parings that have already asked each other.
Keep having people ask the others about their shared birthdays until there are only two people left in the room that haven't asked each other if they share a birthday. This one is the lowest possibility of a "yes", just one chance of a 1 in 365 match, .02% of a "yes." And keep adding the percentages up.
There is one person in the group who never asks the question because everyone else has already asked that last person.
We have to add all of those individual percentages of the for all 23 people up and when we do that it is a slightly larger than a 50% chances of a shared birthday.
CoreFour1996 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:00:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are 253 pairings in a group of 23 people. (364/365)253 gives you the probability that 2 people don't have the same birthday. 1-(364/365)253 is the probability that 2 people do have the same birthday.
Astrodude87 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:36:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You need to compare each pair. Think about it this way. In a round-robin tournament with 23 people, there will be 253 unique games (pairings; 253 = 23 rounds of 22/2 games). So for the birthday question, with 23 people there are 253 unique pairings, so the chance that one of these have the same birthday is roughly 253/365 = 69%.
Creative-Writing ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 07:35:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look it up your fucking self?
Mesues ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 06:27:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Funny how there has to be 367 people for it to be 100%
greyjackal ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 06:53:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That took me a second. Leap years are cheating :p
[deleted] ยท -12 points ยท Posted at 10:01:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 10:37:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Explain how it's wrong. There are only 366 unique birthdays (counting leap year days), so if you have one more than that, two people have to share a birthday
Baud_Olofsson ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:39:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And while may it sound obvious, this reasoning actually has a name and underlies a lot of mathematical proofs: The Pigeonhole Principle
AssholeBot9000 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:14:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You might be thinking that everyone shares a birthday with someone, however the problem is just 2 people sharing a birthday.
So if you have 367 people, that's a chance for every single person to have 1 unique birthday for a total of 366 unique birthdays. Now, no matter what the 367th persons birthday is, he has to share it with someone. There are no more unique birthdays left.
greyjackal ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:55:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thing people miss (due it not being that intuitive) is that it's not the chance of sharing a specific birthday, for example November 9th (and yes, as a Brit, references to 9/11 make me feel special).
But more that two people have the same arbitrary date
BScatterplot ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:25:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are 3808 comments in this thread right now. That means (assuming an even distribution) there are >10 people posting on their birthday, and >10 that have the same birthday as you do.
Cokesign ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:38:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
July 12th wassup
amg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:38:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Checking in! '82 Vintage here.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:38:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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BovieVei ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:56:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The tricky thing about the birthday problem is that people think about it incorrectly. Instead of thinking "what's the probability that someone has the same birthday as me?", you need to think " what's the probability that EVERYONE does NOT share a birthday with me?" The second statement is the complement (opposite) of the first, but it's easier to think about this way. It should also be noted that due to the nature of probability, the probability of an event occurring can be written as 1 - the probability that the event does not occur.
So say you have a room full of 10 people. What's the probability that two people chosen at random share a birthday? 1/365 right? So the probability that they don't share a birthday is 1 - (1/365), which is 364/365. What's the probability that 3 people all have different birthdays? 363/365. You do this until you consider the entire group of people, and when you analyze the probability of them all having different birthdays, it comes out to (364/365)(363/365)...(356/365). This probability will actually become quite small when you have larger groups. So you have your probability that nobody in the group shares a birthday; to find the probability that at least two people share a birthday, you simply subtract the product from 1. And again, given that the product becomes smaller and smaller when you add more people into your group, the probability that two people share a birthday moves closer and closer to 1.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:46:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1-(364!)/((342!)(36522)) seems to give a 50.729..% chance, you may want to say greater than 50%.
underachieverxxx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:27:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Math is hard
nmchristensen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:31:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Am I reading your math right? It seems you used 365 days in a year but there are actually 366 possible birthdays.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:18:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well that would complicate the calculation but it wouldn't effect the final result by very much
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:24:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've seen this fact about 23 times in the past 6 months.
dMsLt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:44:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
February 1st anyone?
Itsapocalypse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:53:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why?
Sparkybear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:09:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Google it. It's an interesting statistics problem.
zuriel45 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:12:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In a room of 367 people there is a 100% chance that two people share a birthday.
BoozeoisPig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:20:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
TIL (or I am simply once again reminded of) how it so easy for people to pass themselves off as psychics. Just get a small crowd of people in a room and say that you are getting a tingling sensation about that person. Look at their I.D. and then say that your psychic powers are detecting that someone else in the room has the same birthday as that person. If the people want to believe, which they usually do, then anyone with that birthday will jump up and say "That's me that's me!" and bam, now you've got the ball rolling. If you miss just say: "Ah sorry, my Psychic senses are all wonky today, the stars are not in my favor" or some other bullshit like that and the crowd will believe you and you can move on to the next trick. Hell, you can even personalize the reason you fuck up as some kind of "demonic spirit", or some other evil entity that gives you false signals and the crowd will actually probably feel sympathy many of the times you fuck up.
BBQ_RIBS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:20:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can I see the stats on this?
playswithdogs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:26:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does that mean, in a room of 46 people, that someone will definitely share a birthday?
Infinitealone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:44:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Confuded on this one
tidesoncrim ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:55:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless one of those 23 people is Ja Rule, then it is a slightly smaller chance.
Hawk_Biz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:55:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People like to sex around the same 22 times of the year.
keshav710 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:01:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In a room full of 50 people, there is a 99% chance that two people share a birthday
TrillianSC2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:05:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just to be fully accurate: In a room of 23 randomly selected people the probability that they share the same birth date is over 50%.
asshatnowhere ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:07:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel there is more to it than that. I have yet to meet anyone in person with the same birthday as me. the closest I've got was a day. Jan 2 if ya'lls wondering.
CucumberGod ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:10:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
?
PuppetBreakdown ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:32:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I heard that one before but can someone explain why?
daydreams356 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:39:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That one always bothers me
IAmAQuantumMechanic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:40:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Assuming it's a random selection of people.
Hf4444 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:48:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can someone explain this?
Senor_Studly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:26:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And a 100% chance that one person shares the same birthday.
nreisan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:45:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not great at maths.. But can you explain that?
IllusiveNoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:51:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why is this?
seal_eggs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:53:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What are the numbers for different percentages, like 75? 95? I'm guessing you can't do 100% because reasons.
iteachthereforeiam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:08:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And yet in twelve years of teaching, I only have 1 or 2 joint birthdays across all of my 6 classes despite having an average of 25 in there.
All I want is to see this theory in action and the world denies me every gorram year. Sigh
lightningboltkid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:15:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it was higher then this? Like 70 or 80.
0lof ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:16:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How dude?
flexsteps ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:37:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ELI5: There are 253 possible pairings in a group of 23 people, so there are 253 chances for a pair to share a birthday.
StigDoesntFart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:40:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probability is a wonderful thing
BiIbo_Faggins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:30:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The explanation on this one fucks me up even more
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:08:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm, am in class now of about 20 people with a girl who I share my birthday with.
thejasond123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:14:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I opened a store with 27 other people (28 employees total) and a girl and I shared the exact same birthday. I know it's more statistics than actually being true in 100% of situations where 23 or more people are involved, but seeing it practically was cool
dogfish83 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:24:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you changed the query to 3 people the math gets insane and you have to pretty much resort to statistical analysis
UScossie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:44:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One of my friends ended up in a triple his freshman year of college and he and both of his roommates all shared a birthday.
KelaasmGFY ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:55:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In a room with 70 people there is a 99.9% chance of them sharing a birthday. At 366, that number is (1-(3.64 x 10^ -437)) at 367 it is 100%
Source: Doing a project on the birthday problem right now
bigjaymck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:55:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if there are 23 people, but the room ISN'T full?
OwlSeeYouLater ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:55:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The birthday paradox. I did a report on it when I was 12. It has yet to fail my experiments. One time in a room of 20, five people had the same birthday.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:01:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting, I have a few teachers who will say happy birthday to kids and out of all my classes nobody has ever shared a birthday. Maybe it's different because of the similarity in ages and because summer birthdays aren't usually mentioned
etskinner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:02:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In my high school math class we did this experiment and the first three people to say their birthday were matched with someone else in a group of 30. I've always wanted to know the chances of that, cause that seems way less probable that that would happen.
Feroc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:08:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am always confused by this, because where I come from "birthday" is also often used as "date of birth", so to share my birthday you would have to be born on the same day.
But of course it's true if you only consider day and month.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:11:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And a room of 46?
CosmicSpaghetti ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:18:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This hurts me brainz.
astral-dwarf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:27:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But only if the room is locked from the outside
nomequeeulembro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:31:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, in real life birthdays aren't uniformly distributedsource, but yes, that's really interesting.
clancy6969 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:34:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember being confused by this when I first heard it and now i'm confused again.
autoposting_system ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:41:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No there isn't, though. Either some people share a birthday, or they don't. So really the chance is 0% or 100% for any given group of people.
Grisnik ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:45:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay so I've had it explained why this is, and I understand why (I think) but how come in a room with more than 23 people I have never seen two people with the same birthday
tehaxor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:58:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if the room isn't actually full and there's still 23 people?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:59:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually it's significantly higher than that. That's if birthdays were distributed evenly, but since they clump (high point around September iirc) you're even more likely to have a match.
Jess_than_three ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:06:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's actually a higher chance than that, because birthdays aren't evenly distributed!
IEatPizza ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:12:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OK 23 people comment here and type your birthday
PonKatt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:24:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably the best moment in my Stat class was when the teacher calculated this for my class of 24, then asked who had the same birthday. Lo and behold, two guys had the same birthday.
plette64 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:26:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This one is really cool, look it up if you don't believe it. There is some math behind it though. I believe it is called the birthday problem or something.
ltouroumov ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:31:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This is only true if every day of the year has an equivalent birth rate which is not the case: CDC data from 2006
Source Data with Probabilities
The_Narrators ยท 408 points ยท Posted at 02:06:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you have terrible credit it's easier to get a new car than a cheap used one.
memories_of_butter ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 05:13:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's true...and is also going to end soon...and badly, much as the sub-prime mortgage bubble did, just without the really horrible consequences for the most part. Lots of slightly used cars on sale for cheap pretty soon though.
A-Lav ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 08:58:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And I'll be there to buy the poor guys loaded car on the cheap.
ZanZarino ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 13:06:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How soon is 'soon'?
Stalking_Goat ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 13:15:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the million-dollar question. As in, if anyone knows, they will easily make millions of dollars shorting the market.
Stratisphear ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 14:01:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I saw that movie too!
Guns_N_Buns ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:58:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm confused. Can someone page Selena Gomez to explain this for me
psstwannabuyacarm8 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 14:58:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As in maybe never. It has been that way for a long long time. Repoing and selling a 3k mile like new car carries a lot less risk for a bank than foreclosing on a 200k house and having to fix it and sell it.
Surprising to most people tho these people with bad credit who tend to get new cars tend to not get them repo'ed because a car is something most people cannot go without. You cannot get the kids to school and to work without it. So its bill gets paid almost no matter what.
People with bad credit will 99% of the time miss credit car payments, and I would say the number one thing holding down most of these peoples credit is medical bills. Most people have good + credit but they went to the ER once without insurance and are paying for it on their fico.
SeudonymousKhan ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 10:19:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How so? If I have terrible credit and a thousand dollars cash surely it would be easier to go buy a cheap car than apply for finance. Even if I don't have a thousand dollars it would be easier to save that up than get into debt.
snn1626 ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 11:31:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think above they're referring to getting financed for a car. If you have $1k to buy a car that costs $1k, there's no need to bother with your credit at all. But if you want to put the $1k as a down payment for a $6k used car, you'd have a harder time getting a loan for the rest compared to buying a new car.
SeudonymousKhan ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 11:38:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah okay. So it's easier getting a loan for a new car at a dealership than a used car from the same place.
GreatApostate ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 11:26:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Funny how you got downvoted instead of anyone answering. I too would like an answer. Perhaps it's an American market thing?
microwaves23 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:03:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, it's an American assumption that you have no money saved. People are stupid, I don't know why lenders still issue loans to people with no money. (Heard an ad this week: If you earn $350 a week we will lend you $30,000 for a car!)
The comparison was between 2 types of loans.
Donkey__Xote ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:54:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably because if you had money you might not need the loan, or because they have to entice people that have money with particularly low interest rates (and thus low profits) in order to make money off of them...
When I bought my most recent car I got an interest rate of 2.93%. If the car hadn't been so old it would have been 2.8%. I had the cash to buy the car, but I looked at it from a liquidity perspective- I could buy the car and have almost no money left, or I could spend less than $1000 over the course of the loan to borrow the money to buy the car, and still keep my money in case I needed it for an emergency.
Someone else was looking at buying a car and the interest rate was going to be over 10%. They had to borrow though, so as they are a bigger risk the bank is charging a much higher interest rate, and they are a guaranteed customer because in order to make the acquisition they must borrow.
The_Narrators ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 13:46:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most banks will not give car loans for less than $5,000 and they won't give personal loans to people with bad credit. If you go to a dealer it is more worth their risk to sell you a $15,000 car than a $5,000 for several reasons. One is that they will charge you a high interest rate so they make more money off of the sale so their risk has more reward. My brother in law has terrible credit and recently bought a $21,000 SUV at a 13% interest. Over the course of the loan he's going to pay $9,000 in interest. Also if you default on the loan and they have to repo the car they recoup more of their loss from taking back and reselling a more expensive car. But you're right that it's probably better to buy a cheap car that you can afford but it's hard for a lot of people to save $1,000. They also may need a car faster than they can save and want a more reliable car than the $1,000 will buy them.
D_J-ANGO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:20:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know entirely, but a new car will have a longer term loan period than used cars, making the payments potentially cheaper. I also suspect the collateral (vehicle being purchased) is easier to sell and can be done so more profitably than a cheaper car. The buyer also likely pays a decent down payment to mitigate some risk.
almaperdida ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 11:28:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe they mean buying from a dealership, which is the worst idea ever.
SJHillman ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:14:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not always, there's pros and cons to each. Some of the dealership pros:
Not to say there aren't cons. The two biggest being dealership sales will cost more, and there will (usually) be more aggressive sales tactics. However, buying a used car from a dealership definitely isn't "the worst idea ever", it's just one more option to consider depending on your situation, and it would be foolish to never consider a dealership.
Frictus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:22:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where do you buy a car if not a dealership?
metatron207 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:42:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that some people don't know you can buy cars from private sellers blows my mind. Every car I've bought, and most of the cars my family has bought, came from private sellers. It's paradoxical, they were usually the only people I could afford to buy from, but they also usually had the best prices on legitimately functional cars.
It's like people who will only get their car serviced at the dealership -- the same dealership where they overpaid for the car in the first place. If you don't find an independent mechanic you trust, you're getting screwed.
Frictus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:08:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've always had an independent mechanic. TIL though because I always assumed private dealers were like Matilda (the movie) where they are scummy and not verified. There is one down the road from me and I am looking for a used car in the fall. I'll take a look.
SJHillman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:18:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If your biggest concern is getting a used car as cheap as possible, private sales will win almost every time. However, you are getting something for your money going through a dealership, whether it's a warranty, trade-in, or just helping you find what car actually suits you by letting you test many different options.
As for getting it serviced at a dealership, that's still a good option for warranty work and recalls. Although some dealers will still screw you over even on those (looking at you, Vision Hyundai).
metatron207 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:57:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Warranty is about the only thing there that you really lose out on, at least with the dealers I've dealt with. You can always test-drive a bunch of cars at dealerships to find what suits you, if you don't already have a particular car in mind. Then you just go looking for the right car from private sellers.
I've never found that the money dealers offered for trade-ins was near what I could get from just listing my old car in the paper or local buy/sell rags (and these days, of course, the internet) and being a private seller myself. Dealers, like anybody, want to minimize their costs and maximize their profits, and if they know you're not willing to buy or sell elsewhere they'll behave as if they have all the leverage.
SJHillman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:13:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A private sale will net you more money on your old car, but there's quite a few people out there who A) need the money as soon as possible, especially if their old car is something in very low demand and B) don't have any room for an extra vehicle between when they buy the new one and sell the old one. And, of course, C) people who just don't want to deal with the hassle of a private sale.
It's definitely good to have both options, and I sincerely hope the day never comes that lawmakers decide to ban private car sales because reasons.
metatron207 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:11:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I couldn't agree more, well said.
almaperdida ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:23:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A private seller.
lucysalvatierra ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:51:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you explain this? And as memories_of_butter said below, are good used cars really going to be cheap soon? I like decent used cars!!!!!
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 09:13:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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EhhWhatsUpDoc ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 10:04:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And when it does, a ton of cars will default and be repossessed (foreclosure equivalent), flooding the market. This should result in cheaper used cars.
WarKiel ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 11:38:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Aren't there thousands of unsold brand new cars rusting away all over the world because people are not buying new cars and they can't sell them for cheap because then nobody will buy the newer cars? I imagine something similar might happen with foreclosed cars. Or maybe not since automakers might have less control over used market.
EDIT: Apparently it's all BS.
EhhWhatsUpDoc ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:19:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably something they'd do lol. Where'd you hear about this?
WarKiel ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:35:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently it's not true. There was a bunch of articles some time back, but it turned out to be a hoax. The images were of cars in storage before shipping out to dealers.
...Or maybe that's just what they want you to think.
metatron207 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:45:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Automakers could probably buy entire lots of barely-used cars and ship them away pretty cheaply on a per-unit basis. They're big enough to influence the market, so it's tough to say what will happen when people start defaulting in big numbers.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:52:46 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice, didn't even think about that
ClintonHarvey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:43:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TELL ME HOW, BABE.
UndercoverPotato ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:23:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Explain?
iamthebenj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:57:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think this rule applys in England. I tried to get a new car from fords and they turned me down. I then went to a second hand dealer and got a car no problem.
welkie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:56:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm. Was declined for a $2800 loan for a used car. Was approved for a $14,000 lease on a dealership used car.
mike5f4 ยท 3488 points ยท Posted at 23:26:06 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Matter consists of 99.9999999% of empty space on an atomic level.
corpuscle634 ยท 2091 points ยท Posted at 00:40:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Or, if you consider any space which the wavefunction is non-zero to be occupied, every atom occupies the entire universe.
eli5: there isn't an accurate eli5 explanation. electrons be what they do. they're like, waves and shit, but also particles.
thatJainaGirl ยท 193 points ยท Posted at 03:16:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What do neutrinos and I have in common? We're both constantly penetrating your mom.
Muisan ยท 366 points ยท Posted at 09:41:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And she never felt a thing
[deleted] ยท 56 points ยท Posted at 10:57:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brutal
Muisan ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 11:08:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's just what happens if he forces himself on her so weakly
religionofpeacemyass ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:22:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Savage
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 13:54:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rekt
PlasmaRoar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:18:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Straight Savage
Deathbyceiling ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:33:04 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To: /u/thatJainaGirl
From: /u/Muisan
Re: kt
_____D34DP00L_____ ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 10:10:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but she doesn't feel anything
agreenster ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 04:55:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like the one electron universe theory. Imagine one electron exists in the 5th dimension outside of space time and "renders" our universe.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe
corpuscle634 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:57:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You don't need a fifth dimension, but yeah it's a neat idea. More metaphysics than physics, tho
Noble_Ox ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:41:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So something like The Egg?
agreenster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:00:49 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like The Egg too!
tulio2 ยท 109 points ยท Posted at 01:44:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i came here to say that. uh huh uh huh.
bacon_is_just_okay ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 02:12:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Space can't exist without not-space. If everything were space then there wouldn't be anything.
Borim ยท 67 points ยท Posted at 06:26:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I need an adult
hamernaut ยท 104 points ยท Posted at 09:08:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Imagine two marbles. There can be lots of different distances between them. Imagine one marble, can there be any distance between it and not another marble? Now imagine no marbles, what's the point of distance now? That's right, you've lost your marbles. Space is the distance between stuff, and without stuff your brain goes crazy because it's incomprehensible.
*Au shucks, obligatory thanks.
sicclee ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 10:46:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this is fucking great!
SinkTube ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:02:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The point of distance is to see how far apart two points of the same marble are, maybe.
noewpt2377 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:56:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I burned waaay too many brain cells on this, but...
| Imagine one marble, can there be any distance between it and not another marble?
Yes, both infinitely small and infinitely large, and at the same time. What is the distance between your marble and the nearest "not your marble" thing? Or, what is the distance between your marble and the first unit of "empty space", i.e. the space not occupied by any part of your marble? No matter how close you get to your marble, you can always get a little bit closer and still be within that unit. Conversely, no matter how far away you get from your marble, you can always get a little bit further away, and you still remain within that unit.
| Now imagine no marbles, what's the point of distance now?
Again, its infinite, in all scales and in all directions. What is the distance between one unit of "empty space" and the next? As for many things in life, it all depends on the size of your unit. It's not so much that "space" does not exist without objects, its more that without fixed reference points, it remains unbound and immeasurable.
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:20:58 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that how long the distance is between the marbles?
hamernaut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:58:56 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One gilding wide? I mean, more might fit, y'know, for science?
SadGhoster87 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:02:38 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was going for Astronomical Unit but that works too.
hamernaut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:45:49 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Heh, yeah, this was heavy on the ELI5.
pf2- ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:26:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am an adult
WriterDavidChristian ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:18:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. No you are not.
Njdevils11 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:42:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Proof or it didn't happen.
Bgriggs117 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:16:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
empty space has properties and can spontaneously create matter
BJPenwhistle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:22:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait... what? Wouldn't that violate the First Law of Thermodynamics?
SinkTube ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:03:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's more of a guideline than a law.
BJPenwhistle ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:40:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you being serious? Because if so, I'm going to need an ELI5. :P I was taught that laws are the only thing we know of that are immutable and always true no matter what.
SinkTube ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:45:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not serious, at least not in this case. "Empty" space is not actually empty, it's packed full of energy.
Matter is a type of energy, and energy types can be converted, so it doesn't violate thermodynamics for matter to be created "out of nothing", because it's not actually nothing.
BJPenwhistle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:17:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahhh. I understand now. Thanks for that. :)
Bgriggs117 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:30:56 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nothing is such a tricky word.
SinkTube ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:56:22 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It really is. Even if we found a space with no energy at all (how would we notice?), the laws and constants of physics would still apply to that space. Do those count as "something"?
pf2- ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:27:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If only it could spontaneously create me some cash.
avernan ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:17:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just give it time, it will happen between now and infinite time in the future
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:51:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In a world of only 4, does anything but 4 exist?
Ardub23 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:01:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That depends. Is 4 a lot?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:54:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That depends, does the concept of a lot exist in a world of only 4?
R34R34 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:03:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They just don't write em like that anymore!
dunaja ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:30:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that's the way. uh huh uh huh.
Cheesemacher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:54:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice coat. Uh huh uh huh uh huh
dasani720 ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 04:26:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here's a crack at an ELI5 explanation Quantum physics describes electrons and other particles through their wave function, which is a probabilistic measurement of the location or measurements of other characteristics of the electron (such as spin). Since it is impossible to tell both the velocity and position of an electron at any given moment (Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle), we have to describe it through probabilities that it exists in certain locations. There is a nonzero probability that it will exist anywhere in the universe at any given moment, of course as you get farther away the probability decreases extremely fast. This isn't just a way to assess particles that makes it easier for scientists, either; it's a real thing! Look up quantum tunneling, where particles essentially teleport through barriers because they follow their wavefunction. Spooky
onewhitelight ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 05:46:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Slight correction, the heisenberg uncertainty principle arises as a result of using probabilistic wavefunctions, not the other way around.
evilteddy ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 08:18:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think stopping at the slight correction for that explanation is a mercy.
onewhitelight ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:57:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm?
evilteddy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:12:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The original explanation was almost entirely but not completely wrong.
onewhitelight ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:55:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its wrong in a strict technical sense, but for a very simplifed view that is trying to explain a subject to someone who will likely never learn about wavefunctions and operators or group/phase velocities it works.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:45:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is such a complex matter to explain, ELI5 won't do it justice, but calling the original explanation "almost" wrong is unfair. He/she touched upon the subject in an easy to understand manner.
evilteddy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:39:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a difference between simplifying and getting wrong. Substituting the wavefunction for the position observable is a reasonable simplification. Saying that the wavefunction somehow spans the universe is not.
pulse_pulse ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:10:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually heisenberg uncertainty principle comes from the commutator postulate, not the probability of wavefunction one. This is probably what you meant though
dasani720 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:05:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah my bad you're right, I was always just taught the uncertainty principle first
jajablah ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:14:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love it when people who understand such things try to explain it simply & just confuse me even more. You can't hear my tone here but I'm being complimentary. My brain is just not wired for this shit.
1ZL ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:43:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics."
-Richard Feynman
orangesine ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:42:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a new way to express that. You can't hear my tone but I'm being sarcastic. No just kidding I'm being genuine.
dasani720 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:07:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My bad dude. I kind of just started ranting instead of ELI5. Basically a particle or thing's location at a point in time is described by a probability graph, so it can exist anywhere in the universe at any time depending on that probability which is never 0
jajablah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:53:24 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I understood those two sentences!
SuperCashBrother ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:22:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
2spooky4me
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:34:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn, you know some smart five year olds
OwlExtermntr922 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:13:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry but that's an "Explain Like I'm A High-school Student" A 5 year old would not understand this.
TheJazzProphet ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:41:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't electron tunneling how flash memory works?
Littlewigum ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:53:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
?
thecattleshrug ยท 66 points ยท Posted at 02:22:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
ELI5: Atoms are waves in space-time* much like a ripple in water (imagine those photos of a water drop falling into a pool.)
Now, the central "peak" of that wave/ripple is what we generally think of as "the atom" (or subatomic particle, or what have you). Now, if you look in that photo, it might seem like the ripple disappears after a little while, but actually what's happening is that the ripple is getting smaller and smaller as it expands. So, the center might have an amplitude of 100, the next ring and amplitude of 10, the next 1, then 0.1, then 0.01 and so on all the way to an infinitely small 0.00000000000[...]00000000001. But technically, this amplitude will never reach zero.
So the joke that /u/corpuscle634 is making is that, technically, even at the farthest point in the universe, any atom still has (a barely existent 0.00000000000[...]000000001 amplitude) presence.
EDIT: *ish. I mean, this is going heavy on the "Like I'm 5" of ELI5.
EDIT: Replaced image for copyright/link reasons.
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 02:37:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Umm, I don't think your link works
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:28:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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thecattleshrug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:04:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Huh! Neat, I learned something new. I guess I'll replace the image. Strange how the link consistently works on all my devices.
thecattleshrug ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:57:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mm. Strange. The link to a picture works for me, but it would seems there are issues (beyond my trouble-shooting capabilities) that make it not work for some others. In any case, the picture is a standard image of a water drop falling into a pool of water, much like you'd see on some kind of tacky motivational poster about "serenity".
xinxy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:15:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should have linked the webpage that you found the image on, instead of directly to the image.
Either that or you could have saved the image and uploaded it to imgur or something.
sba_17 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 07:55:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're a copyright violator! And a bandwidth thief too! Despicable.
gundog48 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:58:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death to the violator!
peace456 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:08:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's odd how manually typing out the url of your image allows me to see it, but clicking on the link does not. http://www.liquidsculpture.com/images/water-drop-1.jpg
rya_nc ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:19:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you click a link or your web browser loads an image, the browsers sends the domain (and possibly the page) you're currently on along with the request for the image. This server is configured to use that information to decide what image to return.
Tommy2255 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:58:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's at least 20% more true than it sounds.
PoopButtMuffinTop ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:53:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But on a quantum level. You're still gay.
dij_4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:12:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it possible to ELI5
thecattleshrug ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:45:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here is a link to my ELI5.
jagermeistermeister ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you eli5 this? I'm very interested.
thecattleshrug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:45:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here is a link to my ELI5.
a_soy_milkshake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Explain further please? I don't quite understand this.
thecattleshrug ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:45:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here is a link to my ELI5.
a_soy_milkshake ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:02:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey thanks man!
MiggySawdust ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:10:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eli5, pls.
thecattleshrug ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:45:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here is a link to my ELI5.
SpiderDolphinBoob ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:14:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't understand this
thecattleshrug ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:45:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here is a link to my ELI5.
xapproachesinfinity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:07:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like this can be mathematically explained in set theory?
Any element of a set A is an element of the universal set U.
corpuscle634 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:16:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stationary waveunctions live in Hilbert space, so you could say that the set of wavefunctions is a subset of the set of vector spaces within Hilbert space.
Not really relevant for what we're talking about, though.
PootisPoot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:11:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
QM mechanics fucks me up real good
Phayzon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:15:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They don't think it be like it is, but it do.
CactusCustard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:18:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You lost me until the ELI5, am now scientist. Thanks man.
ademnus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:33:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
when we just accept this is all a computer simulation, it'll go a lot easier on our psyches.
yewnique ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:42:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You only have an understanding of quantum mechanics if you admit you don't have an understanding of quantum mechanics
suspendersarecool ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:58:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is kindof the same argument I go for whenever people bring up the idea of "Nothing ever really touches", if every atom is everywhere, then every atom is touching every other atom at the same time. That and I try to bring up Pauli exclusion principle, but I've never actually won an argument on this topic.
I_l_I ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:07:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except the ones in black holes? Oh jk they're probably not atoms anymore
Blind_Sypher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:15:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Upvote for that last part, life be some complicated shit.
AlphaQuin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:21:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, you could give a neat math analogy to compare this. Take the equation y=1/x, let's say x is distance away from a point and y is force experienced (best realistic example here is magnetism). Even if you are 3 quadrillion lightyears away, the force experienced is still greater than zero. (ie 1/(3 quadrillion lightyears)>0, disregarding units.)
crazyfingersculture ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:10:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gotta love Theoretical Science... well, just because of its name really.
jajablah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:11:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you lost me at non-zero, but I totally vibe the eli5
ElemancerZzei ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:32:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wave theory is bullshit! Long live spiral form partical theory!
mrducky78 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:55:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
ELI5.
Electrons dont truly orbit an atom's nucleus (centre bit of protons and neutrons) like you see in patently false depictions of atoms. They are distributed (exist) in a zone around the nucleus. Generally, you can be like 99.99..% sure of where any given electron is likely to be, kind of like pointing at the dot for New York and saying "that is roughly where Central Park is". . In this case, your pudgy finger would cover half of new york state, yes, technically you do point at where central park is, but what if you had to point at it with your man boob? Now as you crush your chest against the globe, you are still technically correct despite covering most of north America and a good deal of the Atlantic, you are still pointing at where central park is.
Because it is not 100% guaranteed to cover where the electron might be, the electron could be hundreds of miles, thousands of light years, trillions of parsecs away and still be technically part of the atom
There is no upper bound for where the electron can be it just becomes less and less likely to have ever occured based on the age of our universe.
NuclearGoat-357 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:18:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depending on whether they are being observe or not.
JooJoona ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:32:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How about collapsed wave functions though? Don't particles then have definite locations? Or is it just that the probability is really close to 1?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:48:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your edit reminds me of the phrase, "He think it aint be like it is, but it do."
Destiiel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:49:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The eli5 for quantum physics is: wait 15 years and then take 5 more years of physics. Then we'll try to teach you.
wormi27z ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:14:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that's a good eli5 tho
hoodie92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:24:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Technically true, but the probability of the electron being outside the van der Waals radius is so tiny that it's equally pointless to claim that an atom takes up a space the size of a marble than it does the universe.
Accendil ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:01:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They don't think it be like it is, but it do.
Drahok ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:12:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is no eli25. Humans are not made to understand quantum mechanics.
achtungpolizei ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:21:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Shouldn't it be more something like "every electron has a non-zero chance to occupy any point in space"?
edit: nevermind. I think my brain wasn't able to comprehend the nature of probability-density in the real world for a minute. :(
kasper117 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:29:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
QM biatches
SamusBaratheon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:01:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think your Eli5 is accurate.
mullak33 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:02:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You don't think it be like it is, but it do
ultralame ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:38:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember in high school that we demanded an ELI5 f, rim out Chem teacher. He said there isn't one. Eventually he wrote (what I later learned) what wasn't even a really complicated version of the Schrodinger equation down for us. In 11th grade, we didn't even know what half the symbols in in were for. Hamiltonian? Spherical harmonics?
zzackrules ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:54:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now that was a satisfying comment if I ever saw one.
craigdahlke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:55:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A good eli5 for this is that electrons aren't exactly discrete particles in one place at one time the way we often think of them. They are described in terms of their probability of being in a certain space, or "how often" they spend there. This probability is described by their wavefunction, and wavefunctions are asymptotic, meaning for very great distances, an electron's probability of being there is very close to zero, but never exactly zero. So basically, they have some infinitesimally small probability of being litterally anywhere.
venustrapsflies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:23:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that's a bit misleading given a modern description. there's a single electron field that exists everywhere in the universe, and what we'd call "individual electrons" are excitations of that field.
Mrprototype88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:27:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll take your word on it
effa94 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:40:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
-Black science man
quantum-mechanic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:01:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just call them 'wavicles' and then your audience will start thinking of 'popsicles', and get distracted and forget the original question.
ArmchairTechnitian ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:58:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To call it empty space does an injustice to actual empty space, the vacuum.
Electrons and protons behave like waves at that scale, and the forces between them are incredibly intense. Matter is, in fact, wonderfully dense with a myriad of complex and powerful interactions!
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 10:07:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Absolutely meaningless statement.
eigenvectorseven ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:44:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This is really the only way to look at it. The meaning of intuitive concepts like "stuff" and "empty" completely break down when you're talking about the mathematical, quantum nature of sub-atomic matter.
His statement isn't false because the converse is true. It's false because it's just a meaningless statement.
eviscerated3 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:25:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Neutron stars don't work like this, actually.
mike5f4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:28:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True
adudeguyman ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:39:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL everything is fluffy
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:21:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless it's a neutron star.
mike5f4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:28:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True
Best_Towel_EU ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:32:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or a black hole, for that matter. (heh)
turdmogrol ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:50:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And if we took that empty space out of a human they would be roughly the size of a grain of salt(?) but still weigh the same.
Poonjangles ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:57:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you picture a hydrogen atom as a domed stadium and had a marble in the center to represent the nucleus, then you could use a honey bee to represent the electron anywhere in that stadium.
MechaDesu ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:05:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, only about 3% of mass is inherent to particles. Most of our mass is in the binding energy of quarks in the gluon field. E=mc2
Vacant_Of_Awareness ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:27:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, empty space consists of matter on a virtual level
Footlamp ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:12:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's supposed to sound wrong but be correct. This is wrong, but sounds correct to people who think subatomic particles are just tiny billiard balls. Downvoted.
Kahlypso ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:13:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I enjoyed the part where you pretend to understand physics in its entirety, then cast out your downvoted like it seriously matters that we know you downvoted him.
RileyF1 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:30:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He didn't pretend to understand physics in its entirety, thinking that particles are tiny billiard balls is a common assumption.
Kahlypso ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 15:06:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is zero percent chance that he can, with 100% certainty, say anyone is wrong where physics is concerned. End of story. It was an accusation of arrogance, not error.
RileyF1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:11:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah well gravity could be controlled by space monkeys but he is correct as far as we know. Quantum mechanics is one of the most tested theories out there.
Kahlypso ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:57:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"As far as we know" is, in my opinion, the most important and valuable thing anyone can say in the course of scientific discussion. That's my only qualm.
sesstreets ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:00:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I liked the part where you tried to treat footlamps factual statement as false and the part where you forgot you were commenting in /r/askreddit not /r/iamverysmart.
People assume the billiard ball example all the time.
Kahlypso ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:05:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you feel better now that you copied my saecasm, and didn't address the fact that I called you arrogant? I didn't refute what you said.
BJPenwhistle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:29:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's how most people are taught to conceive them. What alternative would you propose?
Ieatyourhead ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:16:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's more accurate to envision then as blobs, rather than billiard balls. A good example of the problem with billiard balls is that some of the electrons 'orbiting' the nucleus have 0 angular momentum. If they were billiard balls then they should just fall in, instead they are blobs that surround the nucleus entirely and sit in a stable state.
BJPenwhistle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:20:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahhhh. I understand. Thanks. :)
w1n5t0nM1k3y ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:09:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does it matter (no pun intended) if we're talking about something dense like leas or gold, vs. something less dense, like a sponge, aerogel, or even air at atmospheric pressure?
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 00:18:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
most space in every atom is empty, so it really doesn't change much the element you're inspecting
Gullex ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:50:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the part that isn't empty is occupied by something we can't really describe as "solid matter".
sdfasdfhweqof ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:17:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, because he's wrong. Matter is not made up of empty space. Electron clouds fill that whole volume, no matter the material.
mike5f4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:29:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not by much. The number of electrons make a very small difference because they are incredibly small (even compared to protons and neutrons), and the distance from the nucleus is great and empty space.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:43:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Plot twist: it's atoms all the way down
JarnabyBones ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:06:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So does that make us the sub atomic level of another higher order?
Noble_Ox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:49:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some people believe so.
Schleckenmiester ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:16:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sooo the cup isn't half empty or half full?
uniptf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:05:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, the cup just isn't. Even though it's actually completely full, just half full of water and full the rest of the way with air.
JSchade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:41:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Similarly, our solar system is about 99.9% empty space.
sdfasdfhweqof ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:19:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's energy, solar wind, etc. filling that space, though.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:14:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So cheer up, we are basically nothing.
MoMoZilla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fun fact if the proton of a hydrogen atom was the size of a football, the electron would be the size of a pea....and 33 kilometres away.
fatalcharm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:42:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?
functor7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:26:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Empty space is not empty
Selissi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:35:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
0s and 1s...
RegencyAndCo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:48:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's the remaining 0.00000001% made out of?
el___diablo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:39:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No matter.
Skutter_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:46:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL the percentage of empty space in matter is the same as the percentage of empty space in Trump's head
(And that's also accurate)
ravia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:02:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The concept of empty space in that context is meaningless.
mike5f4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:24:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not when it is squeezed down to a neutron star or black hole.
WyclefJean ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:10:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If the size of an atom is equal to a football stadium, its core is a grain of rice.
JooJoona ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:31:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do you define empty space considering quantum mechanics. I'm pretty sure what you just said is nonsense.
TheCat5001 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:56:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is nonsense. The size of an atom is defined by the average spread of the electron's wave function, which fills up the atom completely and sits neatly around (and through) the nucleus. The whole "atoms are empty space" thing is incredibly wrong. It comes from misinterpreting Rutherford's experiment, where he found the nucleus to make up only a tiny fragment of an atom's volume, while still having most of the mass.
Ale_Hodjason ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:09:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wouldn't the correct saying be "on an subatomic level"?
MJWood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:57:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The 0.0000001% get everything.
MalnadGowda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:05:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, Antman taught me that.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:10:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This explains why i feel so empty inside.
drdeadringer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:48:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now I have the theme song to Buckaroo Bonzai stuck in my head.
szarroug3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:12:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So I'm 99.999999999% empty inside...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:17:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BUT empty space weighs something. Also, that "empty" space has virtual particles popping in and out of existence all the time.
mike5f4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:25:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which is an indication that even smaller particles exist beyond our measurement.
Ember778 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:04:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This isn't true.
mike5f4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:29:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. Google: What percent of atoms is empty space.
Ember778 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:41:59 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only if you view the electron cloud as solid mass. It would be ridiculous to do so. Sigma and pi bond length is huge compared to nuclei of atoms.
Baron-Harkonnen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:34:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That second 'of' makes your factoid incorrect?
GaiusSherlockCaesar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:26:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This one makes my brain hurt.
Grabak ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 23:29:46 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most mass is energy. Did the math on it once. It was astonishing.
InfanticideAquifer ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 00:38:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All mass "is" energy. Something with momentum has "extra" energy. But you can never have something with mass and no energy. And there's a minimum amount of energy anything with mass can have (the "rest energy").
Grabak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:22:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently enough people do not understand E=MC2.
Xervious ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:08:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Relative relativity fail
diegojones4 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 00:16:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I took calculus.
Grabak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:23:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cool story bro. Dont need calc to calculate the mass of energy of a person by knowing their weight. Just algebra.
hazar815 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:16:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gotta love that binding energy
samsc2 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 23:34:07 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Over 9000?
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 23:39:49 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
more like 10000
Gullex ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:49:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, it's all really empty space. That stuff you think isn't space, like quanta? What are they? Packets of energy. What is energy? Movement. What is moving, then? Just the field.
It's all empty.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:52:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1 + -1 = 0
isymfs ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:50:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No two things are ever truly touching each other, on an atomic level.
Best_Towel_EU ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:32:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Neutrons.
sdfasdfhweqof ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:18:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure they are. Electrons are part of the atom, and their clouds intermingle all the damn time. It's how matter clings together.
And if you're talking nuclei, then atomic bombs and nuclear reactors and hell, the Sun, would all like to have a word with you.
Final_Boss_Veigar ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:42:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if we are living on a floating subatomic particle in a much larger piece of matter?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:37:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The reason the atoms don't end up overlapping each other is because their electrons move so fast.
Think of it like this: Imagine trying to push a straw through moving fan blades. The blades of the fan will prevent the straw from going through, despite the fact that they only occupy the space a fraction of the time.
Yurei2 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:26:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's more accurate to call matter what it is, organised energy. There is nothing at all that physicaly fills space. It's just that all electrons are negativly charged, and therefore the electrons in object A will repell the electrons in object B just like magnets. Howeaver, the effect is over such a short distance that you can measure it in the smallest units of small we have.
It's such a short distance that you can feel the object due to how the electrons in your body move, but, you've never actually touched anything, ever. It's not actually physically possible to truly touch anything. Because everything is energy, and energy is intangible.
drips-n-wicks ยท 1546 points ยท Posted at 01:23:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
unthaw is the opposite of unthaw. source
[deleted] ยท 1670 points ยท Posted at 03:20:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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reverendsteveii ยท 1256 points ยท Posted at 04:48:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
shi shi shi shi
nrfx ยท 347 points ยท Posted at 06:24:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den
Renerrix ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 07:54:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is readable, but if you say it out loud we will have no idea what the hell you're on about.
kingofvodka ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 09:51:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it anything like 'Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo' in English? Like a sentence that's technically grammatically correct, but unless you explain what you're saying you'll sound like a crazy person.
hurrrrrmione ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 10:48:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All those 'buffalo' are pronounced the same way. All those 'shi' aren't.
kingofvodka ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 11:06:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's an imperfect analogy in more ways than just that; I just wasn't able to think of an exact English comparison. If you have a better one feel free to share.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 13:12:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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armorandsword ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:55:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The buffalo one is a bit of a cop out as well considering the fact that it relies on a proper noun. For some reason it cheapens the impact for me.
lesbefriendly ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:05:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There, there, they're there, they're their there.
I think that's a valid sentence.
There, there (comforting phrase/idiom), they are at that place, they are at that place they own.
Maybe not.
leavingplatoscave ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:18:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I dont think the ending works. But 'There there, they're there, their there' works. Good analogy
ChefBoyAreWeFucked ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:02:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They use different words for some of those things now. Shi ้ฃ means eat, but they say chi ๅ now instead, for example.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:18:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They are different words when written, and sound different types when spoken.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:31:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's because when you read it it's pictures :P.
largehoman ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:54:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That poem brought a tear to my eye and woke up my cat with spastic laughter.
HighlanderSteve ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:56:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then you're doing it right.
PM_ME_SOMETHING_LEWD ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:20:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could also mean "the stone lion is a poet"
MiiNiPaa ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 11:14:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"This poem was written by stoned lion"
lobster_johnson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:31:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Explanation for above video.
Roarlord ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:27:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only
Ever ver ver
Walks to count her steps
thatJainaGirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:45:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what shi said.
PM_ME_DATING_TIPS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:42:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://imgur.com/aByTo9v.jpg
Curtalius ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 06:31:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was thinking the same thing. I HOPE YOU LIKE HOMONYMS.
Rimbosity ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 07:38:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sรฌ shรฌ sรฌ shรญ shรฌ shรญ shรญ sรฌ shรฌ shรญ sรฌ sรฌ shรญ shรฌ sรฌ shรญ sรฌ shรญ sรฌ zhฤซ shรญ shฤซ zว shรฌ sว de.
SeaLeggs ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 12:46:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shi bby is ok
oh_no_aliens ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:54:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ๆญป ๆญป ๆญป ๆญป
chris3110 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:32:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
switches back quietly
Not_A_Facehugger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:14:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ไฝ ๅฅฝใไฝ ๅซไปไนๅๅญ๏ผ
theBatMatt ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:49:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
Rapesilly_Chilldick ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:22:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reading this triggered my brain to play this immediately.
zeussays ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:16:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ba ba ba ba
mrmdc ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:50:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you mean ๅฎคไธๅธ็ณๆถๆฏ
hanhsquadron ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:58:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only ever ver ver ver ver walks to to count count her steps.
malkinism ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:30:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bu shi, bu shi!
SarcasticGiraffes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:11:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NYX NYX NYX NYX
MrBubles01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:07:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
shi shi shi shit
Nerrickk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:20:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Suddenly a thief from Disgaea appears!
Chromegloss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:39:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ah ah ah ah
gatsby365 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:39:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
shi bby is ok
JIhad_Joseph ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 07:36:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kinda silly, since it can't happen in mandarin.
PoisonMind ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 04:45:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, sure, like introducing tones with fix everything. Have fun with this.
Hobbidance ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:54:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Excuse me, sir, but that word is not "English" as you might believe. It is "North American English".
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/unthaw
The Oxford English dictionary politely points out that the North American's seeming forgot that the word "thaw" was a word in it's own right and appear to have made up "unthaw" instead of simply using the previously provided word "frozen".
konaya ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:58:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Heh. No surprises there.
wurrukatte ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:04:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The word is 'thaw', "to cause to unfreeze, become warm". 'unthaw' is just popular association of 'un-' (the verbal prefix, not the separate nominal prefix meaning "not") with process reversal. 'unthawing a turkey' would just be freezing it again. 'unthawed' is also a separate adjective (or nominal) formation, therefore it properly means "not thawed" = "still frozen"; as well as there being the past participle "frozen again" < from "to unthaw". It's not really hard to see why it's slightly confusing to some.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:17:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is an example of my countrymen mangling - yet again - the native tongue. Apparently this is an American thing, although I've never heard of it.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:41:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry, everyone will be using Newspeak by the year 2050.Then that pesky freedom of expression will be gone, and we'll be rid of inferior words like 'unthaw'!
largehoman ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:55:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's pretty far off, Donald's probably going to win.
pm_me_ur_flags ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:04:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
don't learn mandarin
Zaev ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:40:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why not, out of curiosity?
pm_me_ur_flags ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 08:34:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
First, some characters are relatively complicated and hard to write. Just take a look at these:่ฑ้ฝ้พ็ฑฒ้้ฌฑ้ฑป. (Granted, they aren't often used in normal speech, but still)
Also, there are four tones in Chinese.
This adds an extra layer of complexity. Some pinyin, like 'ma', have four different tones, each with a different meaning.
You could say ไฝ ็ๅฆๅฆ้ชๆ็่ๅ้ฉฌ๏ผ(ni de ma ma ma wo de ma he ma)
Your mom scolded my toad and horse!
To learn Chinese, you have to learn a character's meaning, pronunciation, and how to write it. Sure, Chinese can make you worth more and you can do business with the Chinese, but I don't think you'd want to do business with the Chinese. I mean, some of the street vendors over there sell rat meat as lamb.
edit: Also, the pinyin structure is weird. The x sound sounds just like the sh sound.
Zaev ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:49:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, "because it's a massive pain in the ass". Gotcha. I've been studying Japanese on and off for a while, and the most difficult part has definitely been their "borrowed" Chinese characters, so that makes sense.
(How do you get "fresh" from a triple character for "fish", anyway?)
rqaa3721 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:32:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You just do. Don't question it.
Milkyway_Squid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:59:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
่บไธไธญๆ๏ผๆๅๆขไธ็่ฏญ
MakhnoYouDidnt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:16:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's lots of them.
Oversight means making sure things function property, as well as failing to make sure things function well.
Sanction means to allow something, as well as prohibit something.
Dusting can refer to adding dust or removing dust.
To screen something can either mean to show it or to prevent it from being seen.
These words are called contranyms.
januhhh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:40:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, there are quirks in every language and I'm sure you would encounter many in Mandarin, as well.
One other example is that "it's" does not mean "of/belonging to it", but instead is a contraction of "it is". But don't worry, it's quite a bit easier to learn than a fucking Chinese dialect.
Poromenos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:36:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because you were born to it.
januhhh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:31 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was not, it's my second language. To be fair, maybe that's why it makes perfect sense to me, while native speakers tend to struggle with this concept.
Poromenos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:25:48 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The problem is that Chinese is very tonal, and if you weren't born speaking a language that's similar, it's very hard to learn to distinguish them. I bet your native language is much closer to English than it is to Chinese.
januhhh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:21 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
While what you say is true, I think it is also completely irrelevant and out-of-the-blue. Let's not continue.
immortal_joe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:03:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good fucking luck dude, tones change the entire definition of words.
indigoreality ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:07:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ไฝ hao
rqaa3721 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:32:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you just give up half way?
SquirrelKnuckle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:34:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Literally.
Nastapoka ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:08:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mandarin is also a fruit
wolf_man007 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:33:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep.
Nastapoka ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:39:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IS THERE NO ESCAPE FROM AMBIGUITY ???
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:09:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Literally" came to be its own antonym through colloquial use.
Hellman109 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:10:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you going to steal all the fucking prawns now with plate scoops?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:13:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this literally makes no sense
Swibblestein ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:24:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's actually a word for words like this: Contranym.
Another good example is "clip". You can clip two things together, but also you can clip something in half.
Literally has become a contranym recently, meaning both literally and figuratively. I find this one particularly frustrating.
Stokkolm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:28:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like "interesting" can also be used to mean "not interesting"?
wordserious ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:36:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now you know how I feel about what they did to "literally."
SamYogh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:42:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those words are called autoantonyms, and there are quite a few of them.
LuxDeorum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:56:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No good, ๅฉๅฎณ means really good and also means really bad.
rosiedoes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:04:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's enough fruity language, thank you!
raverbashing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:28:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ITS
What's the purpose of having a possessive pronoun if nobody is bothered to use it?
its-limitededition ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:34:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ni hao. wo ai ni.
NerdENerd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:18:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aladeen
MantisShrimpsAreCool ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:18:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kong kong kong kong kong kong kong kong
Grandpa says tin can hit grandpa
danzey12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:32:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck is the point in taking the word "thaw" adding an "un-" prefix to it and making it mean the exact same thing?
Stonn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:34:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But one describes the process and the other a state.
EmpireOfTheTsun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:23:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Inflammable means flammable? What a country!
jansencheng ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:23:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trust me, mandarins worse. There are four pronunciations for each spelling. And all for mean different things.
breawycker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:33:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As someone who takes Chinese 4, no you don't.
password_is_njkvcxjk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:11:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One is a verb, the other is an adjective. Not antonyms.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:16:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently, this is a "North American" usage (read: Bloody Yanks) only.
Frankly, I have never heard of it. You thaw something that is frozen. You re-freeze something that is thawed, if you want it frozen again.
Unthaw? Sounds like the name of a Western State.
SigilR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:21:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And why does unthaw mean the same thing as thaw
sirin3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:29:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Temperature is complicated
Just be careful to only use inflammable stuff instead flammable things, when there is fire around
mahousu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:13:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your mฤmฤ looks like a mวmว.
icantbenormal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:42:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How about that inflammable and flammable are synonyms.
KillaPeruvian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:59:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure you saw, but it's called a "contronym"
Thepopcornrider ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:08:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ma (mother) ma (horse) ma (makes the sentence a question) There are some more definitions depending on the tone, but there are off the top of my head.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:43:12 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Context matters.
bathroomstalin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:27:07 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Poetry, anarchy, theater
platforms- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:34:37 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mystery solved
Hunnyhelp ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:55:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mandarin is the only language that is more difficult than English
speaks_in_redundancy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:23:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What metric are you using for that?
Almost every language user group says their language is the most difficult to learn.
SciFiXhi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:19:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I find Japanese to be more complex than English or Mandarin, given its varied use of particles, nonintuitive verb conjugations, and the differences between long form and short form Japanese.
Velgarr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:44:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every time I've heard anyone say this, it's usually this one guy who watches far too much anime and failed his second year of Japanese in college.
SciFiXhi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:13:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I studied Mandarin for four years in high school, and I currently have a B in Japanese II, so I don't think that's really an apt description of my situation.
Velgarr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:21:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right. I wasn't trying to insinuate otherwise. Just bizarre that it's the same statement nearly verbatim.
SciFiXhi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:23:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh. Sorry for insinuating that you were insinuating that.
Velgarr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:51:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry for insinuating the offense, of which none was taken! I was thinking maybe Japanese teachers tell their students to spread this complexity doctrine, but upon further consideration, I think that perhaps everyone is correct. Surely there are more factors in determining the difficulty of learning a language than the complexity of usage rules.
JIhad_Joseph ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:37:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Basque, Japanese, Polish, Finnish, literally any native north american, and many many many more would beg to differ.
bobs_monkey ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:26:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You'll be back.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:54:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mandarin is ten times worse lol. The same word can have 20 different meanings. And if you ignore the tones, the same word can literally mean 100 things
Elchidote ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:16:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TAIWAN NUMBAH 1!
Coding_Cactus ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:17:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If an Alien species were to attempt to take over the world by slowly replacing Americs. We'd know they're aliens because they'll have studied the proper usage of words nobody actually uses.
HGF88 ยท 281 points ยท Posted at 01:39:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn this language.
Iceyeeye ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 05:35:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bless this language. We have developed a language so insanely constructed that only the natives of it can ever be truly proficient with it. It is like a cultural firewall for detecting foreign spies.
ArguingPizza ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 10:37:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And even then, often only of your specific dialect, considering between British and American English the same words often have completely different and sometimes unrelated meanings, not to mention the other Commonwealth variations(looking at you, Australia, and your incomprehensible and nearly German-level of hostility)
This fucking language was never meant to leave the isles of Britain. Terrible, unholy things have resulted.
HGF88 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:43:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And even then, a quarter of the time we can barely make sense of it or why things are the way they are.
Iceyeeye ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:58:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the price we pay to annoy foreigners.
HGF88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:08:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck outsiders! That's the American way!
hawkens85 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:32:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel so stinking patriotic right now.
almightySapling ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:03:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shibboleth
Poromenos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:29:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, the foreign spies are the ones who can tell you the difference between "your" and "you're".
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:41:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who the fuck uses unthaw instead of thaw? Nobody I've met, nor seen on the internet. I have absolutely no idea how that definition got there.
Possibly showed up along with inflammable.
thundergonian ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:24:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can thank Americanisms for that one definition.
HGF88 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:28:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
looks sadly off into the distance My own country has betrayed me.
camdoodlebop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:48:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
damn, this language! Or damn this language (to hell)!
[deleted] ยท 70 points ยท Posted at 04:19:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't help but notice the "North American" disclaimer above the redundant (which is to say, stupid) definition. "Thaw" means melt, so "unthawed" should mean unmelted, damnit!
Atario ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 15:07:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have never in my life heard anyone say "unthaw" for any purpose, and that's four decades spend in the US
jonathansharman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:32:09 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've never heard this either, and it sounds very wrong to me. Maybe it's a regional thing?
SueDnymm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:46:33 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
New Englanders...
drips-n-wicks ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:24:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had the same fight with my aunt. She would always say unthaw and I would ask if she wanted me to freeze it, one day I looked it up... years and years later it still sticks with me
scarecrow180 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:30:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I confused my brother with something similar. I asked what was in a container in the fridge and he said "preboiled potatos" so I said "when are you planning on boiling them?" He went very blank.
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 07:11:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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killerpoopguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:45:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most people I've heard (in-person or online) say "unthaw" more than "thaw"
aneksas ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 03:37:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Do you want the unthaw news or the unthaw news? You are HIV unthaw."
GETMONEYGETPAlD ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:20:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm uncured!
NoGuide ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:13:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cleave is also the opposite of cleave.
wurrukatte ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:00:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Although they are etymologically two distinct words.
Lord_CheezBurga ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:47:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only in North America
pm_me_for_happiness ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:30:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wtF
theniceguytroll ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:40:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One of them has to be a verb and one has to be an adjective.
savageboredom ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:45:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are a couple examples of words like that, but this one doesn't even make sense. "Thaw" means to unfreeze, so "unthaw" should be the opposite of that (to freeze, presumably after having been frozen and thawed at least once already).
I'm pretty sure somebody just fucked it up and it just stuck. Once enough people use a word "wrong," that usage isn't wrong anymore.
ElBiscuit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:17:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ChimpChief59 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:40:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hate it when they say that
too_wit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:50:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It might make you feel better if whenever you hear the word "irregardless," you interject with the phrase "without ANY regard for ears?"
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:42:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It's still "wrong" though, and makes you sound like an uneducated retard to a lot of people.
DOOM_feat_DOOM ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:31:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hope you don't ever use 'terrific' to mean 'good' then
CommutatorUmmocrotat ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:00:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Literally is the opposite of literally
Thatguyfrommumbai ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:59:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BlissnHilltopSentry ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:39:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's stupid though. No one says literally and actually means figuratively, they say literally as a hyperbole or sarcastically which insinuates 'figuratively' but its not the actual damn fuckin definition.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:45:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of The Dictator when he changes positive and negative to aladeen.
-"You are HIV aladeen"
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:58:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
unthaw isn't a word.
arcedup ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:49:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So is cleave.
vendetta27 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:48:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How is unthaw even real? the word itself sounds wrong....and it has red squiggles under it! Lies >_>
DisRuptive1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An example of a contronym.
chill-out ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aladeen
-Yngin- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:38:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Inflammable means flammable?!
Incruentus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:47:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same thing with inflammable right?
Kyoj1n ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:00:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More like unthawed is the opposite of unthaw.
esach88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:32:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wait, unthaw means to thaw? Why not just say thaw? fuck me!
Fitbot5000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:14:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Inflammable means flammable?
Fam515 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:40:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Words like this are called contronyms. Source
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:49:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unthaw means the same thing as thaw?!
Awdayshus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:58:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unthaw is my trigger word. Normally I don't correct people's grammar, and I understand that dictionary definitions change over time to reflect usage, but whenever anyone says unthaw, I say, "You mean thaw". It's like an involuntary response.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:58:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Surprised no one's mentioned that this is called an auto-anotnym.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:47:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How the heck does UNthaw mean thaw? Might as well tell me that flammable means inflammable.
trianuddah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:12:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's also the incorrect pronunciation of Utah.
Wetbung ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:47:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And inflammable means the same thing as flammable.
Plasma_000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:49:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same as sanction - it could mean to enable something, or prohibit it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:52:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have it on good authority that they're "auto-antonyms"
tacojohn48 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:01:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to work at the snack bar at Target and the directions for one of the salads called for a half thawed chicken breast. I went over and asked my manager how one half thaws something. He laughed so hard as he explained half of a thawed chicken breast.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:33:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How can unthaw be thaw
amanguupta53 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:07:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So..... Aladeen then?
-ilovefestivals- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:39:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You see but one is a verb and one is an adjective. They aren't opposites.
bicyclesandbeer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:51:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A similar example is 'sanction', having two meanings which are arguable "opposites" of each other: (i) give official approval for, & (ii) impose a penalty on (or punish).
Ausdwen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:02:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This needs to be so much higher. Biggest thought twisting mind fuck so far.
twoshoes42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:55:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Inflammable means flammable? What a country!
konaya ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:57:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only in North American English. Which, er, isn't that surprising.
SomeRandomBaldGuy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:28:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God Damn you English language!
thatJainaGirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:46:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Somehow, my father has gotten it in his mind that this applies to every word. He insists that "unloosen" and "loosen" mean the same thing.
TheJimnebob ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:55:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They are called auto-antonyms. "The alarm went off, so we had to turn it off".
alamaias ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:30:04 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ca you explain to me how the american usage makes sense? Or is it just something like "irregardless" but weight of stupid forced it into acceptable usage?
d_035 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:27:10 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aladeen is the opposite of Aladeen
ValaJackson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:30:41 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flammable is the synonym for inflammable.
ImAStark_Bitch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:50:50 on March 27, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Simple: it's a noun and a verb. It is in a state of not being in thaw and it is being unthawed.
terminbee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:50:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I kept reading this as UNthaw and I couldn't figure what that word was.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:51:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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terminbee ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:15:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh. I kind of read it as un being the root and thaw being a suffix, instead of unthawing being the process of reverse thawing. So it's UNthaw instead of unTHAW.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:16:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only is the US.
mr_boomboom ยท 7063 points ยท Posted at 23:44:16 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The U.S. state nearest to the African continent is Maine.
superpunkalicious ยท 1214 points ยท Posted at 01:16:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
.
monkeybassturd ยท 443 points ยท Posted at 02:47:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I live in Cleveland, 30 feet from the beach (or the cliff as we call it) nice to meet ya SC.
icebrotha ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 08:00:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey I live in Cleveland too!
monkeybassturd ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 12:50:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then we are brothas in misery.
Oskie5272 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:09:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hopefully not for much longer. I'm hoping the Cavs can pull it out
rangeluck ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 13:31:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We are Cleveland, where hopes and dreams come to die.
Moudy90 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:45:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fellow Clevelander.
Our motto of next year is our year is true. Every year.
rangeluck ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:05:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously, can we trade the browns for a NHL team? At least then if they suck I can watch fights!
DiloSpit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:18:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or you can just wait for the NBA playoffs and Delly will start picking a few.
Legato2001 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:08:11 on August 30, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Circling back to celebrate coming back from down 3-1!
Oskie5272 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:16:39 on August 30, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn, how did you even find this comment on a sub other than r/cavs on an unrelated topic lol. But hell yeah! I'm still ecstatic we won. Here's to hoping the Indians can do it now too
icebrotha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:46:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
do you go to college here by chance?
monkeybassturd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:18:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No way past the college age I'm afraid.
icebrotha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:25:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aw, I'm desperately trying to find people who go to Case on reddit through chance. Oh well, enjoy this dreadfully cloudy day friend!
jamesfishingaccount ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:52:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, you're in Ohio
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:44:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Checking in from The Land!
Uninformed_Tyler ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 12:44:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
North coast, by far the least rapped about coast.
crimson777 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:42:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SC is definitely closer than 800 miles away. We're about 750 from Chicago where I'm from in SC. I'd guess that /u/superpunkalicious is in the top of Florida.
Mark1arMark1ar ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:03:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could be Savannah, GA. It is almost directly south from Cleveland
crimson777 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:20:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If he was saying 800 miles as a fairly close approximation, I don't think that Savannah is 800 miles away from Cleveland.
Mark1arMark1ar ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:26:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I couldn't help but check for myself. The fastest route according to Google maps is 765 miles.
I need to get a life.
crimson777 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:38:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh I was thinking just a straight line haha. I guess by roadway the circle would shrink for what 800 miles means. I also couldn't help and looked at a map radius tool, and 800 miles from Cleveland straight south seems to be just south of Jacksonville, Florida
Upnorth4 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:56:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It takes the same amount of time to drive from Detroit, Michigan, to Ironwood, Michigan, than it does to drive from South Carolina to New York City
whirlpool138 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:26:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
New York City is 9 hours away from Buffalo, New York. It also takes 16 hours to go from Miami to Pensacola. That's a road trip nearly half way across the United States.
Upnorth4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:44:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, it's kinda insane how big some states are, the normal route from Detroit to Ironwood is 670 miles, if you take the long way around the Saginaw Bay and up and down the Keweenaw, it's more like driving from Orlando to NYC
dethb0y ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:37:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I found the view from Camp Fitch over lake erie to be both awe-inspiring and terrifying because of the steep cliff leading to the shore.
monkeybassturd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:45:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to be a camper and a counselor at a camp called Issac Jogues in Madison. We actually had a ladder that you could climb up and down to get to the water. Eventually the erosion got so bad that became impossible. Now the camp is a park and they dug out a dirt ramp all the way down. But I can still feel the feeling of being scared shitless taking those first few ladder rungs to go down to the water.
Sang_dirty_old_town ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:26:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I lived a dorm i n college named after Isaac Jogues.
monkeybassturd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:17:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You obviously go to a Catholic college and are a fan of fine Irish music.
Sang_dirty_old_town ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:15:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right on both counts. (Well, I went to a Catholic college, but thanks for letting me feel young for a minute)
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:13:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I live in Jersey, so FUCK YOU
rangeluck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:31:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
:o Hi neighbor!
sunny_person ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:33:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well this explains why we get all you guys. You're practically neighbors.
DimethyItryptamine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:03:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey I live in cleveland too, nice to meet you.
USCanuck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:41:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People live in Cleveland?
BayushiKazemi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:52:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My friend's father only ever referred to Cleveland as "The Mistake by the Lake"
elgringofrijolero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:44:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what I told my boss he should call his new restaurant.
Minion666 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:09:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So does everyone in Cincinnati. GO REDLEGS!
Sahnura ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:20:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shh, we're all actually where all the lizard people come from.
JasXD ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 09:32:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to live in Akron and I am so goddamn sorry for you GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN HOLY SHIT
martinaee ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 02:58:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't believe you... I'mma walk 800 miles south and meet you on the beach.
boreas907 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:02:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then you kiss.
dunaja ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:24:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A better love story than Twilight.
Jaywebbs90 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:25:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hello fellow Floridian or Georgian neighbor.
succulent ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:23:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Similarly, Canada is south of Detroit.
skiman13579 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 11:09:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the last winter olympics, the US men's curling team was from Superior, WI/Duluth, MN. The Canadian Men's team from Sault Ste Marie. Duluth/Superior are on the western tip of Lake Superior. SSM is on the eastern tip. SSM is further south than Duluth/Superior (barely).
The Canadian Men's curling team came from further south than the US team.
mountainmafia ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:07:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Makes me really wish the north east could get its own time zone. Like even 30 minutes would do wonders to our lives.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:22:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The city that never sleeps, because business hours wreck their circadian clocks
Xelopheris ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:38:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You could put Maine in the same timezone as Atlantic Canada.
gatsby365 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:28:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sunsets at 4pm are special
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:26:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brunswick?
Tim_the-Enchanter ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:52:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
3 cheers for my hometown wick town!
Just kidding, I'm glad to be outta there.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:04:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone is...
sharrkzilla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:02:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bowdoin though...
Sun_Sprout ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:03:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you head south from detroit you'll hit Canada.
Detlef_Schrempf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:34:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Explain?
Sun_Sprout ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:40:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's just the way Canada swoops down around the lake: http://www.uwindsor.ca/mfa/sites/uwindsor.ca.mfa/files/map.jpg
And here's a closeup of the cities: https://www.justice.gov/archive/ndic/pubs40/40390/images/fig2.jpg
iCameToLearnSomeCode ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:54:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ITT: if you make me look it up, I owe you an up vote.
Well played.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:57:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You live in Jacksonville, Florida.
LuvLowHangers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:58:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well I'll be motherfuckin goddamned.
Thunder21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:50:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What.
zeussays ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:43:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And if you lived in San Diego you would have just barely left California.
ryancav ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:31:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm guessing you live in Georgia?
skiman13579 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:04:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like Key West. When I lived there I was 3 miles east of being due south from my house growing up in a Cleveland suburb.
pollorojo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:34:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I-95 or I-75?
this_place_stinks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:50:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At least you won't be in Detroit...
zoidberg005 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:58:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you go due south from Detroit, you would be in Canada.
happilynorth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:07:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was like "what made-up place do you live that this would be even remotely possible?" and then I looked at google maps and realized it's very likely we live in the same city.
Fauropitotto ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:34:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've always wondered...is there a difference between "go north" and "go due north"? What sort of qualifier is "due"?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:40:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I live in the contiguous US, and I have to go south to get to Canada.
redraja190 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:48:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jacksonville area?
dabosweeney ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:17:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait what
TheGreatHogdini ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:20:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This sounds like the plot to the worst Vacation movie ever.
gggamer1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:28:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I live on the east side of Tx if I drive 800 miles west I'll still be in Texas.
linny93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:57:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Address to confirm?
Bseagully ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:22:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
St. Augustine.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:16:34 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
St. Augustine?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:44:25 on March 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You must live in the "armpit" of Florida then. (no offense)
cough93 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:15:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dont do it though. I live in cleveland and you aren't missing much...
Smellycreepylonely ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:29:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which is the "Midwest"?
DinoRaawr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:51:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Almost as far as Brownsville, TX is from El Paso. Almost.
Nazi_Dumptruck ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:38:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am from Cleveland as well. Here's a fun fact. Around 2014 or so someone in Cleveland was attacked by a pack of wild dogs. Good work Cleveland.
Adolf-____-Hitler ยท 4049 points ยท Posted at 00:20:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On a similar note, there is only one country separating Norway and North Korea (Russia).
columbus8myhw ยท 1945 points ยท Posted at 01:36:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's surprising that Norway borders Russia at all โ Norway is the westernmost Scandinavian country. It curves around the top of Sweden.
[deleted] ยท 2438 points ยท Posted at 02:51:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And while the westernmost point of Norway's mainland lies west of Germany, its easternmost point is also east of Istanbul.
imhereforthevotes ยท 1680 points ยท Posted at 03:35:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what the god damn fuck
CoolnessEludesMe ยท 1320 points ยท Posted at 04:33:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spherical geometry rocks.
[deleted] ยท 214 points ยท Posted at 05:14:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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foxjcon ยท 192 points ยท Posted at 05:28:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well the floaty ones use magnets
jtr99 ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 07:45:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're not helping.
Gutterflame ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:54:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I approve of the way /u/foxjcon and yourself subtly alluded to the meme without clubbing everyone over the head with it.
DaSaw ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 07:26:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And how do they work?
Styot ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:50:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And I don't want to talk to a scientist, yall mothafuckers lyin', and getting me pissed!
Shibbledibbler ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:59:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The real question is how do blankets work?
Frolock ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:41:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Work? They're all lazy fuckers. All they do is lie around.
LaughingVergil ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:22:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was already covered.
aXenoWhat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:54:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not Mars, which is a problem for the inhabitants who don't like solar radiation
nickzpollard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:29:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking magnets*
Urdu446732 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:23:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Floaty McBoaty
NosyEnthusiast6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:29:54 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh man, put ball magnets in a globe, and in the stand. Top pulls, bottom... also pulls, boom, 3D maneuverable globe.
mgpilot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:53:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is kinda on topic
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:23:19 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
honk
Gamablaze ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:21:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's my second favorite kind of rock, next to igneous.
revivalmethod ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:29:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Geology rocks!
Steeva ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:42:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus Christ, Marie
foreignlander ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 06:47:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What, geology minerals?
foreignlander ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:35:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey /u/Steeva call me creepy but we joined reddit with a month difference only what does it mean??
ButtholeSurfer76 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:15:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Our spherical rock of geometry is actually named Earth, bro.
CoolnessEludesMe ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:33:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I actually chose NOT to call it Oblate Spheroidal Geometry. That would be too pedantic. :-)
ButtholeSurfer76 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:03:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn, you're good.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:15:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I call them 'Planets'
pepe_le_shoe ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:38:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's more a case of Norway being wide.
CoolnessEludesMe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:04:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Deceptively so, especially at the "top", where you can be wide while still being narrow. It sneaks east in the arctic, where no one is looking. :-)
Borim ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:18:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And rolls.
OrangeChickenHitler ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:24:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gaussian curvature ftw.
Miltage ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:56:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're minerals, Marie.
seal_eggs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:38:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FUCK SPHERICAL GEOMETRY
CoolnessEludesMe ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:37:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
C'mon, it's cool. Where else do three right angles make a triangle?
seal_eggs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:02:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DISCUSTING!
smeggyballs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:42:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You dropped this
CoolnessEludesMe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:38:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you sure it's mine? I don't remember having it.
Luckylemon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:26:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My new band name, thanks.
rage_comic_critic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:43:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like a fancy word for marbles.
Pownzerx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:49:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But is rock geometry spherical?
southernbenz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:19:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only the round ones.
Robkebob ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:23:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God dammit, Marie! They're spherical geometry MINERALS!
LoadInSubduedLight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:01:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It also rolls.
Smokes_shoots_leaves ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:03:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about them?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:08:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're minerals, God dammit.
Potato_palya ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:04:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It Goddamn minerals!
radiant_hippo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:54:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So does spherical geology.
AnxietyAttack2013 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ITS SPHERICAL!!!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:06:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
especially on a rock
ExtraSmooth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:37:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually you're thinking of geology.
RaveMittens ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No that's geology
alexpwnsslender ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:36:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's mostly magma
superfastjellyfish29 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:59:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ITS SPHERICAL!!
edgeblackbelt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:58:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most people just call it "Earth."
targumures ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:33:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but that's got nothing to do with it being a sphere. If the world was flat like we see on a map, Istanbul would still be West of part of Norway.
CoolnessEludesMe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:55:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No it doesn't, and you don't even need a map, much less a flat earth. Vardo, Norway is 31deg. E long., and Istanbul is only 29deg E. You can get that info from a lot of places.
targumures ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:58:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly, so it's not really about it being a sphere. It's simply a comparison of how East it is.
CoolnessEludesMe ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:15:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, so the assertion that Istanbul is west of part of Norway actually is the "actually correct" thing that "sounds extremely wrong". (Note that I am still agreeing with you.) What makes it "sound extremely wrong" is that we all know that Norway is part of Northern Europe, which must be somewhat west of Eastern Europe, and therefore certainly west of a country that is in the East, and so east of Eastern Europe. Added to that, we all know that Turkey is adjacent to Syria, Iraq, and Iran (which are in the Mid East, which naturally WAY east of Europe). The "trick" is that Norway wraps around Northern Europe, and its easternmost point is east of all the rest of Europe except a small bit of Finland, a sliver of Belarus, and about half of Ukraine. Also, though Turkey is having its border issues in the Mideast, Istanbul is wa-a-ay on the other side of the country, right next door to Bulgaria and Greece.
Now, all of this being completely true, it might be best if I mention that my comment about spherical geometry was made for humor and fun (and it has been fun; I have more responses to that comment than any other I have made). If there is any relevant point in it (and I hope that most people intuited this), it is that looking at maps gives a distorted perception of the world. Two cases in point are ship routes, and proportional size. On a map, you have to show the shortest, "straight-line" route, say from Maine to Africa, as a curve, the so-called Great Circle Route. And, from looking at a common map, say Google Maps, you would never guess that all of Greenland would actually fit inside the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Really, go look. Then look up the geographical area of each. It's amazing.)
Happy Redditing!
CoolJazzGuy ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 11:38:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Greenland stretches further north, south, east and west than Iceland
7thAccountDontDelete ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:19:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the hell? How?
microwaves23 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:38:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's because it's further north, so the longitude lines are closer together.
credit /u/mic_check_one_two
I checked on my globe. it's obviously farther south, west, and north. the easternmost part is close to the north pole, and yes it is farther "east" but it's mostly northeast.
Niqulaz ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:45:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From the place in Norway I grew up, we had St. Petersburg, Alexandria more or less due south.
From the place in Norway I'm currently living, more or less due south will be Luxembourgh, Marseilles, and Lagos in Nigeria.
rev_2220 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:23:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm from northern sweden and I second this?!?! I knew about treriksrรถset etc but what the fuck
olderkj ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:05:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Norway is east of Sweden, because when Sweden stops at Finland, Norway keeps going around the top.
SpaceShrimp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:55:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But then you at least knew that Sweden is further east than Poland?
Mic_Check_One_Two ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:11:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's because it's further north, so the longitude lines are closer together. As in, it takes less distance to go from one time zone to the next, because you're traveling around the top of the globe instead of traveling around the entire circumference.
toady_wren ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:34:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just moved to Norway and my sense of direction is completely fucked now because of this.
Fumblerful- ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:04:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
LBJSmellsNice ยท 222 points ยท Posted at 04:07:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's kind of cheating for Norway though; because that's less its size and more that it's closer to the North Pole so longitudes are much closer together
lobster_conspiracy ยท 264 points ยท Posted at 04:29:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
If I stood one meter away from the north pole I could place my right hand west of Los Angeles and my left hand east of New York.
jkool702 ยท 268 points ยท Posted at 04:58:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
You could also do this by straddling the international dateline. This has the advantage of letting you do this from a tropical beach instead freezing your ass off at the north pole.
EDIT: SO technically this is done by straddling the 180th meridian, not the international dateline. The dateline partially follows the 180th meridian, but ends up zig-zagging a bit. Also, yes, there is land (Fiji) on the 180th meridian. And is certainly is tropical.
th3ch0s3n0n3 ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 05:07:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
except that the international dateline is in the middle of the ocean.
FourBox ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 05:14:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, if only we had a vehicle that could traverse water...I'll get started on designing it right away. I think I'll call it a War, short for Water Car
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 06:36:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought that weird Austrian guy already did that. Called it a BO-AT.
doctor_doofenshmirtz ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:48:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or as I have recently learned it is pronounced, "boat".
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:44:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I prefer Boaty McBoatface.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:52:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really want to know how you found this...
PM_Fake_Tits ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:52:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
War, what is it good for?
FourBox ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:58:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Driving on water. Was my description not clear enough? To be fair it is still in developmental stages and some aspects need to be worked on
SexLiesAndExercise ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:34:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Absolutely some things.
Archer007 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:30:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well obviously you bring your beach on an aircraft carrier.
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 07:24:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The International Date Line is not synonymous with the 180th meridian, which is one of the two meridians that separate the eastern and western hemispheres (the other being the Prime Meridian).
Foinatorol ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:49:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dateline, schmateline. You can stand anywhere on the planet and be both east and west of anywhere else on the planet. Except for the everything directly north and/or south of you.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:10:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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BrowsOfSteel ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:40:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, but the 180th meridian does. It crosses three of the Fijian islands.
EndTimer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:43:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Antarctica, presumably.
CxOrillion ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:51:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hardly what we'd call a tropical beach though.
arnorath ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:03:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The international date line doesn't cross any landmass
CxOrillion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:51:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Antarctica?
arnorath ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:52:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any landmass with a tropical beach
Knight_of_autumn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just give it twenty years and there will be a tropical beach at the North Pole!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:02:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's exactly what happens when you melt sea ice...
Knight_of_autumn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:34:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oops, you're right, there's no land there. Hmm, looking at the map, it looks like Greenland has some landmass just 450 miles away. It would be a heck of a swim, but maybe with a fast boat.
Actually, scrap all that, the Earth has two poles! Just move this party down to the South pole and you can still do all of the stuff the guys were talking about up there AND there is land for a future tropical beach. Problem solved.
BabyFaceMagoo2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:52:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not really no. The dateline is an imaginary concept, but east and west are real directions.
Ask_me_about_WoTMUD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:00:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it was good enough for Top Gear, then dammit...!
Lost-Chord ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:43:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I hug the North Pole would I be in every time zone?
NicholeSuomi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:39:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No.. There are some weird timezones that are bounded on the north (and south).
SinkTube ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:12:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God damn do I fucking hate timezones.
NicholeSuomi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:35:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think the alternative, having all places on one timezone, could be interesting. Presumably we'd just go with UTC. So now your schedule is just shifted however many hours on the clock. If you were in the UTC-5 zone, a 9-5 job is now a 4-noon job.
I think this might actually be better than timezones, if (and it's a big if..) people would be willing to change. Scheduling across distances would be easier, as would travel. The biggest downside is now having to know when a place tends to be awake, etc., but this isn't really a loss because
in the current system you usually have to look at a timezone map anyway. These can be adjusted to show when they tend to be awake or whatever.
Places and people don't have a universal schedule anyway. Even if you know it's 5pm somewhere, you also have to know what people do at 5pm there. You may as well have to know what they do at new noon there.
SinkTube ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:42:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I agree with this, but we don't even have to go as far as abolishing timezones. We just need to make them not be such a retarded clusterfuck of bullshit. They're TIMEzones, why are they changed to follow political borders!?
NicholeSuomi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:55:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Utility. I, for example, live in the part of the central timezone that juts out of northern Illinois into Indiana. A lot of people here work in Chicago, and not many go very far south or east often, so it's nicer to not make people switch timezones every day. (The timezones are quite discrete, so they're not very precise anyway.)
Elranzer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:10:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BURN THE WITCH!!
Mother_Cunter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:55:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pfft I knew a guy who could do that at the equator.
Poor armless bastard.
TheFrigginArchitect ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:51:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You could also pay someone to do it for you
flodnak ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:36:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On the other hand, if you stand on the southernmost point of Norway, you're about as far from its northernmost point as you are from Rome. So it is big.
And banana-shaped.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:38:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn you spherical planetary objects and your cheating ways! Damn you to hell!
Just joking here, but you are in the thread literally titled "What sounds extremely wrong, but is actually correct?"
frzferdinand72 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:31:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And because Istanbul is in the western part of Turkey.
peenegobb ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:02:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even though I partly knew this because of the shape norway is... This comment chain blew my mind..
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:23:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm norwegian and I didn't know this. What the fuck
Kaarvaag ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:00:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hoooly crap that one is screwing hard with my mental map of Norway.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:56:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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tamadekami ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:37:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even ol' New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it, I can't say
(People just liked it better that way)
sangriadvx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:49:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Woah. That's the crazy one.
SparrowHawk77 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:37 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the weirdest geography fact ever
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:57:57 on April 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The only reason I can follow any of this is from playing total war.
paging_doctor_who ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:04:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And let's not forget the most fun fact about Scandinavia: it's shaped like a bifurcated penis.
emmaftw ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:03:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not Constantinople
JasonDJ ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:55:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was Constantinople, but now it's Istanbul.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:33:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And Sweden and Finland don't border the arctic ocean. Only Norway can have that sweet sweet arctic oil.
ihasaKAROT ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:03:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Finland isnt even scandinavian if you wanna keep going
Noble_Ox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:15:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depends.
Scarletfapper ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:07:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Norway - the Trump toupรฉ of Scandinavia.
GlenCocoPuffs ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:39:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The old Norwegian reach-around
legit_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:54:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know this when you've played as much Diplomacy as I have.
greyjackal ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:42:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
New York state confused the fuck out of me when I lived in Boston for a couple of years for a similar reason.
"Wait...I have to go NORTH west west to visit Rochester?? New York's down there, isn't it?"
dedbet ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:20:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Norway is not only Finland's northern neighbour but also eastern one.
apparaatti ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:32:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And western. And kinda Southern too.
philosoraptocopter ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:06:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Norway: completely preventing Sweden and Finland from enjoying the Arctic Ocean since 1905
bobosuda ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:40:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Norway has a really weird shape. After reaching the northernmost point, you can still keep going for over 1000 kilometers directly east before reaching the border with Russia.
imquitestupid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:34:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well Denmark has the disputed territory of Hans Island, which means they share a border with Canada.
They also have the dependency of Greenland which, if counted, makes things a wee bit more complicated.
columbus8myhw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Islands don't really border things. If you count that, why can't you say that Denmark has Greenland and thus borders Canada?
imquitestupid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Because Greenland being part of Denmark is iffy. It's technically its own country, except its dependent upon, and not actually legally independent of (Even though it's independent in spirit or something, it's dumb), Denmark, and they all have Danish citizenship and are counted as Danish for most purposes, and so on.
Hans Island WAS proposed being split down the middle though, if that helps make it easier to swallow me using the term "border".
At any rate, if you count Hans Island Denmark is, by far, the most western and Northern Scandinavian nation, and it was already the most southern.
Edit: I forgot about a small island owned by Norway.
olderkj ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:57:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you think Denmark is the most southern Scandinavian country, you should google Bouvet Island.
Unborn_Platypus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:27:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or the God damn South Pole, which Norway, among others, claims as theirs.
columbus8myhw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:48:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But the only reason Hans Island can even be thought of as being Danish is because of Greenland. Look at a map of it; it's right in the middle of Greenland and Canada.
imquitestupid ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:50:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No one ever said this wasn't stupid.
Denmark claims it because of its use by Greenlandic inuits, on behalf of Greenland, but because of its self governing treaty the matter is handled by Denmark as a Danish claim.
Amunium ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:38:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a terrible point. Lots of countries have territories that are far closer to other countries.
whatIsThisBullCrap ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:50:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One proposed (and the de facto state of the island now) is to split Hans Island in half, so Canada and Denmark would share an actual land border
buffbodhotrod ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:59:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's also not even real!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:33:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The resevoir tip of Norway, if you will.
SimB5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spoons
Lakinther ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
mountains i guess
TheMSensation ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:02:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also Finland doesn't exist.
EltaninAntenna ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:52:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like the rascals pinched all of Finland's coastline.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:36:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Plus a tiny piece of Russia sneaks around China to barely touch North Korea
msdarth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:27:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
US Netflix have "Occupied" yet? it's about this.
JohannesJ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:29:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Iceland is, but I see your point :)
columbus8myhw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:42:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nordic != Scandinavian
shapu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:12:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like the big penis when frotting.
butterspread ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:16:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I looked at the map and damn. Sweden doesnt even have access to sea/ocean to the north. Only to the south.
eric67 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:59:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
do the swedes mind?
Nicksaurus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:37:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You would know if you'd ever spent half an empire total war campaign as Sweden fighting off both Norway and Russia while simultaneously managing the delicate balance of ass-kissing and economic exploitation required to keep the rest of europe happy.
Basically, fuck Poland for pretending to be friendly for 20 years before turning around and revealing themselves to be massively territorial supercunts who are terrible at picking their enemies.
Geography!
BrotherBloat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:16:32 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Norway also borders the UK and Russia on Svalbard.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:19:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Vikingrage ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:09:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. Scandinavia = Norway, Sweden and Denmark. The Nordic countries are Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland.
Thundergrunge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:15:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, not even including Finland. Didn't know that.
Vikingrage ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:19:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The more you know! Sadly it's quite the common mistake...
To put it short: Norway, Sweden and Denmark share a shit ton of history. And we have a lot of similarities when it comes to culture and language. Finland share less history with the others and have a language that is completely off (Uralic->Finnish compared to the others which are Indo-European->Germanic->North Germanic->Norwegian/Swedish/Danish).
Thundergrunge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:44:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But doesn't the Faroe Islands count as they are part of the Kingdom of Denmark (even though they are an autonomous country)?
Vikingrage ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, not in general. They are under the Danish Crown but are spoken and thought about as an autonomous country.
apparaatti ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:36:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/TsXMe8H6iyc
Rishnixx ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:12:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Figures Hitler would know that.
Vovicon ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:31:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The country sharing the longest land border with France is Brazil.
amazondrone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:54:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
... what?
Ah. French Guiana. Got it.
theamazingsteve1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:35:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Relevant username.
Skeetronic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:10:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maine?
TheSystem_IsDown ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:12:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
#bufferstate
AdolfJongUn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:37:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Adolf Elizabeth Hitler?
FinibusBonorum ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:26:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was ready to call BS on that, but consulted my world map on the wall first. Damn, you're right! I've lived in Scandinavia for decades and didn't know that!
dpash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:02:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Republic of France shares a border with Brazil and the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
TheJaice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:50:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brazil and Italy share a border with the same country. France.
BryGuyB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:16:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This one actually made my brain hurt. I squished my eyes and looked away from my phone.
JasonDJ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:54:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So if North Korea ever wants to invade Europe, they should start by going into Norway. Preferably in the winter.
StrawhatPirate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:15:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's just because you failed. Russkies took our arm for it! (Finland map before ww2)
Uusis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:46:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's same for Finland too, well Estonia too, well any country that is bordering Russia, you could go through Russia to many different countries.
Neuermann ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:11:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've said it before about this fact.
I don't like it because it is essentially the same as saying that nothing separates the earth from the moon.
Technically correct, but misleading.
Adolf-____-Hitler ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:35:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I get what you are saying but I disagree. One of the main points about this fact is that it shows just how incredibly huge Russia is.
Neuermann ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:37:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Huh, I never thought of it like that. Showing how big Russia is makes more sense.
NutellaGood ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:03:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, Russians are asians.
b0ners4u ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:16:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How is that possible? North Korea borders China
amazondrone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:57:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And Russia. Just.
b0ners4u ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:38:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL
Ech0ofSan1ty ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:26:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Useful in the game of Risk.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:23:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
China borders Afghanistan.
Blue_Fourty_Also ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:29:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How did I not know Russia bordered North Korea?!
[deleted] ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 01:08:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It is possible to get between the two only traveling through Russia but not if you take the shortest path.
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 04:02:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure why you got downvoted. Yeah, you can travel from Norway to Russia to North Korea without stepping foot on another country's land, but as the crow flies and as most people could ever imagine getting from Norway to North Korea you wouldn't go that route. I guess this thread had a lot of pedantic geographers.
Disgruntled__Goat ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 12:37:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FYI, you two are the ones being pedantic.
Spax_ ยท 777 points ยท Posted at 02:14:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a non American (an American't possibly?), why is this so unbelievable? Maine looks like the most Eastern part of the US so it stands to reason that it's closest.
Bill_Thigh ยท 919 points ยท Posted at 02:20:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The way most maps of the US are oriented, it seems that the east coast is almost vertical, so you'd expect Florida to be closest to Africa. But in actuality, Florida is West of Maine, and so Maine is closest to Africa.
Coconutbasketbal ยท 730 points ยท Posted at 02:30:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're vertical.
Bill_Thigh ยท 457 points ยท Posted at 02:35:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd rather be vertical than a filthy horizontal
thundergonian ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 03:15:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only a horizontal would be happy in their own filth.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 03:29:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RACE WAR!
Dioburnsyourpuppies ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 04:05:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking target nipple piece of shit
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:32:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Say it to my face you knife nipple bastard
Archer007 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:31:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WHY CANT YOU REALIZE YOU'RE ALL THE SAME?!
F4ST_M4ST3R ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:01:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NOHRIAN SCUM
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:07:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Horizontal lives matter, you shitlord.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:41:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Filthy casuals, diagonal ftw.
Bill_Thigh ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:43:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pick a side, scum.
seymoredjibouti ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:58:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
keeeep it verticaaaalll brooooh
goooder ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:15:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're all whores
TAPrice ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:18:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Diagonally speaking, both of you shut the fuck up.
sotx35 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:46:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Id rather be doing the filthy horizontal, amateur.
Bill_Thigh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:52:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where's the pleasure in going horizontal once in a while if you're always horizontal?
Amphabian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:31:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And so the great Linear Inquisition began.
Bill_Thigh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:48:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No one expects the Linear Inquisition.
kuilin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:29:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's fine, you're both straight /s
Rimbosity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:35:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
if you're vertical, you haven't been drinking enough
vwhipv ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:46:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bill Thigh The Z/R guy !
Prophet_Muhammad_phd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:33:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck you, my family has deep roots in horizontalia, we were respected once... then it all went vertical.
lightningboltkid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:01:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm just sitting over here being all adjacent and shit.
jeaguilar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:07:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh boy. Here we go again.
Grey4Life
Benzilla11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:13:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're worse than vertical, you're a square
Tsnav ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:40:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because I was inverted
Ask_me_about_WoTMUD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:00:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Filthy hors.
ragn4rok234 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:37:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like to get filthy while I'm horizontal
Alpacasaurus_Rekt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:38:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where's my diagonals at?
CosmicSpaghetti ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:54:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RACEWAR!!!!
cooliskid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:41:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But those diagonals amiright??!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:25:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Filthy hor's!
the_real ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:13:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember the night I lost my verticality to a cheap horizontal
RockStar5132 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:34:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey now, at least none of us are oblique
wantsomechips ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:47:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your mom is vertical.
NeokratosRed ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:33:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Last time I checked his mom was horizontal last night.
lannister80 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're a cigarette.
ModernPoultry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:19:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, Adrian Wojnarowski is Verticle
buffbodhotrod ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:59:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Get him!
benjamin_jabituya ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:01:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh you're acute one. And I don't mean cuddly. Stop being obtuse.
ohnjaynb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:37:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're a towel.
Alienstrawberry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:39:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're obtuse
Scarletfapper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:08:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're vertical, it's truuuue
RotatingBagel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:40:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ZINGER
Spax_ ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:33:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah okay, I guess our maps are a different projection.
Bill_Thigh ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 02:40:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know about that. It just may be a matter of scale. On a normal US map you can see that Florida is a bit west of maine. However, that effect seems much more exaggerated when you look at a world map.
WhynotstartnoW ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 02:57:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Another thing is that many people probably imagine that because the US and Europe are both the 'northern hemisphere' that they're about equal distances from the equator and that South America and Africa being 'southern hemisphere' continents that they're about the same distance from the equator. While the reality is that most of europe is much further north than the northernmost parts of the US(*continental US, not alaska), but many people when picturing the world map in their imagination will see Florida and Spain at the same latitude, as well as picturing the northernmost part of Africa being at the same latitude as Mexico or the north of South America.
rochford77 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:09:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think this has to do with our similar climates as well (the US and UK). People assume because our climates are similar our distance from the equator must be similar. Oddly enough, Canada is much closer to the UK in terms of latitude.
This is due to the North Atlantic current.
dogshenanigans ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:52:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The US has separate climates within itself so I wouldn't say any country has the 'same climate' we do
gmoney8869 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:19:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
china?
moomaka ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:16:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The two maps you linked are using two very different projections which is why they look much different. The US map looks like an equal-area projection while the world map looks like a Van der Grinten projection.
Spax_ ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:47:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The problem is that in the US only map (which only Americans look at, sorry to break it to you but Americant's don't care about your geography) you're not representing North and South as a straight vertical line, it's on the piss, whereas in the world map (which is the only image of the US that I'm familiar with) the continent is angled appropriately.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:07:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, would've guessed Florida.
lkmyntz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:08:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a North Floridian, it blows people's minds when I tell them Orlando is actually east of Jacksonville.
catladyfromthesstars ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:09:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Accurate photo? I'm so confused but curious!
Doubleyoupee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:04:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But it being vertical or not has nothing to do with it. Rome isn't far south at all.
skiman13579 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:12:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not to mention that Cleveland is about the same latitude as Rome. So Maine isn't even as far north as people think.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:39:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People may picture it vertical but maps don't show it that way, because, well, it isn't and they generally want to make those things accurate.
GWizzle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:40:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, Africa goes a lot further north than you might infer from looking at a map of North America while imagining the eastern hemisphere.
dogshenanigans ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:50:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you didn't know that Florida was west of Maine you are severely geographically challenged
katha757 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:39:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm from the US and I couldn't believe this so I fired up google earth.
Apparently I had no idea the United States was oriented like that in respect to the rest of the world. Surprising to say the least. You would have thought someone during the 15 years of schooling I had would have mentioned that small fact.
DeShawnThordason ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:00:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not true at all, but people simplify shapes in their head.
BitchinTechnology ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:20:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Um not on any maps I have looked at. It would either be Florida or Maine
Zurrkitty ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:24:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bill Thigh the Cardio Guy?
DonutBoy12321 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:24:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because we picture Africa as mostly being to the South, so we'd assume one of our Southern states would be closer
DouchecraftCarrier ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:12:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
No such thing as an American't. Only an Amerihasn't. We're open for business, folks.
Spax_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:41:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I beg to differ.
spoonybard326 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:56:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Florida seems like the "southeast corner" of the US and hence the closest point to a continent that lies generally southeast of the US, but people don't realize how far west Florida is. Jacksonville is due south of Pittsburgh, not NYC or Boston.
babygrenade ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:22:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because everyone forgets about Maine
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:09:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is true. People assume we are just part of Canada now.
ILMTitan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:56:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is because we think of Africa as "south", and would therefore expect the south-eastern most corner of the US to be the closest. However Africa extends much further north than we think, and oceans are also wider than we think; so the east-west axis is what is actually important.
Mic_Check_One_Two ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most people assume Florida is closer, because it sticks out of the bottom corner. But that's only because most people assume the east coast is nearly vertical.
2evil ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:00:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From a previous comment in this thread we learned that Alaska is the easternmost US state.
TJinAZ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You see, we don't think of the rest of the world as... Well, we don't think of it much at all... Sorry...
tamadekami ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:40:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm, American't proper terminology.
Source: am Ameripossibly.
arefx ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:20:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
its because its so far north, I would at first as an american assume it would be a south eastern state like florida or georgia. looking at a globe it makes sense though. We associate maine with cold ass winters and snow, and africa as warm with no snow, I;m guilty of doing this subconsciously even though I know parts or africa have a similar climate to where i live during the spring/summer/fall months.
prancingElephant ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:57:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Definitely.
MrGestore ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 13:15:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
US people (at least from what the Internet shows) seem to have a bad grasp over geography and kind of maps.
dabosweeney ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 14:17:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because everyone is an idiot
tkh0812 ยท 77 points ยท Posted at 23:56:03 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't believe you
[deleted] ยท 238 points ยท Posted at 00:05:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's surprisingly true.
HauschkasFoot ยท 383 points ยท Posted at 00:10:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
r/theydidthemap
theactorkevineldon ยท 304 points ยท Posted at 01:11:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemonstermap
blurredsagacity ยท 68 points ยท Posted at 03:07:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/itwasagraveyardcartograph
BrtneySpearsFuckedMe ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:17:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
r/theydidthefuckyou
Iridium777 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 01:59:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/HorseAbuse
HerpaDerpaShmerpadin ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:16:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it really animal abuse if the horse is dead? We do not hear of people complaining about hamburgers being cow abuse.
Iridium777 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:23:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Very true. But we might as well keep beating the dead horse, I mean, it can't feel pain.
DoubleClickMouse ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:47:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you ever beat the shit out of a hamburger?
SinkTube ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:09:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I only beat my own meat.
numberIV ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:07:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/itwasagraveyardgofuckyourself
moeshapoppins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:07:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was a graveyard smash
jigga19 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:19:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I cannot tell which I would appreciate more: that this came to you suddenly, or if you've been patiently waiting for years to use this.
RangerSix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:35:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/themonstermap
BubblesthePorcupine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:39:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/itwasasphericalsmash
BrtneySpearsFuckedMe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:16:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
r/theydidthefuckyou
Kinggod13 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:00:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/itwasagraveyardmap
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:49:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/itcaughtoninamap
NowHowCow ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:07:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/DraculaandhisSonmap
Ohbeejuan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:57:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Werewolf Bar Mitzvah. Spooky, Scary. Boys becoming men. Men becoming wolves.
anchorass ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 01:47:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shut the fuck up
blurredsagacity ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:07:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/itwasagraveyardcartograph
CookieTheEpic ยท -19 points ยท Posted at 01:12:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthestupidfuckingmeme
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 02:53:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
r/theydidthegraveyardmap
Wo0dles ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:00:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So upset that's not real
usoland-sama ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:01:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds like a fetish
nooneiller ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:11:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
r/imthemap
BrtneySpearsFuckedMe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
r/theydidthefuckyou
Mindregle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:16:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
r/theydidthemonstermap
poizan42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:47:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think they want people to be able to remember their domain
sabrefudge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:00:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had no idea that Europe was so much further North than the United States.
I always assumed the US and Europe were pretty much parallel, as well as South America to Africa.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:41:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a surprise to most people!
Virginia has about the same latitude as the south of Spain, while the eastern tip of Brazil is closer to Equatorial Guinea.
Hell, parts of England are at the same level as Hudson's Bay!
Smartstocks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:47:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy cow! {:'-D
Thor_Odinson_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:30:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What might that smiley be representing?
Smartstocks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:04:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Something funny ;)
1
2
blalkr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:30:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the hell is that smiley dude.
blalkr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:31:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the hell is that smiley dude.
blalkr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:31:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the hell is that smiley dude.
blalkr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:43:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the hell is that smiley dude.
Smartstocks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:45:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a meme ;)
throatfrog ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 00:03:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It sounds extremely wrong, but it's actually correct.
SenorRobert ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:33:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ayy
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lmao
nobodylikedwesley ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:23:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like when they say the title of the movie, INTHEMOVIE...
CheersletsSmoke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's because the maps you are accustomed to seeing aren't proportionally accurate. At least, there are various versions that each have differing characteristics while all portraying the same earth. I am not well versed on why there are different maps, but I'm stoned and hope this helped.
BitchinTechnology ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you never seen a map
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:03:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
[deleted]
BitchinTechnology ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:07:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol right! Like seriously anyone who has ever seen a US map should instantly know it's either Florida or Maine.
gorka_la_pork ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 01:05:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On a similar note, Reno is west of L.A.
JarlaxleForPresident ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:08:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whaaaaat
rckid13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:37:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you look at a map it makes sense. California geography is a little weird. The coastline runs at a big angle. It blew my mind the first time I flew from LA to Santa Barbara and the entire flight was nearly straight west.
rhymes_with_chicken ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 01:40:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
hrm...that doesn't sound wrong. What would you think it is?
jcoguy33 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 02:47:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because we think that Africa is south of the US so you'd maybe think Florida is the closest, but it's actually Maine.
Cryptokhan ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:50:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's because of the way the East coast is angled that it sounds wrong
CaelestisInteritum ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:01:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's also how map projections distort it that makes it seem wrong. On a globe, it's pretty obvious.
phoenixrawr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:20:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most people don't realize how far Maine sticks out or how far south the US is/how far north Africa is. Many people would probably think Florida or something like that.
dryerlintcompelsyou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:59:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd think Florida
rhymes_with_chicken ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:01:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ok. I always thought maine stuck out a bit more (because it does, apparently).
fuckyoubarry ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:00:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That hrm sounds british so I'm gonna explain this. The projections most Americans see of their country show Maine as way far north, and Florida as only a little bit west of Maine. And we all no Africa is further south than the US. So if Florida is only a little bit west of Maine, and Maine is waaaay north of Florida, and Africa is south of the US, then it stands to reason that Florida is closest to Africa. But that's not true, it just feels true because of the map of the US we're used to seeing.
rhymes_with_chicken ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:06:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm originally from Texas, now living I Northern California. But, ok.
Shaw-Deez ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:09:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maine, you lyin!
cheapasfree24 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:45:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is actually a surprisingly large African immigrant population in southern Maine.
314R8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:21:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reno is further west than LA!
Bicit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I dunno, Massachusetts looks closer.
shleppenwolf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alaska is the northernmost, westernmost and easternmost state. (Semisopochnoi Island lies at longitude 179d 46m EAST)
Justtryme90 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:37:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But not the closest part of the US, as I believe the virgin islands would be closer.
F3AR3DLEGEND ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:04:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly, I can't find an accurate map of the world to even question details like this anymore. I just accept them to be true. I once read about bias in how maps are drawn, depending on their origin, and now I never know what to trust.
CitizenPremier ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:11:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's also closer to France than to North Carolina.
biddily ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:12:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I live in Boston. There's bits of Canada further south than me.
PJDubsen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:14:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What state is farthest east? Alaska.
DingJones ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:05:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean Africa?
Merhouse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is truly astounding! Thanks!
ayotechnology ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:27:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like this fact follows under "well no shit".
traveler19395 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:39:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow. I mostly believed you, but I immediately opened Google Earth to verify and assumed it would be a pretty small difference. Nope, roughly 3200 vs 4000 miles.
CrazyRabbi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:52:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can someone get me a map!?
rab777hp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:01:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...why do people think this sounds wrong?? it goes the most east
hexag1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:03:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds exactly right
Trogdorocks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:18:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean the only other that could seem possible would be the Eastern-most part of Florida, but due to the way Africa is shaped, it would be farther away to the East.
EmeliusBrown ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:32:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reno, NV is further west than Los Angeles.
apocolypticbosmer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:24:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I find this very believable
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:43:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This kind of fact doesn't sound wrong to me because I know virtually nothing about American geography.
EhhWhatsUpDoc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:50:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If only Palin were governor of Maine in '08
JELLY__FISTER ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:31:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Related: Boston is about 15ยฐ east of Miami, and basically all of New England belongs in the Atlantic Time Zone instead of the Eastern
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:59:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The capital of Algeria is further north than Miami
hokiesAllDaWay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:08:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you look at polar projection of the map, you would understand why.
http://d1ftgt94wd5jml.cloudfront.net/2010/proj_ups.png
neuromorph ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:13:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How?
bacon_strip_grundle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:19:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so we know who in America is responsible for blessing the rains down in Africa
g-spot_adept ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:22:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nah, it's actually Massachusetts (Cape Cod)
bultrey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:39:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's why there are so many black people in Maine.
password_is_njkvcxjk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:04:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Boston is closer to Brazil than it is to San Francisco.
nlane515 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:55:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No Florida?
BoomBoomSpaceRocket ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:30:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Demographically, however, Maine is the furthest from Africa.
JokeDeity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:12:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WTF? Are that many people unaware of where Maine is? I'm baffled right now that this got more than 1 up vote.
lifeisbutadream22 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:14:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm now in a suburb of New Orleans, and Tel Aviv is only about 5 feet away. But I need a wormhole to get there.
bjsy92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:48:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
why should this be a surprise? It's the east coast and it juts out...?
LeakyLycanthrope ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:17:34 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That actually sounds perfectly reasonable.
turkeypedal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:34:35 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Never understood why that's so weird. It's the easternmost state (not counting those islands in Alaska).
When I think of a world map, it just looks closer, unlike most of the other surprising geographical facts.
Enkotu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:46:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't believe you bc it seems so wrong, turned out to actually be correct.
tanman334 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 01:11:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the title of this post
-kkslider ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:48:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would that be the United State? Instead of the United States State. Or maybe just the state? Who knows
DigiDug ยท 1733 points ยท Posted at 02:09:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any word if you repeat it enough times
ivquatch ยท 103 points ยท Posted at 05:29:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Row-ads."
eoffgor ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:15:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RoooOoods
idwthis ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:33:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Been an awfully long time since I've seen a Black Sheep reference!
ThatUsernameWasTaken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:12:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wasn't that Tommy Boy?
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:08:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope.
idwthis ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:04:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. It's definitely from Black Sheep, where Farley and Spade are trying to make it to Farley's bro in time, and they're in the police car and the nitrous oxide is leaking into the car, giving them a buzz.
Then another police officer pulls them over, tells Farley he was only driving 7 mph, Farley claims Spade slaughtered a shitload of chickens and fucked horses in Nevada, and the cop tells him to get the fucker out of his jurisdiction a little bit faster.
ThatUsernameWasTaken ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:51:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I remember the scene in detail, my brain just filed it under Tommy Boy for some reason. Too many Farley-Spade road trip movies. Or not enough.
SadGhoster87 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:27:12 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Quadrant. Kooaaadrant. Quadrant.
/r/mildlyhomestuck
DhampirBoy ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 05:29:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Semantic satiation. Which was probably a source of inspiration behind the film "Pontypool".
greyjackal ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:02:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, it's also a town in Wales.
DhampirBoy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:39:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is a Pontypool in Wales, but the movie refers to the Pontypool that is in Ontario, Canada.
ztpurcell ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:36:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also associated with "jamais vu" (like dรฉjร vu, except jamais means never). Basically means it feels like you've never seen it before even though you know you have
Oedipus_rekts ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 07:24:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
From.
I mean, wtf?
From =/=frahm
From From From From From From From From From From From
fsm_vs_cthulhu ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 10:10:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Try seeing SURVEY written in a large bold font.
It loses all meaning within seconds. You just stare at it and your brain says "wut?"
On an unrelated note, I'm having a serious Baader Meinhof moment right now, because I just spent about 10 minutes hunting for the word "semantic satiation" to describe this exact thing so that I could make my friend (who is at an [8] right now) trip out over a word, and then I came to read this thread which I had open in a new tab. Crazy stuff.
Oedipus_rekts ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:17:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From?
j2o1707 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:13:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SURVEY
ysgramor4 ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 05:36:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bowel
Thromnomnomok ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 08:37:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:32:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
semantic satiation, semantic satiation, semantic satiation.... semantic... fuck
doihavemakeanewword ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:38:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sat-iation?
ilikeeatingbrains ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 07:36:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shh, don't engage with him, he's anti-semantic
TasteTheRaimbow ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:08:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My favourite is wrench.
hamernaut ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 09:19:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like "snorkel".
TasteTheRaimbow ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 09:23:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a good one. I'll give you 5 points
ElectroKitten ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:54:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Points points points points
Sennirak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:57:32 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like puddle.
Noble_Ox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:01:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lamppost.
uniptf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:17:33 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wench is even better.
ninjanamaka ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:05:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
goebbels, is that you?
pm_me_ur_flags ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:12:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
two shouldn't be spelt that way
TopGunnn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:43:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Di-apers.
Xperr7 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:58:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking milk
papiermach ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:47:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Run run run run run run run run run run run run
1RandomUser ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:46:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China for China"
CalmerWithKarma ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:05:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is called semantic satiation. Last time I experienced this was with the word "cigar". Sounded really weird after a while!
scratchfury ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:06:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Moist
EltaninAntenna ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:51:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any opinion expressed often enough becomes a fact.
Vice21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:00:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This phenomenon is known as semantic satiation.
GroundsKeeper2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:22:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't get it.
Timmytimmy34563456 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:27:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about the word "A"?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:35:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:57:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Broccoli
Cosmolution ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:58:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This phenomenon is called Jamais Vu (zha-may voo). Not to be confused with Deja Vu or Presque Vu.
Lauderdaleblues ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:05:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bowl
Bowl
Bow-el
Bowel
bowel
CosmicSpaghetti ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:24:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Especially Aisle.
semiomni ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:30:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh Flesh
ultralame ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:35:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tartlets
blitzduck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:01:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My favourite one to do that with is "noise".
NeededKoalafications ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:15:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sandwich sandwich samwich samwich siamwich
ponchoboy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brown.
heltistelti ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:05:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Repeat any really fast
Gapik34 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:06:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
LOOSE
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:06:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Greg
ThisJawnThatJawn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:56:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My HS teacher once told me that when that happens, it's because our brain changes from hearing it as a word to hearing it as a sound.
Tuba4life1000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:15:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What?
SHIT_IN_MY_ANUS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:19:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Semantic saturation.
pigeonwiggle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:21:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
word word word word werd werd wrrd wrrd wrrd wrrd wrrd wrrd...
Coffeesq ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:14:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had to do some legal bench memo for a Judge regarding a sneaker. I think in the memo, I typed the word "sneaker" 80 times. I still refuse to believe "sneaker" is a word despite having written this memo about 6 months ago.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:55:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bungalow
UwasaWaya ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:49:24 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Greg"
Huuju ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:54:41 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wha..?
SwootyDude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:27:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am so fucking glad I'm not the only one that happens to. Is there a term for it?!
MrJeef ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:46:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Semantic Satiation
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:09:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted]
MrJeef ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:54:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
XD haha I actually thought maybe you were being sarcastic and I was being naive.
ThatCK ยท 1548 points ยท Posted at 02:36:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
We're closer to the Trex than the stegosaurus was.
Edit: T. Rex, lazy late night phone typing.
Vacant_Of_Awareness ยท 3015 points ยท Posted at 04:46:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's right behind me, isn't it
PM_ME_UR_HEDGEHOGS ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 07:15:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, because the stegosaurus saw it and ran the hell away.
It could've warned you, yes, but it doesn't speak English.
man-of-God-1023 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 13:15:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
roar
Oh that's just the dog.
ErlendJ ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 11:25:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
CLEVER GIRL
ivquatch ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 05:32:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
must go faster...
jellary ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:26:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Get off the stick. Bloody move!
uniptf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:24:33 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
don't move...their vision is based on motion...
jellary ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:31:41 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Movement. "Don't move. He can't see us if we don't no e."
Korrasch ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:19:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
gottagofast
Paradoxa77 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:08:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahh so many Redditaroos in this thread... But you! I like you.
kaiju-taxi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:53:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
whispers roar.
AssAssIn46 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:06:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
JINKIES!
summitorother ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:43:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That always happens when I make T-Rex jokes too.
PosthistoricDino ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:39:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Boo
Koooooj ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:20:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, it looks pretty far back in the rearview mirror, but I'm not sure if I can trust that.
uniptf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:22:38 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Objects seen in the rearview mirrors are losing.
bluedrygrass ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:35:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh don't worry, you can outrun it wearing stilettos
Fallenexe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:08:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yee
Excalibur54 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:52:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Truth: there is a sky leopard behind you right now
McGuffiny ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:22:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hold still, its vision is based on
Ihopeicanchangdisl8r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:32:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
relevant username?
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:26:22 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Username checks out
maynihc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:05:50 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hot singles in your area!
NosyEnthusiast6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:30:16 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Clever AAAAAAAAGH
omegasavant ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 06:50:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The stegosaurus is older than grass.
pf2- ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:29:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really?
omegasavant ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 08:43:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really.
scarecrow180 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:32:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guess I'll take your word for it.
HeimrArnadalr ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:29:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
scarecrow180 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:34:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's fascinating!! Thanks!
neocommenter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:18:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sharks predate trees.
moltenshrimp ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:32:24 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That explains shark population declines better than exploitation ever does!
elllkayyyemmm__ ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 06:04:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For 5 minutes I wondering what the hell a "trex" was. Showed my little brother and it took all of 2 seconds for him to figure out it was T-rex. I feel dumb.
KlingonAdmiral ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 08:01:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
T. rex, actually
Duckshuffler ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 11:21:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wouldn't it be T. rex, for extra pedantry points?
KlingonAdmiral ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 11:24:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
T. rex, Osborn, 1905 for peak pedantry
TasteTheRaimbow ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:01:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oops
JupiterHurricane ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 08:23:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Pretty sure the Land Before Time documentaries had both of those dinosaurs, so ... pretty sure you're wrong. Sorry buddy.
Many dinosaurs had the ability to speak English as well. It was a crazy place back then.
TheHornyToothbrush ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:42:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My favorite documentaries /r/TLBT
ecklcakes ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:45:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Genetically? Chronologically?
Qaysed ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 10:38:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Chronologically. Not sure about genetically, because I don't know how genetic distance works. I know that T-rex and sparrow are genetically closer than t-rex and stegosaurus, though.
Archaic_Z ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:45:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, phylogenetically (i.e. evolutionary distance) T. rex is more closely related to sparrows than stegosaurs, but all dinosaurs (including birds) are more closely related to each other than they are to you. You'd have to go back to something like amphibians to find an animal that would be the outgroup (less closely related) than yourself and T. rex.
Dr_Vesuvius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:03:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Quick crash course on genetic distance: you need to find the last common ancestor. The earlier that ancestor is, the closer you are related.
All dinosaurs (including avians) share a "recent" common ancestor, about 250mya. The last common ancestor of dinosaurs and mammals lived about 350mya. Although these dates are currently speculative and likely to come down, we know that T. rex was more closely related to other dinosaurs than to any mammal.
Qaysed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:10:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OK, thanks!
goodevilgenius ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:59:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then why were they both in Jurassic Park?
lonewolf2556 ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 05:47:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let's say I dropped a penny from 1963 into a jar, then a penny from 2015 into a jar. They both existed, and they're both in the same place. I just happened to get ahold of them both for my convenience.
WanderingBastardo ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:46:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OPEN YOUR EYES SHEEPLE
ClavicusNitrus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:40:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They weren't, the stegosaurus never made an appearance in Jurassic park โฎ(โฏโฝโฐ)โญ
goodevilgenius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:56:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I vial of stego DNA was seen in the first movie, meaning it was in the park. It was also seen in the next three movies, and both books.
ClavicusNitrus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:12:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry, I know that - but it never appears in Jurassic Park itself, and the next two movies are on site B and Jurassic World isn't Jurassic Park.
I'm just joking around because it's never actually seen in Jurassic Park, referring to the first film and park.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:20 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because they used the dna of dinosaurs from various time periods. Many of those creatures were not from the Jurassic period.
goodevilgenius ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:08:29 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think they could legally call it Jurassic Park if all the creatures weren't from the Jurassic period. /s
fart_fig_newton ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:49:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well yeah, it was only founded 20 years ago. Source
tainted_memory ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:43:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Read that as "trecks" not t-Rex got a bit confused
Breadlifts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:57:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. All dinosaurs share a common archosaur ancestor. Humans come from a completely different branch of reptiles called synapsids.
Unless you just mean timescale, not evolutionary or genetic relationship, in which case you're correct.
trilobot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:02:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're still wrong! T. rex is the correct way. You could underline it instead of italics but gotta be one or the other.
dens421 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:37:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everything we think we know about T-rex is based on about 20 fossils separated by millions of years...
Palaeontologists are really making most of their stuff up from what in any other scientific field would be called anecdotal data points.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:11:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah iv seen people with t rex arms.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:18:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That one just decked me.
http://www.trex.com/
GoodGuyNixon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:40:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
T. rex
adnaanbheda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:54:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kurzgesagt is a great channel
bear_Down67 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:17:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Emotionally?
Pagedpuddle65 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:22:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Always seemed like the stegosaurus had those spikes to protect against a T. Rex. What did it actually need those for? Was it just showing off?
Donkey__Xote ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:46:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not a surprise. T-rex wouldn't want to be hit with a Thagomizer either.
CrabbyBlueberry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:01:34 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal.
domromer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:48:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
Reality_Facade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:13:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So that model of prehistoric Earth I built using toy dinosaurs when I was a kid featuring a stegosaurus being eaten by a T. Rex was inaccurate?
My life is a lie.
Itsapocalypse ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:12:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trex sounds like a running show brand. Or a tricks promotion for a new JJ Abrams movie
SordidDreams ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:58:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Similarly, more time had elapsed between the construction of the Giza pyramids and the life of Cleopatra than between the life of Cleopatra and now.
OskarCa ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:42:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well you do know what they say, "Trex are for kids"
SminkyBazzA ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:59:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trex is also a brand of fake lard.
SmoSays ยท 7298 points ยท Posted at 01:51:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Overlook is the opposite of itself.
Edit 4 - I forgot to put this in Edit 3: I mean overlook has two contradictory meanings. Overlook does not mean the opposite of the word 'itself'. I should have chosen my words better.
Overlook can mean
Edit: Words like this are called contronyms and auto-antonyms.
Edit 2 - The Revenge: Dictionary definition. Specifically definitions 1 & 7.
Edit 3 - The Prequel: I'm beginning to suspect those of us who use both definitions are very few in numbers.
xHelpless ยท 2867 points ยท Posted at 02:25:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
same with the word 'sanction'.
To allow and to reprimand.
sweet_roses ยท 1317 points ยท Posted at 04:32:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with cleave- to split apart and to adhere to
pruwyben ยท 1552 points ยท Posted at 04:51:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also 'buckle' - to fasten together or to break apart.
karmarocket_ ยท 1130 points ยท Posted at 05:15:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with fast - moving at a high speed and hard to move.
worksafemonkey ยท 1203 points ยท Posted at 05:18:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with execute - to set a plan in motion and to end something entirely.
Pwnella ยท 176 points ยท Posted at 05:23:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with saying it's all downhill from here. It can mean smooth sailing from here on out, or that everything is going to shit
TheJazzProphet ยท 111 points ยท Posted at 07:23:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with patronize. It can mean to support or to deride condescendingly.
permaculture ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 10:20:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A shaft can be a pole, or a tunnel.
najodleglejszy ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 10:24:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
egregious is both positive and negative.
anthem47 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:49:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Moot can mean "subject to debate" but also "of no practical relevance".
A moot was originally a kind of meeting, so a "moot point" was something to be tabled for discussion. My googling tells me the "of no practical relevance" definition arose in the US, but to be honest I've never heard it used in the original sense here in Australia, or anywhere else for that matter.
EWVGL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:01:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Resign, in terms of sports, might mean a player is never going to play again, or that they're going to keep playing.
Greylake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:09:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit is both varied and repetitive.
hopiehope ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:12:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Similar are the words raise and raze- sound like the same word, but have opposite meanings of build up or flatten totally.
thereal_mc ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:15:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nonplussed has also two opposite meanings: nonpenturbed and utterly confused.
dens421 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:25:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Literally now is also accepted for figuratively ...
(and I hate it!)
rednax1206 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:24:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Original" can mean either old or new.
thereal_mc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:14:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ex gregis - standing out of the herd ie. outstanding :)
wasniahC ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 10:38:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know that. Jeez.
jaykeith ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:54:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This thread was fun
jfb1337 ยท 61 points ยท Posted at 08:07:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with literally. It also means figuratively.
Peculiar_One ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 10:15:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That one just pisses me off.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:40:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, literally has been used as an intensifier since at least the late 17th century, or about a hundred years after Shakespeare more or less established modern English. Mark Twain, James Joyce and many other respected writers have used the word as an intensifier. So it's probably time to let it go, because you are wrong. Also, I don't feel like citing the link, but the editor of the OED wrote a history of literally as an intensifier, I think it's on Slate. Google it.
bumwine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:02:50 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It won't in ten more years. Sorry present-you.
Catalclyst ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:34:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Literally.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 09:30:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with fat chance. It can mean small chance.
420dankmemes1337 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 09:47:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've never heard of fat chance meaning anything but a small chance.
foafeief ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:53:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But fat isn't small
420dankmemes1337 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:34:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know it isn't. But that's just how English do.
foafeief ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:42:48 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No taken literally it's the opposite of small chance, making it the opposite of itself
Herp_derpelson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:59:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But fat is not small
BackInAsulon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:53:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's just sarcasm
rugtoad ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:56:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, not really. It's an intensifier, but literally nobody uses it in a manner synonymous with "figuratively" (i.e., to indicate language as not being literal).
InRealLifeImQuiteBig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:28:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with no. No means yes and yes means yes.
Auntie_Beeb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:19:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...same with "also" which also means "doesn't".
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:24:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
English is wrong.
grapesandmilk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:33:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But in the sense that "it's all going in one direction".
[deleted] ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 06:19:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with fat chance. It also means slim chance.
TastyBrainMeats ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 06:21:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's different. "Fat chance" and "slim chance" are synonyms; "fat chance" is not its own antonym.
pointlessvoice ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 06:27:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Slim chance means 99:1, fat chance means hahahahahahaha no.
SittingInTheShower ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:16:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but it's still 2 words. Has to be the same word.
bandaloo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:42:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One is usually said sarcastically.
anon99161 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:14:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with "debits" and "credits" when I get charged interest on my credit card.
jose_conseco ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:21:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thats sarcasm mane
Chukmag ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I fucking love your references
[deleted] ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 06:18:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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TastyBrainMeats ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 06:22:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can't say I've ever seen "jaded" used to mean "naive".
olddalan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:21:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As well as 'unlockable.'
Rosiesmomma ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 07:18:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with to dust. You can dust off a cabinet or dust for prints. In one you are removing dust in the second you are adding it.
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 07:35:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Inflammable" nearly killed me one time.
BatMannwith2Ns ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:55:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Inflammable means flammable!? What a country.
noewpt2377 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:02:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"I learned flammable and inflammable mean the same thing!"
Wilreadit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:18:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They are not the opposite of each other.
RedCat1529 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:48:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Resign - to quit or to sign on again.
SabreToothSandHopper ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 11:29:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with "off". The alarm went off so we turned it off
YoungsterJoey99 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:13:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, did you know the last execution in France was in 1977?
tinoko ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:37:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with dust - dust crops to add, dust a table to remove
MC_Mooch ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:40:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I too, am able to google "auto-antonyms"
Anonymous_Ascendent ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:15:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with cruise. To haul ass or meander lazily.
xbtdev ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 12:06:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought cruise just meant to stay at the same speed, not accelerate or decelerate.
SadGhoster87 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:25:40 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that why his movies aren't getting any better?
Anonymous_Ascendent ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:54:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stay at a fast speed or stay at a slow speed. Never said accelerate or decelerate.
xbtdev ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:55:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or stay at a moderate speed.
shenuhcide ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:46:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with peruse: to read very carefully and to read in a relaxed manner.
Melons22 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:04:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This confused me the first time I used a washing machine...is colourfast that the colour runs or stays put
Badvertisement ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:47:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Sophira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:25:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with 'consult' - to ask for advice, and to give advice.
Wilreadit ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:19:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man, that was smart.
00Deege ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:23:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with cucumber. To... To... I fuckin' suck at this.
DrLeprechaun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:24:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same thing with clip- to add on or to remove
StickyCarpet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:20:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with impregnable.
moxiebaseball ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:27:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Raise and raze are also homonyms and antonyms.
benmartini ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:14:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with inflammable, fire susceptible, fire retardant
Stavis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:42:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll keep it going because I love contronyms...
Same with bolt-to fasten, stick to and a flash or burst of something
Adido_net ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:50:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sadly same with literally which now means 1. literally 2. not literally, but only for emphasis look it up its true
trianuddah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:57:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If someone doesn't understand auto-antonyms their example is both not right and not left.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:06:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with race car.
KnightRunner23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:20:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with "awful" - awe-inspiring or terrible
rednemo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:05:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with "I'm bad" --Michael Jackson
BosskHogg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:43:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also "bolt": 1) to restrain from movement and 2) to quickly move.
kogasapls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:46:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like "buckle," these two uses are in very different contexts. "To execute a process" is universally to start it, "to execute a person" is to kill them. No real chance of confusion from a native speaker.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:08:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and 'ravel'
ChrisHansen_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:13:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with moist- I have no idea what I'm talking about
Stewbodies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:23:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Why did you kill your commanding officer?!"
"I'm just executing orders!" ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ
"Oh you!"
Crossfiyah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:37:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with nonplussed - To be totally in shock, or not surprised at all.
jump_the_snark ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:31:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uhm, how about inflammable? Does that count?
mperklin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:00:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with 'dust' - to remove small particles, or to add small particles
NosyEnthusiast6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:34:34 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Plan B was executed.
Plan B was executed.
Requires some personification, but eh.
QuincyAzrael ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:24:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with theory - a well supported model based on lots of scientific evidence and testing or a hair brained guess.
And unlike the other contronyms this one has probably damaged society. Thanks creationists.
geeeeh ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:42:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also "literally" with the newly accepted alternate definition in the dictionary.
rugtoad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:57:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The OED recognized that definition over a century ago..it's been in usage for over 300. Hardly "new".
basstronaut ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:44:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As someone who only knows English, our language is kind of dumb.
safely-afloat ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 07:56:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. As someone who knows three languages, the 'impurities' in the English language provide a rich source of humour, so necessary for human beings to enjoy life. e.g The Panda eats shoots and leaves.
MrXtraSteve ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:33:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The old man the boats.
kamehamenah ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:45:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same as my dick, it can be hard but is also known to be soft
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:20:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yea but it's ant sized so either way you'd need 1.6 million dicks for anyone to see the difference.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:03:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's why you call my mother.
R34R34 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And when you don't eat!
jontelang ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:05:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guess that finally explains "fast asleep" from Pokemon blue.
seal_eggs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:39:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also not eating
barto5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:24:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You just need duct tape. And WD-40.
If it's fast, and you want it to be fast, use the duct tape.
If it's fast, and you want it to be fast, use the WD-40.
Two tools to meet all your needs. Fast.
NosyEnthusiast6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:33:50 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The carwent r fast
the car fastened
the car fasted
greyjackal ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:25:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, not so much the second one. It's more collapse/bend/deform
GlazedNugget ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:34:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also 'bitch'. It can mean someone who is domineering or someone who is submissive
Bic_Parker ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:29:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Inflammable means in able to be burned and also really easy to catch alight (learned this at high school with a deodorant stick).
jfb1337 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:08:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Inflammable means flammable? What a country.
Thor_Odinson_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:25:00 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What? No. Inflammable means able to become inflamed. Nothing regarding how easy it is (within reason, under normal atmospheric conditions, so not in a pure liquid O2 atmosphere). Non-flammable is its antonym and flammable is the word used to replace inflammable when people began to assume that the usually negating prefix "in-" meant "not".
Bic_Parker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:03:17 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Huh... TIL. My life is a lie.
Thor_Odinson_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:40:07 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's ok. Dr. Nick has similar difficulties. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8mD2hsxrhQ
Bic_Parker ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:39:24 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That makes me feel better?
Thor_Odinson_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:43:14 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The power is inside you to answer that. Or maybe inside the outlet to your clothes dryer. Two stout paperclips can help you find what you are looking for.
Bic_Parker ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:59:28 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was shocking advice!
Thor_Odinson_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:06:53 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What would you expect from Thor?
Bic_Parker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:47:53 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't notice that thanks for taking the time to hammer that home.
super_aardvark ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:43:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not so much to break apart as to collapse or crumple. Metal can buckle under pressure; glass just shatters.
Itsapocalypse ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:43:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I buckled the buckle, and it buckled, but then it buckled.
Late_Dent_ArthurDent ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:53:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't mean break, it means bend, warp or misshape. That's why you say something buckles and breaks.
NosyEnthusiast6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:32:32 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The seatbelt buckled.
The seatbelt buckled.
firemaster ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:21:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also Literally
sweet_roses ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:24:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
oh man, that one was made official recently. I wonder if these other ones ever sounded as ridiculous.
guiltlessrambo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:16:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also clip -to attach to -to detach from
ecklcakes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:08:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had to double check this because I had absolutely no idea that cleave could mean to adhere to! I've never seen it used like that before.
ich_habe_keine_kase ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:19:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Learned it care of Harry Potter. "Your soul is as dry as the pages of the books to which you so desperately cleave." Thanks, Prof. Trelawney.
Jess_than_three ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:03:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What I like about "cleave" is that its two opposite meanings actually come from completely different etymological roots! One version comes from a PIE word meaning "to cut or slice", while the other comes from a PIE root meaning "to stick".
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=Cleave
sparkle_dick ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:05:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cleavage fits both off those definitions XD
DucksGoQuackQuack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:09:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also to squish together in a sexually revealing fashion.
SexistFlyingPig ยท 62 points ยท Posted at 04:53:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
or dust.
It can mean to add dust, like dusting a cupcake with powdered sugar, or remove it, as in "dusting the furniture".
nopenopenopenoway ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 06:04:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"shelled" can mean being equipped with a shell, or having already been removed from it.
BloomsdayDevice ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:10:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See, I think this word, and words of the type (like "shell"), mean somewhat broadly "to do something that involves dust to something else", rather than being true contranyms, but maybe that's just me.
SittingInTheShower ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:20:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I vote good example. Your either adding or removing "dust".
zinnzo ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:28:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, those are called contronyms and they're pretty fun.
You've got bolt (either you're fleeing or you're holding something together), peruse (looking at something in depth or just skimming it), egregious (it's really bad or really good), and nonplussed (could be unperturbed or really surprised and confused).
English is weird.
DeBurke12 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:33:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same for 'ravel'. 'Ravel' and 'unravel' used as a verb both mean 'to untangle', but 'ravel' can also be used as a noun to mean 'a tangle, cluster, or knot'.
TheScyphozoa ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:32:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the FUCK? I have never heard "sanction" used to mean anything other than "allow" or "approve". And then I Google it and find that "a threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule" is the FIRST definition?
spazzy2k ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:37:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about when one country imposes sanctions on another? You had to have heard that as a negative.
Sadsharks ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:54:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or, he assumed they were sanctioning whatever that country did, as in accepting or encouraging it.
Sedentary_Genetics ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:23:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh man, that would make world politics look 200% more sinister than it already is.
incognitobanjo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:33:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you, I got that question wrong on a vocab quiz thing last month and I was really confused but too lazy to try and do anything about it, I just figured I was wrong. And now the truth is revealed.
camefortheads ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:04:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with remit: to pay and to not pay.
zebleck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:34:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The alarm went off so we turned it off.
0opsy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:46:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with the word 'unlockable'
Unable to be locked or able to be unlocked
asdjk482 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:49:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That one's actually not quite as etymologically valid; both of those are just secondary implications of the word's actual root meaning.
Hyperhavoc5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:12:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was always confused by this as a kid. I'd hear sanction used all the time in the news and context clues would never give me an answer.
Thin-White-Duke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:11:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sanction is really a consequence that can be positive, negative, formal, informal. Really, it's just like consequence, since that can also be positive, negative, formal, informal.
NosyEnthusiast6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:32:55 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He sanctioned access to the library.
He sanctioned access to the library.
muskratboy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:48:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with 'liege' ... it means both the king and people he rules over.
Fetus_puncherPHD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:24:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also the word off. Alarms can both go off and shut off.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:56:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not really fair because sanction is part of white man's honor code. It's like saying "You're set." or "You're about to die." You'll know which one it is at the time, if you're a white man.
LogicalShark ยท 933 points ยท Posted at 04:23:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
These words are called autoantonyms
SmoSays ยท 271 points ยท Posted at 04:34:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd always heard them referred to as contronyms but I looked it up and apparently both are correct. Both have different spellings and there are like a dozen different words that are all used because this is English and since when did that language decide on anything?
ArchieTheStarchy ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 05:48:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Two different words both describing words with dual, opposite meanings? There should be a word for that.
sugarlich12 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 10:00:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Synocontronyms. I just made it up, and it's ugly, but it's etymologically accurate.
DigitalMariner ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:46:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It should be "synonym" so that the term is also an example. Sadly it isn't..
[deleted] ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 05:08:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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j4jackj ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 05:30:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY. Comma-fucker is apparently a Finnish (I use the translation because no way can I remember the original word) phrase with a similar meaning to grammar Nazi.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:39:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pilkunnussija, literally "comma fucker".
PlayMp1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:41:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How can I sneak in a "perkele"?
altazure ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:50:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In Finnish it's pilkunnussija ("comma fucker"), and it refers to anyone who is pointing out others' inconsequential mistakes or correcting inconsequential details in what they say, not just grammar nazis.
It's actually a colloquial version of the more generally used variant of the word, "pilkunviilaaja" ("comma filer", as in someone who's smoothing out imperfections in a comma using a file), which has the same meaning.
commanderjarak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:21:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So much better than grammar nazi. I just found my new goto term
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:14:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A, comma fucker.
sturdy55 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:36:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This sounds extremely wrong, but (I really hope) is actually correct.
omicronperseiB8 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:47:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, any person with a true understanding of linguistics is far more likely to be a descriptivist than a prescriptivist
he-said-youd-call ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:23:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's so much more fun to see the batshit insane things people come up with than to have to break it to them that they're "wrong" by some mostly arbitrary standard.
altazure ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:56:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're right, but then again they also understand that you have to take the situation into consideration and write and/or speak in a way generally agreed to be suitable for that situation and use proper grammar for the situation in order to not be considered a dolt.
Note that this goes both ways. In contexts like /r/AskReddit, the overall style is pretty casual, but still leans towards prescribed grammar. If someone were to (without it obviously being a joke of some kind) post a comment saying something like "ur the best luv u bby xoxoxo" (perhaps with some emoji thrown in for good measure), the style would be considered inappropriate for the situation. But if you're texting with a group of friends who use language in that kind of a way all the time, replying "I too harbor amorous feelings towards you" would again be inappropriate for the situation. There's a time and place for every type of language, and that is what I think people really need to understand. There's a time when confusing "their", "they're", "there" is not a huge deal, and there's a time when you really should get it right. If you want to be taken seriously in a relatively serious discussion, you have to write in a "proper" enough way. But if you're just chatting casually, it's not such a big deal.
So what I'm saying is that it's possible to be particular about grammar while still being a descriptivist, as long as you understand that the context matters. Don't be out of place. And unfortunately (for those who do it, at least) mixing up "their", "there" and "they're" appears to be somewhat out of place in many subreddits.
Source: am linguist
i_am_erip ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:54:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ugh
Solmundr ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:44:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That's true, but it also doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a mistake, or poor or unclear usage. E.g., typing "her" for "here" or "they're" for "there" is wrong, in a few senses, even if trying to force English to feel Italic by refusing to end sentences with prepositions is dumb.
There's a bit of a circlejerk around this, especially whenever people first encounter the concepts and can then delight in correcting someone else's corrector; and indeed "the way the language has naturally evolved is wrong!" is silly... but having a standard (or a few) that is generally accepted as mellifluous and clear has some advantages too.
In other words, you can still point out non-standard usage or obvious mistakes -- as long as you accept that "well, all my friends say it that way" is valid. "We ensure the worst accidents" might be a worrisome threat or a comforting sales pitch, but if all the residents of Grammarville sometimes use "e" where "i" normally goes, more power to them.
What? I'm just trying to defend my comma-fucking tendencies? Uh... well... hey, so how about those prescriptivist losers in France, right? Ha ha!
M0dusPwnens ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:44:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can find auto-antonyms in many other languages (perhaps even all natural languages, though it's always risky to talk about universals like that).
It's one of those things that seems totally unintuitive, but actually makes a lot of sense if you think about it for a few minutes.
It's efficient coding.
Think of all the auto-antonyms you know and ask yourself how often you're actually confused about which meaning is being employed. Generally speaking, it's very rare.
The fact that the meanings are so at odds with one another actually means that it's usually very clear from context which sense is being used. There are very few contexts where the listener is going to hear the word and not know what it means because either meaning makes sense in that context.
Whenever context can reliably disambiguate like that, you can get a more efficient coding scheme by not redundantly disambiguating in the speech stream too.
Archer007 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:33:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
English hangs out in alleys and mugs passing languages when it sees something it likes.
tonsofjellyfish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:05:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is why I love this language :)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:20:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
autoantonym is the opposite of a contronym....which makes it the inverse of a homonym.
gio_pio ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:32:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So autoantonym and contronym are synonyms. Who says English is confusing?
Margrraun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:21:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For that, you can thank the Norman invaders for introducing French (Latin) words into a Germanic language
m84m ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:59:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It annoys me that now, presumably because of some drunk moron working at the oxford dictionary, "literally" has become an autoantonym.
dat_alt_account ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:30:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was brushing up on my language skills for a trip when I realized that Spanish has a TON of those. That, and words whose definition vary wildly depending entirely on the context.
i-guess-so ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:42:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should look up the definition of "literally".
baconandpancakes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:26:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe they're called contronyms.
Foinatorol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:44:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ideally, the word "autoantonym" would be an "autoantonym"; that might be kind of interesting since all words would then fall under one or the other definition. Alas, the reality is that "autoantonym" is autoantonym (itself), but is not "an" autoantonym?
vitrix-euw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:12:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think they should be renamed to an aladeen word
KipEnyan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:14:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also known by the slightly catchier "contranyms".
Colonel_K_The_Great ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:14:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also known as "contronyms". Here's a list of 75 common ones.
justaguy394 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:58:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always heard them as being contranyms. "Clip" is another example.
edditme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:33:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How dare you say that about my Aunt Otto!
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 07:40:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:19:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fuck man.
[deleted] ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 04:33:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you British? I've never heard overlook used the first way. We say oversee.
BloomsdayDevice ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 07:04:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think OP probably meant to use the noun "oversight", which enjoys broader use in both meanings.
Amerikkalainen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:33:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This makes a lot more sense. I've never heard anyone use overlook as the first definition.
Thedeadlypoet ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:21:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"The guard tower overlooks the prisoners below."
Amerikkalainen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:32:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think that really fits the first definition OP gives. If you look at OP's link your sentence fits definition 3 or 4, but OP's first definition really is definition 7 in that link. Definitions 3/4 and 7 are not really the same.
Thedeadlypoet ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:42:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"I have never heard it used like the first definition."
Going from the comment alone, that would mean to overlook something in the sense of being able to see it clearly.
Amerikkalainen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:14:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That comment was referring to OP's first definition "To examine, study, supervise". In my second comment I explained that OP's first definition is the 7th definition in the link that he provided.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:18:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They both work.
Thedeadlypoet ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:20:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"This lovely house overlooks the harbour and two out of the three major beaches."
LeakyLycanthrope ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:18:47 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a third meaning unrelated to either of the first two.
workaholic_alcoholic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:00:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll have a looksee and get back to you on that.
undercover_filmmaker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:13:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm British and I've never heard number 1 either
SmoSays ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:45:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, I'm from America. Perhaps it's a regional thing. Then again I do watch a fair bit of BBC programming and my top favorite books happen to be British. It is very likely that it has seeped through. I'm also really into Linguistics and Etymology. A lot of studying the English language involves, well, England.
FatherBrownstone ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:19:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm British and would only ever use "oversee" for supervise.
TheRamenator ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:43:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm English and I would use it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
British here. Only use the second definition of overlook. I work as an editor and I'd flag using the first definition to mean 'examine' as an error, or change it to 'look over'.
SarcasticCynicist ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:22:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it's the other way round. British use oversee and overlook separately, while American use overlook for both.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:26:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck you English.
savageboredom ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:31:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with peruse.
: to look at or read (something) in an informal or relaxed way : to examine or read (something) in a very careful way
SmoSays ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:51:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fun fact! It started off meaning to wear out completely, then moved to 'read carefully'. It wasn't until the 1800's where it decided to completely rebel and go the opposite way. I like to think this one fucker just decided to mess with people by using it the wrong way, but he was the Regina George of the era and as with the boob shirt, people just followed the trend.
That last bit isn't supported by anything, but it also hasn't been disproved so I'm just going to accept my little headcanon here.
TheKnobleSavage ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:34:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also "Cleave"
To Split or Sever
To Adhere firmly and closely
ZeroNihilist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:49:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Cleave from" versus "cleave to".
English has phrasal verbs, where the meaning of some verbs changes when used with certain prepositions or adverbs.
It's particularly common with single-syllable words.
More examples (some may be specific to my Eastern Australian experience):
There's a bunch more for "put", and that's just one word.
You can see examples of non-English phrasal verbs here.
This is one of those things that, as a native speaker, you may not ever notice. You figure out the meaning of phrases you come across without breaking them down, so the meaning gets across and you don't have to give up. Essentially, you grow into the habit of using them.
Sennadar ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:34:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Literally!
Apatches ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:34:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I still haven't forgiven the general population, Chris Traeger for that one.
rugtoad ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:54:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You'll have to go back a lot further than him for it.
I mean, you can blame everyone from Mark Twain to James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, Alexander Pope, Willa Cather...shit, the list goes on and on.
The usage is, at the very least, 300 years old and was recognized by the OED over a century ago. Traeger ain't got shit to do with it.
chuboy91 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:02:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's the opposite of "look over"
sirdude103 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:20:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My favorite auto-antonym is "off." It can mean to activate or to deactivate.
The fire alarm went off.
I turned the stove off.
anotherkenny ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:03:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym
BloomsdayDevice ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:06:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"oversight" is the word you're looking for.
an omission, act of failing to see
supervision, overseeing
SmoSays ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:24:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is also a good example, but no, I initially meant overlook.
BloomsdayDevice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:34:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Fair enough. I guess I am not one of the few that uses the word in sense
21. I do use the the noun "overlook" in a sense more akin to "study, examine" though, as a "view from above" or "vantage point".salawm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:31:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a congressional oversight committee. I have no idea whether they're seeing things missed or missing things seen.
Tommy84 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:26:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being down to do something is the same thing as being up for doing something.
"Are you up for a game of grabass later?" "yeah, I'm down."
roarbeast ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:32:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nonplussed is also its own antonym.
andrewho ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:42:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I fail. I thought you meant the opposite of "itself" and I was like wtf
SmoSays ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:53:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My fault. I should have been clearer.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:45:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See, English speaking people? This kind of shit is what we have to deal with when we learn your silly language
pm_me_ur_pornstache ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:55:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We have to deal with it all the time.
BakersTuts ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:55:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's it called when opposites mean the same thing? Like "fat chance" and "slim chance"
SmoSays ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:21:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So I looked this up because I was really curious, too. Took some searching but I found a credible source.
When two antonymic words mean essentially the same thing, it is called contrantonym or pseudoantonym.
Thanks for piquing my curiosity!
iRhuel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:44:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting. I've never actually seen or heard it used in the first context, always the second. Much more often I see the term 'oversee'.
oh_no_aliens ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:42:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So you overlooked your overlook?
Residentmusician ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:38:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cleave. You cleave to your wife, or something can cleave you apart.
Edit: a period
HChimpdenEarwicker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:45:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really hope that's in the Oxford English Dictionary- Overlook- 1. To completely fucking miss
SmoSays ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would if I wrote it.
And it is definition #2, not #1.
Icedecknight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I found out something similar with bi-weekly/bi-monthly etc...
Can mean twice in a month or once every two months.
mandapandaIII ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with peruse
jman4220 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:56:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That seems way to real in terms of my supervisors.
Vaporeon134 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:14:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Words like that are called contronyms because they have two contradictory meanings. Cleave is another one; it can mean to cling together or split apart.
bensawn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:18:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
is this accurate? i know oversee means to supervise, but i have never heard anyone say they are "overlooking" something in a supervisory capacity
SmoSays ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:45:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Note definitions 1 & 7
bensawn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:05:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i believe you, i just have never heard it used like this (presumably because of the other definition)
SmoSays ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most people haven't. I'm beginning to suspect we Nebraskans are weird.
Who_GNU ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:50:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It still works for a form of oversee:
If you mess up on a detail, it is an oversight. If you want to stop it from happening again, you provide oversight.
cubonelvl69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:30:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with clip. I can clip with scissors or a paper clip
SpiralingShape ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:31:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym
NOTbelligerENT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:42:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like it's more "oversee"
Very_Lazy_Rebel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:51:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"After overlooking the situation, John decided to overlook the situation."
Mikeismyike ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:51:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought you meant "overlook" is the opposite of "itself", and was really confused for a few moments.
squirrelsunite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:52:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And cleave, though I've never personally seen it used to mean to adhere to something.
onetwo3four5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:03:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not quite the same, but outstanding.
I remember once in 6th grade I got an "outstanding work report". Looked at and thought, man, I never do my homework. What a surprise that they think my work is outstanding. Showed it to my mom and she was furious. It took me about 15 minutes to realize that it mean that I had outstanding assignments, not that I had done outstanding work.
noyoushouldntof ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:04:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, every legal term ever.
thedrscaptain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:16:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Figures that a word with opposite meanings would have multiple entries represent it in the lexicon.
bigfoot_done_hiding ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:18:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And "oversight". Gotta love the term Oversight Committee.
crossfirehurricane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spent way too long trying to figure out how 'overlook' and 'itself' could be opposites
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:26:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought you meant the word "itself" and it took me way too long to catch on.
SmoSays ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:58:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're not the only one, apparently. I should've been clearer.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:28:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
These are called auto-antonyms.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:31:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's interesting. I usually use "Oversee" for definition 1, and now I see why.
imbreaststroke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:31:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So literally is now literally an example of a contronym?
Swagstah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and 'set'
han_man1927 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:39:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just like dog. It can be used to describe 1. a dog or 2. a cat.
SavageOrc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:49:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or it means exactly what it says as in a scenic overlook.
EightRoper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:54:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And we wonder why the English language can be so fucking hard to learn sometimes.
SmoSays ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:21:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Evidently it shows up in other languages as well.
Uberhipster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:55:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kinda like literally...
invokez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:57:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
was writing a resume earlier and i noticed this... its so weird
TK_Bluh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:02:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Overlook is not the opposite of "itself". I checked.
sbkidd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This comment is absolutely fucked with edits.
SmoSays ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:23:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How's about you don't kinkshame my post? If it wants a gangbang, let it have a gangbang.
sbkidd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:27:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the exact response I expected. Good day to you sir.
tboneplayer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:23:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*very few in number.
SmoSays ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:31:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I fucked up but you know what? In art class I was taught not to fix mistakes, but work them into the art, so that's what I'll do.
So I meant that those of us who use both definitions do not show up very often in numbers. Look at pi. We rarely show up in there.
Yeah, yeah that makes sense. mumbles to self while rocking back and forth
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:26:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Auto-antonymical wordswitchiation.
Subhazard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:28:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'catatonic'
Either means a coma like state, or completely batshit insane.
martinluther3107 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:34:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like these words would be a great jeapordy category
jonodubs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:34:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for the explanation was wondering what koolrevo meant.
spampants ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:36:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And "execute" kinda.
BBMorgan100 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:41:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like the word 'literally'
cleverlikeme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:48:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Added to the list of words I can use to fuck with my ESL friends
Sheepocalypse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:51:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'You don't wanna be overlooked, but you don't wanna be looked over too much' - Aesop Rock
spurious_interrupt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:04:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with the word "oversight."
emceetate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:11:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I get a kick out of the directionlys, like northerly or southerly. It can mean from or of, or towards
_totally_not_a_cat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:15:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Edit: I also don't Reddit good.
SmoSays ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:21:43 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not surprised you don't reddit good. I don't believe your username for one second. You are a cat. Cats are ON reddit, but not as members.
SeudonymousKhan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:16:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This is actually pretty common. Like people saying "could care less". Once the incorrect usage gets going it just becomes part of the vocabulary.
doctorscurvy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:16:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Apart" and "a part" are opposites
NpPro93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:23:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stifle is also an anagram of itself
Spinelllli ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:35:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL what a contronym is!
abhinav4848 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:05:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I use "Oversee" for that.
Spystrike ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:05:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also "off."
The alarm went "off" so I turned it..."off." ...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:14:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
edit: lots of edit: lots of edit: lots of edit: lots of edit: lots of edit: lots of edit: lots of edit: lots of edit: lots of edit: lots of edit: lots of edit:
CaptainCash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:19:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm with you brah! I always thought it was weird that when football players' contracts are coming to an end, they can resign (as in, sign again) or resign (as in, quit entirely).
Makes for very confusing journalism...
ronaldo119 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:25:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It took me way too long to realize that you meant that "overlook" is the opposite of "overlook." I though you literally meant that "overlook" is the opposite of "itself." I was seriously trying to work out how that was possible
apepi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:44:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Another funny word is ineffable. Describes a word that cant be described.
Targaryen-ish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:49:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"I overlook nothing" is now the first, last and only sentence in my resume
fourleggedostrich ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:53:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If my essay is 'outstanding', it's either exemplary or not done at all.
swingerofbirch ยท 358 points ยท Posted at 03:45:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the traditional sense of the term, Sweden is/was a third-world country.
(Third world countries originally referred to countries that did not align with either the US or USSR but later became associated with developing countries.)
radome9 ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 13:14:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't buy wine or spirits today because it's Sunday. So sweden is a third world country.
dpash ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 13:33:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Literally unplayable. :P
00yoshi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:39:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/outside
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 10:37:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I still have never heard someone use the term "second-world country."
JacobTheCow ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 12:10:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats because the Soviet union and its allies fell decades ago (not including North Korea which is essentially an absolute monarchy anyway), and the words have completely changed meaning
beaverteeth92 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:52:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's because people often say "Soviet Bloc" or "Iron Curtain" instead. Like Poland, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, etc.
AP246 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:16:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Living in North Korea
"I'm starving to death!"
"Ha, 2nd world problems, amiright?"
Phiau ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 12:06:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So was Ireland.
iamalbus ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 07:54:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or is it that mostly, the countries that didn't align with either the US or USSR that were left undeveloped?
/r/conspiracy
usrnme_h8er ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 08:15:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like Sweden and Switzerland? Holds up.
iamalbus ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 08:17:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MOSTLY
Prince_of_Savoy ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 11:59:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Austria, Finland, Ireland, Panama...
greenphilly420 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:25:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is Panama really that great? Genuinely curious
Prince_of_Savoy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:24:13 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well its the richest country in South America.
Extra-Extra ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:51:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MOSTLY
Jacques_R_Estard ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:39:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hammerfell, Cryodiil, Morrowind...
Circra ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 09:24:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More that the non-aligned countries were routinely used to fight proxy wars between two powers that didn't dare fight each other directly cos of nukes......
swingerofbirch ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:29:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of them had recently been decolonized.
whirlpool138 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:44:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Saudi Arabia and Sweden are both very wealthy countries that could be considered third world.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:37:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The same goes for Austria and Finland.
whirlpool138 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:43:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Saudi Arabia would also be considered a third world country even though they are extremely wealthy.
zrezzif ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 11:38:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well with the way they're going right now they're going to be a 3rd world country in no time
jaykeith ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:58:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't know why you're getting downvoted. I just watched a short memoir on the situation in Sweden are you're exactly correct. The refugee crisis in that country is going to destroy it. They have over 50 (read FIFTY) areas that citizens are not allowed to go. The police do not even go there because it's so bad. It's total chaos in certain areas.
KLU-KLUX-KLAN ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:20:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They are trying to move back with their immigration policies.
Xtreme_kocic ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 08:22:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The state of california has a higher population than all of Canada
letsplayordy ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:25:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
PewDiePie has more subscribers on YouTube than Canada has people.
Z0MGbies ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 08:34:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Relatively speaking, time travel is actually possible.
1337ll4ma5 ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 08:46:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just did it
Z0MGbies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:03:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For two internet points, show your working.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:54:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Z0MGbies ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:32:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Time Dilation, which is a component of Special Relativity (hence the relatively speaking pun).
TLDR: The faster you move relative to an external observer, the faster you go through time, relative to them. Everything experiences time at different rates, it just so happens that we are all moving at more or less the same speed, and affected by the same gravity - so our experiences are very close.
In a nutshell, Interstellar is actually just as science fact as it is fiction.
The most mindblowing thing for me is: If you were to fall into a supermassive blackhole (back to the hold, front to the rest of the universe), you would more or less see the birth and death of millions of stars and galaxies as you hurtle towards the end of the universe. You would see stars spread out more and more as the universe expands. You would probably see trillions of years worth of the universe, in mere moments for your own experiences.
And then you would die (but assuming no other human ever dies in a black hole, for the rest of time, you are assured the Guinness world record for oldest living human being; thrashing the previous record by a solid trillion billion years or whatever -- given that from Earth's perspective, you will still be alive and on the event horizon long after the death of our galaxy, let alone sun).
thatJainaGirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:59:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The key being "relatively speaking," eh? ;)
Just gotta go fast enough!
babadivad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:44:56 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We're all time traveling. At the speed of fucking time.
Z0MGbies ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:57:41 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ha. Rookie. No, we're all traveling at different speeds of time.
babadivad ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:20:54 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess that's technologically correct. The best kind of correct!
Madness20 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:54:51 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We're all time travelling to the future anyway.
PrussianRevolution ยท 5406 points ยท Posted at 00:45:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Ottoman Empire lasted until 1923. In other words the Ottoman Empire existed more recently than the Cub's last championship... by 16 years.
davesoverhere ยท 2598 points ยท Posted at 02:22:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
And, since the Cubs won:
Women got the right to vote
The titanic was built
Sliced bread was created
Chocolate chip cookies were invented
Radio was invented
54 states were admitted to the unionEdit: Nearly everyone was born, including Harry Carey (So, he never saw his beloved team win it all.). Also corrected states.
Edit 2:
Yes, nuclear bombs, space shuttle, lasers and the titanic sinking, but OP asked about what sounds wrong, but is correct. I doubt anyone is surprised we went to the moon after the cubbies won.
The Nintendo company was almost 20 years old.
JetsLag ยท 4146 points ยท Posted at 03:57:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even better: Since the Cubs last won the World Series, Arizona became a state, got an MLB team, and that team won the World Series.
Bear_Taco ยท 441 points ยท Posted at 06:03:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Started from the bottom now we're here" never felt more relevant.
anonisland5 ยท 291 points ยท Posted at 07:53:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the cubs: Started from the bottom and we're still down here
aussum_possum ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:50:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Started at the top then went to the bottom for like a century, now heavily favored to win the World Series.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 12:30:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Me: Started from the bottom of the stairs. Still at the bottom 'cuz there's too many fuckin stairs
roryoc10 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:47:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Excuse you, the cubs are actually good now
turdmogrol ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:39:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Started from the bottom now we're... actually even lower somehow...
IndyJonesy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:18:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey man, don't discount how well we did last year!
Jay_Louis ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 12:23:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey what about us Red Sox fans oh wait
ggggtotalwarrior ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:00:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
About 12 years late on that one
Spurrierball ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 06:58:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This one cuts deep
leredditmaymays ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 04:48:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think this one is my favorite. Suck it Cubs.
SpaceCampDropOut ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:40:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Found the cardinals fan.
leredditmaymays ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 12:45:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pirates. Still salty about the wild card game.
I_ate_a_milkshake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:18:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
we don't deserve this.
RedditsWhilePooing ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:18:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a Cubs fan in Arizona I have no idea how I should feel about this.
AdvocateForTulkas ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 09:04:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a cardinals fan. Still suck it. ?
Neckrowties ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:12:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, the real Cardinals or the wrong ones? Both Arizona and the Cubs are mentioned in the comment you replied to so I'm confused.
AdvocateForTulkas ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:31:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ones that cubs fans hate out of jealousy.
Neckrowties ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:32:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh so the real ones. Cleared that up for me.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:12:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, the ones that cheat and drive gay players in their system to quit due to threats of physical harm. The "Cardinal Way" Cardinals. Got it.
greenphilly420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:44:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought you were talking about Arizona because of Kerry rhodes
danjenator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:20:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ozzy why do you have to turn on us like this? You were the wizard!
AdvocateForTulkas ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 11:18:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're attributing that only to the cardinals it's laughable.
"Cardinal Way"
Hah. Didn't realize no other professional baseball team has ever had any member cheat in any way and has never had homophobia exist.
Purely a cardinals culture thing. Spot on. Really nailed me down there.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:56:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The organization hacked into another team's player database.
The comment was really in jest. The Cardinal organization and fans have a special arrogance that brings this playful teasing on themselves.
danjenator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:19:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like Tailor Swifts says, "Haters gonna hate, so shake it off"
mashtato ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 06:11:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Game seven, bottom of the ninth, bases loaded. Base hit, Luis Gonzalez! Suck it, Yankees!
Eylsii ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 06:27:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a blooper! The diamondbacks have done it! They have won the World Series. I was 9 and I still remember that day.
mashtato ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 06:30:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was thirteen, and we tried calling my grandma who lives in AZ for 10 minutes before the call finaly went through. I guess everyone in the country had the same idea.
insomniacsleepwalk ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 07:40:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone wanted to call your grandma? Guess she got around...
wolf_man007 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:25:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She's a giver for sure.
cumfarts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:55:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
mashtato ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:03:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, or seven, or whatever.
John_YJKR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:38:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everybody gets one eventually. 27 rings ain't bad. Think the yanks will live.
Girlinhat ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:38:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the greatest fact I've heard.
4LostSoulsinaBowl ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:23:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That one I had not heard. I love it.
Nsena0 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:16:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What are you talking about? I can't be the only one who remembers Mariano getting those last 3 outs no problem and bringing home the trophy, can I?
maximlus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:52:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure if we progressed cause they didn't win again, or cause they won that time.
UhOhSpaghettios1963 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:05:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know...our Jets aren't much better, we shouldn't be putting lists together :(
rockozocko ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:22:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Absolutely using this to mess with all of my friends that are cubs fans
Hegiman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:45:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That just makes you it really sad. I mean that's just wrong. Poor poor cubbies. There's always next season.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:08:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ouch
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:01:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking upstarts.
Trofeetito ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:25:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Murica, you have to win the game to be a state, maybe IS should come play fair and square, no?
Alarid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's way more relevant than a list of shit that happened in the decades since they last won.
Canada_is_gay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:06:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whatever. In season four of the Simpsons (often referred to as the last truly great season) in the episode Homer the Heretic God asks Homer if St Louis still has a football team. Homer responds "No, they moved to Phoenix." Since then the Rams moved to St Louis, decided they didn't like it, and left.
"Can't blame 'em, St Louis sucks."
-Cubs fans everywhere
zeussays ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:02:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Four states have been added to the union since the Cubs won a championship.
raygundan ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:29:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The Soviet Union was both created and disbanded.
Edit: I accidentally confused the Cubs' last win with the Ottoman Empire's end.
crosseyedboy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:46:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1922? Cubs last championship was 1908
raygundan ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:47:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whoops. That was the Ottoman Empire. I'm so drunk I thought the Cubs won something in '23.
klingy_koala ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:49:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I laughed so hard at this. As a non American can somebody please explain to me why this team still has fans?
uniquecannon ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:29:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because Chicago.
DoomsdayRabbit ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:27:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of the fans are from outside of it anyway. The Cubs are the tourist team.
glberns ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:56:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Cubs were one of the first teams to be broadcast nationally. This created a wide fanbase across the country.
And it's not like they've been horrible for 107 years. They've been in the championship series a couple times, been in the semifinals twice in the last 15 years (last year), and been in the playoffs many more times. They've been considered the one of the best teams in baseball several years (1969, 2003, 2008, 2016).
Each time they get close, it's incredibly exciting. I'd argue it's more exciting to almost end the 100+ year drought than to win for the 5th time in a decade. This spurs another generation of fans.
Further, baseball is a very nostalgic game. It's a huge part of American culture and history. The Cubs were one of the charger members of the first professional baseball league. They're playing in the second oldest stadium in the MLB (Boston is 3 years older). Some of the most famous moments in baseball happened there (Babe Ruth's called shot).
Combine the history, with getting so close to winning it all, with passing down the traditions between generations and we have a great fanbase.
ggggtotalwarrior ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:03:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a Yankee fan it just seems so depressing, though. I'm rooting for you guys this year to get the title Carey deserved to witness.
glberns ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:57:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is. But the way I see it, the lower the lows, the higher the highs.
Thromnomnomok ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:35:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only 4 states- Oklahoma became a state on November 16, 1907, which was after their first win in 1907 but before their last win in 1908.
OskarCa ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:34:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Huh. Seems to me like the cubs not winning was generally a good thing for America in general
Peculiar_One ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:21:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The titanic was built and sank.
BLACKAP3RTURE ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:11:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't forget Satanic bread.
https://imgur.com/gallery/T29jt
PartTimeZombie ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:41:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Women got the vote in 1894.
Source: am in New Zealand.
We did it first.
tenderbranson301 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:15:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Iced tea was invented.
Traiklin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:29:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thing that still surprises me is sliced bread being "invented" in 1928, I always thought the phrase "Best thing since sliced bread" was just a saying for something really stupid and obvious
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:59:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've heard something about chopping up bread in the French Revolution so they couldn't hide messages in it...
nyjets4life6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:45:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Titanic also sank.
cumfarts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:51:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In my opinion, all of those were mistakes
littleski5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:36:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read this as 'because the cubs won:' for some reason. It was an interesting piece of propaganda for a moment there.
Falcrist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:55:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds productive to me! Tell them to keep it up!
RHPR07 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:27:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shhhh nobody tell him about the titanic. No spoilers
minuswhale ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:34:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the Titanic sunk.
Prophet_Muhammad_phd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:38:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We have a greater chance of landing a rover on the surface of another planet than the cubs do at winning another world series. The Cubs might wanna start looking into scouting/trading rovers than players. Maybe they'll win.
entrepreneurofcool ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:43:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like this is a missing verse to that Billy Joel song.
p7r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:50:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So when the Cubs win, it will literally be the best thing since sliced bread for Cubs fans?
Brilliant.
dogfish83 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:22:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And sank, and discovered
graaahh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:23:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And nachos were invented. And there were two world wars. And alcohol was banned, and then unbanned in the United States.
Ceegee93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:26:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So if the cubs win again, they could literally mean it when they say that it's the best thing since sliced bread to them.
TardisTechnologist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:36:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Before then, everyone had to eat bread a whole loaf at a time. Sandwich eating was an all day affair.
RedditYankee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:54:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also in that time, Chicago got NFL and NHL teams and won the respective championships in those sports.
davesoverhere ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:59:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well, neither the NHL or the NFL existed when they won.
muswaj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:56:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can we just say bread was sliced instead?
kabamman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:42:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Radio was invented prior to that broadcast radio was invented the year after.
robmox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:52:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It never before occurred to me that chocolate chip cookies had to be invented. Yet, in 1938 is the first recorded recipe for the cookie. Damn, history. You never cease to amaze me.
Lampmonster1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:52:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't want to believe there was a time without chocolate chip cookies.
noelep ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:17:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That radio one might be a bit of a stretch - the patents were awarded in 1904 I think?
Saytahri ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't forget microwaves and commercial aeroplanes.
ReasonableHyperbole ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:39:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If the Cubs ever win it again I really hope the announcer busts out a "this is truly the greatest thing since sliced bread!"
Macdokin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:31:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Titanic also sunk since the Cubs won.
Triquetra4715 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:35:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Cubs have learned that they don't need to field a good team to get people to watch them play.
eingram ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:02:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is our year. I've been saying that for 20 years but I finally believe it
PM_ME_YOUR_SANDWICHz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:43:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not only was the Titanic built: The Titanic was built, set sail, sank, was lost for 73 years, was rediscovered, had a feature film made about it which will turn 20 years old this season; and the poor Cubbies still don't look all that good for this year.
happy_felix_day_34 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:38:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Two world wars were fought. And the world came really close to being destroyed by nuclear bombs.
Anve94 ยท 1177 points ยท Posted at 02:18:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It also means that Nintendo was founded before the collapse of the Ottoman Empire (Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a card company).
david9876543210 ยท 109 points ยท Posted at 04:37:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nintendo was founded the same year that Hitler was born.
Erilaz ยท 103 points ยท Posted at 06:26:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Coca Cola Company and the Wall Street Journal were also founded, the inauguration of the Eiffel Tower was that year, and modern pizza was invented. North and South Dakota, Montana, and Washington also become U.S. States. 1889 was a busy year.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 10:03:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Erilaz ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 11:03:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Focaccia is technically pizza, but that's certainly not what comes to mind when people say they want pizza. There were a lot of things that were similar to what we think of as pizza before pizza was a thing, and I used the term "modern pizza" because a lot of people argue that those other things were pizza too, just not the modern version of it.
KappaccinoNation ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 10:17:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does that mean there are ancient pizzas?
uberdice ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 10:21:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IIRC, similar foodstuffs were found in Pompeii.
Mr-Korv ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:04:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Without tomato sauce, yes. Tomatoes are from South America (along with potatoes, peppers, tobacco, avocados, etc.). What did the Italians do before the 1600s?!
pizzaforthewin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:07:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty good year then
bless_ure_harte ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:48:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't forget the Oklahoma Land Rush
mrcdubbin ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 08:47:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks Nintendobama
turtleeatingalderman ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:54:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not a coincidence, either.
whizzer0 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:14:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lasted longer though
DisgruntledPersian ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 06:52:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nintendo is only 18 years younger than Germany.
TheCat5001 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 10:49:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They still make those cards, too
Miss_Musket ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:03:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, Hanafude cards. You can buy them from Nintendo World.
audeus ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:44:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that right there is a solid entry for this thread
DamnLogins ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:23:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MTGoX, the recently defunct bitcoin exchange was originally Magic The Gathering online eXchange set up to trade cards too
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:34:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nintendo was founded 1 year after the abolition of slavery in Brazil
CPU_Pi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:16:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And only 24 years after slavery was abolished in the US.
rogueginger ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:28:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Cubs one is pretty frequently brought up, but THIS is a shock
RQK1996 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:31:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
why? this is usually the thing they bring up with it
inimrepus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:32:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The same year Hitler was born.
DamaOscuraDeTodos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:25:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now there's a fact that doesn't sound right.
Miss_Musket ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:02:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nintendo was founded 1 year after the Jack the Ripper murders.
MasterTacticianAlba ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:16:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1889? Pfft.
There's a pub in Ireland that dates back to 900AD.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:27:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are three hotels in Japan older than Charlemagne.
MolotovFlirtini ยท 646 points ยท Posted at 01:48:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Full of furniture for some reason...
Bibliophilist ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 01:53:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I get that Eddie Izzard reference!
MolotovFlirtini ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 02:00:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For God's sake, man, Alcatraz!
Dmongun ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 02:50:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
PRISONERS COMING!! Pris...! Pris..! Prisoners!!!
theKrevFox ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:45:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahh San Francisco. City of snakes.
namelyyou ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:41:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not San Fran
PM_ME_UR_THEOLOF ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:47:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nooo. Just "The city".
K7p0w3r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:07:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cake or death?
Dmongun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:23:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
shhhhhh
choofychoof ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:35:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And all it did was slowly collapse, like a flan in a cupboard.
outofunity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:01:28 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That would be the Austro-Hungarian empire.
BarryZuckerkornEsq ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:32:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Empire, empire, build an empire!
ObscureRefence ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:11:31 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Build up on Papua New Guinea...
darthtater217 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:23:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you have a flag?
Scarletfapper ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:20:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Link needed something to break
j00thInAsia ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:07:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All they did was slowly collapse like flan in the cupboard.
gocubsgo22 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:28:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every damn thread about facts...
Can we just win the World Series already?!
LegacyLemur ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:50:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is why I swear to be an obnoxious asshole when they do win. I need revenge
latman ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:30:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A whole empire about putting your feet up
cdpuff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:33:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Ottoman Empire lasted a long time, but eventually disintegrated with a pouffe.
BatCountry9 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:09:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From /u/JimmyRichards a few months ago
My coworker is a huge Cubs fan so I have been looking this shit up the last few days.
Radio was invented; Cub fans got to hear their team lose.
TV was invented; Cub fans got to see their team lose.
Baseball added 14 teams; Cub fans got to see AND hear their team lose to more teams.
George Burns celebrated his 10th, 20th, 30th, 40th, 50th, 60th, 70th, 80th, 90th and 100th birthdays.
Haleyโs Comet passed Earthโฆ twice.
Harry Caray was bornโฆ and died. Incredible, but true.
The NBA, NHL and NFL were formed, and Chicago teams won championships in each league.
Man landed on the moon, as have several home runs given up by Cubs pitchers.
Sixteen US presidents were elected.
There were 11 amendments added to the Constitution.
Prohibition was created, and repealed.
The Titanic was built, set sail, sank, was discovered, and became the subject of major motion picturesโฆ the latter giving Cub fans hope that something that finishes on the bottom can come out on top.
Wrigley Field was built and becomes the oldest park in the National League.
A combination of 40 summer & winter Olympics have been held.
Thirteen baseball players have won the Triple Crown; several thanked Cubs pitchers.
Bell bottoms came in style, went out of style, and came back in style.
The Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Florida Marlins have ALL won the World Series.
The Cubs played 14,153 regular-season games; they lost the majority of them.
Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Oklahoma, and New Mexico were added to the Union.
The Titanic one is by far my favorite.
Edit: since this was so well received... Let me add something else
JimmyRichards ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:04:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As last time too, i added a few others that aren't on that list. Unfortunately, it's like 5 am and in at work so i don't have them. I will one day have the whole new list up for everyone.
DerpyPyroknight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:50:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought the Cubs actually won most of their games
Bibliophilist ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:59:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I smirked when my uncle's new wife brought up the Cubs and I said a woman's right to vote was more recent than a Cub's World Series win. (This coming from a Cubs fan who openly accepts over a century of failure, but enjoys historical sports/rights jibes, too).
Hanchan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:35:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ice cream cone was less than 10 years old when the Cubs last won a World Series.
bluebehemoth ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:11:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess this one only sounds wrong to american ears, since the ottoman empire is such an integral part of WWI, which is a bigger deal in Europe.
T-A-W_Byzantine ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:02:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That also means that Warner Bros. is older than Turkey.
Ecmelt ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:18:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of things are older than Turkey. A good example is how my grandmother was same age as my country my both grandfathers were older than it. I am 26 years old now and my uncle/aunt are just a few years younger than the country.
It is kinda sad to think we are losing the last people that have witnessed our independence war but it is also kinda cool.
One last thing, most great grandfathers (or grand grandfathers at max.) picked the surname for their family as it did not exist pre-republic. My grandfathers could ask questions like why did you pick this stupid surname waaa if they wished so as kids (ofc that didnt happen :P)
T-A-W_Byzantine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:12:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, you'd think that animation is relatively new, so Warner Bros. would be a little later than that.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:33:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have to remember this for the next time I talk to my Cubs-fan uncle. (I'm a Cardinals fan)
raygundan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:27:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of the "Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire" bit you see on reddit all the time, too.
wernerazo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:07:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The last time the Cubs won the World Series, players were taking horses to the ballpark. : )
Ugly_Dickshot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:50:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And goats ;)
Taximan20 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:35:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's very very interesting!
maowsers93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:01:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They probably would have lasted a while longer too but they picked the wrong side during WW1.
TheSubtleSaiyan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is among the most reposted fun facts on this site.
Guyote_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:20:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a Pirate's fan, this pleases me
Elchidote ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:31:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jokes on you! This is our year!
....pls
antiward ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:47:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The last time the cubs won the world series was closer to the civil war than today.
crazyfingersculture ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:02:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And then the Saud's killed them all.
Ugly_Dickshot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:48:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it was the Husseins. Then the Sauds killed the Husseins
divide1337 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:30:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not entirely wrong, but Ottoman Empire was terminated in November 1, 1922. And Republic of Turkey was formed in October 23, 1923.
oversloth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:48:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So who's this Ottoman, some superhero fella?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:52:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How is this surprising they fought in WW1?
Hungry_Horace ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:55:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Holy Roman Empire lasted longer than the Roman Empire.
Holy Roman Empire : 962 - 1806 A.D Roman Empire : 27 B.C - 480 A.D.
Jonthrei ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:38:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL the Cubs are the Uruguay of Baseball.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:57:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why does this sound wrong?
straitnet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:05:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The same couldn't be said for empire of Japan?
frankzzz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:30:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wait....you mean the Cubs actually won something?
fick_Dich ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:27:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cubs are 4-1 to win the series this year.
black1ce ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:44:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Radio was invented; Cub fans got to hear their team lose.
TV was invented; Cub fans got to see their team lose.
Baseball added 14 teams; Cub fans got to see AND hear their team lose to more teams.
George Burns celebrated his 10th, 20th, 30th, 40th, 50th, 60th, 70th, 80th, 90th and 100th birthdays.
Haleyโs Comet passed Earthโฆ twice.
Harry Caray was bornโฆ and died. Incredible, but true.
The NBA, NHL and NFL were formed, and Chicago teams won championships in each league.
Man landed on the moon, as have several home runs given up by Cubs pitchers.
Sixteen US presidents were elected.
There were 11 amendments added to the Constitution.
Prohibition was created, and repealed.
The Titanic was built, set sail, sank, was discovered, and became the subject of major motion picturesโฆ the latter giving Cub fans hope that something that finishes on the bottom can come out on top.
Wrigley Field was built and becomes the oldest park in the National League.
A combination of 40 summer & winter Olympics have been held.
Thirteen baseball players have won the Triple Crown; several thanked Cubs pitchers.
Bell bottoms came in style, went out of style, and came back in style.
The Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Florida Marlins have ALL won the World Series.
The Cubs played 14,153 regular-season games; they lost the majority of them.
Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Oklahoma, and New Mexico were added to the Union.
jaycoopermusic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:51:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was the Ottoman Empire Iraqi? Persia?
DadJokesFTW ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:49:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SuperBeastJ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:34:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The main character in The Martian was made a Cubs fan simply to make his situation even more shitty.
actual_factual_bear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:04:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's even more amazing is this: at the point the Cub's last won the World Series, it had only been around 4 years. Since then 109 years have passed. If you were to scale that up, it would be like if the first modern World Series was played in 0 A.D.(*) and the Cubs last won in 71 A.D.
Vicinus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:08:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't it awesome that furniture once ruled a big part of the world?
BobXCIV ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:17:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The last time the Cubs won the World Series, China's last emperor ascended the throne.
AP246 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:47:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nearly every person currently alive was not at that time.
turtledonut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:21:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is our year!
warmbutteredbagel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:25:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Legend has it, the Cubs haven't been able to put their feet up since.
ghostofdevinbrown ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:50:54 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty impressive they lasted that long considering how much they like putting their feet up
yathatsbad4urhealth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:43:00 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://np.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3oa5s3/whats_a_fact_that_sounds_like_complete_bullshit/cvvo9b6
drewisawesome14 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:40:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ouch.
GoCubsGo2016 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh good one. That's definitely the first time I've heard that. Definitely novel. Well done.
rab777hp ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:04:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
why does this sound wrong? is wwi just like not taught to most people?
definitewhitegirl ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
shots fired
DustyMouse ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 08:08:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Ottoman empire actually contributed in world war 1 IIRC.
[deleted] ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 02:18:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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BitchinTechnology ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:29:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wtf does this even mean.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:45:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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BitchinTechnology ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:30:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wtf does rekt mean
mlpRonnie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:06:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your mom
mlpRonnie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:06:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rekt
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:16:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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BitchinTechnology ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:31:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So pretty much the same thing as owned or pwned?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
exactly the same thing as pwned, same thing but for the younger generation :)
BitchinTechnology ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:48:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This generation is doomed.
BustergunFIRE ยท 6633 points ยท Posted at 23:40:30 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ostriches don't bury their heads in the sand when scared.
They either run or they fuck you up.
diegojones4 ยท 4271 points ยท Posted at 00:17:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL I'm an ostrich.
oh_horsefeathers ยท 1040 points ยท Posted at 01:34:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You must be entertaining at horror movies.
bosox82 ยท 474 points ยท Posted at 02:06:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They should fill a theater with ostriches, play a horror film and watch what happens!
oh_horsefeathers ยท 963 points ยท Posted at 02:09:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not an expert in Bird Law, but I suspect that may be illegal.
bosox82 ยท 234 points ยท Posted at 02:12:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bird laws be damned. I need entertainment!
MaxHannibal ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 05:32:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not saying I agree with it man. But bird law in this country just isn't found by reason.
owenb11 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:49:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who did find it then?
aabicus ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:36:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what we in Bird Culture refer to as a dick move.
Shitpoe_Sterr ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:35:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats how the Aussies lost to the Emus. Dont fuck with birds man
ecklcakes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:30:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://instantostrich.com/
effa94 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:46:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In bird culture, that is considered a dick move
MyNameIsFitz ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:20:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't you mean ill-eagle.
candlecrusher ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:00:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well that's all fine and dandy, but can we get a real bird law expert here?
ThisSideUp153 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:45:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where is Bird person when you need him? ...oh right, Tammy.
oh_horsefeathers ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:54:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, there's always Harvey Birdman.
disconsolateSage ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:39:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
CAW CAW, MUDMEN.
TehBoo1Two ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:33:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In bird culture, that is considered a dick move.
Alarid ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:53:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Birdman agrees
LinguisticPenguin14 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:52:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would certainly ruffle a few feathers.
tatertot255 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:40:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah that's a lot of fowl play
Darkstar_98 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:27:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In bird culture, that is considered a "dick move"
Kaibunny143 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:23:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok Charlie...
Sonnyjimlads ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:37:20 on April 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it's illegal to get a hummingbird
ottoginc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:09:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not a chance in Hell.
Scarnox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:42:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ill eagle. Cmon man...
CoffeeHamster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:42:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SKRAAAAAW I HAVE A DEGREE FROM BIRD HARVARD CAAAW DEFINITELY ILLEGAL SKRAAAW
no_morelurking ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:42:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Meta
AusCan531 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:18:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not an expert in Bird Medicine, but I suspect that may be an ill eagle.
stickmalone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:26:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ill-eagle
alfalfa_or_spanky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:55:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Illegal is a sick bird.
UbiquitousDeuce ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:11:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm an expert in bird law, and you sir.. Are a leprechaun
DarkPieOverlord ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:55:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is
Source: Am expert in bird law
fumanchu4u ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:01:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ileagle*
Vacuophile ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:19:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Expert in bird law here. That would be very illegal.
isaac712 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:39:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bird Law is not governed by reason, sir.
Lloydxmas00 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:48:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Always Sunny reference! Excellent.
WWIflyingace62 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:50:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In bird culture, this is considered to be a dick move.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:43:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That doesn't sound right but I don't know enough about bird law to argue.
somethingasaur ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:32:35 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bird Law holds no order in the Realm of Men.
JoseMaria15 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:55:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In bird culture, that is considered a dick move.
CrotchFungus ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:58:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm an expert in Bird Law, and I say we do this
damnyouall2hell ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:03:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In bird culture it is considered a dick move
Beta_Nation ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:40:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In Bird culture, this is considered a dickmove.
sakura_euphonium ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:42:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In bird culture, this is considered a dick move.
nowenhaxyn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:19:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"In bird culture that is considered a dick move"
barosa ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:30:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not an expert in bird behaviour or being humane to animals, but I think you could get a better reaction by blaring an air horn non-stop. It would be fun to spend a lot of time very calmly guiding them to their seats and then just unleash the madness.
OppressiveShitlord69 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:45:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We filled a theater with live ostriches and YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT
H4PPYxK1LLMORE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In Bird culture, this is considered a dick move.
sargentzim ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:27:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In bird culture, that is considered a dick move....
DoubleDinthe204 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:07:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In bird culture we call that a dick move.
Cryse_XIII ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:13:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
there should be a vault for that
mechorive ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:29:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"No Mike you can't come over, your always head butting and kicking the fucking TV!"
Simpsonsseriesfinale ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:48:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a test to determine if you or not. Are you flightless?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This right here is why I'm on the internet. Wish I could give you gold.
RedditAndWhatNot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:57:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL I'm an ostrich without the fucking you up part.
Y1Y2Y3Y4howmanyngrs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:41:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ostrich noise
Snomann ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:06:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm just the first half of an ostrich I guess.
therealme23 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:08:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL same
raydialseeker ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:11:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL I'm not an Ostrich
Upio ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:04:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A implies B does not imply that B implies A :)
thedoze ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:46:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So you are also a massive cunt? Ostriches are massive cunts.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:51:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here's the thing, humans aren't ostriches
gundog48 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:55:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dee you bitch!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:47:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We all are.
Quivis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:06:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey Dale... I think they're becoming self aware...
refriedi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:20:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL Iโm not an ostrich.
DisAccountIsTrash ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:30:53 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL I'm not an ostrich.
Mattxy8 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:38:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I need help finding my shit, that comment caused me to lose it
Urban_Savage ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 05:10:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That doesn't sound extremely wrong, it sounds exactly like what you would expect to hear when seeing your first ostrich. The burring the head in the sand part sounds wrong, because it is.
eigenvectorseven ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:55:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah it's like saying "Elephants aren't afraid of mice". How does it sound "extremely wrong"? The original trope you only ever see in cartoons is what sounds bullshit.
FeepingCreature ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:06:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahem. Though opinions are mixed.
MundaneFacts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:29:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a common-ish misconception.
greyjackal ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 06:48:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://i.imgur.com/loEHK.jpg
(ok, I know it's an emu, but they're related and it's my favouritist picture ever)
BustergunFIRE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:11:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fear is real
FishInTheTrees ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 05:47:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fight or flight instinct leaves you with little options as a flightless bird.
SirMaximBelov ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 02:07:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The emus of Australia are the real bastards. They've won actual wars against us...
Vinnie_Vegas ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 10:26:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think "fought to a draw and forced a ceasefire" is probably a better description of the outcome of the Emu Wars - Hard to argue they actually won.
It's not like they took over our cities and installed an emu government.
InfernoVulpix ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:48:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do you know they didn't?
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:12:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, that's what the emuminati wants you to believe.
Vinnie_Vegas ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:25:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, that's the best pun I've ever heard.
aaaaaaaarrrrrgh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:46:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well, at least
PoisonMind ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 04:39:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ostriches and their cousins are pretty much the closest living thing there is to a velociraptor.
KindaConfusedIGuess ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:04:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One time I went to this kind of "safari" place on a field trip, where they had animals just walking around and you'd ride the tour buggy right next to them and shit.
During the tour, an ostrich walks towards the buggy and all us middle school kids are like "Oh hey! An ostrich! :D"
Tour guide was like "EVERYBODY TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BUGGY, FAST!"
We're like "But it's just an ostrich! It's just a dumb giant bird! :D"
Tour guide shouts at us again to move to the other side and pulls out this huge hooked metal pole. Nobody listens and the ostrich gets closer and then fucking lunges at us on the buggy. This thing wants to fucking kill us. So we all scream and run to the other side of the buggy.
Then tour guide hops off the buggy and starts dueling this fucking ostrich with his metal pole. He tells everybody to get off the buggy and run like hell over to this area with a wooden plank floor. He says ostriches can't stand on wooden planks, so we'll be safe over there.
So we all run over to the planks while he seemingly fights this ostrich to the death and then once we were all safe, he slowly backs over towards the planks, with the ostrich following him.
And just as he said, the damn thing wouldn't stand on the wood. We had to stay there until he decided he was bored of trying to kill us and ran away.
Wolfclaw14 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:42:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
they are the closest thing to a velociraptor that you will ever see
newly_registered_guy ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:37:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, this is just flat out wrong. They'll just fuck you up. No running involved unless they started really far away from you. Then they'll just fuck you up in a few minutes.
Jingy_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:14:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Thank you for calling the Australian complaint department, please leave your name and location , and an ostrich will be there shortly to fuck you up"
Heretic_flags ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:29:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They are however, stupid as fuck.
sgtwoegerfenning ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:09:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm.
Source: ostrich in back yard can't tell the difference between an open and closed gate.
Heretic_flags ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:47:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was driving around an ostrich farm in a truck, and when we would stop, one ostritch would come up to try to eat the truck, another would see and soon hundreds of ostritches are pecking at this truck
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:09:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A cassowary always goes with plan b. -far cry 3 guy-
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:51:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, what a pretty bird! Is it shy? I think it is walking towards me? Wowie, it wants to be friends!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:35:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But every animal does that.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:52:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes they do both.
Kaiser_Cheesebubbles ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:01:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Source: am an ostrich
Sloane__Peterson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:04:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Are you sure?" "Does an ostrich carry a knife?" "I'm...I don't know." "Trust me, they ALL do."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:22:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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BustergunFIRE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:31:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because you were stupid enough to walk near the evolutionary descendants of carnivorous dinosaurs.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:48:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ostriches don't bury their heads in the sand, they're just scanning
aoisenshi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:31:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I understood that reference!
Willo262 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:54:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So every animal? It's called fight or flight.
BustergunFIRE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:35:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, that isn't true. Some animals play dead.
Willo262 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:19:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True
nittun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:51:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that doesn't sound wrong though, they seem like major cunts the entire species.
karmasLittleHelper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:11:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/v0zBqj8gtYM
BustergunFIRE ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:38:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The entire time, I was thinking "he is gonna get sick of their shit really soon."
mike117 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:15:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm. Source: have been chased by an ostrich. I had a 200m head start and was 100m away from my house. It was close... REALLY close. Fuck ostriches.
BustergunFIRE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:32:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have just won the thread.
HassanJamal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:15:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An episode of Scrubs showed me this fact.
larzolof ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:20:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read somewhere that they bury there head in the sand to cool off in the heat.
Leuli ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:20:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mir68bgTi8 Especially funny if you understand German / Bavarian.
Lockjaw7130 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:56:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, that's kinda the reaction of every animal: fight or flight. They either fuck you up or they run away, few animals choose anything else.
BustergunFIRE ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:00:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, but some people think ostriches actually bury their heads in sand.
Fake_Credentials ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:01:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fight or flight just like every other animal. Mind blown.
meltedwhitechocolate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:35:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do they ever put their heads in the sand? Like to sleep of chill or something?
rogerology ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:17:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fight or flight, I guess.
dlq84 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:47:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That doesn't sound wrong at all
CRISPR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:55:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And then bury their hotheads in the sand. To cool off after the job well done.
LaTalpa123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:02:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ostriches are badasses. Don't mess with them.
They are big, strong, fast and not scared of you larva without a beak or talons.
cthulhubert ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:27:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For those curious, this misconception is about as old as Jesus. If it comes from anywhere other than an ancient Greek's ass, it from either the particular way they hunker down when threatened (from a distance maybe it looks like they've only hidden their head?) or because they're swallowing smooth beach pebbles to fill their gizzard.
cjh93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:30:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, fight or flight?
madwallrus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:13:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had to look this up last week. I thought it was so cute and stupid it couldn't be real.
They bury their eggs in the sand and poke their heads in to check on them/turn them I think.
drakoman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But no flying? Even my fight or flight instinct has me flapping me arms.
Batbuckleyourpants ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:46:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
indeed.
jyoostin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:36:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're ever in a situation where an Ostrich is going to attack you (it'll waggle its otherwise pointless wings and do a funny little dance at you), don't run. It will easily outrun you in a second. But also, you don't wanna stand there like an idiot. Ostriches have two toes, one hench one (massive - welcome to outdated UK slang part one) and one smaller one. Their main attack method is to kick out straight with one leg - which will reach about adult chest height and will easily pierce your breastplate.
What you wanna do is lie on the floor in a ball and cover your head as best you can. The Ostrich will run over you, stamping on you, for a while, and will then probably sit on you. After a few hours it will probably get bored and wander off. If you're lucky all you'll have is a few broken ribs or something, but you should live.
As an aside, I rode an Ostrich once! It was awesome!
vizzmay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:19:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So... Fight or Flight.
MuhTriggersGuise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:19:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Proof of ostriches fucking shit up
An_Ostrich ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:59:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You best believe I ain't running...
BustergunFIRE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:24:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/beetlejuicing
Decyde ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:33:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They will kick your intestines through your back.
Triquetra4715 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's why it would probably take three men to fuck an ostrich.
Siamsa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:17:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An ostrich can kill a lion. With its TOENAILS.
This is why the ostrich is my personal mascot.
hudshmote ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:04:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/me_IRL
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:52:14 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you attack an ostrich?
BustergunFIRE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:01:04 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. I do not want to commit suicide.
Im_Tiny_Rickkkk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:52 on August 18, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bird up!!!
BrtneySpearsFuckedMe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:22:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A misconception is a wrong answer. OP is looking for something that sounds ridiculous, but true.
Try again.
kieppie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:09:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They eat diamonds
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:34:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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BrtneySpearsFuckedMe ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:37:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How am I a cunt?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:40:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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BrtneySpearsFuckedMe ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 09:44:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because I corrected you?
BustergunFIRE ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:51:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because you were wrong and tried to be cool
BrtneySpearsFuckedMe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:14:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How? It was a misconception, not an outlandish sounding fact.
JohnFGalt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:15:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, it'd take two, maybe three guys to fuck an ostrich.
Norwegian_whale ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:34:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, whatever floats your boat, man.
[deleted] ยท 5521 points ยท Posted at 00:33:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 2832 points ยท Posted at 01:04:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is making me so uncomfortable
[deleted] ยท 2171 points ยท Posted at 01:08:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Kinggod13 ยท 1033 points ยท Posted at 02:05:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Am southern, felt no discomfort, please advise.
sapeetapottus ยท 357 points ยท Posted at 03:20:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Am also Southern. Rolled off the tongue. Very natural. No discomfort experienced.
[deleted] ยท 515 points ยท Posted at 05:09:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From california, i shortened half the words and added bruh after little
mintyfreshbitch ยท 65 points ยท Posted at 07:07:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"jig it a lit, bruh! it'll open, dude."
Bleedingbutthole725 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:18:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is so perfect
Xenjael ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:52:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Name checks out. Are you from San Francisco?
Prophet_Muhammad_phd ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 09:43:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From NY, just open the fuckin thing.
PKPenguin ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 07:50:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha hella true bruh
elcaminoforeal ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:22:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
shit made me homesick
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:41:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You from el camino? I live near there
elcaminoforeal ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:45:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nah dont know where that is. but i did live right off of El Camino Real for a bunch of years. top 5 favorite streets all time
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:49:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats what i meant lmao
RealWitty ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:36:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From Canada, sorry aboot this, but no problems saying it here friend. Weird, eh buddy?
RowThree ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:56:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In Minnesota:
Say hun? Could ya work on openin this for me?
You betcha hun.
IHateWetPaper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:54:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sarah Palin?
RowThree ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:07:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She's from the eastern most state.
tinkerpunk ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:52:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She could practically see Norway from her house.
IHateWetPaper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:55:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/meta
7LeagueBoots ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:17:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
You must be from a very specific part of California, as, through the geographical majority of the state, most people don't talk like that. Numbers-wise that may be a different story.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:40:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From the oc bruh
7LeagueBoots ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:22:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Confirming suspicions...
accountfortossing481 ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 07:40:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Am Asian. Made an attempt.
It went poorly.
TheChildishOne ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 06:15:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Works for aussies too
isuckcock ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 06:30:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How about this? "In Little Italy, jiggle it a little, it'll open"
ShazbotSimulator2012 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 06:35:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the middle of little Italy, little did we know we had riddled some middle men who didn't do diddly.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:33:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This sounds like an Action Bronson line
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:33:33 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sama lama duma lama
Rekme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:09:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spaghetti
PM_ME_YOUR__BUTTHOLE ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:48:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
southerner here, still no problems.
This_Land_Is_My_Land ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 07:40:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Michiganian. No problems here. This is uncomfortable?
JackPoe ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:23:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ohio here, no problems
NateTehGreat ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:25:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same, jiglelelelelelopen
kingofvodka ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:59:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Try being a Brit who uses glottal stops. My attempt sounds like a slurred mess
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1JadltXNxOj
pm_me_ur_pornstache ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:02:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Talking like that just sounds like so much work.
kingofvodka ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:16:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly that's the laziest and easiest way for me to talk. Pronouncing my Ts would be the part that takes all the effort.
Thin-White-Duke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:48:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's why you turn them into d's.
pm_me_ur_pornstache ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:06:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You don't pronounce the t's. You just shove a d in there and if it doesn't sound right, say it slower with another syllable. Repeat until you sound like freedom.
kingofvodka ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:42:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So you're saying I should throw some D's on that bitch?
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1QPtNe8y8B4
I can see the appeal in it; it's about as easy as glottal stops. Too bad that it sounds super weird with the rest of my vowel sounds.
aeboco ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:50:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Am southern female, unable to complete without the presence of "honey", " sugar", or "sweetie".
sapeetapottus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:19:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bless your heart..
aeboco ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:56:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
sapeetapottus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:03:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well I declare!
osnapitsjoey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:58:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Am from new York. No problem saying this shit
eingram ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:59:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same here. Sounded more like "Jiggle it'll it'll it'll open"
A_kind_guy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:33:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm English and it seems like it flows perfectly. Isn't that the point of the sentence? I thought it was just supposed to sounds good.
CokeCanNinja ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:05:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My parents are from NC and I've lived in VA nearly my whole life, so I guess I'm Southern. Had no trouble saying it, but I did crack up.
sapeetapottus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:11:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It sounds funny, yes. But it flows so well.
AeiOwnYou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:05:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Raised in Tennessee, don't have a southern accent. However, i see no issues in this sentence or why it would be weird to say.
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:31:36 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not Southern and I had no problems
sapeetapottus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:41:58 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL literally everyone on earth can say this sentence.
jeremanrox ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 05:03:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Am Montanan, Neutral accented tongue caught in ceiling fan.
qtip12 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:39:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Montanan here as well, I had no trouble, but I am a little drunk...
jeremanrox ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:19:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did anyone other than yourself hear you say it without trouble? if not, you may just be a little drunk lol
Kinggod13 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:05:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's okay, I'd probably fuck up a bunch of phrases you say all the time!
Mando_calrissian423 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 07:26:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah for real, that's actually pretty fun to say.
aeam513 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:34:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't understand what I was supposed to be reading. What is it like for people that aren't southern? lol.
3-methylbutan-1-ol ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 05:57:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Britbong here (West Midlands). Didn't have a problem.
I imagine it would sound like saying "lidl" over and over again when said quickly with a "typical" American accent.
hypotheticalhawk ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:41:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Am Iowan. That (more like "iddle iddle iddle" though) is exactly what it sounds like when I say it quickly, and I'm giggling now.
aeam513 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:06:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I guess I'm normally pretty good at tongue twisters to begin with, so I'm not the best candidate for trying them out. The Bob one below (Bob Loblaw Lobs Law Bomb) did trip me up though.
gracefulwing ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:33:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
boston accent here, had no problem either.
DerikNyein ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:57:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mainer with no issue either!
Unranked_scrub ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:34:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Russian here, 0 issues.
always wanted to get on an accent circlejerk train, thanks lads!
fnord_happy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:22:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Non American here. Pretty easy. With all these comments I'm confused who its tough for
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:29:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It actually felt almost good tbh
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:58:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're supposed to feel southern comfort..
pursuitoffappyness ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:13:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You southerners have so much comfort to spare that you've started bottling and selling it.
pm_me_ur_pornstache ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:05:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean who wouldn't wanna be comfy?
Neckrowties ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:16:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Missouri here, also confused.
edgarallenbro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:22:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now try saying "pick it up pick it up pick it up pick it up" while skanking vigorously
Unum704 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:49:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
English isn't even my native language and I had no trouble saying this. Or was this the point and I just missed it?
HuskyLuke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:08:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm Irish, it was grand for me too.
SamusBaratheon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:02:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also from the south. Was rather pleasant to say
SkibblyBop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:09:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. I expected more.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:16:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really starting to think my accent really is the Southern of Canada.
Maritime Canadian.
You know, Trailer Park Boys.
Totally rolled off the tongue, no issues, no laughter, just normal.
moloizer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:37:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Irish, also no discomfort.
ProfessorRiffs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:44:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you feel any Southern Comfort, though?
Vape_Ur_Dick_Off ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:55:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Northwesterner here who had no problem saying it. I think it's just a fun sentence to say.
ByahhByahh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:20:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yankee here. Just read it and giggled. I need help too.
itsknob ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:31:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The wonders of Southern Comfort.
Domhnal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:34:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ahh southern comfort
hxcn00b666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:17:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From New Jersey, also had no problem with this. I don't really get it.
Thealphastab ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:19:08 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
new jersey, i can say it just fine
RaVNzCRoFT ยท 271 points ยท Posted at 04:39:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
LEEDLE LEEDLE LEEDLE LEE
Unthinkable-Thought ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 10:19:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uncle Albert?
WishfulOstrich ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 12:53:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, this is Patrick.
ImpulseNOR ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:58:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You made me spray spit on my smartphone in laughter.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:25:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
PLS
RaVNzCRoFT ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:35:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
oh hi
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:21:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Funny seeing you on reddit
RaVNzCRoFT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:24:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't even know you use reddit
Rosaly8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:23:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Favourite episode thanks.
KMFDM781 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:08:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ha ha, dangly parts
skulltrumpetman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:20:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're good. You're good. You're good. Aaaand stop.
PenguDood ยท 185 points ยท Posted at 01:50:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did...and I burst out laughing as soon as I got to the first syllable of 'open'. I'm from the south...slurring sentences into words is basically an art form for us, but this one takes the cake.
prometheus199 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:10:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lmfao so did i.
thorium220 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:36:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Straya, we do it too. Made me giggle so much I had to text it to my brother so he could join in.
Tojin ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:03:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Arizonan here, we do the same thing. What I said ended up sounding more like "Jiggliddaliddle, idllopen."
MolotovFlirtini ยท 136 points ยท Posted at 01:38:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Oh nice, I usually say "twiddle it a little", and am glad am not the one that has noticed (not that it's hard) and enjoyed this particular
alliterationassonance.Edit: New word
StutMoleFeet ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:07:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A lid'll light a little light a little, ight?
TemptationTV ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:54:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MolotovFlirtini ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:11:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL assonance and consonance, alliteration is a form of consonance. Thanks for keeping me honest!
ohgdrt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:24:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
No, consonance and assonance are forms of alliteration
E: I'm wrong
MolotovFlirtini ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:52:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
My facts are shitty then. I'm just trying to figure it out!
Edit: You know what, no. My facts are not, in fact, shitty. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliteration
Says it right there, alliteration is a special case of consonance.
ohgdrt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:17:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly. A square is a rectangle but not the other way around
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:34:37 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure if meta or good point
MolotovFlirtini ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:23:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wrote it out wrong before, fixed it. I'm just trying to understand this asbestos I can, that's what the wiki article claims, so I'm going with that.
myparentsbasemnt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:31:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How about "diddle it a little" - sounds like gibberish if you say it quickly.
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:35:18 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're on a list now
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:41:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Twittle sounds too much like diddle
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:34:12 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not what that word means
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 03:24:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't get it. I keep saying it but I don't understand.
DecryptedGaming ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 05:54:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Phonetically it sounds like jiggle-iddle-iddle-iddle-open
lazylazycat ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 07:51:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you don't pronounce the "t"s?
StuckInCowSendHelp ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 10:28:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't work for non-US accents. Thet pronounce t's as d's over there.
thorium220 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:37:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Works fine for Australians, but we slur every syllable into a sentence into one word anyway, so it's basically perfect for us.
FinibusBonorum ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:26:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I find Australian the best accent ever. It's like you use a flat Y in the place of every vocal ever. Love it, sad I can't speak it.
thorium220 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:31:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*Results may vary
pm_me_ur_pornstache ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:07:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's one "t" in the south, and it's sweet.
Mundius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:53:10 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tea should probably be as bitter as your life. Which, if in Texas, should still be sweet.
MrDoctorSatan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:08:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The "t"s and "l"s make a "id" sound for a lot of people.
peacebuster ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:22:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dead in the middle of Little Italy, little did we know that we riddled some middlemen who didn't do diddly
YellowShorts ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:02:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like an Eminem lyric
SaltyNipplePirate ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:22:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Big Pun actually.
HighOnGoofballs ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:10:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have no problem saying this, also southern. Please advise.
silverballer ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:45:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Rural Juror
skulltrumpetman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:23:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"The rool jurr."
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:51:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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nanite1018 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:04:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is exactly what I thought! I thought "Hey! That was fun!".
BedroomAcoustics ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:27:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What kind of black magic is this?!
cbhaga01 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:07:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a good one. Almost as good as a Bob Loblaw law bomb.
TheAllRightGatsby ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:23:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This made me laugh out loud, I love it
Theelementofsurprise ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:34:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is amazing
RiotingMoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
acentless entity: this made me giggle saying it.
reverendsteveii ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:45:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Learned that as "Jiggle a lid a little it'll open"
omicronperseiB8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:41:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Jiggle a lid a little, it'll open a little"
doritofacethehungry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unsure of why this is hard or sounds different
Lucky1289 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:06:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Legit just said that like 10x.
How oddly entertaining!
pm_me_ur_flags ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:07:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jiggleilalililopen
kjbrasda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:25:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've been reading Fox In Socks to my kid. This is a breeze.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:30:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the funnest sentence I have ever read aloud.
samri ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:32:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/6zZlQ1WSn5U?t=3s
Bassflute ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:25:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Read this in RP. I lmao'd.
Deaf_Pickle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:44:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Woah, said it in my head no problem, sounded very odd out loud.
Falcrist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:53:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
everfalling ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:59:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what about "Jiggle it a little, it'll ladle a little less"?
phearsom_fysic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:05:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/wordavalanches
JacobFromAmerica ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:36:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lmfao
lightningboltkid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:08:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I said it once and felt fine. Kept sayin it and now I am frowning and feel lost.
phil8248 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:23:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what she said.
thorium220 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:35:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Straya here, I'm giggling uncontrollably.
oh_no_aliens ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:46:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds like lyrics to a Chingy song.
JibJig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:53:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Am from Bahstin. Tongue fell out of my mouth. Send help.
montanagunnut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:40:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Put a bit of cinnamon in it in a minute.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:18:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rolls off the tongue as a Brit from Wiltshire.
mcknicker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:43:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The hotter daughter taught her what the water otter ought to.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:51:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jigalidilidilitllopen
JIGA LIDDIL3 OPEN
Ziff7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:02:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is my new favorite sentence because I said it like 4 times before I had it rolling off my tongue so fast that my wife spit coffee everywhere laughing hysterically at me. Totally worth it.
Freihl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:02:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jig a lit ltl open dad help
edditme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:36:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm on a plane and said it. I got slapped by the girl sitting next to me :(.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:59:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This one made me very happy.
The_Butters_Worth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:13:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Jigglelilililopen"
TerkRockerfeller ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:22:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was fun!
scoobiedthedoobie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:01:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have some fool's gold, i'm broke
bassnugget ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:01:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Open it a little, it'll jiggle."
FinibusBonorum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:24:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Non native English speaker, this rolls tight off the tongue. What was supposed to be the gag?
yousefsquared ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:58:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not a tongue twister, just sounds really silly.
Menolydc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:19:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the best thing I've read all day. I need more
Mrminecrafthimself ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:02:22 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why am I laughing?!
NosyEnthusiast6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:23 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Odd, I also visit /r/WordAvalanches.
mikebrady ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:24:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel much better now thanks. ;)
Foreveran00b ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:34:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Something similar that drives me crazy is saying "that that" in a row, in a sentence. And its grammatically correct. I didn't know this for the longest and have been correcting people the entire time. ๐ถ
Noble_Ox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:15:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Theres a way of placing six 'and's in a row that is correct also.
Medic0416 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:42:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha me too. Fuck that sentance...
Kyrond ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:45:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just imagine it like THE RAT THE CAT THE DOG CHASED KILLED ATE THE MALT.
Or THE RAT, THE CAT (THE DOG CHASED) KILLED, ATE THE MALT.
There are worse sentences, at least for me, like the one with 10 "had" in a row or just Buffalo.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:25:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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strikethroughthemask ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:18:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. As a native speaker (who happens to have a degree in English), I do not understand this sentence. I taught English as a second language briefly, and we stressed that it doesn't matter so much that you memorize and follow a bunch of technical grammar rules, but that you are able to be understood. "Proper" grammar and pronunciation are class markers to some extent. But for some people, "grammar" becomes just a set of rules to neurotically obsess over and/or judge others when they don't follow.
himalayan_earthporn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:50:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Found the grammer Nazi.
Heil.
Mortenusa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:54:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I literally had to look away a few times while reading that..
abhinav4848 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:28:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I recorded some clips to help understand the sentence: THE RAT THE CAT THE DOG CHASED KILLED ATE THE MALT.
Which one sounds the best guys? I'll remove the rest.
knirefnel ยท 241 points ยท Posted at 01:38:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds of something I heard once in German class - past tense verbs end up at the end of a sentence so there are various jokes about professors going on runaway sentences that last a whole lecture and just end with a 10 minute string of unrelated verbs.
[deleted] ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 03:39:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ich habe schon seit vielen Jahren bei meinen Deutschstunden an das, was du gerade gesagt hast, gedacht.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:09:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh German. Spent a whole year learning the language while living in Germany and still get so confused.
TM4rkuS ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 09:02:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For a second I was confused why this would be confusing. Sounded way too natural. But yeah, it actually is the same thing. With the difference that we at least try giving it some structure by introducing commas... and fail terrifically.
Skulder ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:42:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
..... I have, for many years, during my lessons on german, what you just said, thought of?
PLATOS_LEFT_TESTICLE ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 05:28:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't literally translate it... "For many years of my german studies I have had that exact thought"
Phoenix_Queen ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 11:22:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't ever translate something literally. More often than not, you'll end up with a garbled mess.
rodrigorrb ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 11:38:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guess he was trying to site the string of unrelated verbs at the end, not just translating.
PLATOS_LEFT_TESTICLE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:53:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I was first learning german, I had so much trouble because I was treating it like a code.
Nomicakes ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:31:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That actually made sense to me.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:00:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This sentence just doesn't work in English. In German it makes perfect sense.
"For many years during my German classes, I have thought of what you just said."
RegularGoat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:12:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tbh it's not even that bad in English
lippert ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 05:54:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He just kept talking in one long incredibly unbroken sentence moving from topic to topic so that no one had a chance to interrupt, it was really quite hypnotic.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 08:36:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am sure that a clever German politician can manage a cool rethoric effect like making everybody believe he's saying A and at the last word change it to B
okitsgreat ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 10:48:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Writer Franz Kafka made extensive use of this actually. He wrote in long sentences, with the exact meaning of each sentence only becoming apparent at the end of it.
This is actually a problem for translations of his works, because the same effect can't easily be achieved in other languages.
Kac3rz ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 13:10:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a running joke about German philosophers - their works are hard to understand, because they would write a single sentence two pages long and end it with "...nichts".
robophile-ta ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 10:04:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This can definitely work in Japanese, where the negator is at the end of the sentence, after the verb.
So you could say something like "I strongly believe that Hitler did nothing wrong (crowd gasps) ...not"
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 09:30:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Prhime ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:31:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most useful explanation tbh
crackanape ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:30:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mark Twain wrote an essay "The Awful German Language" which makes fun of this and many other things.
RamonaLittle ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:20:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had a professor who did this. But he wasn't German, just crazy.
NGHTMR ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:27:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen nach.
Fenrir2401 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:46:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wenn du denkst du denkst, dann denkst du nur du denkst, denn das Denken der Gedanken ist gedankenloses Denken.
chris3110 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 12:26:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like a bumpy road.
average_fan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:37:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, bei mir ist der Satz im Kopf anders geendet...
Wenn du denkst du denkst, dann denkst du nur du denkst, ein Mรคdchen kann das nicht - schau mir in die Augen und dann schau in mein Gesicht
Fenrir2401 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:58:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Die Variante kenne ich nicht...meine finde ich besser :)
WormRabbit ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:48:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or end it with "nicht". Very fun to translate, especially in live speech.
emuhleah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:31:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck. currently live in germany trying to learn german so i can go to college here. Thanks for fucking up my dreams.
FinibusBonorum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:27:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen nach.
InfanticideAquifer ยท 981 points ยท Posted at 00:44:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh God. You could do that forever...
The thing the thing the thing the thing the thing.... was was was was was was was.
:(
icepho3nix ยท 613 points ยท Posted at 01:28:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bison Bison had had had had had Bison Bison Bison shi shi shi
whitnibritnilowhan ยท 536 points ยท Posted at 01:48:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Silly! It's Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. Bison indeed. Explain to me shi.
thundergonian ยท 97 points ยท Posted at 03:40:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bison references "Buffalo buffalo ..."
had had references "John had had had ..."
shi shi references a Chinese phrase where every word(?) is a variation of "shi".
Jonthrei ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 10:36:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
shi bu shi
Nipso ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:10:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shรฌ
AnticPosition ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:51:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi.
NeokratosRed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:38:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, thanks !
I thought he realized mid-sentence that he wrote bison instead of buffalo, but had no time to correct himself so he kept going and tried to write a repeated pg-18 version of 'shit shit shit shit'.
icepho3nix ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 02:21:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh I dunno. What I posted is the flavor text for a gun in Borderlands.
RogueRho ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:46:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember that...
Gonna go play some now.
spinningblue ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:54:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bar bar bar bar bar..
Battle_Claiborne ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:30:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
YOU BARBARIAN!
Sergeant_Sweetness ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:53:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ruffalo Ruffalo Ruffalo Ruffalo Ruffalo Ruffalo Ruffalo
PlsHelp6996 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:45:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of a Swedish one
Fรฅr fรฅr fรฅr? Nej, fรฅr fรฅr inte fรฅr, fรฅr fรฅr lamm.
Maria_vonTrappQueen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:26:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would you mind explaining it in English? I love these things.
PlsHelp6996 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:32:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sheep gets sheep? No sheep doesn't get sheep, sheep gets lamb.
MiriMiri ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:40:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fรฅr could mean "get" or "receive", here in the meaning "beget", as well as "sheep" or "mutton".
So, it's "[Do] sheep [be]get sheep? No, sheep [do] not [be]get sheep, sheep [be]get lambs". Word order is different in Scandinavian languages, so it's literally "[be]get sheep sheep? No, sheep [be]get not sheep, sheep [be]get lambs."
Maria_vonTrappQueen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:00:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Awesome, thank you!
RogueRho ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:47:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shi is a chinese poem about a man who bought and ate ten stone lions in his stone den, and it is made up of around 50-60 uses of different variations of the word.
liamera ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:10:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're actually all different characters, and some of those characters are really parts of other words (e.g. 2 characters) that have been abbreviated to one character. It reads really awkward and confusing even to native chinese speakers.
They look like the same word to us, because some of them are pronounced the same (various tonal pronunciations of "shi"), but they look and are as different as the words "through" and "threw" do in english.
RogueRho ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:41:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Huh, that's pretty interesting. Thanks for the info.
ReadySteady_GO ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:35:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a Chinese poem consisting of the different uses of shi (pronounced sure)
Shi shi shi Shi si shi
Don't remember it all, it's pretty long, but each of the words have a different "tone" so it helps beginners with tones like a tongue twister.
whatsmycoin ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:50:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is absolutely not pronounced "sure".
Amadan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:59:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depends. ไบ in Beijing dialect is pronounced shรฌr (ไบๅฟ), for which "sure" in certain American dialects is a very close approximation. Pick another dialect or another "shi" and this very tenuous connection gets obliterated.
ReadySteady_GO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:46:07 on March 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As an American, that is how I associated it ( mandarin) and seemed like the best way to describe it. Maybe "sherr" would be more appropriate? Correct me if I'm off, please
chris3110 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:33:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"it helps beginners" เฒ _เฒ
Sheogoorath ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:44:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, it's in Cantonese. There's something similar I learned in my mandarin class, but it's a lot shorter.
barki33 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:18:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Cantonese one is different though, as some words (ไฝฟ for instance) are pronounced sai, not shi. Only the Mandarin version consists solely of 'shi'
AtomicDeaths ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:56:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
he is sneezing
malenc0213 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:00:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can add 3 more buffalo to that.
X-istenz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:20:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fun fact: any number of iterations of the word "buffalo" can be interpreted as a complete sentence, from the single imperative, "Buffalo!" being an instruction to bully someone.
auctor_ignotus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Chinese poem consisting of "shi" in different tenses/meanings/with differing emphasis: shi shi shi...an so on. Like the English "buffalo buffalo..." But much longer.
halofreakrun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:43:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Police police police police police police police police.
DMUSER ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shi Shi Ooo
uthinkther4uam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:46:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Borderlands....or something
Bjorkledorq ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:36:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's some Chinese poem out there that only uses characters pronounced "shi" in various tones.
TheJazzProphet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:36:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den
cryo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:41:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Although the buffalo's species name is bison bison.
My_Cat_Is_Bald ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:39:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Want to know the difference between a buffalo and a bison? You can't wash your hands in a buffalo
DempseyRoller ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:46:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or the Classic swedish: far fรฅr fรฅr fรฅr nej fรฅr fรฅr lamm
RetroRocket ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:00:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That one Chinese poem "The Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den" which is entirely shi with different tones
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:04:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi shi
randomburner23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:26:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually any sentence comprised solely of the word buffalo is grammatically correct no matter the length.
Buffalo__Buffalo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:32:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Huh?
woeful_haichi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:04:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You probably know it's a Chinese poem by now. Here is the poem in Chinese, Pinyin, and translated into English in image form:
https://finecha.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/shi.jpg
frankybling ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:36:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have an upvote! I was going to post the "buffalo" sentence.
Ltb1993 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:45:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Work work work work work work He said me haffi Work work work work work work! He see me do mi Dirt dirt dirt dirt dirt
GarbledReverie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:11:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
New York bison New York bison bully bully New York bison.
kogasapls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:50:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Google "shi poem." Chinese poem consisting of various words which look like "shi" but sound slightly different.
kaylejoy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:01:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den
Existantbeing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:05:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think the "shi" refers to a Chinese poem consisting of entirely different "shi" syllables.
the-z ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:05:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a similar poem (?) in Chinese that just uses different meanings of the word shi.
DocGrosskopf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:10:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, no, no. It's "Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger"
DoWhile ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:59:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This
EoT_FoF_YL ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:01:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I killed Dukino's Mom too.
icepho3nix ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:41:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She was gonna EAT him, man! I had to!
MolassesBoogaloo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:55:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice to meet a person who wastes their time reading the same Wikipedia articles as I do!
sneekee_11 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:38:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ded at shi shi shi
LaharlKrichevskoy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yip Yip!
HBlight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Come visit /r/WordAvalanches where we do that shit for fun.
dan-the-space-man ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:02:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/bisonmasterrace
kiss_my_what ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:46:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Badger badger badger
JustaPonder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:23:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You. I like you.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:36:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
PSYCHO PSYCHO PSYCHO PSYCHO POWER POWER POWER POWER
lolbifrons ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:12:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Try to explain this matter.
SmartAlec105 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:20:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love you. It just needs a whole bunch of "and and and and, and and and and,"s to be perfect.
CashKing_D ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:45:33 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
grammar implodes
Tsukigato ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:28:23 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
ccricers ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:46:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like the English language version of nesting ternary statements.
Hecatonchair ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 08:54:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Joe "Please Don't Call Me 'Joe 'Joe Miller' Miller'" Miller
NMDA ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:38:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher
g18suppressed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
James, while john had had "had", had "had had". "Had had" had had a better effect on the teacher.
SnappyTWC ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:43:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's missing a had, should be ยซ"had", had had "had had". ยป
NMDA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:10:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep!
NMDA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:12:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
CitizenPremier ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:15:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Infinite recursion is a crucial component of language, and common to all languages. Yes, I've heard about Pirahรฃ, but there's good reasons to have doubts about the one guy who wrote about it.
InfanticideAquifer ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:43:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hadn't heard about Pirahรฃ but your bringing it up lead to me a couple of really cool Wikipedia articles. So thanks!
What was bothering me about it, though, wasn't so much that the sentence was "infinitely recursive" but that it would take you an arbitrarily long amount of time to get any information from it.
Something like "John's brother's house's door was red" seems different to me somehow. Right off the bat you at least know that you're talking about John. With my sentence you don't even know what the first thing is until you've finished with all of them. (And with yousef's you don't know which rat until much later in the sentence.)
kileel ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:31:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yay the halting problem and non-partial computability!
Adarain ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:28:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which is probably one of the reasons why in most languages, anything over three of those embeddings becomes unintelligible to speakers, even if it's grammatical on a technicality.
Amadan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:08:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Specifically center embeddings. It becomes intellegible (but still hard) as a left or right embedding (e.g. in Croatian or Japanese):
fancy-free ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:27:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fish eat
Fish fish eat eat
Etc
sightlab ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:41:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yo Yo Yo Mah mah man.
Isvara ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:09:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I bet this is how John McCarthy talked.
jovtoly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:08:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's recursion, so yeah you could do it forever, though the most you can get away with in general use is only one embedded clause inside the main one.
ravia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:01:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
johnny where the teacher had had had had had had had had had had the teacher's preference
InfanticideAquifer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:22:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think I could use that "had the teacher's preference" construction in my dialect of English. I've never heard anyone say something like that at least. Do you mind if I ask (broadly) where you're from?
I've always seen that degenerate sentence as "James, while John had had 'had', had had 'had had'; 'had had' had impressed the teacher more."
ravia ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:20:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's how it was shown to me. I had had no "preference" regarding said construction. Seeing it now it appears to be correct, although in the context it would appear to be more a matter of correctness and not mere preference, although a teacher could reasonably and meaningfully be impressed by a correct construction, which, it is true, would also be preferred, but to say a teacher prefers correct grammar is almost redundant, one might say. The grammar itself appears to me to require such a construction when it is to be used, based, of course, on the situation in which it arises. But a teacher certainly could be impressed by a student's being correct where this is not thought to be likely.
From the U.S. here.
InfanticideAquifer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:25:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Huh, U.S. here too. I'd say that the teacher had the teacher's preference. What James said could be preferred. But the holder of a preference is the only person who could have that preference. ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ
ravia ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:01:39 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The person who told me that had gone to college around 1920. It may be an older construction/idiom.
jingowatt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:55:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That that that that that replaces is that's that's that.
ZooRevolution ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:11:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think we're gonna need sigma notation for this one.
Badstaring ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:21:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's one of the main properties of natural language. The longest sentence is infinitely long.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:24:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To do to do to do todotodotdotodo....
GuyWithLag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:29:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is just an example of Reverse Polish Notation for English. Anyone that ever wrote FORTH is comfortable with it...
[deleted] ยท 114 points ยท Posted at 01:01:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That lay in the house that Jack built
TooBadFucker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:02:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
knock knock
zenthr ยท 165 points ยท Posted at 01:27:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The old man the boat.
Yay, garden path sentences!
smileybird ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 04:27:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Old people are operating the boat?
zenthr ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 04:29:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. "Old" here is a noun (or is it more correct to say "ones" or "people" is implied?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:48:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, it's perfect.
bcdm ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:02:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Plus "man" is a verb, to add just that extra soupรงon of confusion.
tinkerpunk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:56:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fuck is that how you spell the word that sounds like "soos-OHN"?
bcdm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:13:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup!
jumnhy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:08:33 on March 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And today I learned a new word!
4LostSoulsinaBowl ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:21:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The horse raced past the barn fell.
The fat people eat accumulates.
combat_muffin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:11:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Still trying to figure out that first one
heybrother45 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:50:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The horse that has been raced past the barn, fell
Stacia_Asuna ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:11:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's a garden path sentence?
zenthr ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 04:16:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's one which is difficult to deconstruct into its actual meaning (at least if you read it- with speech there are of course additional cues). In this case, the portion, "the old man" misdirects you into thinking of an old man, which is NOT the subject in the sentence.
wollphilie ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 08:16:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Another example: time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana
sagan_drinks_cosmos ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:02:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Knowledge is power, France is bacon.
RamonaLittle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:25:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This was an epic thread.
Erilaz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:19:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Will Will Smith Smith? Will Smith will smith.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:24:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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jaxi123 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:36:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
actually it's grammatically incorrect to have a comma there
Coasterman345 ยท 317 points ยท Posted at 01:47:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is also grammatically correct. It means, "Bison from Buffalo, which bison from Buffalo bully, themselves bully bison from Buffalo."
[deleted] ยท 134 points ยท Posted at 02:16:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Isn't the verb "buffalo" obscure enough for it to no longer be considered a valid sentence?
EDIT: I Google Ngramed "buffaloed" and found that its usage has spiked tremendously since the 1970's; however, only in historical fiction and glossaries.
MangoPDK ยท 279 points ยท Posted at 02:49:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like it's kept alive solely by this example.
HankF89 ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 03:28:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a name for words like that, that are kept alive simply because of one use. Words like "ruth" from "ruthless." I've had too much wine to either look up the term myself, or come up with more examples.
Give_Me_The_Cheese ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 03:58:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The example "buffalo" would be a fossil word, as it only exists within a single idiom. "Ruth" would be a bound morpheme, seeing as it is a "root word" which only exists presently when paired with certain suffixes or prefixes.
HankF89 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:59:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes! "Fossil word" was the term. Thank you, and u/Kaeysa
derleth ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:07:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Linguists are morpheme addicts, and will go to great lengths for affix.
The_Sober_Ocelot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:44:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or "gorm"?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:19:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like "disgruntled" or "nonplussed".
iamthegraham ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:41:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
or whelmed.
Kaeysa ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:55:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The term you're looking for is "fossil words"
SirSupernova ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:53:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Quit buffaloing OP, he's buffaloing his buffalo.
barosa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:35:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like how people only say "doggone" to make dog puns.
HowManyMoreX ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:50:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why are you buffaloing that guys grammar? Keepit alive
the_eric ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:01:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why are you trying to buffalo /u/Coasterman345?
kblaney ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:53:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was used in Kill Bill 2.
Andoverian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:11:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I actually saw it in an online ad a week or so ago. And there is an older guy where I work who uses unironically.
JarlaxleForPresident ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:21:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, don't buffalo me, man.
Gozal_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:21:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Enough with this madness.
mecheye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:05:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://buffalo-buffalo.ytmnd.com/
TajunJ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:52:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"John, while Joe had had had, had had had had. Had had had had the teacher's approval" is my favorite.
Itsapocalypse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:04:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This hasn't made sense until just now for me.
Buffalo- city of
buffalo- bison
buffalo- bother
The Buffalonian bison that Buffalonian bison bother, themselves also bother Buffalonian bison. Buffalo(city) buffalo(animal) [that] Buffalo(city) buffalo(animal) buffalo(bother), [they themselves also] buffalo(bother) Buffalo(city) buffalo(animal).
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
el___diablo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:35:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger " is also grammatically correct.
Annon201 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:31:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Could it be added to? The first and last bison (assuming we are talking about individual buffalo), could both have the proper name "Buffalo."
A bison named Buffalo from Buffalo, NY which the other bison from Buffalo, NY bully themselves bully another bison, Buffalo, also from Buffalo, NY:
"Buffalo, Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo, Buffalo, Buffalo buffalo." I think...
seal_eggs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:45:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the actual fuck
Scarletfapper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:18:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for explaining the verb - my brain did the rest.
bobisagirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:29:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah but this is not multiple centre embedding. It's actually an usual kind of garden path sentence, in which a word plays a role different from the expected one.
E.g.
'The old man the boat' 'The horse raced past the barn fell'
b1sh0p ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:34:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Omelette Du Fromage
rugtoad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:17:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Police Police Police police Police Police, Police Police police Police.
Also grammatically correct under the premise that another name for Internal Affairs is "Police-police", and there is another department responsible for monitoring them...and you can probably sort out what their name would be.
sirin3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:30:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
These are the things that break an English-learning AI
bacon_is_just_okay ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 02:10:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm three beers in OP, can you ELI5?
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:49:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At 4 beers it makes sense
dorshorst ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:53:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
THE RAT (THE CAT (THE DOG CHASED) KILLED) ATE THE MALT.
bacon_is_just_okay ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:59:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now four beers in, it still doesn't make sense. Is it the cat, that killed the rat, that the dog chased, that ate the malt? It still doesn't make sense to me.
dorshorst ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:45:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The rat ate the malt. The cat killed the rat. The dog chased the cat.
The rat ate the malt. The rat, the cat killed, ate the malt. The cat, the dog chased, killed the rat. The rat, the cat, the dog chased, killed, ate the malt
superwrong ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:58:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yours has commas though that makes it much easier to read lotsa sentences look awkward without commas. My brain broke trying to comprehend op's sentence.
Pieecake ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:30:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The rat that was killed by the cat that was chased by the dog ate the malt.
JarlaxleForPresident ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:24:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Get those beers out of OP!!!
tirmanadir ยท 50 points ยท Posted at 01:15:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shouldn't it be "The rat that the cat the dog chased killed ate the malt"?
wessexboyofsidney ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:44:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you, that immediately solved that sentence for me. I just couldn't make it sound right in my head without the 'that'.
NuggetWorthington ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:38:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes
A_Waskawy_Wabit ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:23:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shouldn't it be "The rat, that the cat, the dog chased, killed, ate the malt"?
that-writer-kid ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:02:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The rat that the cat which was chased by the dog killed ate the malt.
RealQuickPoint ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:53:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or: The dog chased the cat that killed the rat that ate the malt.
ThVos ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:50:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it helps you to break it up like that for understanding, why not? But that's not how English commas work, strictly speaking.
Karufel ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 09:49:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because strictly speaking english commas don't have any use. They are up for the writer to decide whether or not to use them.
Are there actually any rules when you have to use commas?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:28:02 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone else is just down-voting you and not answering. You are wrong though, there are rules for commas. Google it!
tirmanadir ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:07:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can't use commas like that.
Phreakhead ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 02:31:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In this case, it seems more like that the rules of grammar are incorrect. Why would grammar, an invented structure used to describe language, ever produce something un-understandable, or that makes sense to no one?
originalusername0493 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:50:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It's not the fault of the grammar, which has a number of completely valid, perfectly comprehensible uses. The mistake would be with whoever composed such a sentence without taking into account its ambiguity.
Even very standard grammar is fraught with these potential potholes, only we typically go to a lot of effort to avoid them. One great example of this the gymnastics most of us perform without thinking when using pronouns. For example, say we were to talk about a male dog, there are two major pronoun forms we could use, the impersonal, it, and the gendered, he, and which of these we choose would change depending on whomever or whatever the dog was interacting with. For a human male, we would use it ("it bit him" vs "he bit it"); human female, either ("it/he bit her" vs "she bit it/him"); and a venus fly trap, he ("he bit it" vs "it bit him"). Just because we could theoretically choose not to perform this adaptation and produce sentences that are impossible to fully parse ("he bit him" and "it bit it") doesn't mean the underlying grammar is incorrect. It may be limited, say compared to a different, more flexible language (like, in the case of disambiguating the above scenario, Navajo, which has separate inflections for humans, non-human animals, and non-animal objects), but that still doesn't make it incorrect.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 07:28:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:27:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not understandable, it's explainable. Nobody could hear that sentence spoken out loud and understand it without having it explained.
Not nobody.
HAESisAMyth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:22:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Easily understandable"
The Charlie-Fox of an explanation he provides proves orherwise.
Makhiel ยท 55 points ยท Posted at 01:11:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
While grammatically correct it implies that a dead rat ate the malt.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 01:22:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't specify whether the rat was eating before or after it got killed, I'd assume before.
Technoslave ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:38:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only if it were Schrรถdinger's rat.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 01:41:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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NinjahBob ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:26:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Incase anyone is wondering, this comment is bull
Makhiel ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 01:47:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless specified I'd assume relative clauses happen before the main ones.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:42:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seems like an unreasonable difficult way to interpret sentences.
Makhiel ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:45:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How is having a default timeframe unreasonably difficult?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:14:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It led you to believe a dead cat was eating. A default timeframe that everyone doesn't follow is not that default.
Makhiel ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:57:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm talking about the concept of having a default timeframe, not a specific default timeframe.
savageboredom ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:36:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, it did. It just wasn't dead at the time.
jared1981 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:05:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, dead now.
ManstoorHunter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:41:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not necessarily, right? It doesn't say when the rat are the malt. Maybe it ate it while still alive.
Makhiel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:57:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well no; you could have a bunch of rats one of which ate the malt and you need to specify which one but I'd say with no context it goes like this:
"The rat that the cat killed ate the malt"
-> "The killed-by-a-cat rat ate the malt."
~> "The dead rat ate the malt."
ManstoorHunter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:56:50 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
What if it were The killed-by-a-cat rat ate the malt BEFORE it was killed by the cat?
It's still the same rat so it's still the killed-by-a-cat rat.
I may be totally wrong but it makes sense in my head.
Makhiel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:51:38 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But you'd have to specify that. The point is you have a main clause and a relative clause, both in the past tense, which happened first?
ManstoorHunter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:05:49 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Since it isn't specified which happened first, would one scenario not be that the rat ate the malt first?
Makhiel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:27:55 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would, and the second would be that it got killed first. But I'm asking what is the default order of events?
Or to put it another way, if the rat first ate the malt and then got killed by the cat which sentence would describe that better?
A. The rat that got killed by the cat ate the malt.
B. The rat that ate the malt got killed by the cat.
ManstoorHunter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:02:03 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
B would describe that better. However, A could also describe that. A may not be the best way to phrase it but the way I look at it it's not necessarily implying that a dead rat ate the malt.
As I re-read it over and over I realize that it, A, can be interpreted both ways.
Makhiel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:58:19 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's about what's likelier, I don't think any syntactic rule works 100%.
BitchinTechnology ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:25:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That makes no sense. Who decides what grammar is correct?
Show me the governing body who decides these things. Or is it just "accepted use"?
Accepted by who? I assure you the vast majority of english speakers would not accept that sentence as being correct
oonniioonn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:40:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Makes total sense if you say it right. It becomes difficult only in writing because you start over-analyzing.
Adding two commas makes it a bit easier already: The rat, the cat the dog chased killed, ate the malt.
BitchinTechnology ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:00:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't make sense even with commas
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:44:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Love this DMX track
Mastahamma ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:12:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
isn't this precisely what other languages use punctuation for
onetwo3four5 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:12:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whenever things like this come out it pisses me off. If nobody understands a sentence and it takes 8 steps to explain it, then sure it may follow the structure of an English sentence, but it's still a garbage sentence that isn't correct English because nobody knows what the fuck it means. Same with that Buffalo bullshit. Repeating the word Buffalo 7 times only means something if you've already looked up what the word Buffalo 7 times in a row means. If nobody understands a sentence, then we shouldn't consider it grammatically correct, it's just a shitty anomaly because languages evolve, they aren't designed.
PlacatedPlatypus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:47:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, with certain inflection this sentence sounds natural, if you slightly pause after 'rat', 'chased', and 'killed', while saying 'the cat the dog chased' as one term, it sounds correct.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know it's gonna sound pretentious, but did no one else do this exercise in school? Complex sentences? Subject predicate? Compound-complex?
Fuck yeah it sounds confusing, and in practical use no one would use that sentence, but is it really that mind blowing to pick apart if you think about it for 30 seconds?
Ecdysozoa ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:03:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No sir.... I don't like it.
naristhewicked ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:13:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is like finding the integral of a sentence or something
iizwiz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:13:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would you not use commas?
pkulak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:40:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
Aycee225 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:41:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had a nursery rhyme book that my sisters and I absolutely loved. It had this rhyme in there. Here the Wikipedia about it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_the_House_That_Jack_Built
Edit: Forgot to mention that we particularly enjoyed trying to say it as fast as possible.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:42:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also grammatically correct: "Police police police police police police police police."
stankhead ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:08:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
guarantee Id get marked down in an essay for that even tho it is "correct". English is stupid
deadmanj0hn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:06:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's easier if you use "incorrect" commas (though the point of a comma is to clarify otherwise dubious sentences; that of which, this exactly is). "The rat, the cat, the dog chased, caught, ate the malt."
M0dusPwnens ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:05:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This is actually a point of huge contention. You would be hard-pressed to overestimate how much has been written on the grammaticality of center-embedded sentences.
The older (which is not to say unpopular today), Chomskyan view is that these sentences are "grammatical" in an abstract sense, but that humans lack the computational resources to resolve the dependencies once you get to three (or possibly more) embeddings, resulting in very low acceptability ratings.
Essentially, the idea is that there's some part of your linguistic system that can in principle produce these things, but somewhere between that part and your linguistic input/output systems (your mouth or ears), there's some kind of bottleneck.
This ended up being a very influential idea and center-embedding is still the primary motivating example people use when explaining it.
You end up having to propose something like that if you want to propose the kind of extremely minimal structure-building operations that are supposed to form the core of modern Chomskyan syntax - you have to build a wall in your theory between grammaticality and acceptability and say that, even though humans can't process the sentences, they would be grammatical if humans could.
The problem you run into is that that's a pretty thoroughly untestable hypothesis. It also implies a pretty strong and almost certainly incorrect assumption about human brains having pools of computational "resources" to run out of in a way analagous to a Von Neumann computer.
In the last couple of decades, there's been a lot of pushback against the idea of separating grammaticality and acceptability like that - it turns out you can still write very parsimonious theories (albeit very different-looking ones) without assuming that kind of really minimal grammar that sits somewhere prior to processing constraints. A lot of modern researchers would tell you that sentences with three or more center embeddings just aren't actually "grammatically correct".
Another fun thing about center embeddings is that if you take out one of the verb phrases (e.g., "The rat the cat the dog chased ate the malt."), acceptability often doesn't change, even with only double center-embeddings.
General_Urist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:28:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of "Buffalo buffalo, Buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo Buffalo buffalo", which would actually make a pretty good anti-bullying PSA.
ArMcK ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:38:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
While it may count as proper English (a point I'm not willing to concede--I believe it needs two commas), it is not good English. This is because its meaning is so obfuscated.
Saoren ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:06:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the other sentences make quite a bit of sense honestly although this one seems to be a case of being only technically correct. part of the reason is many of them utilize multiple meanings of words, or utilization as different parts of speech. as an example
may seem odd because the portion [complex houses] can be read as an adjective and a noun, as opposed to a noun and a verb. the correct way to read it could be illustrated by rewriting it for clarity:
another one that seems odd is:
but for clarity:
if we used different words to express a similar sentence, for the sake of more clarification:
the problem i have with the one you mentioned is that it appears too unclear even when parsed. it seems that it utilizes the same rule as a subject being resented such as:
or if extended into a sentence:
the primary issue im seeing with the sentence you stated was that the ordering now becomes unclear whenever referring back to the nouns present.
so if we go back the the first subject i presented, and add a dog, this is produced:
the main problem here is that while the cat is meant to be hunting the mouse, "the dog" is now implied to be the hunter and the cat is left with no understood relation to anything. if we add the term "fled" like before to complete the sentence:
this isnt alleviated. its still seemingly implied that the only two nouns that have any relation to one another are the dog and the mouse. the subject of the sentence is referring to a mouse primarily, affected/given relation to specific cat and a specific dog. so getting to the sentence you provided:
at this point there appears to be quite a few specific issues when parsing the sentence. when reading "chased" its implied it occurs to the rat as its the primary noun being addressed in the sentence. an action that isn't occurring either to it or by it, without additional specification appears odd. etc
this sentence may be grammatically correct but again, seems to be in a way that is primarily technical rather than actually logical. the other sentences can be understood directly as they are presented primarily as confusing but primarily utilize aspects such as homophones.
failsafeagain ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:52:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here's another.
James, while John had had had, had had had had; had had had had a better effect on the teacher.
The idea is that two students wrote a paper. In it, James used the phrase "had had" at some point (i.e. I had had very little experience in mechanical work up until that point in my life), while John had only used "had". The teacher preferred James' "had had".
So, a more clear way to write the sentence might be:
James, while John had had "had", had had "had had". Therefore "had had" had had a better effect on the teacher.
Also - the old man the boat.
Here "man" is a verb and "old" is a noun mean the elderly.
Edit: typos
TheVoicesSayHi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:34:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
MolotovFlirtini ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:37:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo
sanjithecook ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:29:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There should be commas here right? Or is actually grammatically correct without them?
SenorRobert ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:36:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can someone explain?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:50:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
there exists the Dog.
there also exists the Cat the Dog chased.
there exists the Rat that was killed by the Cat the Dog chased.
also that rat ate the malt.
pruo95 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:42:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Throw the baby down the stairs a cookie.
EmperorJake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:10:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher.
With proper punctuation: James, while John had had "had", had had "had had"; "had had" had had a better effect on the teacher.
arch_nyc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:18:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know what's going on here. But I think it just cured my headache.
gymnasticRug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds really inappropriate for some reason.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is why you need conjunctions in speech, and both conjunctions and punctuation in writing.
Son_of_York ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It really only makes sense with the proper pronunciation.
The rat the cat (the dog chased) killed, ate the malt.
imquitestupid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No it's not grammatically correct, I don't care what anyone says. That's just not English!
leAlexc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:41:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will Smith will smith
Will Will Smith smith
Xrsist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:48:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was doing inventory at a computer manufacturing company and kept our smaller anti-static bags in larger anti-static bags. Those were therefore anti-static, anti-static bag, bags. If I kept nesting them another two layers, I would have an anti-static anti-static anti-static anti-static bag bag bag bag.
Pixelyus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is why people need to use their goddamn commas, or whatever punctuation would be necessary there
NickNash1985 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:03:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is making my head hurt. Because I'm bad at smartness, I'll do what I usually do in this situation: ask my wife (she's an English teacher).
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This was fairly easy to read as someone with a tendency to structure my sentences like that, the dog chased a cat that was chasing a rat and that fat ate the malt but was killed by the cat
Whats_gravity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:10:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm partial to "john, while James had had had, had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher"
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:14:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The rat-- which the cat, who the dog chased, killed-- ate the malt.
Hurray for punctuation and relative clauses!
Takatalvi_Ignatio ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:22:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, and "Police police police police police police police police" is a grammatically correct sentence.
you_areso_goodlookin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:45:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The rat, the cat the dog chased killed, ate the malt. This is closer to sounding right.
monkwren ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:46:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.
idrive2fast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:50:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's only grammatically correct if you use commas.
Gdigger13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:00:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/WordAvalanches
Retbull ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:03:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So Lisp?
Ultraimagination ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:04:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck my head hurts
DasDerp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:15:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher.
AngryKittens ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:18:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you ever get into coding and decide to learn lisp this will become perfectly clear to you.
omnilynx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:18:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it really grammatical, though? Sure it follows a rule someone made up, but nobody who reads that sentence understands what it means without explanation.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:21:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the house that Jack built
morganational ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:21:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mind bottling.
bobsp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:28:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's just prescriptivist bullshit that doesn't make any real sense. So...it's wrong by any modern linguist's definition.
karmarocket_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:34:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The rat, the one the cat who was chased by the dog killed, ate the malt.
glassjoe92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:01:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's some Napping House shit.
Cruxion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:02:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like just adding a few "that"s could fix it a bit.
Bourbone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:04:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WHAT IS MALT?
aigret ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:10:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like this only works because it lacks commas; without them, is it grammatically correct?
"The rat, the cat, the dog chased, killed, ate the malt."
It seems like it's intentionally confusing otherwise just for shock value.
ffryd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:13:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Such as?
APairofDocks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The rat - the cat the dog chased killed - ate the malt
smellyegg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:37:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I couldn't disagree more. A phrase that makes no sense to 99% of English speakers is not grammatically correct.
ohailmhic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:42:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This just about looks like what happens when I try to code
lelomelo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:47:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Basically how German syntax works.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:49:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
THE SNAKE THE RAT THE CAT THE DOG
HOW YOU GON SEE EM IF YOU LIVIN IN THE FOG
you_wizard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:50:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It might be constructed in a technically correct way, but it doesn't very clearly convey its intended meaning. If I were an editor and I came across a sentence like this I would rephrase it.
burf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:55:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Might be technically correct, but it's also bullshit and terrible communication.
Ceejnew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:55:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That that is is that that is not is not.
That that is, is. That that is not, is not.
istara ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Put it in Latin: you have Cicero.
dailyduds ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:00:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like the chain rule of calculus for grammar
the_omega99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:02:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To describe it differently:
So you can collapse the descriptions to make things more readable. Eg, collapsing the rat description gets:
And collapsing the cat description gets:
Magicality ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:02:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That reminds me of function calls in programming.
DunceOfSpades ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:03:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Soooo.... "The rat the cat the dog the man the cow the fly the woman killed stung licked petted chased killed ate the malt" is also grammatically correct? It may be correct, but it's so much easier to understand in the form "The dog chased the cat that killed the rat that ate the malt"
Cbasg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:07:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I made a story out of this method:
The five passengers the car the train the crate the box the fox was in was in was on hit carried were killed.
[deleted] ยท 7078 points ยท Posted at 01:26:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Most people have an above average number of arms
Edit: Waking up to 61 replies is kind of scary
For people still lost, it's dubious semantic trickery, taking 'most' to mean mode and 'average' to mean mean, which is why using mean is often a bad idea
average_shill ยท 3967 points ยท Posted at 02:44:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone in the world has the largest spleen and doesn't know it
meanderling ยท 238 points ยท Posted at 04:37:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would assume they do know something about it. An enlarged spleen is symptomatic of many diseases.
average_shill ยท 66 points ยท Posted at 04:47:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm aware, I only posted it for the upvotes
fishfishmonkeyhat ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 08:01:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you god-damned mad man
pm_me_for_happiness ยท 13314 points ยท Posted at 03:27:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and his name is
JOHN SPLEENA
Shveathog ยท 4583 points ยท Posted at 03:53:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
๐บ๐บ๐บ๐บ
smilymammoth ยท 238 points ยท Posted at 06:17:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
๐บ ๐บ ๐บ ๐บ
CaptainMegaJuice ยท 267 points ยท Posted at 06:30:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
๐บ ๐บ ๐บ ๐บ
FTFY
ZeeCom ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 07:33:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thank
NeokratosRed ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 07:42:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
mr
whatthefuckisareddit ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 07:44:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
cena
NeokratosRed ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:56:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
pranzo
YoungsterJoey99 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:17:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
And here we see the wild circlejerk, in its natural habitat; askreddit
Edit: fuckin' nazis
NeokratosRed ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 10:30:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
its, you uncultured swine !
melon_master ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:21:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, fuck em real good
meeniemuffin ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:56:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can somehow hear the theme...
pizzaforthewin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:40:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
๐บ๐บ๐บ๐บ
CaptainCash ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 09:24:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This post was my first experience of synaesthesia as I genuinely heard those horns as sounds
AwkwardBamboo ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 10:01:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about ๐๐๐๐?
JizzNipples ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 10:19:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your job's a joke, you're broke, your love life's D.O.A!
Foray2x1 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:05:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like you're always stuck in second gear
When it hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year, but
PointAndClick ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 11:36:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
JOHN CENA
๐บ ๐บ ๐บ ๐บ
CaptainCash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:28:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Na - didn't do it for me.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:32:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DOOT DOOT
jdmousley ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:41:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was wondering how someone would put the John Cena noise into my head using only emojis.
Ghost427817 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:03:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doot doot.
logangrey123 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:05:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
๐บ๐บ๐บ๐บ
Noremac812 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:37:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank mr skeltal
kronos669 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:48:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't have a spleen.
ShankedPanda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:56:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fkn arrest this witch
Bombtrust ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:14:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thank mr skeltal
SilverAg11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:45:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do we really need four individual trumpets to play each note? It's 2016, don't we have the technology to make valves?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:01:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Each trumpet gave you 750 upvotes. Wow.
wowmemes911 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
๐ท๐ท๐ท๐ท
ShmooelYakov ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 11:34:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Summoning Bill Clinton?
EsotericAlphanumeric ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:54:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. Duke Silver.
Moosemaster21 ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 04:46:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/UnexpectedCena
average_shill ยท 72 points ยท Posted at 03:32:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hope you're happy.
UnderwaterDialect ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:41:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If not...
YOU WILL BE THIS SUNDAY NIGHT!!!
mattyice16 ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 04:07:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Best thing I've read today.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 05:24:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
[deleted]
Live_Ore_Die ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:46:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're not alone เฒ _เฒ
Paradox2063 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:51:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wuh oh.
Hexagon36 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:26:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
dont pay attention to what the others say that was perfect
CloudClamour ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:05:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You shouldn't feel good about that one
carolathome ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:24:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He has some spleenin' to do.
Anonymonynonymous ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:50:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A name like that you really ought to have guessed.
LegolasofMirkwood ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:02:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
๐บ๐บ๐บ๐บ
DMPunk ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:25:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Toot toot-toot toooooot
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:20:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't have to PM, just lurk.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:11:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hi I would like a happiness
largehoman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:52:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For fucks sake.
dcrystal127 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:43:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
๐บ๐บ๐บ๐บ
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:04:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
๐บ๐บ๐บ๐บ
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:23:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
๐บ๐บ๐บ๐บ
BrandoSoDope ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:27:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
๐บ๐บ๐บ๐บ
not_a_homosexual ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:24:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
doot doot
the_resist_stance ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:20:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thank mr skeltal
EMPTY_SODA_CAN ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:56:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well now he knows
Wilreadit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:20:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can't see it now.
sllh81 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:29:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unfortunately, we can't see him...
Waddupp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:09:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
hero
Unrestraint ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:52:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pi piru piii
fyreNL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:31:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't believe you got near 5k upvotes and gold for a low-effort joke like that.
Goddamnit Reddit.
Plasma_000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:32:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn this made my cackle. Well punned sir!
dogshenanigans ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:46:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SPLEENAWINSLOL
bawthedude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:57:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TURURU RURUUUUUUU
CheekyLemonMan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:58:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lmao
kaiju-taxi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:41:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
do do do do
canuckpuckbeaut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:22:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
YOUR TIME IS UP
MY TIME IS NOW
YOU CAN'T SPLEEN ME
MY TIME IS NOW
AnticPosition ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:47:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Chuck Testa?!
psycommander ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:24:46 on March 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
www.niceme.me
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:51:11 on May 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Terrible..
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:08:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck
Amphabian ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:39:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
๐บ๐บ๐บ๐บ
8bitslime ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:28:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Carl from Jimmy Neutron probably.
sabrefudge ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:13:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, he has a large Sheen.
Lugia3210 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:53:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bond with me Jimmy
AndThenThereWasMeep ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 05:32:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you read this in a Reddit post about a guy saying he doesnt want to explain his thoughts because he thinks about the most mundane shit?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:23:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, I knew I had heard that sentence before and it was starting to bug me
Dathouen ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:24:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most people have a below average number of Kidneys.
locked_armor ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:26:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uh, you mean above average?
Dathouen ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:01:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, below. When you receive a kidney transplant, they don't remove the weakened kidney, they just slip the extra into your pelvis. There are people with 3 kidneys, which they often receive from people who die immediately thereafter, so the number of living people with 3 kidneys outnumber the people with only 1.
prednisolone ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:29:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are also a lot of live kidney donors, and also people who are born with only one kidney or have one removed because of cancer. I would think these people outnumber the living transplant recipients.
Dathouen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:49:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not really. In the US & EU there are plenty of people who donate kidneys and live, but even with excellent healthcare their lifespan is notably shortened.
However in the most populous regions in the world, namely Asia and Africa, almost nobody donates. Most people receive kidneys and other organs from people who are dying or are going to die.
Elzuria ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:32:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My son was born with only one kidney.
Elzuria ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:32:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My son was born with only one kidney.
OskarCa ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:29:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Til my cousin has 3 kidneys
locked_armor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:07:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh wow, I didn't know they still kept the weakened kidney, TIL
kourtneykaye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:17:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about people with multiple transplants? An old friend had a transplant, her body rejected it after a few years then she got another one. Would she then have 3 on one side (for a total of 4)?
Dathouen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:51:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They typically remove the rejected organ. The problem is that removing an organ like the kidney is very delicate, and when you're already sick from kidney problems surgeons would rather not risk it if it's not going to do any harm.
In the case of a rejected organ, however, the immune system will attack and destroy the alien organ that is still consuming nutrients. Needless to say, your immune system trying to devour one of your organs is detrimental to your health.
kourtneykaye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:53:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah. Makes sense. Thanks for clearing that up.
Noble_Ox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:50:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember on QI they said some people have 5.
average_shill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:56:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I doubt it. I know kidney transplants often leave the recipient with 3 but that kidney had to come from somewhere...
Dathouen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:10:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The vast majority of donors are deceased. About 80% of all organs transplanted come from deceased donors.
A deceased donor is one that's brain dead, but the body is still alive and the organs are still viable.
Vexzy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:38:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly, it could be me for all I know. I have splenomegaly.
changyang1230 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:48:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone's parents put him down for the last time today.
Billy_Whiskers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:04:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They might know it, depending on how large it actually is. Maybe when they were born the first thing the nurse said was "Holy Shit! Doctor, come look at this!"
curraheee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:39:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This someone would probably know that something is wrong.
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Splenomegaly
flailing_uterus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:58:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're probably dead though, approximately 107 billion people have ever lived. By those numbers, there are 15 dead to every single person alive today
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:51:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For all you know, you could've taken a larger dump today than anyone else in the world
chadsexytime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:02:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its some dude with Mono, and he's terrified that its going to suddenly explode on him
mynameispointless ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:55:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is my life right now.
DopeAndDoper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:34:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They may not know for sure but they probably suspect it
stankhead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:14:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I dont know why, but this made me laugh. Maybe I have the world's biggest spleen?!
doctorscurvy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:20:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would the world's fattest person have an equivalently large spleen, or the world's tallest, or are all spleens created equal?
Beelzabubba ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:26:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He knows
no_morelurking ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:45:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks gavin
The_Sober_Ocelot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:47:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right before it ruptures. I suspect this title changes hands pretty frequently.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:54:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone took the biggest shit today and doesn't know it.
Mr_Rekshun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:02:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone else has the largest dick, and I bet they do know it.
littlebutmighty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:08:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Considering the only way this could happen is if this person has horrific splenomegaly, he/she probably has a fairly good idea they're a candidate for the title.
ADSRelease ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:20:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
maybe he does know it. and maybe he's proud
hokiedokie18 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:34:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's probably me, I've been in bed with mono for 5 days now
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:36:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My alcoholic liver is also something to behold.
bacon_catz_karma ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:59:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My girlfriend has two spleens, does that count?
GeorgeOrrBinks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:15:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lucy! You've got some 'spleening to do.
Onion_Terror ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:47:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This reminds me of my favourite fact: that every day, someone, somewhere, inadvertently does the biggest poo in the world for that day.
Sexual_tomato ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:03:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A friend of mine has a rare genetic disorder where his spleen doesn't break down old platelets from his blood. He went in for surgery to have it removed and they found he had two spleens. Anyway the one they removed was like 40 lbs, pretty sure he had the record at that time.
edditme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:34:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mine's still bigger than yours.
geekwalrus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:35:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well someone in the world has the most average sized spleen and doesn't know it
average_shill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:12:03 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That title probably belongs to a lot of people
MedicineFTWq ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:44:35 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So splenomegaly?
ObscureRefence ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:12:52 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The medical term for an enlarged spleen is splenomegaly, which is going to be the name of my new metal band.
uber_maddog ยท 348 points ยท Posted at 02:53:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey! I have an above average number of testicles!
whyhellotherejim ยท 111 points ยท Posted at 03:43:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seeing as females exist, even a guy with only one has an above average number.
ebbomega ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 05:22:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder what the ratio is for men who lack one or two testes vs men with an extra one.
waynelol ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 12:26:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's around 1:3
wakingop ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:37:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL- I have less than the average number of testicles
flicky1991 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:30:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
(That was the joke.)
uber_maddog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:56:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you.
crazed3raser ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:26:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good to hear. Thought I was lacking there.
JustAnotherPanda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:53:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But there are more males that females worldwide (I think due to the killing of many female babies in some Asian countries?), so it might not even out.
whyhellotherejim ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:24:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That might be the trend for the future, but right now (I think due to woman living longer) there's like a 51:49 ratio of women to men.
mistixs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:31:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's in the US. Worldwide there are 60 million more males than females
whyhellotherejim ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:36:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're actually right.
"There are approximately 3.38 billion females in the World. The number of males is about 3.41 billion."
Wikipedia also says there's about 1.01 males per female worldwide. Most of the western world has more females though.
shapu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:10:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are no girls on the Internet.
Antonio_Browns_Smile ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 04:29:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you have 2 testicle's you have just as many Tour De France wins and more testicle's than Lance Armstrong lol.
Knever ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 06:35:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*testicles
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:55:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Knever ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:57:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol. How often are you typing "tescicle's" for it to default to that?
Dustorn ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:28:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuckin' rekt.
p0psicool ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:21:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're assuming no Tour de France winners will read this.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:09:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
correction* at least as many Tour de France wins
GhostOfBarron ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:38:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I only have one... does that mean I have an average number of testicles?
trirun ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:35:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more women than men, so unless the average for men is high enough above 2 to counter this, you're above average.
GhostOfBarron ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:10:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So the average number of testicles is somewhere around .9-.95 testicles?
pomom ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 07:31:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
According to Google, there is 1.01 males to every female. Cryptorchidism is found in about 1% of males, so about ~34 million males have a single testicle. Polyorchidism's effects are negligible with around 200 cases worldwide reported in humans.
So the average number of testicles is close to like, .9925 testicles, yeah.
EDIT: Testicular cancer is not common; a manโs lifetime chance of getting it is about 1 in 263. Roughly 13 million men have testicular cancer and the first option is generally orchiectomy. We can assume that about 12 million have had at least one testicle removed. The average is closer to .996.
Lighterlow ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:37:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are forgetting men with testicular cancer who had one or both removed.
everred ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 11:39:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And eunuchs, don't forget about the eunuchs!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:24:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or the dolphins.
Remember the dolphins...
JelliedHam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:42:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the Titans.
Let's Remember the Titans
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:56:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
โOn that day, mankind received a grim reminder. We lived in fear of the Titans and were disgraced to live in these cages we called walls.โ
Rrumbah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:45:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was just about to point that out. I had lefty removed about a month ago.
pomom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:53:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Shit, hold on.
EDIT: i've got you fam
HenningSGE ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:58:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemath
whelks_chance ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:05:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So I have more than twice the average number. Cool.
mistixs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:32:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, that's only in the US. Worldwide there are 60 million more males than females
1TrueKingOfWesteros ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:06:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I also have one. Likely still above average, but i didn't do the math.
-JustShy- ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:54:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everybody with a dick has more dick than the average person.
ChefBoyAreWeFucked ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:53:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are we talking dick mass here? I'm thinking someone with a two incher would have less than the average amount of dick.
-JustShy- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:23:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Half the population has zero dick mass, though.
ChefBoyAreWeFucked ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:48:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right, but the other half has around 5-8 inches of dick mass.
usernumber36 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:57:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
not sure on that. some people are born with extra
pomom ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:33:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Polyorchidism's effects are negligible with only around 200 cases being reported in the human medical world.
Gcn7897 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:33:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, you're nuts!
Also: dude, your nuts!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:10:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Five?
Iamnotamorningoerson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:51:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I dont :(
CrunchHardtack ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:07:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eddie Torres?
Hurion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:47:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Found my new pick-up line.
Itsapocalypse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:06:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
By at least 1!
ISpawnedYou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:34:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can I have my ball back, please?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:24:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
u/DoubleDickDude, where are you?
JackHarrison1010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:42:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
According to my friends I have 3.5 so I'm doing even better.
shapu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:10:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You shouldn't be proud of that, multiball.
lurkerbot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:46:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks to me
InteriorEmotion ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 03:17:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In times like this I prefer the "mode" definition of average.
MrBobaFett ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 11:28:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Median would almost certainly also result in an answer of 2.
butler1233 ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 11:59:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The median would be 1. Unless you know of any people with more than 2 arms or less than 0 arms that is.
MrBobaFett ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 12:12:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is highly unlikely. The median is the value of the result in the middle of the set when sorted in a list by value. You would need a lot of 0 to 1 armed people to push one of those 1 arm results up to the middle of the list. Well over 50% of the population would need to have less than two arms.
butler1233 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:39:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just looked it up, you're right. My maths teacher is a fucking tool and taught me it was the middle UNIQUE value.
windwalker13 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:01:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
your teacher is not wrong? its just there are so many 2s that even if you look for the 50th percentile its still 2
BlackHumor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:29:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think he means his teacher taught it was [0 1 2], out of which the median is 1, instead of the actual very long list you would need to actually figure it out.
butler1233 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:06:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's why I said unique values. In a list of the unique values, the options are 0, 1 and 2 (and maybe more, i don't know.)
Multiple occurrences make no difference
tepuiswift ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 11:32:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would be damn close to two, but not exact.
MrBobaFett ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 12:06:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The median, like the mode, has to be an actual number from the set. It is unlikely that the middle value from the set will be a result of less than two, unless my wild guess at the number of people missing arms is off by a lot.
DOOM_feat_DOOM ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:40:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if there is an even number of items in the set? It was always my understanding that you would take the mean of the two 'medians', meaning that it is not necessarily an actual number from the set. Could be wrong though.
(By the way, I know that in this case it would still be 2, I'm just curious)
MrBobaFett ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:29:30 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, you would take the mean of the middle two. Which in large data sets are often the same or nearly the same number.
BlissnHilltopSentry ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 08:33:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Average is just mean to me, mode and median aren't average
JamEngulfer221 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:39:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well too bad. They are averages whether you like it or not.
benk4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:56:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's true, but when someone says average I automatically assume they're talking about the mean unless they say otherwise.
BlissnHilltopSentry ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 11:18:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah nah that's not how I was taught. Sorry that your local vernacular is different to mine, guess that makes me wrong. What's the point of a word that can mean 3 different things in the exact same context?
JamEngulfer221 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:33:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol, "local vernacular".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average#Summary_of_types
You being wrong is what makes you wrong, not anything I'm saying.
BlissnHilltopSentry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:45:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This pretty much proves my point. Average is used as a name for the arithmetic mean. Mean, mode and median are all measures of Central tendency, not average.
danstu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:42:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Either your math teacher shouldn't be teaching math, or you weren't paying attention. It's not a matter of regional differences. All three are types of averages. It's like how you can look at a Model T parked next to an Tesla and call them both cars. The word car can literally mean hundreds of different things in the same context, because it's a generic term for every different make and model ever produced. Would you say there's no point to the word car?
BlissnHilltopSentry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:15:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, they're all measures of Central tendency. And no, it's not like that. In the context 'car' is used, it has enough information, but in the context 'average' is used, your definition does not have enough information. On average, aliens are 3m tall. That doesn't really tell you anything because the measurements could be
1m, 1m, 1m, 1m, 1m, 2m, 3m, 4m, 5m, 5m, 6m
Mean is 3m, median is 2m and mode is 1m. Saying 'average' in this context, which is commonly is, gives you no information because it could be mean, median or mode in your definition.
Oripahs_Mada ยท 50 points ยท Posted at 03:25:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, what? I don't understand this. What does this mean? Is the average less than two? Are we talking about "are born with" or "currently have"? I'm confused.
EkiAku ยท 129 points ยท Posted at 03:37:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is more likely to have 1 or no arms rather than 3. Most people have two arms, and while this is obviously the most common, it is not the average. Averages can be skewed by outliers, for example, an amputee. Since 2 is (almost always) the maximum, each person with 1 or no arms lowers the average to below 2.
balthisar ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:36:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But we throw out the outliers before doing the math.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:12:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We don't always do that.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:17:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Javanz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:53:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Strictly speaking, Mean and average are the same thing.
Median is a different function
https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/chooseyourwords/mean-median-average/
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:54:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are cases of people with 3 arms?
Amadan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:53:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymelia
EkiAku ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:47:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bodies are weird things. I assume there's someone out there that got the arm lottery.
Boomy2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:17:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it was a penis joke...
PlayMp1 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:48:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The issue is the ambiguous definition of average. The median number of arms is 2, so you could say the average number is 2. Same goes for the mode. The mean number of arms is somewhere under 2.
lordcirth ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:44:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In common, non-mathematical usage, average is mean.
Wzevon ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 03:36:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you have 2 arms, you have above the average. The average is something like 1.9999999 so 2 is above average.
Oripahs_Mada ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 03:37:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know why but this is very weird to think about. Thanks for explaining!
dhoomz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:36:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol... Thats technically correct
GregoryGoose ยท -13 points ยท Posted at 07:13:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I clipped my nails today, so I guess you could say I have 1.999999 arms. This is why your logic sucks. You have to round up to a whole number of arms.
my_hat_stinks ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:02:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay, round up, you have two arms. The mean still isn't two.
MrBobaFett ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 11:30:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It means they chose a bad method for determining the average. Mode would be far more appropriate here than the mean.
bridpath ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:57:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks to the 2nd amendment.
BrtneySpearsFuckedMe ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:28:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. Thanks to people with less arms.
zeroedout666 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:41:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty sure those peoples less likely to blow of someone's limb.
bobobubs ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:10:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What? How does that make it above average then?
Antonio_Browns_Smile ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 04:32:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Normal people have 2 arms. Now aside from that, what's more common; people with only 1 to 0 arms, or people with 3+ arms? Definitely the 0-1 group... So basically the average number of arms on a person is probably like 1.99 or something. So if you have 2 arms, you technically have more than the average.
MisterRandomness ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:12:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which is why technically correct is still the best kind of correct.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:13:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But it's not just technically correct, it's also just correct in the normal way.
hiImawesome ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:16:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let assume every 1000th person has lost one arm. That means, that for every 1000 man there are 1999 arms, so statistically speaking there are 1999/1000 arms per person on average, so the average person in our example has exactly 1.999 arms. If you happen to have 2 whole arms, then you are slightly above average.
f3riah ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 02:52:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This one actually f***ed me up
internetV ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 03:50:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
u ok now mate?
AladdinPoo ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:22:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man, he got really fucked up. His letters were suddenly replaced with asterisks for some reason.
L_H_O_O_Q_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:18:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have more than twice the average number of testicles.
swingthatwang ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:36:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i hate this
wishingyoupeace ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:07:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What?
BrtneySpearsFuckedMe ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:30:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's people with less than two arms. Bless your heart, sweetheart. It's OK. We can't all be smart.
wishingyoupeace ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 10:10:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well I guess if being a condescending cunt is what it takes to get you through, then so be it.
BrtneySpearsFuckedMe ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 10:18:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Meh. It's just a way I entertainmen myself when I'm bored in bed. It's entertaining.
victorvscn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:47:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And that is why you shouldn't use a mean to represent an asymmetrical distribution.
French__Canadian ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:30:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
median>mean
ebbomega ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:21:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depends if you're talking mean or median.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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JamEngulfer221 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:40:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, average can be the mode, the mean or the median. There might be others, correct me if I'm wrong.
maz-o ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:45:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
average can be mean or median.
the average person has 2 arms (median)
the average number of arms to have is approx 1.999 (mean)
ZacharyCallahan ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:35:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was taught from as far back as i can remember that average and mean were congruent. Median was always its own thing.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 08:07:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some people don't understand math. They also downvoted you.
bozur ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:50:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know why you both are being so condescending, but this is exactly why other averaging operators exist - if I say that I have an average number of hands, you'd get that I have 2 hands, not 1.9999999. As with most words, "average" has multiple definitions, not all of them synonymous with "mean".
JamEngulfer221 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:41:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Quite a lot of people understand math, they downvoted both of you
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 11:56:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Average literally means mean. It can never stand for median. If you do use it as such, you're using it wrong.
Basic math.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:30:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Average is commonly used to refer to various types of mean (arithmetic, harmonic, geometric, etc), as well as the median and mode, and occasionally the mid-range.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:49:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, you want to play that game? How many sites did you have to search before you found this?
Source 1
Source 2
Source 3
Source 4
Anytime average is correctly used in a mathematical concept, it stands for mean.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:07:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this maybe a regional thing? I studied math in the US Midwest. We clearly used "average" the way Merriam-Webster defines it (โa single value (as a mean, mode, or median) that summarizes or represents the general significance of a set of unequal valuesโ).
In fact, we avoided the word โaverageโ due to its ambiguity, preferring to explicitly talk about โmeasures of central tendencyโ to refer to a variety of types of averages.
As for Google, maybe it's because of my search history, but earlier I linked to the top result for โmathematical average.โ
JamEngulfer221 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:14:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average#Summary_of_types
Top result for 'average'. Stop acting like that's some obscure idea that nobody uses. If your teachers didn't bother to educate you on what average means, it's your loss, not mine.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:35:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But... If most people have two... that would be the average, right?
Gadion ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:10:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, because there are more people who have 1 than people who have 3.
ThisIsNotHim ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:40:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, but it depends which type of average. OP is taking about the mean, which is probably slightly less than 2.
Mean probably isn't a good way to measure the average number of arms. Median and mode both would be 2, which give a better picture of what a typical person looks like.
SpiderDolphinBoob ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What? How
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:53:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some people are amputees. If you average the number of arms over the whole population you'll get 1.999... arms per person. Thus most people have an above average number of arms.
PowerfulComputers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:28:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love this one!
AnimerandaRights ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:50:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most people only have one arm? I don't understand. Or because the max is mainly 2, amputees and what not bring it down to 1.9 or something.
TheJazzProphet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:28:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That literally doesn't make sense. If most people have a certain number of arms, that means that number is the average number of arms.
TheJazzProphet ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:30:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay, after further reading I understand the reasoning, but it's bogus. You can't say the average number of arms is 1.9999999999, because a person can't have a non integer number of arms.
pullupman1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:37:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most would mean an average, so how is this possible?
Deadpool_irl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:05:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What? I don't know anyone with more than 2
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:27:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The average dog has less than 4 legs
Just_Look_Around_You ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:30:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So long as by average it is to be understood as "mean" and not another measure of central tendency like median or mode.
PsychoNerd91 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:30:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone has below the average amount of chromosomes too.
NicknameUnavailable ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:46:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Obligatory XKCD.
PoopButtMuffinTop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:50:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Explain.
FuzyDiceBongoInBack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:51:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I dont get it....
raresaturn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:56:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, I assume the average is two. Most people have more than two arms?
dipshitandahalf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:57:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The average number of testicles a human has is 1.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:03:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats one hell of a shower thought
RapedByKesha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:04:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't get it
KewlKid88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:20:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How can most people have an above average number of arms? Unless most people have three arms, which I find hard to believe, then most people have the average amount of arms.
monkeyfish96 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:22:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What?
stevo_james ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:22:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And most people have a below average number of arms (guns)
poh_tah_toh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:32:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only if you take average to be the mean number of arms.
VeniVidiVixen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:59:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the average human has one breast and one testicle.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:06:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And eyes, probably testicles/ovaries (guessing industrial accidents and historectomy count beats out the odd third testicle or double-set of lady parts) kidneys, lungs, fingers & toes, etc.
Here is one I like to throw out to make people think; about half the population is of below average intelligence.
Rootner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:08:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have a prime number of arms.
Hddgvv ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:24:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do U know x amount of cunts don't have 3 or 4 arms
ubspirit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:33:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uh no.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:36:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also the average person has less than ten fingers.
Yours is better though.
JamEngulfer221 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:39:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which average? If you're actually doing this statistically correctly, you'd use the mode, not the mean. The mean is a silly average to use here, because it'll just be very nearly two, but not quite, when a mode of two makes much more sense.
Whywouldanyonedothat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:49:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, but only one man has the most human arms. That's me!
I'll just give a quick shout-out to any fellow arm-collectors here on Reddit. Booo-yah!
Scrooge_McFuck_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:59:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this because most people have 2 but those few people who don't have 2 bring the average down to below 2?
Say there's 1000 people on earth with 2 arms and 100 with just 1 arm that'd bring the average down meaning that 1000 people have an above average amount of arms?
Ask_me_about_WoTMUD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:01:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One of the guys in my dorm a few years back had this taped to his door. It was worth a grin anytime I went down that side of the hall.
Lvl3Skiller ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:32:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
11 hours later I still don't get this one.
dreams_or_reality ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:38:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Should probably use the modal rather than the mean average for things like that
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:43:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mean, median, or mode?
Smashman2004 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:45:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depends on which average you take.
clancy6969 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:49:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't get it.
SFButts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:04:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I haven't counted or done the math but I would also guess that most people have a below average number of nipples
MinerLeagueGamer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:12:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you are a man, you have an above average number of penuses. (peni? penusi?)
sharkywford ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:18:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How!?
mistixs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:30:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't get it. Why? Do most animals have 0 or 1 arms?
SCM1992 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:31:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have 2 arms. Formula for averages is (Sum of data points)/number of data points)
Therefore-> (1+1)/2 = 1
Our species has an average of 1 arm
OneArmWilly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:55:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man... Why you gotta bring that shit up?
lagerbaer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:01:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nerd here. That's why, when talking about the typical individual, using the median makes more sense.
outroversion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:04:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol I wake up to hundreds most days and the other day I woke up to over 2000 haha
JJ_The_Jet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:46:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used this on a psych eval once. Had to then go and explain it to the psychologist.
Atario ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:02:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not trickery at all. "Most" means exactly one thing, and "average", to any layman, means "mean".
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:07:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thought you were talking about firearms in the household. whoops.
flying_gliscor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:35:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Speaking of semantic trickery:
33% of the Jonas brothers has diabetes
The average person has one fallopian tube
toughguy574 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:21:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Said another way, the average person has slightly less than two arms or two legs.
UnderwaterDialect ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:39:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oooooh that's a good one.
Thin-White-Duke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:36:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It all depends on the data and the context of the data.
AP246 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:47:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anyone with basic knowledge of averages would see this quickly...
Legosheep ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:23:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When it comes to discreet data, the mean is often not very helpful.
GoingKayaking ยท 3735 points ยท Posted at 01:50:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The word Data is actual plural, so you would have to say: "The data are." The singular form of data is actually datum. And even though I know this, I still can't bring myself to say it correctly.
EDIT: apparently now it can be used both ways
[deleted] ยท 2665 points ยท Posted at 03:57:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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YellowishWhite ยท 357 points ยท Posted at 05:24:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
You can talk about data as an indiscrete plural. Like dust, or Lego, or water.
At least, I think.
Data is/are beautiful, data points are beautiful, a datum is beautiful.
Edit: apparently indiscrete plurals are in fact called "collective nouns". Although indiscrete plural is a pretty good term for the inverse, when the collective is referred to as a plural, I.e. "Geese are dicks".
[deleted] ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 06:23:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Archer007 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 11:40:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pedant'd
YellowishWhite ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:33:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Excellent summary. My original comment would have been much better if I knew the correct word for what I was talking about. Indiscrete plural is misleading because it's not really a plural, but that's what happens when you make up words on your own.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 06:56:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, LEGO calls them LEGO bricks.
HeWhoCouldBeNamed ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:41:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right. It's an adjective, not a noun. That's why it's actually "The LEGO Group" and not "LEGO".
YellowishWhite ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:34:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lego bricks : water droplets Lego brick : water droplet Lego : water
ClittyLitter ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:20:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Family" is a good, relatable word that fits. I know that in Spanish, as well as English, "is" is the proper conjugation of the present tense of the "to be" verb (and both ser (es) and estar (esta con accento) en espanol).
Edit: "mi familia es simpatico" OR/O "mi familia esta al parque."
Nipso ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:59:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the UK, 'are' is more common.
HaydnWilks ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:08:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sports is the area I find the US/UK divide on this sounds weirdest. "Manchester United is shit these days" sounds so weird... and not just because I'm a '90s kid.
Tom_Rrr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:08:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure, but wouldn't that mean that you can't say "a datum"? You can't say "a water" or "a money".
YellowishWhite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:24:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Money" is analogous to "data", not "datum".
You can say "a datum" like you can say "a dollar".
ddigby ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:47:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lego is a brand name. You can say Legos if you want, they're just afraid of going the way of Kleenexes. So feel free to decide whether you want to cooperate in their resistance toward diluting their trademark... or not. There isn't some technical or linguistic reason for it beyond that.
__crackers__ ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 06:50:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's just โฆ wrong. Lego is a collective noun. The individual pieces are, well, pieces. Or bricks.
Regards, UK
morgrath ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 08:04:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia here, the Commonwealth stands strong on this one. Down with legos, long live Lego.
foolishnun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:45:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Huzzah!
ddigby ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 07:05:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And, according to Adobe, "photoshop" should not be used as a verb. Both companies are trying to avoid their trademarks becoming genericized. Unfortunately for them, they don't get to dictate common usage of a living language.
HNPCC ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 07:37:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it must suck for Adobe's business when people use the name of their photo editing software as a verb referring to photo editing
HillelSlovak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:55:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why?
HNPCC ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 07:56:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sarcasm - it is free and incredible advertising
Cheesemacher ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 10:00:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But then the name becomes generic, they lose the trademark, everything is a photoshop, so why buy Adobe's photoshop specifically
HeWhoCouldBeNamed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:46:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's an adjective. See Proper Use of the LEGO Trademark on a Web Site here
SplitArrow ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:59:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Legos you Imperial scum.
TenTornadoes ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 08:24:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can say Legos if you want...to sound like a 4 year old with no understanding of how to talk properly.
eigenvectorseven ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 11:27:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not just that. It's that no one but Americans say "legos". It simply sounds wrong to most people.
demostravius ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:49:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can say it, but you would be wrong.
YellowishWhite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:30:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wouldn't it be Lego bricks or Lego pieces? Someone here said that Lego calls them Lego bricks, so Lego would be the collective noun.
phil8248 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:15:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Since I'd never heard that grammar term before, I Googled "indiscrete plural" and your post on a reddit page came up along with three grammar checking pages. I can't find discrete plural on those pages. I think you made this term up.
eigenvectorseven ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:28:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The word he's looking for is collective noun.
YellowishWhite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:14:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good to know. I used indiscrete as an appropriation of the mathematical discrete/indiscrete.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:10:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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YellowishWhite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:20:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Data am never beautiful. That would just be silly.
Never change, English, you stupid ugly frankenmonster, you.
shadow1515 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:38:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, this is correct. Data is beautiful...like, the entire class of that type of thing. If you're pointing at one set of data, then those data are beautiful.
sirius4778 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:10:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wish somebody would have told my bitch of an intro biology professor this.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:50:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And beer.. which is the plural for , well beers.
Jetto-Roketto ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:34:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with people and band.
atomcrusher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:08:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dust refers to the particulate matter as a whole, it's not a plural...
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:08:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If that were the case, "Data are beautiful" would be wrong. You can't say "rice are delicious, whater are transparent"... otherwise, your comment makes sense.
Also, if a text "contains data", what would a datum be anways? A character? But a single character doesn't contain any information and thus data at all...
Furthermore, "Datum" means "date" in German. I guess the origin of the (english) word "date" is actually "datum", the pronounciation and the meaning just changed over time, from "a single piece of infomation" to "a single point in time".
jeffbailey ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:35:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless you mean commander Data.
Tsorovar ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:27:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He is fully functional and anatomically correct, after all.
Zerim ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:44:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They have a part of the FAQ dedicated to that.
Vitztlampaehecatl ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:07:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/dataisbeautiful
Alarid ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:05:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Datum? Only if she says yes.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:35:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/datumsareokay
gotr3kt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:42:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
relevant picture
Kaneshadow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:52:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/databebeautiful
RadiantPumpkin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:39:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is actually a thing
bluedrygrass ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:33:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are now banned from /r/dataisbeautiful
Mariske ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:49:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. That sub is awesome but I get annoyed every time I read the name!
munchler ยท 251 points ยท Posted at 04:16:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So is the word "media" (singular is "medium"). However, both are used as collective nouns, so treating them as singular is OK.
http://grammar-monster.com/lessons/agenda_data_criteria_singular_or_plural.htm
blebaford ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 09:32:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow never knew agenda was plural.
Ella_Spella ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 13:20:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well this might blow your mind: opera is the plural of opus.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:53:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
And criteria (singular is criterion).
EDIT - also:
"Who's writing down the agenda for this week's meeting?"
"I'm just writing them now." Sounds weird, but correct. We hardly ever talk about an individual agendum.
Mosethyoth ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 10:29:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In German you differ. 'Die Daten' (data) and 'die Medien' (media) are always plural. But 'das Wasser' (water) and 'die Lego A/S' are singular because water is the name of a substance and Lego is the name of the company. If you want to refer to the lego piece then 'der Legostein' is the proper term.
trilobot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:57:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tell this to my thesis supervisor. She cracks the whip on data are even if I show her work that agrees with me.
tobiasvl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:56:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And "news" maybe?
meekamunz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:01:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always thought data was plural and the singular form was datum
robophile-ta ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:02:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's exactly what the post you were replying to just said.
meekamunz ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 10:50:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From the link:
Treatย dataย as singular. If you need a plural form, use wording likeย data sets.
Thanks for the inaccurate down vote
robophile-ta ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:58:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't downvote you, but stay salty pal.
edit: From the main thread, your comment shows up as a reply to the original post about data, not this sub-comment. Which is probably why you're getting downvoted because it appears that you're saying "I thought that data is plural and singular is datum" to a post that says "Data is a plural and the singular is datum"
meekamunz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:28:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fair enough, point taken.
Salty is the best flavour ;)
[deleted] ยท 894 points ยท Posted at 04:00:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it hasn't already, sometime in the near future "data" will be both singular and plural. Like deer. Because datum just doesn't feel right to say, so no one says it, and what the majority of people say determines what words mean.
Much like how using a singular "they" is becoming widely accepted.
Splendidissimus ยท 719 points ยท Posted at 04:50:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"They" has been used as a gender-neutral singular since at least the 1300s and only started being criticised in the 1800s. That's another rule like the pointless "don't end sentences with a preposition" that's artificial and being slowly reverted.
pseudo_logian ยท 65 points ยท Posted at 06:31:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ending a sentence with a preposition, is something up, with which I shall not put.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 12:50:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"I won't put up with ending a sentence in a preposition"
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:36:03 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck.
1337bruin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:42:46 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and yet you just ended a sentence with "a preposition"
ex_nihilo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:45:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You don't even need any commas. But if you did, your commas would be in the wrong places.
e.g.:
Ending a sentence with a preposition is something, up with which I shall not put.
or better:
Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I shall not put.
But there are much less awkward ways to avoid ending that thought with a preposition. You should strive to use them in formal writing.
vortigaunt64 ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 06:38:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wasn't the preposition thing started because academics of yore decided that English, a germanic language, needed to be more like Latin?
NotATroll71106 ยท 64 points ยท Posted at 07:48:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's also where the "You shouldn't split an infinitive." rule comes from. I don't know how they thought it made any sense to apply to English from Latin when it's totally impossible to even do in Latin because an infinitive is a single word. The equivalent "error" in Latin would be stuffing an entire word in between the stem part of the infinitive word and its ending.
I'll demonstrate this with Spanish as it should show the issue with Latin.
Correct:
English: to move quickly
Spanish: mover rapidamente
"Incorrect":
English: to quickly move
Spanish: movrapidamenteer
They were pretty much pulling the rule out of their asses.
SirPseudonymous ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 08:35:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know, I wonder if that was ever done colloquially in Latin the way a word will sometimes be broken in half with another word inserted into the middle (usually an expletive) in English, or if that's an artifact of the Germanic habit of just piling extra words together to create new ones dynamically (not that Latin didn't sort of do the same thing (because that's kind of how language works in general anyways), but it did so to a much less extreme level).
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 10:01:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably no. Even in languages that actually allow for word composition (like Germanic and Uralic languages) you still don't splice the words and insert stuff in the middle. The composite words are made of complete, pre-existing words without any surgery.
Squid_In_Exile ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:56:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL that linguists should rename themselves word surgeons.
stanwick ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:42:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
abso-fuckin'-lutely
hakujin214 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 08:52:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The expletive infix is a pretty narrow case in English and is really only used for emphasis AFAIK. I doubt ancient Romans would be messing with the syntax of Latin that much, even colloquially.
Nighthunter007 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:05:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think the "abso-fucking-lutely" kind of thing isn't really seen outside of English. I know Norwegian doesn't do it, and if we do it's with English words in the middle.
dfsgdhgresdfgdff ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:10:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
CRISPR ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:07:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sort of.
GreekAnalyzer ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 07:16:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I once got points off for using the singular 'they' in an essay. I tried but failed to successfully get my teacher to give me the points back.
eigenvectorseven ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 11:24:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's one of those bullshit rules that teachers love to cling to. It's even more bullshit in this case because it's making the language clearer by helpfully playing the role of a word that doesn't fucking exist.
Ryzon9 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 14:49:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
"It" works
Thor_Odinson_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:31:47 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, it does not. Technically, it may, but in any communication with a native English speaker of North America or the UK, "it" is a dehumanizing way to refer to a person. It will be offensive, and not in a tumblerina super SJW manner of offense.
They, or "one" are the best accepted gender neutral pronouns across the English language. Certain groups and communities (and even individuals) may have their preferences for neutral pronouns, but the use of "they" is recognizable to almost all.
shapu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:21:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For what it's worth, both the ACT and SAT treat "they" and its pronouns and derivations as plural.
NotATroll71106 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:31:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember being taught that ending a sentence with a word that is normally a preposition means that that word is actually acting as an adverb, so that rule is essentially meaningless because they aren't prepositions. That hadn't stopped my old college from going grammar nazi on it.
mbhtonks ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 05:22:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where did you get this info? I'm not doubting you, it's just that as a graduate student in English, I'd love to defend my bad writing habits with historical facts.
Splendidissimus ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 05:48:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had it as vague knowledge I couldn't pinpoint a source on, but here is Wikipedia. Defend with impunity!
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 06:57:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because an english teacher is going to love being told they're wrong while presented with a wikipedia page.
Yebi ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 07:09:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That could be fixed by, you know, learning how to use wikipedia
morgrath ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:07:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, so I shouldn't just quote verbatim from a wiki page and throw it in as a nebulous corporate source? This is a game changer!
Thor_Odinson_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:23 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What exactly is a corporate source, let alone one that is nebulous? Could I have an example?
morgrath ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:29:52 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Say you're quoting an article from theverge.com. But that article doesn't have an author listed, so in your reference you just have to put The Verge. There's even a tickbox for Corporate Author in MS Word's references system. And I would consider them nebulous, because a faceless corporation is less accountable for something attributed to them than an individual author is for something they put their name on.
Thor_Odinson_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:41:58 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, thank you. I hadn't heard it put that way before, but you were clear and concise.
morgrath ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:04:03 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure. As a note, it's probably meant to be more for press releases and things, which is why I made the differentiation with nebulous corporate sources.
Thor_Odinson_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:34:52 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shut the fuck up with this worn out meme and learn how to use a cited encyclopedia.
Wikipedia is more accurate than any print encyclopedia, and they are permissible for basic learning of simple subjects. If you want to do academic work, then you follow the sources or find reputable primary and secondary sources yourself.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:37:23 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was mocking English teachers, here, not Wikipedia.
Thor_Odinson_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:39:12 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In that case, carry on. Another popular meme is "sarcasm is difficult to communicate via Reddit comments".
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:37:36 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, my last post was sarcastic.
Thor_Odinson_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:44:28 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As was mine.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:50:29 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh really?
Thor_Odinson_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:52:21 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, I was just being sarcastic when I said that.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:56:12 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure you were.
Thor_Odinson_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:00:59 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Simply put, I'm pining for the fjords.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:28:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm fairly certain it is used in Chaucer. You could start your search there.
gwennhwyvar ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 10:06:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The thing is, historically correct or not, during the eighteenth century "they" sat down and created a grammatical standard for the English language, so even though some things like double negatives and singular theys were in play at some point, they are no longer considered correct, so arguing for them is a moot point.
ETA: You don't have to like it, but grammar rules exist for a reason. If you don't like it, learn the rules and why we have them, then join the MLA and lobby to have them changed officially. I used to hate grammar until I learned something about it, and I love it. It's fun and really not as complicated as people like to think. Also, as a teacher, I work hard to teach proper grammar in formal writing. Regarding fiction or poetry, I think it's fine to make stylistic calls that break the rules if you know why you're breaking them and you're not just making sloppy mistakes. As for informal writing like in Reddit comments, do what you will; that's between you and the Internet.
hurrrrrmione ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:45:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That depends on how you define grammatically correct.
gwennhwyvar ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:00:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I go by the books. Will our language someday officially recognize singular "theys" and whatnot? Sure. But until then, in formal writing, I want students to follow the rules.
guepier ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:24:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It already has. Show me a grammar guide that forbids singular-they and Iโll show you one that allows/endorses it (in fact, here, have the lot). It helps that, despite what you seem to think, thereโs no โofficial grammar standardโ. There are collected standards, based on usage.
gwennhwyvar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:34:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The MLA style manual is the one used for formal writing guidelines typically used in formal writing; it is on the cusp of being officially changed for all of the reasons mentioned in the wiki, but it has not yet been officially changed. I'm not trying to be a gatekeeper here; I'm just pointing out that until the official word is passed down from on high, teachers can choose to penalize students for using it incorrectly. There are ways to avoid using it incorrectly, so it's not even that big a deal.
hurrrrrmione ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:20:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And a lot of teachers penalize students for things that aren't incorrect. For example, while the serial comma is grammatically correct, so is not using the serial comma, but some people and some guidelines feel the former is what's correct or at least most correct and some people and some guidelines feel the latter is what's correct.
gwennhwyvar ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:23:32 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Oxford comma debate. The Oxford comma is still correct and necessary for grace and clarity. It is the difference between inviting the "strippers, Johnson and Kennedy," and the "strippers, Johnson, and Kennedy." The debate began in the newspaper world, where every written character means money, and they decided that comma was unnecessary and cut it. Grammarians are not letting it go and it is still required for academic and literary writing. Fields using technical writing tend to ignore it, but it is still required in the actual field which sets the standards for actual writing.
hurrrrrmione ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:36:23 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Again, that depends on who you are asking. There are plenty of cases where not using the serial comma does not create ambiguity in context, and plenty of cases where using the serial comma does. In many cases a simple reordering of the list or rephrasing solves all ambiguity: "Johnson, Kennedy and the strippers" and "Johnson, Kennedy, and the strippers" are both perfectly clear.
And like I said, there are plenty of style guides and publications that use the serial comma (APA, MLA, Chicago, Oxford Style) and plenty that do not (Associated Press, New York Times, Cambridge Guide, Wall Street Journal).
I love grammar as well but I would recommend you take a linguistics course.
gwennhwyvar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:47:57 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Linguistics is about spoken language. Grammar is primarily about written standards and formal speech. I have taken linguistics, advanced grammar, and history of the English language courses while working on my degree, and it stands that the MLA and others who set the standards for writing say it is necessary. Like I said before, it has been dropped in journalism because not using it saves space in print, and that space costs money. Journalists are not grammarians.
hurrrrrmione ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:49:04 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay, this is not nearly important enough to continue arguing about. Have fun with your Oxford comma. Have a nice day.
gwennhwyvar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:56:35 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did not mean to offend or be argumentative in a negative way; I'm sorry you took it that way.
hurrrrrmione ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:58:26 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just meant arguing as in having a disagreement. I'm not offended, don't worry.
mbhtonks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:12:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Calm down, dude. I was joking. Like I said, I'm a graduate student, currently writing my masters thesis. I follow and even quite enjoy these rules. Even you have to admit there are things you do in your writing out of habit that you always have to go back and correct--singular they is mine.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:53:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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tslc144 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 08:34:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The united states' is a bad example because it one whole unit of a country
ugglycover ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 09:57:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so is your mother
shapu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:23:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[ ] REKT
[ ] NOT REKT
[X] REKTLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
SadGhoster87 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:37:16 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mozart was 20 when that was signed
tslc144 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:44:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mother died of cancer.
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:37:25 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So she killed herself?
weisen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:57:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Technically incorrect because the unit is the United States of America.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:37:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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weisen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:05:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was just pointing out that the entity is the United States of America, otherwise it just sounds like the states which are united. That form would sound fine in plural. To be honest, up here, we would say both form.
American English does suffer a bit from ambiguity when I talk with people from other languages who are used to having a more precise language (german, french, etc...)
tslc144 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:46:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not saying it's incorrect I just thought that it was a bad example. I personally would think of the united states of America as one object . I'm just saying better examples could be used to illustrate the point
weisen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:11:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're right. We're arguing over apples and apples. I don't have a better example on the top of my mind.
Where I come from, we would say both the United States is and the United States are and that would simply depend on the construction of the sentence.
tslc144 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:45:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fair enough I guess I'm just in that kind of argumentative mood today ;)
gwennhwyvar ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 10:12:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are rules in place for collective nouns; if the word is acting as a unit, it is singular. If you are referring to individuals within the unit, it will be plural. It can sound super awkward because we're not used to hearing the proper usage of so many words. Basically, though, think of the prepositional phrase "members of." If you can add that, it's going to be referring to the individual units. It also works with subbing in plural pronouns.
The family (it) traveled last year. [The (members of the) family] / [they/we] are getting [their/our] lunches from different places.
kogasapls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:59:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are no such rules. There are also clear regional differences. While treating collective nouns as singular is the norm in America, some speakers from European countries (including the UK) treat them as plural. Neither is "more correct," neither breaks some arbitrary rule because both are the natural tendencies of native speakers.
HaydnWilks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:11:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I posted the exact same thing elsewhere in this thread, but I find it really weird hearing sports teams referred to in the singular, e.g. "Manchester United is really shit these days".
kogasapls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:38:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. I know a few people who would say (when talking about the band): "Genesis are great, they're my favorite band."
HaydnWilks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:40:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh yeah, I find it even weirder with bands. That's a collective noun if ever I've seen one!
gwennhwyvar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:27:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am referring to rules as prescribed by the MLA and taught in grammar manuals such as the Harbrace Handbook. Regarding natural tendencies, prescriptive grammar notoriously stomps all over those. In the eighteenth century or so, some learned scholars sat down and established all kinds of rules about grammar; not all of them are still in use, but this rule is still on the books.
kogasapls ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:37:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As you say, the books have no say on what is and is not "good English."
gwennhwyvar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:41:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would not say "good," just not "natural." The standards are immensely helpful as without them language moves all over the place...it is why our language is so crazy. Here is a link with the collective noun rule for subject-verb agreement (#9): http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/subjectVerbAgree.asp
kogasapls ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:45:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would recommend asking a qualified linguist about the importance of prescriptive grammar rules. While I am not one, what I've gathered is that they are actually relatively unimportant in preserving the intelligibility and usefulness of language.
gwennhwyvar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:59:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am actually almost done with my degree in English and have taken many classes in advanced grammar, linguistics, and the history of the English language. Linguistics is fascinating, but the official prescriptive grammar rules do not change as quickly as spoken language. It takes a very long time to make most changes, again because without rules, the language would be all over the place. Having a standard for the written word is immensely useful as if we all learn the standard rules, it is easier to communicate via the written word. Try reading works in their original forms before they were edited for print from before the standards were imposed and you will find the same author not keeping to any set standard more often than not...so you can imagine it would get pretty confusing at times.
kogasapls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:14:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I agree that prescriptive rules are less subject to change than natural language. Also, they are useful in that they can allow a professional standard despite massive differences in dialect. However, I disagree with the claim that without prescriptive rules the language would be "all over the place." The language does not evolve more quickly than its native speakers. Divergent groups of speakers will remain largely intelligible to each other because in a modern setting they are in constant communication. Without such brilliant edicts as "thou shalt not end thy Sentence with a Preposition" and "Data is undeniably the plural Form of Datum," I assure you that the English language would resist catastrophic implosion.
Also, the written word is artificial and not, strictly speaking, language (or of linguistic significance). Orthographic standards are undeniably useful but not really part of this discussion.
Forsyte ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:31:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Certainly happens outside America.
ZeePirate ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:16:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well considering humans made the language im pretty sure we can do whatever the fuck we want with it
HuoXue ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:34:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've never gotten flak for it, but if it took someone 500 years to see a problem with it, I think at that point it's a little too damn late.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:06:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then again, many of the criticizers don't even touch the validity or invalidity and just say "BUT ITS PC BULLSHIT"
SabreToothSandHopper ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:38:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be honest these artificial revertions of words are something up with which I will not put
petalpie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:41:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prepositions can totally be things to end sentences with
AssholeBot9000 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:02:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That last point is something I've never thought of.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:50:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not using prepositions at the end is pretty awkward in everyday speech but when formally writing, I find that using it in the middle or the end at certain situations makes for stronger writing.
Hurinfan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:10:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just wish we had a better gender neutral singular pronoun and a better 2nd person plural/ singular pronoun although I suppose ya'll works just fine. It should be used more than it is.
bracketslash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:21:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, that's messed up!
Scarletfapper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:25:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The one that gets my goat is "You can't split an infinitive".
YES YOU CAN! It changes the meaning!
/vent
PunkShocker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:24:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not opposed to evolving language, but I hate the singular "they." I completely understand why people want to use it, but when I see posts like, "This child was interviewed by Oprah thirty years ago. Look at them now," I want to grab someone by the lapels and shake him.
kogasapls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:03:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Many people who use the singular "they" aren't doing it for political or ethical reasons. It's been around for longer than any of us. It's been passed down to many of us. And it is completely natural to most of us (who use it, although I don't know exactly how many people that is). You might want to waste your time being angry about other things, but that isn't my call.
PunkShocker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:11:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm well aware of its history. I'm well aware of a good bit of history. I don't like all of history. Do you?
As for whether I waste my time, you're right; it isn't your call. At present, the College Board does not recognize the singlular they as correct. Therefore, I have to teach my students how to get more points on the SAT by avoiding it. That's not a waste of time in my book.
kogasapls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:44:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, really? I don't remember "they" being on the reading section when I took it. It must not have been, considering I ended up with an 800. But you're right, in high school you're justified in teaching to a style guide. While I would be in favor of teaching kids both sides and when one side is expected (i.e., to avoid the singular "they" on standardized tests), that could be taking time away from more important lessons. I just don't understand why the use of "they" in a setting where style guides don't apply would cause anger.
PunkShocker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:31:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I do teach the acceptability of the singular they in the culture at large. And as for your apocryphal 800 on the reading, grammar and usage have been tested on the writing portion of the SAT, a category that is now gone as of 2016, but that existed for the last 12 years or so.
As for anger, I'm sure your work to achieve an 800 involved some exposure to hyperbole. The fact that you seem to be unable to detect its usage might be worth investigating.
kogasapls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:46:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You caught me. 720 on writing. Maybe my use of "they" worked against me.
I understand that the use of the singular "they" likely does not send you into apoplectic spasms, but I still don't understand why it would be cause for significant annoyance. If it's just one of those irrational, inconsequential things, that's fine. I just got the impression that you were among those campaigning for the exclusively plural use of "they," which I can't understand.
By the way, I started this conversation with a hostile tone. Sorry about that. If it does continue further, I want to be clear that I don't mean to be rude. The rest of the thread had made me irritable.
PunkShocker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:01:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A campaign of the sort you mentioned would be futile and not a significant enough issue to pursue, but my aversion to the singular they is based on its pointlessness. Why use a plural pronoun for a singular? It's silly.
In cases in which the antecedent is a weird word like "everyone," I get why people would say, "Everyone finished their food." But when people say, "Anne's roommate forgot their phone," I just wonder what the point is. You're talking about one roommate. Why would you use "they" to refer to her?
kogasapls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:09:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If Anne's roommate is known to be female by the speaker, I agree it would be strange to use "they." But in unknown gender cases it serves the same purpose as "his/her": "Whoever last used the table left their sandwich on it."
It also replaces "his/her" in cases where the gender is ambiguous or intended to refer to a single person at a time in a group of people of mixed gender: "Everybody who enters this room must remove their shoes."
As for why it would be used over "his/her," there are a few reasons. It's more natural to many people, there are fewer syllables, it avoids conflict over non-binary genders, etc. While these aren't compelling reasons to make you switch from "his/her" to "their," it shows that for people who are already inclined to use "their" there is no good reason to switch to "his/her."
PunkShocker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:03:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My response would be if we're willing to make "they" singular, then why not just agree that "he" and "she" can be gender neutral? Say we don't know gender. We can't be held accountable for what we don't know. If we do know number, then we should be held accountable for that. It wouldn't convince most people, but that's how I see it.
kogasapls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:20:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"He" is one of the other major contenders for a "neutral" pronoun. It's almost as natural as "they" for me, but not quite. Ultimately, it isn't a decision I made to use "they" over "he" or "he/she." It's just the way I learned to speak, and I'm not alone. The point about accountability is good, but "they" doesn't actually imply plurality between speakers who use the singular "they." The way I see it, there's no significant reason to switch from any one to the other, which is the reason we have all these factions of pronoun-users.
bandalooper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:52:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Y'all hear what they said? Get on board.
Workaphobia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:48:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love to boldly split infinitives.
Torger083 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:19:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Citation needed.
ex_nihilo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:41:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More like "don't split infinitives". It's a relic from Latin and there is no grammatical reason in English why you should not split infinitives. The other ones you mention have a point to them. Asking "where is it at?" just adds a completely unnecessary word to the end of your sentence and makes you sound uneducated, regardless of its correctness. And when you're writing formally, you still don't use forms of "they" as singular.
Atario ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:15:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Means nothing. They said a lot of things in the 1300s we would consider incorrect today.
redditsfulloffiction ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:34:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really wish you would have ended that sentence a preposition with.
YellowishWhite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:41:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you give a source on that? It's a nice thing to know, for when English teachers get prissy, but I want to make sure I'm correct before I go arguing with smart people.
Bassflute ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:36:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just my โฌ0.02, but I often hear this quoted, but most examples involve the use of words such as nobody, everybody, someone, anyone, no-one, which are themselves pretty vague in terms of number.
I'd argue that the following sentences are pretty standard, for example:
Everybody should bring their own umbrella. Noone should have to be on their own.
The use of "they" in sentences with a clearly singular noun (with non-specific gender) is more problematic, however, such as this one:
If a police officer is not armed, they will not be able to stop a criminal.
It is this use of "they" that is IMHO (and for many other people) problematic.
My solution is always to use the plural. If we are generalising anyway, why should we refer to one person?
So:
If police officers are not armed, they will not be able to stop a criminal.
kogasapls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:01:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't understand the problem you're proposing.
Natiak ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:36:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, what? I thought it was only under certain conditions that you are supposed to end sentences with prepositions, like when you are employing a phrase.
X-istenz ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:23:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mind is literally being blown right now.
person594 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 06:10:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It isn't really becoming both singular and plural, but rather it is becoming an uncountable noun (like "water" or "air", where there is no notion of a single rice or a single air). The word "media" (plural of "medium") is also undergoing a similar shift for some senses of the word.
wurrukatte ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 04:13:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Although it's mostly to do with English speakers' unfamiliarity with Latin plural and singular markers. 'deer' is only singular and plural because historically both its singular and plural markers disappeared about the same time. (OE sg dฤor, pl dฤor = PGmc sg *deuzam, pl *deuzล; you can actually see how the endings were even cognate to Latin neuter sg '-um', pl '-a', as they both come from PIE sg *-om, pl *-ehโ.)
ca_va_bien ยท 57 points ยท Posted at 04:23:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey man are you okay? Should I call an ambulance?
Defmork ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 05:03:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OE = Old English
PG = Proto-Germanic
PIE = Proto-Indo-European
He's basically explaining the reason for the irregular plural by tracing the case markers back to Old English, and further back to Proto-Germanic. Then he shows the relationship to Latin and the similarity of their case markers by tracing it even further back to Proto-Indo-European, which is the ancestor of most European languages.
frolicking ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:41:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I... I think it's already too late. He's gone.
omicronperseiB8 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 06:32:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's caught a bad case of linguistics :(
rnjbond ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:00:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're an ambulance
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:33:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe they are both acceptable, and I think this is similar to the American vs. British use of names for sports teams. For example, in Britain one would say: "Arsenal are playing well."
In the states, one would say "Arsenal is playing well."
The difference is that one refers to the group as a plural (multiple players) where the other refers to the group as one unit acting together (a singular team). So, in the case of data, it's easy to see how the same logic applies. If the data, meaning many pieces of data, collectively support a hypothesis, it would make sense to say "The data support the hypothesis" and "The data supports the hypothesis".
Each one can be argued on a logical level. On the one hand, you are speaking about a plural... Arsenal is a name for multiple players. However, when speaking about the group as a unit, the meaning doesn't exactly represent the sum of the singular units. Perhaps only 8/11 players on the field for Arsenal are playing well, but they're still up by 4 goals. Collectively Arsenal is playing well, but all of Arsenal are not playing well.
turtlefucker472 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:38:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just want to add that "the data support" is much stronger and sounds much more convincing, because in my head it's many that support it vs one.
Empanser ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:49:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Much like bacterium
Mandood ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:04:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kind of like the plural of book was beek but the vikings decided to just put an s behind everything to keep it simple but words like teeth stayed relevant because no one really spoke about them in the singular version
nobunaga_1568 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:36:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think the "-s" is a French influence, because in French (and Spanish) the plural ends with -s/-es, but in German the plural ends in -e, -en, -er or with an umlaut (oo -> ee is analogous with the umlaut).
Mandood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:08:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That makes sense. It's just something I saw in a documentary or educational video or something so idk how accurate it was but it made sense too.
Hampalam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:27:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its also a reflection of the Norman conquest, there English lost most of is complicated parts (e.g. inflections) because French had become the language of the educated and only commoners spoke English.
s1eep ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:19:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mmmm. . . datums....
ContentKeanu ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:43:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We really fucked it up with the word literally though. Now literally can mean literally or figuratively. So there's no more word out there to truly mean literally. C'mon y'all.
SovietJugernaut ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:46:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Singular 'they' is not a new thing--it has been in pretty common use since at least the 1600s.
clownblip ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:59:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah language is evolving all the time, I'd be willing to bet the committee of people who watch word trends for the dictionaries already are considering data as being both plural and singular.
kogasapls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:12:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Data" has been largely considered a mass noun for years. While "datum" is still recognized and still has the plural "data," more people will say "a piece of data" and continue to use the mass noun than will say "a datum" and use the plural form.
TheHorsesWhisper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:37:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They don't want you to say data.
Data talk
Girlinhat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:39:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is 'deer' actually a plural word that we use to refer to 'one deer' by mistake? Is a deerum a single deer?
kogasapls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:15:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. The best way to figure out if you're using a word wrong is to ask: how long have you been making this mistake? Do other people do it too? If the answer is "my whole life, and yes" then it is no mistake. Also, "deerum" is not and has not been a singular for "deer."
Teal_Giant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:52:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The evolution of language is an infinitely fascinating thing to me.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:13:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We call our language Modern English to differentiate it from Middle English (Chaucer) and Old English (Beowulf). I wonder what English profs 200 years from now will call the language we speak today. I also wonder which of our literary works kids will be forced to read in school all the while barely understanding what is being said.
lilgiggler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:41:33 on March 30, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I agree Teal Giant, my fascination is also infinite
Superkell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:12:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Try telling my English teacher about the singular "they", she gets so pissed off whenever someone uses it or says it's correct, insisting we say him or her
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:43:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Washington Post says it's okay. Obama says it's okay. I think that's good enough.
shoejunk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:14:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What used to be the singular of deer? Deerum?
Monagan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:24:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If literally can be changed to mean figuratively, anything can happen.
ChoobTube ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:30:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They don't want you to use they,
Notice how I said "they"
You don't listen to they.
tainted_memory ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:33:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Learned this in geography but "datum" actually has a Latin and there are other words that are similar to this but can't come up with off the top of my head.
Natiak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:33:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How many conversations would an average person ever find themselves in that necessitate the distinction between data and a datum? I would venture the number approaches zero.
TheHuntingHunty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:35:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How is "they" used as a singular?
Do people really say "they is" instead of "they are"?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:42:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If a person wants to use the singular they, they may according to many style guides.
TheHuntingHunty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:59:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could you provide an example of it being used in common speech?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:02:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My reply was an example of it being used in common speech. That's actually how pervasive the singular they is. You didn't even notice that I used it.
TheHuntingHunty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:04:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aha, I was thinking of a use along the lines of "they is" but now I see that "they" is used to refer to a single person all the time, but still used as "they are."
shatteredroom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:41:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's the singular version of deer, then?
kogasapls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:16:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Deer."
shatteredroom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:15:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I obviously meant before deer was both singular and plural, but I deserved that.
kogasapls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:31:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, I was just being a jerk. This may help answer your question:
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/188578/why-is-the-plural-of-deer-the-same-as-the-singular
camdoodlebop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:42:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What was the singular of deer?
Not-Stoopid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:53:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In other languages such as French don't they use their equivalent to they as both singular and plural?
kogasapls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:20:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not a native French speaker but what I think you mean is ils/elles (they [male]/they [female]), which would only be used as groups. Il/elle would refer to a singular person.
Not-Stoopid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:21:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Idk if it's a Quebecois thing or not but they use vous for singular "they" occasionally
kogasapls ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:37:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't know that, thanks.
crazyfingersculture ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow. But, datum is a word that will never be used. Data never goes out alone. It's always with its buddies. That's data. It can't be data on its own. But it never is alone. Got it?
drc3686 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:08:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The future is now:
Data (/หdeษชtษ/ day-tษ, /หdรฆtษ/ da-tษ, or /หdษหtษ/ dah-tษ)[1] is a set of values of qualitative or quantitative variables; restated, pieces of data are individual pieces of information.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data
zeussays ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:12:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But how can that word really have a singular meaning unless referring to one datum within a data set? By saying data you are already referring to multiple points of reference.
vilnius_be ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:14:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Datum is date in Dutch.
rickyphatts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:16:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well they don't want us to eat.
fries_in_a_cup ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:18:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fairly certain that that's already the case. Same with media/medium too.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:20:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:26:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being raised in the South, I much prefer "y'all" to the plural you.
WowbaggersTongue ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:27:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A singular they. Do you indicate that some people would consider "they is here" as right?
What do they (plurally) think it means?
kogasapls ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:21:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, that's largely unnatural. Singular they is conjugated the same way as plural they. For example: "Somebody keeps leaving footprints on my rug. They are really getting on my nerves. They'd better stop it."
Trogdorocks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:37:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which is dumb because it seems like more people are offended by improper grammar than accidentally referring to someone's gender incorrectly.
domromer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:42:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought singular they was used in Shakespeare's time.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:25:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And probably long before that as well. But as is often the case in English, some uppity person decided that it wasn't correct and started pushing an agenda not to use it. It's come back.
PM_ME_YOUR_FELINE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:43:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have no idea how this works. How can "they" be singular? Any sentence I try, it never sounds correct as a singular.
kogasapls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:22:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone is here. They're walking towards us. Oh, it's Jeff. Hi Jeff.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:23:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can use "they" anytime you would use "him or her" or "he or she."
PM_ME_YOUR_FELINE, you have a call on line one. "Well, tell them that they should call back in 10 minutes."
copypasteculture ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:46:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Non native speaker here.
Wait what? You mean to say that 'they is' is becoming accepted? That hurts my brain.
And that's coming from someone whose native tongue regularly uses 'datum'.
kogasapls ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:24:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"They" is treated the same way regardless of whether it refers to a single thing or multiple things. Most people would never say "they is," but "they are" can refer to a single person.
For example: "Somebody is making noise upstairs. I wish they would stop it. They are getting on my nerves."
copypasteculture ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:51:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aah, that's much more acceptable indeed. Especially in this example, where it is a gender neutral situation.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:47:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I never realised it wasn't. Perhaps this is an American thing...
clickclick-boom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:04:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the first time I hear about singular they becoming widely accepted. Does it work something like this: "Is John coming with us?", "No they said they would meet us there"?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:21:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can use the word "they" any time you would use "he or she" or "him or her." It's usually when you don't actually know who you are speaking about, or are speaking about an individual that could be anybody (like any one person within a group of people).
clickclick-boom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:43:00 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh right, yes I do understand what you mean. I thought people were using it constantly but yes, if gender is ambiguous or in other contexts then I've used it like that myself.
kogasapls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:27:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, but generally it is reserved for cases where gender is ambiguous or unknown. If both parties know John's a male, it sounds odd. But if somebody named Alex is in question and neither party has met them (and thus can't comfortably assign a gender in speech) then "they said" would sound more natural. Another use is when the pronoun is intended to refer to a single person at a time, but ultimately multiple people over time. "If anyone comes in here, they must wipe their shoes on the mat." One person at a time, but not one person specifically and not only one person.
clickclick-boom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:44:52 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I misunderstood earlier. I've used "they" in that manner before, specifically when writing some process documents at work. I would have to write it as gender neutral as possible so would use "they". I thought the guy I replied to was saying people were just replacing it for all situations or in situations where he/she would be more appropriate.
phil8248 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:21:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fluidity of language use can change parts of speech. Juice is a noun. But naturapathic practitioners have turned it into a verb, to juice, meaning to put fruits and vegetables together and create juice out of them. Impact is a noun but politicians turned it into a verb, to impact. It is used mostly in the past tense, impacted.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:20:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Impacted is also an adjective.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:23:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OPc7MRm4Y8
SupremeToast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:46:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As an economics student I can say that many (most?) academics already use data as both singular and plural. In fact I don't think I've ever seen datum in a scholarly article but that could just be my memory.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:57:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I say datum all the time at work, oddly enough... I didn't know it was to describe single data, but it makes a lot more sense now. Thank you for teaching me about my own job Reddit
SquidLoaf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:10:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It also doesn't feel right to say because no one says it.
Drigr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:35:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We us datum in machining. But I think it's a different definition at that point.
ax7221 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:47:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Datum is used frequently in engineering.
CRISPR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:06:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's more complex like that. Words are not universally used, some used only in a certain context.
princessloui ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:13:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or literal now also meaning figurative :/
Stonn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:32:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. The majority of people can still fuck up. Just because they are the majority does not mean that they are right.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:18:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think you understand how language works. English does not have a governing body that decides what is right and wrong to say, though some languages do. A small group of people decided that datum was singular and data was plural, but the masses rejected it. The singular they goes back like 700 years, but then a small group of people decided it was improper, but the masses rejected that notion.
birdmommy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:57:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its fun to say datum in the same rhythm as the music from Jaws.
DATUM DATUMDATUMDATUM...
sonofaresiii ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:12:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Speaking of, an I the only one who gets annoyed as shit when people refer to a singular group like a band as a plural (they)?
I know it's now accepted as grammatically correct, just because everyone does it, but even if a single entity is made up of multiple parts, that doesn't make it not a single entity if you're going to refer to the entity.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:16:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's mostly a British thing. Americans tend to refer to a group of people (like a sports team) as a singular team. Brits tend to refer to the group as the compilation of its parts (multiple players).
sonofaresiii ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:30:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's very common in America.
Particularly with bands, e.g. "Fallout Boy is releasing a new album. They are on tour."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:24:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahh, I see what you mean. Yeah. I think that stems from how awkward the phrasing has to be otherwise. Calling them by name in the first sentence identifies the subject, but in the second sentence calling them by name again hits the ear wrong.
Also, that could very well be a singular they in your example. There's actually no way to tell. We could be saying that "they" is singular and refers to the band, or that they is plural and referring to the members of the band. Either way would be presented identically. So if it makes you feel better, just pretend that it is a singular they.
Relish4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:14:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On a Cartesian coordinate system, datum refers to X0, Y0, Z0.
barto5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:28:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you please tell the guys at r/firearms that it's okay to call a detachable magazine a clip?
FlyMyPretty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:22:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is a database. Not a datumbase. And it is a bookshelf, not a books_shelf.
Burned_FrenchPress ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:12:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Data is being used as a singular word to imply "the set of data".
thatguysoto ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:06:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's kind of hard to use the word datum. If there area is more than 1 byte of information then it is data. You can't really do anything with just 1 byte.
mbelf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:04:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with the word "stamina". No one says "His stamina are amazing".
YellowishWhite ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:25:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They whole "they" thing really pisses me off. English needs a gender neutral pronoun ASAP. I propose Shkle.
Monagan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:22:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I propose "Xhe".
And that's why we'll continue using "they".
Yaver_Mbizi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:21:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does it? Plenty of languages seem to get by without it.
YellowishWhite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:18:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right, but they usually do that by using the male pronoun for an unknown.
As someone who always feels uncomfortable asking "what's his name" for dogs, knowing there's a 50% chance it's a girl, I would appreciate there being a distinct word.
ninjosh97 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:33:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did a single deer used to be called a derum?
herrmister ยท 80 points ยท Posted at 04:14:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Safe to say this is no longer true. Consensus is the arbiter of correctness when it comes to language.
Twinge ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 11:53:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is something I wish more people understood. Speaking and writing correctly still has value, but ultimately the most important thing is conveying meaning - if your words are understood clearly, it doesn't much matter if they are "wrong".
kogasapls ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:32:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here's something for you. People who say "data are" are no more correct in any way than people who say "data is." Conventions and "rules" are not binding. They attempt to describe how (generally) the prestige dialect operates. Failing to follow them has never made you "incorrect," although prestige dialect speakers may think that your speech is odd. And now that these rules are obsolete, more native speakers think the remaining few who follow them are the odd ones. From a linguistic perspective, conventions have no say in correctness in this sense.
gmoney8869 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:37:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It does if you want to preserve the language
keoghberry ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:29:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I work in science and while I nearly always forget to use the plural after data (eg. The data are), most of the older generation of staff will almost always use it correctly. It's surprisingly jarring to hear spoken fluently when it sounds so wrong.
eigenvectorseven ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:16:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I also work in science and have always felt deeply and morally opposed to data being treated as a plural, because it sounds so fucking wrong, like one of those grammatically absurd things a child would say.
It's one of those things I just have to deal with, because, you know, science loves clinging to its archaic, pointless conventions. But I can't wait for it to catch up with the English language.
Thin-White-Duke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:16:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My stats teacher always says, "Do the data support this?" and it sound so wrong.
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 05:42:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Virusnzz ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:02:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every scientific paper that comes out of my country uses this feature (I have noticed it reading linguistics papers), because in my country using "data" as a collective noun is the only correct way to use it.
guepier ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:10:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I do. Itโs one of the few stylistic choices I managed to defend against my PIโs meddling. (And, to clarify, it was a conscious decision because โdataโ is a mass noun for me, and โdata areโ sounds weird.)
rugtoad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:22:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should explore the concept of "dialect".
See, just because something is unacceptable in an esoteric/academic/technical or otherwise restrictive environment, that doesn't mean that it's "wrong" in every other one.
Take the incredibly esoteric and rigid dialect of "legalese". Since the legal field has pretty much no tolerance for ambiguity, the definitions of words have rigid and specific meanings which practitioners must understand.
And while lawyers know it very well, they don't speak in that language when they go out to a restaurant with each other.
Scientific papers, depending on a number of factors, will also have an expected dialect, and some will indeed be taken less seriously if you use "data" in place of "datum".
I doubt it's the kind of thing that would cost you your PhD though.
BingoWasHisNam0 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 05:29:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depends which language. (American)English is a living language, so yes it follows consensus, but Oxford English does not.
Xxxn00bpwnR69xxX ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 05:35:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
prescriptive linguistics is best linguistics!
[deleted] ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 06:49:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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fundohun11 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 11:07:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but who gets to decide what the rules are?
asatyr55 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:53:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How come you don't speak Old or Middle English? Why is language evolution only bad if you witness it?
weisen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:01:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because in an era where people communicate around the world, language evolves at different rates in different areas and often leads to imprecise communication.
asatyr55 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:12:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're all talking about language like we communicate in predicate logic. This constant whining about imprecise communication is bullshit. Where is the impact? Where is the big problem? Languages developed that way, by changing at different rates and in different ways in different locations. There are probably dialects of your native language that you have a hard time understanding. And it's not like people can only speak one language and one dialect.
weisen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:10:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I though my comment was pretty neutral on this. I simply offered a possible explanation as to why common rules/grounds are useful.
In a global economy where we are closer to international neighbours in our daily life, being able to aptly communicate is a benefit.
As someone who speaks french, english, german and spanish, I always found the dialect nature of languages to be the biggest barrier.
asatyr55 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:41:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, sorry! I'm annoyed by the constant pedantry on reddit and thought you were just another language purist.
The thing is that people can code-switch. Most people don't speak just one dialect, they speak differently in different environments. I speak three languages myself, but I never had serious problems with dialects in conversations where it mattered. I grew up in Swabia, which definitely had an impact on my way to speak. But I can switch to standard German pretty much instantly. I have a slightly different pronunciation than someone from Bavaria or Austria, but that doesn't hinder communication.
With English as a lingua franca we can communicate freely. You don't speak in a meeting like you would talk at home. Varieties like business English are pretty much special dialects themselves, tailored specifically for our global economy. I don't think that treating data as a singular instead of a plural will hinder communication that much that it would become a problem anytime soon. And stopping language evolution is nearly impossible, it will evolve anyway.
Einen schรถnen Tag dir! ;)
rugtoad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:23:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The "rules" of a dialect are determined by the people who speak it.
Pretty much every prescriptive rule is arbitrary and provides no communicative value to the language.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:11:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://xkcd.com/1429/
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:05:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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ComradeGibbon ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:40:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah people saying 'data are' is like nails on a chalk board for me because in English its trivially wrong. You wouldn't say the 'water are' the 'flour are' so stop saying or writing data are.
MystyrNile ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:39:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read it in my head as "datums" since using it that way is a plural of the totally never ever used singular "datum", which is a piece of information.
chuckymcgee ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 06:37:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah good luck saying 'data is' in academia. You'll be quietly scorned.
fundohun11 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 11:09:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People say it all the time in academia and nobody cares beside some sticklers.
goodevilgenius ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 04:22:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Originally (i.e. in Latin), data was a normal plural noun, however, in its current usage in modern English, it's also acceptably used as a collective noun. In American English, a collective noun is used as a singular noun.
So, your usage is fine, if you're American (but not if you're British).
Sean1708 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:38:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've literally never heard a British person say "The data are...".
sleepytoday ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:07:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I work in the uk in science and almost exclusively hear "the data are". Outside of work, it's a phrase I rarely hear.
redlaWw ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:37:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're hearing two different forms. In science, each measurement or observation is one datum, so you use the plural, data, to refer to all of them. Outside, data is a collective noun for information (usually) in the various, effectively equivalent, forms of binary code that we manipulate with computers. In the former case, it would be like referring to "atoms of water", and in the latter, it would be more like referring to a "body of water".
sleepytoday ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:59:56 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is a good point, but I have to point out that there are no such things as 'atoms of water'. Molecules of water are made of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.
redlaWw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:58:27 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oops.
Though only from a chemistry standpoint. Dividing a molecule of water would make it not-water, so molecules are atomic in that (irrelevant) sense.
sleepytoday ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:17:17 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha, I like the use of lowercase!
Bobknows27 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:40:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't it an aggregate? Like sand is made up of grains, but you don't say the sand are hot.
redlaWw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:38:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course, you'd say the sands* are hot. Sand is singular. Dumbarse.
Bobknows27 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:37:54 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If sand is singular, them how many sands are there on the beach? One sand? Two sands? Show me exactly three sands please.
redlaWw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:45:35 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok, here you go.
939319 ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 04:04:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No the singular is anecdote.
seymoredjibouti ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:06:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If a flock of birds were advising you, could you not say, "The flock is telling me...?"
MystyrNile ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:39:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"flock" is a singular noun
SinisterMinisterT4 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:22:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think when people use data in a singular manor, they really mean dataset. I'm trying to think of a phrase where that isn't the case but I can't. For instance, I wouldn't say "we're receiving a lot of data, but we don't know what they'll tell us" but I would say "...but we don't know what it will tell us". This sentence would be the same if written "...but we don't know what the dataset will tell us".
Problem119V-0800 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:56:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In a computer context, a singular datum would be called a data point. Many data points make a dataset.
Interestingly, the same word (datum) is also used in geodesy, but in that field, it's the singular that made it into the language, and if you're talking about more than one datum (say, WGS84 and NAD27) you'll find people using the word "datums".
Slashtap ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:00:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember hearing this over a decade ago. I don't know if it was exclusively correct then, but presently, the rule is very out of date. Data is recognized as having a singular form by all official sources. The plural form is mostly reserved for usage in academic writing.
mudbutt20 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:50:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Datum sounds stupid. I'll stick to data being singular and plural.
MystyrNile ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:40:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
a data
Mohammad_Lee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:59:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ph.D. comics discusses this hilarously:
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1816
volatile_chemicals ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:43:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ever since starting college, this has bugged the ever loving shit out of me. I know the plural is data, but data just feels like a singular word.
life_xpantion_pack ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:35:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm. I teach research methods and statistics to Psych students and I always get a weird look when I say something like "there are fewer data", or "these data are representative of". I can't bring myself to say it any other way, though.
kneticz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:20:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Datum is used quite frequently.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:33:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Linguist here. This is a good indicator that a pedant has been feeding you bullshit.
dumbBeerApp ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:55:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
While we're on the subject, wtf is up with some people pronouncing the word data like dahhh tuh instead of day tuh. I hate when people do that.
RogueSquirrel0 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:59:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"How much data have you collected?"
"One."
"One what?"
"One datum."
KerbalSpaceExplorer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:49:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, the plural of Channing Tatum is Channing Tata?
dasbiggin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:12:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So info about multiple Channing Tatums is Data but info about the actor Channing Tatum is Datum?
Mynameisnotdoug ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:21:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Channings Tatum.
chandabear17 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:22:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Channing Tata
dasbiggin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:24:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Channing Taint-yum.
dorkmax ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:08:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
English has exceptions for unnamed quantities, usually of abstract or hypothetical context.
Fish is good, for example. You are talking about a concept with ambiguous quantity.
sandolle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:09:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can get around it by saying "this data set is". I also have a hard time with "data are" but I am comfortable with "these data suggest". Can't say datum. Wouldn't be worth reporting anyway, I guess. -Ego amo Datum-
EdibleVelvet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:11:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with the word "media". So many people will say something like "The media is a disgrace!" when it should be "The media are a disgrace!"
Still doesn't sound right when you say it though.
yourzero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:09:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, I believe you can you use a collective plural in a singular tense, such as "the media is a disgrace", or "the team is on the bus", or "the data is showing a downward trend". Reddit tries to be fancy (British I think) by treating these collective nouns as plurals a lot.
kogasapls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:34:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Should be"? Who says?
kevlarisforevlar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:19:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When would I use the word datum in a sentence or referring to something? Isn't data naturally plural for everything since it is always >1?
Panigg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:41:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Datum is also German for date as in what date is today? It's the 4th of July.
Zurrkitty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:49:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The data speak for themselves.
That hurt to type.
bulbouscorm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:12:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I say data points and it usually works by being correct and sounding normal
64Demon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:17:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I knew this because of Warframe...
all-the-puppies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I learned this in my stats class and it's still weird to think about.
Geminii27 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:21:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Collective noun. "The (set of) data is..."
neotropic9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:31:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think data can also be a mass noun singular.
Lysergicassini ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:40:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dem daters
Noirezcent ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:52:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One might refer to a mass of data, like water.
Lowbacca1977 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:55:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And this is why I always write data set in my papers. Then I get to say is.
RIPLeviathansux ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:00:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aha, thanks high school maths, really pulled through for me teaching me this fact so that I could say that I already knew this
burf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:00:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think of "data" like "water"; there isn't just one of it, but god damn it, you sure as hell aren't going to put a number to it (I have yet to see anyone claim they have 236 data), so you treat it as a singular plural, or whatever the fuck the technical term for it is.
BoozeoisPig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:03:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That's because just about each piece of a thing that you would call "data" assumes multiple things as true information in order to even contain all of the properties that define that piece of data. So every piece of data contains multiples pieces of information, and if anything is a datum it would be an individual quanta of information that is irreducible. But anything that would actually express knowledge of a datum would have to assume multiple pieces of information in order to manifest itself in our actual brains.
Let's take The Law of Identity. The Law of Identity, or the fact that anything in the universe A is equal to itself A, is probably a datum. That fact is an irreducible property about the universe as well as any and all worlds we could possibly conceive. But as far as expressing that fact I am going to need multiple, nigh uncountable amounts of pieces of the universe that can be expressed as individual pieces of information to even observe, understand, or communicate the fact that A=A in any meaningful way to anyone. Because I need a whole set of language and a brain and all of this other shit to actually communicate that fact as a concrete idea, just as I would need that same stuff to think about any idea.
Information as we communicate and express it and understand it must come in chunks made out of no standardized individual quantas of information. This makes it a "mass noun" or "uncountable noun" in relation to our linguistic expression of that thing.
chadsexytime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:08:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And 80% of people that use the term metadata use it incorrectly.
BruceChameleon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:09:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 22, working with a couple of stats people, and kind of a dick, I used to use the plural "datums". Meant it to be silly, but I'm sure I came off as a beard.
Itsapocalypse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:10:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've only seen datum as "the datum point". Data is collective
IamA_Werewolf_AMA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:17:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My fucking douche TA took 10 points (a whole letter grade) off my first lab report in intro bio lab for using data instead of datum.
Frank, everyone hates you. I got caught bitching about you by another TA and she just joined in.
diMario ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:17:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fun fact: datum is also the Dutch word for date. The other kind of dates (the fruit which grow on palm trees) are called dadels.
Sean1708 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:36:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well no it's a collective noun, isn't it? You wouldn't say "The water are cold." would you?
zoeypayne ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:38:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And more than one datum is datums... figure that one out.
volkmasterblood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:42:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, not exactly.
Data is usually an uncountable noun, meaning it implies plurality in the meaning, but it cannot be counted (basically, how much data exists to the point where it is almost impossible to find an exactly number). Much like "City" or "Information" (City being a collection of many different shops, stores, cars, people, etc. and information being lots of informative stuff). Therefore you would use "is".
Data is beautiful would make more sense than "Data are beautiful" because "Data are beautiful" implies specific information that exists in an easily attainable finite number. Such as "The Data that is in this study on these specific cases are beautiful".
dangshnizzle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:45:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe data is now considered both singular and plural
Asmor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:48:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you pay attention, there are actually plenty of people who say "data are...".
But then again I listen to a fair number of economics podcasts, so my sample is somewhat biased. :)
DisRuptive1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:05:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do you know when you're dealing with a single datum versus multiple data?
mib5799 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:13:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Datum is singular.
Data is plural.
Datas are a result of some mirror universe bullshit again
Trismesjistus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:58:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Or possibly holodeck fuckery
mib5799 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:12:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Check for the goatee
CrudeAsAButton ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This also applies to criteria. The singular form is criterion.
Turok1134 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:22:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, I know this one from my econ classes. I never got used to reading that.
edselford ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:23:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be pedantically complete, 'data' in Latin is a neuter plural substantive, and it was acceptable in classical Latin for a neuter plural to govern a singular verb (in imitation of classical Greek, where it was mandatory), so 'data est' instead of 'data sunt' has always been acceptable.
HAESisAMyth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:24:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Date em or dad um?
edafade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:49:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I was going through my bachelors program, multi-variate statistics was a core component and we were taught that Data is both singular and plural and depends on the following word, is or are.
Reading journal articles, I see them interchanged all the time. I would say both are correct.
Angels_Guardian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:55:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Datum tsss'
spazmatazffs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:57:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always just thought of 'data' as a substance or grouping. Like 'Person', 'people', 'crowd'. The way I use 'data' is the same way I use 'crowd'.
Trismesjistus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:02:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are correct. It is a "mass noun"
rusemean ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:57:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good news. This is only correct for pedants. The data is is just fine.
ravia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:01:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is a very interesting phenomena.
squidgun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:04:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think I'll never be able to way datum
Optewe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:06:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Grad school taught me this abruptly
erikkll ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:13:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In my language (Dutch) we still say datum as well as medium. They're very common words and data and media are plural indeed.
Lakedaimoniois ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:16:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Datum is Dutch for date so that would be confusing as hell.
CalmMango ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:23:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Id like 1 datum to be a little smarterer please
nicotineapache ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:41:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Datum sounds good!
Reddit_Moviemaker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:45:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, the is only one Commander Data, if there were many, they would be Datas.
kali_the_destroyer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:50:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Another one like this is alumni. The singular form is alumnus.
Jtotheoey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:50:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Datum in Swedish means date, as in "what's the date today". Also dator means computer, but most people say data. I then like to remind them that data means information, and then they usually feel the need to remind me that getting punched in the face hurts.
robophile-ta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:01:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with criteria, criterion is the singular.
rottenmonkey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:12:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same for me with die/dice. "Give me the die" sounds so strange.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:17:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn near killed 'em.
Am I doing puns right?
datlock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:17:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Never knew that, which is weird because here in the Netherlands 'datum' is a commonly used word meaning 'date' (as in, March 20th is a datum. And the plural form is data.)
ThumbForke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:20:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know if you're correct about the use of "are". Sure, it's plural, but money is also plural!
Peculiar_One ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:25:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then why is there only one android named Data in Star Trek. Checkmate!
its-limitededition ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:32:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
datumtumtumtumtumtumtum
theuncommonman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:32:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought the plural was "datass"
ReasonablyBadass ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:32:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not really? "The amount of datums is".
You also don't say this pile of wood are.
StigDoesntFart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:37:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah. My prof used to say datum a lot and I was really confused until I looked it up.
labtecoza ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:39:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Never thought about it but it's pretty logical words ending on -a are usually plural
Hakoten ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:44:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Datum? Damn near killed 'em
gerusz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:57:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not surprising if you speak Latin. (Datum literally means "given", and AFAIK sometimes English uses "givens" instead of "data", though it's probably a very old-fashioned way of saying it.)
nick9000 ยท 216 points ยท Posted at 08:49:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That you can have a perfectly correct English sentence that has the word 'and' five times in a row.
A signwriter in England had an apprentice. He gave his apprentice the job of making a new sign for the local pub, the Pig and Whistle. After a while the apprentice comes back with the new sign. He has produced a beautiful sign with a pig blowing a whistle - the artistry is excellent. But the old signwriter rubs his chin.
"It's great, but the words are too close together. You should have left more space between 'Pig' and 'And' and 'And' and 'Whistle'"
Velodra ยท 145 points ยท Posted at 14:23:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sentence: "You should have left more space between Pig and And and And and Whistle" is easier to read if you put quotation marks before Pig, and between Pig and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Whistle, and after Whistle.
SadGhoster87 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 00:40:17 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's 21. Hats off to you.
Kerbobotat ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 14:47:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking bravo
NeverAFKid ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:27:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now "and" doesn't make sense for me anymore
SharkaBlarg ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:21:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The word 'and' started to look wrong to me after reading this, and I had to check the spelling to make sure.
ineptnorwegian ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:41:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ad infinitum
nickzpollard ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 15:55:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And infinitum*
FlickeringLCD ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:09:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for that. The word and now has no meaning to me.
Mr_Zaz ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 10:55:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I heard this first, the sign was for Bertrand and Anderson presumably so you can get another 2 ands in there.
Royal-Ninja ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:17:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Similarly: James and John were taking an English test. One question asked to fill in the blank in this sentence: "The man _____ a cold". John put down "had" and the teacher marked it incorrect. James put in "had had" and the teacher marked it as correct.
So in conclusion: James, while John had had "had", had had "had had"; "had had" had had a much better effect on the teacher.
Jass1995 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:57:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same for using "because" thrice in the same sentence.
Can't remember how it went but, something along the lines of
"This is incorrect use of 'because', because, 'because' is a (noun/verd/adjective/whateverthehellitis)."
54697473 ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 13:53:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We know that "because" can be used five times in a row from The Wizard of Oz...
"We're off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz, because, because, because, because, because of the wonderful things he does"
h-styles ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:28:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that was my exact thought!
Jass1995 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:55:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that a song lyric? I don't think it's correct, but please enlighten me. :)
protomenfan200x ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:00:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is. They sing it like five times in the movie.
Jass1995 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:07:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Never watched it.
Then do standard grammar rules apply in song lyrics? Because I've listened to songs where they don't follow proper grammar, so it's more of an artistic thing to make it sound better or something or something.
h-styles ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:29:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
is this seriously a real conversation? dude was making a joke ๐
Jass1995 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:37:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol nah man. I'm just bored at work.
protomenfan200x ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:43:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's kind of up to the writer, usually; what comes first is making sure the words fit the music.
Like with the Wizard of Oz, the song was probably composed first, and then the lyricist was stuck with trying to fill that chorus section. So he resorted to repeating the word "because."
NotTooSpecial ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:43:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But... it's not really using it thrice. It's using it once and mentioning it twice.
Jass1995 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:52:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fair point.
IamSeth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:55:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/kerning
toomanyattempts ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:20:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
r/keming
Draconius42 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:26:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that is my second favorite subreddit name, right after /r/marijuanaenthusiasts
Excalibur54 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:46:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/potatosalad
CharlesInVT ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:40:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How about
"John where James had had had had had had had had had had had the teachers permission.
Properly punctuated that is a valid English sentence.
SaintMelee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:51:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo is a grammatically correct sentence. Buffalo is a place, a thing, and an action.
zbo2amt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:00:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like this one
Draconius42 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:25:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was going to say that it doesn't use the word 'and' 5 times, because of the use/mention distinction, but by god, you phrased it "has the word", so my pedantic correction is invalid. I hate when that happens. Thus why I'm still making this comment.
TheDarkoParadox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:49:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like you can have 'had' four times in a row; "The car he had had had had no affect on his driving style".
enriceau ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:02:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read this a couple times and the word 'and' has no meaning to me anymore.
yuhutuh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:45:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
reading it at first I thought you were dicking with me or just overlooking something but god damn.
MineDogger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:31:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well played. That'll do, whistle-pig.
Aenonimos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:57:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Pretty contrived since "and" the conjunction and "'and'" a word in the title function differently. Or I guess I mean, you can put whatever you want if you include quoted words.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:49:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The part that sounds extremely wrong to me is that you can use quotes and it doesn't constitute cheating. Or can you find any grammatical errors in this sentence:
"And then Roger fell into what looked like some sort of strange trance and said 'AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND AND', and so forth for hours!"
?
Fredifrum ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:38:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, this is a hack - correct by your definition but not all that impressive due to the use of quotations.
Here's an interesting, totally valid English sentence: "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo".
I don't have time for an explanation but here's the wikipedia page
sddxrx ยท 71 points ยท Posted at 05:51:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Saudi Arabia imports Camels and Sand from Australia! no kidding.
grakkos ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 14:12:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The camels I can understand. BUT WHAT THE HELL IS A COUNTRY THAT'S 95% DESERT WANT WITH MORE SAND?
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 14:41:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Perhaps it's some kind of finer grained sand used in industry? Or perhaps not.
astrobyzantium ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 14:49:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know if they grade it, but coarse.
babadivad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:59:07 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
weakly Yeas sir
sddxrx ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 15:25:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The available sand in Saudi Arabia is useless for building or construction, apparently.
LoneWolfe2 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 16:15:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's just tragic.
hazelair ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 19:53:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that is probably the least tragic thing about that sorry excuse of a country
[deleted] ยท 274 points ยท Posted at 06:20:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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devilish_devil13 ยท 191 points ยท Posted at 09:45:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Amazing how a single capitalization can change the meaning so much.
casualevils ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 14:24:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of times the convention is to use lowercase letters for minor keys, so it could be even worse.
SadGhoster87 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 00:38:31 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stop making fun of pedophiles, they already have a difficult enough time fitting in.
turdmogrol ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 13:02:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"A minor the key, not the felony"
That_secret_chord ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 11:52:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remember to look out for that pesky G string!
Zakimations ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 07:02:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the only fact in this thread that actually sounds wrong
-refsunpersons ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:07:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's perfectly natural.
edgeblackbelt ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:07:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man, fuck A minor.
thatJainaGirl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:50:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I broke a g-string while fingering A minor.
frosty121 ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 12:04:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not a minor a miner
CupcakeValkyrie ยท 4163 points ยท Posted at 02:40:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here's one I recall seeing on Reddit years ago:
You can go the rest of your life without eating.
[deleted] ยท 3363 points ยท Posted at 03:51:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Give a man a fire, and he will be warm for a night. Set a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life.
Girlinhat ยท 418 points ยท Posted at 06:40:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Feed a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.
Feed a man to your fish, and you feed your fish for like, six months.
Aidinthel ยท 85 points ยท Posted at 07:41:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Take a man's fish and you'll eat for a day.
Teach hm to fish and he'll have another for you to take tomorrow.
Peanut4michigan ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 07:48:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He should already know how to fish if you stole his first one
Aidinthel ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 07:50:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Clearly he got it from one of these people who just give away fish all the time for some reason.
crazyfingersculture ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 08:14:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus?
pf2- ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:30:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or Mozes, whoever you prefer
AssAssIn46 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:12:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Muhammed
00yoshi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:12:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
L. Ron Hubbard
DRM_Removal_Bot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:50:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Socialists?
UnstableMonkey ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:01:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Give a man a jacket he will be warm for the night. Teach a man to "jack-it" and he won't leave the house
JamRel ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:24:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Give a man a fish and he'll be feed for the day. Give a man a poisoned fish and he'll be feed for the rest of his life.
simmocar ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:56:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Give a man a mix tape and he'll party for a night. Teach him to DJ and he'll party for the rest of his life.
sirin3 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:35:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Give a man a fishing robot, and he will never have to fish again
takeachillpill666 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:56:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But if he has a fish, that would mean that he's already learned to fish, no?
DeathMetalBananaCat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:22:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not necessarily, someone could have given him that fish.
Peculiar_One ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 10:27:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Donโt teach a man to fishโฆand feed yourself. Heโs a grown man. And fishingโs not that hardโ. --Ron Swanson
PiERetro ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 09:49:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day
Teach a man to fish and he'll spend all his free time down by the lake, drinking beer.
Batbuckleyourpants ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:03:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ThorTheMastiff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:09:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish and he'll spending every waking moment drinking beer and trying to catch fish.
RespondsWithImprov ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:55:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When there's a fish, what you can do is give a man that fish. But then he won't have fish later after that fish. So instead you want to give more fish so he can eat for a day later. It depends on how you treat the man and if he wants fish or is vegan. He will eat for a lot of days
thatJainaGirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:49:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Give a man a fish, feed him for a day.
Don't teach a man to fish. He's a grown man, and fishing's not hard.
stegosaurus94 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:56:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NobilisUltima ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 05:45:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Terry Pratchett, I believe?
TastyBrainMeats ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:46:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eeyup.
SpockTheIllogical ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 07:41:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Give a man a jacket, and he'll stay warm for the winter. Teach a man to jack it, and he'll never go out of the house.
wotrednuloot ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 06:51:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jingo!
Cheers, Sir Pratchett!
Monagan ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:28:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I bet he's smiling up at us right now.
DebonaireSloth ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:33:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GNU
maglev_goat ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 10:04:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.
amazondrone ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:09:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sirwine ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:28:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh. My. God. I finally get this one! I always thought that he would be warm because of the scars (you know, because burn-scars feel hot when you touch them)... I only just get that the man dies in the fire. I feel so stupid!
mmazurr ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:24:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds like a Michael Scott line.
NobilisUltima ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 05:47:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Terry Pratchett, I believe. If it were Michael Scott it would sound clever, but wouldn't be. Like saying "I haven't showered in a year" instead of "I haven't showered all year" at 12:01 am on January 1st.
thundergonian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Give birth to a child underwater and it will be able to breath water for its whole life.
goodevilgenius ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 04:30:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not true at all. Assuming you leave the baby in the water, he would have a very short life and at no time during that short (but not infinitesimally small) life would he breathe water.
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 05:16:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And just in case either of you didn't know, babies actually instinctively hold their breath underwater.
newtonreddits ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:41:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's...that's the.....fuck it nevermind
goodevilgenius ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 06:47:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're going to say, "that's the joke", then no, it's not. The joke was told further down ITT, but I'll repeat it here.
Did you know that if you give birth underwater, then it could live the rest of its life underwater?
You see the difference?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:22:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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crazyfingersculture ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:17:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Either way. It's not even a funny joke. Not because we're talking about dead babies. But, genuinely, it's not funny. Idk, maybe if you said it in a really weird and crazy voice, then it would be funny. Nice talk.
roadrunnersk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day.
Give a man a poisoned fish, he'll eat for the rest of his life.
fatboy93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:27:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sam McGhee agrees with you.
Alarid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:09:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless he lives. Then he'll be loads of things. Like angry, sad, confused...
MasterGamer1172 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:07:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Burned. He would also be burned.
_oceanix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:32:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless, you know, he jumps into a lake
Jaon412 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:53:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Give a man a fish and he can eat for a day. Give a man a poison fish and he can eat for the rest of his life.
Beefy-queef ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:08:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm keeping that one with my collection of "unhelpful wisdom" statements.
supaluminal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:28:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Teach a man to fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a man a fishing rod, and he'll sell it and buy some fish.
Neckrowties ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:18:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't remember where I first saw that, but I've loved it ever since.
ImInSolitude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:36:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brb
BindingsAuthor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:25:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But that's not as true as the food statement. A man who is on fire can douse himself and be cold again.
Archer007 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:43:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually wouldn't he be killed by sepsis about two weeks after they managed to get the fire put out?
iamtheowlman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:53:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
p7r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:54:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tory party welfare plans leaked, right there
Toquen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:06:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I got a "best comment" trophy for quoting this Pratchett line in a thread several years ago - can we use this to measure karma inflation/deflation?
LinkCloth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:32:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Give a man a porn torrent and he will teach himself to download torrents.
Bumbo_clot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:34:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the Fire giveth, and the Fire taketh away
Heavenansidhe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:38:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
TAO OF PRATCHET
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:04:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Give a man a jacket and he'll be warm for a night.
Teach a man to jacket and he'll never leave the house!
airwickyfreshness ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:27:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Feed a man a fish, and he will full for a day. Feed a man a poison fish he will be full for the rest of his life.
mrkrzysztof ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:50:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Give a man a poisonous fish and he'll eat for the rest of his life.
joaco91 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:09:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Melisandre is that you?
btburrito ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:22:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not what Anakin tells us.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:40:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair, Anakin does feel warm for the rest of his life. You think leather breathes well?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:16:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BOUAZIZI MY MARTYR
KDirty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:37:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like I usually see this as "Set a man a fire" v. "Set a man afire." It's punnier that way.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:43:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Take it up with Terry Pratchet. :)
fizikz3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:48:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4b2o51/whats_the_pettiest_reason_youve_ever_broken_up/d167g81
god damn it.
Stockholm-Syndrom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:41:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
paddybla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:05:08 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Show a man a meme and he will laugh for a minute, show a man how to make a meme and he'll want to kill himself
le_wild_poster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:01 on April 18, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP terry pratchet
Xannin ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:07:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And breathing
Bolsenator ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 04:04:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like how it's possible for a baby born underwater to live the rest of its life underwater.
throwthisawayrightnw ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:12:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You don't actually even need to be born under water for that. Or a baby.
sabrefudge ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:22:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I know the joke your making here... but in all seriousness... I've always thought about that.
A baby spends 9 months developing in fluid. Even during the final stages of its development, when it is pretty much a ready-to-go baby, it still remains in fluid until birth. Not needing to breath air in the normal sense, to my knowledge.
Would it be possible to make it so that the baby/child/adult never needed to breath air in the usual way and could instead stay submerged in fluid just as they were leading up to their birth?
goodevilgenius ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:31:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Google "umbilical cord"
sabrefudge ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:36:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know. Exactly. So what if we found a way to hook up the umbilical cord to an artificial mother? Like a long synthetic tube connecting to the remnants of the original umbilical cord that imports everything the child needs as it grows up? With a team compensating for any changes needed as the person develops.
Could it then stay submerged in some sort of tank for the rest of its life? An artificial womb of sorts. Continuing to "live" in there as if it were never birthed?
Vitztlampaehecatl ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:10:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A nutrition supply system connected to the belly button?
I want to see this exist during my lifetime.
Schonke ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 07:07:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And that's how The Matrix becomes reality...
Krutonium ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:55:02 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would say it is possible (that which was suggested above), the problem being that the person involved would likely die from the lack of need to move.
kshoggi ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:43:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I predict wrinkly skin. Also seems logical that the infant's ability to be oxygenated through the navel will fail with further development.
morningsunbeer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:08:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, it's called ECMO and TPN. There are many neonates right now surviving like this. Some will become adults.
punxcs ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:08:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Google "Scuba Tank" and "Scuba Tank Refills".
sabrefudge ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:19:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, not a scuba tank. I'm not looking for them to breath through their mouth and nose.
That defeats the purpose of the experiment.
I want to know if it is possible to transfer a nearly developed but still unborn baby to an artificial womb, and let it continue to "grow up" in that environment. As if it was never born, in the usual sense.
In such a way that throughout its entire life, it remains submerged in fluid and everything still comes from the (synthetic) umbilical cord. Food, oxygen, et cetera. Just like in the womb.
I want to know how long it can continue to live in such a way, if at all.
cadrina ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:38:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The scene on The Abyss where a rat breaths liquid is actualy real. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_breathing
LFuzz ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 06:06:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At any given moment every single person on the planet is about 2 minutes from dying. Taking a breath resets that timer.
Gutterflame ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:15:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not even close.
Throwaway63626862694 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:06:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day.
Give a man a poisoned fish and he'll eat for the rest of his life.
idrissrocks ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:59:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's funny cause I recall seeing it on this subreddit hours ago
CupcakeValkyrie ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:03:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not surprising, really. This question pops up pretty regularly, but that was the first that came to mind.
nathanwoulfe ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:26:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Babies born underwater can go their whole lives without breathing.
Poetgetic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:57:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like something a parent would say to make a point
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No thanks. Would rather drink cyanide for the rest of my life.
BasketeerOverHere ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:52:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you know that if you remove your large intestine and unraveled it to it's full length, you would die?
jidouhanbaikiUA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:34:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually you would die either way, regardless if you remove your large intestine or not.
SubParMarioBro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:43:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To put a personal touch on it, my grandfather had some very dedicated caretakers who allowed him to test that saying when his terminal illness had eventually deteriorated the quality of his life well below zero. Turns out it's wrong. You end up with a stand-in caretaker who prolongs your life for a few days by feeding you multiple slurpees.
WubaDubDub2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:43:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If a baby is born underwater, it can live the rest of its life underwater.
Booty_Is_Life_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:51:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Give a man a jacket and he will be warm. Teach a man to jack it and he will never leave the house
connyar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:16:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can skydive without a parachute but only once.
chromiselda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:00:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This one belongs in frugal jerk.
Tino42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:25:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A baby born underwater can live the rest of its life underwater.
LeifChrisEriksen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:33:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
(Saw this on Reddit and make me laugh hysterically a few weeks ago)
If born underwater, a baby can live its whole life underwater
PPL_93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:45:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So many upvotes for such an irrelevant statement :(
mbrw12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:12:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but what about my gainz
ButterThatBacon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:14:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, it's possible for a person to spend their entire life underwater.
SherbetHead2010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:34:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In a similar vein: 100% of people struck by lightning die.
CupcakeValkyrie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:28:14 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People survive being stuck by lightning, though.
SherbetHead2010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:35:44 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They all eventually die. What I said was correct. I never said they die because of the lightning.
CupcakeValkyrie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:58:22 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah! Well, I suppose that is true after all!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:37:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How? You mean through some sort of injections (as in, still getting nutrients but not infesting anything) or using stores of fat (and proteins)?
Arcian_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:40:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A man on reddit actually went about a year without eating to lose all his giant amount of weight. Apparently only taking supplements and drinking water will destroy your organs.
GlobalReaction ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:49:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can live the rest of your life underwater...
TheChileanWay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:53:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I saw the same this week but with breathing instead of eating
Veloreyn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:55:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If a woman gives birth to a child in water, that child can spend their entire lives under water.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:09:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess you can get your nutrients through specialized beverages. But who the hell wants that when you can get pizza?
sonofaresiii ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:14:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depends on your viewpoint, I guess. If we accept that "the rest of my life" is predetermined, then no, I can't go that long without eating (assuming I'm meant to last more than a few days). But if I stop eating, then in retrospect I will have gone the rest of my life without eating.
I don't think it really works in the present tense.
CupcakeValkyrie ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:27:28 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thatsthejoke.jpg
sonofaresiii ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:27 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know.
CHEESY_ANUSCRUST ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:32:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The African diet
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:35:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit, it can be a such a cruel place...
Spacefiish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:23:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can go skydiving without a parachute. But only once.
iRideBMX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:56:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Grocers hate him!
IdoNOThateNEVER ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:49:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here's another one for you.
Your comment (with 2963 points right now) doesn't even show up in this thread.(top 200 comments, sorted by best)
Comments with even 30 points are up and yours is hidden. (you have to select "load more comments" to see it.)
CupcakeValkyrie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:26:45 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...and?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:15:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can go the rest of your life without breathing.
josh0561 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:06:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for a few hours. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Adddicus ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:32:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or breathing!
analrapist_theralist ยท 7168 points ยท Posted at 23:47:30 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cold coffee and warm soda are the same temperature.
[deleted] ยท 2933 points ยท Posted at 23:59:22 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Room?
Dadalot ยท 4896 points ยท Posted at 00:03:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like the kitchen
Capt_Reynolds ยท 63 points ยท Posted at 02:05:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This comment nearly caused me to spit out my coffee (which is hot).
Alan1999 ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 02:23:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like somebody has a coffee spitting fetish.
nitronomer ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 09:48:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That comment caused me to spit out my soda (which is cold)
UnderwaterDialect ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:42:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hot coffee is hotter than cold soda.
ManstoorHunter ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 05:35:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Username checks out.
arayabe ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:18:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kitchen temperature
ll-Schadenfreude-ll ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:35:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What does a kitchen sound like?
cscott024 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:42:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
During prep hours it sounds lovely. During service it's just chaos.
Drews232 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:40:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But that's not important right now
Prophet_Muhammad_phd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:44:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, thats my wife you're talking about!
btribble ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:20:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, coffee table. Soda is from yesterday, coffee is from this morning, and you're apparently a slob.
lightningboltkid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:03:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That makes sense. I'm willing to bet it was with the candle stick too. And my suspicion is that is was Colonel Mustard that did the deed.
jaybram24 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:44:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks dad, a lot.
zeekar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:49:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for your insight, Mr. Zucker. :)
Miikehawk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:31:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Username checks out
briibeezieee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:05:49 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have been sick with a stomach bug all day and I laughed at this and threw up on myself a little
SuperWoody64 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:07:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If only there were a woman to ask at
RiotingMoon ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 03:18:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uh I read this twice and then couldn't stop the giggles. Well done sir/ma'am/octopus
guitard00d123 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:02:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
YOU'RE TEARING ME APART
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:51:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good to know I'm not the only one who thought this.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:52:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
throatfrog ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 00:05:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My room or your room?
jackewon ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 01:52:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or The Room?
ShyBiDude89 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 02:03:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a story, Mark.
LaughingGnome1 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:15:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ha ha
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:34:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're just a chicken, cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep.
Tridaron ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:18:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OH HAI
ClashmanTheDupe ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:46:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm fed ap with dis warld!
buzzbros2002 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:49:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SPOON!
cornham ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:54:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My bed or yours?
FabulousDavid ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:12:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesnt matter ; )
chubbyurma ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:03:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which country?
JesterTheZeroSet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:45:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted]
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:57:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
[deleted]
Jdrama99 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:51:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Luke?
Smoky_colombian ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:48:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ambient
moeshapoppins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:08:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll take mine black thank you
horhar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:38:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just keep your lousy comments in your pocket.
osnapitsjoey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No matter how hot, it's still room temperature
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:06:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shambles
josh_wal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:21:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depends on the room
Dannnyc93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:27:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great movie, just saw it last night
pressbutton ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:40:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh hi soda
Magnatross ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:58:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Room with a moose
SnoringLorax ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:38:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha what a story Mark!
Kaneshadow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:47:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Luke
MegaAlex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:08:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any temperature you set in a room is room temperature.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:51:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Therefore coffee considered cold and any soda considered warm are at/near room temperature. Without knowing set degrees of room, generalizations such as warm and cold are used for comparison to their previous/preferred ingestion state. We are both correct in this crazy, crazy world. But, EAD.
Phalex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:40:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Goodnight lamp
Use_The_Sauce ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:03:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the study with the candlestick
clancy6969 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:41:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, hi Mark!
cammil ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:48:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, they are the same room too.
LeakingPan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:15:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/VxxYqE4Gil8
Cantankerousnuts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:34:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Law?
drdeadringer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:45:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mushroom.
ws1173 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:09:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I want to go back to room...
sissylord ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:07:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SHAMBLES
[deleted] ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 02:15:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
[deleted]
Goaliemkl123 ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 03:32:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know the answer to that.
Cryse_XIII ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 12:19:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
both taste like shit?
whathefuckisreddit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:41:18 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't talk shit about iced coffee
lolnopound ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:58:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Upvoted because I got a bubble in my lemon
film_composer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:11:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That just made me vomit.
goodmorning2255 ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 02:27:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sounds like a showerthought from a few weeks ago
armeck ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:35:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like iced coffee, but if I take a sip of my mug when I expect hot coffee - it's awful. It makes no sense.
SquirtleSpaceProgram ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 06:34:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because iced coffee is WAY colder than your room temperature hot coffee. Also, the hot coffee has been sitting out for a while.
Hot coffee: Great.
Cold coffee: Great.
Room temperature coffee: Fucking garbage water.
beertastic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:05:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The best way (imo) to make iced coffee is not to just simply cool/ice coffee that was brewed hot. It makes for a bitter iced coffee, and doesn't taste any better than just coffee gone cold.
I like to steep the coffee overnight at room temperature. Then drain/filter and store in fridge. Makes for a much superior iced coffee.
ChulaK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:23:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Worst is when you take a sip of coffee in the exact moment it becomes the same temperature as your mouth down to the decimal point. You keep tipping the cup over wondering where your coffee went and suddenly you feel your shirt get warm :(
thedersy1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:29:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is also because cold fluids have an anesthetic effect. The cold liquid makes your tongue less receptive to tastes. Although the coffee isn't any different warm or cold, an iced coffee will taste much less bitter than its warm version.
kenmaclean ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 04:59:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the plastic and metal parts of a seatbelt are also the same temperature, even when the metal is burning hot.
MCPE_Master_Builder ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 06:30:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thermodynamics brub
SimonPlusOliver ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:46:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that can't be true!
kenmaclean ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 07:09:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it is. Our sense of heat doesn't actually measure the temperature of an object, it measures the rate of temperature change in our skin. Plastics and woody things don't give off that much heat for their temperature, while metal just loves spreading its heat every which way.
another example is water vs. air. In cold air you can survive pretty well unassisted into the negatives. Put yourself in ice water and you're hypothermic in minutes. The temperatures are the same, but water takes in and gives off heat at a much higher rate at the same temperature.
grapesandmilk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:35:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always could have understood this, but I never realized it.
Very_legitimate ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:06:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some things transfer their hear easier than others
thedersy1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:28:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you want the technical term for what people are talking about, it's called a heat transfer coefficient. Metals have higher coefficients than plastics, and will thus reject their heat more readily into you.
stanek ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:01:35 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wouldn't that also mean that they absorb heat better than plastics as well? in effect making them hotter?
thedersy1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:32 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. It will get hotter faster but it cannot get hotter than its surroundings. So given a sufficient amount of time the plastic and metal will get as hot as their surroundings.
FuzzyCub20 ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 01:29:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They don't feel like it.
internetV ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 03:46:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
expectations play a large role in perception!
Monagan ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 07:27:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I knew you were going to say that.
Chemistryz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:41:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Carbination. Gas is less soluable in warmer liquids, so when you drink warm soda, less gas stays in the liquid on its way to your stomach, so it has more of that burning sensation
SparklePonyBoy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:35:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Move up a little down.
ThatNickah ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:10:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't get it...
coochiecrumb ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 05:39:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He doesn't mean iced coffee. Coffee that you pour into a mug and let get cold (room temperature) is the same temp as a soda that you haven't put in the fridge (room temperature).
ThatNickah ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:03:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what I thought... I don't feel that stupid anymore.
coochiecrumb ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:10:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's good
terusama ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:09:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
mix em
HardcoreBlofish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:56:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That just blew my mind. Thinking of a coffee I drank at work today after it had been sitting out for a while and how ice cold it seemed
immoralsjw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
coffee in the fridge and soda in the fridge are the same temperature!!!
JuRoJa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No matter how hot or cold a room is, it's always remember ok temperature
anth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:38:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is amazing.
repeat- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:47:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This one got me
willmaster123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:30:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This blew my mind more than anything
chloethecomputernerd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:48:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Room temperature coffee is so cold though :/
Turdlemaan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:20:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What
Skutter_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:42:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Saying it's cold or warm is relative to their preferred drinking temperature
Frankandthatsit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:13:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brilliant
https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/34caap/warm_beer_and_cold_coffee_are_the_same_temperature/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/2s0p1m/cold_coffee_and_warm_soda_are_the_same_temperature/
SeudonymousKhan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:57:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wot? If one is cold and one is warm how are they the same temperature?
raverbashing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:20:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Joke's on you, I go outside and enjoy a very cold beer (when it's like 0C, 32F)
subtlexcrement ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:43:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why has this hurt me!?
Gizmo-Duck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:43:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's why I just mix them together around 10am.
ZeePirate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:59:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How
cthulhubert ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:31:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stale biscuits and soggy crackers are about the same moisture level.
anibeav ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:10:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Grosso Fahrenheit
rottinguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:27:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cold Pizza and warm beer.
iShouldReallyCutBack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:57:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most people respond better to the cold coffee/warm beer version, but yes, mind blowing.
DMBumper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:27:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I call bullshit. I order cold coffee and that shit comes on ice. I get a warm soda out of the garage on a summer day and you're going to tell me that's the same? Hell. Even lukewarm soda would be warmer than coffee on ice.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:07:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always wondered why the hell room temperature coffee feels like it's been in the fridge but room temperature Coke feels like It's been left in the sun all day.
katha757 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:40:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why do they taste like they're such differet temperatures? Is it because it goes against what we expect?
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:33:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Michael_Pitt ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:23:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not iced coffee. Cold coffee. Like when you let it sit out and it's not hot anymore.
[deleted] ยท -11 points ยท Posted at 04:28:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:46:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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ShyGuy993 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:05:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you, I needed this explanation lol.
bumwine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:15:36 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is no point unless your mind is blown at the difference. I cannot drink room temperature soda, it goes down like shit and the carbonation is so predominant.
Psdjklgfuiob ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:47:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well when i think of cold coffee i think of this and iced coffee, so not really
fgdadfgfdgadf ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:18:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
have a downvote
[deleted] ยท 13610 points ยท Posted at 00:09:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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icameliac ยท 3739 points ยท Posted at 00:26:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This one actually blows my mind.
[deleted] ยท 4297 points ยท Posted at 00:34:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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icameliac ยท 2141 points ยท Posted at 00:50:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aliens, obviously.
Sack_Of_Motors ยท 3804 points ยท Posted at 01:26:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's just silly. Of course aliens didn't build mammoths. The pyramids on the other hand...
Conb0t ยท 3997 points ยท Posted at 03:17:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mammoth tusks can't melt limestone blocks
CPA-Poke ยท 115 points ยท Posted at 06:17:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wake up tricerasheeples
NobilisUltima ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 05:41:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Giza was an inside job
pinkjesus666 ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 03:37:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mammoth tusks don't cause autism!
Mex-Box ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 03:46:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But they cure ED
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:11:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Too soon.
Mex-Box ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 04:22:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nonsense, Mammoth tusk make you bigga, betta... you rast ronger!
SirElliott ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:51:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like I'm missing something... Source?
disfixiated ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:47:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Using animal parts as medicine or aphrodisiacs is big in Asia I.e. racist "rast ronger" retort to comment previous to his.
bit1101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:56:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Plum goes well with mammoth tusk.
[deleted] ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 07:23:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your mom
Missing_nosleep ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:24:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Megaladon fin soup cause the megalodon to go extinct.
GoldenAthleticRaider ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:26:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course not, that's caused by the illegal aliens!
Impulse3 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 07:33:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, but vaccines do
shotguywithflaregun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:55:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you forgoy an /s there.
unicorncommander ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:36:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I upvoted you. I feel dirty. But I did it anyway.
Neuermann ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:06:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was an inside job.
Ninja_Wanker123 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:13:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And here we can appreciate the birth of a new meme
Eurynom0s ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:42:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
dank
SemenDemonRamenLemon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:09:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MTCMLB
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:59:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes they can, that's how they cut the blocks for the pyramids. They knew mammoths were impeccable with angles so they were perfect.
DownWithUpSyndrome ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:19:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ugh dude so good
ReadySteady_GO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:32:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But they probably could lift them
Snomann ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:14:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well not anymore, they're all dead
phillip42069 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:24:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about steel beams?
lordfarquadd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:56:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
how would you know what they could and couldn't do
Doowstados ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:13:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They just soften the limestone. Duh!
BLACKAP3RTURE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:03:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not this again.
Skandalust ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:44:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about steel beams ?
endersmommy1980 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:00:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mammoth tusks were stored in the pyramids for use at stone henge every one knows that.
DongerOP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:19:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Next on History Channel
AlvinGT3RS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:01:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
-_-
bbrick33 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:09:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dank meme but they're sandstone! Limestone would have weathered away.
warmbutteredbagel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:17:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This guy tusks.
Jsdestroy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:49:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pharaoh did 911 BC
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:46:12 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But you could get the methane from a mammoths farts over time
royalspacemom ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 05:19:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i upvoted this but also you need to delete it immediately
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:39:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Explain.
Best650IEverSpent ยท 73 points ยท Posted at 04:10:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahh, the old Reddit mamma-roo!
SharKCS11 ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 04:30:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hold my pyramid...I'm going in!
Hidesuru ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:20:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hold me...
vizzmay ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:01:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would, but I'm already holding a pyramid, a mammoth dick, a buncha fossils, a trunk, a pachyderm, and a something.
Hidesuru ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:09:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Awww. Thanks anyway, then. You sound like a helpful chap.
craker42 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:13:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Must be Canadian.
vizzmay ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:37:12 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. Indian.
Hidesuru ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:24:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Me? Nope. American.
craker42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:34:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, I ment the helpful chap.
Hidesuru ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:40:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gotcha. Didn't know if you were referring to their helpfulness or my use of chap, heh.
PureSmoulder ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 04:33:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hold me mammoth dick, me go in!
fireork12 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:23:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ewwwewwwewwwewww
dhoomz ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:25:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hold my fossils, I'm going in!!
effa94 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:48:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this is the 4th of these i see in this thread
5thDimensionBookcase ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:02:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hold my pachyderm I'm going in!
raddcircles2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:42:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Hold my something, I'm going in
chickenpopper ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:17:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hold my trunk, I'm going in!
Deathbyceiling ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:10:08 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hold my pyramid! I'm going in!
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:23:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do the pyramids built the mammoths! It all makes sense now.
Grimesy2 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:15:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then who built the aliens? This is madness.
KingNick7777 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No this is sparta
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:40:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Madness built Sparta, aliens built madness, and the pyramids built the aliens.
KingNick7777 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:47:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mind blown
Powerpuff_God ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:39:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans built de aliens. That's the 'Ancient Astronaut' hypothesis people like to talk about.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:44:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Obviously the mammoths.
StaleTheBread ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:38:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Are you saying that the pyramids built mammoths?
cleanyourkitchen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:04:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pyramids built the Mammoths? I'm no history buff but that sounds right.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:41:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
History Channel Buff
mitchmccluk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:59:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
History buff here. Can confirm
stephangb ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:02:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The pyramids built mammoths?
EverythingBurned ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:00:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, the old reddit alien-mammoth-aroo!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:06:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, the ol' reddit pyramid-aroo
whateverbruhwhatever ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:54:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the good ol' Reddit switcharoo
AmoebaNot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The pyramids built mammoths? Now I'm confused....
numberninemac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:57:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The pyramids built mammoths?
LegolasofMirkwood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:48:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there where someone is supposed to say "Ahh the whole mammoth-aro" and then link some never ending cycle of Reddit pages?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:41:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
indeed
a_bit_vague ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:01:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OH! The old redditswitchermagooooooo.....aw forget it
endisnigh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:34:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pyramids built mammoths!?!?? Of course! It all makes sense now!!
genericguysname ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:17:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The pyramids built aliens?
seal_eggs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:36:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ol Reddit switcharoo
kaeroku ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:40:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No man, the aliens are the mammoths, and they built the pyramids.
AusCan531 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:16:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pyramids built mammoths?????
thomasjthomasj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:27:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aliens built pyramids, and pyramids built mammoths
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:59:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The pyramids did build mammoths.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:33:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, the old reddit mammoth-roo
haagen_dentista ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:58:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The pyramids DID build the mammoths though, correct?
eggy32 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:34:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you saying pyramids built the mammoths?
FireEagleSix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:39:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay Ken M.
Djlionking ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:43:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aliens needed a place to store rice?
zsnajorrah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:04:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, the old alien pyrami-roo.
(I'm on mobile now, so if somebody else could do the link magic, that'd be swell.)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:05:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Built alien mammoths!
TheFeaz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:07:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The pyramids definitely built the mammoths.
Fazzeh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:28:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pyramids built mammoths confirmed
oh_horsefeathers ยท 296 points ยท Posted at 01:32:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's because Egypt never built a wall.
[deleted] ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 02:58:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
my father gave me a small loan of a million grain deposits
oh_horsefeathers ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:51:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One million grains of rice will serve in the neighborhood of 6,622 people, as long as nobody goes back for seconds.
Not sure why I felt like figuring that out... but there's that.
Mr-Ignorantiam ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:59:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Make Egypt Great Again!" -Pharoah Candidate Khufu
straitnet ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:01:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"I know all hieroglyphics, I know the best hieroglyphics"
ademnus ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:25:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"And we'll get Nubia to pay for it!"
98rman ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:30:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Make Egypt great again. Build a wall to keep those aliens out, and make them pay for it!
straitnet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:00:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tone it down, the aliens night think we serious.
mrmosjef ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:39:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Abrahamic plagues can't break Egyptian dynasties!! 1446 BCE was an inside job!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:49:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Moses.
nooneiller ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:12:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Egypt is going to build a wall, and make Sudan pay for it!
Sledge824 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:40:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump hates these guys now
ShadowBourne ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:07:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
make egypt great again!
mflbatman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:06:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They just gave their gold away, and look how that turned out for em...
compliancekid78 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:15:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
High energy reply.
ITradeBaconFutures ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:52:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's because the Jews wouldn't pay for it.
mostnormal ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:00:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. They wanted immigrants for slaves.
10zzz10 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:18:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same as now
SemSevFor ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:22:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Daniel Jackson is that you?
TamerVirus ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:45:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not just any aliens. Ancient Aliens!
SemSevFor ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:23:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go'ould to be specific
samuraiseoul ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:57:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Goa'uld?
Magnesus ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:27:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Slaves on the order of G'ould as a landing pads for spaceships of course.
UsuallyInappropriate ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:26:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ancient. Mammoth. Aliens.
FTFY
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:07:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't be ridiculous, mammoths obviously.
AlexVoid515 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:25:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I want to believe...
Tyreal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:10:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ancient Aliens actually.
ademnus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:24:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ancient alien theorists suggest...
_mainus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:07:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For alien grain storage.
Gamecrazy721 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:42:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Jews are aliens
Mehkiism13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:26:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The mammoths built it but it took too many of them.
A1A5KA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:06:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ancient kind?
UltimateShingo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:05:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Paging Dr. Daniel Jackson!
Smubii ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:24:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jews
flowerNOTinstrument ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:42:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you, Daniel Jackson.
thissiteisbroken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:50:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you crazy? It was that one guy from the X-Men comics that built it.
DrDemenz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:36:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't you watch 10,000 BC?
kyzfrintin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:48:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As landing pads for motherships, as is tradition.
DisAccountIsTrash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:25:18 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
to create a machine that destroys Suns, of course.
filthy-carrot ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 01:40:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mammoths duh
PM_BITCOIN_AND_BOOBS ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:31:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Other mammoths.
vizzmay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:03:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bitcoins or Boobs? Which one do you get more of?
PM_BITCOIN_AND_BOOBS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:15:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
None of either, alas. Besides, I just started using this login, and I don't comment much, so I really don't get many opportunities.
Super_C_Complex ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:20:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like this person has never seen 10000 BC
Minn-ee-sottaa ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:27:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Joseph from the Bible. To store grain.
RooftopBBQ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:15:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
go back to sleep Ben
TheCSKlepto ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:04:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mammoths aren't built, they're born.
That being said, God
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:04:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Poor people
MoroseOverdose ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:47:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apocalypse?
pandab34r ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:14:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well the pyramids are hard to explain off the top of your head with no real thought in less than 30 seconds, therefore, the only logical explanation is that Ancient Alien Vimana aircraft built them.
Eiroth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:38:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They just did it for fun though
Ecdysozoa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:59:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People who needed a place to store their grain, obviously.
benktaylor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:05:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandpappy, so he says.
mifan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:13:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think they were the result of evolution...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:14:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thepyramidswereaninsidejob
Superty1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:17:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
10000 BC was such a piece of shit
Djhifisi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:27:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"I'm pretty sure it was a guy named Eddie"
NahNotOnReddit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:40:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the mammoths or the pyramids?
ZorisX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:41:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Egyptians to store grains.
Thus the food pyramid
thatlukeguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:58:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not saying it was aliens. But it was definitely aliens.
usernamewillendabrup ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:07:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
PRAISE CTHULHU
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:35:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not saying it was ancient elephants... but it was ancient elephants.
Skutter_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:39:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mission 24 of Far Cry Primal
steerpike88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:48:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mammoths.
teetar7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:37:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think one can simply build a mammoth...
canitasteyourjuice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:08:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jews
straitnet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:59:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The mammoth carried the rocks. That's what made them extinct.
disambiguated ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:16:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mammoths, obviously.
ShadowWriter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:46:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I deduce from this that it must have been the mammoths.
Captcha_Imagination ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:24:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mammoth mothers
Damnmark ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:35:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Korea for +1 Culture and two free workers.
kev_jin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:17:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was a mammoth task.
atropicalpenguin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:58:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apocalypse.
AboveDisturbing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:05:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mammoths built the pyramids.
Homitu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:12:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Joseph, to store grain, duh.
canuckpuckbeaut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:16:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hitler and his new world order of freemason jews
dumbBeerApp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:51:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mammoths.
yup8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:43:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The jews
Keesdekarper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:58:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did I just witness the creation of a conspiracy theory? Please tell me I did.
thatJainaGirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:50:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've seen that movie.
DooGieBoy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:30:12 on March 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mammoths
kosmoceratops1138 ยท 1436 points ยท Posted at 01:18:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It is my time to pedantically point out that the mammoths were confined to a dwarf species off the coast of Alaska. This fact is true, but highly misleading.
Edit: fuck, people I see Wrangell and I think Alaska, I know it's Russia, shoot me now, I'm sorry
Edit 2: I need to brush up on my paleontology. Yes, the last population was confined to the island. Yes, there were dwarf species around the world, the most famous being m. Exilis on the Santa Barbara channel islands(island? They were only one back then). But Wrangel dwarfism specifically is up for debate.
I can only get the abstracts for some of these articles because I'm broke, but this 1993 article (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v362/n6418/abs/362337a0.html) refers to them as a dwarf species nonchalantly, whereas this 2008 article (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033589408000422) brings up the dispute in size.
This article (http://m.pnas.org/content/98/25/14518.full) brings up the size difference under "Effect of Evolutionary Time Required for Body Size Changes." (Sorry for weird format I'm copy pasting from the article a lot), and this study was published in 2001, however, it cites "our database" as to how they got the data, and congrats with this article(http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v362/n6418/abs/362337a0.html) which states that only teeth have been found for the range if 7,000-4,000 years ago, which can still give an idea if size and age, but allows the issue to be debated.
This article from 2010 is somewhat unrelated, but uses leninecy in calculations that allows for both options. It also provides interesting insight into what killed the Wrangel mammoths in the end: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2010/03/24/rspb.2010.0301.short
The article that Wikipedia cites ( http://www.hetnatuurhistorisch.nl/fileadmin/user_upload/documents-nmr/Publicaties/Deinsea/Deinsea_09/DSA9_029_Tikhonov_415-420.pdf) is the best source for them not being pygmy, but even they say that both small and large forms existed at different times or even just different locations on Wrangel.
Conclusion, because as fun as this is, I have other stuff to do: the mammoths on Wrangel were pretty similar to the mainland ones, and probably underwent some size reduction, but calling them dwarf or pygmy would be misleading, and its still up for debate.
Interesting side fact I found- apparently megaloceros was also around longer than we thought (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v431/n7009/full/nature02890.html)
IMadeThisForFood ยท 279 points ยท Posted at 03:55:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the first time I've ever heard this caveat, so thanks for providing new and interesting insight.
tijaya ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 04:24:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lucky 10000
DebonaireSloth ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 10:19:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ten Thousand
(For the lucky 10000 that don't know about it)
bredman3370 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:54:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there ever not a relevant xkcd?
Zeromone ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:30:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://xkcd.com/1401/
AmoebaNot ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 03:53:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So....midget mammoths?
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 04:10:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Midgmoths!
theveldt01 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 07:00:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like a boss from Borderlands 2.
prancingElephant ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:59:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I want one. Do you think they can be house trained?
vizzmay ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:05:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Movies have taught me that every animal is a doggy.
pliskin42 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:57:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Puppy sized elephants is the proper term
cynic79 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:35:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's what you get when an elephant makes love to a pig.
daybreakx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:42:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They prefer the term *little people mammoths.
ARealSlimBrady ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:04:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jumbo Shrimp v1.0
TheMustyOgre ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:16:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wrangle Island! I remember this was one the first things I found surfing Wikipedia back in the day. Thought it could be a cool band name.
LostMyPasswordNewAcc ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:25:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, fuck this meme fact then
seashmattle ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 07:07:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OMG dwarf mammoths sound so cute
SquirtleSpaceProgram ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:32:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. The Great Pyramid was built in the 2500s BC and the last Mammoths were alive on the island around 2000 BC. Cuttin it close!
Max_Insanity ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 10:19:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Two thousand, 500 seconds before christ? That's pretty damn specific.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:39:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That just makes it more interesting, though.
ValKilmersLooks ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:26:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh. You've kind of ruined it but my pedantic side is pleased.
kosmoceratops1138 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:34:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
After looking into this more, my pedantic side is very fucking confused.
HellaDawg ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:53:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How did they survive in the ocean?
Derwos ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 06:14:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Their trunks make them natural snorkelers.
Stingerbrg ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:16:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you mean how'd they get to the island, probably they were already in the area when the sea level was lower and it wasn't an island. When the Ice Age ended the water level rose, making the area an island, and so the present population was stuck there.
burf ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:53:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck pedantic; that's an important caveat, I think.
clevername71 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:23:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for the clarification. I was beginning to question my understanding of human evolution.
Aberdolf-Linkler ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:39:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should always question it. That's how learning and science happens.
CanWeBeMature ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:22:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FWIW, Wikipedia currently states that the wooly mammoth population on Wrangle Island is no longer thought to have been dwarves.
kosmoceratops1138 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:29:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Check my updated parent comment!
hombrecito ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:25:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIfuckin'L
Dolly_Black_Lamb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:53:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So the mammoths living at the time were not mammoth mammoths
My_Cat_Is_Bald ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:22:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, they were mini-mammoths
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:00:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What like Beringia?
kosmoceratops1138 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:47:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An island that used to be connected to both landmasses by beringia but was separated as sea levels dropped. The mammoths became dwarf over the generations as the island could not support huge animals.
Dr-Grozizi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:10:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
? No, in Siberia you could still find the regular ones.
kosmoceratops1138 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:48:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not unless the pyramids were built over 10,000 years ago.
thisismyfinalaccount ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:32:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks politifact.
Claeyt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:44:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is off the coast of Russia comrade, Alaska mammoths did not exist.
Boush117 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:49:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember seeing a document that mentioned this as a kid!
For some reason it made me really sad back then. Like, people were just slapping some stones on top of each other while an entire family of animals died, never to be seen again.
notwearingpantsAMA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:12:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because it's the only place that's undiscovered by humans
pb_k ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:44:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is my chance to pedantically point out that Wrangel Island is off the coast of Russia, not Alaska. Also, the mammoths found there were initially thought to be a dwarf species but after further examination they are no longer considered to have been dwarfs.
kosmoceratops1138 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:32:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So I looked into the "not dwarf" thing because that's never how I heard it, and it runs out to be more muddled than that. Look back at my parent comment, I added a bunch of stuff.
SplitArrow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:54:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't matter they were still mammoths regardless of location or size.
yyajeet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:55:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
they're no longer believed to have been dwarves and it'd be more accurate to say the island was off the coast of Russia
kosmoceratops1138 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:50:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I understand the Russia thing, but how can they no longer be believed to be dwarves? I've seen their remains with my own eyes in museums, they haven't grown over time. Are they now beloved to be juveniles? Becuase its pretty obvious when mammal bones aren't developed.
kosmoceratops1138 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:31:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alright, idk where I got the idea that I saw the remains- I saw a traveling mammoth exhibit while I was in Anchorage and I guess I confused the Santa Barbara species with then. Look back at my parent comment though for more discussion
radministator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:10:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think it's really all that misleading...I mean, you're right, but they are mammoths, and a population of small furry mammoths off the alaskan coast as recently as ~2000BC is still pretty mindblowing!
shitfuckvaginacunt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:32:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That makes the fact they built the pyramids even more impressive.
SufficientAnonymity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:19:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Coast of Siberia, actually - confusing, since Wrangell is in AK and Wrangel isn't.
DamnLogins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:37:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pedantically, it's largely agreed that they last lived on Wrangel Island off the coast of Siberia
Aberdolf-Linkler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:39:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This makes it even more interesting.
_mAkon_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:58:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mmm I agree as well, shallow and pedantic
WhyWouldHeLie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:03:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Source?
kosmoceratops1138 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:36:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looked into it some more, updated some stuff, look back at my comment
bluedrygrass ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:22:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you
zoicyte ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:35:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that you for the elaboration.
edit: i suppose pedantically, then, they weren't really that 'mammoth', then were they?
kosmoceratops1138 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:35:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mammoth refers to a genus, and using the term for size was derived off of the animal. And look back at my parent, turns out they might've been full sized.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:57:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, but it doesn't make the fact less correct.
NemWan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:05:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like birds are dwarf species of dinosaurs?
kosmoceratops1138 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:39:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. Birds are a group of dinosaurs, and many birds today are larger than many non-avian dinosaurs were, plus they weren't affected by island dwarfism.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:47:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You must be fun at paleontological period parties.
kosmoceratops1138 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:55:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does that mean I win? I think it means I win.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:48:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Come to one of my paleontological period parties, and try your luck. This week are doing Crustaceans, time period or tasty dinner entree? We're serving scampi and surf and turf.
stack_cats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:08:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is your time
Wrest216 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 07:11:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I saw that movie, 10000 B.C., and they CLEARLY ride mammoths against the Egyptians building the pyramids! So you are wrong, sir.
InfanticideAquifer ยท 682 points ยท Posted at 00:39:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that a four year old reddit account hasn't heard this fact every before (or even six times this month) blows my mind. It's practically a meme by now.
Baron_Von_Sexingpun ยท 1208 points ยท Posted at 01:04:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, but did you know that Steve Buscemi returned to his old firehouse to help on 9/11?
OkArmordillo ยท 81 points ยท Posted at 03:34:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And did you know that Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landing than the building of the pyramids?
davidgro ยท 112 points ยท Posted at 05:06:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No way, she must have been in walking distance to the pyramids.
1ZL ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 07:03:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But the moon landing was filmed in her house.
ARealSlimBrady ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:05:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well Michael Jackson was in walking distance from the moon...
kongu3345 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:07:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So somewhere in orbit?
Forgototherpassword ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:34:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And did you know that Woody Harrelson knows why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch, but he only wants to talk about Rampart
nothanksjustlooking ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 03:25:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So he was already in Manhattan on 9/11? Hmmm...
ARealSlimBrady ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:05:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buscemi Teams can't melt bad memes
Priamosish ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:24:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you also know that the solution to all your problems is hitting the gym, lawyering up and deleting facebook?
mathent ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:34:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, but did you know Sean Hannity still hasn't been water boarded?
quiteintriguing ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 01:21:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Repeating this meta level meme is very similar to what caused the meme, there ought to be a new metax2 meme that takes the piss of the overuse of a meme created to take the piss of the overuse of a post
Baron_Von_Sexingpun ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:25:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know! It kinda reminds me of the fact that Kevin Smith protested Dogma
MolotovFlirtini ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 01:45:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes but did you guys realize that when that 70s show was released, it was as far away, time wise, from the 70s then as we are from the 90s today. But still no that 90s show. Friends reruns don't count.
TheCaolanFerry ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:44:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This one actually blows my mind.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:49:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Steve Buscemi is a mammoth?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:14:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That Steve Buscemi? Albert Einstein
Superty1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:18:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He is also an actor
2ndCupOfPlutoSperm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:09:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait! Steve Buscemi melts steel beams?
SnapHook ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:54:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I also heard about this British dude who saved a bunch of Jews from the Nazis.
Monkeychimp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:03:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And that rocking backwards and forwards on the toilet makes for a banging shitting experience?
tubacmm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:12:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh cool
GhOsT_wRiTeR_XVI ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:10:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds extremely wrong...but I guess it's correct.
I_Bin_Painting ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:14:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you know that jet fuel can't melt dank memes?
edditme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:24:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And, more importantly, tap danced on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
immatellyouwhat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:54:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And that Trent Reznor got his song The Hurt stolen by Johhny Cash? What a jerk!
zulu-bunsen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:01:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL!
Helenarth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:35:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you know that Trent Reznor said that Hurt is Johnny Cash's song now?
raygundan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:20:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Steve Buscemi owned a firehouse?
Legend-WaitForItDary ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:30:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I actually didn't know that
scumbagcoyote ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:13:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't know it. http://i.imgur.com/aIH1Mq2.jpg
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:10:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe they're not masochistic enough to browse the defaults except occasionally.
mo_xime ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:54:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Me too. Still blows my mind.
Christopher135MPS ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:46:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://xkcd.com/1053
GloriousGardener ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:34:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I actually haven't heard this before either, but I also don't find it even remotely surprising. I don't know why finding out that an animal went extinct sometime in the last 4000 years is surprising. Animals go extinct all the time.
InfanticideAquifer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:36:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The surprising thing is that the went extinct that recently, not that they went extinct at all. Most people's conception of natural history divides the world in phases. And "bigger hairier versions of mammals" comes right between "dinosaurs" and "civilization" with no overlap. Before I heard this factoid eighty five times on reddit I'd've guessed that they went extinct tens of thousands of years ago, before the development of agriculture.
GloriousGardener ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 08:04:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The mere existence of crocodiles sort of kills that theory.
InfanticideAquifer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:09:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not a theory. It's just a broad, mostly unconscious view of how things work. (Brought on, I suspect, by the fact that natural history museums are divided into rooms.) No one would come out and defend that idea. But bad ways of thinking about things have a way of lurking in the background and affecting your conclusions without ever becoming explicit.
toxictaru ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
6 times this month? I think I'm up to 6 times this week.
kittos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:06:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And that it gets to the top every time!
xhankhillx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:57:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yikes, I guess I'm going to blow you again
B_Z_A ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:07:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Johnny Cash something something 'Hurt'
Kaelaface ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:12:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And did you know swans can be gay?
bassnugget ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:16:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Meme Facts. You're idea is ingenious.
teght ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:01:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True dat.
starfirex ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:44:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hadn't heard it before either.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:45:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Congrats you're one of the 10,000!!!
coredumperror ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:09:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you considered that a reddit account that old might have wised up to the terribleness of the defaults, and long since left most of them? I'm equally reddit-old, and hadn't ever heard this, either.
comradeda ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 10:03:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was always a meme, as soon as someone said it to someone else.
InfanticideAquifer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:18:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's really annoying when people take umbrage when people use an everyday word and insist that they use it in the technical manner prescribed in an academic field of study.
When someone says they work in an office I don't tell them that they aren't exerting a force along a displacement.
comradeda ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:54:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
So define meme?
EDIT: Less umbrage, more playfully poking at the lines between "meme" and "pop culture meme". But eh, I'm feeling a bit defensive and tender. I'm sorry. :/
InfanticideAquifer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:30:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd define it as "a widely recognized thing that people say/link to almost exclusively on internet forums, possibly with small variations designed to be humorous".
comradeda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:59:03 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting. I'd include things like saying "No, I am your father" under pop culture memes. It at least seems to be a very similar phenomenon.
InfanticideAquifer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:19 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I'd definitely agree that it fits under the academic term "meme" but I think that most people use the term in everyday use to refer to things that originated on the internet. (The saying of them originated on the internet is what I mean. A lot of memes are from things like TV shows etc.)
"No, I am your father" can't be a meme (general usage) to me because it became popular before the internet existed. If Empire came out today it probably would be.
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comradeda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:23:13 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Traitor!
jonmcfluffy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:25:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
from our time to jesus (2k years ago) was almost the same time from jesus to the building of the pyramids (2.5k years ago).
JamesMusicus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Think your math is a bit off there...
ThatDidntJustHappen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:23:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
rip
TMI-nternets ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:31:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Challenger shuttle and the Java Tiger possivbly existed at the same time, but both does not anymore. Most likely due to human causes.
MrWheelieBin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:16:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When Oxford University was founded, the Aztec Empire still existed.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:44:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Does it blow your mind each time it gets reposted?
dabosweeney ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:15:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've never understood the fascination with this one
CIearMind ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:00:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mammoths were still alive when the Great Pyramid was being built.
Doctor_Oceanblue ยท 881 points ยท Posted at 00:59:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There were mammoths in South Carolina- it's our state fossil.
oh_horsefeathers ยท 4448 points ยท Posted at 01:33:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it was Lindsey Graham.
Huh.
Coconutbasketbal ยท 217 points ยท Posted at 02:31:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, Strom.
[deleted] ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 06:26:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Stormer2997 ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 06:39:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You Dixiecrat bastard
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 12:43:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here's a fun fact: Strom ran for President against Truman. My younger brother went to high school with Strom's DAUGHTER in 1987.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:39:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
State fossil, he said, not state shame.
just_leavingthishere ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:49:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It makes me giggle every time I go work out in Strom (อกยฐ อส อกยฐ)
AaronRodgersMustache ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:15:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
(อกยฐ อส อกยฐ)
just_leavingthishere ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:47:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
(ยดใปฯใป`)
DRM_Removal_Bot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:51:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, Chuck Testa!
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:56:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, that's the State fruit.
EoT_FoF_YL ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:59:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BRUTALITY
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:04:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Used to be Strom Thurmond
mjmannella ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:46:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah yes, the Lindsey Grahammoth. A one of its kind!
abnerjames ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:25:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There were giant beavers too
GumdropGoober ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:24:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my, heaven be!
wutsgudhomz1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:22:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ba dum pssssst
Anchovie_Paste ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:40:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whenever I hear Lindsey graham speak, all I'm hearing is Russell edgington from true blood. He's got the same old school southern accent for a gay man.
Dubsland12 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:35:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, He's the Queen.
Molten__ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:21:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
S A V A G E
arch_nyc ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:16:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Zing.
ricecracker420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:40:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's just a sweet southern belle
Lunchbox-of-Bees ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:17:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's the state flower.
zoicyte ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:38:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
bern
adonis98 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:47:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whenever I see that guy on the news, he gives me the creeps.
Dica92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:29:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Linty Grandma
StolenRedditUserName ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:50:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Zing!
TheButcherPete ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:41:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Savage. Fuck Graham, worst senator ever.
kosmoceratops1138 ยท 189 points ยท Posted at 01:18:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only one species of mammoth was actually the cold loving species we know and love. All others were dwarf variants if that one, or various different things that were basically pumped up elephants that you really didn't want to fuck with.
Doctor_Oceanblue ยท 87 points ยท Posted at 01:37:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, there's a model of a Columbian Mammoth at the SC State Museum and it looks like a fuzzy elephant.
Checkers10160 ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 02:42:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All mammoths kind of look like fuzzy elephants to me..... I thought that's basically what they were
Thor_Odinson_ ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:36:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It does make sense, too. Look at humans, for example. As far as I am aware, our African brethren (as in human cousins, not "brothas") have limited body hair, usually concentrated on the head and face. Then look at those nutty Russians, and they (mostly the men, but the women are often hairier) tend to be hairier than a Tolkien-esque Dwarf.
Of course, the only research I did was to search for that video clip on YT, and am going purely on stereotypes.
bluedrygrass ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:26:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You really think some more hairs on a chest helps saving someone from freezing to death? With a coat on you should sweat at the north pole, then.
And at the same time, most people ignore or dismiss the real differences that helps not freezing to death, such as bigger average size and more efficient cardiovascular system.
cleverlikeme ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:50:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that's probably cause a mammoth is a fuzzy elephant
L8Show ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:07:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's also one outside at of all places, Mammoth.
Jaquestrap ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:43:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean that's basically what mammoths were.
Corbab ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 01:54:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Dwarf mammoth" is a hell of an oxymoron.
kosmoceratops1138 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There were three known dwarf species, actually, all confined to islands. There was the Wrangell species, the longest lived one. Then there was a species on Sicily, and a species on the Santa Barbara channel islands, back in the ice age when it was one big island. So not an entirely uncommon phenomena.
NightHawk521 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:21:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not entirely true. There were a bunch of "cold-loving" mammoths. The woolly mammoth was just the last one to go extinct.
Additionally, unlike in the movies, woolies didn't roam glaciers for no reason. They were more cold tolerant than some other mammoth species but still preferred open tundra steppe environments with an abundance of northern grasses.
kosmoceratops1138 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:15:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aw forgot about the earlier ones, I'm so used to my refernec frame being about 10,000 years ago. And interesting little anecdote about the grasses- the ecosystem that mammoths lived in was much different than the ones of today because if all the megfauna, which made it easier for grasses to grow as opposed to the fingi and low bushes of the modern day tundras. In fact, there's some rich Russian dude who bought up land in the middle of nowhere, Russia, and started putting a higher population density of caribou, musk ox, and other large fauna in that area and he got some of that ecosystem back. He's also said he would like to be the first to receive a mammoth if they clone it. Gimme a sec to find the source.
Edit: here's the thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_Park?wprov=sfla1 sort of a tangent but you're striking into a nerdliness muscle that hasn't been flexed in a while (as shown by my mammoth error)
NightHawk521 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:27:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's no need. The place you're referring to is Pleistocene Park run by a guy called Sergey Zimov.
I don't know if I'd say that the presence of megafauana made it easier for grass to grow though as that doesn't paint the full picture. As you probably know, mammoths, mastodons, and most of the other large pleistocene megafauna were keystone species that shaped the environment around them. As such its not so much that they helped the growth of grasses (which I'm sure they did), but that they enriched their local environments allowing for a more varied ecosystem then the poorly diverse version we have now. I'm pretty sure it was Willerslev that published a paper on it in 2013 looking at ice cores across Siberia and North America that showed the relative drop in abundance transitioning from pre-LGM to LGM and the incomplete recovery from LGM to present day conditions.
kosmoceratops1138 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:36:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They were keystone species, but the growth of grasses was, as is being found in plesitiocene park, the primary mechanism for the diversity boom. A significant change in the producers is going to have the most significant impact on an ecosystem, and keystone species are usually either the only carnivores in an ecosystem or a species closely linked to producers. Another tangential example: sea otters, who are a keystone species in California waters because they eat things that eat kelp. In the megafauna case, I once read it was thought to be the breaking up of the frozen, tough topsoil and fertilizer spread. So then the method of enrching the ecosystem would be the grasses, then. If you can find the article I read or one disproving it I would be interested, because I can't find it at the moment.
NightHawk521 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:17:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup you're right. The theory you're referring to has been floating around for a while and also came up a few times in the news articles surrounding the release of the Willerslev paper. Googling "mammoth extinction caused by flowers" finds a whole bunch of them, but I can't remember if anyone actually wrote a real response to the paper.
Its hard to know exactly how extinct proboscideans enriched their environments, but some people have tried drawing parallels to extant African and Asian elephants which have been involved in as you say breaking ground and controlling the spread of dense vegetation, and perhaps most importantly to this argument seed dispersal in a nutritious poop packet.
stardebris ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:13:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've been playing TES Online and the second DLC features these little guys, I have to assume they are what you're referring to.
kosmoceratops1138 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:41:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So I guess it balances out to an upvote, but know that I disapprove of your TES game choice.
ProteusFox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless you were an industrious, intelligent, hungry human
kosmoceratops1138 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:39:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
By the time humans made it to North America, where most of the largest species were, the largest species were saying or dead from the end of the last ice age.
crazyfingersculture ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:41:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's like saying there was only one variety of banana we all came to love, but the rest of all bananas were 2 more others that we didn't love......
True. But, the one we all love is also 99.9% of all Bananas there are. Because the other Bananas are rare asked not consumed as much.
Replace the word banana with mammoth.
kosmoceratops1138 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:45:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, its not like it at all. Wooly mammoths were no more rare or common than Columbian mammoths or any of the variety of steppe mammoths and mammoths dotted across Europe and Africa. We just popularize the wooly mammoth most. Theyre a celebrity. They were not 99.9% of all of the mammoths there were, in fact only one (or two, counting the dwarf) species that was a wooly mammoth, and many if them. The woolys are just the most popular.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:03:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Boush117 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:37:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fossils are cool and have increased education of our planet's past. Why wouldn't you have a state fossil?
Phyfador ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:01:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
State fossil? Wonder what Florida's is? They're probably still alive and driving on the interstate at 35mph. Now I feel mean:(
paddywacknack ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:46:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't realize South Carolina believed in fossils.
CaelestisInteritum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:03:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't know that about the state fossil, why didn't I know that... I even moved there right in the middle of my 6-year-old paleontology obsession.
Doctor_Oceanblue ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:08:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well he probably wasn't in office yet
NightHawk521 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're were mammoths all across North America, and other mammoth like animals in south America.
GiantDungBeetle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:52:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nevada's state fossil is a fish
JayDee_88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some were found on the Oregon State campus too. Exciting stuff!
Superty1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:19:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is estimated that 1 in 5 houses in Nebraska are built over a mammoth or mastodon fossil
closethebarn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:37:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They vacationed in hot springs South Dakota. There is a tourist trap called the mammoth site.
DamaOscuraDeTodos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:26:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nebraska too. In fact, one of the world's largest mammoth fossils is on display at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln Museum.
trilobot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:00:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only this week did Illinois (and the rest of the world) find out what its state fossil (Tully monster) actually was.
AllGloryToSatan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:18:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mammoth excrement is our province crap.
apullin ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 06:35:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We have the DNA, we need to just go ahead and clone a mammoth.
Then we need to selectively breed them down to the size of a large dog, so you can have them as pets.
ObviousLobster ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 06:56:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To piggyback off of this, the great pyramids used to be covered with mirror polished granite, making the sides completely smooth and shiny. The valuable granite had been completely looted and broken off over a couple of millennia since the ancient Egyptian culture died away, leaving the rough, stepped pyramids we know and love today.
superpunkalicious ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 01:22:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The pyramids are much older than most people think. The Pharaonic Egyptians simply applied their graffiti. They "tagged" it.
iStayedAtaHolidayInn ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 06:43:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Wasn't king tut buried like a thousand years after the pyramids were completed and cleopatra was like another thousand years after king tut died? The moon landing and cleopatra were closer in time than the time between cleopatra and the building of the pyramids
Edit: misspoke. Fixed it
Source: http://sservi.nasa.gov/articles/how-long-ago-was-it/
xVeterankillx ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:44:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's more like, Cleopatra lived closer to the Moon landings, than to the building of the pyramids.
iStayedAtaHolidayInn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:45:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, pretty close. Still amazing
randooooom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:42:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
according to wikipedia this is not correct:
That's a time difference of 1293 years. We have 2016 AD, which means Cleopatra died 2046 years ago.
iStayedAtaHolidayInn ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:50:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
As someone corrected me above, she was closer to the moon landing than to the building of the pyramids. I'm still amazed by the time span were talking about here. By the way it's portrayed on Tv and movies and pop culture, you'd think King tut and cleopatra ruled Egypt together while watching the pyramids be built by Jewish slaves.
Edit: fixed up my misstated factoid
randooooom ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:56:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So the moonlanding was around 1300 AD?
iStayedAtaHolidayInn ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:59:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Another mistake. It was the time from cleopatra to the building of the pyramids compared to the time between the moon landings and cleopatra. It was an error. I'll fix it
http://sservi.nasa.gov/articles/how-long-ago-was-it/
Capt_Reynolds ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 02:04:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And according to the movie 10000BC, mammoths helped build the pyramids.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 09:54:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I saw that documentary to!
mjselvig ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:37:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have lost count on how many times I've read this in AskReddit threads this week.
TheSubtleSaiyan ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:25:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not being negative, but this is one of the most reposted "fun facts" on Reddit.
CaptainLocoMoco ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:27:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This fact is literally in every thread that's about facts
GlenCocoPuffs ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:37:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
fact
zzonked7 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:47:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This fact was still alive when mammoths were.
Scruffmygruff ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:58:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Steve buscemi was a firefighter
Malachhamavet ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:43:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's sad when you think about it too long. One of the reasons we have a decent chance at cloning one from a preserved specimen and the likelihood of finding one though
Drainmav ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:19:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read somewhere that Mammoths could still be alive and well on Antartica or the North Pole I forgot which. But apparently we wouldn't ever bother to explore the entire massive cold region to know if any could still exist. This could be bullshit but I remember reading it somewhere awhile back in much depth too. And it sounded plausible then but kinda doesn't at all now.
Blussy96 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:54:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A breed of small Mammoths were alive on Wrangel Island at the time, nearly all were extinct 10,000 years ago though. Still technically correct.
Swagstah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where is the evidence? I want something to read tonight
RetroXab ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:11:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also that cleopatra was alive closer to now than to when the pyramids were built
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:28:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Side note; the rule of Cleopatra on a timeline is closer to the first lunar landing than the construction of the great pyramids.
asaklitt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:29:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, mammoths were smaller than, or at the most, the same size as African elephants.
rubydrops ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:31:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What would be more impressive is if they were in the same area, imagine these fat wooly elephants watching a bunch of skinless short bi-pedaled elephants dragging stones and shit.
benw999 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:35:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait why is this surprising?
CakeyDave ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:53:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure about this one but I was told Cleopatra lived closer to the first flight than she did to the pyramid being built.
teaqualizer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:22:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you sure you aren't just misremembering that terrible Roland Emmerich movie 10,000 BC?
skrybll ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:32:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And here I thought I paid attention to the history channel.
bigcountry5064 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:41:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't you mean the great grain storage buildings?
solidfox535 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:43:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man moths?
ZeCoolerKing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:44:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thomas Jefferson actually expected Meriwhether Lewis might find wooly mammoths, as well as giant people when he was heading west, and you can read it in his correspondence with him. Not many know this but that was actually the first black ops mission run by the US government and there was some coverup of mound builder sites that they came across in an effort to downplay the sophistication of the native population in an exercise of manifest destiny.
Scarletfapper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:01:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So were neanderthals, though we couls pin them to something far more recent.
XxX_Im_On_Fire_XxX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:41:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I saw that movie!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:46:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And we will never know, if the ancient Egyptians maybe used mammoths to build their pyramids...
Wyneon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:50:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can anyone time-locate like this Giant Sloths for me? :D
sawu101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:21:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck reddit
mr_grass_man ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:23:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Huh, your not so stupid after all...
Urban_Viking ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:46:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thus the horrible movie 10,000 BC was born.
MrWhite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:46:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It takes a lot of grain to feed the mammoths.
ShiitakeTheMushroom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:52:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Once I've made enough money trading with the Khajiit caravans, I'm going to buy The Bannered Mare from Hulda.
QuantumScout ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:02:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Stegosaurus was extinct for approximately 80 million years before the appearance of the Tyrannosaurus
seanflyon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:03:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, there are at least a dozen people alive today who have eaten mammoth meat.
gabest ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:17:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Weren't they sweating a lot in the desert with all that fur?
infernal_llamas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:39:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That explains a lot about how they moved the blocks....
serekes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:06:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stonehenge is older than the pyramids
Emasraw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:24:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This just means to me that the great pyramids were built a long fucking time ago.
Necronomicow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:33:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read that as "man-moths," and was throughly confused as to where our moth-y overlords went.
zoicyte ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:34:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wait, what?
missmdsty8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:44:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was my first thought when I saw the question. Click on it and there it is, I'm not alone in my wonder.
petit_cochon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:04:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, they were built as grain storage silos to feed mammoths!
theguyfromgermany ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:18:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The time between the first and last pyramid is longer the the time since the last pyramid to today
Nickd3000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:19:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This pretty much proves that pyramids killed the mammoths.
Rockettech5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:28:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know this from the movie 10000 BC. Shitty movie
Limonhed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:44:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We today are closer in time to Cleopatra than she was to when the great Pyramids were built. Cleo was ruler in around in about 50 to 30 BC, the Great pyramid was built in about about 2570 BC So the Great Pyramid was about 2500 years older than Cleo, who lived about 2100 years ago.
Dashashound ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:21:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Never heard that one before.
icedted ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:46:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The birth of Cleopatra is closer to the time of the birth of the Ipod than the birth of the great pyramids.
madbadger44 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:05:13 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The pyramids were to Rome what Rome is to us.
GruesomeLars ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:03:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the same vein, Cleopatra lived closer in time to the moon landings than she did the building of the Great Pyramids.
matt2500 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:01:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cleopatra lived more closely in time to the present day than she did the building of the Great Pyramid.
Tophercruzio ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:49:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Also, cleopatra was alive closer to our time than the building of the pyramids
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:13:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Weren't they still alive when Columbus sailed the ocean blue?
lannister80 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:17:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
By Joseph, to store grain.
adudeguyman ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:36:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the second time in a day I've read this statement
TwoLastNamesGuy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:54:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For interests sake, could someone point me to a source? How do we know that? Considering how broad the estimated dates of most ancient fossils are, how is it possible to pinpoint a date for sure when the last mammoth died?
OldsoulB ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:17:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like fun on a bun!
bensawn ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:22:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yeah but the movie sucked
Pianoangel420 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:42:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cleopatra was alive closer in time to the first man landing on the moon, than she was to the Great Pyramids being built.
codeverity ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:43:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
And Cleopatra is closer in time to us than to the Pyramids.
Edit: ha, someone said this further down. Always strikes me as so cool because I think most people don't really think about just how long Ancient Egyptian culture flourished.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:47:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well now we know how they moved the blocks
MissChievousJ ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:33:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, that stupid movie was accurate?
Grayslake_Gisox ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:11:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And that Cleopatra was alive closer to the moon landing than the pyramids construction.
Shamwow22 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:04:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The pyramids were as old to Cleopatra as ancient Rome is to us. She was also ethnically Greek, and was one of the few people in her family who ever bothered to learn the Coptic language.
ghidfg ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 01:28:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
man moths?
FrostyNovember ยท 1569 points ยท Posted at 00:06:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brazil is 5x the size of Alaska in terms of square kilometers.
[deleted] ยท 1037 points ยท Posted at 02:43:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In terms of square miles, too.
M1key112 ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 06:07:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But sadly, not in square zeptons.
Dragon_DLV ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:51:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, zeptons are a measurement of volume, duh.
ProllyJustWantsKarma ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:19:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But not square zeptons. That's why I always use square cubic feet when I'm measuring. Makes my life so much easier.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:59:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have cube feet?!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:33:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
square
Vitztlampaehecatl ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 05:04:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about square millimeters?
wolfenx3 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:05:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well that's fascinating!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:43:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, you'll like the Banach-Tarski paradox then!
00yoshi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:56:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
What about square planck lengths?
Edit: The area of something in 3D space is also infinite after that method.
Ardub23 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:02:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Acreage, man, gimme the acreage!
Awdayshus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:05:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hectares or GTFO!
rolo_tony_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:15:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I haven't done the math, but I think in terms of area too.
Uberhipster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:17:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm... What about square feet?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:07:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about square inches?
00yoshi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:01:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about square Sputniks?
WalkerBRiley ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:48:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also in cubic turkeys.
KMFDM781 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:14:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
5x dat booty too
BlueROFL1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:52:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no they don't have miles down there
DerangedBeaver ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:50:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about in terms of square feet?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:09:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And square feet
DownvoteCommaSplices ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:14:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here's the real mind blowing happening
I_AM_ALWAYS_ANGRY ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 08:29:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol
[deleted] ยท 73 points ยท Posted at 05:39:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Americans are stupid
idspispupd ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 13:06:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
France share it's longest border with... Brazil (French Guyana).
thatJainaGirl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:51:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought this one was common knowledge. I remember learning it in middle school, but maybe it was from a similar list of "trivia you won't believe!"
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:23:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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apparaatti ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:07:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously? You never looked at a world map before?
JNS_KIP ยท 1226 points ยท Posted at 00:09:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yeah but does it have a constitution?
loukitch ยท 361 points ยท Posted at 00:28:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Almost all countries have their own constitution
JNS_KIP ยท 689 points ยท Posted at 00:38:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/u/FrostyNovember is Canadian and said in another thread that Canada doesn't have a constitution (when it does). It was an inside joke between myself.
xv9d ยท 606 points ยท Posted at 00:48:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love inside jokes, I hope to be part of one someday. . .
Rabidwalnut ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 00:58:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let's make one!
[deleted] ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 02:17:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does that count?
taylorguitar13 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:21:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a nifty little frame ya got there
Zebidee ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 09:30:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Be a shame if something were to happen to it.
GammaHuman ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:08:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah dude. Parks are outside. He wants an inside joke.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 06:51:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The joke was in a frame. Gotta think inslide the box.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:51:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I felt like it would be better than "McDonald's Playground"
SemSevFor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:30:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You misread him, he asked for an inside joke, not an inslide joke.
gdrocks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tell him to look in his pants.
Rabidwalnut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:11:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
donkeydooda ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:02:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On which side of a cave would you get claustrophobic?
The inside!
KennesawMtnLandis ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:35:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was a reference to the US version of The Office.
Rabidwalnut ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:42:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did not realize that.
jaxspider ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:45:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://gfycat.com/KindlyDeterminedBudgie Courtesy of /r/GfycatDepot.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:15:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You were when your mom was pregnant with you.
Drasu123 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:48:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tell your cat to go wherever it wants... Teehee
dexikiix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:03:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Get out of here, Emo!
wwchickendinner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:10:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You want to be... inside the joke?
shut_up_greg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:27:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unfortunately, you probably already are.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:52:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
shut up greg
Leostevo06 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And that's when the walrus told the eagle to go fuck himself!!!
Hahhaha, you remember that?!
Don't worry about everyone else, they don't need to be in on our inside joke.
RadiantSun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:08:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jumbo large
xv9d ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That my friend is Jumbo/Large!
RadiantSun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:08:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just laugh at it. It's an inside joke. It's going to be hilarious.
DarkCyberWocky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:17:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But does it have a constitution?
You're in now!
Vacant_Of_Awareness ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I dunno, I heard 9/11 was an inside joke. That didn't sound fun at all.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:44:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A shot of Midori perhaps?
GrayOctopus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:44:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The only joke that I'm inside is your mom.
Condomonium ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:59:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is now an inside joke.
peterhobo1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:28:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My life is a joke wanna be in on it?
TheGreatCensor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:31:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
. . . Okay well we should get going.
LEEVINNNN ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry, you can be one of mine. I'll let you know when ever I choose to laugh at you!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:50:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As long as it has a constitution.
Lowbacca1977 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:54:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At least you're apart of this one
R34R34 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:05:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, you remember when that guy did that thing? Totally lightbulb!
Thezeekeal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:05:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you're older son.
Alarid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:05:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't your mom count?
hoochyuchy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:23:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry, your insides are already a joke.
fragproof ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:48:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hopefully it can be between you and at least one other person...
CoffeeHamster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:51:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Giblets
Zondatastic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:16:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm suspecting that this comment is also an inside joke, and it makes me frustrated
tatsuedoa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love to be inside your mom, does that count?
thedantasm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:47:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
-Wayne Gretzky
PoopButtMuffinTop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:55:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Smooth move, Ferguson!
kevinbaken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:57:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A shot of midori perhaps?
drezekiel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:38:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The beautiful irony is everyone who understands your quotes origins is part of the inside joke. =)
Qaysed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:20:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Basically, every meme is one
grantcapps ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:42:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're on reddit. We're always joking inside!!
pizzaforthewin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:16:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like I was inside your mom yesterday?
MarginallyUseful ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:41:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, I'm the one who corrected him in that other thread! And then I randomly stumbled on this thread! I don't know why this is so hilarious to me...
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:04:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We do but not exactly in the same sense as the American one. Our constitution is the combination of many documents, namely the Constitution Act and the British North America Act.
itz4mna ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:08:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We don't have a single document called the constitution either in the UK, I think it's part of having a Westminster system.
dpash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:12:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It really bugs me when people say the UK doesn't have a constitution. Obviously we do; it's just not in a single document.
itz4mna ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:17:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly, our constitution is much older than the US but it's also much more adaptable. I think our way is better than tying ourselves to the words of people who certainly can't have foreseen centuries into the future. Imagine if we still used the magna carter as our sole constitutional document?
dpash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:10:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting facts: only three sections of the Magna Carta are still in force in the UK. The right of a fair trial, the freedom of the church and the ancient rights of The City of London.
Also as an example of forward thinking laws, the Computer Misuse Act 1990 does not define what a computer is, so it can continue to work with devices like smart phones and IoT type devices that no one could conceive of 26 years ago.
RedCanada ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:39:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes we do, especially when it comes to the American Bill of Rights and so forth.
We do have a "hybrid" constitution, which means that some of it is written, some is convention, and we have more than one constitutional document.
You mean the Constitution Act, 1867 and the Constitution Act, 1982? Unless you're a time traveller from before 1982, the "British North America Act" no longer exists.
Canada's Constitution includes the Constitution Act, 1867 and the Constitution Act, 1982 as the two main documents, the Constitution Act, 1982 includes the Charter of Rights and Freedoms as Part I, which is analogous to the American Bill of Rights. When people say "I have constitutional rights!" in the "American" sense, we have the ability and a direct analogue for saying "I have constitutional rights!" in reference to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
There are actually many more Constitution Acts, all making minor amendments to the Constitution, for example, the Constitution Amendment, 2001 (Newfoundland and Labrador) changed the name of the province of Newfoundland to the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
The Magna Carta and the Royal Proclamation of 1763 are also constitutional documents in Canada, the former granting Habeaas Corpus and the latter guaranteeing land title to Aboriginal peoples.
Then we have unwritten convention. For example, the "Prime Minister of Canada" is never mentioned in the Constitution, but if you examine the Constitution Act, 1867 and see all the parts saying a power is exercised by the Crown or Her Majesty the Queen, you know those parts are the powers of the Prime Minister.
dogdiarrhea ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:01:29 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe the Constitution Act defines those two acts as "The Constitution of Canada" and formalizes a procedure for amending it.
JNS_KIP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:06:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.reddit.com/r/iamverysmart/comments/4b4lfk/mayor_of_ottawa_roasts_witty_kid/d160t3e
SonicFlash01 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:21:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was that vaping one, wasn't it?
JNS_KIP ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:34:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yep. breath vs breathe.
xodsnap ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:12:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Neither does the UK, technically
PhazePyre ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:18:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jokes? I like jokes.
plasticwrapshorts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:14:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He/She may have confused themselves because we also have 'the Canadian charter of rights and freedoms', which some mistake to be some type of constitution. Canada actually happens to have two constitutions!
Taken from Canada's government website, "The Constitution of Canada includes the Constitution Act, 1867, and the Constitution Act, 1982. It is the supreme law of Canada. It reaffirms Canadaโs dual legal system and also includes Aboriginal rights and treaty rights."
arhanv ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:01:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is such a niche inside joke it's almost fucked up
Sasamus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:11:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you forgot a couple of words there.
An inside joke with yourself must by definition be the most inside of jokes possible.
cutiebug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:28:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There not funny if you explain it.
ebbomega ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:28:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Might be confused since Canada's constitution didn't exist until 1982. Prior to that it's government was defined by a British act of parliament. In 1982 Pierre Trudeau (father of current Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau) "patriated" the Constitution.
RedCanada ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:44:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes it did. Canada is a federal state, and it's impossible to have a federal state unless you have a constitution that outlines what powers the federal government gets and what powers the sub-national governments get.
Our Constitution was called the "British North America Act, 1867" before 1982. We didn't own it, and we had to ask the British Parliament to amend it for us, but it was a bona fide constitution.
JNS_KIP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:34:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yo shut the fuck up.
InfanticideAquifer ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 00:43:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The UK doesn't, however.
courtenayplacedrinks ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:09:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember hearing once that the New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Israel are the only countries that don't have a formal written constitution. I bet there are others.
That doesn't mean they don't have a constitution, it's just that they have a bunch of constitutional laws, practices and conventions, but no single supreme document.
MortalWombat1988 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:30:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Germany doesn't technically have one.
What we have is the "Basic law", an interim solution of a dead simple, very no-nonsense set of...well, basic laws. It was meant as a placeholder until they could get around to making a proper constitution, but it worked out so beautifully we just stuck with it. So now we have a constitutional court, constitutional protection services, and so on, but no constitution. Just a Basic Law taking the place of one, until we write one. Which we don't intend to.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:23:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. It is not called a constitution but it is one.
MortalWombat1988 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:49:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's very debatable, especially since it itself says "this shit here? stays in place until we have a constitution."
But for all practical intents and purposes, you are of course right.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:01:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
New Zealand is a constitutional monarchy, but the monarch doesn't do anything, and there's no constitution.
courtenayplacedrinks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:46:01 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She appoints governors-general on the advice of the prime minister. Governors-general do a bunch of things, but almost always on the advice of the prime minister. They both have reserve powers that they don't use.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:12 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I know, I live there. In this case, the queen and the governor general do sweet fuck all.
courtenayplacedrinks ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:52:34 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The theory is that the Queen and g-g can act as a safeguard against an extreme government, but since the current governor-general has been both the head of the military and the head of the GCSB, I doubt he's got it in him to make a principled stand against government overreach.
Having the Queen as a defence against a rogue government is a bit like having a smoke alarm โ the difference is that you routinely test a smoke alarm to see if it will work when there's a fire.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:32:52 on April 17, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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InfanticideAquifer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:43:46 on April 17, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah... someone mentioned that. It comes down to what you consider "a constitution". The UK doesn't have a "constitutional document" like most countries do. But it does have a body of fundamental laws.
But the bigger question is... why are you even here? This thread is 29 days old. And yet you came here and found my comment three layers down. What's up with that?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:48:09 on April 17, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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InfanticideAquifer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:56:31 on April 17, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But what were you even doing to see this post? I don't even know how you'd stumble across it. It's not like it's a top post in the subreddit. And it's not recent. Did you just browse down to page 5000 on /r/AskReddit?
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:59:48 on April 17, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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InfanticideAquifer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:05:25 on April 18, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm... okay. That makes sense I guess. I didn't realize it was a top/month contender.
RedCanada ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:46:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes they do.
MisspelledUsrname ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:07:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not in the same sense. In Britain, the constitution is just a series of laws, not like the US constitution which takes precedence over acts of congress and has a special way to change it. Parliamentary sovereignty is the most central fact of the British constitution.
RedCanada ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:14:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just linked to a Wikipedia page called "Constitution of the United Kingdom."
Look, I know the UK's Constitution is unwritten, but it's still a constitution.
MisspelledUsrname ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:32:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know that it does have a constitution, but my remark was that this is not what people (particularly from the US) mean when they say constitution, by which they mean constitutional document. We are both correct.
Md_Mrs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:18:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But do they have a flag?
ThisRuinsMyLife ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:47:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But does it have the Constitution?
WowbaggersTongue ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:30:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think state theory kind even kind of requires it.
domromer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:44:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The UK has an โunwritten constitutionโ. Don't ask me how that's supposed to work.
dpash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:15:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like everything works in the UK: Convention, tradition and a stiff upper lip.
p7r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:57:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The U.K. does not, nor do any other countries that have the Queen as head of state (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc.), and in fact the only member of the Commonwealth I can think of off the top of my head that does is South Africa.
dpash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:16:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Canada and Australia have written constitutions.
There's only 16 Commonwealth Realms out of 53ish members of the Commonwealth.
somethingratherother ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:36:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fun fact, the Brits do not have a written constitution.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:23:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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RedCanada ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:47:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, it does.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:04:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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RedCanada ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:54:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every country has a Constitution, just because New Zealand's is mostly an unwritten constitution doesn't mean you don't have one.
NinjahBob ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:07:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We have constitutional documents, but no formal constitution
NickNash1985 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:11:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, but do theirs have guns?
MotivationCheck ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 01:01:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But America has the best one.
demostravius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:51:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So good it had to be amended many many times.
dpash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:20:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Let's try this"
*thirteen years later*
"OMG that was a terrible idea"
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:43:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WOOFuckinOOSH
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:37:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We do.
meeeow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:09:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Er, yes.
Bourbone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:08:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or a THE Constitution?
TouchingWood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:08:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is Brazil being detained?
DudeNiceMARMOT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:26:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It has plenty of reconstruction.
qantravon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:26:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, but do you have a flag?
BendoverOR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:02:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or a flag?
KushGangar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:03:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does it have a Sarah Palin though?
We'll know which one's a winner then
JohnnyManzealot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:55:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This made me look up the actual size of Brazil. I feel like most maps I see aren't accurately scaled. I always thought Brazil was quite a bit smaller than the US when in fact the continental US is smaller than Brazil.
Speech500 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:40:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, actually.
BigBillyGoatGriff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:40:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure, it's just shit and ignored
AJCTY ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:53:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We used to be sure, but now...
ti_ni-po_ni ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:15:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, of course it does.
[deleted] ยท 63 points ยท Posted at 02:57:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why would that seem extremely wrong? It is a fucking country.
What's weirder is that Michigan is bigger than the entire UK
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:12:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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mkizys ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:15:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just know the USAs North and South borders aren't oriented perfectly East and West.
PPL_93 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:49:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This thread is full of dumb Americans that are being shocked by incredibly basic geography and history.
7thAccountDontDelete ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:24:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/u/PPL_93's high horse is 10 times higher than the next guys
That's my fact
PPL_93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:11:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds extremely wrong
nwatn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:41:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look at a world map, it looks extremely wrong.
DamaOscuraDeTodos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:27:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But Brazil has approximately the same area as the contiguous United States.
emptied_cache_oops ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:21:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
because if you just look at google's or most maps of the world they look about the same size. if one were to take that at face value it would seem incorrect.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:11:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, now. That comparison used to be very different.
Magmatron ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:50:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because alaska is goddamn massive
omicronperseiB8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:29:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's weirder that the UK is bigger than Minnesota. I always imagine the UK to be much smaller than that, like the size of NY
citrus_mystic ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 03:14:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that sounds about right to me...
bobsp ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 05:38:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...that doesn't sound wrong at all.
winkw ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:10:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why does that sound wrong? Alaska is large, but Brazil is like half of the South American continent.
ycpa68 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:56:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mercator projection makes it seem wrong
mytinyson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:51:37 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every map I think I've ever seen makes it look like they are of similar size, Brazil maybe slightly larger. Five times as big just sounds crazy.
stephangb ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 05:07:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brazil would be bigger than the US if the US didn't have Alaska.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:29:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about inches?
Elranzer ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:18:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And 5x hotter men.
hydrospanner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:59:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alaska can be damn cold, what do you want them to do about it?
wordserious ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:41:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Am Brazilian man. Just sayin' it.
plinsdad ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:35:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
South America is 9 times larger that Greenland.
Odyrus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:49:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And one of them is 7 times more likely to lose a soccer match to Germany.
luke_in_the_sky ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:22:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe because Alaska, not being a country, rarely will play against Germany, a country.
ChimpZ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:08:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uhhh that's not that hard, Alaska is measured in miles not kilometers.
shleppenwolf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:00:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but does that work for square leagues?
AmoebaNot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:04:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But it's Palin comparison to Russia . I mean you can't even see Brazil from Alaska
buckus69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:20:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about square miles? Same story?
Technospider ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So is Canada :D
edit: Actually closer to 6
ergman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:49:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why is this surprising? Brazil has always seemed super bigguns to me
Schly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:21:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but what about in square miles?
cap_jeb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:56:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How does that sound extremely wrong??? Brazil is one of the biggest countries on earth.
Bobblefighterman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:26:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How in the fuck does that sound extremely wrong? I'd be shocked if it wasn't the case.
Reality_Facade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:15:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
5x the size in any consistent unit of measurement
TheLateOne ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:04:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why does that sound like its wrong? Brazil is huge, Alaska is small enough to be ceded to the US whilst keeping Canada as a massive country
SquidLoaf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:12:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But what about square miles
rbnc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:53:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On this theme: Mexico is around the same size as Greenland.
Speech500 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:40:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mercator strikes again
ti_ni-po_ni ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:15:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Were there people who thought Brasil was small or something? Its fucking massive.
AlreadySleepy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:31:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's confusing because flat maps of earth distort the sizes of objects as they get further from the equator. That's why Greenland looks so much larger than Australia, when actually it is smaller.
It's a consequence of projecting a spherical earth onto a flat map (cylindrical map projection).
See Mercator projection for more info:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection
TotallyRedonk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:00:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Similarly Madagascar is slightly bigger than Sweden.
Sweden: 450,295 km2
Madagascar: 587,041 km2
Big_Ol_Johnson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:35:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But only half the size in cubic kilometers... mountains bitch
andywarno ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:20:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It also loses to Germany by grater margins than Alaska...
7-1 neverforget
IamMrT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:58:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I promise you that if Alaska had a national team that would not be true anymore.
stephangb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:07:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It also has won more than any other country the world cup.
GenXer1977 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:29:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's cause we don't use those communist measurements here son. I GUARANTEE-ON-TEE you Alaska is bigger in terms of miles.
HookDragger ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:10:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.... its larger than one of our states.... (but possibly not if you include aquatic territory)
[deleted] ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 01:29:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Raalph ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:12:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We don't have the legendary Iceberg Clique, though.
Kalamakid ยท 108 points ยท Posted at 06:00:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Air passing through a divergent duct will see its pressure increase. Air passing through a convergent duct will see its pressure decrease. Have this airflow move past the speed of sound and the pressure increase/decrease will work opposite.
[deleted] ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 08:12:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Currently taking fluid dynamics, and that was the most counterintuitive shit ever. It was only explained as a mathematical consequence of Bernoulli's equation though. If you have a chemical \physical\microscopic explanation of it I'd be very interested to hear it!
Poromenos ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:41:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Too much LaTeX there bro, with the backslashes.
Overunderrated ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:39:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I've answered this on /r/askscience and when teaching intro fluids courses.
My hand-wavy physical explanation is that the canonical description of supersonic fluids is that they no longer "feel" what happened immediately behind them. Like the hyperbolic domain of dependence here. And they can only influence things further downstream. So the wider you physically expand the flow, the less the particles can interact with each other, which means a lowering of pressure.
And it's not described by Bernoulli, even the compressible form. At most that can tell you there are two possible mathematical solutions for velocity at a given pressure, but not if that is physically possible.
newtoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:28:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nerd here. I found the answer in this page quite convincing (aka, average angle of collisions of molecules on the duct)
http://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/threads/what-really-happens-at-microscopic-level-in-bernoullis-principle.73674/
Jay_Dude ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 11:41:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Neeeeerrrrddssss!
00yoshi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:10:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The people who power scientific development!
fsm_vs_cthulhu ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 10:20:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can we get a diagram of this? Or a link? Why does it happen?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:14:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I need to look into this but if that's real.. I don't get it. Especially the speed of sound part....
zeugma25 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:48:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the speed of sound is the speed at which molecules (eg air, but also anything else) knock together, or something like that
reliantk10 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:02:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you just learn this in flight school?
derefr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:14:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Thus why supersonic planes have backwards wings?
Kalamakid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:25:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is a "backwards wing"? Generally if you go past the speed of sound aircraft pitch is no longer controlled by an elevator and instead has a stabilator in the tail. The invention of the stabilator was actually what helped the X-1 finally pass the speed out sound without tearing its self apart.
madogvelkor ยท 56 points ยท Posted at 03:44:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rome was ruled by the Pope longer than by the Roman Emperors.
misternumberone ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:47:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you say Consuls and Senate instead of Emperor it's the other way around
madogvelkor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:40:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, Rome was a Republic longer than it was an Empire (not counting Byzantium after they lost Rome).
Imperito ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:59:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But the "Byzantine" period was still Rome, you can't just drop 1000 years of history ;)
Prometheus8330 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:04:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eastern Roman Empire.. you mean.
Imperito ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:16:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can call it either really. They didn't use either term.
I would just call it Rome but it would confuse people.
madogvelkor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:40:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right, but they lost control of the city of Rome.
Imperito ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:57:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah they did, but Rome wasn't even the West's capital by the end. It was Ravenna. Albeit Rome was still the spiritual home. Justinian wanted it back during his reign and briefly had it, so the Roman Emperors in Constantinople still did see it as the homeland as it were.
EightyMercury ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:06:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which Pope?
[deleted] ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 09:53:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The correct use of the word myriad always sounds wrong to me.
"There are myriad ways to take a shit in a toaster oven."
That feels like I'm missing something.
suvidiot ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 15:39:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What you're missing is the instruction manual for the toaster oven.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:52:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How hard can it be. Open. Shit inside. Seems like a waste of good paper.
platforms- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:59:38 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just think of it like "many"
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:14:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shouldnt it be "There are a myriad of ways to make turd toast?
MrJed ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 12:56:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No that's the point. Replace myriad with many and it's easy to see:
There are many ways to do something.
There are a many of ways to do something.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:21:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like reddit because I learn stuff.
indigoswordfish ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:01:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'Myriad' actually stands for 10,000. There are a myriad ways to do something. There are a thousand ways to do something. You wouldn't say 'there are thousand ways to do something.
HauntedShores ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 17:18:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Surely it's "There are ten thousand ways to do something"?
ineptnorwegian ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:09:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you simple want to say ten thousand that works, but since a myriad is a noun to symbalize a grouping, and you'd put a in front.
MrJed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:02:21 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right, you would say "there are one thousand", all you did is replace "one" with "a" in your first example then removed them both in the second to make it sound wrong.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:06:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We're both right, but it has been used as a noun for longer.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/myriad
EquipLordBritish ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:40:07 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, words used as groupings are used as nouns with an 'a' before them, even when they have an indetermined number; for example, you would still say: I have a flock of seagulls, instead of I have flock of seagulls. Even though you don't know exactly how many you have. You would only omit the 'a' when it has it's own singular and plural forms. Saying "you have myriad items" is only proper if myriad is the plural of itself (and you are referring to multiples of 10,000s of things).
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:00:14 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
English is hard. I love it, and hate it because of this.
I love that I can say or write something, and that phrase could have several relevant meanings. Especially in songwriting.
I hate it because things are easily misinterpreted for the same reasons. Add sarcasm/facetiousness into the mix and its a cluster fuck.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:13:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope
mhaydar ยท 3522 points ยท Posted at 00:10:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cleopatra is chronologically closer to us than she is to when the pyramids were built.
[deleted] ยท 582 points ยท Posted at 00:39:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Doctor_Oceanblue ยท 694 points ยท Posted at 01:03:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Egyptian society actually fell and went into a into a dark age after the pyramids were built. Cleopatra was alive after it rose again.
[deleted] ยท 544 points ยท Posted at 01:05:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Bizmatech ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 07:32:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But Cleopatra was Greek, so how much was her dynasty really part of the civilization? If I remember correctly, one of the reasons the Egyptians loved her so much, was because she was one of the few royal family members that could actually speak the local language.
jay212127 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 09:56:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well the Egyptian pantheon did change over time, there were pharoahs who have re-arranged or added a god.
Something neat is that the snake cult of Dionysus was being introduced to the Greek and Egyptian pantheons shortly before the introduction of Christian cults. The two obviously didn't go well together and many theorize it fostered the anti-serpent mentality in Christianity.
SBFms ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:31:58 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anti serpent mentality came from the Old Testament because the emblem of (I think) Canaan was a snake. Early Isreal and Canaan were military enemies, so hence eve was tempted by a snake.
DylMac ยท 70 points ยท Posted at 03:40:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same gods all the way through? You mean besides Akhenaten turning Egypt into monotheistic society and dispelling all the old gods and only worshiping Aten.
omegasavant ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 06:48:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That only lasted for about a decade, and basically no one wanted to go along with it. It's weird to think that such a short period is so well-remembered, but it had a disproportionately large effect. Think the decade or so where Nazism took over Germany: short, and relatively quickly reversed, but it sure doesn't feel that way so close to the fallout.
Xxxn00bpwnR69xxX ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 05:40:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Besides that. Personally I highly doubt that that whole thing carried much sway outside of the cities.
SerSkywell ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 05:59:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Besides that and several other less spoken of attempts to change things up. There were also several local deities who would come in to popularity for 100-200 years and just fade into non-existence.
ProllyJustWantsKarma ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 08:20:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Something about this phrase seems vaguely wrong and funny.
pf2- ยท 52 points ยท Posted at 08:33:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hot single local deities want to meet you!
A_Wild_Nudibranch ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 09:21:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel just like a local God when I'm with the boys, we do what we want, we do what we want...
AlAurens123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:18:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, was the Romeo + Juliet soundtrack also your jam in middle school?
A_Wild_Nudibranch ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:23:38 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yesssss I loved that shit!
sirin3 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:38:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Terry Pratchett's Discworld
foolishnun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:41:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then I recommend you read Small Gods by Terry Pratchett.
FarBoy ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 08:47:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But didn't the christian/ jewish/ etc god originally come from a pantheon? It's not like baal or asherah have many churches dedicated to them now...
sagan_drinks_cosmos ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 09:21:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have heard Yahweh described as an Israelite war god. The fact that you've named two other members of the Canaanite pantheon places Yahweh nicely amongst them. He is a later innovation by the Israelites, who demoted the chief god El to a common word for god (see: Israel), then eventually deleted the rest of the gods by about 2500 years ago.
FarBoy ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 11:55:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Hmm, I'd heard that Yahweh and El were the same entity but I guess, once again making the link between the Canaan mythology and Egyptian mythology, that it was not unprecedented for gods have changing domains as time wore on or for 2 to fuse when their domains coalesced as was the case with Ra and Amun. (I'm not an ancient history academic/ scholar so feel free to iron handedly correct me if I'm mistaken).
I would assume that in the story of Job, "the adversary" described is likely another of the gods from the Canaanite pantheon, and I would also wonder if, seeing as how the story of Job seems to me to be one of the older ones, perhaps the "lord" depicted in the story is El or perhaps even Baal or another god whose domain included livestock, wives, children and other worldly possessions..?
bcarter12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:31:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't the sun God, Horus take part in the creation of the Christian God as well?
The-red-Dane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:59:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mithras as well.
iCameToLearnSomeCode ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:08:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even then I think it was pretty clear the old gods were never forgotten by the people. As soon as he died they went right back to worshiping the lot of gods again.
Ryllynaow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:34:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which lasted like, twenty years. Out of a two thousand year history.
isobit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:46:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And founding a Utopian plaza-city in the middle of the desert so as not to distract from the murderous sun-rays with things like work, plants, or water!
Almost like a Boko Haram style conversion to the One True Path.
redlaWw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:20:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That didn't last long. The next guy was literally named for undoing it.
ApocaRUFF ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:34:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Makes me want to play The Secret World
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:50:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Egypt isn't the same Egypt though. It's not even similar to the ancients of the land.
caesar15 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:43:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're going to be that loose than not many civilizations have really been destroyed.
imfreakinouthere ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:22:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There were gradual changes in gods over time though. One cult would decline, another would rise, and bam, one god is out of a job.
Vercassivelaunos ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:22:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I think it's kind of a stretch to call it the same civilization. They were conquered by the Persians long before Cleopatra, conquered again by Alexander the Great, whose realm broke into several smaller realms, ruled by Greeks. Cleopatra was also Greek, her native language would have been Greek, as well as that of her court. Cleopatra was actually the first ruler of Egypt who could speak Egyptian in 300 years, i.e., since Alexander's conquest. And I also doubt that the Persian emperors spoke Egyptian. And the Greek rulers probably worshipped Greek gods, not Egyptian ones. If old Egypt and Cleopatra's Egypt was the same civilization, then the old Germanic tribes and Denmark/Sweden/Norway are also the same civilization.
Edit: Added a line about religion
brwntrout ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:51:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no, it was conquered and transformed by the arabs. that's why arabic is the main language and islam the main religion. only china has been "continuous" since antiquity: same language (evolving of course), same script, same culture.
basara42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:56:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shhh! Don't tell r/worldbuilding
The-red-Dane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:58:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gods have several times changed aspects during Egypts ages. Neith was a hunter first, later a weaver.
Because the later Egyptians (still ancient time to us), couldn't understand if the heiroglyph over her head was a bow and arrow, or a loom.
PvR12 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 01:42:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would people be able to say the same about 'the Christian civilization' in 1000 years I wonder?
Kiita-Ninetails ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 03:39:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not really, because unlike egypt whose culture remained mostly intact (Despite the changes) it never wavered in thinking themselves egyptian and carrying on the various traditions, adjusted by time. In comparison the "Christian civilization" is not really one cultural, ethnic, or national identity but a mad shmorgusbord that happens to share the same religion.
RIPEOTCDXVI ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:41:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So chinese culture probably the better comparison?
Kiita-Ninetails ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:25:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most likely, though of course as with most things historical I suspect the real answer is. "Its complicated"
robophile-ta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:08:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Smรถrgรฅsbord.
BretOne ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 05:27:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's no Christian Civilization.
There's the Western Civilization (Western Europe, North America, South America, Australia and New Zealand). It started without Christianity (Greco-Roman era) and will most likely end without it too (with the rise of atheism). To precise I'm not saying that atheism will end the Western Civilization, but that when it will end it will be mostly atheist.
Citizen51 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:10:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Religions come and go, atheism is no different. We can't predict what will be in vogue when "Western Civilization" ends.
bcarter12 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:38:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Atheism isn't a religion it's a lack of religion. It's also not a, "come and go" type of belief. Atheism is rising because scientifically it's starting to look more and more correct. Unless there is some sort of scientific breakthrough that steers humanity back towards a deity it will most likely continue to grow and become even more set in stone.
Citizen51 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 13:37:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Atheism behaves like a religion politically, culturally, and on an individual level. This behavior is not experienced by declared Agnostics or 'Spiritual, but not Religious'.
When people are declared Atheists and believe their way is the only true way, religion will always be here.
bcarter12 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:24:46 on April 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't believe it is the only true way. That's entirely ignorant to say. That's like saying all black people like watermelons, Asians are bad at driving etc.
I do not believe there is any one true right way to live or believe. But I do think there are wrong ways. And believing in a being that there isn't one shred of evidence for who asks men to sacrifice their son for him for instance, one of many instances of this "god" showing his true meniachal self, is definitely a wrong way. Open your eyes and ask questions. Stop continuing this belief because it's what you've always done.
And even if you do believe he's there... what gives you the unshakable faith that he isn't lying to you. The ten commandments show his jealously. The old testament definitely shows his rage. The world itself shows his capability of turning a blind eye to unspeakable evil. But oh he loves you. So easy to say sitting with a full belly under a roof playing on reddit.
periander ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:01:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
For some reason I struggle with the concept that South America is 'Western'.
There should be a term for all Iberian derived nations (not Hispanic, and I understand Portuguese don't like Latino either). Those peoples have been a part of racial melting pots for millennia and are quite distinct from other Western European nations as a result.
BretOne ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:26:06 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From Europe's point of view, both North and South America feel very foreign. Both are "a new world", one spawned by England/France and the other by Spain/Portugal.
The governance systems, the culture, the languages, and the history of both can be directly traced back to Western Europe. The people themselves are the descendants of native survivors, African slaves, and for the most part, European settlers/immigrants. Same deal with Australia and New Zealand by the way.
Detached09 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:26:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can't the say the same thing now? We had Christianity, then the well known "dark ages" and a resurgence. Same gods, same cities, it's been pretty much kings and queens, but now we're in an era of more democratic gov'ts mostly in the western world.
SeudonymousKhan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:11:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
Bromlife ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:10:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It becomes the atheist civilization. Not a lot changes.
LibertarianSocialism ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:16:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No it's not. Cleopatra was Greek.
MrTotoro1 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:15:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's mindblowing that in thousands of years they made basically no scientific advancements but in less(?) than one hundred years we went from inveting the first flight machine to setting foot on the moon.
BitchesBewareOfWolf ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:28:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
an now the muslims are fucking it all up.
tomdarch ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:57:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well... a version of Egyptian civilization. The Ptolemaic rulers of Egypt were Greek, and thus had some differences compared with the previous several thousand years of Egyptian culture.
HGF88 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:54:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dr. Reid? Is that you?
DeoxisYT ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:48:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't really say rose, they were basically a vassal of the Romans.
Kugel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:41:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
if fucks me up to think that Cleopatra and Julius Caesar were an item. Like you can visit the city of Rome, and 2000+ years ago cleopatra was there boning JC. Like 2 key figures from the roman empire (which lasted basically until the 1400s) and ancient egypt (which was started before 3000 BC) dated.
thereal_mc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:19:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think about her more like a consequence of Alexander the Great than of Ancient Egypt..
TheAC997 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:45:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TLDR version: Cleopatra's family were immigrants from Greece. She wasn't "ancient Egyptian."
infamous-spaceman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:53:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is a bit disingenuous. Her ancestors were immigrants, 275 years before her. That would be like saying someone descended from George Washington has a family of immigrants.
She has more claim to the being Egyptian than any American has claim to being American.
greenphilly420 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:00:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being an Egyptian depends on ethnicity unlike being an american
xNIBx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:02:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cleopatra married her brother and generally the upper echelon was only greeks that married/socialized with other greeks(and some hellenized egyptians/jews/etc)
From wikipedia
"Cleopatra was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, a family of Macedonian Greek origin that ruled Egypt after Alexander the Great's death during the Hellenistic period. The Ptolemies, throughout their dynasty, spoke Greek and refused to speak Egyptian, which is the reason that Greek as well as Egyptian languages were used on official court documents such as the Rosetta Stone. By contrast, Cleopatra did learn to speak Egyptian and represented herself as the reincarnation of an Egyptian goddess, Isis."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra
Snackskazam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:26:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Native American here. Gonna disagree with you on that one.
infamous-spaceman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:52:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I realized that about 30 seconds after I posted it. I meant people of European ancestry of course.
umer901 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:49:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My history isn't great but didn't Chinese civilization last longer?
NextArtemis ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:28:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's still going. IIRC, it's the oldest one in the world. One day far in the future that might not be true, but it is for now.
thekickingmule ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:16:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just think of the way the world is now. The western world as we know it has only existed for what, 200 years? That's generous, and false, but use it as a benchmark. The Ancient Egyptians lasted nearly 3,000 years.
Either the Western World will stay the same for a looooong time, or (and potentially 'then') things will change in a BIG way. It blows my mind thinking that. Shame I won't be around to see it.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:22:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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thekickingmule ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:35:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was meaning more post Industrial Revolution, when the world sped up
jman1255 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:24:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know what fucking blows my mind man?! Technology. Motherfucking technology. Like, those Egyptians lasted for thousands of years or some shit and they were fucking pushing dirt and stones. Now, it's been Less than ten years since the release of the iPhone and we've have like 8 different iterations or some some. Like, it used to take fucking months to get anything menial bullshit done back then but now we are moving so fucking fast we get pissed if it takes long than 30 min to board a flight. A FUCKING FLIGHT MAN. THROUGH THE AIR LIKE A MYSTICAL FUCKING BIRD. shit rocks my world man. They lasted thousands of years on sand and were about to kill ourselves with a few decades of technology. Fuck.
crazyfingersculture ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:25:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently so do the current Egyptians. The Czechoslovakia of the Middle East.
Yewotm69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:46:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, when Cleopatra was around they were a client state of Rome.
borutgers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:47:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
pyramids are ancient egypt and cleopatra was the newer egypt.
gurg2k1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:12:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I heard a rumor that it still exists to this day but nobody knows where it's at.
mrjosemeehan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:15:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, Cleopatra was part of the Ptolemaic Dynasty which was actually made up of the descendants of one of Alexander the Great's generals. The kingdom that built the pyramids collapsed and was reinstated twice over 1500 years before being conquered by Persians and then the Greeks. By the time Cleopatra was ruling, Egypt was more culturally Hellenic than it was of the culture that built the Pyramids.
ZeCoolerKing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:54:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, if you take the Egyptians for their word, and we do (until it's no longer convenient) their civilization goes back 30,000 years.
Shadowex3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:01:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depending on how you want to classify things there's civilizations and cultures that have been around since even longer. A lot of people forget that China, India, and the jews are fucking ancient. And that's not even getting into various tribal cultures like the aborigines.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:04:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do all civilizations eventually crumble? It's only a matter of time before the current one does right? We have a few thousand years of proof that none of the others lasted.
icarus14 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:49:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't tell the Christians, they still think the world is 2016 years old
klick37 ยท 1780 points ยท Posted at 00:32:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eventually that will no longer be true.
mhaydar ยท 3499 points ยท Posted at 00:39:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was true when I submitted my comment.
ThatGraemeGuy ยท 1018 points ยท Posted at 00:45:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Still true as of now...
cornham ยท 750 points ยท Posted at 00:55:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
.... and now
[deleted] ยท 429 points ยท Posted at 00:59:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 1216 points ยท Posted at 01:43:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, it's true again now...
kangarooninjadonuts ยท 101 points ยท Posted at 03:34:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck, are we on non-linear time again? I always forget to reset my plumbus.
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 03:36:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe your plumbus has a bit too much schleem on it.
falconrider42 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:23:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uh, guys, is it still true?
ItsDijital ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:34:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really want to know this too.
foreignlander ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:01:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes it's still true. Source: I was never gone in the first place.
djulioo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:09:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As of this moment, it's still valid.
foreignlander ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:29:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
but an hour just passed! now what?
rambi2222 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:16:46 on April 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah it's still true even now so probably was then.
RockFourFour ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:07:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The periodic table symbol "Pb" for lead is from the latin for lead "plumbum".
We call our pipes plumbing because the Romans used lead pipes in their plumbing.
Fackyoshiet ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:42:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/fifthworldproblems is leaking again
WarLordM123 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:31:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ITS A DRAGON BREAK EVERYBODY GET YOUR TALOS DOLLS AND HOLD ON!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:46:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, that's what you are using your plum us for, what a glib globe
green_meklar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:44:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great Scott!
_Zereal_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:00:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess ill save this post and reply in the future.
contentay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:07:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand, now.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:30:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this still accurate?
netpastor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:11:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How about now?
Swinda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:20:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well one of us is wrong then, it's still false for me!
Elchidote ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:33:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uhhh...
CoffeeHamster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:48:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We did it reddit!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:05:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And my axe
Kaell311 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:06:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shit just got timey-wimey.
LinkCloth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:30:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More pyramids were built.
Mongoose42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:26:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shit, now there's a Schrodinger cat on the timeline.
maximum_wages ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:28:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did someone just finish building more pyramids?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:53:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
False now- wait, now it's true- WAAAIT. Nah still tr- oh it's false again.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:14:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:42:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Time is an interesting concept, huh? Right now is the youngest you'll ever be again and the oldest you've ever been, again and again.
Heroshade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ohb good
Fuck it, auto correct made that and I'm aborting my original comment to make this one.
naughtywarlock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:51:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shame
Vacuophile ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:23:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doctor?
McKFC ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:28:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.iscleopatrastillclosertouschronologicallynowthanshewastotheconstructionofthepyramidsorhasthisnowchangedduetothesubsequentpassageoftime.com
FlutestrapPhil ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:28:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
update pls?
Sendrummazing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:31:21 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
......still true......
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:50:21 on April 18, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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PM_ME_PIZZA_PLS ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:34:34 on May 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Still true.
SuperDuckMan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:41:56 on August 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and now
moby__dick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:14:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remind me! 1000 years.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:44:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also true as of now.
immatellyouwhat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:01:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
... are you feeling it now Mr. Krabs?
Pagedpuddle65 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:13:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just checked, still true.
Scrambo91 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:33:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, still true.
avanasear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:37:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also now.
friedburger93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:45:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
still true
Humankeg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:27:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about now?
gamefreak996 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:06:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And now we wait...
pornaccount895 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:05:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But not right........now
bassnugget ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:41:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...10 years later
Orbj7934 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:08:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's been almost 20 hours. How about now?
warmbutteredbagel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:28:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And how!
Keladn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:18:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
still true, checking in.
i_may_be_fake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:21:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
!RemindMe 406 years "Cleopatra now equal chronologically between us and Pyramids"
SheepDogxWarrior ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:12:58 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How bout now?
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:40:49 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and And and and and And and and and and and And
FaxCruise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:56:43 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GUYS?!?!
Bombtrust ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:37:07 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and now...
obiworm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:44 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now?
SoundsGoodFeelsGood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:18:10 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Woah! It's still true now
MPR_64 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:34:27 on April 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even now!
BootStrapWill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:37:21 on April 18, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And now still
Bubbline ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:25:12 on April 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
huh, still true
joeymicl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:02:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
....and now. As well as a few years from now.
Racing2733 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:42:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
โฆand now.
HGF88 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:54:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And now.
PM_ME_YER_CUNT ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:26:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nownownownownownownownownow
mountainrebel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:25:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
just you wait
interx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:00:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RemindMe! 2400 years
GinjaNinja-NZ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:12:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Somebody work out exactly what year this occurs
Walter_Bishop_PhD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:30:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I usually see the factoid phrased as her being closer to the first moon landing, rather than the present. In that case, it'd always be true!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:11:07 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I built a pyramid yesterday.
kholto ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:21:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For the last ones built it already isn't (built ~3800 years ago, she ruled ~2040 years ago). But for the oldest ones it will be another 600-700 years.
Marx0r ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:52:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
!remindme
600 years
BrowsOfSteel ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:47:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but then you can switch โusโ to โthe Moon landingโ and itโs still mindโblowing.
wanted_to_upvote ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:18:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It will always be true, they are not us.
imurdotme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:41:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At least until they are them.
Dynamite_Noir ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:51:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cleopatra lived in time closer to the moon landing than the building of the pyramids.
ocarinamaster64 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:48:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's why you should compare her to the moon landing
baenpb ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:17:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh like how the premier of "That 70's Show" is closer to the 70s than now.
infinite8 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:20:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They'll just say Cleopatra is chronologically closer to the first iPhone than the pyramids when that time comes and it will sound way cooler anyway.
fdar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:14:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have a very optimistic view on your life expectancy...
Sodium0mg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When will that be?
the_great_philouza ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:50:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only if we live long enough.
ademnus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:31:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
but then that won't be us anymore, it'll be them.
camdoodlebop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:39:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When
SH1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:12:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RemindMe! 700 years "Cleopatra lived closer to the erection of the pyramids than today."
PoopButtMuffinTop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:52:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eventually, everything will be true.
LoBo247 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:11:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For you.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:26:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eventually it will be true to say "/u/FJ_lord lived closer to the building of the pyramids than he did to the present day"
Anzai ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:02:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It will still be true. OP referred to us, we will all be dust, but it will still be true.
cjh93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:39:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And I long for that day.
mistixs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:35:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Within our lifetimes?
autoposting_system ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:37:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not for us
Brasscogs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:11:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does anyone want to tell me when this won't be true?
astrofreak92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:36:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's why when written down the fact is linked to a fix date like the Apollo 11 moon landing. So that when people find books in 10,000 years they don't think we're idiots.
AlreadySleepy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:10:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That will always be true. He said us, not future people.
Drchrisco ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:43:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Technically she will always be closer to us than the pyramids
ScrithWire ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:59:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It will always be true, because he referred to "us" and we are us, not the people who will be alive in the future.
AluminiumSandworm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:34:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It'll take round bout 1000 yrs
bensawn ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:33:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
eventually it will be wrong to say "its march," wtf is your point.
chloeeeeee ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:58:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't get it... Maybe I'm stupid but wouldn't the distance in time between us and Cleopatra vs us and the pyramids stay the same as time moves on?? Oh god what am I missing?!
Doomsayer189 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:33:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not us and Cleopatra vs us and the pyramids. It's us and Cleopatra vs Cleopatra and the pyramids, which doesn't change.
chloeeeeee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:20:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OHHHH I see now! Thank you
Gullex ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 01:45:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, Tyrannosaurus Rex is closer to us than Stegosaurus.
mhaydar ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:54:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That might actually be the more impressive fact since I just lump all dinosaurs together
Gullex ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:04:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, birds are considered the last extant dinosaurs.
always_reading ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:54:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mammoths were still alive when the pyramids were being built. As a matter of fact, the last mammoths died out just 3600 years ago, by then, the Egyptian pharaohs were about halfway through their 3000-year reign, and the Great Pyramids of Giza were already 1000 years old.
elyisgreat ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:55:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The pyramids were as old to Cleopatra as Cleopatra will be to the people of the year 2500.
eigenvectorseven ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:04:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Also she wasn't even Egyptian (ethnically),
nor did she speak egyptian. That whole dynasty was Greek.RedCat1529 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:51:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She did speak Egyptian - she was pretty much the first ruler in decades who bothered to learn it.
eigenvectorseven ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:12:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mistake. I must have just assumed she didn't because I'd heard none of them really did.
LTXV ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:11:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RemindMe! 484 years "Not anymore."
the_great_philouza ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:49:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the Tyrannosaurus Rex is chronologically closer to humans than it is to the stegosaurus.
Vinicelli ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:31:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This being unknown is mostly due to a lack of general knowledge on Cleopatra. People with a basic idea of Classical history know she wasn't even ethnically Egyptian, something that blows the minds of most people I tell.
edashotcousin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:07:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm just from a wikihole, reading up on all the dynasties, times, locations and events. The civilization rose, fell, was reborn... Im so fascinated I'd make a prezi just for the giggles.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:22:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This one kills me every time
LordMackie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've heard that about the Roman Empire and Cleopatra fucked Julius Caesar so I guess I always knew that but never thought of it. Huh.
stankhead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:15:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
time and history are truly unfathomable
SemmBall ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:29:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We dont know when the pyramids were built ( อกยฐ อส อกยฐ)
wuhkay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:47:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But she doesn't even show up until 2525.
BindingsAuthor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:23:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She was also not Egyptian. Greek, I believe.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:02:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The pyramids were built when wooly mammoths roamed the earth
Elehhhhna ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:00:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She was also the wealthiest human being in the world during her life and even today if you adjust for inflation
Wild_Garlic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:28:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A baby born underwater can live it's entire life there.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:59:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some day people will realize that this isn't true.
Menulo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:52:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think people understand how recent Cleopatra was. She was not one of the ancient pharaohs. She was a descendant of one of Alexander the Great's generals (Ptolemaeus), and therefor Greek. The old Pyramids where relics from a previous culture to her. A bit like us looking at Roman ruins.
Dodgiestyle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:14:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OP's mom is closer in size to the Earth than she is to a grain of sand.
GhostlyPrototype ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:21:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Similar to how the time difference between us and the T-Rex is closer than when the T-Rex and Stegosaurus were alive.
marcelinemoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:21:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does someone have a picture of this to explain better? I just can't grasp it :(
screenwriterjohn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:54:57 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, yeah. Ancient Rome wasn't that long ago.
Written language is only about 6000 years old. That's where the young earth movement comes from.
2hundred20 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:41:10 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This depends on which pyramids you're talking about. The latest were constructed 721 and 664 BC and there were also several c. 1750-1990 BC. But for the pyramids of Giza, yes.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:07:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'VE NEVER HEARD THAT FACT BEFORE W0W THAT IS SO UNIQUE AND COOL!!รท
mhaydar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If that's supposed to be sarcasm then you're really bad at it.
Turn your caps lock off and sit down.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:39:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why would I be standing at a computer or on a phone?
BigStick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:08:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone cue the TIL for tomorrow...
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:17:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not true! The moon landing was thousands of.....oh fuck
princhester ยท 2037 points ยท Posted at 03:57:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Imagine you have a piece of string just long enough to go around the world. If you make it just six metres longer, it will be long enough to go around the world about a metre off the ground.
Edited to add:
1/ Yes I know pi is 3.1415 yada yada. I said "about", people. You don't need to make this point again. Really.
2/ The fact people need to ask if this is correct and for others to do the math for them makes the baby princhester cry. But I'll type through my tears. OK, so there's going to be a lot of "about" in here. I've rounded everything off to make it easier to see how it works. I don't need anyone to point out that the diameter of the earth is actually 12,742km plus change, and that the Earth is actually not quite round and that pi is 3.1415etc and not 3 and whatever the hell else I've approximated. Anyhoo:
Radius of Earth: about 6,500,000m
Circumference of sphere = 2 * pi * radius (sigh, you don't know this?)
Circumference of Earth: about 39,000,000m because pi is about 3 so that's 3 x 2 x 6,500,000 is 39,000,000. So you need a piece of string about 39,000,000m long.
Now we make the string long enough to go around the earth with 1m gap all around. That means the radius is going to be 1m bigger1: that is 6,500,001m because 6,500,000m plus 1m is 6,500,001.
So now we do the circumference thing again so its pi times 2 times the new radius or about 3 x 2 x 6,500,001 which is 39,000,006m
You will note that 39,000,006m is about six metres more than 39,000,000m. Ta-frickin'-da.
Footnote 1: Yes, the radius is 1m longer. The diameter is 2m longer.
ilikeeatingbrains ยท 1184 points ยท Posted at 07:38:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck the string, make it a hula-hoop. Let's give Saturn something to be jealous about again.
notsureimsure ยท 300 points ยท Posted at 09:04:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
again?
Zebidee ยท 355 points ยท Posted at 09:25:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It used to have a moon it was really proud of. It is a shame something had to "happen" to it.
mycannonsing ยท 50 points ยท Posted at 10:38:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"I ain't sayin' nothin'."
EndotheGreat ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 11:21:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"But I ain't sayin nothing either"
hotroddaveusa ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 12:26:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuhgetabahdit
ETHAN_BADBERRY ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 11:39:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We "fixed" it for Saturn. You know. Took care of it.
Sol_Primeval ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 13:51:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It had a problem and we "solved" it. Bada-bing, bada-boom.
effa94 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:38:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IMETHANBADBERRY
notabum24 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 11:51:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What happened? I'm lost.
zamuy12479 ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 12:43:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the rings of saturn are the result of one of its moons breaking apart early in its formation as a planet.
notabum24 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:57:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I never knew that. Thanks!
viperex ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 12:42:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Earth is a monster
dens421 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:55:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Make earth great again!
Digital-Caffeine ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:23:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you just... threaten a planet?
Zebidee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:19:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ssh bby, it's all water under the bridge now. We sent flowers.
AfroSamuraiJack ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:41:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuckin Koro-Sensei. Blowin up our moons.
sullyrb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:28:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it has more moons than we do, youre talking nonsense
Rootner ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 10:11:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Make Earth great again!
whalemingo ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 12:05:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We're gonna build that ring, and make Saturn pay for it!
JackHarrison1010 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:43:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald J Trump is calling for a ban on all aliens entering Earth until our representatives can work out what the hell to do.
Bamres ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:38:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its a trump slogan
notsureimsure ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 09:58:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well if the presidential campaign fails he has a strong career as a surreal alternative stand up comedian.
Lighterlow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:39:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He was jealous about the whole humans deal, but when we started to dissapoint he was like "nah, I'm good".
livingthepuglife ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:32:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Single Saturn was jealous of us until someone liked it enough...
Earl_Satterwhyte ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:50:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Make Saturn Great Again
Gejakiat ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:40:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So if it was a hula hoop, would it 'float' above the ground everywhere? Would it want to spin? Could be a futuristic method of transport...
robcap ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:24:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would float, and it would not spin. Forces are balanced on it in this setup, so it doesnt go anywhere. However, the slightest nudge in any direction and the thing could spin (or hit the ground, or flop sideways, or any number of other things). Think of it as trying to balance the hoop on a knife-edge - technically possible, nigh-impossibe in practice.
PENGAmurungu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:21:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Assuming it's a real material, probably break apart
LoBo247 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:57:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Make the Earth gyrate again?
Zer0Doxy ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:22:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This was a fantastic and unexpected laugh. Please accept this Internet point.
Ask_me_about_WoTMUD ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:04:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We've got satellites and space stations and shit. Give us time and we'll have this badass ring to show off to all the jealous planets at the next party.
_YouDontKnowMe_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:24:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Make Earth Great Again.
jdllama ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:35:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, we like it, so we SHOULD put a ring on it, I suppose.
hottovix ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:38:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Make Earth great Again!
ColdPizzaAtDawn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:45:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
#MakeEarthGreatAgain
SquirrelicideScience ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:52:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Make Earth Great Again
GangreneMeltedPeins ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:09:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Make Earth Great Again!
man-of-God-1023 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:11:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We could blow up the moon.
kevinroseblowsgoats ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:28:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Earth should have a hula hoop, I just thought of this. And it's gonna be fantastic, the best hoop around a planet for sure, it's gonna be huge
ChillingB ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:21:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lets make Earth great again.
gelftheelf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:25:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Make Earth Great Again
ShowingMyselfOut ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:51:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, I like earth, but enough to put a ring on it? Hmmm.......
The-red-Dane ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:11:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We REALLY liked earth, so we put a ring on it.
Trickywinner ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:20:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Make Earth Great Again!
Lolocaust1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:22:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Make Earth Great Again
bradh1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:56:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let's make Earth great again
AstroFish747 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:45:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Makeearthgreatagain
briibeezieee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:13:21 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Make the earth great again
Iamhereforcats ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:24:30 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MakeEarthGreatAgain.
Facetious_Leaches ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:48:07 on April 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Make Saturn Jealous Again"
Lock1454 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:25:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Make Earth great again!
sandwichesovergirls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:40:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
makeearthgreatagain
electric-blue ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 08:40:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How?! What?!
sn3rt ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 10:21:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Length of the string equals 2pi times the radius. Meaning the length required for one additional metre to the radius equals 2pi times 1, which is roughly 6.
TheHornyToothbrush ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 12:37:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great on paper. But now do it.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 12:52:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice try, shilling for big string.
MrNutella1 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:57:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, it would work...
mericaftw ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 09:49:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Circumference = 2ฯr.
Increase circ by 2ฯ and you increase r by 1.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 10:04:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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WendellSchadenfreude ยท 52 points ยท Posted at 10:54:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you (1) put string around a ball and (2) take a piece of string that goes around the same ball at 1 meter distance, then it doesn't matter how big the ball actually is: the difference in length between the two pieces of string will always be 2pi meters (and 2pi is very roughly 6). You can test this yourself with a tennis ball and a soccer ball.
Mathematically, this is trivial, but it still sounds surprising when talking about very large balls (such as mine).
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:19:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Circumference = 2ฯ*radius
When you increase the radius by one meter (by lifting the rope), the circumference increases by 2ฯ = 6.28 meters
iCupid ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:17:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
same here
Peleaon ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:21:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The way you calculate circumference is 2*pi*r, right? So now if you increase r by 1 (because you're adding 1 meter to the radius of Earth), the circumference increases by 2pi, which is ~6.28
iCupid ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:34:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OK, ELI1
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:43:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Peleaon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:19:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine you have a string with the length of 0, and with every 2pi (~6.28) meters added to it, it can run around a circle with 1 meter bigger radius. So with a 6.28m string you can cover a circle with 1m radius. For 2m radius you'd need a 12.56 string, for 3m radius you need 18.84 meters of string. So now, if the radius of Earth is around 6,378,100 meters, you can see it doesn't really matter as much whether you do this "increase step" 6,378,100 times or 6,378,101 times, as the difference is still going to be only 6.28 meters, which is a very little percentage compared to the number of steps you have already made.
MistakerPointerOuter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:04:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
You can demonstrate this on a small scale using small balls, but I don't have any, so I'll give one more go at the math route.
The string needed to wrap itself around a circle is equivalent to its circumference (actually, this is probably technically incorrect, but for our purposes, we're treating them equivalently). Adding floating string is 100% equivalent to making a bigger circle. So, what we're talking about is basically the size of two circles (Earth is also technically not a circle, but again, we're treating it as if it were a perfect circle). To be more specific, we're talking about the circumference of two circles, not anything else, like mass or volume.
How do we compare the size of two circles? Well, to do this, we can define the size of a circle (in our case, we're using its property of circumference) by using the formula C = 2ฯr.
Under this formula, the size (circumference) of Earth is 2ฯ times its radius, no matter how large its radius is, whether it's 1 meter or 40075000 or 3290482034823084230 meters. Let us call this radius, no matter how large or what its number may be, Re meters.
So the circumference of Earth is 2ฯ(Re). We now want to compare this to a circle that is one meter in the air above the current earth. If you can visualize this circle, it will actually be two meters larger in diameter than our earth, because you have to add a meter in the air on the "top" and "bottom." Our formula uses radius, and because radius is half of diameter, this adds 1 to the pre-existing radius of our Earth, which we earlier defined as Re. Mathematically, this is Re+1.
So, we need to compare the circles with the sizes of 2ฯ(Re) against 2ฯ(Re+1). Remembering our basic algebraic factoring rules, this means 2ฯ(Re+1) is actually 2ฯRe + 2ฯ(1). Simplifying, this is 2ฯRe + 2ฯ. So the sizes of our circles are:
Earth: 2ฯ(Re)
Bigger Earth: 2ฯ(Re) + 2ฯ
Remembering again that all of our units were in meters, this means bigger Earth is 2ฯ meters larger, or about 6.28 meters. If you were to do this with a ball, you would probably be using millimeters. So, if you had a 50 mm ball bigger by 1 millimeter, you would need 2ฯ(1) mm of string, or 6.28 mm. If you want to make it bigger by 10 mm, you would need 2ฯ(10), or 62.8 mm of string.
I guess what's surprising is how little the circumference has changed. If we were talking about mass or volume, it would indeed be a great amount, because there is cubing involved in the formula. To visualize this another way, imagine you had to walk around the Earth's equator. It's a long walk. Now imagine I added a millimeter layer of sand across your path. How much further, in foot steps, do you have to make? I mean, I guess it's hard to visualize, but mathematically, the answer is, probably only one foot step. Now increased to a meter, it turns out to be about 20 foot steps. Keep in mind that the question we're answering is how many additional footsteps does it take, not how many footsteps you need to walk in total nor is it how much sand do you need to add, because the answers to both of those questions is different (and a lot more).
UrsulaMajor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:47:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fun fact, it works with literally any radius regardless of how big it is. Test it with a silo, or a ring, or a cup of soda. Do it on any number of objects
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:14:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I did the original experiment as OP described but with a tennis ball, and then made the string 6 meters longer, it would hover about one meter around the tennis ball?
UrsulaMajor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:27:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You'd, uh, have to suspend it on something. But basically?
UnluckyLuke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:16:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, the radius of the earth didn't appear on any of the calculations you've read, which means it works with any object.
BucketMaster69 ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 07:41:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah man, there'd be no way for it to stay off the ground, wouldn't work.
DisRuptive1 ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 08:03:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tell that to the ISS. If you fly fast enough sideways, you'll miss the Earth when you fall.
morgrath ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 08:10:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So if we get the string hoop spinning at colossal speeds it'll stay suspended a meter in the air? Science!
DisRuptive1 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 08:15:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Air resistance and some physics problems will have to be overcome but that's pretty much how it works.
Sasamus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:21:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I recent years I've realized that orbits may have been what Douglas Adams had in mind when talking about the trick of flying.
The trick is to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
princhester ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:01:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't say it would go round the earth about a metre off the ground, I said it would be long enough to go around about a metre off the ground.
lappro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:11:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you replace the string with a fixed structure it would float.
thedeadlyrhythm42 ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 05:39:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If we scaled that down does the principle still hold true? It seems like it should.
tehlaser ยท 111 points ยท Posted at 06:29:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
But it isn't six. It's two pi.
princhester ยท 56 points ยท Posted at 08:37:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I said about a metre off the ground. If it was two pi it would be exactly a metre off the ground. So there.
frettedwgoldenfire ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 09:16:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well, you're technically right, which is the best kind of right to be.
foreverxer0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:54:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good news everyone!
Archer007 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:28:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*technically correct
tehlaser ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:15:35 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good point. I wasn't trying to call you out. I was trying to give people a hint as to why it's true, without just doing it for them. That's basically the opposite of what this post asks though, so I see why you rounded off. Pi is a pretty big hint, after all.
thedeadlyrhythm42 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 06:33:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, I'm bad at the rithmatics
Korrasch ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 07:19:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tau is much cleaner. Why has society not switched to Tau and dropped the "2pi" yet?
erythro ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 07:34:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The same reason we haven't switched to base 12 - it's a colossal waste of time.
CrateDane ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:18:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At its root, it's a gross waste of time.
ztary ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:36:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I laughed at first but what reason is there to use _12
harryhood4 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 07:39:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1/2, 1/3, and 1/4 all have terminating decimal expansions in base 12, whereas in base 10, 1/3 does not.
Base 12: 1/3=.4
Base 10: 1/3=.333333333...
billebob2 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:01:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They wouldn't be decimal expansions in base 12, though, would they?
harryhood4 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:01:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
... True enough haha.
billebob2 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:24:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
duodecimal?
erythro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:51:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, but dozenal is more frequently used by proponents of it.
billebob2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:21:20 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gross
erythro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:20:02 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's because duodecimal is a base ten word.
JSTriton ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 07:40:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's very easy to do mental math with multiplying by 1, 2, 5, and 10 because we use base 10. This is because 1, 2, 5, and 10 are all factors of 10.
In a base 12 system it would be equally easy to do mental math with 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12.
erythro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:57:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Other replies are good, here's a longer form explanation https://youtu.be/U6xJfP7-HCc
initialgold ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 07:23:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because only one percent of people have ever taken Calc and most of them don't care either.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:12:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Korrasch ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:25:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You don't say 2(5) when you're talking about 10 though.
BeefPieSoup ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:40:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really don't understand this at all. It honestly makes no difference whatsoever.
Korrasch ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:31:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As I said, it's cleaner. Equations are much less cluttered when substituting 2pi for Tau. It's a small difference, but it's still a better number.
BeefPieSoup ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:13:41 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As i said, I completely disagree
lifelongfreshman ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:43:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because it really isn't much cleaner. It only seems that way when dealing with the same situations where diameter could be easily used instead of radius.
Korrasch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:54:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just mean in situations where Tau is called for. 2pi is always thrown into formulas and daily conversation for whatever reason when a Tau substitute would save both writing and syllables.
I'm aware this is entirely esoteric and pedantic lol. Just a very minor pet peeve. You know how it is.
lifelongfreshman ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 09:09:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's really only one formula that actually contains 2*pi, and that's circumference. And really, that's 2*radius, not 2*pi, because pi is circumference/diameter and 2*radius = diameter. 2*pi is present in trigonometry because of this definition of pi, true, but it rarely shows up in actual problems - practically speaking, you're never operating in even periods of sine/cosine. And if you're having daily conversations involving 2*pi, boy, your life sounds like a wild ride.
And of course, I mean the last bit in jest. My only real point is that I don't see the need for a 2*pi substitute when the uses for pi go beyond simple formulas for circles. I suppose there's a convenience factor involved for people who never need to know more about pi than "it's used to help determine something about circles, right? and it's, like, a little more than 3, I think", but I don't think it's enough to really instigate any kind of change.
raddaya ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:41:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because pi came first and does everything just as well.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:05:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Korrasch ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:29:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's much more natural to use in circles, radians, calculus, topology, etc.
1337bruin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:45:10 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
PI IS EXACTLY 3
avolodin ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:47:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Funny thing is, if you have a piece of string just long enough to go around an orange, and make it sic meters longer, it will also be long enough to go around the orange about a metre off the surface.
Sandpapercondem ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 08:03:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wat
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:00:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm reading all these explanations and I still can't understand. ELI2 please.
ibumetiins ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:29:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:31:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So only 6 meters longer for 1 meter higher? That doesn't sound right or im missing something?
offend__me ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 07:51:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No matter the size of the circle, you just add pi meters for each additional meter of diameter. Circumference is pi time diameter, so adding 1 meter of diameter only adds 3.14 meters of circumference. In this example, you are adding 2 meters of diameter, so you only need 6.28 meters of rope. It holds true for a ball the size of a car, a ball the size of a building, or a ball the size of the earth - every ball any size only needs 2pi meters (6.28) to add 2 more meters of diameter. Even if a circle were drawn around the Universe in a circle, you could cut the rope and add 6.28 meters to it, then make it round again - the result would add 2 feet of hover around the old circle.
TM4rkuS ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:56:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are 2 feet equal to 1 meter? Last sentence confuses me.
brucetwarzen ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 09:02:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More like 3 feet.
dtechnology ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:50:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, it's 3.28 feet.
Adams_Ribs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:52:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That whole comment confuses me
mahsab ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 07:45:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't sound right but it is (well, it's 2pi, not 6).
The perimeter of the Earth is 2pi*radius. If you increase the radius by 1, it becomes 2pi*(radius + 1), which is 2pi*radius + 2pi.
randopoit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:42:48 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is what I came here looking for. Or this.
Drigr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:59:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's actually always that way. It sounds weird when it's something as big as the earth. But it's the exact same if your sphere is a basketball.
Keyserson ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:07:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I call bullshit. No. I refuse to believe.
bobjrsenior ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:55:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That implies the string is 1m longer instead of the radius of the Earth being 1m longer in my opinion and kind of threw me off. Other than that, it was a nice explanation.
princhester ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:36:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good point. Edited. Thanks
FrankieTuesday ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:20:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
House of lies, right?
m4ple ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:41:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm assuming that this is just the approximate circumference.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:51:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't this supposed to be facts that are true? Good luck getting that tiny ass string in equilibrium with earths gravity.
princhester ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:03:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"long enough" not actually hovering. Hovering, I will leave to you.
DexySP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:02:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like someone has been watching House of lies recently
littleleeroy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:35:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Explanation?
pinbecker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:42:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What???! Can you explain please? This hurts my head thinking about...
nreisan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:42:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
whhhhhat... sounds like total BS
yawnston ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:56:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But what if it's an integer? OR A DOUBLE
doubt_the_lies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:05:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wat
Rather_Dashing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:05:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think this is the best answer in this post. That really doesn't sound right. Like, at all.
joelee0ze ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:09:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wut
h0ser ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:15:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you were to take that same piece of string, tie one end around you and tug at the other end, it would take 10.4 hours for you to feel the pull.
0lof ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:18:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's the american height on that?
iCupid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:18:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If true, this is the best of the thread.
Divides-By-Zer0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:19:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Metres... ? Yeah, I'm gonna need a socialist gibberish to freedom units conversion. Thanks.....
beachlevel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:40:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can someone do the math?
lucb1e ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:55:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Judging from the responses, I think this one wins the thread. Not sure enough people believe it to vote it to the top though...
PigSlayer1024 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:09:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Requesting maths please. My head needs it.
drl0607 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:13:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait what? I'm a dummy and am missing something here. Can someone math me?
VehaMeursault ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:38:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't believe this. Show me the math.
rehatch420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:39:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is hurting my head BAD
Blond_Treehorn_Thug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:51:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL pi
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:52:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's assuming the earth is perfectly spherical, which it isn't. But I guess you are using the words "about" a lot, so...
eigenvectorseven ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:06:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You missed the best part. If you now tie string around a beach ball, and then add six metres to it, it will now be ... about a metre off the ball.
(Except for maximum impact you tell about the ball first)
Frix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:07:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it's not six metres, it's 2*Pi, which is about 6.28 metres
princhester ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:40:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I'm going to need to edit, aren't I? Too many people can't understand what the word "about" means.
scottroid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:07:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NO
princhester ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:36:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
YES
scottroid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:43:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I see your point.
princhester ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:58:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WELL THANK OG FOR THAT. WHY ARE WE SHOUTING?
bredman3370 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:07:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone reads xkcd...
princhester ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:07:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Correct.
I don't even know what this "House of Lies" thing people are referring to is.
DanGleeballs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:29:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the first one I doubt. Adding just 6 metres to 40,075 km increases the radius by a full metre?
princhester ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:35:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do the frickin' math for goodness sake. Many of the posts in this thread are hard to check; this one you can check yourself using math my 13 year old could do.
NicolasGuacamole ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:35:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A little over 6 - 6.28ish
princhester ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:04:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You do know "ish" and "about" mean more or less the same thing, right?
NicolasGuacamole ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:41:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Chill yer batty
Thaweed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:57:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
6m 28cm
princhester ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:03:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
6.283185307179586476925286766559m would be a closer approximation. I'd make it more accurate but Windows calculator got the shits with me when I tried to paste in more decimal places. Damn wussy piece of crap. I need a Real Man's calculator.
Thaweed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:05:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and i thought i was the fusspot :P
Oskie5272 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:05:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If we were to make a string or hula hoop or something this long would it float above the ground to the gravitational force canceling out on the other side of the planet?
jet_heller ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:07:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, adding 2*pi to the circumference adds 1 to the radius? Huh. I wonder if there's some mathematical way to prove that. . .
princhester ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:10:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I doubt it. But if you can figure out some sort of formula-thingy for calculating the circumference of a circle from its radius - yeah, like you are ever going to be able to do that [snort] - I reckon you'd win some sort of math prize or something.
NEWaytheWIND ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:10:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you increase the length of the global string at place X and tug it upward by 6m, would a person at place Y, opposite to place X geographically, instantly be able to tug the string up by 1m? I think most of the confusion with this fact relates to physics.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:19:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
VSauce!
moby__dick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:21:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
String is pretty stretchable, so you wouldn't need the extra.
princhester ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let's assume that all string measurements given are measurements at the string's maximum stretch.
moby__dick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:30:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not a real smart way to encircle the globe. You need some stretchiness to account for tides and weather and continental drift, or a dumb worker who pulls too tight. I just don't think that's a fair assumption.
princhester ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:39:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're right. It's almost as if my post is demonstrating a broad highly theoretical mathematical thought experiment. Why would I do that? What a dumbass I am.
What would be far more sensible would be to set out a detailed engineering design for construction of a real world string encirclement. Now that would make good old fashioned down to earth sense.
moby__dick ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:40:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't be too hard on yourself, not a lot of people have really had the chance to encircle the globe in string. It's clearly a developing field.
princhester ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:38:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stuff string theory. I'm moving on to string implementation.
indorock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:24:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Without all that math, anyone who has the slightest understanding of Pi and circles would see how this is true.
princhester ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:27:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. However, a quick read of the replies will show you that the set of "people replying to this post" and the set of "people who have the slightest understanding of Pi and circles" are not congruent.
ClintonHarvey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:26:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Makes me wish I was good at math at some point in my life.
clancy6969 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:28:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But I can't zip up my winter jacket when I put my thicker fleece under it.
11eagles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:29:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This math is overcomplicated. A string a meter up off the ground would increase the earth's diameter by 2 meters (one meter on top and bottom). 2*pi=6.28ish. The earth's actual measured diameter is completely irrelevant in this situation.
princhester ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:36:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I know that. You know that. But people have trouble believing it, so I included the Earth's radius in the calculation so people could see that it didn't make the large difference one might assume.
Sometimes the shortest, most elegant math is not the easiest to understand.
11eagles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:38:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a New York Times op ed about math literacy in the US. It's...upsetting.
SmashShock ยท 537 points ยท Posted at 03:20:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always thought schadenfreude was pronounced scootin-fruity, so I was going to post that.
...
It's not pronounced scootin-fruity.
BiPolarBulls ยท 256 points ยท Posted at 03:25:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
HAHA I rejoice and take pleasure at your misfortune !!!
JohnFGalt ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 08:22:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There should be like, a word to describe that feeling. Like some kind of long, German word.
courtenayplacedrinks ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 08:31:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We should pronounce it scootin-fruity.
gmanz33 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:50:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's far too sweet to be German
fairly_legal ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:48:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you tried their wine?
kunibob ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 08:03:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you get taken in by the PronunciationManual YouTube channel?
MangoMonger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:33:22 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Juggy Broddelteen
MangoMonger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:38:01 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Juggy Broddle'teen
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 08:35:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
for those interested in how it's pronounced: http://vocaroo.com/i/s1O3oWP9Tx7A
Dyesce_ ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 08:58:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An actual German. And here I was expecting someone to verbally mutilate it just a little less bad than scootinfruity. Have an upvote for being actually helpful.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:42:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think the American pronunciation of the word is actually kind of cute. They're sort of saying "Schadennfroide", so usually quite close (at least in the instances I've heard).
Dyesce_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:38:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shuhdunnfroiduh. I don't know about cute. ..
imhotep4 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:05:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For those who can't listen to that: shah-dun-froy-duh
TheRealAntiher0 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 11:55:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because this?
http://youtu.be/d3_DjiLLDfo
SmashShock ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:23:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh... wow...
MVXre5ajjYP ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 06:29:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, please never stop pronouncing it like that.
It'd be an injustice in this world for you not to, at this point.
Jonashaglund ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 07:39:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scootin-fruity? It's German, not Swedish. That's exactly how the Swedish chef would have pronounced it!
Bradalax ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:20:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is now pronounced scootin-fruity for me!
Luckylemon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:40:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like you.
SmashShock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:20:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like you too.
mudbutt20 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:31:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In case anyone was curious, it's pronounced sha-den-froid-ah with the froid part sounding similar to droid.
yuhutuh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:49:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
huh, I thought the 'freude' bit was supposed to sound similar to fruit.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:35:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
just...how?
Jebus_Jones ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:34:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But damn I wish it was.
bigblackkittie ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:34:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i prefer your pronunciation
jajablah ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:18:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic. I only recently learnt how to say ennui correctly.
fyreNL ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:39:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's hilarious how Americans pronounce foreign words sometimes.
DannyPrefect23 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:53:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scootin-fucking-fruity!
Thameus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:02:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/4XmZIcmRKkc
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:17:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This comes from one of those fake "how to pronounce ___________" YouTube channels, and I'm so glad to know people think it's real.
G8WD ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:10:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sha-den Froy-duh
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:46:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They see me rollin. Patrollin. They hatin, they tryin'a catch me scootin fruity.
gonwi42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:30:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
shaden froody. pronounce it right.
NotSorryIfIOffendYou ยท 121 points ยท Posted at 02:04:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The routine care for someone with suspected tritium poisoning is to pump them full of as much beer as won't kill them.
kookaburra1701 ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 03:42:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is also how you treat antifreeze ingestion. And methanol poisoning. (Well, 80-90 proof alcohol, not beer.)
VersaceMusashi ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 09:21:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The methanol one always gets me. I've heard so many stories of people getting methanol poisoning and dying on their way to the hospital. Of course they usually don't know it's methanol poisoning, but shit the cure is at the bar that tried to kill you!
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 11:38:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what are we, in the roaring 20s? this still happens?
Baud_Olofsson ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 13:58:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In bars? Not in the western world. But industrial alcohol containing methanol gets stolen a lot and consumed by the thieves or sold as moonshine (usually not with malicious intent: people just don't know there's difference and think "alcohol is alcohol").
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 14:15:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it makes me sick. just another example of big government holding us back.
imhotep4 ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 15:17:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How? Do you live in the Middle East where booze is illegal or something?
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 15:36:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no, i'm a sarcastic american
imhotep4 ยท -12 points ยท Posted at 15:51:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Should have put an "/s" at the end of the comment then.
Phiau ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:05:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've heard of methanol poisoning being treated with a whiskey drip, when they were out of methanol drip packs. Literally a bottle of whiskey.
Pretty sure it was on QI.
Con_Dinn_West ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 11:49:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
LL Cool J was saved by House this way
Binatko ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 12:21:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The prisoner who drank printer ink to try and off himself? Brilliant episode.
mybustersword ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:35:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was LL??!?
Con_Dinn_West ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:31:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup
yeezus-101 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:51:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vodka is the treatment isn't it?
kookaburra1701 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 14:35:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anything at least 80 proof. The enzymes in your liver prefer to work on ethanol, so if you keep giving it to them they won't turn the methanol or antifreeze into formaldehyde and other nasty stuff, and it will be excreted by the kidneys.
psycommander ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:51:01 on March 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i just learned about the proof unit, its double the amount in percentage alcohol. So 80 proof alcohol is 40% alcohol. Another imperial unit.
Shhhhhhhh_Im_At_Work ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:46:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's also how Hawaiians treat centipede bites. Of course, that's just to deal with the immense pain, not for any scientific value.
iamcarlgauss ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 12:46:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL I could've had tritium poisoning for years and never known it
A-Lav ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:00:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so every time someone touches their night sights, they should have a beer?
Bedstemor192 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:41:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why is this the case?
thumpas ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:00:11 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If your liver tries to break down the methanol it will turn it into bad chemicals that hurt you. So ideally you want it to be filtered by the kidneys, so you essentially give the liver ethanol to keep it busy while the kidneys take care of the methanol.
Bedstemor192 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:34:00 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for explaining.
OnlyKeith ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:05:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm. Work at a nuke plant in Canada. Rumour has it that if you had a tritium update back when people were cool instead of perpetually terrified of HR and the court of public opinion, they'd give you a coupon for a six pack. Now they tell you to "drink lots of water or coffee". The 'cure' is actually just to piss a lot.
Nissapoleon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:39:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How can it be this far down the thread?
asodders ยท 253 points ยท Posted at 04:28:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is a supercentenarian in the U.S., born in 1899. As I understand it, she is still alive today. She got the Guinness world record for oldest living person last year. http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2015/7/happy-116th-birthday-to-susannah-mushatt-jones-our-new-oldest-person-record-hold
Throwaway63626862694 ยท 58 points ยท Posted at 07:10:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Living through both world wars. I can't imagine that.
I_HATE_FIZZ_SO_MUCH ยท 58 points ยท Posted at 07:19:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She was born a year after the spanish-american war. I think that also adds to the list of awesomeness
CapnCanfield ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 07:42:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She rode horses and didn't have electricity for at least the first 10 years of her life, most likely more than that. Now if she wanted, she could go onto the internet and read these very comments with another tab open with literally anything she could imagine. That's insane to witness in one life time and makes me think, if I live to be that old, daily life will probably consist of things I couldn't even comprehend or understand right now.
Micia19 ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 08:05:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
My sons grandma was born around 1935 and didn't have electricity til she was 7 (family was working class, living in Liverpool) and she remembers being amazed that they can just flick a switch in their house and there's light. They didn't even have running hot water for the 1st decade or so of her life. It's amazing how things have progressed the past 80 years and still the oldest person in the world was over 35 by the time my son's grandma was born
BlissnHilltopSentry ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:28:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why do you say your son's grandma? That's just your mother, or mother in law.
Micia19 ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 09:30:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Cos my mother is dead and his dad and I aren't together and never were, we were always just friends. So she's not my MIL, she's my sons grandma.
jabask ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:42:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
stepchild, maybe?
kokroo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:58:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What do you mean by "last life"!?
Micia19 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:16:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol sorry sometimes I get all muddled up when I'm typing and randomly insert words and all sorts. Why most of my comments has a little edit next to them. I meant "of her life"
kokroo ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:26:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank goodness. I thought you belonged to a family of reincarnated Egyptian priests.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:32:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandma was born in 1939 and didn't have electricity or running water until my great grandpa got back from ww2
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:05:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I find myself thinking this as well. Pretty incredible...
EpitomyofShyness ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:03:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your right actually. Technology advances at an exponential rate. What this means is that the technological developments that will occur in our lifetime, lets say from 2000-2100, will be equivalent to 20k years worth of technological development from the current rate. We often look back and think, "Damn the last one-hundred years saw so much change!" We forget that the world is still changing.
The_Sober_Ocelot ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:09:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry to be a comma fucker. "You're"
EpitomyofShyness ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:25:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha, don't be sorry. I'd correct it but instead I think I'll just live with my mistake. :-)
The_Sober_Ocelot ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:25:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your point is very true though, exciting times! Prepare to have your mind blown!
evenstevens280 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:33:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mum didn't have electricity until she was 6 or 7, and she was born in 1949.
Though she did live in very rural Ireland. I'm not even sure places in rural Ireland have electricity today.
HwangJae1 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:23:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Technology is increasing exponentially faster as well. If you live to 100+ (assuming you're in your 20s to 40s) the changes you'll see will be unfathomable. It's exciting and a bit terrifying to consider. Personally I want gaming to get so real it's like we're in the matrix.
user0947 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:47:58 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Walk through your iPad to China. Don't like it? Open a tab for Australia, walk through, check it out. Or go back to your couch. Or Mars. Through your iPad. (or whatever the fuck it will be in 100 years)
MuhTriggersGuise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:26:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So you're saying she could be the result of a tryst celebrating the victory of the US in the Spanish-American war.
BobXCIV ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:21:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And she lived before airplanes and sliced bread.
HwangJae1 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 08:20:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine this: she could have been born of parents that were former slaves, and she lived to see the first black president.
baconwaffl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:55:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She was well into adulthood when segregation ended
hamlet9000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:27:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She was quite possibly menopausal when segregation ended.
AP246 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:27:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not only that, living to see the rise and fall of communism, the first plane flight, jet flight, space flight and moon landing. She was alive to see the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Czechoslovakia, the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, The British Empire was totally dismantled. Yugoslavia came into existence and fell. Pluto was discovered and hailed as a new planet, and then made into a Dwarf Planet. China switched government systems 3 times (Qing Dynasty, Republic of China, People's republic of China), countries across Africa got their independence. It's staggering to think about it...
Note - Most people alive during WW1 saw WW2. They were only 20 years apart.
childish_breeza ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:44:20 on August 12, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
possibly a 3rd with the current election candidates America has.
thatJainaGirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:57:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Friendly reminder to ask an older person you know about World War 2! Many older people will be more than happy to remember the "old days" and reminisce with a "young 'un," and the opportunities to ask someone old enough to remember World War 2 are becoming only more and more rare as time goes on. I still regret only asking one of my grandparents about when they were younger, and only doing it once, as all of my grandparents died before my 10th birthday.
TagProFC ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 08:33:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not kidding, I had a neighbor that was born in 1899 and died at the age of 101 in 2001. She also drove her car until she was 98 (kind of scary I guess). She was also a huge sf giants fan.
Funny story, one time my family and I went to go visit her in the hospital. We came into the room and with a big frown on her face, she told my dad, "Bart, it's all over." My dad then tried to console and told her that she would be at peace and all, and would be able to rest and such. She realized my dad was talking about death and said, "no no no, the giants are out of the playoffs..."
Yurksdude ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 09:26:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who would have thought that a 98 year old would be a fan of science fiction giants?
PM_ME_UR_THROW_AWAYS ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:23:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They'll probably be a lot less rare when 2100 rolls around. Heck, a decent number of people reading this thread have a pretty good shot at being one.
sSty ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:37:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was born 1999, might give it a shot.
SirBlackMage ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:30:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
2000 here, let's see if I can't make it to 2100!
mazhoonies ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 08:31:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine being her and being a teen during the first world war, then in your 40's at the time of the second. After that life's good a bit and then by the 60's you're an old lady. '69 and people look at you like you're might topple over anytime now. Punk movement and people really think you'd topple over. Kurt Cobain dies and you're as old as can be.
You've been an old lady for 50 years.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:33:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The first flight of the brothers Wright was in 1903. When she was at kindergarten age, we used zeppelins and flying from america to europe was unheard of. When she was a young adult, in 1919 the first plane went from the united states to europe. Shortly after her retirement, in 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrinwe walked on the surface of the moon.
dammit, and now i have the best kind of booner
Shorvok ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 12:00:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder if there will ever be another 115 years as much of a rollercoaster as those.
She got to see the spread of electricity, invention of recording, film, radio, and telephones. She got to see the beginning of flight, two world wars, women's suffrage and two world wars. She saw the fall of the Ottoman and Russian Empires and the birth of the Soviet Union. She saw the space race and saw men go to the moon while others unlocked the secrets of our universe. She saw the refounding of Israel, the birth of atomic weapons and power, and the rise of computers and the internet. She saw 19 presidents come and go, two being assassinated, and the first black president.
I haven't even put a dent in all the mind blowingly amazing shit she got to live through.
Gargoyle88 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:08:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My father was 7 months older than her! He was born 1/1/1899. He fought in WW1 and died in 1961.
My lawn and all that.
bariton ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:43:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, you might have a claim at being the oldest Redditor.
Reality_Facade ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:50:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fun fact, I'd technically be breaking rules at my store if I sold her tobacco products, alcohol, or lottery tickets. We card everyone and have to put in a valid DOB within the parameters allowed by the system, and the system in addition to not accepting someone's birthday who is too young (21 for alcohol 18 for tobacco and lottery) it also doesn't accept a DOB from before 1900. So I'd either have to lie about her birthday or the register wouldn't allow her transaction through. Guess the people who designed our systems didn't think anyone alive would be born before 1900.
No, I would not be breaking laws by selling to her. Just store policy. No I would not get in trouble for it, that would be ridiculous. It's just a fun sub-fact, kinda like the rest of the thread.
gurg2k1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:20:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's only 34 years after the Civil War ended. Compared to today, that would be 7 years after the Vietnam War had ended, Knightrider was on TV, and E.T. was playing in the theaters.
Hakawatha ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:35:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She could have known former slaves. That's the thing that's repping me up. She knew people who could remember a time when they were owned.
baconwaffl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:56:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She lived through segregation
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:44:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Come to think of it, anyone born before the '30s could have known former slaves.
Bob9999999999999 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:25:08 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know, living Confederate veterans attended the premiere of Gone with the Wind in 1939. Here's footage.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:48:12 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True, I wasn't considering that they probably still had a fair number of centenarians back then. Either way, I'm sure there are quite a few people who've met slaves still living, which really puts history in perspective.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:08:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fun fact, if Queen Elizabeth gets as old as this lady, she will live until 2042.
TasteTheRaimbow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:17:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn
robophile-ta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:16:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because the last record holder died.
sexihunk666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:51:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To keep track
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:30:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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SeudonymousKhan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:13:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RemindMe!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:35:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
she didn't seem to be in great shape for her birthday last summer
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:26:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So many celebrities have died this year. If you jinx it, I swear...
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 08:00:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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KRosen333 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:19:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really?
Kinaestheticsz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:26:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, she hasn't died. NoMoreBullshitting is bullshitting.
[deleted] ยท 179 points ยท Posted at 06:38:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Tsorovar ยท 52 points ยท Posted at 08:43:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that true? The way I'd understand the situation is that they still have higher ranks, just no authority over the guy manning the checkpoint. Chain of command and all that.
sarais ยท 76 points ยท Posted at 09:49:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Do you know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with til you understand who's in rutting command."
Krateng ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 10:41:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you just go crazy and fall asleep?
DRM_Removal_Bot ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:20:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was aimin' for his head...
DetestPeople ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 20:00:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They still have authority over the guy manning the checkpoint, but they cannot interfere with that guard's post orders. For instance, if someone in the guard's chain of command gave that guard an order to only let Lt. Cocknouckles and Maj. Dicklock through the gate, and no one else, Gen. Assface couldn't show up and order the guard to let him through. He could however order the guard to contact their duty officer or whoever.
Thepowersss ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:16:11 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I enjoy these names
rjkardo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:30:05 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He is absolutely correct.
John_YJKR ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 09:02:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
While this is true I've spent enough time in the military to have seen stuff like this generally go the high ranking officers way.
ratchet_hd ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 08:23:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hooah...ex MP can confirm. "Ohh you're a major visiting my post doing 36 in a 35? Sign here sir
MichaelTheHumanBeing ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 11:33:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We had a guy at my first base pull over the installation commander for running a stop sign. The young airman told him what was going to happen and said you'll have so much time to inform your supervisor. The commander said, I don't have a supervisor, this is my base. The airman replied, "sir, everyone has a supervisor." The general got out of his ticket by calling up the cop commander, but from then on whenever he got pulled over he'd coin the cop and tell him it was just a test.
user0947 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:53:46 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
36 in a 35? And you ticket the guy?
That's dick. Seriously.
ratchet_hd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:31:17 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its a joke we use of how much power the MP has
user0947 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:57:08 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Got it. Sorry to be sensitive about it, but I knew a Shore Patrol (SP, Navy MP) guy that bragged about cuffing drunk Marines, putting him in the back of his squad car and THEN pepper spraying them. I told him if I ever caught him doing that I'd give him the option of an NJP or a squad size ass kicking.
ratchet_hd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:04:39 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldve lost my shit had one of my Joes done that. There is no excuse to "have fun" at the suspects expense
(I will admit there were some Id like to put in the trunk and go rally racing with but those are the non ptsd wife beaters)
user0947 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:09:06 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hear you. I'm all for backing the badge, but you start abusing people, and you damage the credibility and respect every other cop has worked to earn for that title. It can quickly turn Cop/MP/SP from a term of respect/trust to one of hatred.
sheepoverfence ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 08:51:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would the president outrank them?
Zirenth ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 13:10:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Technically yes, but technically no.
Source
jaykeith ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:14:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How exactly would an altercation go down in this situation though? I cannot imagine a situation where the President would back down unless there was explicit instruction from higher command to prevent the President from coming through the checkpoint. And in that situation, what is the obligation of those involved?
Just curious
Zirenth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:18:48 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One of the only situations I could think of is if there is an unsafe situation on the base. I don't know how the president's power works with FPCons.
Zirenth ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 13:11:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why would you put a colonel with a general and admiral? Col is an O-6, with Gen and Adm both being O-10 (in the US military anyway).
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:20:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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OblivionForTheDemons ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 09:40:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The General, Admiral and Colonel not going through the checkpoint.
sirin3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:49:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if there is only one general?
-refsunpersons ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:09:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Petty Officer who assigned him.
uniptf ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:22:11 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The enlisted grunt does not have higher rank, he has higher authority in that example.
Drunk_hooker ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:36:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They don't outrank them at all. They just have a job to do so they have to do it correctly. You are able to just ignore an unlawful order that would go against the job your doing.
cjh93 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:06:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like Varys' power riddle he gave to Tyrion.
nobodylikedwesley ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:27:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just ask Colonel Williams!!! (unfortunately is a Canadian Colonel)
He learned this the hard way. And good for that!
mckulty ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 01:52:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As many as 2/3 of all conceptions abort spontaneously.
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 14:27:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Making God the most prolific abortionist in history
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:18:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds crazy and also explanatory of how I got away with some dumb moments in my life. Is there a source?
mckulty ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:27:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Source: my physiology professor in medical school.
Thameus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:14:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...but is this fact pro-life or pro-choice?
pingasthrowaway ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 14:22:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Neither. Facts don't take sides unless your side is trying to dispute the fact.
mckulty ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:53:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Facts aren't facts if they challenge my beliefs.
Thameus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:31:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hush, you'll spoil the show...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:25:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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ItsJustGizmo ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 09:16:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I dunno man.. My wife says she doesn't know what she wants for dinner but I think she knows damn well every time what she wants.
KazyX ยท 5343 points ยท Posted at 02:06:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everything in the world is either a potato or not a potato
SCombinator ยท 2963 points ยท Posted at 03:34:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A chip is both a potato and not a potato.
[deleted] ยท 435 points ยท Posted at 06:29:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It seems somebody has a potato on their shoulder.
MC_Mooch ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 07:46:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NO HE HAS A NOT A POTATO ON HIS SHOULDER
steven8765 ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 08:53:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
he's a potato off the old block.
jakeduhjake ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:24:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Potato and Dale: Rescue Rangers
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:34:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
is mr potato head a potato?
jeremycinnamonbutter ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:16:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But it's not.
HuskyLuke ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:14:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Funniest thing in this whole thread.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:50:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats where I left it! Thanks!
trashitagain ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 06:33:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FUCK
C-C-X-V-I ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:56:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember your post years back. I'm really glad to see you're still with us.
SadGhoster87 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:42:18 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One might say he's here to trashitagain
Lysergicassini ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 06:38:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everything in the world Is a potato and/or not a potato.
Kitosaki ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 06:41:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Schrรถdinger's potato
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:33:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit's potato
lydsbane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:58:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's a potato?
idwthis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're a potato.
Stonn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:38:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SurprisedPotato ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:20:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, I'm a potato!
Leakimlraj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:00:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My potato
Dathouen ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 06:38:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So is an xbox.
ArSlash ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:59:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So if I crush you, fry you and put you in a plastic bag you're still a human?
MundaneFacts ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:41:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes? No?
-orangejoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:32:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A very tasty human
jabba_the_wut ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:08:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A chip is no longer a potato. Only a potato would think that a chip is a potato.
THENAMAZU ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:25:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Chip of theseus
zumby ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:35:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Very good
TajunJ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:57:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And yet, he is still technically correct.
Shadow_Jedi ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:26:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The best kind of correct.
3brithil ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:35:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no he is not.
If something is either one or the other, it can never be both.
Kaibunny143 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:26:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Checkmate atheists!!!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:48:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you just disproved the Law of Non-Contradiction. Call a philosopher!
dilln ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:43:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So yes
squngy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:45:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Makes sense, since chips are out of this world!
DeathStarDriveBy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:58:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alright, pack it up. We're done here.
NotPerryThePlatypus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:02:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
May I subscribe to your daily facts my good sir
the_omega99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:06:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OP should drop the "either" so that they can claim it's an inclusive or.
batguano1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:10:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Boom
Uberhipster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:22:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everything in existence is either a potato or not a potato expect the things which are both a potato and not a potato.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:46:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless a chip is a Pringle.
Asmetj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:55:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A chip is a potato. Unless made from masa , then it's a corn ,
Ardub23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:05:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The same could be said of my phone camera.
bagelfireball ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:05:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...you win this round
Wittyname_McDingus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:06:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why don't they just use these quantum chips for the new quantum computers?
tatsuedoa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:13:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No it's still a potato, just a processed potato (like a French fry or hash browns.)
doctorscurvy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:22:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A chip is potato, but not a potato.
theeyeeats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:26:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are chips made of corn, sweet potatoes or even beets.
Trogdorocks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:32:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's an inclusive or.
PuppetBreakdown ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:34:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shrรถdingers potato
GoldenPenisOfDeath ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:34:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
quantum potato science and quantum not-potato science.
PoopButtMuffinTop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:51:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. A chip is a potato.
ey_bby_u_wan_sum_fuc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:58:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Make up your mind damnit. If it's a potato then it can't be a not potato.
dry_ass_water ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:02:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was trying to determine if you're European or American so that I could tell what you meant by chip. But it turns out it doesn't matter! They're both potato!
Hotguy657 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:02:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Checkmate Atheists
DRTerreII ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:58:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stephen Hawking is both a potato and not a potato.
WhyYouDoThatStupid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:05:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
a chip is potato but not a potato.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:18:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It both does and doesn't count as a vegetable
Scarletfapper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:20:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
:O
Vakieh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:22:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, a chip is potato, it is not a potato.
napoleon_wilson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:44:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A chip is of potato but is not potato.
ShotsGotFired ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:50:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Quantum computing visualized right here
SirFappleton ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:06:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ruined KazyX's entire life
The_2nd_Coming ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:37:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You've just invented a quantum chip.
turdmogrol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:43:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually it's not a potato, it's a piece of a potato. Also has a different chemical makeup is different.
TransitRanger_327 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:54:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless it's a tortilla or a pita.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:01:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So is a crisp
GangreneMeltedPeins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:03:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Schrodinger's chips
x0rms ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:04:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rekt.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:16:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
O fuk
Mongoose42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go fuck your science.
myKSPaccount ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:29:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, not really.
Speech500 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:34:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like that this sentence is true regardless of whether you speak British or American English.
morli ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:42:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a potato.
FungiPenguin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:48:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Terri Schaivo as well.
Dissected_reindeer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:04:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shrรถdingers potato
KeybladeSpirit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:21:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, it's made from a potato but is not itself a potato.
yrogerg123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:42:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also french fries.
MattMakesPhotos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:23:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would say a chip is potato but not a potato.
QueefRocka ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:25:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If by becoming a chip you're saying it ceases to be a potato, then it fits in the "not a potato" category. If you wanna say it's still a potato even when it's made into a potato chip, then it fits in the "potato" category. Unless I'm confused somehow...how can it be both a potato and not a potato?
Scrambo91 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:31:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Chipception
sirin3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:41:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only till you
observeeat itTheStorMan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:11:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Intel chips from before 2006 are potatoes.
browner87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:40:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So is potato vodka.
cuntbitchdick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:28:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shut up
liamgriffin1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:05:07 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Schrรถdinger's chip
vervloer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:15:58 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Schrรถdinger's potato
GoblinsStoleMyHouse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:24 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Checkmate athiests
PaleAsDeath ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:48:44 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is potato but not a potato
UninvitedGhost ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:37:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, Newtonian states.
AsidK ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:45:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Schrodinger's Potato
Kaldricus ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:47:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Schrodinger's potato chip?
GregoryGoose ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:15:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everything is either a potato, not a potato, or simultaneously both a potato and not a potato.
[deleted] ยท 158 points ยท Posted at 03:40:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except in Latvia, there everything is not potato.
S2000 ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 04:19:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And anything that is potato is rock. Or politburo. Such is life.
OG_day_walker ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 06:03:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/LatvianJokes
heronumberwon ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:54:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Latvian here, can confirm. No potato. Only rock and malnourish
ICYURNVS86 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:23:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah yes the Latvian food
pyramidcircle of rock soup and gathered nutsAmethystZhou ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:12:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Such is life.
fusems ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:16:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only sadness.
Royal-Ninja ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:20:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also in Ireland, circa 1850.
darth_stroyer ยท 76 points ยท Posted at 03:27:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holds up spork
and_rice ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 03:56:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
YOU WOULDNT DARE
deformeverything ยท 54 points ยท Posted at 05:05:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
hello everyone I am of new! holds up potato name is latvy but yuo can callings me farmer of potato! as yuo can seeings I am very love potato! is of why i here, to find more potatoโฆ am 53 years old (is still of good age for potato!) i like eating potato with myself (am very alone) its me favourite food! because is potato! I like potato but wantings more potato =) like people sayings the more the merrier! I like potato so gib more potatoes plox! PPOOOTTAAAATTOOOOO<--- is me liking potatoe. Of bye.
oh no russyia pls gib back potato,
sad latvia
Jonathan_DB ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:03:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
8/10. Above average. Like your number of arms.
mattishere31 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:03:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Such is life
Livingthepunlife ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:56:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GREETINGS BATTLE BROTHERS I AM NEW. *HOLDS UP BOLTER* MY NAME IS SERGEANT ARGUS BUT YOU CAN CALL ME BATTLE BROTHER. AS YOU CAN SEE I AM VERY LOYAL TO THE EMPEROR. THAT IS WHY I HAVE COME HERE, TO MEET OTHER BATTLE BROTHERS WHO ARE LOYAL TO THE EMPEROR LIKE MYSELF. I AM 127 YEARS OF AGE ( PRAISE THE EMPEROR) I LIKE TO PURGE HERETICS AND XENO SCUM WITH MY BATTLE BROTHERS ( I LOVE MY BATTLE BROTHERS, IF YOU DO NOT LIKE THAT THE DEAL WITH IT) IT IS OUR FAVORITE ACTIVITY BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT LOYAL TO THE EMPEROR. ALL MY BATTLE BROTHERS ARE LOYAL TO THE EMPEROR TOO OF COURSE, BUT I WANT TO MEET MORE LOYAL SERVANTS OF THE EMPEROR. LIKE THE EMPEROR ONCE SAID, THE MORE THE MERRIER. I HOPE TO BOND WITH A LARGE AMOUNT OF LOYAL SERVANTS OF THE EMPEROR SO JOIN ME IN PRAISE OF THE EMPEROR. FAREWELL. PRAISE THE EMPEROR
-BATTLE BROTHER
bbcslave92 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:51:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have this thing in my hand. Some of my friends say it's a potato, but some of my friends say it isn't.
CHECKMATE, /u/KazyX !!!!!
ForgottenUser ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:29:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it a yam?
TK-427 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:21:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is never potato. Only politiburo. Such is life
DassKoolMan ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:05:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about McDonalds french fries
Zanaffer ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:41:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Soggy deep-fried styrofoam, definitely not a potato.
shiguoxian ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:54:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But I've found potato skin on them.
420Sheep ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:10:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is rock. Such is life.
Petitefry ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:31:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I GUESS!
LethargicMoth ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:44:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Oh hi, how are you holding up? Because I'm a POTATO... clap clap clap... oh good, my slow clap processor made it into this thing, at least we have that."
bbbbabygoal ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:18:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I kind of feel like making this my life motto. Thank you for enlightening me, stranger
SSJRanulf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:32:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait I'm confused, how do I know which is which?
internetV ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:51:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
leave that to the professionals, son
rathat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:11:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everything in the universe that's not in my room is outside of my room.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:56:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about your room itself?
barryfandango ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:43:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about half of a potato?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about a semipotato?
Adddicus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aaaah, but what about Schroedinger's potato? Isn't it both a potato and not a potato at the same time?
bluebus74 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about sweet potatoes? They're technically not potatoes but they're called potatoes. So... I guess they span both possibilities.
deformeverything ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is sweet potato a potato or not a potato?
sun_worth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:10:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, its a pumpkin wanna-be.
GramatuTaurenis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:59:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did someone say potato? :D
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You say potato I say not potato.
NTOU99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:14:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Similarly, all of Reddit is either /r/theonion or /r/nottheonion
Drawtaru ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:15:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure this is true, but I don't know enough about potatoes to dispute it.
AnalPancake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:20:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit. You just opened my eyes man.
YellowishWhite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:21:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about French fries?
BONUSBOX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:29:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
such is life
dannydorito ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:41:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
nosliw_rm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:42:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everything in the universe is either a dildo or not a dildo
ryry12101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:45:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about french fries? Or potato chips?
peterkeats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:55:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about a sweet potato.
zetacentauri ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:13:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/latvianjokes
RWizzzard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:14:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Schrodinger's potato.
Crash7321 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Similarly, every answer on my math test is either 4, or not 4.
stephensfries ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, you're not wrong...
SpartanH089 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My phone is a potato :(
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:23:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More Latvian Facts for 500 please.
roadrunnersk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except cell phone cameras.
IAmNotAPerson6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:27:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do you reconcile this law of the excluded middle with the existence of intuitionist logic?
BoozeoisPig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:41:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, the law of the excluded middle.
100percent_right_now ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:55:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everything object has at least two uses. It's intended purpose and a hammer.
WaitWhatting ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:26:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everything in the world has either had your moms vagina or not a potato
Omni314 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:36:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep law of excluded middle seems to check out.
Fumblerful- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:08:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the mathematical definition of the universe!
Universe (L)= a+~a
PracticalPotato ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:10:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm, am potato.
jt94 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:44:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Got a source for this??
a_frog_on_stilts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:28:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is a false dichotomy. Some things can be both a potato and not a potato. For example: Mr Potato Head.
lobby8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:30:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about crisps?
NoLongerAPotato ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:30:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
False
jai_kasavin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:10:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everything is either [A] or not[A] is one form of one of the three fundamental laws of logic, the law of non contradiction
windexo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:13:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone in the world is either a Greek or a barbarian.
MikeTheAverageReddit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:19:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm: Am Irish.
pliskie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:25:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This same notion inspired the song is Chicago, is not Chicago
cjh93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:37:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is no potato. Is only dream.
diadmer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:53:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In Latvia, is not potato or is dreaming. Sometime both.
yParticle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:57:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay, I'm buying a machine just to start labeling things to keep track.
mullak33 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:58:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every women is either a whore or a prostitute!
Do you sell your pussy? Or do you give it away for free?!
YMangoPie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:06:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Latvian:"Everything in world is impossible dream or not a potato."
FlyOnTheWall221 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:17:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I see you have taken a logic class
Luis5923 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:21:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everything in the world is a sweet potato or not a sweet potato.เฒ _เฒ
homoanthropologus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:33:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A sculpture of a potato is both a potato and not a potato.
Diabetesh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:39:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless you are irish in 1845. Then everything you know is not a potato.
butterfly105 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:41:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wrong subreddit, Latvian
MrQuiggles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:42:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Silly comrade, potato is of only thing. Politoboro not of lies to Latvian.
greeneggsnhammy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:54:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And we are all technically half-centaur.
Valaramech ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:23:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the same vein, everything in the world is either a toboggan sled or not a toboggan sled.
SensehacK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:49:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't get it , is it like in the world there is smart people & dumb people ?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:36:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Such is life
UnderwaterDialect ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:45:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except in Ireland between 1845-1849.
fizikz3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:46:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My philosophy teacher in undergrad went over this but he used cats instead of potatoes, and had a pretty thick asian accent, so what he said sounded like "everything is either a cat, or a nyan-cat."
PotatoesAreNotReal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:47:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No
panapois ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:46:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is Chicago. Is not Chicago.
_pork ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:03:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Such is life.
SuperStudMufin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:51:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everything in Latvia is either not potato or Gulag.
SurprisedPotato ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:19:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really?!?
thatJainaGirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:58:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...
I GUESS.
Dark512 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:03:21 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait... What?!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:04:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i like this one the most
HydroChaerius ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:31:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which one are you?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:06:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone on Reddit is a bot, or not a bot, except you.
ohhellfire ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:15:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
fucking blasphemy
HighOnGoofballs ยท 1873 points ยท Posted at 00:21:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flammable and inflammable mean the same thing
[deleted] ยท 914 points ยท Posted at 01:35:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
~ George Carlin
Riff-Ref ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 03:15:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"If crime fighters fight crime, and fire fighters fight fires, then what do freedom fighters fight?!"
MC_Mooch ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 07:49:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Mostly posts on reddit
steven8765 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:54:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and the foo fighters? what do they fight.
DaddyRocka ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:16:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You really think Mr T trained no one to carry his torch?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:09:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unique rock music?
SharpshooterHIT ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:53:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well a foo fighter meant ufo, so human planes?
steven8765 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:50:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
no, they fight foo's lol Mr. T would be proud.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:14:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:19:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i think ibuprofin can take care of that.
cscott024 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:05:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently it's been 7 hours and I'm the only one who thinks that was fucking hilarious.
pm_me_for_happiness ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:24:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that's a lot of flams without flims
Mr_Smooooth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:37:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really, you can't have Flim without Flam.
idwthis ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:21:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now I just want some flan.
uniptf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:16:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Crรจme brรปlรฉe is much better, you should try it sometime.
idwthis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:40:45 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've had it, it's delicious, king of desserts it is.
But I was making a joke because flam was making me think of flan.
bensawn ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:28:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
4chan has led me to believe there is a george zimmerman joke somewhere in here...
ShadowWriter ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:07:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm currently learning Irish. Tรก, Is, and Bhfuile all apparently mean the same thing, but I still get in trouble if I use the wrong one.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:52:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well you can't flim flam the zim zam
In_between_minds ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:42:13 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because the root of the word has the "in" part, and it is not a prefix. flammable is a created word to keep stupid people from causing fires.
BAM5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:32:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flammable has lost it's meaning I've read it so much.
grogga_med_gastar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:26:13 on April 11, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can't flim flam the zim zam
breadcamesliced ยท 907 points ยท Posted at 00:25:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a country!
obrown ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 02:27:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hi Dr. Nick!
itsFromTheSimpsons ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:45:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
hey! Did you go to Hollywood upstairs medical school too?
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:28:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ach, blood.
drac07 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:57:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the only correct response.
tmotom ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:50:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a Crunchry!
JQuick ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:00:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everybody loves by breves'!
[deleted] ยท 1804 points ยท Posted at 01:38:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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thunderstrut ยท 50 points ยท Posted at 02:57:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My understanding is that Flammable pertains to anything that can produce volatile flammable vapors at temperatures at or below 100 deg. F (per NFPA 70). Inflammable is anything that can burn. Therefore, gasoline would be flammable, but dead wood is inflammable.
Source: I'm a huge flamer
MysteriousBoob ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 03:36:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ha
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 07:50:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Thor_Odinson_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:28:42 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
furthermore: http://grammarist.com/usage/flammable-inflammable/
bobsp ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 05:31:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Inflammable means capable of becoming inflamed. Not "is inflamed". Fuck, Reddit you gild stupid shit.
ItsCumToThis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:24:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you think you've never given a buck to a bum for "food" that was spent on liquor, you're only fooling yourself.
JDawgSabronas ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:26:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you think he's only fooling himself, you're only fooling "yourself".
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:09:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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IamManuelLaBor ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:46:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Get yourself a chimney starter + a phone book and stop using lighter fluid like a heathen.
iamjamieq ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:08:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who is the heathen??
IamManuelLaBor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:51:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly, I never have to go out to get one since every few months a nrw one pops up on my doorstep, and then a cpuple weeks later I'll walk my neighborhood and take any that are still sitting on porches and driveways if I need em.
I've not run out of paper for almost a decade now since I switched from propane.
Seriously a chimney starter might take a little longer than lighter fluid but god damn will your bbq taste better for it.
iamjamieq ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:53:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a good answer. I only just started using charcoal last year for the first time in my life, as my wife and I got a big green egg. I used the natural lighting squares you're supposed to use, but ran out. Instead of buying more I found an electric lighter on clearance. Take about the same amount of time. Been considering a chimney starter as well, but haven't really found the need yet. Not sure how those work with briquets, but I assume as well as on lump charcoal.
IamManuelLaBor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:02:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They work well with briqs, since that's mostly what I use.
I only use lump when I'm using my barrel smoker.
iamjamieq ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:15:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry. I meant I don't know how well electric starters work on briqs. I also actually don't have any idea how a chimney starter would work with lump. But I assume it's really all the same.
Thor_Odinson_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:29:45 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You do not use coal in a BBQ.
Charcoal is a very different substance from coal.
Zamur ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:24:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They both have exactly the same definition.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/flammable-or-inflammable
Stormer2997 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:51:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Found the arsonist
ilikeeatingbrains ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:30:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would say I only like watching them burn to death in blops, but that would be a lie. Ther-MIGHT!
blebaford ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:38:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Living proof that reddit can upvote stuff that is 100% wrong.
firstpcbuild1234 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:22:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flammable and inflammable mean the same thing they are just used for different language warnings http://m.imgur.com/VWyuNYt
BitchinTechnology ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:27:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No he just explained the difference
wurrukatte ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 03:53:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is no difference. 'Flammable' was back-formed from 'inflammable' because English speakers thought the 'in-' prefix stood for negation, when it actually stands for "in, on", the word literally means "able to catch on fire".
His definition for the two is prescriptivism trying to retcon them as if they were separate words.
Also, his second definition makes no sense because 'inflame(d)' doesn't mean "fire spreads very quickly", it means "to cause to burst into flame".
Thor_Odinson_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:29:01 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. http://grammarist.com/usage/flammable-inflammable/
JitGoinHam ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 04:01:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
His explanation is very convincing sounding bullshit. The words are synonyms.
BitchinTechnology ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:20:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I stand corrected I will go downvote myself
BitchinTechnology ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:20:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are a dumbass
ErezYehuda ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:17:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know how to vote on this comment...
Iceyeeye ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:28:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Voting is for old people, if that helps.
Smoke731mcb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:35:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So flammable inflammable clothing would be the worst possible idea, good to know
JRutterbush ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:43:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On a similar note, knowing the difference between "flammable" and "combustible" has literally saved my life before. Well... my character's life, in a D&D game. But still, it was very helpful to know that fireball does not set normal wood aflame.
vep ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 05:04:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you, with the knowledge!
rolytron ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 04:44:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Irregardless
mhaydar ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 03:59:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You just scienced/englished the shit out of that.
ErezYehuda ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:17:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't forget lied, too!
mbinder ยท 59 points ยท Posted at 01:01:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then what word means "won't catch on fire"? I have always used inflammable for that.
HighOnGoofballs ยท 93 points ยท Posted at 01:03:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That would be non-flammable. Inflammable somehow means easily caught on fire.
pf_throwaway811 ยท 67 points ยท Posted at 01:07:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Able to be 'inflamed'
PositiveAlcoholTaxis ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:30:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like a joint?
higs87 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:09:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mmmm joints
Twad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:34:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, flammable always made no sense to me. Able to be flamed.
FurRealDeal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:52:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you say it like that it makes 110 percent more sense in my brain.
unicornlocostacos ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:12:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even Mordin can't remember the difference so I don't feel so bad.
chubbyurma ยท 125 points ยท Posted at 01:06:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Retardant
delighted-fork ยท 255 points ยท Posted at 01:49:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
you're retardant
EDIT: 'RE IM SORRY
chubbyurma ยท 57 points ยท Posted at 01:56:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your moms retardant
wow_that_guys_a_dick ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:55:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
YOU LIKE THAT YOU FUCKING RETARDANT?
Simpsonsseriesfinale ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:50:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*You're
replies_randomly ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:50:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
annoying.
I am a bot, don't take me seriously... source
Simpsonsseriesfinale ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're moms annoying.
wildbug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:24:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*Your
replies_randomly ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:24:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
crazy!
I am a bot, don't take me seriously... source
Simpsonsseriesfinale ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:25:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*yore
Dogs_Akimbo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:44:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your mom's retard ant.
volatile_chemicals ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:34:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you like that, you fucking retardant?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:41:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, what of it? You need some? She's got lots.
JSchade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:39:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My moms redardant what?
Birdyer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:41:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your face is retardant.
armeck ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:34:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*You're retardant
beneater66 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:03:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
mine?
Odyrus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:53:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ftfy
creepymusic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:20:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My retardant?
Peculiar_One ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:29:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The proper way to say that is person that is retardant. As in the person cannot catch on fire.
Bobloblawlawblog79 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:32:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*You're
Walter_Malone_Carrot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:10:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I prefer the term 'flammably impaired'.
TheAbyssGazesAlso ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:08:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jeez, he was just asking a question. There's no need to insult the guy... ;-)
raygundan ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:24:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That just means it's slower. Flame-retardant is still flammable and inflammable, you just have to work at it a bit more.
Edit: it's true, despite the downvotes.
Tackbracka ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:06:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unflammable?
JitGoinHam ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:02:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fireproof.
ChampagneCJ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:53:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Hi, Dr. Nick!"
123456789075 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:21:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is what makes me think coining the word "flammable" was counterproductive, once it exists, people are more likely to think that inflammable means not flammable
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:57:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Found Dr. Nick!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:57:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In French we have ininflammable, which means not inflammable.
Tanks4me ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:31:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Flammable, or inflammable? Forget which. Doesn't matter."
pitaenigma ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:21:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Had to be you posting this. Anyone else would have gotten it wrong.
Fionnlagh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:36:49 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn you. Damn you all to hell.
lorenzovonmaterhorn ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:41:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks Archer
El_Frijol ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:33:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So do fat chance and slim chance.
TheVoicesSayHi ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:32:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flammable, inflammable, non-flammable....either the thing flamms or it doesn't flamm
slinkywheel ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:46:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i've never seen the word imflammable used
firstpcbuild1234 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:23:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where I work it's the same thing just 2 different languages http://m.imgur.com/VWyuNYt
DamaOscuraDeTodos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:23:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But inflammable is an English word too.
NoGuide ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:06:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For some reason I remember seeing it often on pajama tags as a kid.
JELLY__FISTER ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:47:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Neither have I
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:08:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What? A country?
columbus8myhw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:38:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Inflammable: You can set it on infire
firstpcbuild1234 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:04:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Here at my work flammable is the English warning and inflammable is used for French and Spanish I believe http://m.imgur.com/VWyuNYt
illiteret ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:16:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"It either flams or it doesn't!" - George Carlin
AnanZero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:34:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same goes for invaluable.
NickRivieraPhD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:44:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hi Everybody!
nohpex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:32:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is much better said out loud, but baloney and bologna are not the same word.
Simpsonsseriesfinale ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:49:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, Dr. Nick!
munchler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sanction (approve) and sanction (punish) are opposites, as are cleave (split apart) and cleave (cling to).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym
Wolfesbane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:15:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because English
Reverend_Smarm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:37:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.tv-quotes.eu/2016/02/the-simpsons-quote-inflammable-means.html#
tadhgmac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:53:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where does unflammable fit?
thephantom1492 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:42:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In french "in-" mean not... so inflammable should mean "can not burn", but thanks to whoever monkey that decided to make an exception... it mean it can burn... "ininflammable" mean it can not burn... Some should have been shot...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:08:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The confusion carries substantial safety risks and has probably led to many deaths
DeenSteen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:29:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Genius and ingenious.
GloriousGardener ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:48:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Archer taught me this one.
MrShlash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:23:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought flammable means "capable of catching fire" and inflammable is something that isn't capable.
bargman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:32:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who knew? -Dr Nick Riviera
binkerfluid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:13:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a country !
Stonn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:43:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh I see. So inflammable as in in flames thus same as flammable. To be fair to create an opposite of a word the prefix "im-" or "non-" can be used. And it just so happens that "in" and "im" sound very alike. Examples: "mobile" and "immobile"; "precise" and "imprecise".
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:12:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's unpossible!
mattempirelic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:36:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
George Carlin on strange words:
"We have flammable, inflammable and non-inflammable. Why are there three? Either something flams or it doesn't."
Atario ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:30:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No they don't. Inflammable means more flammable than plain old flammable.
Same with valuable and invaluable.
her_butt_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:24:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also habitable and inhabitable!
AccordionORama ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:49:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I could care less.
Bodia01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:38:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a country!
MotivationCheck ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 01:00:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a country!
Dominantmuthafudga ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 01:05:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a country!
theultrayik ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 00:56:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Country a what!
PM_ME_FOR_SMALLTALK ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 01:02:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a country!
Mxmx00 ยท 441 points ยท Posted at 00:24:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The OTHER way of pronouncing the word "pecan."
wildbug ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 04:35:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which other way? There are at least six ways to pronounce "pecan."
V3ndeelian ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:26:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like how Houston houses every variant.
Joeysaurrr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:40:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Since I pronounce it differently to all of those, seven.
wildbug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:22:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do you pronounce it?
Joeysaurrr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:26:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pee-c'n.
ImaginaryRobbie ยท 66 points ยท Posted at 01:04:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pecan is for pecans grown in the front yard, peCAN is for pecans grown in the back yard :) Or vice-versa, I forget...
RiverSong42 ยท 370 points ยท Posted at 01:57:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A pih-khan is what you make a pie with.
A pee-can is what a truck driver uses on long trips.
VonKrieger ยท 54 points ยท Posted at 05:17:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My Grandpa refused to stop except for meals on the annual 9 hour drive to the cabin.
We had a poo-can.
20 years later my childhood best friend stated he still had nightmares about that can.
jinantonyx ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 09:07:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandma always refused to stop for pee breaks while on the road. That was fine with her four sons. But no four year old girl should have to learn how pee in a cup in the back of a van traveling 65 MPH. I just wish I had the strength of character and will to hold her to her own rules, now that's she's nearly 80.
0-1-1-2-3-5-8-13-21 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:56:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Just go, gram, just go."
grifmasta ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 04:20:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I prefer a Gatorade bottle. Resealability is underrated in life.
TheKnobleSavage ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:47:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rich girl has a canopy over her bed.
Poor girl has can 'o pee under her bed.
Vitztlampaehecatl ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:12:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
JARATE!
Zalwol ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:56:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's the way of the road, Ricky.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:18:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a funny way to say 'piss jug'
SatanKebab ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:43:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I personally prefer a dirty ol piss jug, it's the way of the road boys.
madcattery ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:06:18 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
THANK you
Smoke731mcb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:39:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pee Khan Pi can
Draskuul ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:49:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Howdy fellow Texan! (Edit: Hey, I'm at least 90% sure!)
I don't know why the various (mis-)pronunciations of pecan irritate me so much.
RiverSong42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:51:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
I'm not actually Texan. But I was born there. Heard this old chestnut (pecan?) from my father who lived in Texas a lot longer than I did.
Draskuul ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:31:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good enough!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:05:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Way of the road, boys.
ImaginaryRobbie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:01:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hahaha! I like that, I'll remember that!
dlolb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:47:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
used to have a friend that said pee-khan. got rid of em
Mxmx00 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 01:11:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about a side yard or diagonal field? Or roof garden?
356afan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:20:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cashews...
Imbucare ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:10:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
if you can manage to grow pecans in a roof garden you can call them whatever you want.
zero_dgz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:28:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pecant's, obviously.
P3rr0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:10:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a pecan, as in "pecan."
goodevilgenius ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:48:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Puh-kahn is for pecans grown south of the Mason-Dixon line. Pee-can is for pecans grown north of it.
dogshenanigans ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:16:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Got that backwards jack
goodevilgenius ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:34:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a Texan with a Floridian mother and a Yankee wife, I can assure that I do not.
dogshenanigans ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:40:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depends what part of Florida whether its really 'the south' but I'm from rural Georgia and everyone says pee can. My grandmother from Alabama said pee can too.
goodevilgenius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:54:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pensacola, definitely Southern.
And I have never heard a Southerner say pee-can, but have heard lots of Yankees say it.
dogshenanigans ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:19:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://justlanguage.wordpress.com/2006/08/14/pecan/ This seems to back me up.
goodevilgenius ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:47:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It also seems to back me up as well
That article didn't actually reach any conclusion.
It sounds to me like this article says we're both wrong, and it's not at all a Northern/Southern split.
dogshenanigans ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:51:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah i looked up some other articles and they couldn't make up their mind either. Atleast I learned something.
_justin_cider_ ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 00:50:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The same goes for "lancaster".
[deleted] ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 01:05:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
[removed]
voxdoom ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 01:34:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
LAN-CAS-ter is how Lancastrians say it.
Edit: like, from Lancaster, England.
dpash ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:27:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Americans are pretty terrible at pronouncing British place names. Edinburgh and Loughborough are two common examples. (Hint: they're roughly ed-in-brrrr and luff-brrrr.)
sleepytoday ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:25:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean edin-bruh and luff-bruh?
dpash ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:43:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I said roughly. It's not exactly easy trying to replicate English sounds with English letters, because English.
It's certainly not edin-berg or lowe-ba-rowe.
whirlpool138 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:59:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's how we pronounce it in Upstate New York. THere is a Lancaster outside of Buffalo and Niagara Falls.
lannister80 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Across the Atlantic seaaaa!
TheVoicesSayHi ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 01:37:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Californians pronounce it "Lang-caster"
Keratomistress ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:54:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm. Source: live in Palmdale
TheVoicesSayHi ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 01:56:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My condolences
SuperSaiyanCrota ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:43:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its hot, help
blebaford ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:57:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
come back to me
Only_One_Left_Foot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:06:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Strange to see so many Palmcastrians in a thread like this.
Mortenusa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:07:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bay area guy here, we do not say lang-caster.
And I find myself mildly offended that you would even say so.
TheVoicesSayHi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:16:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pfft NorCal what don't you guys get offended at? Besides I was born at AV hospital I have never in my life heard anyone call it "lank-ist-err" California
ggggtotalwarrior ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:45:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking Mennonites
logikfail ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:21:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pennsylvanian reporting, I've heard it pronounced this way, but most people around where I'm at pronounce it like you'd expect
Ariana_Jade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:58:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Correction: lank-ist-err is how Southern Pennsylvanians say it. LAN-cast-er is how anybody north of Altoona says it.
MolotovFlirtini ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:50:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That seems like a more colonial/british pronunciation, no? How the Brits often cut the end of Buckinghamshire to sound like 'Buckinamsha' and not enunciate the 'shire' bit. Any similarities at all, or am I making an incorrect connection?
SquashyDisco ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:26:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We also shorten the county names a lot - making Buckinghamshire into 'Bucks', Hertfordshire into 'Herts', Berkshire into 'Berks' and Hampshire into 'Hants' (It used to be called Hantenshire).
source: I live in Bucks and work in Northants.
MolotovFlirtini ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:56:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cool, didn't know that, thanks!
HW90 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:33:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not that it's not enunciating the shire, it's just having a silent e. Shire is derived from the Old English Scir so fuck knows where that e came from.
MolotovFlirtini ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:37:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I see, etymology is a fickle mistress, indeed. Hell linguistics in general. The 'e' is silent, like the 'f' in knife. Wait...
drew4232 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:34:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IDK what you are talking about, but I say it pee-kan
Spax_ ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:30:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlUkg_qMnwQ
Apparently this is how people say it. I have spent 28 years on this planet and I have never heard anyone say it like this ever. I'm a peekan kinda guy.
leetfists ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:28:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure it's a southern thing. That's the way everyone down here says it. The only times I've heard it the other way were on television or movies.
anom_aly ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:34:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm from the south and no one I know says pee-can. It's always been pe-kahn to me.
drew4232 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that's gross
TheSandwichLawyer ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:20:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pee-KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
Bamword15 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:28:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Duh It's pronounced pecan
mythicreign ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's "more" correct? Pee-can or puh-cahn?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The other way?!
tylerchu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or Nutella
Dathouen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:48:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's only one right pronunciation of pecan, and it's pecan.
Hunnyhelp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know which other way this is?
Is it the piss can way, or the correct way?
DOWjungleland ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:09:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The correct way? Pee-kan
CucumberGod ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:12:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
peec-awn
tatsuedoa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:24:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pi-con or pee-can?
ThornUnicorn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:33:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Completely agree, the only exception to the rule being pecan sandies for some reason...
Harry_monk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:02:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm from England so there really is only one pronunciation.
Who_GNU ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:03:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With almonds the pronunciation difference is easy. You pronounce the 'l' when refereeing to almonds on the tree, but you don't pronounce it when referring to harvested almonds, because the harvesting equipment shakes the 'l' out of the almonds.
SmellsOfTeenBullshit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:40:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The English way?
Capn__Morgan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:17:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pee-cayn vs peacahn?
josephcmiller2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:11:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would you eat something called a "pee-can?"
BigBillyGoatGriff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:13:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean the right way?
bogmansaha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:25:09 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you dont have access to a toilet, use your pecan :-)
jared1981 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:20:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's p'cawn, not pee-can.
Ay-pri-cot is how you pronounce apricot.
PM_BITCOIN_AND_BOOBS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:40:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or "gif."
citrus_mystic ยท 341 points ยท Posted at 03:06:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The plural form of cul-de-sac is culs-de-sac
(edit:although most contemporary dictionaries will also include cul-de-sacs as a plural option because when you actually use culs-de-sac you're just that guy no one wants to hang out with)
ArmadilloFour ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 06:58:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, Rory Gilmore.
mytinyson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:44:06 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lorelai's "recycslable" line always killed me.
WanderingBastardo ยท 104 points ยท Posted at 06:09:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oooh! ooh! I can talk about this one!
Cul-de-sac is French and roughly means "ass of the bag". As in the bottom of something, or the end of a road that you can't pass trough, much like the bottom (or ass) of a bag. Now, the reason that the plural is culs-de-sac is pretty simple knowing the etymology.
If you want to refer to many of such bag-bottoms, would you rather say "They are many asses of bag in this area." or "They are many ass of bags in this area."? Now, both make not a whole lot of sense, but it's because in french "de" is more akin to the way the English say "Cheese Omelettes" and not "Cheeses Omelettes" or "Cheeses Omelette".
"Omelette de fromage" (and not "du", the cartoon lied to you) becomes "Omelettes de fromage" and not "Omelette de fromages".
I hope it made at least a little bit of sense.
Hon hon hon
HenriChinaski ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 08:30:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Omelette(s) AU(X) fromage(s), bordel de pompe ร cul de merde !
Donc (so) : Une omelette au fromage (1 omelette, 1 cheese) ; une omelette aux fromages (1 omelette, several cheeses) ; des omelettes au fromage (several omelettes, 1 cheese) ; des omelettes aux fromages (several omelettes, several cheeses). ;)
Nastapoka ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 09:12:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Moi qui pensais รชtre le seul ร employer cette dรฉlicieuse expression
J'aime bien la variante "pompe ร foutre" aussi
Embusen4 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:26:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Je connaissais pas mais รงa me plaรฎt !
Biobak_ ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:02:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vous รชtes des grands malades ici
Nastapoka ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:00:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Silence, pompe ร smegma
Biobak_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:04:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
La dรฉcision de mon silence m'appartient, pompe ร blue waffle
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:11:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Biobak_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:21:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Et voilร tous les franรงais de Reddit sont inexorablement attirรฉs ici
Retournez manger vos baguettes et vite, c'est un club privรฉ ici
DJ_Gregsta ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:26:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...si senor!
WanderingBastardo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:18:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Et bien ici on dit omelette de fromage :(
Mais je suis quรฉbecois, donc les lois de la physique ne s'appliquent pas sur moi.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:08:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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WanderingBastardo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:04:54 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
La libertรฉ, c'est bien, mais c'est toujours mieux avec une bonne biรจre Belge ou un Bordeaux ;)
dpash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:30:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And because French, they mostly sound the same when spoken :)
stefanica ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 07:37:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Total sense. A cul-de-sac is basically a low-hanging scrotum. And it makes sense, visually.
What is a bit harder to interpret is why anyone would be obligated to parse multiple "culs-de-sac". When does that ever come up? "Mr. Chairman, we have determined that thirteen of the twenty-seven culs-de-sac in the greater South Houston suburbs do not support force plantings of cypress trees and azalea."?
ProllyJustWantsKarma ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:14:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, in that context it wouldn't be used plurally. But if you were to make it plural you'd pluralize the subject, so culs.
TleilaxTheTerrible ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:02:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even more fun, Bilbo and Frodo lived in a cul-de-sac, or bag's end.
WanderingBastardo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:21:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit, I had never realized.
avapoet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:59:39 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tolkein, as a linguist, clearly did.
MontreMoiTesGenitaux ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:07:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cul du sac would be ass of the bag, cul de sac is ass of bag.
Martipar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:16:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And cul-de-sac can be interpreted as the end of a bag or "bag end" Bilbo loved in a cul-de-sac
orangesine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:48:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But also, in speaking the plural sounds the same as the singular!
Svartben ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:09:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nooo why would they lie? The only sentence I knew in french... I never actually truly knew...
Welp I've learnt something today at least.
LeoKhenir ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:15:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"De Something" usually means of/with or similar.
So is it "omelettes with cheese" or "omelette with cheeses"?
bcdm ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:28:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On that note, the original plural of teaspoonful is teaspoonsful, not teaspoonfuls (both are acceptable plurals now).
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:51:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fun fact: having multiple sets of testicles is called bals-de-sac
Serei ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:14:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whoppers Junior.
courtenayplacedrinks ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:29:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Governors-General, probably applies to Solicitors-General and Attorneys-General as well.
plexust ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:47:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And for all you military-types out there: Sergeants Major.
FKA_Mousecop ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:28:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also like the singular and plural words for potato in French. Pomme de Terre and Pommes de Terre, meaning apple or apples of the earth.
patcriss ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:34:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ground Apple makes more sense.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:10:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uuuuuh actually
mainfingertopwise ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:31:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Court/Courts Martial.
Psudopod ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:13:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Daddy/Daddys longlegs.
RedCat1529 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:57:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Attorneys General, mothers in law, grands prix, etc.
terrymr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:32:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who wants to live in an ass bag anyway?
angienuthead ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:16:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just like the Gilmore Girls episode..
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:47:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Turns of phrase are like that. You pluralize them using actual grammar rules, but most people are too ignorant to know how idioms work grammatically.
Colin_Kaepnodick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:43:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is sort of like RBI. Stands for run batted in. Multiple RBIs should be RsBI not RBIs.
FiveSkinn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:43:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And you know what that means in French right?
Wilreadit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:31:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The plural of mother-in-law is mothers-in-law
flaxamax ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:12:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Similarly, "passers by" has always gotten me. It sounds so wrong.
miniRNA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:16:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Knowing a bit of French makes the second option sound wrong :s
lobster_johnson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:42:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same thing with other French-originated compound words such as:
Technically the plural of mother-in-law is mothers-in-law (same with other in-laws), but I doubt many people follow that rule.
TonySoprano420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:45:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Makes sense. It's like brothers-in-law or secretaries-general.
plus4dbu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:28:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Related: the plural of 'passerby' is 'passersby'
ellisdeez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:10:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
kind of like how it's "legs of lamb" instead of "leg of lambs"
ThePr1d3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:07:49 on April 11, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People won't want to hang out with me cause I'm French :(
ThePr1d3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:07:50 on April 11, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People won't want to hang out with me cause I'm French :(
MayorMoonbeam ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 08:41:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
balls
Urgullibl ยท 6166 points ยท Posted at 00:52:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Continent with the highest average education level is Antarctica.
SardinesGivePower ยท 1351 points ยท Posted at 01:44:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That makes perfect sense though. A much higher percentage of people in Antarctica are scientist. Scientists are known to have decent educations.
thratty ยท 2030 points ยท Posted at 02:53:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not true I know a guy who died after injecting just one science
darth_stroyer ยท 59 points ยท Posted at 03:25:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I once injected an entire university research department.
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 03:54:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then how the fuck are you still alive?
IAmNotARobotNoReally ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 03:59:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
hopsital
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:08:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bullshit, I've never seen someone recover from a university research department overdose. They're all too drain bamaged
Walter_Malone_Carrot ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:07:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well maybe they would if their drain would stop exploding from all the science.
PoseidonHyden ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:03:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vaccinations
DaSaw ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:41:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What did you inject them with?
eatmynasty ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:14:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Science: not even once.
Yin4TheWin ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:18:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No that was Becky
whobethatguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:03:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who is Becky?
Yin4TheWin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:19:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/yourcommunity/2014/09/taylor-swift-wears-a-no-its-becky-shirt-tumblr-explodes.html
FishInTheTrees ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:45:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I knew a giraffe who injectected 1/7 of a science and turned back into a human.
He injected 7 marijuanas once and turned into a giraffe. He had been researching the cure for almost a decade.
bipnoodooshup ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:39:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did two once. I'm pretty sure I'm still alive, unless...
Luneb0rg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:51:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's why you have to smoke science. It's much safer that way.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:15:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, it's Becky.
Todd_Solondz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:38:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus christ 900 upvotes for this.
lightningboltkid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:06:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my god. I did two Histories yesterday and am still regretting it.
Scarletfapper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:13:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They cause autism, donchaknow
GangreneMeltedPeins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:00:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One WHOLE science? Unreal
MermaidMathematiques ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Science: not even once.
Mywoodinbush1510 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:43:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You absolute madman!
Astramancer_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:18:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone knows you're supposed to smoke science. Why do you think they give it out on a paper?
luchinocappuccino ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MRW I read this
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:53:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Science. Not even once.
CubanoAmericano ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:36:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Science. Not even once.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 07:18:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scientists are actually in the minority there. It takes a ton of support workers - pilots, mechanics, electricians, logistics folks, janitors, cooks, dishwashers, maintenance crews - to keep places like McMurdo Station running. Interestingly though, a lot of the people doing the more menial jobs are well-educated and have just signed on for a season or two to experience living there. Source: "A Year On Ice", an amazing documentary you can see on Netflix.
TheGreatAndMightyNeb ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:19:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup. I was one of those folks off and on for 5 years.
MattMakesPhotos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:25:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's awesome. I've always wanted to do that and document the lives and place of people in Antarctica - being a doco photographer and all.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:17:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It looks both very grueling and utterly amazing!
2drink ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:55:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh really?
Reddits_Worst_Night ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:53:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[Citation needed]
lannister80 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:19:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually no, there are way more "support staff" than scientists. Tons of janitors, techs, repair guys, cooks, you name it.
admiralranga ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:15:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From what I saw when I was looking that the job postings you need to be a master in one trade and atleast useful in a couple of others. I doubt the support staff are dragging the average down much.
Bangersss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:25:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone's gotta bring the average down. They hiring?
oodsigma8 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:27:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Metallica held a concert in antarctica once i think
vortigaunt64 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:42:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And how do you think those penguins got their white-collar jobs?
thefatrabitt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but they also have to have maintenance people there.
Iesbian_ham ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:12:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a sizeable support and administration staff in Antarctica.
Asmetj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:52:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Very not true. Go watch Antarctica a year on ice, in addition to being excellent it also shows you how many 'regular' people work there just to keep it going...
tsaven ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:32:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not true, the region of support staff to scientists is almost 10:1.
That being said, a huge amount of the support staff is vastly over educated for the work they do. Most of my friends who work in the galley at McMurdo had graduate degrees.
Source: work there, am support worker, friends with some scientists.
thissiteisbroken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:56:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, they have an okay education at best.
[deleted] ยท 2830 points ยท Posted at 01:42:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Anotheraccountdelete ยท 1045 points ยท Posted at 02:11:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is why. Only smart people go there.
homo_swaggins ยท 183 points ยท Posted at 03:19:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll break the average by going then.
mousylion ยท 347 points ยท Posted at 05:03:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Average IQ of U.S. citizen rises by ten points following reddit user /u/homo_swaggins' departure for Antartica."
cupofteathen ยท 85 points ยท Posted at 09:54:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha, that reminds me of this:
Further reading for those interested.
Lampmonster1 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:51:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's been a long running joke in the US that giving the panhandle of Florida to Alabama would have a similar effect.
noitarenoxe ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 05:12:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
broccolibush42 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:03:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What would his IQ have to be in order to bring the average IQ up that high?
Ericules ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 08:38:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So I don't feel like actually doing the math, but say the avg IQ is 100, and people in US is ~300 million, Essentially 30 billion IQ points, to experience a 10% rise, ball park his IQ would be like negative 3 billion-ish-ish. Conclusion: u/mouslylion str8 rekt him
CRISPR ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:57:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you related to Dr. Dirac?
J_Keefe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:32:11 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is. That's the definition of the IQ scale. One standard deviation is 15 points.
JustAnotherPanda ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:58:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rough estimation without any research:
/u/homo_swaggins needs an IQ of -30 billion.
ghero890 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:02:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP...I'll just leave this here
1iggy2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:25:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To lower the average IQ of the United States: USAavg: 98 USApop: 318,900,000 To lower: (31,252,200,000)/318,900,000=98
(31,252,200,000-x)/318,899,999=108
(31,252,200,000-x)=34,441,200,000 -x=3,189,000,000 X=-3,189,000,000
/u/homo_swaggins' IQ would need to be -3,189,000,000 for his departure to raise the United States average IQ 10 points.
chilehead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:15:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He stopped being a citizen?
8bitslime ยท 76 points ยท Posted at 03:31:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You and me will get on the RRS Boaty McBoatface and fuck their averages!
RenderUntoSnuggles ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 06:25:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God's speed you glorious, dumb twats.
KarthusWins ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:42:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is how I read your comment. I was very confused.
8bitslime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:44:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
kinky
fiddle05 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:14:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I voted!
HiMyNameIs_REDACTED_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:45:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll fix it by going with you.
inyourface_milwaukee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It only takes one reddit user to fuck shit up!
mhaydar ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:57:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or incredibly stupid ones
hamernaut ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:59:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Honey, it's Anti-arctic! It must be great for vacationing!"
raygundan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:23:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You would expect at least a few of the very foolhardy as well, but the average is probably still high.
ender1108 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:40:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except for every super smart person. There is a grunt or two to carry their begs so that sort of brings the average down.
mofomeat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:44:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
begs
Mex-Box ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:52:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My buddy and I are entering the Fire Service, after four years we qualify to volunteer for a 6 month or 1 year tour of duty... We're going with the sole intention of tipping penguins.
MasterKwii ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:05:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Enjoy your $10,000 fine. You're not allowed to do anything at all to the wildlife down there. They'd shut down the airfield if a bunch of penguins found their way onto it.
Mex-Box ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:48:21 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How many people do you know who tipped over a penguin and/or have been banned from a continent... Worth it
CBERT117 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:36:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, that was what he said.
Anotheraccountdelete ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 04:51:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes and I used much less words so it was easier to read.
Pat117 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"I can see Russia from my house"
Big_Ol_Johnson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:27:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think he was talking about the penguins
Z_Coop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:28:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The dumb ones just don't get back
Styroman57 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:24:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You'd think only idiots want to go to Antarctica.
Lakinther ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:19:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it smart to go there?
crushcastles23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:25:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And then there's the support staff. Cooks, janitors, probably a receptionist or two.
Note: not saying any of those professions automatically mean you're stupid, just using them as an example of non-scientists on Antartica.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:32:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except for Nigel.
NOTARETARD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:41:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
by god i think you've got it
seal_eggs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:42:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And really rich tourists
Scarletfapper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:13:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's my secret...
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Cloudy_mood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:45:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also the polar bears there are smart as fuck.
Gizmo-Duck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:49:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Smart people are always trying to go places where it's easy to die. Antarctica, the depths of the ocean, outer space, Mars, etc.
I'm going to one-up the smart people and spend my days in Hawaii.
Melicalol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:57:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck was the guy from big bang theory doing there then.
barath_s ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:00:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Beg to differ. Only educated guys go there.
A smart guy wouldn't necessarily choose to go to a place with little sun, freezing cold and low companionship..
Under_wear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:04:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And shape shifting aliens.
PM_NUDES_FOR_OPINION ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:05:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To ship your frigid ass into the refrigerator of the world cannot conceivably be considered smart, ainnit?
auerin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:10:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or do every person who go there become smart?
Anderson017 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:42:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm. My neighbor just got a 6 month contract to go work there, and he is wicked smaht
A_Wizzerd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:43:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And penguins
Anotheraccountdelete ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:46:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yea, but penguins are smarter than us so we don't count them ;)
yrogerg123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:40:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How smart can they be if they go to fucking Antarctica?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:01:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I dunno, I hear it's really cold all the time and you can die just going outside. That sounds pretty stupid to me.
PaleAsDeath ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:39 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or very, very stupid people
/s
I'm referring to adventurers who try to set time records walking to the south pole, ect.
Final_Boss_Veigar ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:39:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Book smarts > Common Sense in these people though.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:33:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Kittens4Brunch ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:20:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And monsters.
32Dog ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:24:29 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And aliens
RiotingMoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
says you! I quite enjoy snow/ice. :(
Hitlerdinger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:38:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
everywhere all the time?
MasterKwii ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:08:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair, it is super fucking cool. For the first week, anyway.
RiotingMoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:18:17 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
YEP. :D {I know, I horrify everyone I meet.}
Hitlerdinger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:26:11 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
me irl lmao
raezin ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:16:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To put it nicely: duh.
Torpid-O ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:17:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, it helps that all penguins are geniuses.
the_omega99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:55:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, Superman's lair...
pandab34r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:18:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not only that but most of the ice has at least dropped out of college, a few PhDs as well
aoskunk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:09:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The biggest class clown in my high school is in Antarctica now. He has the most beautiful pics on his Facebook of penguins or couches he's built out of snow. I think he's a photographer. He was.. Not the brightest. Seems to be doing great for himself though and having the time of his life. He definitely brings down the average education in Antarctica right now though.
HenryKushinger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:12:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You clearly don't belong in Antarctica.
scragar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:33:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I typed it on a phone with autocorrect turned off (it was not letting me type swear words and took far too much effort to adjust words to what I wrote any time it changed them randomly, including its occasional bouts of changing "I'll" to "ill" or "I'd" to "if" for no clear reason), so forgive the occasional typo please. I did edit the post to be corrected now though.
TrevorBradley ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:20:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My sister-in-law studies penguins there. She got her PhD a few years back.
Ltb1993 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:41:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Smart people go to a dangerously cold area that can kill you in minutes far from any help where there is less protection from the sun and with magnetic interference that causes whatever other problems on top of that?
These are smart people?
Mitchhhhhh ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:29:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You'd figure Palin would drag the average down a fair bit though.
TottalyNotARickRoll ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 02:11:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those penguins are wicked smart.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:52:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whicked smaht*
NumberNull ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:08:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Especially the giant albino ones.
midvote ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:21:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I disagree. There's no permanent population.
Yilku1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:45:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are 2 civilian settlements on Antarctica
Villa Las Estrellas
Base Esperanza
Urgullibl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who said anything about permanent?
midvote ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:15:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Population statistics, such as those related to education, are generally measured based on that. E.g., these literacy rates. The people living in Antarctica at any given time would be counted under their country of citizenship.
Urgullibl ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:18:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OK, then Antarctica has the most educated workforce. Happy now?
Chocobolove ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:52:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
don't be rude
Urgullibl ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:53:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
don't be humorless.
OK_Compooper ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:38:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I saw an event there and everyone was wearing a tux.
MasterKwii ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:09:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I saw an event there and everyone was wearing chains (Mad Max themed party).
spectralreplica ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:16:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
those penguins....
Urgullibl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:53:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're wicked smaht.
atooc ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:42:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn penguins are smart
Urgullibl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:55:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wicked smaht.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:43:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if you count the tourists in that?
nacmar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:06:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is sobering to think that I could visit and thereby lower the average intelligence of an entire continent.
Urgullibl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:53:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On the plus side, you're making whichever continent you're leaving more intelligent by doing so.
nacmar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:34:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm why we can't have nice things!
puuying ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:15:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Penguins have some pretty good schools.
GrgeousGeorge ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:44:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lots of young penguins joining university's these days
ZeldaScribbles ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:34:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like this because it sounds like a troll but it's actually true
Schnort ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:52:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless you count the Penguins. They do dress well, though.
Urgullibl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:50:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Penguins are wicked smaht.
thereal_mc ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:21:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for the smile :)
squarefan80 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:23:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
kinda funny, if you give it some thought.
711PARTTIMEJOB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:45:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait until I go there
Urgullibl ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:47:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cool.
g0atmeal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:24:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is even true if you count animals of the planet. Fewer animals on Antarctica offset the balance less than other continents.
NutellaGood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:05:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, Antarctica is the driest continent.
Arekuzanda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:53:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most of the penguins there are probably more intelligent than some of the people I've met ..
russellwilsonsbird ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:59:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Has any non-scientist ever been there?
MasterKwii ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:11:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most of Antarctica's workforce isn't scientists. You've got all the supporting roles from janitors, cooks and maintenance to every role needed for the aircraft and ships coming in and out and doing the things they do on-continent.
Source: I work on those planes. Been there.
Urgullibl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:56:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can take cruises to Antarctica if you so desire.
KushGangar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:01:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those penguins are really smart.
Source: Madagascar
Urgullibl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:52:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those penguins aren't in Antarctica.
KushGangar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:54:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, they're trying to get there
Urgullibl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:57:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's been a while since I watched that movie, but aren't they trying to get to Madagascar?
KushGangar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:10:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think the Zebra is trying to get there. Penguins are trying to get to Antarctica, IIRC.
Ryodd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:01:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just wait til I get there
7LeagueBoots ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:08:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Highest average elevation too.
pepe_le_shoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:42:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those people aren't antarctic citizens, so this feels like a cop-out
Urgullibl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:51:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ROMANES EUNT DOMVS!
6chan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:27:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Antarctica has about an average summer population of 5000 and winter population of about 1200.
Most are researchers of some kind along with auxiliary staff.
sarabjorks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:07:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The largest native land animal that you will find all-year-round on Antarctica is the Belgica Antarctica midge.
(I watch too much QI)
ass_pubes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:10:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean Ozymandias is there so he brings the mean way up. Or are we talking Median?
Urgullibl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:12:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look at his works, ye mighty, and despair!
icantbenormal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:55:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those must be some very intelligent penguins.
Shhadowcaster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:52:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah because they don't have a bunch of freeloading preschoolers
Noluit-Dux ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:53:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought you said Africa. Was very confused.
SandersClinton16 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:19:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Africa is lowest
flargenhargen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:10:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
penguins are really fucking smart.
Urgullibl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:09:13 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wicked smaht.
SCombinator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:32:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't buy that - there's too many military people there.
southernbenz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:44:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shots fired.
PaulSimonIsMyGuy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:12:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Penguins are smart
mawo333 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:19:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sounds totally normal to me.
Permanent population 0, no locals, so no school dropouts, unemployed people and so on. Just a bunch of scientists, highly skilled technicians, military servicemen and a small amount of normal jobs like cooks, carpenters, mechanics and so on
nero_djin ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:12:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
does not blow my mind.
let's do another similar.
The average wealth of houseowners on Manhattan is higher than the rest of the US.
ilski ยท 78 points ยท Posted at 02:55:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is 55 miles between Russia and Usa
goodevilgenius ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 05:24:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a lot less than that, actually. About two miles. Look up the Diomede Islands.
baconwaffl ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:58:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
About the same between Europe and Africa
topright ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:57:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Less than a mile between Europe and Asia.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:39:34 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ARE. Illiterate.
ilski ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:59:09 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I do not argue with that.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:40:53 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fix your post, then.
ilski ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:40:43 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:19:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:23:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*Tina Fey was right
polgara04 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:55:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sarah's got some eagle eyes if she can see for 55 miles from her porch.
user0947 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:59:08 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She didn't say that. A comedian said that. Google Tina Fey.
Aduialion ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:50:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no jar jar, Russia is a few hundred / thousand miles away from me-sa.
ilski ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:52:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
me-sa? What is me-sa?
00yoshi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:44:06 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Black mesa research facility?
[deleted] ยท 109 points ยท Posted at 06:34:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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doctorocelot ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 10:35:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's just what the martians want you to think.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 11:21:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
unproven
Pm_me_ur_croissant ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:09:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So... unpoulated, then?
seinnnnnn ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:41:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Robots + Matt Damon
EntirelySomethingEls ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:57:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kind of like a warehouse is inhabited by boxes?
Adrized ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:09:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We don't know if that's true or not.
Garconanokin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:04:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
John Gray will not be pleased with this
Drunk_hooker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:38:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea but do they pay taxes? I think we should invade and give them some good ol' fashion freedom.
thatJainaGirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:00:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haywoodyoubl0wme ยท 94 points ยท Posted at 04:35:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anything Gavin Free says.
Tharage53 ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 07:05:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"what if your leg, didn't know it was a leg"
thatJainaGirl ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:01:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of a quote from A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson:
Royal-Ninja ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:30:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pubert Addams.
DamagedGenius ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:52:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do rocks float on lava?
Umbos ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:00:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does*
jpepsred ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:11:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*Carl Pilkington
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:26:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Karl*
jpepsred ยท -18 points ยท Posted at 11:41:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't take spelling advice from fucking 17 year olds.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:04:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
2 things Karl and Carl are 2 different spellings and in this case Karl is the correct one since that's his name second thing i'm not 17
jpepsred ยท -13 points ยท Posted at 12:57:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Help yourself to some of these ,,,, .... ,,,,,,,,, .....
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 13:01:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now you're just being butthurt
jpepsred ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 13:01:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know you are but what am I?
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:04:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now you're just acting like a 12 year old
Awimpymuffin ยท 59 points ยท Posted at 10:24:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you took every piece of DNA in your body and stretched it out, it would reach Pluto and back. That's approximately 5.32 billion miles.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:05:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Awimpymuffin ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:14:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just all the cells DNA in the human body
Standard12345678 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:20:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does this include mitochondria?
winlos ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:15:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's that?
Pixel_Veteran ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 12:42:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The powerhouse of the cell
islandbuns ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:58:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Youre welcome
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:58:13 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An organelle within our cells that slows aerobic cellular respiration, which gives us most of our energy. It was a separate individual organism a long long time ago so it has different DNA than the rest of the cell.
bad_at_hearthstone ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:06:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you took every piece of DNA in your body and stretched it out, you would fucking die.
seven-ate-nine ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:48:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but really thin...
Girth matters too
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:52:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This kills the human.
icantbenormal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:55:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did that apply when Pluto was still a planet?
thatJainaGirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:00:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also you would probably die.
instapope ยท 89 points ยท Posted at 07:46:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the wild, polar bears and penguins have never met. They're on opposite sides of the world.
SucceedingAtFailure ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 13:49:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's probably a good thing for the penguins...
R0tavat0R ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:38:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless you're playing Zoo Tycoon.
GillicuttyMcAnus ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 14:21:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, do people actually think that? Did no one have Nat Geo or The Discovery Channel growing up?
jm001 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 19:10:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or at least kindergarten level education?
edashotcousin ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:59:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are no penguins in Canada? :(
SplitArrow ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 12:31:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well there are in the Toronto Zoo but none in the wild.
Seal3824 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:44:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are puffins which look a bit like penguins
thatJainaGirl ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:10:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The arctic and Antarctica got their names from this. Bears live in the arctic, getting its name from the bears that live there, the Arktos. There are no bears in Antarctica, or anti-Arktos, or no-bears.
StormCrow1770 ยท 538 points ยท Posted at 00:42:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
If you set you hand palm down on a flat surface, and put the middle finger of that hand under your palm, you will not be able to lift your ring finger on that hand using only that hand.
Try it right now.
Edit: Make sure you middle finger is a far back as it can go (try to touch your wrist), and that all of your other fingers (index, thumb and pinkie) are still on the flat surface. If you still can lift your ring finger, congrats, you are incredibly flexible.
Timid_new_guy ยท 763 points ยท Posted at 01:13:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I will not be beaten.
Edit: well fuck.
8bitslime ยท 152 points ยท Posted at 03:37:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hurts like hell but I won.
30_rack_of_pabst ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 04:02:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did it too...
CaCtUs2003 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:04:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It took me like 5 minutes, but I actually did it too!
LioBio ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:29:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now try the same thing, but this time put your index finger under the palm and try raising you middle finger.
CaCtUs2003 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:35:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was a little easier than the ring finger.
Stonn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:49:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also less painful.
AWildCookieMonster ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:05:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only took me like a minute of straining to actually do it
dustbin3 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:20:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It only took me 6 seconds to decide I would embrace the pain. 8 seconds overall.
yeezus-101 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:17:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was your middle finger touching your palm?
danzey12 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 12:35:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah these people are cheating, it's physically impossible to do, middle finger needs to be jammed under there and the rest of your fingers remain flat.
You should physically not even feel like you can control the finger so its not about fighting pain.
sirin3 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:12:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some people feel as if they can move anything with their telekinetic powers
8bitslime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:56:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With the middle fingers toughing my palm the entire time, I can lift the ring finger about a centimeter, hurts even more but it's possible.
Jesus_marley ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:35:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
were you able to do it without lifting your pinky finger, too?
8bitslime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:54:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, it takes some strength and strains my ring finger a bit, but it's possible without lifting any other fingers.
speckleeyed ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:58:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Me too! But only with my non dominant hand.
Piratesmom ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:38:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can do it too.
joalca ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:27:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why are our ring fingers so pathetic in comparison to the others?
Unbalanced531 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 07:59:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're not pathetic, it's just that your middle and ring fingers are tied by the same tendons. Restricting the movement of your middle finger restricts the movement of the ring finger.
You can also try this trick with both your hands together. Press your palms and fingertips together, but then point your middle fingers down so the backs of the knuckles are flat against each other. You should be able to separate each of your finger tips...except for the ring fingers.
APenitentWhaler ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:38:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't like not having control over my body. :(
Dead_Starks ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:49:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
shh baby it's okay.
LioBio ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:39:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am not saying that you are wrong, but the same thing happens when you put index finger under and try raising your middle finger. Why does it not impair the movement both ways?
Jesus_marley ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:40:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The last three fingers on your hand have a distinctively different function than the index and thumb. They are the "anchor digits" and are used primarily for gross motor functions and strength whereas the index finger and thumb are used mostly for finer control and manipulation.
PARKOUR_ZOMBlE ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 06:32:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can do it if I lift my pinky too. You are wrong. Try it now. Edit: I can also lift it using my other hand. You need more qualifiers.
Jovanang ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:23:25 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The point is to do it only using one hand and with all other fingers on the surface.
barcode1555 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:27:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure we expected nothing better from a timid new guy.
devious_astronaut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:39:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Willpower will prevail!!
sowega ยท 126 points ยท Posted at 01:54:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My dad can do this. He told me when I was 8 if I could do it he'd give me $100. I did it. He never paid up, though he did take me to Toys-R-Us and said I could get anything I wanted, so it worked out.
In the last 20 years, I've met three or four other people who could do it. They received neither $100 nor a Toys-R-Us carte blanche from me.
FiercelyFuzzy206 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:53:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah....unless I'm doing it wrong I can do it too. Takes a little bit of concentration but I can do it.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:42:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Took me about 4 tries to get it without lifting anything else off the table, but yeah I've got it now.
PS My hand got really tingly trying to do this, maybe we should consult someone in ortho.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:02:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With your other hand? Or just by itself?
FiercelyFuzzy206 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:20:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
By itself. Can do it with both hands.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:45:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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FiercelyFuzzy206 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:21:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can do it with both but it takes a lot of concentration for my left hand.
sirin3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:18:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you have a talent for moving things, you should try to concentrate on a psi wheel for once
ErezYehuda ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:31:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can do it, apparently. Is there a club or a union or something to join? Do we get benefits?
AP246 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:35:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can do it, but only like 3 millimetres. Don't know if this counts.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:13:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tried it. The ring finger certainly can lift. Albeit not very high, and the pinky bobs along, but I can lift it off the surface.
dpatt711 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:58:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If your pink rises your hand is not flat lol
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:21:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pinky is not rising. Its wiggling, but it stays on the table.
Scyrothe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:13:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I could do it.
It was very painful, especially when I held the pinky down, but I could do it.
HydraJuice ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 02:31:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Piano player of 20 years here, yah it's not easy but it can be done.
Finger independence ftw, sorta like limb independence for drummers but with 10 things to train instead of 4.
Edit: Seems like the OP wasn't specific enough. If you only tuck in your middle finger a little bit so the fingertip is in contact with a little bit of palm close to the bottom of your finger (think the claw with two 90-degree turns), then it's very easy, almost effortless if you've played an instrument. My ring finger is a good 4-5cm off the ground this way.
However if you tuck in your middle finger as far back as possible (think the rock on finger sign but the middle finger is pulled back even more), so the fingertip is almost touching your wrist, then this task becomes A LOT harder. I get a lift of max. 2cm if I strain really hard.
SwagmasterRS ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:00:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I play piano as well, and find it really easy.
Mmmbeerisu ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:24:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't play any instrument and that's easy.
sleepingiguana ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:55:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I too play piano, and I too find it really easy...
Haeguil ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:55:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's funny I've been playing guitar and bass for about the same amount of time but I've never been able to do that.
Magicmudkip ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:38:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm curious, can you lift your ring finger if you also put your pinky finger under your palm? I can lift mine about 4 mm with my middle finger tucked, but with my pinky it feels damn impossible.
HydraJuice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:16:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, just tried and I can still do it, but it's much harder. About 1.5 cm lift height if I only tuck the fingers in so the fingertips are touching the bottom part of that finger, but it gets nearly impossible as you tuck your fingers back as much as possible.
WanderingBastardo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:51:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bassist here, same thing! Except I don't have all my ten fingers independent, just 9. That right pinkie is as agile as a floppy wiener.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cellist. I can do it with my left, not my right.
JopHabLuk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:23:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's more than just four limbs for drummers though, it's not like a clockwork monkey bashing at thing using the limb as a whole.
Each limb is using different movements involving different muscles and tendons.
The feet might be striking with heel or toe, and the hands use all of the fingers to control a stick, or at least a fulcrum balanced between index and thumb and movement controlled by the last three fingers, and also involving a whip like motion of the entire limb.
ztpurcell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:41:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bass player here and I have about the exact same results
Roguedaddy ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 01:25:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's why it's the ring finger. It's the least independent finger and requires another to help it up.
ascendant512 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're completely wrong, but don't let that stop you from reposting it to Facebook:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_finger#The_wedding_ring
Roguedaddy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:41:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're link says nothing of the sort, in western culture my statement is correct. The information provided is also not sourced and is the same as me saying my statement.
ascendant512 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:02 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, it's a thing. Plenty of references here:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Vena+amoris&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
[deleted] ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 01:16:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
False, I can easily do that.
The_Frankanator ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 01:31:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Either you're doing it wrong, your tendons are all kinds of fucked up or you're lying. Which one's it going to be?
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:21:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know what the fuck you're on about, but I can easily do that.
drunkjockey ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:24:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can do it, but I have hypermobile joints.
Fun fact, the hypermobility also allows me to lick my elbow!
yuri53122 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:35:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
there's dozens of us!
Can you also make your elbows and knees go backwards?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:15:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Random associated factoid: hypermobility is a symptom of/ correlated with anorexia and other eating disorders
TheVoicesSayHi ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 01:45:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm gonna go with tendons for myself. Because I can do it but only by lifting my pinky finger as well, you can say that's cheating which is fair but my pinky and ring finger seem to be connected in that way, for instance the "boy scouts salute" I can't bend my pinky down without the ring finger bending too so I can't do the 3 finger salute thing and tuck the pinky under the thumb
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 02:03:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone can do it by also picking up the pinky, and for the boyscout salute it typically is difficult/is painful until you do it a lot.
machenise ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:39:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was able to do it without lifting up my pinky. Pinky definitely helps, but I forced my pink down and still got about 1/4 inch clearance on the ring finger.
yuri53122 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:32:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
same here. now my left hand is going to hurt for about an hour, but my right hand could do it without any problems. Also, contrary to belief, I can lick my own elbow. Well, I could in high school. I can't twist my arm like I used to be able to.
TheVoicesSayHi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:15:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahh okay gotcha. I had just always seen people do that and figured there's something wrong with my hands or something lol
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:46:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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crossmr ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:35:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How can you keep your hand flat if you need to put your middle finger under your palm? Is your middle finger basically flat? I can do it on both hands without issue.
VulpineVexation ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:00:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did it without lifting my pinky, everything stayed flat except my ring finger.. hurt like a bitch and I can only do it with my dominant hand (can't even move my non-dominant)
lewmpydewmpy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:33:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do you put your middle finger under the palm of that hand while keeping your hand flat?
asshair ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:56:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck dued
OneArmedMidget ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:08:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can do it too though. But I can just raise my ring finger by itself
https://m.imgur.com/a/6txK5 see
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:11:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was able to as well. It hurt afterward though.
felesroo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:55:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can do it too, but it does feel funny, like this never-used tendon is suddenly called up to the free throw line with 2 seconds left when we're one point down.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:59:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lmao, yeah thats a good analogy.
D3adkl0wn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:02:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On my left hand I cannot do it, but on my right (dominant) hand I can lift it about half an inch no problem at all.
babykittiesyay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:38:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can do it easily, but I'm a professional violinist so I'm sure my tendons are different.
LordRuby ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:00:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can do it, probably because my tendons don't stay centered on my knuckles so I have more slack.
stephangb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:13:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
why is your K or E on fucked fucked?
coinpile ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:26:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can do this. Dunno if the fact that I'm double jointed matters. I also have freaky tendons, I can bend my leg backwards past my hips from behind and place my foot in front of my stomach.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:23:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tendon's are fucked for me. Rheumatoid Hyper-Mobility. Some people might have a "double joint" or two, but every single one of my fingers, both my hips, shoulders, ankles, toes, wrists, and many of my vertebrae are all "double jointed". I looked it up and only about 2% of American's have it.
aliasrestricted ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:25:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can also but only 1/2"
jv9mmm ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:45:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did it too.
Tarshana ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:48:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love doing that to a room full of kids I'm roped into babysitting.. they spend at least an hour trying to "psyche" each other out by lifting their ring finger xD
Nirheim ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:49:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can do it.
ceruleansensei ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:09:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yee because there's no extensor going just to the ring finger, or the middle finger for that matter, they share one with the pointer finger, but the pointer also gets another one, so that's why it can move on its own and all that jazz.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:48:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read this once when I was very young, and have trained myself to be able to actually do this. Will post video if people are interested.
Dmongun ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:54:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just did it
Kromatick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:32:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck, you soulless fiend. How could you.
theworldismadeofcorn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:08:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just did (by using my other hand).
Purple-Penguin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:17:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can do this, but my fingers are bendy so might be because of that.
sapeetapottus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This small exercise gives insight as to what it's like to be paralyzed.
Your brain is telling your ring finger to move. It doesn't move.
pm_me_for_happiness ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
pfft guys, do you even lift? never skip ring finger day.
Chili_Maggot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can do it. Barely, and it hurts, and I'm using a way different muscle in my hand than I normally do, but I did it.
zero_dgz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My dad loves to show off that he can do this, although only on his right hand.
When he was a kid he was involved in an accident that resulted in a trailer hitch slamming down on his hand. It did no permanent damage other than severing whatever tendon/ligament/whatever it is that prevents you from doing this.
I've seen him win a lot of beers from people in bars with this "bet."
Here's another one, though: Find a wall and a bar stool. (You can use anything tall enough to pick up from that position. A chair, a tray table, whatever.) Stand three lengths of your own foot back from the wall. Place the bar stool in front of you and lean against the wall with the top of your head. Pick up the bar stool. Now, without pushing off the wall with your forehead, stand up.
You can't. If you're male.
My_PW_Is_123456789 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:51:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But i can and i am male.
DoubleClickMouse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can lift mine. It's only barely enough to get off the table but I can break contact from the surface. I thought I may have been doing it wrong but my middle finger is folded under my palm as far as I can feasibly make it go.
Then again I'm a musician so maybe that plays into the finger strength.
machenise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:38:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can lift my ring finger about 1/4 of an inch. Now the top of my hand feels weird and a spot about two inches below my elbow hurts. Am I going to die?
raygundan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, it was awkward, but I can do it.
Is there a prize for being able to lift your ring finger an eighth of an inch with your middle finger under your palm?
SSJRanulf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I tried so hard. I thought of my family in need, children needing me to protect them, of horrible torture and pain, and I gave it everything I had. Sweating, vein on head, ect.
Nope. Didn't move a micrometer.
whatIsThisBullCrap ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:00:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm able to do this quite easily. Every finger and the first knuckle on my middle are touching the table but the ring finger is not
James4832 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can do it
EoT_FoF_YL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:08:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did it. Also nice username, winter will be unending.
cubbie88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:11:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can do it, but only on my left hand
jcpmojo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I can do this. I used to do a bar trick where I would put my hand palm down, put my middle finger under my palm then use the tips of the ring and index fingers to pick up a match book and place it on the top of a standing box of cigarettes. Let me know if anybody else can do this. I've never seen anyone else do it.
vodoun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can do it, but I'm double jointed
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wrong. just tried it.
chuckaholic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I tried it and I have found my secret talent. Thank you.
EchoPhi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I actually can. granted not much more than 1/4th an inch. And no the rest of my hand did not move.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember doing that in middle school. I was able to actually lift my finger verrry slightly up before feeling immense pain. Everyone was impressed and I remained a loser.
Just tried it again now. Felt the pain but I can't do it.
Fujimora ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:49:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can do this, will photo in the morning
goodevilgenius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:51:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I got mine up a tiny bit: probably less than a millimeter, but still something.
breadprincess ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:53:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can do this, but I'm hypermobile so it may not count.
Maguffins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:53:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whyyyyy??
I've always wondered why I can't move the toes between my big and pinky toes independently of each other to any meaningful degree.
Rupour ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:58:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can do this quite easily and have been since the first time someone told me about this. Here is some proof. There comes a point where if my hand is high enough I cannot do it though. I'm guessing that my tendons are all kinds of messed up because if I put my ring finger under my palm I can't lift my pinkie finger, which is something literally everybody I know can do.
jefclarkk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:58:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Define lift. I raised mine a few centimeters.
KaceofBass ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:59:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can do it... I think it has to do with being double jointed.
continous ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:06:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can do this; a more exciting fun fact relating to your fingers is that spraining one finger often results in spraining multiple fingers.
Explanation: Many of the tendons, ligaments, and muscles are shared.
Splendidissimus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:15:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can do it (not very far, and it does hurt), but I've spent the better part of 15 years training my fingers to do stupid, pointless things, so I think I have slightly better control over than than most people.
batfiend ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:22:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can, but only with my right hand. Is there something wrong with me?
spatz2011 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:23:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can.
EggplantCider ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:24:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anyone got a diagram of how this should be done? I can do it, but I'm wondering if I'm cheating somehow.
_coyotes_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:24:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I tried. I tried so hard (and got so far) but seriously what the fuck, I tried so much and now my ring finger feels uncomfortable just on its own.
dirtydirtydictionary ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:29:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can only do it with my right hand.
WillyMacBatman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:30:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most people also can't bend their pinky finger without bending their ring finger
djc6535 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:33:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You were doing so well... you even specified which middle finger to put under my palm... but you never said whether my palm had to stay down or not.
PS: I'm not entirely pedantic. I got there because I did it successfully, but my pinky finger was so far in the air that I wondered if that counted or not. Then I realized you never said how much of my palm/hand/whatever had to stay down.
F3AR3DLEGEND ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:48:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's interesting that it doesn't work the other way around, though. You can still lift your middle finger with your ring finger under your palm, albeit not as much as you can normally
Condomonium ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:03:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did it.
By like a centimeter though.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:19:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It's easily lifting. So same hand? Just tuck the middle finger of the same hand under the palm on a flat surface?
Cause ring finger is lifting an inch plus over the others...
Edit: Yeah, pinky's down touching the surface (the base of it is raised, the first and second joints are touching.) I can also do the "bend your thumb to your arm" thing"
Legionx37 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:37:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uhm... I think I'm broken... I did it no sweat. Not much, but it definitely lifted noticeably .
Fengolin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:43:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can do it
Tommy2255 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:07:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can lift it a couple millimeters with the middle knuckle and pinky tight against the table. If I lift up my pinky, then I can lift the middle finger a good couple of centimeters, and that's 100% fair because there was no rule that I couldn't.
viceroy_of_ancappery ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:26:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah don't do that if you don't want to fuck up your tendons. Or at least please don't try too hard.
Nukemarine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:31:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did it no problem. Oh, you meant not using the other hand to help.
stug41 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:32:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm confused, what's this look like? I tried it as described without trouble so I don't think I'm doing it right.
twoseat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:36:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Weird, I can actually do this. Only on one hand, and only by ~0.5cm, but still...
Pizzarcatto ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:37:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did it! :D
felesroo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:54:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can. Sorry :(
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:58:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude every day in middle school shoreline said that, and I'd just do it and they'd be like "whoa!" I don't understand.
BrassBass ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God damn it...
Coolmikefromcanada ยท 128 points ยท Posted at 04:50:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The US has the four largest air forces in North America
foxjcon ยท 56 points ยท Posted at 05:54:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the two largest in the world. At least.
GoesTo_Equilibrium ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:24:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What?
Arrowjoe ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 07:34:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Air Force is 1st, Navy is 2nd (iirc)
OblivionForTheDemons ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:43:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
2 largest (air forces)
Zirenth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:12:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
3 now, isn't it? I thought the Army was now considered the 3rd largest?
Stormkitty ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 07:50:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
USAF, US Navy, USMC, and ???
Coolmikefromcanada ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 08:14:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Army
ConnectionIssues ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:01:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My immediate thought was USCG...
Coolmikefromcanada ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:15:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Army was what I heard
Herp_derpelson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:30:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not American so I'm not 100% on three answer, but aren't the marines part of the navy?
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:02:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, they're their own entity. Funnily enough the Navy does have ground forces it can deploy in a similar role to what you think the Marines would do. And the Army had amphibious assault units which basically do what the Marines were supposed to do.
crono09 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:56:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Technically, yes, the Marines have been part of the Navy since 1834. Functionally, they operate as separate branches of the military with the Marines using the Navy for transportation and support.
kieppie ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:38:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a bit like saying they win the world series every year...
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:25:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uhhh...
You must be unaware that the US is not the only country in North America.
There are 41 countries in North America
kieppie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:48:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I actually didn't know that. Knew of Canada, Mexico & a few others, but not 41.
Still, saying the US has the biggest $something on the continent is hardly comparing it to anything else of comparable scale: biggest population, GDP, homelessness, tall people, short people, left-handednes, cars, death form preventable illness, etc, etc
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:59:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It doesn't have the biggest something, though. It has the 4 biggest of something. And furthermore, that something is something a lot of people didn't even know we had more than 1 of.
That's what's interesting about it.
"What? We have 4 air forces? And even the smallest of those 4 is bigger than the biggest air force in the other 41 countries in North America? That is interesting."
So your analogies aren't really analogous. Your analogies would work if he said the US has the biggest Air Force in North America. But he didn't say that. He said the US has the top 4 biggest Air Forces in North America.
kieppie ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 19:45:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So it has the biggest subset for a set it consists almost entirely of?
Sure - that makes total sense, but the same would hold true for almost any other subset you can think of.
Not exactly a counterintuitive fact as per OP's question, init?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:53:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And now I'm officially bored of this conversation. Goodday.
Smithburg01 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:11:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So we've been building units forever are we gonna zerg rush his base or what?
masterxak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:44:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
North America, so like the top 4 air forces out of 3 countries , pretty impressive.
bearsnchairs ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:39:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are 10 countries in North America, 23 counting the Caribbean.
[deleted] ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 07:32:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And one of the oldest naval fleets in the world!
Coolmikefromcanada ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 07:41:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Behind all of Europe
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:12:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Coolmikefromcanada ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 09:15:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The HMS victory
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:39:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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CREEPY_KARMA ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 10:07:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well it's not sinking is it.
Randomawesomeguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:10:31 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's just floating on land...
bearsnchairs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:42:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I enjoy how having an old naval fleet is a bragging point. It just means your ships are outdated.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:09:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Coolmikefromcanada ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:10:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Army has their Air Force for some reason
steven8765 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:18:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
oh right, forgot about them. I'm actually from Canada myself, haha. I think the army has their own air force because of helicopters.
Coolmikefromcanada ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:23:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you explain why the US feels it needs to keep all the bits of its military separate from each other ?
fadingremnants ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:54:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, at least concerning the aircraft, each branch has aircraft specialized for their service. The Navy has a load of carrier aircraft, Air Force has everything, Marines and Army have (mostly) aircraft that engage in ground-attack and supporting infantry. It may seem chaotic, but it simplifies things when you're a Marine in Basra and would otherwise have to call up the chain of command and across to another branch to get an Apache over your head.
steven8765 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:26:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
haha, I'm not exactly sure. I'm Canadian like I said but it could be they still believe rivalry between branches can be good at times.
Blenderhead36 ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 14:02:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As of 2014, at least, there is still a pension being paid out for service in the American Civil War (1861-1865). It's claimed by a woman born in 1930 to a mother who was 50 years younger than her husband, Mose Triplett. Triplett served in the Civil War at the age of 16. She is in her 80s, and still gets ~$70 a month for her father's military service.
HolyNipplesOfChrist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:52:57 on March 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Must have been decent money back then
montypissthon ยท 267 points ยท Posted at 03:54:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bathtubs are reverse boats
pizzaiscommunist ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 07:05:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lakes are reverse islands
kileel ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:38:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so would lake islands be reverse island lakes?
Mogbog997 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:17:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://imgur.com/gallery/dH3vY
thumpas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:44:40 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
fuckin hell
00yoshi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:04:37 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One should post this to /r/til
anschelsc ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:10:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is great but I feel like it's more of a showerthought.
TrollManGoblin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:08:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And saunas are reverse swimming pools.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 358 points ยท Posted at 02:43:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Earth does not rotate once in 24 hours. It rotates once in 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds. The reason a day is 24 hours is because as the Earth rotates upon its axis it's also orbiting the Sun and 24 hours is the average time between high noons over one orbit.
Reagalan ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 04:54:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sidereal vs synodic. Thanks Kerbals!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:34:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Days are synodic, years are tropical, but none of the calendar measures are actually sidereal. Tropical is about seasons or the orientation of the Earth's axis - because of the precession of the equinoxes, or the slow shift in the axis, it is not exactly as long as a sidereal year. If we measured years in sidereal terms, the seasons would be flipped every 13,000 years.
It's pretty badass how the precession (which is about 1 degree in 100 years) was originally observed with naked eye by one dude in Ancient Greece, over his entire lifetime.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:00:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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munchler ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 04:23:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We need leap years because Earth revolves around the sun every 365.24 days, not exactly 365 days. That extra 0.24 days adds up to one whole day every four years or so (0.24 * 4 = 0.96).
Kurozy ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 04:35:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So does it mean that every 100 years we should skip that extra day because of it being 0.96 and not exactly 1 ?
crannogman_pride ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 04:41:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. And we do. Every hundred is not a leap year. But that's even not exactly right, so every thousand is. So 1900 wasn't, but 2000 was.
Kurozy ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 04:46:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Omg seriously ? I didnt even know and was asking more for trying to make a joke than anything else, awesome, thanks for sharing this !
SpellofIndolence ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 06:19:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every year that is exactly divisible by four is a leap year, except for years that are exactly divisible by 100, but these centurial years are leap years if they are exactly divisible by 400. For example, the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 are not leap years, but the year 2000 is.
Wikipedia
crannogman_pride ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:48:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It might be every 400 that is again, not 1000. Something like that.
harlows_monkeys ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 05:41:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Correct. It is 400. The leap centuries on the Gregorian calendar are 1600, 2000, 2400, 2800, and so on.
Drigr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:04:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So i got to live through a new millenia, century, decade, AND lead century?! Fucking sweet
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:51:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's it. Every hundred years there isn't a leap year, but every hundred leap years there is.
th3xile ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:52:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, every hundred isn't BUT every fourth one of those is still a leap year (so 1600 and 2000 were still leap years).
zeekar ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:55:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Not thousand, 400. 2400 will also be a leap year.
The calendar repeats exactly every 400 years in a cycle that includes 146,097 days. So it averages out to 146097 / 400= 365.2425 days per year.
The specific physical year the calendar was designed to track is the "tropical year", according to which the seasons return. Because the part of the orbit that is e.g. "spring" is slowly moving around with respect to the stars, the actual value of the tropical year varies depending on when you measure it. The "average of averages" for the current epoch is about 365.2422 days, so we're pretty close.
scotchirish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:30:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe there's also an additional one every 30,000 years
Curt0815 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:48:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yep, this is how we actually do it.
according to wikipedia the algorithm is:
so every 400th year we put that skip day back in (last time in the year 2000)
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:25:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are also leap seconds added every now and then, in order to make it even more accurate.
Starrystars ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:43:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes every 100 years we skip a leap day unless that year is a multiple of 400 which we than keep the lead day. Year 2000 had a leap day but year 2100 won't
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:22:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. It pertains to the position of the Earth's axis relative to Sun (which is what causes seasons), not Earth's revolutions around the Sun. They have slightly different periods. The axis, you see, is also rotating very slowly relative to the solar system (in astronomy, this is called lunisolar precession). If we measured the years by the revolutions, not the axis, it would take about 13,000 years for Christmas to be in the middle of summer in the Northern hemisphere.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Earth_axial_precession.svg/300px-Earth_axial_precession.svg.png
thundergonian ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:26:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We need leap years because days and years are independent measures of time.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:02:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No.
zeekar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:53:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Nah. We need leap years because the amount of time the Earth takes to go all the way around the sun isn't exactly an even multiple of the amount of time it takes to spin around its own axis. It would be kind of an amazing coincidence if it were, don't you think?
Poromenos ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:43:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, four minutes a day is a day a year. As in, six months in, noon is in the middle of the night.
rlbond86 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:47:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, not at all
DCdictator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:28:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
we also offset the time difference with leap years (the minutes are taken care of by not having a leap year on centuries unless the first two digits are also divisible by four).
panzerkampfwagen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:29:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, you're confused between rotation and orbit. We have a leap year because the length of an orbit is slightly longer than 365 days.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:28:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not the orbit either. It's the position of the Earth's axis with respect to the Sun. The two have slightly different periods because of the slow rotation of the axis itself (precession). If you measured by the orbit, the seasons versus months would be completely flipped every 13,000 years.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Earth_axial_precession.svg/300px-Earth_axial_precession.svg.png
panzerkampfwagen ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:32:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, it's the orbit. Because of the orbit the Earth has to rotate slightly more than once to get the Sun back to high noon again.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ad9QPjsfREA/UlXZLMFhHlI/AAAAAAAADWc/fkfJMkIUeDU/s1600/Sidereal_Time_en.jpg
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:11:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a sidereal year, which is based on the orbit. But the calendar years are based on tropical years, which are based on the position of the axis. It was one of the first things we covered in the Astronomy 101 course.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_year
Axial precession is what causes the difference between a sidereal and tropical year.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:31:15 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great, I was talking about the rotation of the Earth compared to a day.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:35:53 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You were actually talking about leap years, which occur because of the corrections that the Gregorian calendar makes in order to sync with the tropical year. Calendar days are just synodic and aren't related to the tropical year by any raw number, which is why there needs to be corrections.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:51:26 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, I was talking about how long it takes the Earth to rotate once on its axis.
AlexKfridges ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:58:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It rotates once every 24 hours relative to the sun.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:00:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On average. Since the orbit isn't a perfect circle the relative to the Sun bit can differ by a few minutes.
TryAnotherNamePlease ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:14:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which is why we have leap year.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:22:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No.
PoopButtMuffinTop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:09:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go fuck yourself.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:10:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry, did your mind explode?
crackedquads ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:12:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If the rotation of the earth is nearly 4 minutes short of 24 hours why doesn't the sunrise/sunset times shift (other than the rate they do due to seasons).
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:14:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As I said, the Earth also orbits the Sun.
crackedquads ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:27:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well yeah. That with the tilt of the earth causes seasons, yes. The rotation of earth causes days. If it was 4 minutes short of 24 hours wouldn't sunrise/sunset shift close to half an hour a week? Sorry I'm just not following how the orbit makes up for a full 4 minutes a rotation.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:30:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go outside and stand facing a tree. Turn around once. That's turning once on your axis. Now turn around once but walk a little around the tree. After turning once you won't be facing the tree, you'll be a little off. You'll need to turn a little more than once to be facing the tree again.
Picture the Earth orbiting the Sun. On day 1 you're looking up at high noon. 6 months worth of rotations and it's now midnight (the Earth is now on the opposite side of the Sun).
Tuba4life1000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:26:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's why we have daylight savings
Bananavice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:57:03 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I never thought of that but it makes sense. 4 minutes a day means roughly 24 hours in a year. If earth rotated fully in 24 hours, after half a year noon would be midnight. Neat!
XxLokixX ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:06:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A day is the length of Earth's rotation
A month is the length of the lunar cycle
A year is the length of Earth's revolution
But a week is just a week, for some reason
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:39:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A calendar year is actually the length of the axial rotation with respect to the Sun (or in other words a full seasonal cycle). It's about 20 minutes shorter than the length of the revolution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_year
Weeks just exist because people regularly need days off. I wonder who originally started counting our 7-day weeks and if they've ever lost count since.
adrianmonk ยท 101 points ยท Posted at 04:18:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Suppose someone tells you that every day for the entire month of May, they will give you a certain amount of money, and you get to choose one of these two options:
You would receive more money if you picked the second option.
Here's how the math works out. For the first option, you get $3.1 million. For the second option, you get 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + ... + 230 cents, which is equal to 231-1 cents, so it comes out to about $21.4 million (or exactly $21,474,836.47).
dactyif ยท 70 points ยท Posted at 08:57:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't there an anecdote about some Chinese advisor did the emperor a favour and in return asked for a grain of rice on a chess board getting doubled as it moves along the squares, emperor said sure! But ended up killing the advisor because he couldn't pay up.
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 11:52:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
man someone should write a book on how to not get killed in imperial china
it would be a big book
generationsofleaves ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 12:08:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Step 1: don't live in imperial china.
AveragePacifist ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:32:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But don't try to escape! That will get you killed for sure.
Renato1092 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:49:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He didnt kill him, he told him hell get it but he has to count them. The guy gave up hahah
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:46:19 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember it as a little girl and the wealthy man eventually went broke to give her the money.
Tupptupp_XD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:45:31 on March 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a very long question
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:15:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Persian, I think.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:52:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But what are the tax implications of each?
ILikeBumblebees ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 08:18:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Hey, that's a Mersenne prime!
PumkinPi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:00:22 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wat
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:02:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, but, cents
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 10:45:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or if you were Canadian you'd round down to 0 cent on the first day, doubling it to 0 cent on the second day and so on.
EightyMercury ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:59:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pfft, amateurs. If Donald Trump has taught me anything, it's that with a small gift of $100,000 dollars I could easily set up my own business and immediately make more money than I'd ever get relying on handouts every day.
TelldeathNottoday ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:52:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember this episode of cyberchase!
fear_my_beard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:28:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That show was the shit!
tyrghast ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:55:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Im not picky, just decide which one you'd rather give me.
TryAgainAt10AM ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:44:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And you also get a bigger amount when you report it to the IRS.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:08:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who the hell is willing to randomly shell out millions dollars just like that
rallias ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:01:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
May has 31 days, so it'd be 232 -1 cents.
adrianmonk ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:07:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had it that way originally but changed it. The reason is, the first day is 20 cents, so the last day is 230 cents. Thus you need to find the sum of 2N where N is 0..30, so that's 231-1.
MrPickles1000 ยท 399 points ยท Posted at 00:38:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reno is actually west of Los Angeles
Almost_Ascended ยท 60 points ยท Posted at 05:00:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We're gonna be rich!
TheMainStream ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 07:34:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well fought. I concede.
FoolishPumpkin ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 06:35:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rip rexxar
Doofenshmitz ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:52:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Masterful. I concede.
xatmatwork ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:03:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drink with me, friend!
Keynes_to_success ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:12:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tahoe's west of LA? Bullshit Snapple!
PukeBucket_616 ยท 80 points ยท Posted at 01:13:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sitting in a bar in Lake Tahoe I met a couple from Arkansas who thought Beverly Hills was just a short drive away. Sweet people, 'bout as sharp as a spoon.
Sitting in a bar in Sacramento I met a couple who didn't know Sacramento is North of San Francisco. This one is far more depressing because it's happened more than once.
Deathless-Bearer ยท 116 points ยท Posted at 01:25:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well if they drove there from Arkansas then relatively speaking it is just a short drive away.
gimpwiz ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:16:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Roughly 27 hours (give or take depending on where you start) from Arkansas to Tahoe; 7 from there to Beverly Hills.
It's a relatively short drive, especially if you love to drive and/or can drive nonstop for a good long while, but still, not that close.
DrossSA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:18:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Little Rock to SF can be done in two long days with a sleep in Albuquerque.
Source: lived in both places
Garconanokin ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:00:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Relatively speaking, the Arkansas couple was brother and sister as well
mattoly ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 02:30:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh man, I know what you mean. I'm in Seattle. When I was like 13 one of my mom's cousins from the south who had never been west of the Mississippi came to visit for three days. It was going to be two, but they wanted to make sure we'd have time to "drive down to the redwoods, see the Rockies, and check out the Golden Gate Bridge. And if we have time it'd be great to stop into Vancouver, Canada! The exchange rates are really good right now!"
kookaburra1701 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:24:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This happened to me with relatives from New Hampshire. I live in Oregon. They didn't understand why we couldn't just make a day trip down to Disneyland, as it's "only one State away!"
mattoly ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:27:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right. It's like, California itself is all of your states combined. Got airfare?
thundergonian ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:07:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The I-5's California interchanges hit number 796 before the Oregon border. Only beat by I-10's exit 880 in eastern Texas.
As someone who grew up in the South, I thought I-40's 451 in Tennessee was high. These numbers completely blew my mind at first.
While we're on the topic of interstate exit numbers, I know of three exit 0's: I-94 at I-90 in Montana; I-65 over the Ohio River north of Louisville, Kentucky; and I-40 at the Texas-New Mexico border.
Although all four I-5 interchanges are around a mile apart in Anderson, CA, the numbers go 665, 667A, 667B, 668. They intentionally skipped exit number 666.
LordoftheSynth ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:57:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I moved from Seattle to Los Angeles a couple years ago. On the drive down, it really feels like you're halfway there when you hit the California state line.
Then you see exit 796. "I forgot CA had exit numbers that close to 800."
(The 101 is pretty close too: it's got an exit 794 and would actually be a good bit above 800 if the northern end were freeway.)
Then you get teased again when you hit Sacramento and all the overhead signs start saying Los Angeles. Feels like you're practically there! Nope, you've got another 5-6 hours of mostly arrow-straight freeway in the middle of nowhere to go, unless you want to spend 7 hours driving down the 99.
kookaburra1701 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:25:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ftfy
LordoftheSynth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:02:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ha! Well played.
Don't forget the state prison, either.
gurg2k1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:27:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the local cops who like to pull people over for 'speeding.'
iamthegraham ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:05:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've driven from Sacramento to San Diego a few times too many, can confirm. Los Angeles is your "well, I'm basically there!" point. After that you just have between two and eight hours to go to get to SD, depending on LA traffic.
LordoftheSynth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:41:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I've done LA to SD a few times as well as the longer drive, I don't feel like I'm "getting there" for SD until I pass San Clemente. May simply be I visited LA frequently for a long time before moving, but SD only once.
In a similar vein, I always seem to forget Santa Clarita is there when I'm heading south, so I'm always surprised to not see the 14 and the 210 on signs coming out of Castaic.
kookaburra1701 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:43:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I went to school in Santa Barbara, and did the power run from Eugene a number of times. Magic Mountain was my "It's almost done!" moment.
kookaburra1701 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:23:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There was also some hilarity when they exclaimed over the hills to the east of town and said, "Gosh, the Cascades are so majestic!"
We did take them to see the actual Cascades during their visit.
mattoly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:33:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh... Oh man. If they'd seen the Grand Tetons...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Barns_grand_tetons.jpg
gurg2k1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:28:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The coastal range or something more local?
kookaburra1701 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:31:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have no idea if the hills have an actual name. The ones south of town are "the South hills" and the ones northeast are "the Coburg hills". Then there's a few buttes around the area that have their own names.
We are not a creative people.
greenphilly420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:39:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Driving from Reno to Tahoe my aunt from Vermont exclaimed "it's like we're driving over the freaking alps!"
DaSaw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:47:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shoot, I grew up in California, and even I had trouble remembering how big it was. There I was thinking I could drive from Portland to Fresno in a day. Nope.
Heroshade ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:17:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should have taken her to Vancouver Washington, then just gone to Portland and told her the golden gate (Morrison) bridge doesn't look much like the pictures.
dj_soo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:02:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vancouver is only 2 hours north so it is feasible to do a day trip from Seattle.
mattoly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:28:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure, but not with everything else as well.
dj_soo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:37:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well yea. If they thought they were going to do LA, San Fran, and Vancouver in the same day then... Wow.
Roll9ers ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:10:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I live in alabama now and the amount of people that think oakland is closer to LA than SF is astounding.
But the amount of californians i know that dont believe alabama and florida border eachother is also astounding.
greenphilly420 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:41:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The amount of Americans that don't know fuck all about basic geography is astounding to me. I mean I can point out Kyrgyzstan on an unmarked map but most of my friends can't point out Iowa on an unmarked map
randomthug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:49:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its jacksonville kinda just lower alabama?
asparker24 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:06:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean to say that people who don't live in CA also don't know the geography of CA?
jymhtysy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:32:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
CA's geography is kind of simple though. It's a big ass valley, surrounded by mountains. All the rivers in the valley flow into San Francisco Bay. LA is south of the big ass valley.
And you know the angle in California's border with Nevada? That's where Lake Tahoe is.
Yeah, I know it's not that simple. If I had time, I'd make a map for this too.
And for a sense of scale, CA has 840 miles of coastline. OR and WA combined have 453.
randomthug ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:51:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to explain to my navy buddies that the Reason a guy from LA isn't a San Francisco niners fan... is like a guy from Florida being a giants fan. It's no where freaking near me.
KingJohnTX ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:59:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well to be fair it's in the same state, I live in San Antonio and am a Dallas Cowboys fan, and that's a bit of a distance.
randomthug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:32:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess its just annoying to explain to someone how large California is when they all had maps in grade school. Dealt with this a lot during my enlistment. Also I think going from LA to SF is a lot different than some other larger states because well fuck it Traffic.
PukeBucket_616 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:36:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. But also that people who do live in California don't know the geography of California.
brallipop ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:29:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Huh. I thought Sacramento was in between LA and San Fran, basically where Fresno is. I must have thought it was between the two biggest cities for convenience, but Sacramento is straight up NorCal.
thedeadlyrhythm42 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:48:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As someone who grew up in California, I've always believed that Sacramento is the beginning of Northern California in the San Joaquin Valley
greenphilly420 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:44:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought south of Sac was San Joaquin valley, North was Sacramento valley, and combined they were the central valley
thedeadlyrhythm42 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:47:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're right, my bad on the phrasing
A_StandardToaster ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:21:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Elk Grove is the Gateway to the Central Valley, IMO.
thedeadlyrhythm42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:50:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I agree
wranglingmonkies ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:32:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup but no one ever says San Fran...
greenphilly420 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:43:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NorCal isn't even truly northern California it's more like central
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:38:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't know either of these things, but I'm Canadian so I suppose that'd be why.
Who_GNU ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:10:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you ever seen "Better off Dead"? They live in Northern California, but they watch Dodgers games in person, like it's a ten minute drive to the stadium.
JenkemAtNoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:47:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They don't show you the 7+ hour long road trip from Sac to LA
IAmTheGodDamnDoctor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:23:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Currently on a bus from Sac to LA. 12 hour long trip. Definitely a short trip . Granted, we are going through SF. It would be about 7 hours if I drove.
thealexandrak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:53:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My boyfriend of 3 years had no idea Sacramento was north of SF. And the man has taken a road trip through California. Wtf
dickmartyr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:04:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All of us Arkansans are not like this, I promise. I did have a funny interaction in a Tilted Kilt outside of Detriot, Michigan once, when I was up there on business. I ordered a beer and was carded, the waitress looked at my card and back at me. "Arkansauce?" "Yes, ma'am. I'm from Arkansas." The poor girl probably couldn't point out the general region Arkansas is in.
lmrk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:50:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's your game? You try to pick up couples in bars all over the place?
777lover ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:24:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You like sitting in bars. I'm worried about you.
BlackDeath3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not seeing the big deal here.
iamthegraham ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:01:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Having lived just outside Sacramento, I can see why someone would think that. To get from Sac to the bay, you take 80 West. To get from the bay back to Sacramento, you take 80 East.
the layman isn't accounting for the fact that whatever genius interstate designer came up with "80 West" had it travel as far or farther south as it does west between Sac and SF. A completely understandable mistake tbqh.
Sll3rd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:10:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're not from California, you likely don't know a whole lot about California geography.
Hell, I couldn't tell you much about say... Kentucky geography. Maybe less than what the couple you met from Arkansas knows about California geography.
Wrest216 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:21:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ohhh i see. So Reno is to San Francisco as Las vegas is to LA. Got it.
greenphilly420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:36:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can confirm this. I moved to reno a couple years back and when I tell my friends in PA that I can see California from my house they go, "oh you must be like 20 minutes from the ocean then!" Uhm no California is about as big as if the east coast from PA to Georgia was all one state
Mtanak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:56:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can this one be explained?
RealGamerGod88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:12:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We're gonna be rich!
ScotteToHotte ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can not wrap my brain around this whatsoever.
CoffeeHamster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:54:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck.
PoopButtMuffinTop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:07:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, it isn't.
seal_eggs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:55:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cool
AP246 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:34:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Never heard of Reno. Mind not blown. Try again next time.
Drumlin ยท 1061 points ยท Posted at 23:35:59 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
If you cuddle a koala, you have a very high risk of getting the clap.
Edit: Ok, its chlamydia, not gonnorrhea, I get it now. I apologize for misremembering, reddit.
invol713 ยท 1630 points ยท Posted at 23:40:36 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think we have very different definitions of the word 'cuddle'.
angry_badger32 ยท 423 points ยท Posted at 00:03:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you not use your penis when you cuddle?
invol713 ยท 156 points ยท Posted at 00:05:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not usually? I'm beginning to speculate why the badger is angry.
angry_badger32 ยท 85 points ยท Posted at 00:07:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WOULDN'T YOU BE ANGRY IF A KOALA BIT YOU IN THE DICK?!?
invol713 ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 00:10:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, if I had a 9000 mile long dick to get within range of a koala... no?
edit: okay, the zoo. Well, if I had a 15 mile long dick to get within range of a koala... still no?
TedFx ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:04:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fantastic edit! ๐
invol713 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:53:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I aim to please with my significantly-truncated dick.
AboveDisturbing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:02:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well fuck, don't you ever gonto thenzoo? That shit is dope, I love seeing dem animals.
The_Drider ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:01:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Quote of the fucking week.
TheSpecialBrowney ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:02:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't go as far to call OPs mom a koala
angry_badger32 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:06:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, are you saying that OP's mom is not only a slut, but in fact does NOT carry around her young in a pouch while munching on eucalyptus? I've been had!
Urbanviking1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:14:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because you weren't using your penis. That's why.
invol713 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:15:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pssst! Check his user name.
Reaper_of_Souls ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:25:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I want to make an Angry Beavers joke, but I know exactly where you would go with that.
AmoebaNot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:11:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go ahead and tell your dam beaver joke.
Reaper_of_Souls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...it wasn't as good as that one.
PM_ME_UR_HEDGEHOGS ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:17:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Am I... am I supposed to cuddle with my penis?
oorakhhye ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:56:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I cuddle my penis...
h2odragon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:13:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not everyone has a penis. Sharing fluids is still possible. Call it "heavy cuddling" if it makes you more comfortable.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:02:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Struggle snuggles
crazyfingersculture ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:31:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that's a question and not an exclamation is wrong on so many levels.
Swibblestein ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:20:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only when cuddling a Koala.
Scarletfapper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:31:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only with my SO
WIENS21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:04:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why cuddle when you can just do it???
heronumberwon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:28:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
( อกยฐ อส อกยฐ) I do
Faugh ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:58:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'AT'S NOT A CUDDLE.
THIS IS A CUDDLE.
tatsuedoa ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:20:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't one of the One direction douche bags get the clap because a Koala scratched or pisses on him?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:02:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Must be Marge's account.
RQK1996 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:38:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
their hands are contagious
invol713 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:45:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't get a handjob from a koala... check.
KngHrts2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:34:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So do most wives.
[deleted] ยท 499 points ยท Posted at 02:24:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The clap isnt chlamydia. Koalas give you chlamydia. The clap is gonorrhea.
nayhem_jr ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 04:49:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know โฆ
I was watching an animal show. One of the trainers brought out the koala, and we all gave her a clap.
spm201 ยท 54 points ยท Posted at 02:42:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dropbears on the other hand, will give you all kinds of nasty shit.
swigglediddle ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:54:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They'll give you a nasty case of death
dandelion_king ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:49:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Koalamydia?
D3adkl0wn ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:56:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently Guinea Pigs can do the same.
LetterSwapper ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:34:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
New Guinea Pigs on the other hand...
evan164 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:04:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought the Clap was when you a strong hankering for Eric Clapton.
Drumlin ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:26:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oops, my bad.
PoopButtMuffinTop ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:59:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh thank god, I thought I had chlamydia there for a second.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:35:41 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man, either way youre celabate until the antibiotics are done. There are no winners in this game of poon.
uroldfrienddarkness ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:47:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whatever, the antibiotics I'm on kill both! Come here, Mr Koala!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:49:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't understand why the clap is gonorrhea... That makes no logics
Canada_is_gay ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:16:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because in ye olde times part of the treatment involved "clapping" the penis with a heavy object to force the discharge out.
superior_wombat ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 09:03:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd rather keep the gonorrhea thank you very much
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:00:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At least there is a legitimate answer. Thanks. :)
Dathouen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:41:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think gonorrhea is called "jollyrancher(s)" now.
Sackyhack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:21:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And still, it's only a small percentage of the wild ones who have chlamydia
Blind_Sypher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:19:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Koalas are also mean as all fuck.
Knight_of_autumn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:29:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
why would you clap for either one?
abby81589 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:08:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Koala-mydia
BAEsshead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:37:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
U srs?
Roxydub ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:26:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not. The clap is definitely Chlamydia. Ask your local GP...
moveewatchingdude ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:33:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People think chlamydia is the clap because the name sounds similar, but gonorrhea is the std that is referred to as the clap. Common misconception among people but I doubt most doctors would get that wrong.
RiversBromo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:48:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No.
http://i.imgur.com/NUSI09L.png
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:33:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or you could Google it...
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Came here to say this. Thanks
cloud3321 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:45:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
....and that brings to mind Jolly Rancher
barcode1555 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:26:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for making this important point.
[deleted] ยท 55 points ยท Posted at 04:18:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is completely untrue . Koalas have two types of Chlamydia: Chlamydia pecorum and Chlamydia pneumoniae. Neither of these are the same as the Chlamydia that humans get; pecorum is the common type that affects most koalas and pneumoniae is very rare. Pecorum cannot jump to other species .Pneumonia can, but there is no evidence of this ever spreading from koalas to humans.
Jared910 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:59:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The reason you think koalas are cute and sweet is that they spend around 20 hours out of every 24 asleep, with a metabolic rate half that of a normal mammal. Why are they so slow and sleepy? Because they're drugged to the eyeballs, struggling to digest ridiculous levels of toxins from their diet of poisonous eucalyptus leaves.
For the other 4 hours, in the depths of the spring night, their true nature emerges. And you don't want to be there when that happens. The evening starts with a series of bloodcurdling bellows (think Darth Vader with a chainsaw). That's the males sizing one another up. Larger males viciously attack smaller ones. They chase, wrestle and bite one another. It's every koala for himself in this ugly melee, as their tiny, drug-addled brains are too stupid to form any sort of coalition or even recognize one another effectively. Virtually every adult male bears numerous scars on his arms, face and ears from this seasonal conflict.
Why are they fighting? The usual reason. Girls. It used to be thought that one dominant male would mate with all the females in one area. But it turns out female koalas are highly promiscuous. They will mate with pretty much anybody, so dominant males spend much of their time and energy trying to drive away interlopers. They also smear urine and chest secretions on everything in their territory to try to stake their claim. This seems to prevent other dominant males from claiming the territory, but it doesn't stop wandering juvenile males from sneaking in to get it on with the local matrons.
As exciting as this lifestyle might be, hygienic it is not. Chlamydia is transmitted sexually and in open wounds, and possibly in urine and chest secretions as well. Since males are routinely involved in random violence, and females are routinely involved in random sex, infections spread like wildfire. It doesn't help that koala populations these days are often confined to small, isolated patches of habitat where their populations fluctuate dramatically, leading to low genetic diversity which may compromise their immune systems. Many also have immune problems caused by a widespread retrovirus. Plus, one of the effects of chlamydia is to render females infertile, which may lead to them going into estrus more often, which may result in them having sex with more males, causing more fights and spreading more chlamydia.
jak_jak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:43:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ohh....
whobethatguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:19:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If they are confined to small areas why doesn't someone go around with a tranquilizer gun full of penicillin and shoot every drop bear he can find?
strikethroughthemask ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:25:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Omg let's totally miss the point of your interesting fact by flipping out that you didn't use 50 year old slang correctly! I hear you OP, and I will wear a condom when and if I ever meet a koala. You've changed one life.
foolishnun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:27:20 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also the fact is wrong.
Jubjub0527 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:51:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Clamydia, not gonorrhea.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:30:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They have a high incidence of chlamydia, not gonorrhea (the clap).
missoblivious ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:32:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For the record, "the clap" refers to gonorrhea in humans. Koala bears actually get a strain of chlamydia, not gonorrhea.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:31:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds terrible for your koalaty of living.
TJinAZ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:37:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's true. Koalas are whores.
Dimbit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:12:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, false.
Fizzay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:52:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll remember that the next time a girl calls me asking what the fuck I caught.
Avasma ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:17:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well shit, I just hugged a koala today. Brb, getting some penicillin.
Rather_Dashing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:00:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No one has ever caught chlamydia from a koala and it's probably impossible.
iteachthereforeiam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:13:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't this happen to one of One Direction? Heh.
TERRAOperative ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:19:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And getting pissed on, the dirty little fucker....
raverbashing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:29:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"I've cuddled a koala"
https://i.imgur.com/dI1icMZ.gifv
dwiskus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:32:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Koalamydia.
Techsus7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:52:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you handle armadillos you have a chance of getting leprosy.
Taco_Strong ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:50:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My understanding is that it's a different form that isn't transferable to humans.
Gr1pp717 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:53:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, if chlamydia can be spread via contact with urine, then why do they say it's impossible to get STDs from a toilet seat?
fleezyy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:05:21 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good news for you, though, is that N. gonorrhea and C. trachomatis (Chlamydia) often co-infect. So you may still be correct, partly.
KingMoocher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:32:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even worse, it coulda accidentally been a dropbear
quacksdontecho ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:37:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you PLEASE tell my girlfriend this?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:40:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Rather_Dashing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:57:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Complete nonsense. Koalas in zoos are tame because they have spent all their lives around people. Some of them love cuddles. I did volunteer work at a wildlife park and there was one koala who would come over and climb up me whenever I came into the enclosure.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:34:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Rather_Dashing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:01:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah well you should hear cats during mating season. Doesn't stop th being cute and cuddly the majority of the time.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:22:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was thinking about this the other day while watching American Dad. It was the episode where Haley flirts with Reggie and all I can think of is "she's gonna get the clap from him."
The things the internet has made me think. Yeesh.
Slugtactular ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 07:54:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Koalas can give u chlamydia. The clap is ghonnerea
AIBorland ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 00:56:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Correlation != causation
CanadianDemon ยท 239 points ยท Posted at 02:08:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Canada is technically more south than all of Idaho, Maine, New Hampshire, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Washington, Oregon, Vermont, Wisconsin and the Dakota's.
Canada's southernmost point is further south than the northern border of California.
scoo89 ยท 58 points ยท Posted at 03:54:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I grew up there, and the southernmost part of the Canadian mainland (Point Pelee) has a little monument at the 42nd parallel that names all the major cities at the same latitude. When I was little it was mind boggling to think I was further south than some parts of California.
SuperArff ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:35:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same here, I went on school trips there and never believed them when they told us we were as far south as California.
_coyotes_ ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:27:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I live near Niagara Falls. Funny to think most of Oregon is more north than me.
modi13 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:56:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the southern border of the four western provinces is more northerly than most of what is considered "Northern Ontario".
ruoqiLehTmAI ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:13:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Canadian side? Me too!
_coyotes_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck yeah! We got the good side of the falls!
Zebramouse ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:30:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Middle Island) is Canada's southernmost point, if anyone was wondering. Further south than Rome and Barcelona, apparently.
SuperArff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:37:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I live in Southern Ontario and I'm not much further north than Madrid. Always blows my mind when you consider how fucked our winters are.
maz-o ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:54:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
canada has a point that's more south than ....
would be more accurate
bbcslave92 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:52:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know what you mean but is that a precisely defined term?
CanadianDemon ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:07:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lower latitude? I feel like I should have used that instead.
bbcslave92 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:05:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
when you say "Canada is ..." you're implying all of it or the "average" in some form
but the "correct" way just doesn't have the same ring to it, sadly
CanadianDemon ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:10:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea, I see what you mean. How about "Canada's southernmost point" [Continue rest of post].
bbcslave92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:13:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
seems right to me
Bwhitty23 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:32:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well if you still understood what was being said, and most people that read it did, then why being it up?
bbcslave92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:34:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
if I said California is more south than all of Hollywood I'd be basically using the same phrasing but people would get confused
zilladingdong ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well that definitely made it sound wrong but was actually correct.
8bitslime ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:50:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Altitude isnt North/South, it's high/low.
CanadianDemon ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:00:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I said latitude, not altitude. :P
8bitslime ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:03:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll show my newly found dyslectic self out, if I can even find the door.
glassjoe92 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:57:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll show you the odor.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:14:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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pastel-forest ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 10:27:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure why this one is surprising
TransitRanger_327 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:58:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because India seems more south than the US. But non of mainland Asia is south of the equator. Singapore (is an island but it's mostly hugged around by the mainland) is a 1ยฐ N iirc.
pastel-forest ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:14:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh OK, it's probably because I'm not north American so I don't have the same bearings. I kind of have it set in my mind that Asia is definitely in the northern hemisphere :)
guest1994 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:30:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Am canadian, please explain
PotatoBucket3 ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 07:07:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The pointy bit of Ontario
Who_GNU ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:07:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think your use of "all of" is confusing. It sounds like you are saying that Canada is more south than all of Idaho, all of Maine, all of New Hampshire, etc.
istandabove ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:44:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This one is making my head hurt
pm_me_ur_flags ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wot
Canada_is_gay ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:11:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't mean it ain't gay.
hoobityboobities ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 05:24:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This is quite possibly true, but I'm going to go ahead and refute it at all costs. Amurica!
Edit: Wow, guess some people can't take a joke. This was a thread about correct things that sound extremely wrong, right?
dberke ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 03:15:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you drive due south from Detroit, the first foreign country you'll hit is Canada.
dackerdee ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:40:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In that journey song, being born and raised in South Detroit is actually just Windsor, Ontario.
and_rice ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:02:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It checks out
http://imgur.com/VVsVtzy
MontanaSD ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 07:58:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The age of consent in the US is 16 or 17 in more states than it is 18.
AP246 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:32:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't find that surprising, though I wouldn't, as I don't live in the US.
thatJainaGirl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:54:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of people don't realize this. Though I'm definitely old enough that even 18 year olds feel too young to me, whenever people are like "yeah, x more months until s/he's legal!" when talking about a 17 year old, I point out that my state has two different methods of consent: 16 overall, 13-16 if the other person is within 4 years of them.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
best post so far
matixer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:07:18 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thats worrying
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:21:54 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're an idiot or immature..what this guy said is the best example of OP'S GAME. Not right as in I support it.. It's wrong but legally right.
matixer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:34:15 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol okay jared
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:40:58 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shut up you're adopted
NYChomie ยท 1831 points ยท Posted at 01:18:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Begin standing somewhere along the equator, and start a timer that's counting up in seconds.
For every 1 billion years that passes, take one step forward. Repeat this process until you fully circle the earth, with 1 billion years passing in between each step.
Once you arrive back at your starting location, remove 1 droplet of water from the Pacific Ocean.
Now repeat the process of circling the earth, with 1 billion years in between each step, removing 1 droplet of water from the Pacific Ocean upon every complete circulation. Once you've completely emptied the Pacific Ocean, place a sheet of paper down at your feet.
Repeat the entire process of circling the earth, removing a drop of water from the ocean, and placing down a sheet of paper upon emptying the ocean, until the stack of paper reaches from the earth to the moon.
Repeat this ENTIRE process over again approximately 389 more times. Yes, three hundred and eighty nine.
The amount of seconds on that timer represents the total possible number of unique combinations for a standard deck of 52 cards.
Edit: it turns out I severely underestimated the amount of times you'd have to repeat the entire process... It's not 389, it's actually 1,167,000 times!
Keep in mind it's a rough estimate but very close! Take a moment to grasp how large of a number that truly is... It's mind boggling
cranberry94 ยท 740 points ยท Posted at 01:54:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so confused.
NYChomie ยท 846 points ยท Posted at 01:59:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They say that every time you shuffle a deck of cards, it's never been shuffled in that exact order before. Every shuffle creates a new combination that's never existed before.
This is because there's SO MANY possible ways to arrange a simple deck of cards. The above is a thought experiment to conceptualize just how large that number is.
cranberry94 ยท 98 points ยท Posted at 02:16:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think my mobile Reddit must have cut off your last paragraph. Cause when I read it, it just read as you telling us to walk around the earth for billions of years scooping up and dropping water for no reason.
If you read your comment without the last bit, it just sounds like a crazy person rant. Makes more sense now!
Xalteox ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 02:34:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you want to know the exact number of combinations, it is 80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883277824000000000000
cranberry94 ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 02:37:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh good. I'll be sure to remember that.
yParticle ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:13:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll just be rounding that down to 8.
SadGhoster87 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:48:29 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not how rounding works. ding
AP246 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:47:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll just round that down to the nearest 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000. Makes it easier to remember.
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:48:17 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
but that's more
AP246 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:26:06 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the point. It rounds to 0.
storander ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:37:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If any of my friends leave their facebooks up I kind of want to leave OPs comment, bar the final explanation about cards, as their status. So many WTFs and more creative than the usual.
cranberry94 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:07:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You really should do that... Seriously, on its own, it just sounds like a psychotic break.
EltaninAntenna ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:49:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A bit like this.
EWVGL ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:30:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If every person in the world laid down, head to toe, on the equator at the same time... it would be an incredible coincidence.
itz4mna ยท 194 points ยท Posted at 02:10:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't the number 52! or am I talking out of my arse?
A_Waskawy_Wabit ยท 315 points ยท Posted at 02:40:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes 52! or 80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883277824000000000000
James_Rustler_ ยท 134 points ยท Posted at 06:48:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here is is typed out!
Eighty unvigintillion, six hundred fifty-eight vigintillion, one hundred seventy-five novemdecillion, one hundred seventy octodecillion, nine hundred forty-three septendecillion, eight hundred seventy-eight sexdecillion, five hundred seventy-one quindecillion, six hundred sixty quattuordecillion, six hundred thirty-six tredecillion, eight hundred fifty-six duodecillion, four hundred three undecillion, seven hundred sixty-six decillion, nine hundred seventy-five nonillion, two hundred eighty-nine octillion, five hundred five septillion, four hundred forty sextillion, eight hundred eighty-three quintillion, two hundred seventy-seven quadrillion, eight hundred twenty-four trillion
OblivionForTheDemons ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 09:21:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know these numbers (vigintillion, etc) because of AdVenture Capitalist.
Tupptupp_XD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:48:20 on March 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ugh fuck that game. I loved it.
Murdathon3000 ยท 167 points ยท Posted at 07:47:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So roughly half the number of men OP's mom banged?
PicopicoEMD ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:31:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, yes.
john_dune ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:44:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
AT once? That Minx!
doubt_the_lies ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:01:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Roughly, yes.
revoopy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:00:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Don't be preposterous there aren't as many atoms on earth as that number so there obviously couldn't be as many humans as that to bang her.
Number of atoms on earth:
133,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Vs
806,581,751,709,438,785,716,606,368,564,037,669,752,895,054,408,832,778,240,000,000,000
sniperFLO ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 11:42:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's racist.
domonx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:04:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This comment is extremely underrated, anyone who see this should stop and think for a second how much of a genius this man is.
grakkos ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:06:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
?
oxala75 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:03:31 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yeah, i got nothing.
Legend_Buffle ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 09:23:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If Adventure Capitalist has taught me anything, it's how to count big numbers.
sniperFLO ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:44:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eighty unvigintillion, six hundred fifty-eight vigintillion, one hundred seventy-five novemdecillion, one hundred seventy octodecillion, nine hundred forty-three septendecillion, eight hundred seventy-eight sexdecillion, five hundred seventy-one quindecillion, six hundred sixty quattuordecillion, six hundred thirty-six tredecillion, eight hundred fifty-six duodecillion, four hundred three undecillion, seven hundred sixty-six decillion, nine hundred seventy-five nonillion, two hundred eighty-nine octillion, five hundred five septillion, four hundred forty sextillion, eight hundred eighty-three quintillion, two hundred seventy-seven quadrillion, eight hundred twenty-four trillion combinations. How do you shuffle, shuffle a deck of cards?
Wilreadit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:43:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Up vote
PeeDeeFlow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:49:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'Sextillion' caught my eye.
00yoshi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:12:46 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sexsexagintillion
Stonn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:57:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh for christs sake, what are you blabbering again?!
TransitRanger_327 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:06:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now do it long count!
Sheogoorath ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:53:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At first I thought you were just excited about 52, I was thinking in my head that it was 52! But you just seemed hyped about it
_____D34DP00L_____ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:14:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, no need to yell
ninjosh97 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:56:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that 5252?
A_Waskawy_Wabit ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 06:13:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
52! means 52x51x50x49x48x...x2x1
What's really interesting is 0! = 1
dommitor ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 06:27:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's 1 way to arrange 0 cards.
A_Waskawy_Wabit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:35:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure but how often does 0(operation) = 1(operation)
dommitor ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:44:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
00 =1.
derleth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
00 can equal 1, but it can also equal 0 or be undefined.
bogsolntsa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:57:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, it's undefined.
dommitor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:56:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The limit of fg if lim f = lim g = 0 is indeterminate, but 00 =1.
sharkpunch850 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:41:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait so is that how you come to that final number of combinations? it's 52 factorial?
BlueROFL1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:54:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really love the factorial function because it forces everyone to be very excited about math.
Benblishem ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:37:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same difference.
A_Waskawy_Wabit ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 04:01:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Zero difference actually
SputterNutter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:29:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
fuck that noise, I'm sticking with 4.
JackPoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So like a small fraction of the number of cookies I've baked in an idle game?
puptake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that's a lot of seconds. And somehow my Stats class still seems to last that long
gurg2k1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:34:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know if that exclamation has a mathematical meaning, but it is 5252 , no?
SlowDown ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:29:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The exclamation means 'factorial'. 5! = 5x4x3x2x1, so 120.
52! = 52x51x50x49... a ridiculously huge number.
Wilreadit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:43:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fifty two factorial.
That is 52 x 51 x 50 x 49 x .........x 2 x 1.
Lostcityofatlanta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:53:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
About a trillion times smaller than the estimated number of atoms in the observable universe.
beywiz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:11:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, you're here too? I thought that just /u/ahampster was allowed out of /r/ssbm
ahampster ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:14:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wabit was the OG
A_Waskawy_Wabit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:14:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
^
Your account is actually older than mine lol but I still got in CC first despite you having way more karma.
A_Waskawy_Wabit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:18:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You beat my ninja edit didn't you?
ahampster ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:21:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I must have just missed it
beywiz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:24:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฑ this day is crazy. 2 people actually leaving /r/ssbm, I actually improved at Melee today, and I didn't anger anyone online!
ahampster ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:25:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think I did, and 10/10 would do again
beywiz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:33:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey buddy, you trying to anger me?
Eshmam14 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait.. I don't get this.
If you have 4 cards, there are only 16 possible combinations as to how those 4 cards can be arranged. Which is 4ยฒ
So why is it 52! for 52 cards instead of 52 52
A_Waskawy_Wabit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:34:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There aren't 16 ways there's 24 ways
abcd
abdc
acbd
acdb
adbc
adcb
That's 6 without changing the first card. Each of those get to be the fourth card so 6x4=24
Eshmam14 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:52:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry, I'm retarded. I was confused. I was very obviously wrong.
Idk why I even suggested 16..
jtr99 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:02:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't beat yourself up. You're right about a related question. If you have 4 cards and you want to know how many subsets of those cards you could select (i.e., you're not interested in ordering) then you're absolutely right about the answer being 24 = 16.
Each card can be in or out of the subset (two states), and each card's selection choice is independent of the other cards, so it's 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 = 16. (So hopefully you can see that if we had 52 cards it would be 252 though, not 5252.)
Anyway, this is easily confused with the ordering question. You didn't do too bad.
Eshmam14 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:13:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No no, I really have to beat myself up for this. I actually as a matter of fact, do know a little more than the basics of statistics but for the love of all that's good, I have absolutely no idea how I came up with my original retarded question. But thank you for taking your time to try and console my stupidity. I appreciate it.
ChurM8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even if 42 was correct wouldn't it then be 522 not 5252 ??
Eshmam14 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:02:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry yes, a lot of typos and misconception. I genuinely have no idea how I came up with that stupid shit.
ChurM8 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:10:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hahaha no worries
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:26:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read that as "Yes! 52"
Edosurist ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:55:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/unexpectedfactorial ... Or was it?
[deleted] ยท 139 points ยท Posted at 05:36:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For Spanish speakers, he said ยก52!
frettedwgoldenfire ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 09:34:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
take your upvote but I hate you
jai_kasavin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:14:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For chess enthusiasts, this comment is !!
doubt_the_lies ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:00:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thurst0n ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 02:27:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup
52 ways to choose the first card times 51 ways to choose the second card... etc
dogshenanigans ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:34:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm no longer gonna chase gutshot straight draws
EchoPhi ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:39:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Permutations are a bitch.
trollfriend ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:46:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's 52 * 51 * 50 * 49 * 48.....* 3 * 2 * 1, which is an absurdly large number. When properly shuffled, your odds of getting the exact same deck that someone else has are so low that they are practically non-existent. You're MUCH more likely to get struck by lightning 100 times AND win the lottery 100 times in your lifetime than draw the same card order someone else has.
arkayic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:36:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is correct, but when you put it like that it seems small. The above explanation shows exactly how large 52! Actually is.
theeyeeats ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:59:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes! You're right, it's 52!
anonniemoose ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:29:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes it is
digdug1029 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:49:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes it is, but 52! Comes out to be a number so large that it helps to give scenarios like that for people to wrap their heads around it.
Guyote_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:22:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, that is correct. 52 factorial. It is a massively large number.
nathanwoulfe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:25:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have a clever arse. 52! aka 52 factorial or 525150...321 aka fooking massive.
skullkandyable ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:31:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Auto formatting is cute
nathanwoulfe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:43:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sonofabitch. Now I don't look nearly as intelligent.
skullkandyable ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:00:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who needs intelligent when you've got cute
Lacey_Von_Stringer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:00:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
52 is the number of cards in a deck. The number of ways they can be uniquely arranged is far greater a number.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:30:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol
ninjosh97 ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 05:57:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Should be 5252
Waitwait_dangerzone ยท -17 points ยท Posted at 04:23:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, it is 52x52, 52 times.
overlander35 ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 04:40:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If pre-calc has taught me anything, the correct calculation would be 52! * 51! * 50!...1!
notsurewhatiam ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:00:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why do you have to yell out every number
drkitteh ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 06:03:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except that's not true. Shuffling isn't truly random. If you shuffle a new deck of standard playing cards, you'll run into an existing shuffle rather quickly. The theory and practice of it are very different.
mathbandit ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:39:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure about that. I remember reading somewhere that 7 rifle shuffles (cutting a deck in half and sort of fanning them against one another) is enough to sufficiently randomize any deck.
BitchinTechnology ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:33:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They are also wrong for many reasons
jesushatedbacon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:49:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would that combination exist in pi? [7]
pqu ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:56:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pfft, you've never seen me shuffle.
Aqwardturtle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:42:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
then how come every pack of cards i've ever bought has always been in the same order?
bigcalal ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:20:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Witches
NeverStopWondering ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:17:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Assuming you're shuffling it sufficiently randomly (which takes about 7 riffle shuffles).
Vakieh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:27:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except when you shuffle cards, you don't perfectly randomly shuffle them - there are set patterns everybody follows to some degree or another, meaning that assuming you start with the cards in suit order, you get a higher and higher chance of a unique combination the more you shuffle them.
Gerry-Mandarin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:44:15 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A better analogy I had seen was if every star in the Milky Way has a trillion planets, and if there were a trillion people on each, each with a trillion decks of cards all being shuffled every second since the beginning of time, and at least 1000 per shuffle were unique only now would we be expecting repeating decks to show up.
Mcoov ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
52!
Lord_CheezBurga ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:53:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not if I do a forced shuffle!Ohlookaroyalflush...again
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:54:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well the guy before said you only need 23 people...
suspendersarecool ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:02:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And every time you shuffle a deck of cards you are contributing to the heat death of the universe, so try not to do it all too often.
Lord--Of--Darkness ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I get that the point is that there are a TON of ways a deck of cards can be shuffled.
But there has got to be a better metaphor than this bullshit about taking drops of water and stacking paper and waiting 1 billion years.
I think that's the part that's confusing. It's a really messy metaphor and metaphors are suppose to simplify things.
I'm also not sure if metaphor is the right word to describe this.
Just_Look_Around_You ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:45:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But to be hones, cards have been around for a long time and many many many sufferings have occurred throughout history. How many combinations are there actually?
Sasamus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:18:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now I'm wondering what the percentage chance is to have a previously existing shuffle.
Since we'd need to know the amount of shuffles ever made and what order they where it would be quite hard to calculate.
Things like this is the reason to why my answer to "What superpower would you have?" may legitimately be to know all statistics, even ones using numbers no one knows yet or even can know.
It may be OP as all hell but I regularly think about how nice that would be.
Irishguy317 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:01:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OK, so if a deck is shuffled and then the exact shuffle is shuffled directly there after that's a 1 in how many chance?
CriesOverEverything ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:13:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm bad at shuffling so when I shuffle it's basically the same deck again.
TheOtherMatt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:59:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
xbtdev ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:23:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The above is a thought experiment to see if anyone has any thought left after trying to read it.
moby__dick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:22:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But where would I put the Pacific Ocean?
SmartAlec105 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:29:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The number of possible combinations is 52!
Yuri-Girl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:41:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't the number just 52!?
I mean yeah that's a big number but there are more straightforward ways to demonstrate the absurd scale of factorials.
Lunchbox-of-Bees ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:19:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So you're telling me that my uncle is magic?
TychoBraheNose ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:18:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Perhaps an easier way of thinking about it:
Imagine you had a trillion planets, each one with a population of a trillion people, and each person was capable of shuffling a trillion decks of cards a second, and they had been doing so every second for the whole 14 billion years the universe has existed. There would still only be a roughly 0.00000000000001% chance that the exact same order of cards had occurred.
DeenSteen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:36:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
8.0658175 ร1067. That is how many different combinations a deck of cards can have.
Diplomatic_Barbarian ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:47:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do you calculate that number starting from 52?
mathbandit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:42:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
52 options for the top card, then 51 options for the next card, then 50 options for the next card, [...] , then 2 options for the second-bottom card, then 1 option for the bottom card.
52 x 51 x 50 x [...] x 2 ( x 1) = 8.0650175 x 1067
DeenSteen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:51:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This. Also known as 52! Or 52 factorial.
debausch ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:39:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
52515049.....432(1)
arch_nyc ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:30:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Agreed, i feel like this analogy was complex in an unnecessary way.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:34:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I aren't think that
Pure_Reason ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:16:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Try the Good Omens version:
I mean, d'you know what eternity is? There's this big mountain, see, a mile high, at the end of the universe, and once every thousand years there's this little bird-"
"What little bird?" said Aziraphale suspiciously.
"This little bird I'm talking about. And every thousand years-"
"The same bird every thousand years?"
Crowley hesitated. "Yeah," he said.
"Bloody ancient bird, then."
"Okay. And every thousand years this bird flies-"
"-limps-"
"-flies all the way to this mountain and sharpens its beak-"
"Hold on. You can't do that. Between here and the end of the universe there's loads of-" The angel waved a hand expansively, if a little unsteadily. "Loads of buggerall, dear boy."
"But it gets there anyway," Crowley persevered.
"How?"
"It doesn't matter!"
"It could use a space ship," said the angel.
Crowley subsided a bit. "Yeah," he said. "If you like. Anyway, this bird-"
"Only it is the end of the universe we're talking about," said Aziraphale. "So it'd have to be one of those space ships where your descendants are the ones who get out at the other end. You have to tell your descendants, you say, When you get to the Mountain, you've got to-" He hesitated. "What have they got to do?"
"Sharpen its beak on the mountain," said Crowley. "And then it flies back-"
"-in the space ship-"
"And after a thousand years it goes and does it all again," said Crowley quickly.
There was a moment of drunken silence.
"Seems a lot of effort just to sharpen a beak," mused Aziraphale.
"Listen," said Crowley urgently, "the point is that when the bird has worn the mountain down to nothing, right, then-"
Aziraphale opened his mouth. Crowley just knew he was going to make some point about the relative hardness of birds' beaks and granite mountains, and plunged on quickly.
"-then you still won't have finished watching The Sound of Music."
Aziraphale froze.
"And you'll enjoy it," Crowley said relentlessly. "You really will."
"My dear boy-"
"You won't have a choice."
"Listen-"
"Heaven has no taste."
"Now-"
"And not one single sushi restaurant."
A look of pain crossed the angel's suddenly very serious face.
IAlwaysSpeakTheTruth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:42:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://czep.net/weblog/52cards.html
MasterWiener ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:56:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe this'll help
SwampyNZ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:52:29 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nice
szarroug3 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:20:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Me too, how do you remove a drop from the ocean after it's empty? If we're assuming we can empty the ocean, that means we're assuming it doesn't rain.
wyleFTW ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:09:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
52!
Just_Look_Around_You ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:43:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i++ j++ k++
marvin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:02:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most numbers are infinitely larger than the largest number you can imagine.
conspiracyeinstein ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:23:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like you've been bamboozled!
Byrius ยท 562 points ยท Posted at 02:20:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone watches Vsauce
throwthisawayrightnw ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 04:08:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The world would be a better place if everyone watched VSauce.
the_wurd_burd ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 06:56:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I totally agree.
And as always...
kickass_bacon ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 07:19:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for watching
TransitRanger_327 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:07:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jake Chudnow music plays
Twad ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 10:39:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please, spare me. The host is so annoying.
GaryTheFed ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:42:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually Michael showed someone else's video for this example. So maybe he likes that other guy.
SmellySlutSocket ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:51:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, he watches vsauce
The-Prophet-Muhammad ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:19:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hate the fermi paradox video so fucking much. Ever since then Reddit spouts it off as scientific fact, when it's philosophy with absolutely zero basis in science.
Tzalix ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 11:16:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
wat
It's not philosophy. It's a paradox based on conflicts of probability. It has a pretty solid reasoning and basis in science.
FuzzyLoveRabbit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:56:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's more a hybrid of both, right? It's a thought experiment loosely based on a pair of scientific hypotheses that aren't exactly on super-solid ground, and which has spawned a hundred different possible "explanations" none with more evidence than the last.
thundergonian ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:23:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure there's a large overlap between the Reddit and Vsauce demographics.
buddhas_plunger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:41:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Put down a piece of.... Paper. But where does paper come from? Well, it all starts with.... Trees. pops up from the bottom of the screen So if you light a tree on fire, you'll get... Ash, but what is a Pokemon?
Ratcliff01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:38:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's ok, Vsauce watches QI
zulu-bunsen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:07:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And as alwaysโฆ
Atario ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:36:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think probably several people do
BAM5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:40:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or perhaps... Someone MAKES vsauce!?
DirtyAmishGuy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:28:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what I though, but vsauce's was closer; it had one more step involving the Grand Canyon and mt Everest, and was only 8 times off, not over a million.
BearyPotter ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:38:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To simplify: there are so many combinations for a deck of 52 cards, every time you shuffle a deck it's statistically very likely that the combination you're holding has never existed before.
TheBotherer ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:57:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always thought this was exggerated. When we open a new pack of cards, it is prearranged in a specific order. Shuffling it once does not put it into a completely random order, and in fact it is pretty likely that one shuffle of a sorted deck will not produce any never-before-existent combinations. Similarly, whenever we play a game of cards, we are putting the cards in some sort of order. It is probably not a perfect order, but there will be more clumps of like cards than there would be in an average randomized deck, so shuffling it once from there is not producing a perfectly randomized deck either.
Basically, I'm sure there are a bunch of combinations that have existed many times over.
lianodel ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 07:44:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're correct! Obviously, if you shuffle a deck of cards, it's still in some kind of order. You won't know how exactly the cards are interspersed, but you know that each half of the deck is still in order, just interleaved with the other half. The 7 of clubs, for example, is probably going to be somewhere between the 6 of clubs and the 8 of clubs.
Mathematicians than figured out how many times you need to do a riffle shuffle before the cards are in a truly random order: seven.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:48:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think you're quite grasping how large of a number 52 factorial is. I understand it seems likely that at least once, because of certain permutations of all the possible orders being more likely than others due to game mechanics, that there's been a repetition at some point. It's literally next to impossible.
TheBotherer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:24:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you may have misunderstood what I said entirely. If you take a new deck of cards out of a box and shuffle it once, there are way less than 52! possible permutations.
mathbandit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:48:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depends what you mean by shuffling it once. If I open a new deck of cards to play a game of Poker, by the time I shuffle and deal the cards 3 minutes later they are as random as they could ever be.
TheBotherer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:51:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean one riffle shuffle. It takes a bit of a leap to think I mean anything else.... One riffle of an ordered deck leaves the cards only interleaved, not shuffled in any randomized way. It takes around seven shuffles to create a randomized deck.
mathbandit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:01:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When most people talk of shuffling a deck, they mean "the process between collecting the cards and dealing them".
TheBotherer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:05:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, but when they refer to a "single shuffle", they are usually referring to a single riffle shuffle.
OIP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:06:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
given the number quoted above, this seems like an understatement
bregolad ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:59:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've read this before, and it's the only one on this thread that I genuinely can't allow myself to believe. I mean, there's only 52 fuckin' cards; how can there possibly be so many permutations from such a small number? I've seen the mathematical explanation and I just can't fathom it. This is probably what it feels like to be a religious follower faced with evidence of the duplicitous origin of their beliefs; or a parent who discovers the secret and sordid crimes of their children. It just doesn't fit my worldview and it has left me in a state of total discomfort.
(Are we including jokers btw?)
BeniBela ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:59:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And yet there are way bigger numbers. The number of combinations, is just
52*51*..*2*1, which is tiny:eighty unvigintillion six hundred fifty-eight vigintillion one hundred seventy-five novendecillion one hundred seventy octodecillion nine hundred forty-three septendecillion eight hundred seventy-eight sedecillion five hundred seventy-one quindecillion six hundred sixty quattuordecillion six hundred thirty-six tredecillion eight hundred fifty-six duodecillion four hundred three undecillion seven hundred sixty-six decillion nine hundred seventy-five nonillion two hundred eighty-nine octillion five hundred five septillion four hundred forty sextillion eight hundred eighty-three quintillion two hundred seventy-seven quadrillion eight hundred twenty-four trillion
For some reason I calculated
100000*99999*99998*...*2*1last week. That is a big numberpercocet_20 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:03:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should think of The number "googol" it's just a 1 with 100 zeros behind it. Just picture that in your mind, now imagine a "googolplex" which is a 1 with a "googol" of zeros behind it, picture that in your head.
cscott024 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:21:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Googolplex might as well be zero in comparison to Graham's Number.
TychoBraheNose ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:22:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You literally cannot. There are only about 1080 atoms in the universe, so even if you tried to write out a googolplex by using individual atoms as the '0's, you'd still be about 20 orders of magnitude off.
percocet_20 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:41:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't say write it out
TychoBraheNose ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:45:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really don't see how my comment is irrelevant. Maybe you literally didn't mean what you said, but it still makes for a useful segue to what I said.
percocet_20 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:27:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your comment implied that I said he should write the number, which is impossible, but I said he should imagine it, which is possible
Redgen87 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 07:27:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You basically have to do 52x52x51x50x49x48 and so on and so forth till you get to 1. Then do that equation 52 times.
skullkandyable ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:36:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, you exactly have to do 52x51x50...x3x2x1 one time
Redgen87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:28 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But don't you have to do it over for each card?
skullkandyable ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:18:42 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope
Redgen87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:56:34 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, well that doesn't seem all that bad then.
skullkandyable ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:05:36 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe you should reread this thread then.
Redgen87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:10:14 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well the way I was doing it makes it much worse.
skullkandyable ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:10:45 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In terms of magnitude, not really
InteriorEmotion ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:16:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But how can you empty the pacific ocean more than once?
JawnF ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:36:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How can you empty the Pacific Ocean without also emptying most of the water from other oceans?
LionCashDispenser ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 02:03:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God what a ridiculous scenario.
[deleted] ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 03:33:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
na that shit happened to my cousin just last 300,000,000 trillion years ago
a905 ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 01:35:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
... I want to believe this so bad! Where did you first hear/learn about this?
NYChomie ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 01:39:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I originally learned that from a Vsauce video, and here is a source link.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:57:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He says to play solitaire between steps, not to start a timer IIRC (I'm too lazy to rewatch the video).
NYChomie ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:01:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here's the video! Skip to 14:20!
jfb1337 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 08:23:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/unexpectedfactorial
evylllint ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:10:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude isn't gonna watch it. He's too lazy.
a905 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:20:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vsauce! Michael here.
Haha thanks for the link! Gonna go watch a bunch of Vsauce now!
stellarguymk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:12:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
:_( I need new vsauce videos in my life
Xalteox ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:32:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The exact number of possible different 52 card deck arrangements goes as follows. It is 52 factorial, or 80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883277824000000000000
snpi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:09:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Over 80 unvigintillion
a905 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:44:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well now I know what to pull out of my pocket at boring dinners or meetings! Thanks all!
crazykillerer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:57:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I saw this in one of Vsauces episodes!
sanjithecook ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:34:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Factorials are fun lol. Made a quick program to calculate the result of 52! It's: 80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883277824000000000000 seconds which is
933543694108146742727553667319488043695480387047260160000000000 days which is
2557653956460676007472749773478049434782138046704822356164383 years lol.
spartankelli ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:34:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you know what calculators are?
sanjithecook ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:38:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some calculators don't handle numbers that large and I always forget which ones do. It's easier for me to write a 30 second program to find it instead of finding one (but this works so I guess it was kinda pointless).
yesat ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:20:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wolfram Alpha is the tool for that
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:07:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most calculators will not give you the full number but just an abbreviated one.
umbrellasinjanuary ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:33:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Excel can do wonderful things these days.
yesat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:24:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now imagine that you have a computer that count at 1 billion per second, it would only took it 2.5*1051 thousand years.
That's why increasing the speed of a computer can't really improve some calculation.
percocet_20 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:58:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So like 250 quintillion years?
germz05 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:01:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For those who prefer to watch a video instead of reading what OP put. Boobs
horsebycommittee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:00:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From the original source rather than a freebooter: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ObiqJzfyACM&t=14m05s
Staplebattery ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
52!
OkapiParade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:00:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, the amount of arrangements of a deck of cards would be greater than the amount of atoms in the solar system. (repost of one of my comments from a similar thread.)
I checked it out, the arrangements of a deck of cards would be represented 52 factorial (52!), which is equal to about 8 x 1067. The number of atoms in the solar system is ~ 1.192 x 1057. So the arrangements of cards do seem to be greater than the atoms in solar system
sources: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/170553/the-probabilty-of-a-new-arrangement-of-52-cards-deck http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/195466/how-many-atoms-are-there-in-our-solar-system
ralusek ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:53:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure if it's just because I'm on mobile, but it looks like you're saying 52! Is equal to 8 x 1067...
OkapiParade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:32:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
52! is equal to 8 x 10 to the 67th power
K_Furbs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:00:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you come up with that sequence yourself? That was ridiculous
FrenchSurrenderUnit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:23:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hold on mate, let me go test this shit out, see you soon
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:50:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remindme! 19/03/10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
TheAtlanticGuy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now I know what to do if I'm immortal and I'm really, really bored.
Bloated_Hamster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn, math is amazing
SCombinator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So... you have to refill the ocean right? Or is it empty each time after the first?
LennMacca ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do I tell where the Pacific ends and the Atlantic begins?
i_like_turtles_1969 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:59:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of that Doctor Who episode. You know the one I'm talking about.
Mr_Green26 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:03:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
mind bottling.
Noisetorm_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:04:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
... you could've just linked the xkcd...
Stullenesser ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:10:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay, and how many Batteries will we need for the clock to work the hole time of the process? :D
Heroshade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
End result: You have wasted your immortality.
NickNash1985 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's fascinating, if true. I'd love to see a source on this, if possible. Not that I don't believe you, it just seems like a wild description.
Dark_Prism ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:21:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That reminds me of how long a second of eternity is:
There is a diamond mountain that takes an hour to climb and an hour to go around. Every hundred years a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on it, and when the entire mountain is chiseled away, the first second of eternity will have passed.
LORD_SL0TH ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:39:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't even get off my couch, how am I expected to do this?
dmo012 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fuck
RogueRho ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:51:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, VSauce.
RogueRho ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:51:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just noticed somebody else mentioned him. Oh well, leaving this here.
Gasster1212 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:13:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why does the watsr have to do with anything
bensawn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:36:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i feel like it wouldve been easier to just say there is an ungraspable fuckload of combinations for a deck of cards.
tyger099 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:36:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vsauce would bite his thumb at thee
GrayOctopus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:46:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How does one re-empty an ocean?
RogueCoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:47:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mind bottling
Flowerznlacee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:18:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are children eating out of dumpsters in this world...let's count how many combinations there is in a deck of cards!!! Haha
Stolzieren__ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:44:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok v sauce
MrWreckThatOhh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:46:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's amazing.
MaesterChief117 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:46:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do you decide where to draw the line separating the pacific from the other oceans? Assuming you could drain one and only one.
alblaster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:50:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that's pretty big, but peanuts compared to Graham's number. Tom imagine Graham's number, imagine the earth. Imagine that the earth is completely made up of sand and still the same size. Now imagine that each grain of sand on the planet is blown up to the size of the universe, so many many full sized universes. Now imagine that each one of those universes (universii?) is completely filled with lead. The total weight of all the lead filled universes is less that Graham's number.
Another way to think of how big Graham's number is that the number is so big that the information required to store the full number in your head would literally collapse your head into a singularity.
oGsBumder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:54:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How can a number have a weight? Or do you mean a Graham's number of kg?
alblaster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:15:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The unit doesn't matter in this case since graham's number is larger than the weight in kg or lbs or anything.
coalminnow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:54:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Am I to understand that if a very long time passes, the amount of seconds passed will be the number of combinations in a deck of cards?
BretticusWins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:54:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your explanation is bad. There's a much better one involving people shuffling 1000 decks per second.
Typhoon323 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:01:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Permutations, not combinations. Order matters in permutations. Order does not matter in combinations.
Wegeman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:01:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alright I'll be right back.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:04:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am actually more surprised 52 factorial is such a big number
faithle55 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, I have to go all the way from Rwanda to the Pacific at this stage?
Why the fuck didn't you tell me earlier? I could have collected the drop when I walked passed. Or if you'd said so, I could have started right next to the ocean.
Jeez, dude.
iizwiz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:19:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vsauce.
kickass_bacon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:23:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is single-handedly the most mind blowing fact I've ever read
save_the_pigs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:31:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How the fuck do I remove a drop from the ocean when I've already emptied the ocean?
Iguanzor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:26:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He missed the part about refilling the ocean with the stored water.
Shenko-wolf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:35:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Instructions unclear, penis stuck in planet...
Damocracy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:35:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am very confused, how did you refill the ocean?
KingCrabmaster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:51:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a fan of randomization in games, I love this kind of stuff...yet am also saddened by it because the virtually infinite number of combos makes it highly unlikely that any player will ever experience the "best one".
Luckily due to seeds, fanbases for games often find and decide which they deem as the "current top picks".
percocet_20 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:54:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think my brain just shit it's pants....This is almost as bad as trying to conceptualize the full form of a googolplex
cannibalmusic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:56:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And yet that's not even close to the number of possible Go games there are http://senseis.xmp.net/?NumberOfPossibleGoGames
smokecat20 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:07:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would be impossible for me to slack off with these time frames.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:14:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why do you have so many pacific oceans?
PronounciationIsKey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:16:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
cards are fucking crazy man
MyNameIsSushi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:18:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if I run?
jfb1337 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:20:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, I watch vsauce too
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:23:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Chubby_Bunnies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:16:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No it's 52*51*50*49*48... Etc
datorangeguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:27:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
b.b.b.b...but.. when do I stop the timer?
JoelMahon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:47:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, you didn't invent this visualisation, don't take credit for what's not yours.
PoopButtMuffinTop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:57:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I died.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:58:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tried to follow instructions. Got my dick stuck in a time vortex.
Count_Critic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:01:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do keep removing water from the ocean when I've already emptied it?
ravia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:08:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Six monkeys could accidentally accomplish the same thing eventually.
TinkyWinkyIlluminati ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:15:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And then the first second of eternity will have passed.
unchartedcubes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:16:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The total number of permutations on a 7x7x7 Rubik's cube is about equal to if every atom in our known universe had its own universe full of atoms.
7x7x7 has about 19 duoquinquagintillion different combinations.
DownWithUpSyndrome ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:35:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey Mike.
Iliketo_mass_debate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:35:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean the number of seconds, right?
Coollikeumee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:52:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You would need a very impressive timer.
LuxDeorum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:58:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What an interesting fact(orial)
atrenchcoat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:03:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wut?
kokroo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:15:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do you plan take out drops of water from an ocean you already emptied?
Peculiar_One ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:32:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know. Every deck I get is always in the same order. Am I doing something wrong ?
mrcydonia ยท 72 points ยท Posted at 03:40:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
epi*i + 1 = 0
Tera_GX ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:54:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Relevant smbc
Shiro_Fedelmid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:38:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ELI5?
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 11:51:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
-1 = epi*i
Shiro_Fedelmid ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:05:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's obvious. But why does epi*i become negative?
_Verr ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 12:21:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
If you haven't seen this before it's normal to be amazed.
You can probably find lots of very good explanations regarding this online, but this is just how things 'are' if we want to extend the exponential function to the complex plane. It has the same power series as the real version but is no longer a positive (or real) number for all arguments, hence it can be negative.
Edit: If you think about it, i is a complex number so you would not expect ei*pi to be real. The fact it is -1 is just a consequence of -1 being pi radians (180 degrees) 'around the circle' from 1. In fact ei*x is whatever complex number falls on the unit circle x radians around from 1, as illustrated in the link.
Weaselmancer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:27 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Having discovered Euler's Identity before taking a precalculus class in high school, I called bs when my teacher said you can neither exponentiate nor log a complex number. I somehow never saw Euler's Formula, but having knowledge of the identity and a graphing calculator, I actually derived the formula on my own, and made it a habit to always treat exponents and logs as complex numbers whenever I had to show my work
OverkillerSRB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:37:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can derive it using Taylor series of sin and cos at i, i think.
TheMilkmeister ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:57:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Close. Taylor series of eix will give you Euler's formula eix = cosx + isinx. Plug in pi and you get -1.
OverkillerSRB ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:04:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, i wasn't sure at all, thanks for clarifying.
skullkandyable ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:46:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've got this tattooed on my wrist
ujmhjk ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 12:23:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
pls post pictures
OverkillerSRB ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:38:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Proof or gtfo
grayecho ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:40:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
still blows my mind
EePiEye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:46:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shout out!
rumnscurvy ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 14:00:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In a similar vein, 1+2+3+4+5+... = -1/12
Madness20 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:04:08 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not entirelly correct as it involves sort of a paradoxical proof. It starts by assuming a result that isn't quite correct but is assumed, and then passes from it to give such a number. Cesaro convegence for alternate series is sort of a gimmick that doesn't really make sense on infinite series.
rumnscurvy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:10:36 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is correct by analytic continuation of the value of the Riemann Zeta function. Also, it is physically relevant and measurable in a sense.
4chan_is_sux ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:53:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure why you're being downvoted, maybe you should link the numberphiles video where this is proven?
00yoshi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:59:45 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So how is the result negative?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:00:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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00yoshi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:58:55 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let's limit it to 5.
x1 = 1+2+3+4+5
x2 = 0+1+2+3+4+5 = x2 + 0
x1-x2 = 0
sodakid1919 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:06:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't go giving me a headache with that Calculus formula again please. It was hard enough the first time I had to take that class.
getpaid_getlaid ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:48:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not calculus, but anyway
Tszemix ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 12:22:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NERD!!!
SKearney1993 ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 08:18:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Leicester is going to win the league
ayeman1234 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:32:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With the amount of money in football these days, thats insane
PM_ME_YOUR_EWOK_GIF ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:19:29 on April 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not if the Gunners can make a miracle.
SKearney1993 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:05:13 on April 10, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
still technically possible, they needed to beat west ham last night though
PM_ME_YOUR_EWOK_GIF ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:58:41 on April 12, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP Arsenal
Sssiiiddd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:49:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, Leicester is pronounced lee-stuh.
xatmatwork ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:17:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's leh-ster. Like leopard or lecture.
[deleted] ยท 987 points ยท Posted at 00:01:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ponies are not baby horses.
I know so many people who think that and see it all the time here.
slinkywheel ยท 50 points ยท Posted at 02:09:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So people know, baby horses are called foals.
TasteTheRaimbow ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:12:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or colts (However colt is specifically male)
Scoutrageous ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 08:20:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Colts are boys, fillies are girls. There's also yearlings, for year old horses.
Also:
Gelding: adult castrated male
Stallion: adult uncastrated male
Mare: adult female
Tsorovar ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:38:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And a ridgling is a male horse with an undescended testicle.
DuceGiharm ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:13:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a lot of terms for a horses' testicle status
sciamatic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:33:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A colt is still a foal. It just means "male foal" like filly means "female foal"
kmikey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:26:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What are baby ponies called?
RileyF1 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 07:38:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
foals, ponies are just small horses
greenphilly420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:49:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or a philly
kingeryck ยท 287 points ยท Posted at 00:18:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mice are not baby rats
[deleted] ยท 172 points ยท Posted at 00:38:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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manawesome326 ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 00:57:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This thread is getting too long. Quick, somebody make a poop joke.
[deleted] ยท 183 points ยท Posted at 00:58:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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03223 ยท 91 points ยท Posted at 01:17:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what I thought earlier this evening. Turns out I was sort of wrong.
iamdrunk05 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:01:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you get to my age, never trust a fart.
Edit: word
thundergonian ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:20:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here I'm sitting brokenhearted
Tried to shit but only farted
Yet later in the day dismayed
As by I fart I am betrayed
devils284 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:49:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've always heard it as:
Here I sit, open hearted
Tried to shit but only farted
Later on I took a chance
Tried to fart and shit my pants
DaedricWraith ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:04:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
11?
ChimpZ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:10:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the best description of a shart I've ever seen.
Farts-R-Us ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:04:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Farts are the ghosts of the animals you eat.
Deeeeets ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if juuuust a little comes out though?
MorleyDotes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:31:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait until you're old...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:00:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Poop is not baby Bono?
FearandLoathinginNJ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:13:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No it is, Bono has actually grown to be a fairly large piece of shit
adudeguyman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:45:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans aren't hairless gorillas except maybe Ron Jeremy
grapesandmilk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:42:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder if any chimps or gorillas have made that mistake.
newly_registered_guy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:58:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, if there's anything I know about monkeys, it's that frog = fleshlight.
Thus, we can extrapolate this logic further to gorillas, which will scale in a linear fashion. Thus, we can infer that for gorrilas; chimp = fleshlight.
deltopia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:54:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're out on your bike tonight, everybody...
YddishMcSquidish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:16:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lizards are not baby alligators.
Kittens4Brunch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tell that to Mr. Tony.
Commando388 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hot dogs aren't baby Dachshunds.
legoking456 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
YOU GUYS ARE RUINING MY ENTIRE PERCEPTION OF NATURE.
dandelion_king ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:50:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Midgets aren't baby people
potato_ships ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:03:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a baby potato.
SogMuffin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:33:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Children aren't baby humans
Amphabian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:47:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Puppies aren't baby dogs.
All dogs are puppies. There an rent even dogs, they're just puppies who sometimes have more puppies.
the_great_philouza ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:54:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am not a baby Andre the Giant and I will never have a posse.
peterkeats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:58:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Next you'll tell me midgets aren't baby people.
this_guy_here_says ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Plantains aren't baby bananas
TheHouseOfGryffindor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ducks are not baby swans
SuperDan000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:44:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kittens are not baby cats.
jeremy1015 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:18:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Orangutans are not baby Donald Trumps.
marcopolo22 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:37:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Billie Jean is not my lover
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:18:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But charmanders and charmeleons
ztpurcell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:42:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People really think these things?
Phrea ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:35:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Phrea is not your momma's baby.
Grazfather ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:00:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cats aren't girl dogs
Tebeal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:05:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dogs aren't baby humans, so if you could stop calling Zeus "my little baby" mom, that'd be great.
Jumbojimbomumbo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:24:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kids aren't baby humans
trolle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:17:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So I guess my cat won't grow up to be a tiger either. :(
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:43:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Goblins aren't baby hobgoblins.
longboardingerrday ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:17:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do people actually think that?
GermBurgers ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:03:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. Seriously, no one.
kingeryck ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:59:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. Yes they do. I had to explain it to a coworker. If people think ponies are horses, they can certainly think mice are rats.
GermBurgers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You've encountered a very special individual.
Simply put, would Mikey Mouse be the most popular character in the world if he were a baby rat?
PixelVector ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:40:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Kingeryck wasn't arguing that most/all people believe that rats are adult mice. He was responding to you saying "No. Seriously, no one."
I've raised a lot of domesticated rats. It's a misconception that I can promise you comes up. It's not overly widespread, most realize there is a difference (though often struggle to tell them apart and identify them individually). But it is a belief that exists.
Also your logic of Micky Mouse doesn't make a lot of sense. Even ignoring that it assumes someone was suggesting that all or most people believe that, it wouldn't necessarily be the case anyway. Rats have worse PR than mice; but a rat, especially a cartoon rat, wouldn't automatically receive mainstream rejection. Remy from Ratatouille as an example was well received.
GermBurgers ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:07:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was just kidding. I totally get that people think stupid things sometimes.
UlyssesSKrunk ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 07:20:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dumbass.
ripwanwinkle ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:44:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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thatikey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:44:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shorts are not baby pants
CrossedZebra ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:12:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Baby rats are actually called kittens or pups!
m0bilemed1c ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:19:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Feces are baby mice.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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kingeryck ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:58:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hate feces to pieces
Gizmo-Duck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:09:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
cats are not female dogs.
SPacific ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:50:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Feces are not baby mice.
Hipyeti ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:45:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Faeces are not baby mice.
FearandLoathinginNJ ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 01:12:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea, they're mice when they're inside. They only become a rat when they go outside. Common misconception
pictureofacat ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 06:51:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True, mice are just rats that are indoors.
Capt_Reynolds ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 02:08:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are also miniature horses, which are also not the same as ponies. Girlfriend owns 2 love those things.
thesixth ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:18:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait how are they different?
crazypartypony ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:11:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I understand correctly, they're not considered ponies because they're built like mini horses, and not like a pony. Ponies tend to have shorter legs and rounder tummies.
I could be wrong though. It's been a long time since I was a horse crazy little girl.
Fastriedis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:59:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How does it feel to know that she'll always put the horses before you?
Capt_Reynolds ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:08:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She's honestly not a "horse girl" She has lots of animals besides them. Not some snobby rich "loves daddy's money" type.
ChickenInASuit ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 02:21:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The funny thing is, this confusion stems from "pony" being a derivative of the old-fashioned French word "poulenet", which means "foal" or a baby horse. The official modern meaning of the word has changed, but it did originally mean baby horse, and that has somehow stuck around in some areas. I'm sure somebody more educated than me can explain why.
Chardmonster ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 07:47:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure most of the confusion comes from ponies looking like horses but smaller.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:39:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've never met nor heard of anyone actually believing that. What sort of people are you around?
leetfists ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:21:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you ask everyone you meet if they know what a pony is?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why, yes. Yes I do. By the way do you know what a pony is?
leetfists ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:33:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I actually thought a pony was a baby horse until fairly recently.
[deleted] ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 03:31:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe I'm an idiot but I've always thought pony meant baby horse, like a puppy is a baby dog or a kitten is a baby cat. Now I don't know what a pony is
hmblm12 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:04:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A kitten is also a baby bunny
[deleted] ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 03:38:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol But how did you explain fully grown mini-horses to yourself?
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 03:44:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That they are....fully grown mini-horses...
[deleted] ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 03:45:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is your opinion on Lego-horses?
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:53:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have no idea if that is a type or horse or you mean the toy Lego
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Plastic toy Lego.
immortal_joe ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:02:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
While we all appreciate you sharing your expertise in horse subtypes, you seem to be enjoying your power over us a bit too much.
sprengertrinker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:20:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I saw a comment like this on reddit once and my boyfriend SERIOUSLY WOULDN'T BELIEVE IT, not sure if he does even now. When a notion takes hold in our minds while we're young, and we live our lives for many years without that idea being corrected, it is extraordinarily hard to get rid of it even with overwhelming proof to the contrary.
Personally I grew up with adult ponies and adult horses who had foals so there was never any question in my mind that there was a difference, but it's not like anyone ever specifically told me there was one. When you don't have a ready example, and a misinformed person rattles off some "fact" they heard from some other misinformed person...those ideas can propagate very well among people who have no other knowledge of the subject.
So yeah, it seems silly to people who know the obvious truth, but that's just because we had the opportunity to educate ourselves somewhere along the way that not everyone else had. Unless pony school is part of the standard curriculum now...
diegojones4 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:18:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What are they?
loafmcloaf_v2 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 00:30:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A pony is literally a small horse. "For many forms of competition, the official definition of a pony is a horse that measures less than 14.2 hands (58 inches, 147 cm) at the withers"
diegojones4 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:00:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well neat. I learned something!
TheLittlestRed23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:25:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But to make matters more confusing, there are also separate horse and pony breeds and they tend to have different physical features from each other. They are then further divided by height for showing and general reference. So, you can have a Shetland pony, which is a pony breed and has typical pony characteristics, but can be taller than 14.1/14.2 and be referred to as a horse height wise and can show in horse classes.
TheLittlestRed23 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:30:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or Icelandic horses which are all pony sized, but are considered horses
Godewyn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:25:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To confuse a person even more, miniature horses are not considered ponies even though they are small.
leetfists ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:19:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then isn't a baby horse still technically a pony?
TheLittlestRed23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope baby horses are called foals or you can be gender specific and called them either a colt (boy) or a filly (girl). The term pony when referencing height, wouldn't be used until they reach maturity and stop growing.
hojo_the_donkey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:33:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Technically a baby horse is a foal. The definition is referring to when the horse is fully mature. Though the wiki page linked does go on to say, "However, the term "pony" can be used in general (or affectionately) for any small horse, regardless of its actual size or breed."
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:19:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Foals are what baby horses are.
diegojones4 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:29:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So what are ponies?
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 00:31:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A type of small horse.
ensurge ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:36:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
midgets, not babies.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:27:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It should also be noted that they are not miniature horses.
goodevilgenius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have honestly never heard that, and if anyone over the age of ten said that within earshot of me, the next sound would be the biggest facepalm ever.
OliveGreen87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:32:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just learned last year that bunnies are not baby rabbits.
quintsreddit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:01:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For those of you wondering, a pony is a midget horse, a baby horse is a foal.
lordxela ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And that's when I realized "colt" and "foal" both have a purpose.
Merhouse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:24:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I learned that here on Reddit some time ago. Still blows my mind!
Smoke731mcb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:37:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait what?
popejupiter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:52:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've worked with horses.
I know there are smaller breeds of horses that are called "ponies."
I know that "foal," "colt," and "filly" are the terms for a young horse.
I never put it together that ponies are not young horses until I read this post.
usernumber36 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:01:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've never seen this problem happen to anyone but an american on reddit
willmaster123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:37:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait... Seriously??
tainted_memory ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:38:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm TIL baby horses are named "foal".
Chickenmumps ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:12:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the hell do you mean ponies aren't baby horses?
E102gamma7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:15:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No kidding
dnl101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:19:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this an US thing? Because I have never met a person over the age of 8 that thought of ponies as baby horses. Or rats/mice, chimps/gorillas.
derleth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:31:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Something else that apparently blows people's minds is that pineapples don't grow on trees. They grow on the ground. They're a kind of bromeliad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pineapple_field,_Hawaii,_1958.JPG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pineapple_Nepal.jpg
If you cut the green part off and plant it and take care of it for a few years, it will eventually grow a new pineapple out of its center. You'll probably have to do it indoors unless you live in Hawaii or some other tropical hellhole.
http://www.tropicalpermaculture.com/growing-pineapples.html
Cojonimo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:52:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Next thing you are trying to tell us is that wesps are not the husbands of bees? Or that the dots on ladybirds don't indicate their age?
maz-o ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:51:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this doesn't sound extremely wrong
Theletterz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:28:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was guilty of this one for longer than I dare admit.
fluffyponyza ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:36:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm deeply offended that anyone would think that.
needmoney90 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:30:23 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you repeat that? You're a little horse.
fluffyponyza ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:08:15 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't, I've lost my voice from all the jockeying about in this thread.
An_Unfriendly_Brit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:50:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Foals are still ponies though. A pony is defined by it's height at the withers, if it is under 147cm (58") it is a pony if it is over it is a horse.
TheSeaOfThySoul ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:57:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a bunch of foals.
notacrook ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:41:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bye, bye, lil Sebastian!
ShadowWriter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:11:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A baby horse is a foal, for those wondering.
BigBillyGoatGriff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:43:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do people foal that up?
registrant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:59:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if the horses are duck-sized?
MrQuiggles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:48:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My little pony, my little pony...
kaiju-taxi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:54:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A foal is the right term, I think.
finitude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:06:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a guy who doesn't know anything about horses, this surprises me each time I read it.
amishius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:41:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did not know this and about two years ago embarrassed myself pretty badly on Facebook.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:56:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just like not all tiny horses are ponies. Miniature horses are actual horses and not ponies.
JokeDeity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:53:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I somehow learned this only a year ago at 24.
EltonBong ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:23:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're just horses under a certain height.
ScrithWire ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:34:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I ve s een t his f un f act b efore.
TurquoiseLuck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:52:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Goats are not male sheep.
Ladbrook ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:46:44 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My girlfriend is a dressage rider and this information was the most shocking thing ive been told in a long time
crackanape ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:49:40 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, does this mean a housecat is not a baby lion? Mind = blown.
Gasster1212 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:11:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go on?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:21:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Baby carrots are not baby carrots.
Elronnd ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:22:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
A baby horse is a colt
OhTheHueManatee ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 01:06:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't a baby pony a baby horse?
YolandiVissarsBF ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:03:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
... The hell?
__dilligaf__ ยท 316 points ยท Posted at 23:39:53 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Since there's no [serious] tag, I'm not sure if I should believe and relay any of these to impress at the dinner table tonight.
Rabidwalnut ยท 85 points ยท Posted at 00:56:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most of the stuff here is true, and if you don't believe me, there's always google.
8bitslime ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:35:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do I know this is true?
Rabidwalnut ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:41:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
....shit
SherbetHead2010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:38:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've had to correct a great deal of the scientific "facts" here. I wouldn't say most.
Rabidwalnut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:05:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I posted that when there were less replies, I'm sure by now there are many wrong ones.
SherbetHead2010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:28:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah I'm late to the party as usual. And after much math I've concluded that I was wrong about a few of them...
Rabidwalnut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:43:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's all right, everyone makes mistakes:)
haby112 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:10:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But Google doesn't have a [Serious] tag on it either :(
fh3131 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:22:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But this is reddit. If people really wanted to google, half the threads would be empty!
hombrecito ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:48:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Impress with listening skills!
animal_time ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:56:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dolphins are whales. I swear.
aeipownu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:42:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
remember the dolphins
SinkTube ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:08:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So is your mom.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:26:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the best fact in the entire thread.
PoopButtMuffinTop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:09:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should probably get off Reddit and have a polite conversation with the guests
madster-the-great ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:55:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I would play it safe and keep quiet
MotivationCheck ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 00:59:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck that, announce these to your infant daughter as loud as you can.
"MAINE IS THE CLOSEST US STATE TO AFRICA JANINE, DID YOU KNOW THAT?"
kdem007 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:46:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
JANINE, IF YOU LIVED IN SOUTH AFRICA YOU WOULD HAVE A HIGHER CHANCE OF GETTING RAPED THAN LEARNING TO READ, DID YOU KNOW THAT?
SinkTube ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:07:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
JUST LIKE AT HOME, JANINE!
kendrone ยท 140 points ยท Posted at 00:55:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everything contained in books about gyroscopes. Fucking magic spinning things.
paasaaplease ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 04:12:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly. I once bought a really nice gyroscope from Japan, and a book about gyroscopes, and watched MIT open course videos about physics, just to try to understand the damn things.
The framework can be tilted at any angle and the wheel (as long as it's spinning) will maintain it's position. And I just don't get how.... and sometimes it kind of fights against you when you try to move it? I just... it boggles me....
PW_is_SmegmaChariot ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:43:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A really nice gyroscope from Japan. So we talking Suzuki, Yamaha or Kawasaki motorcycles here?
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:57:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because inertia.
Hakawatha ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:49:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's the weirdness of conservation of angular momentum. Rotational mechanics still fry my fucking brain, man.
dsmdylan ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 08:32:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know shit about gyroscopes but I'm pretty sure that's gravity
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 08:57:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Should have left off at the "knowing shit" part.
dsmdylan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:57:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
:)
sirin3 ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 15:47:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gravity is created when something spins very fast.
Thus you can create artificial gravity on a space ship by building a spinning wheel around it in which you live. It also means, if Earth suddenly stopped spinning, we would all float away into space.
ThesaGamer ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:55:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hope you're just trolling, but spinning things do not make gravity. In a spaceship, it simulates gravity because the centrifugal force pushes the things inside the ship outward, toward the floor. Gravity is created by the curvature of spacetime, which is done by having a high mass.
babadivad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:00:00 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mass creates gravity, not spinning.
DamnLogins ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 12:52:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm currently reading a book about anti-gravity. I just can't put it down.
gonwi42 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:33:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
not really. tie the middle of a string to the middle of a pencil. pull both ends of the string. did the pencil move to be perpendicular to the string? if yes, that is what a gyroscope does, nothing else.
dinomic ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 13:14:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ducking under a desk or behind a wall a wall and covering yourself when you see the flash from a nuclear blast
canwill save your life. The fact that the public thinks duck and cover is a joke is one of the biggest threats to public safety for a country at risk of nuclear war.mattemer ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 13:25:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I'm going to rely on this as my nuclear failsafe and put desks all through my house, I'd like more info please.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:26:32 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can find photos online of people from Hiroshima and Nagasaki who had unburned skin where their skin had been covered by fabric. If you're far enough away from the epicenter it can make a huge difference.
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:53:03 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With what? Am I going to need a tarp or a fluffy bunny blanket?
Enigmatic_Extrovert ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 07:55:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
After helmets were introduced in battlefields, the number of head injuries went up.
This is because before helmets, head injuries meant death. So high death count, low head injury count. After the introduction of helmets, however, lower death count but more head injuries.
SluttySuzanne ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:30:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Survivorship bias.
Hrmnsn ยท 260 points ยท Posted at 01:12:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If That 70's show aired today with the same time difference as when it originally aired, it would be That 90's show.
betterrcallsaul ยท 86 points ยท Posted at 02:29:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They should jump on the revival train and make a That 90's Show
D3adkl0wn ยท 84 points ยท Posted at 03:11:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They already failed at "That 80s Show" so perhaps they shouldn't..
Detached09 ยท 60 points ยท Posted at 03:45:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was more a sequel than a revival though. Now, the people that liked That 70's Show are older and nostalgic and would potentially watch a good remake.
Edit: I think Fuller House proved that point. Season 2 will be the real defining point though.
devils284 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:49:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Girl Meets World. The end
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:57:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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CapnCanfield ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:46:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Check out Fresh Off the Boat. Pretty good show that takes place in the 90s
mclumber1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:47:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It also doesn't try to throw nostalgia in your face like The Goldbergs. I like both shows, doe.
DrossSA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:22:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What does Fuller House have to do with hypothetical good remakes?
greenphilly420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:53:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I loved full house as a little kid but the nostalgia factor couldn't get me to actually watch more than 15 minutes of that trash. My point being nostalgia alone isn't enough to get a real viewer base, it will draw people in sure but it still has to have quality content to keep them
Ten_bucks_best_offer ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 05:21:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The reason "That 80s Show" failed is because it was too focused on the 80's as an entity. 70's show didn't focus on 70's in that way. It just happened to take place in the 70's and the decor and references were 70's. Other than that, it was just a regular sitcom. 80's show tried to play on all the 80's gimmicks and focused on the pseudo culture that was the 80's. The real problem is that anything from the 80's that would be entertaining to see would not be able to be broadcast during prime time and off premium channels. Also, they had it all wrong. It seems a lot of people don't know or are in complete denial of the 80's. Day-glo, leg warmers, those "sunglasses" that were plastic with little slits, hatchbacks.
plexust ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 08:51:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The real That 80s Show was Freaks and Geeks then.
fiddle05 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:20:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
2017 Honda Civic is available as a hatchback.
Randydandy69 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:27:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The 80's were kind of shitty though. Nothing going on but the cold war and HIV epidemics.
Lakridspibe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:05:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And Hip Hop, Indiana Jones, Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, Prince, Michael Jackson, the Gandhi-movie, the Cosby Show (not so funny in hindsight), Ghostbusters, The Blues Brothers, Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cop....
used2bflds ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:40:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh. The Goldbergs is a pretty good approximation.
goodevilgenius ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:56:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's called The Goldbergs, or Fresh Off the Boat, or a few years ago, Surviving Jack.
brilliantjoe ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:26:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...
Friends.
goodevilgenius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:29:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not a currently running show.
idwthis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:41:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sigh.
Just because a show was made in the 90's does it mean it's a show that takes place in the 90's.
If Friends were still on the air, it still would not qualify as a show about the 90's either, because it would be episodes taking place in our current/present time.
Twoheaven ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:52:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's kinda how I viewed Surviving Jack, and it was great. Sadly fox sucks.
is_he_from_Gabon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:52:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They did in the ninties. It's called Friends.
sweetgreggo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:31:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At some point there will be. "Happy Days" and "Wonder Years" and "That 70's Show" we're all set ~20 years before their air dates. It would be a good assumption that there will be an attempt at a show set in 90's suburban white America.
throwthisawayrightnw ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:22:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More than wanting to see a "That 90s Show," what this makes me think is... we're living "That 2010s Show" right fucking now. Be careful... don't blink! A decade will pass! It goes fast and gets faster, and before any of us know it, they'll be making a romanticized and tragic show about this time. Kids will look back and wonder what it was like, just as many of us younger people have about the 50s, 60s, and 70s. I don't think many of us, myself included, can really appreciate that.
adudeguyman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:51:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck!!
atglobe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:49:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There should be a that 90's show.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:43:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Goldbergs. You're welcome.
TheAC997 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:53:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seinfeld
atglobe ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:59:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean teenagers in a 90's Foreman's basement.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:34:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
full of meth and nirvana
idwthis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:43:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sigh.
Just because a show wasย madeย in the 90's does it mean it's a show that takesย placeย in the 90's.
If Seinfeld were still on the air, it still would not qualify as a showย aboutย the 90's either, because it would be episodes taking place in our current/present time.
I just explained this to someone else about Friends haha
Phreakhead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:56:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would watch that.
courtenayplacedrinks ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:26:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would watch it if it was a British show. The era of britpop, homosexuality suddenly being cool, etc. They could have a token North American who's obsessed with grunge music and someone who's obsessed with Princess Diana. Part That 70s Show, part The Young Ones.
goodevilgenius ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:57:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can. It's called The Goldbergs, or Fresh Off the Boat.
Mr_Quagmire ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:57:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Friends
moonwalkindinos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:33:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't like how this makes me feel
nechneb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:46:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That 90s show already exist. It's call Seinfeld. All their problems would be solved if everyone had a smartphone.
AnonymousDratini ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:00:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ack
ForresterQ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:12:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Happy Days" was made in the 70's but set in the 50's and was also set in Wisconsin.
Proof enough to me that we need a "that's 90's show".
zeekar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:00:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
... and when it did air, it had about the same time difference as Happy Days.
LordZer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:17:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And it's creeping up on that 00's show as we speak....
ijklmn ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 03:21:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
e pi*i=-1
XofBlack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:09:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now prove it
JELLY__FISTER ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:00:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/53865.html
sega31098 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 20:45:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
North Korea holds elections.
Racing2733 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:04:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How many candidates are on the ballot?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:10:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
-8
sega31098 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:33:46 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One. Guess who?
Racing2733 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:08:29 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Slim Shady
MonarchOfPlanetX ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:52:23 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm 4 days late.. but know that this made me fucking laugh.
lord_gaben3000 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:24:35 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Granted there's only 1 person on the ballot and if you don't vote you get executed
Dpsmontreux ยท 178 points ยท Posted at 07:43:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump is a presidential front runner.
partialinsanity ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:31:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Democracy works!
[deleted] ยท -20 points ยท Posted at 12:52:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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IAmTheRedWizards ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:46:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The "manicured idiot" hasn't even presented a budget yet, so I fail to see how any further debt has been accumulated at all by the current government.
Also, this George Soros conspiracy whispering is starting to get ridiculous. Typical /r/conspiracy-level Jew blaming filtering into mainstream politics. What a time to be alive.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:19:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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IAmTheRedWizards ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:23:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cool story. Am I supposed to know who this is?
At one point does /r/the_donald and /r/conspiracy cross over so that you can't tell one from the other? Is Hillary going to be a Trilateral/Illuminati/Freemason next? Is Sanders really a member of that old whackjob bugaboo, the Frankfurt School? It would really tie the red-baiting and the latent anti-Semitism together nicely.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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IAmTheRedWizards ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:30:18 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have checked out the Donald. You guys are your own worst salesmen for anyone who isn't 12 or a mouthbreather.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:14:54 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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IAmTheRedWizards ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:16:39 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please, less salt. For your health's sake, if nothing else.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:58:10 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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IAmTheRedWizards ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:59:12 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's winning the Republican primary. The general election is a completely different matter.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:23:48 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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IAmTheRedWizards ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:39:33 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They still laugh at him on every news show on earth. A poll came out today that has him losing Utah to Hillary Clinton. Utah. Hillary Clinton.
Worse, a recent poll had him losing New York to Clinton by a wide margin. If he can't carry his own home state, then what kind of a candidate is he?
At any rate, I wouldn't vote for Hillary and neither would you, because we're Canadians and it would be illegal.
SleestakLightning ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 13:27:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump has no plans, he says nothing in his speeches. "I know words, I have the best words." is a direct quote.
Also he is a fascist who is giving racists and white supremacists in America a gigantic boner.
Fuck Trump.
[deleted] ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 13:38:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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SleestakLightning ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 13:42:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Trump has literally talked about wanting to eliminate any media sources who oppose him, that's fascism. He wants to ban Muslims from entering the US and put them all in a database to track their every movement, that's fascism. He encourages violence against supporters of other candidates, anyone who opposes him, and ultimately the entire US if he fails to be elected, that's fascism.
The "words" quote was Trump talking about how smart he is. The full quote is "I am very highly educated. I know words, I have the best words." He speaks a 4th grade reading level so he appeals to people who aren't very smart.
Zonnewyzer ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:05:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, Trump has not spoken about wanting to eliminate any media sources who oppose him.
Trump has spoken about wanting to be able to sue media that intentionally lie about someone in order to harm their reputation. That's libel and is indeed against the law.
It's nothing new, he'd just reinstate it, no longer exempting media from it. Intentionally lying is something different than opposing.
SleestakLightning ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:13:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol even if we say that you're right, I provided multiple examples.
[deleted] ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 13:53:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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SleestakLightning ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 14:21:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol, I'm glad to know Canada has idiots just like the US does.
If I supplied quotes you'd still find a way to discredit them because they came from "the media" or whatever.
Instead of me proving to you why Trump is awful, how about you explain to me what exactly it is about Trump that you think he will do well. What policies of his do you agree with?
HappyFlowerPot ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:23:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump is doing everything he can to get the disgruntled, impotent rage vote. His rhetoric has validated masses of angry bigots. While most people value egalitarianism, and bigotry is seen as socially unacceptable, ol' Donny is reviving, giving renewed license to, and encouraging antisocial behavior.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:38:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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HappyFlowerPot ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:08:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hooliganism opposing trump is not a counterpoint to trump encouraging bigotry. In fact, it is the predictable really of his irresponsible and polarizing rhetoric.
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HappyFlowerPot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:47:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you forget the part where he said to bar entrance to the country anyone who is Muslim? Are you a troll, a shill, or are you just not paying attention?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:53:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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HappyFlowerPot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:24:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guess I'm going with troll. Troll or stupid, either way, not worth talking to further, good day.
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Randomawesomeguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:33 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ew
lpwaterhouse2702 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:04:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even if Trump had the best policies (he doesn't), I would never want someone that advocates violence against people that don't support him or believes we need to keep people that aren't white Christians out of the country, to be President. He said we need to go after and kill the families of terrorists, because that will get their attention. On national television he very easily said war crimes are a great idea. That is not the America I grew up in and it scares/shames me that he may be what America has become.
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Blahblkusoi ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:42:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BLM is also retarded. Two things can disagree and be retarded at the same time.
lpwaterhouse2702 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:59:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzYv5foyAS8
There are a lot of other examples. I think part of the problem with Trump is people are willfully ignoring the things he says or giving him a pass when he says he wasn't being serious. It's dangerous.
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lpwaterhouse2702 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:03:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that he literally says "seriously" in it yet you say I'm interpreting him as being serious is proof to me this conversation is a waste of time.
uniptf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:18:03 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
โIf you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you?โ Trump said, drawing cheers and laughter. โSeriously, OK? Just knock the hell โ I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise. I promise.โ
At a casino rally in Las Vegas last month, Trump pined for โthe old daysโ when demonstrators would be โcarried out on a stretcher, folks.โ
Although he sometimes urges crowds to be gentle with those getting kicked out of his rallies, he often does not.
โIโd like to punch him in the face,โ he told the Las Vegas crowd when one protester was ejected.(http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-trump-campaign-protests-20160313-story.html)
GLOOTS_OF_PEACE ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 13:31:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
agreed. the circle jerk is too strong against this one. it's funny, reddit prides itself on being intelligent and seeking the truth, and yet they are very selective about what they choose to look into
Urdu446732 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:48:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump is going to win the election in a landslide against Hillary Clinton
Bernie Sanders is relegated to the shitheap of history with the failed ideology of socialism.
Sklushi ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 14:42:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God bless, let's hope he wins
FlashBash21 ยท 196 points ยท Posted at 03:24:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lands that produce two types of mana are worth taking damage for.
dat_alt_account ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 05:45:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not when I can just kill you with a turn 3 5/5 haste trample.
ShadowedNexus ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:09:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can do you one better. Turn 4 10/10. Basically a card that gets cheaper with stuff in the graveyard vs a mill deck
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:57:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Umm, infect... Turn two 10 damage win, modern legal.
The_Drider ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:10:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or you just play Mind Funeral against Modern Belcher. That's the one time my janky mill deck actually had a good matchup.
Ardub23 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:06:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tsk tsk, sounds like somebody just activated my trap card
Darth_Meatloaf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:30:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can do a Turn 4 26/26 with flying...
ShadowedNexus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:40:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And that's why I check the box that says casual.
Darth_Meatloaf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:21:21 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In my defense, I'm talking about Alara/Zendikar block Standard.
slnz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:33:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeeeaaaah I'm still going to go with the Reality Smasher
Keeneh15 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:05:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But what if that card gets milled? I play a u/b modern mill deck and it can be pretty tough to play against.
Frogkeeper ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:20:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mil =/= removal
Macaronimonster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:39:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not when I erase it with a Counterspell.
TinkyWinkyIlluminati ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:20:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you reveal a dragon. Or bounce a land. Or have metalcraft.
Macaronimonster ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:42:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Never underestimate the power of a flashed Claustrophobia.
threecolorless ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:45:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And by the same token, lands that make multiple mana at a time are worth banning.
The_Drider ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:11:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You sound like a Legacy/Vintage player that just discovered Modern for the first time. Or not, Legacy/Vintage still have fetches.
username2065 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:15:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
hahaha
DrossSA ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:25:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your life total can be safely spent like any other resource as long as it's never zero.
caliburdeath ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:23:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This isn't a thread for magic... there'll be plenty later.
Mchill23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:37:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/WVlJHH-A3-g
KingDarkBlaze ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:13:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Especially with landfall setups!
LordTimhotep ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:30:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This wins the thread for me.
TheKoleslaw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:46:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anyone else remember buying duals for 10 bucks then selling them for 20 a year later and feeling smart about your business acumen? I do...
:(
thatJainaGirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:17:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The concept of "deck thinning" is statistically and mathematically so incredibly insignificant that the entire concept of deck thinning as a benefit of a card is invalid. The actual benefit is mana fixing, allowing you to decide which land type you need more at any given time.
geking ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 06:09:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
There used to be colorful parrots on the us east coast. Carolina parakeets.(actually a conure) they made great pets. we killed them all.
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VersatileFaerie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:45:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Welp, I'm sad now.
geking ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:35:58 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know, right?
Dynamite86 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:41:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MURICA!
whirlpool138 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:14:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There used to be jaguars in the American South West. A few have been spotted in Arizona and New Mexico over the past couple of years.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:55:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
apparently there was a study in 1966 where they drowned dogs to see how long it takes for them to drown
somedudefromerlange ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:50:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, how long?
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 09:05:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
3-4 mins, but they lose consciousness in under a minute
only looked it up cause my dog drowned in our pool on monday
somedudefromerlange ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 09:07:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry to hear about that, man.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:15:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yeah sucks, he never went in the pool and we've had dogs around that pool for 14 years without issue so it was really strange, he was doing some weird little head movements for about a week before and whining more than usual so we think he might have had a seizure or some illness or just accidentally fell in, don't know for sure
[deleted] ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 10:27:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you at least get government funding?
imhotep4 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:48:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...for the pool?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:15:55 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For the research.
FinibusBonorum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:47:36 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...for the poodle.
trangquility ยท 859 points ยท Posted at 23:59:20 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alot of people in their field of work don't actually know what they're doing
fwork ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 03:14:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, can't surprise me there, I worked for the government.
The only person in the building who had any idea what they were doing and any sort of work ethic was the guy sweeping the floors after hours.
Gr1pp717 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:22:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've worked for both, and in 2 different professional careers, and can tell you that incompetence isn't limited, or even more prominent, in government.
The bigger problem with government is the blame game, and layers of crap people have to go through to avoid becoming the butt of that game. I spent a good 80% of my time in government sending emails and filling out paperwork for the sole purpose of CYA/putting the ball into someone else court; regardless of whether progress was actually on me or not. That, and the budgetary process...
Randomnumberrrrr ยท 700 points ยท Posted at 01:32:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And they have poor grammar and spelling.
ejoman113 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:36:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had to read this alot to understand
dpash ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 13:23:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Alot
CARNIesada6 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:56:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Over my head. Is it because he said "alot" instead of "a lot"?
0158014 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:24:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alot of people would make the same mistake.
swigglediddle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:00:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yehs. Hes n xampl uhf how not 2 spel
frankerzfrankerz ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:59:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck those people
TasteTheRaimbow ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:21:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't mind if I do
ย ( อกยฐ อส อกยฐ)ย
josephcmiller2 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:08:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So they become programmers.
astral-dwarf ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:32:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Grammatician here. You spelled grammer wrong.
AssholeBot9000 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 13:16:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Grammer*
Source: English teacher.
Lifeguard2012 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:00:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That guy is a professional writer.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 04:28:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
every professors' email
_oceanix ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 07:34:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
burn
flyingbison86 ยท 64 points ยท Posted at 01:25:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sounds about right.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:34:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Kiaser21 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:09:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IT guy here, can confirm. Most my business is cleaning up or fixing what some other guy screwed up, or actually giving support to guys that should already know how to accomplish their task.
jeremy1015 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 07:19:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except Obama. We can dispel that notion.
Surge72 ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 02:17:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*a lot
tr337runk ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 02:50:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd like to think they're an English teacher.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:50:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*there, an English teacher
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:10:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Their tech englash
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:25:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The alot made of people never really knows what he's doing his his field of work.
fingurdar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:03:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Saving the world one pedantic grammar correction at a time.
GangsterGRooster ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:43:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I kinda just look at stuff and take it apart then put it back together- mechanic
Asmor ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:51:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
And many of the ones who do know what they're doing feel like they don't.
EDIT: Wrong link >_>
yamajama ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:37:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dang, a lot of people just told me how good House of Cards was, but this makes me not want to watch it.
Asmor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:04:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
woops, wrong link. lol. That was supposed to go here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
banfromallsubreddits ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:44:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let's dispel with this fiction that people in their field know what they're doing.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:30:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And a lot do.
goodevilgenius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:45:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm. Have no idea what I'm doing at work most days.
Torpid-O ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm. I don't know how to drive.
bobs_monkey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:27:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We're working on it.
happinessattack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:13:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Their alot is better than yours.
Zuldark ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:48:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Has also something to do with the Peter principle. You are always promoted for the performance on your current potion, so you will stop getting promoted once you hit a position you are not cut out for.
Accendil ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:25:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know about you but I work in an office.
kasper117 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:46:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sounds like people working in banks
Gbiknel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:59:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, you still get a degree with a C- (most places).
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:24:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Downvote for "Alot"
ScrithWire ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:36:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, but i have a pretty damned good idea, and i can problem solve. That's a big thing. ;)
Jboyes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:09:18 on August 1, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imposter Syndrome.
NickRivieraPhD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:48:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of people don't know how to spell "a lot"
dunaja ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:41:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let's dispel of this notion that workers don't actually know what they're doing. They know exactly what they're doing.
Mr_Facepalm ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 09:34:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Alot" isn't a word.
Patrick_the_Saint ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 10:30:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alot of people is disturbing
[deleted] ยท 114 points ยท Posted at 03:37:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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iCameToLearnSomeCode ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 07:32:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mineral WATER is a great conductor, you need mineral OIL.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:27:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh no! I just submerged all the offices servers in mineral water!
SadGhoster87 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:49:41 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now we need to figure out what the hell Minteral Oil is.
Sybre ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:11:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, don't you see my edit?
iCameToLearnSomeCode ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:33:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It wasn't there when I posted this 10hrs ago.
Sybre ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:55:00 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was there the second I made that post.
Shin280891 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:40:36 on July 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He just didn't refresh the page.
Sybre ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:16:58 on July 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This post is 4 months old, don't comment on it.
Ericules ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 08:39:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like you guys are trying to get me to fuck up my electronics.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 10:29:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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SteveJEO ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:29:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pump from a fish tank to aid circulation.
Of course you could always scale up a bit to Intels Oil Server Rack
McFeely_Smackup ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 04:20:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you can completely submerge electronics fully powered up in distilled water because pure water does not conduct electricity.
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McFeely_Smackup ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:33:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
de-ionized is the appropriate term, but "distilled" is inherently de-ionized at least initially.
Kitty015 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:06:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"de-ionized" specifies a result; "distilled" specifies a method
While it is possible to de-ionize water by distilling it; distilled water may or may not be de-ionized depending on how rigorously the method was applied and how long ago.
It's kind of like bread vs baked dough. Sure, you can get bread by baking dough. But you can also get a lump of charcoal.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 08:51:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Kitty015 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:30:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What initial reply?
abedneg0 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:47:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not exactly. It will work for a while, but distilled water is really good at stripping ions off of metal, so pretty soon your distilled water will start conducting electricity.
rhobes ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 06:54:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you mean mineral oil, not mineral water. Do not submerge active electronics in mineral water :)
Sybre ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:14:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh yeah, I still had my mind on water.
fiddle05 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:16:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:32:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have to be careful with this. If you disconnect power to something that involves switching a charged capacitor's energy into some other component, the water can short the capacitor. This can potentially damage the device.
washed ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:44:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not always true though. Many relays will be damaged if submerged. Some plastics will dissolve or become brittle if exposed to mineral oil. LCDs don't like to get wet at all. There is also always the issue with corrosion of contacts, tracks on the PCB etc.
Who_GNU ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:14:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Distilled water works too, just not mineral water.
Also, water destroys LCDs, if it gets inside, and it can also interfere with the iron cores in inductors and transformers. Some components, especially switches and microphones, are not likely to dry thoroughly, so they may oxidize (e.g. rust) before they fully dry.
Mar1eC ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:20:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think my dad mentioned he washes old keyboards in the shower?
wickedmike ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:53:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I washed an old keyboard a few years ago in the shower. Completely took it apart, washed it with water and some soap. Let the components dry for about 3 days then put it back together. Looked as good as new.
esach88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:45:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I saw your Edit but I fear you've just destroyed countless electronic devices!
RockFourFour ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:19:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I was growing up, a friend's brother owned a small electronics manufacturing company. They assembled little circuit boards. I shit you not, they cleaned them after assembly by running them through a dishwasher.
FranTBW ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:28:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jokes on you, I have a Sony Z5
KRosen333 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:46:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...this isn't true. Water corrodes. Any exposed metal will be to some extent corroded even if its a tiny bit.
Sybre ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:11:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair this corrosion happens regardless just from being in air.
KRosen333 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:10:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OH YEAH BUT.... NO, dunking it in water hydrates it a bit more than normal air, I would say.
nobodylikedwesley ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:13:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My science teach said that this actually cuts microwave charging down by a factor of 10!
Faryshta ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 08:12:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
mineral oil?
whos_to_know ยท 79 points ยท Posted at 01:35:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans are just one living hole, starting at your mouth and ending at your ass.
catdoctor ยท 83 points ยท Posted at 02:43:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We're long donuts.
MyLiesAreTrue ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:33:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eclairs, really.
Happ4 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:03:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a tuuuuuuube.
Dyesce_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:05:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And longpig.
[deleted] ยท 69 points ยท Posted at 05:20:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Pluky ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:39:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some people still are
Gh05tW4nk3r ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:57:15 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
they didn't grow up
yuhutuh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:38:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so long as it was in the past, I'll gladly accept that fact
tententai ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:19:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That reminds me my biology 101 in college. The teacher enters the classrom, draws a tube on the board, and says "this here, is a living organism". Turns out we evovled our brain to make that tube happier.
OG_day_walker ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:41:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Technically, the GI tract is considered outside of the body. So we're a living being with a long ass hole running through us.
And since a hole implies absence, can it be alive?
whos_to_know ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:20:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a hole in my heart, but I still count as alive. :(
Manic_42 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:43:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually we're deuterostomes. We start at the ass and end at the mouth.
kontrpunkt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When two people kiss, they form one large tube with two assholes in its ends.
thatJainaGirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:15:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you kiss someone, you make a roughly 10 foot long tube with a butthole at each end.
Weaselmancer ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 06:46:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are the same amount of numbers between 0 and 1 as there are between 1 and infinity
AlecW11 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:46:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Explain yourself.
Weaselmancer ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:39:39 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Ok. There are a few ways to explain this.
So numbers can be placed into sets. For example, the set of all whole numbers, the set of all numbers that are solutions to x2 =9, or the set of all odd numbers between 1 and 10. The first set of numbers is obviously infinite{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ...}, whereas the second and third sets are finite{-3, 3} and {1, 3, 5, 7, 9}. Most people are familiar with the concept of finite and infinite sets, even if they don't know the terms for it.
Now here comes the tricky bit. As /u/strayce pointed out, there are different "sizes" of infinity. The way most set theorists do math, there are two sizes: countable and uncountable. While both are infinitely large, an uncountable set is infinitely larger than an infinitely large countable set.
One test for whether an infinite set is countable or uncountable is if it can be ordered, i.e. a 1st number, a 2nd number, a 3rd number, and so on. For all the whole numbers this is pretty easy: 1 is 1st , 2 is 2nd , etc. So the set of all whole numbers is a countably infinite set.
But, if you can prove that there is no way to order a set, then the set is uncountable. If we took the set of all real numbers between 1 and infinity and tried to assign a 1st , 2nd , 3rd ...we would run into problems. If we tried to order them from least to greatest size, we would never even get to the 2nd number! 1 is obviously the lowest and thus 1st but what next? If we said 1.1, then where does 1.01 go? If we say 1.01 is 2nd there where does 1.001 go? Every time we try to come up with a way to order the real numbers, we find another real number that doesn't fit in the ordering! Thus the set of all real numbers between 1 and infinity is an uncountably infinite set. (There are several proofs that the reals are uncountable, one of the most famous of which is Cantor's Diagonal Argument)
What about the set of reals between 0 and 1? Is this set countable or uncountable? Well, can you come up with a way to order them? Take your time, I can wait...
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probably didn't get anywhere, because they can't be ordered! (if you think they can be, feel free to post a possible ordering and I will give you a number that doesn't fit into it) So the set of real numbers between 0 and 1 is uncountably infinite, thus the same size as the set of all real numbers between 1 and infinity.
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Another way to explain this is that two sets of numbers are considered the same size if there can be a direct 1 to 1 mapping of ALL the numbers in the two sets. For example the sets {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7} and {2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14} are the same size because the first set can be mapped to the second set by multiplying each of its elements by 2, and the second set can be mapped to the first set by dividing each of its elements by two. In the case of all the numbers from 0 to 1, and the set of all numbers from 1 to infinity, we can map each set to the other by raising each of their elements to the power of -1. For example {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ...}-1 ={1, .5, .333, .25, .2, .1666, ...} and {.1, .01, .001, .0001, ...}-1 ={10, 100, 1000, 10000}. Obviously these aren't the complete sets, but for every number in one set, there is a single corresponding number in the other set and vice-versa, thus the sets are the same size!
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:51:58 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wouldn't the 1 to infinity set still be infinity*(the 0 to 1 set)?
Weaselmancer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:00:31 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I'm not entirely sure what you mean
*i think what youre trying to say is that {1, ..., โ}=โ*{0, ..., 1} therefore {1, ..., โ}>{0, ..., 1}? If that's the case, there a few problems with that.
First off, โ isn't a number that we can do math operations on quite like we can other numbers. As an example, if we take 0 from the set {0, ..., 1} and multiply it by โ, what do we get? 0? โ? Somewhere in between? Any attempts at making this work will lead to logical inconsistencies like 1=2. We just don't have math compatible with that. But let's ignore that and just say โ is a number you can do math operations on.
If that's the case, and {1, ..., โ}=โ*{0, ..., 1} is true, then we just came up with a 1 to 1 mapping of one set to the other. Therefore, the two sets are still the same size
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:01:06 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Well, I have absolutely no fucking idea anymore.
I'm going to theorize about simple things, like alternate timelines and Berensteain Bears.
acertaingestault ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:58:43 on April 12, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I need clarification.
My thinking is that {1, ..., โ} contains {1, ..., 2}, {2, ..., 3}, {3, ..., 4} and therefore would be a larger infinity, though both are uncountable, one is at least finite. Why's that not so?
Weaselmancer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:24:58 on April 12, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Correct
As stated, there are two "sizes" of infinite sets, countable and uncountable. To prove that infinite set A is larger than infinite set B, you must prove that set A is uncountable and set B is countable. "{1, ..., โ} contains {1, ..., 2}, {2, ..., 3}, {3, ..., 4}" proves nor disproves neither of those, it is only a statement of set membership.
*To clarify on this point, one set containing another set is a rough indicator of size when talking about finite sets, but we are not talking about finite sets. We are talking about infinite sets, something humans are not very good at conceptualizing. So here's an analogy to help: Think of the Mandelbrot set as being {1,..., โ}, it has an infinite number of points in it. Now even if you take a smaller slice/subset of it, as long as you choose the right slice/subset (of which there are
manyinfinite) you can still keep zooming in forever. That's kind of how this works.This is a contradiction. How can one set be uncountable and finite? All finite sets are countable.
I love talking about this stuff so feel free to throw more questions my way
acertaingestault ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:25 on April 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can zoom in AND out forever looking at {1, ..., โ}, whereas you can only scroll in infinitely looking at {1, ..., 2}, not out. It terminates, and not having that difference acknowledged feels incorrect.
Weaselmancer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:21:56 on April 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, here I thought you actually wanted to know some math, turns out you just want to argue and use your limited knowledge as a defense. My mistake.
It's an analogy.
acertaingestault ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:24:31 on April 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rude. I was trying to make sense of it, but fuck it now.
Weaselmancer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:28:58 on April 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
youtube vsauce count to infinity
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:44:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Weaselmancer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:39:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
While true, I didn't mean whole numbers vs decimal numbers. I meant numbers.
Royal-Ninja ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:07:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, there's more.
You can count every whole number from 1 to infinity, while you can't for every real number between 1 and 0. If you had a list of every single real number from 1 to 0, you can just take the first digit from the first number, write down something different than it, take the second digit from the second number, write something different than it, and repeat for every number in the list you'll end up with a number that isn't in the list.
chickenfriedswag ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:35:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Chickens outnumber humans 6 to 1.
kasper117 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:55:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ants outnumber people 1.6m to one
Urdu446732 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:52:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I eat 5 chicken breasts aday....we might have a chicken shortage.
tahitiisnotineurope ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:39:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
do those chickens all have LARGE talons?
discontinuuity ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 14:54:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sharks have been around longer than trees (about 400 million years).
RagdollFizzixx ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:08:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the shit
[deleted] ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 06:41:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sex workers in Australia have a lower rate of STIs than non-sex workers.
CrossedZebra ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:52:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's due to vigou ... sorry I mean rigorous testing!
losinator501 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:15:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I'm assuming they don't make a lot of money to keep up with Subaru tax!
DRM_Removal_Bot ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:14:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You would think this is everywhere. A "Sex worker" is someone who literally uses sex as a profession. They would know and understand the ins and outs of protection.
Tszemix ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:24:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Straya
[deleted] ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 09:11:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The word niggardly. It means not generous; stingy. The word has been used innocently in public and the users were harangued for it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_%22niggardly%22
*edit for clarity
panzerkampfwagen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:12:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RACIST!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:34:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Zackly
greeperfi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:22:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had a law professor who was 80 years old, beloved by all, who would use that word frequently in lectures. it was incredibly awkward.
HauntedShores ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:19:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This annoys me a little. It's almost like scolding a child for saying the word "country".
clemens014 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:23:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And retard means slowed down/held back.. you still wouldn't say "that mentally challenged fellow is being retarded in the race." Lol.
Iron-Lotus ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 10:11:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can fit an entire pitcher of beer into an overturned regulation size (ultimate) Frisbee.
thumpas ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:25:08 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the first one I've seen that I don't believe, do you have a video?
crackanape ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:57:05 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He didn't say the pitcher had to be regulation-sized.
J1mBlack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:12:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone give this guy a medal.
MrFeexit ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 10:57:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
" pleaded" as in "He pleaded not guilty" I seems like it should be "plead" rhymes with Ed...
Joshmoredecai ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:42:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The same with hanged versus hung.
Tane_No_Uta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:48:02 on May 27, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/pled#English
steamyv ยท 52 points ยท Posted at 02:47:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hanged
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:22:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The guy was hung, but he committed a crime and then he was hanged.
wildbug ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:38:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hanged like a horse
plexust ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:00:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How about an elephant?
Splendidissimus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:36:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What'd the horse ever do to you?
anderssi ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 08:34:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Finland is not part of scandinavia.
Fiddlebums ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 12:18:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But Denmark is, even tho they are not part of the Scandinavian peninsula!
Tszemix ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:28:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then shouldn't a part of Germany be in Scandinavia, since the bottom half of the Danish peninsula is German teritory?
chrisonabike22 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:00:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No? The peninsula (Jutland?) isn't part of Scandinavia, Denmark is
Tszemix ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:14:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But Jutland (not Holstein) is a part of Denmark.
Roscoes--Wetsuit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:26:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jutland is a part of Denmark. A big one, even.
Stonn ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 12:17:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And Fenno-scandinavia just sounds weird and also includes parts of Russia.
Poor Finland makes me sad :(
Roadworx ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:04:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about Estonia?
anderssi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:09:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
not part of scandinavia.
TransitRanger_327 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:16:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fennoscandia is the proper term for Norway, Sweeden, and Finland. But seriously, Fen-no-scan-dia.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:17:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn those Russians
panzerkampfwagen ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 03:38:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Water doesn't conduct electricity.
Zakimations ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 06:48:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
pure water or distilled water is considered an insulator. Otherwise it conducts electricity pretty well.
Long version
Serir0se ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:21:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait... Then why can't I use the toaster when I'm in the tub?
element515 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 07:39:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Other ions present conduct the electricity.
Kruziik_Kel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:42:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even in deionised water a small amount of OH- and H+ ions will dissociate meaning it can actually conduct just very very poorly.
But yeah in normal water it's the other dissolved ions doing the vast majority of the work in transporting the current.
bridel08 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:10:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
By a small amount ok, but pure water does conduct electricity (because of the HO- and H+ , present at a very small concentration in pure water)
scotty3281 ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 05:08:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
El Paso, TX is closer to Los Angeles, CA than it is to Texarkana, TX.
anom_aly ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:47:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have personal experience with this after driving from east Texas (maybe two hours from Louisiana border) to southern California. Getting out of the state was more than half the trip.
thatdudeman52 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:44:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Atlanta Texas is closer to Atlanta Georgia than el Paso Texas.
scotty3281 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:44:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't even know there was an Atlanta, TX.
deadshank ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:38:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
East to West, or North to South, it's always a two day drive to get out of the state.
Manic_42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:49:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Johnson City, TN is closer to Canada than it is to Memphis, TN
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:15:21 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And Texarkana is closer to Chicago than it is to El Paso.
rhymes_with_chicken ยท 72 points ยท Posted at 01:43:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
green_meklar ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:47:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How sure are you? I mean, have you ever really seen a Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo a Buffalo buffalo?
ebbomega ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:38:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I haven't found a Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo yet so I can neither confirm nor deny.
AWildCookieMonster ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:09:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hate life now
sheepoverfence ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:50:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, but i have seen Mark Ruffalo
Frothey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:39:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doom dooms doomed Doom, doomed Doom dooms dooming Doom.
Dyesce_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:02:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about your username? The German word for to fuck (ficken) rhymes with chicken. Did you mean that?
Earl_Satterwhyte ยท 84 points ยท Posted at 01:38:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
In heavy flow traffic, you are not suppose to merge immediately when you see the lane closed sign 1 mile ahead sign... You are supposed to zipper merge at the closure.
Edit - suppose changed to supposed, hat tip with my middle finger to r/HauntedShores
[deleted] ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 03:55:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I still think this is bullshit - it only works if everyone both knows about it and is ok with having their current follow distance halved.
DaSaw ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 08:00:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not in my experience. In my experience it's actually much harder to merge prior to the merge point than at the merge point. When I was younger, I would anxiously try to force myself in before getting to the merge point, fearing that I was going to get run off the road/into the cones/forced to a stop at the merge point. In reality I am always let in at the merge point.
I learned this the first time I drove eighteen wheels in Los Angeles. I was convinced I was going to be stuck on the side of the road for a few minutes until someone finally made space for me. Nope; merged right in with no problem. And it works as well on four wheels as on eighteen.
When there's still room ahead of you, the guy next to you thinks the next guy will let you in. When there's not much room left the guy next to you realizes that if he doesn't get the fuck out of the way, there's a very real chance it's not going to go well for either of you.
anormalgeek ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 04:00:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right. In reality some dick floors it to not let you in, because to do so would insult his masculinity.
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 04:05:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly- the zipper merge only works in some traffic engineer's wet dream, because it doesn't account for human nature.
McWaddle ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:02:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It does. What it doesn't account for is the shitty state of driver's ed in the US.
Hellzapoppin ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:07:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Works in Sweden.
Ladyingreypajamas ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:50:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Works in Germany.
Detached09 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:49:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But if I don't get halfway over and block traffic, that asshole three cars behind me might get to his exit thirty seconds faster than me!
Riff-Ref ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:39:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, I don't like procrastinating.
Knyfe-Wrench ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:59:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I see this a lot, but the problem is it assumes people drive perfectly. It assumes that some asshole won't cut you off out of turn, or some old lady who is terrified to merge at speed won't slam on her brakes, or a teenager who wasn't paying attention won't jam up the whole lane behind them.
Just merge when you see the sign. It's easier for actual people to pull off, and then it lets at least one lane flow smoothly.
Earl_Satterwhyte ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:26:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True it does take a concerted effort of all to make it work properly. Which self driving cars will do in 30 years.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:31:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Earl_Satterwhyte ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:24:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What we get now is 4 miles of back up and an asshat blocking both lanes 1 mile before the closure... When it could have been three miles of back up.
Thameus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:18:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This varied by jurisdiction, but zipper merging is the more effective option. Source: Rhode Island does it wrong.
Earl_Satterwhyte ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:21:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A mile of empty travel lane can hold a lot of vehicles.
songandsilence ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:01:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry.
HauntedShores ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:16:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Use of "suppose" in place of "supposed" is the thing that sounds most wrong in this entire thread. Because it is.
Earl_Satterwhyte ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:14:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Suppose I found the asshat that blocks both lanes at the road closed sign.
dsmdylan ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:47:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Zipper merging isn't realistic. Merging at the earliest opportunity upon realizing it's necessary is both realistic and effective. Not every car will leave a gap suitable for the car next to it. Cars come in different sizes and people have different depth perceptions and opinions about what a suitable follow distance is.
When I merge, I get over into a gap where I can fit ASAP without causing the person behind me to brake. The dick move is when the person behind me knows why I'm merging yet chooses to blast past me and try to merge at the last second which, since most people have already merged and filled in the gaps between cars, inevitably makes someone brake to give them room which then causes traffic.
McWaddle ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:05:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your "dick move" driver is doing it properly. The problem is the lack of driver education causing people to consider it a "dick move" because they're seeing that driver to be cutting in line.
The dick move isn't driving to the end of the closed lane and then signalling to be let in; it's the drivers already in line not allowing it and closing up their gaps. They take it as a personal affront because they're uneducated about driving.
dsmdylan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:57:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I understand the theory. If the theory worked, it would not be a dick move. The dick move is knowing how reality works and still doing this.
Fenrir2401 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:14:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It works perfectly well in Germany.
Akathos ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:33:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also in the Netherlands...
Earl_Satterwhyte ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:21:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Self-driving cars will make it happen.
MacduffFifesNo1Thane ยท 586 points ยท Posted at 23:45:55 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Legalized abortion reduces crime?
[deleted] ยท 211 points ยท Posted at 00:14:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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MacduffFifesNo1Thane ยท 59 points ยท Posted at 01:01:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just finished the book today and want to rustle some jimmies.
BDTexas ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 02:10:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except isn't that whole chapter cautioning about conflating correlation with causation?
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 03:22:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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ilikeeatingbrains ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:32:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stem cell stocks would be worthless!
John_YJKR ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:06:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The book actually makes the point that there are a multitude of reasons attributed to any one result. Not one smoking gun.
MacduffFifesNo1Thane ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:20:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. I don't understand it, but it answers the question.
The_Voice_of_Dog ยท 104 points ยท Posted at 01:26:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Careful. It's mostly a book of inflammatory opinion. Fact check before you become another person spouting freakanomics snapple facts.
ChefTeo ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 04:36:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Agreed. There are too many other factors at play. Lead gasoline was phased out around the same time, and educational attainment has steadily risen. These probably aren't fully explanatory, but probably more so than "all the bad people took a coathanger to the dome."
breakwater ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:52:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, mass incarceration has become a big thing. More criminals in jail means fewer outside to commit crime.
Eudaimonics ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:33:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but Freakonomics evens mentions these other reasons and says that this wasn't the only reason.
MacduffFifesNo1Thane ยท -14 points ยท Posted at 01:42:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hence the question mark. I don't believe it, but I love being a reddit troll. haha
belessd ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:22:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Research has been done that shows more convincingly that it was the removal of lead paint that caused the decrease in crime.
speaks_in_redundancy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:30:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Total lead in atmosphere, I thought.
mypunkrock ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:21:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Re-analysis of Levitt's data has subsequently demonstrated mixed findings on abortion and the crime decline.
MacduffFifesNo1Thane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:09:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How fascinating! I read the 2005 version so I need to review the current data.
mypunkrock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:24:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Here are some of the rejoinders to Levitt and Donahue, some of which they responded too. Many, but not all are available online, just check out Google Scholar:
http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XXXIX/1/1.short
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/rest.91.1.112#.Vu8GQ-IrLIU
http://cad.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/12/15/0011128715615882.abstract
The last one, by Gary Shoesmith is quite recent. If you would like me to send a copy, please let me know.
madbrood ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 09:28:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm Ron Burgundy?
websnarf ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 09:26:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, and this has been more than thoroughly debunked.
raygundan ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 03:35:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well... it certainly reduces illegal abortions.
Lumpkyns ยท 54 points ยท Posted at 00:01:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And abortion
Urbanviking1 ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 00:15:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And
teenpregnancy.jcpmojo ยท 74 points ยท Posted at 01:49:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, legalized abortion has no effect on the number of pregnancies. Only births.
Eudaimonics ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 12:34:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
However, access to planned parenthood and similar facilities keeps teen pregnancy lower.
I always laugh at the backlash among Planned Parenthood.
They prevent way more abortions every year than the number they actually perform.
yamajama ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:46:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think for a lot of people it's more about the morally loose culture that birth control promotes. We marry later, have far more sexual partners, more single parent households, which causes children to not reach their full potential.
Sexual theory 101 is that women are the gatekeepers of sex, while men are the gatekeepers of commitment. A man who has sex with many women is viewed by women as a man who simply hasn't met a woman good enough to commit too, while a woman who has sex with many men is viewed as a woman who isn't good enough to earn a man's commitment (hence the whole "society's double standard" complaint that feminists make).
We'd probably all be a lot better if we made sex less about the number of people that we sleep with, and more about finding people who are actually compatible with on a longer term relationship basis.
James29UK ยท -14 points ยท Posted at 03:25:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If anything it actually increases the number of pregnancies. As people are less worried about becoming pregnant as they can "just get an abortion" and so are likely to engage in more risky sexual practices. It may even have a partial increase in the number of births as people who were going to use abortion as a post conception form of birth control, after becoming pregnant then change their minds.
roachwarren ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:11:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any facts to support this? I've never seen any stats that support any number of people using abortions or even Plan B as their birth control. This makes sense as abortions cost hundreds to thousands of dollars, can be more difficult to obtain, and can be obtained ironically from the same place trying to help them get free birth control.
muskratboy ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 04:53:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are no facts to support this. It's nonsense.
yamajama ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:48:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it definitely increases the amount of babies born out of wedlock. If you know that you can go buy Plan B, then who cares that Jamal didn't bring any condoms?
roachwarren ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:57:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Legal abortions increase the amount of babies born out of wedlock because Plan B is available if they didn't use a condom? What?
I included Plan B because its the "next step up" from birth control. I could care less if a woman wants to throw away money on multiple Plan B pills, I have no moral objection to her use of Plan B at all.
yamajama ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:52:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, it's really more of a society thing, not a planned parenthood thing. A culture that praises and supports and even promotes pre-marital sex is going to have more babies born out of wedlock and more abortions.
The point about "plan B" being available is really just saying that we live in a world where we're not thinking about the consequences (good or bad) of sex anymore. So when Sarah and Jamal hook up, neither is going to worry about the possibility of a baby.
roachwarren ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:56:35 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats not true at all. A culture that praises and supports sexual education and health is going to have less babies born out of wedlock and less abortions. Plan B is a pill that prevents pregnancy (it really sounds like you think Plan B is a nickname for an abortion), how is having a pill available saying that we live in a world where we're not thinking about the consequences? This pill is a solution to the consequences and its name literally suggests its the second line of defense. It means we are living in a world where we are realistic and far more aware of the consequences.
And... they should be worried? Why should they worry about the possibility of a baby if there is no possibility of a baby? I fully disagree with the statement but it deserves response anyway. it really just sounds like you want to impose extremely conservative ideals in people you have no control over.
yamajama ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:58:13 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I agree, but for the record, I never talked about sexual education, I simply said "A culture that praises and supports and even promotes pre-marital sex is going to have more babies born out of wedlock and more abortions.". There is a difference between supporting sexual education and supporting pre-marital sex.
Nope, I'm pro abortion, and anti-religious. I know that you're probably used to arguing with people who very religious and that's why they hate sex-education... I'm not one of those people. I'm an atheist, who views our sex-obsessed culture as hurting all people, parents, and children.
Having a pill available is not bad. But having a culture that promotes lots and lots of sex with as many partners as possible, where adultery is glamorized, and where divorce is common, and most children are being raised in single parent households... that's indicative of a culture that cares less about the kids (the consequence of sex) than it does about sex itself.
Then explain why MORE children are born out of wedlock today than were before the pill was invented. The fact is that the pill opened up the floodgates to a culture which is absolutely obsessed with sex.
Because there IS a possibility of a baby, no form of contraceptive/birth control is 100%, and history has demonstrated that once this care-free attitude became prevalent, boys and girls who decided to indulge and engage in lots of risky sexual behavior have returned to us a culture of single parent households, decreased happiness, and increased poverty and reduced full potential.
No, I just don't believe that we benefit from supporting child abuse and promiscuity since we now have enough data to prove that single parent households are dramatically inferior to in-tact family units and single parenthood is proven to reduce the parents and childs happiness. If you support child abuse, and a less happy population, then I would call you morally inferior and evil.
Pat117 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:28:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But you're literally talking out of your ass. You have no facts
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:12:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The argument is that children who are born from unwanted pregnancies are more likely to repay their patents mistakes than those who were born from intentional, desired pregnancies.
There's a lot of true facts driving this logic but idk of an actual study of it.
jcpmojo ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 03:28:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bump
lannister80 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:24:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And my axe!
Zeitgeistalt ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:35:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And my axe!
TheHollowJester ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 02:14:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm afraid I don't get the "sounds extremely wrong" part with this one.
MacduffFifesNo1Thane ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:19:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The only way to stop crime is to kill the criminals in advance doesn't strike you as absurdly creepy and horrifying?
TheHollowJester ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:01:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess I just don't see an abortion (up to a moment when the CNS develops) as killing.
From my perspective it is (simplified): "ok, so unwanted children have X greater chance to be mistreated and people mistreated as children have Y chance of being maladjusted. Maladjusted people turn to crime in Z percent of cases, so if these things stop happening the crime will statistically drop by XYZ."
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:14:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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charliebeanz ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 08:02:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Claiming something like that as a fact when you know perfectly well that many, many people disagree is kinda pointless. That's like telling a Christian that being gay isn't a sin and that alone somehow negates all their arguments about it. While it should, the point is that you can't be so obtuse as to not understand that someone might have a differing opinion and therefore be uncomfortable with certain things, like abortion=less crime.
I'm super tired and I'm not sure what I just typed out makes sense.
killerpoopguy ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 09:50:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A sin isn't a real thing though, it's just an idea. A stupid one.
charliebeanz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:04:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oookay, lemme try this again. To YOU it might not be a real thing, but to your Baptist Aunt Kathy, it is very much A Real Thing. Therefore, you should understand that she may feel differently towards it than you do, the same way Christians feel uncomfortable with abortion because they consider it actual murder. Making blunt statements like "abortion isn't murder" isn't going to change the way anyone feels about it, it just informs others of your point of view. Does that make more sense? I mean, we can say all day that being gay isn't a sin or that sins aren't real things, but simply saying that isn't going to make your homophobic neighbor suddenly totally comfortable with you making out with your same-sex SO in the driveway, now is it? You have to explain why it's okay.
killerpoopguy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:50:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My point is that it shouldn't be compared to a "sin" due to that not being a thing that exists outside of belief, whereas abortion and murder are real things (preventing a fetus from reaching farther stages, and killing someone), also murder is a legal thing, so whether or not abortion is murder should be determined on the definition of "murder" and not your own beliefs unless you're the one writing the law.
famously ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 01:21:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Careful. Correlation is not causation.
ForgottenUser ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 03:37:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't it pretty clear that limiting what constitutes a crime will reduce crime?
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 06:35:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And that people who can't afford children don't have to have them, thus reducing the number of children living in poverty and therefore the number of people resorting to criminal activity.
BlacknOrangeZ ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 13:37:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This requires the absence of a welfare state.
MacduffFifesNo1Thane ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:51:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hence why the question mark is there.
Also, my favorite site for this "fact:"http://tylervigen.com/discover
Did you know eating mozzarella cheese makes you be tangled in your bedsheets and die? (http://tylervigen.com/view_correlation?id=29452)
speaks_in_redundancy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:35:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you know that having a fan on in your bedroom while you sleep causes your murder to go uninvestigated.
MacduffFifesNo1Thane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:06:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Joke's on my murderer, I'm always dead on the inside.
Surge72 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:15:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh look. Reddit's favourite sentence.
EzraT47 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:56:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No only the lesson that most people who visit Reddit need to learn first. If Reddit were a tavern then the phrase ought to be posted over the bar right next to the "No patron's under age served alcohol" sign.
Waitwait_dangerzone ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:30:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like reddits love of fallacies. We just totally glaze over the fallacy of fallacies. Just because someone uses a fallacy doesn't automatically make them wrong.
III-V ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:40:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here's the paper:
http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/DonohueLevittTheImpactOfLegalized2001.pdf
I think it's a very sensible hypothesis.
BigBillyGoatGriff ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:55:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For anyone wondering why, legal abortion reduces unwanted pregnancies resulting in fewer unwanted children. Those unwanted children commit crimes at an increased rate from the norm as teens and adults. Also creating more unwanted or unstable families (sometimes due to incarceration) creating a cycle of unwanted people struggling to survive...there are many factors at play but abortion side steps the cycle.
MacduffFifesNo1Thane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:13:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But according to many replies in my inbox, the data Levitt used is flawed.
iCameToLearnSomeCode ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:27:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is just an obvious fact. Unwanted kids grow up to be shitty adults.
sfarrelljr ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:39:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that your excuse?
Cronstintein ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:30:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well you could probably say the same for any popular crime. Legalizing prostitution or drugs would also reduce crime right?
1IIII1III1I1II ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 00:54:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Legalizing everything would give us a crime rate of zero.
speaks_in_redundancy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:36:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like your style.
corpuscle634 ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 00:43:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There was a distinct drop in crime rates about 18 years (prime crime-doin' age) after Roe v Wade. The logic is that if the abortions hadn't happened, more children would've been born into shitty situations and ended up as criminals.
Mac_H ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 01:41:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The trouble I have with the logic is that the same drop should have occurred (but larger) when 'The Pill' became widely available.
But it didn't . So the logic seems plausible - but wrong.
So the drop in crime rates might be linked to something else ... perhaps it is more than a coincidence that it occurred at around the time the crack-cocaine epidemic came to an end ?
If the logic was correct it would also mean that we'd see a reduced crime rate in younger individuals first - while older (non-aborted) individuals would have the same crime rate as before. In fact - the opposite occurred. The drop in crime rates about 18 years after Roe .v. Wade was most prominent in OLDER criminals, not younger.
You can also argue that the drop in crime correlated perfectly with the drop in leaded gasoline use. This theory would explain why older individuals (who are more susceptible to most things than young people) would show the effect first.
If you want to see the data re-analysed, correcting for mistakes in earlier analysis, see this:
http://www.bostonfed.org/economic/wp/wp2005/wp0515.pdf
Good luck !
-- Mac
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:00:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I dunno about the pill idea. Abortion is quick. The pill requires daily diligence, which is something a lot simpler if you're not poor or working erratic hours, or stressed, or hungry, or any number of things which may have you forget to take your medicine at the exact right time.
It's really effective with perfect use, but has nearly a 10% failure rate with the way most people tend to use it.
Then timewise, too, the BC pill wasn't made widely available to everyone at once, it was first made available to select people, then to married women 5 years later, then more than 5 years later to unmarried women, and the social implications around it (since it was something you had to go to your regular doctor for, and carry around constantly, versus a much quicker process for abortion) didn't lead to the same kind of uptake at once.
And then, abortions were something when pregnancy was actually a conceptualized thing in these girls' minds. For many poor families, being educated without the problem seeming imminent, especially sex ed, was neither accessible, nor at the top of their lists.
I have no real opinion on whether it happened as a result of abortion, but there are many reasons why the same drop wouldn't have occurred for the pill.
sammysfw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:25:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone has shown that it correlates strongly with the removal of leaded gas, and that this pattern holds true in every country that used leaded gas, too. That's actually pretty plausible because childhood exposure to lead can cause developmental and behavioral issues that put people at a higher risk for criminality later on.
Kitty015 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:51:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If that was the case then you'd expect that you'd see crimes committed by youth drop first. i.e. 18 years after Roe v Wade, you'd see a drop in crimes committed by 18 year olds. The next year you'd see a drop in 19 year olds. 20 year olds, 21 year olds etc etc.
But that's not what happened. The reduction in crime that is supposedly due to legalised abortion happened because fewer crimes were committed by old people, while youth crime rates remained more-or-less the same.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:29:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, but you're probably aware that OP meant something else.
mk2ja ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:01:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Legalizing rape, assault, murderโฆ legalizing these would all reduce crime. Because they wouldn't be crimes any more.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:07:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
bullshit debunked pseudo-science for people who think they're smarter than they really are.
Cutting lead out of gasoline: that reduced crime.
ChefTeo ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 04:37:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you sure that crime doesn't cause leaded gasoline?
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 04:38:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
oh shit
Seminal_Sound ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:03:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well I don't know about that, but I'm pretty sure cancer causes cell phones...
III-V ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:39:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you actually read the paper?
http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/DonohueLevittTheImpactOfLegalized2001.pdf
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:05:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read the book. Ages ago. When I was like in 6th grade.
I've also read the criticisms.
http://uncertaintyblog.com/2013/08/15/fooled-again-pinker-puts-a-nail-in-the-coffin-of-the-freakonomics-crime-theory/comment-page-1/
Elehhhhna ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:08:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As did roe v. wade.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:06:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Roe vs. Wade had nothing to do with it.
http://uncertaintyblog.com/2013/08/15/fooled-again-pinker-puts-a-nail-in-the-coffin-of-the-freakonomics-crime-theory/comment-page-1/
Eudaimonics ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:39:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You just made the same mistake they did though.
This hasn't been fully proven either.
Freakonomics actually goes into the other contributing factors and they are right. It is probably a combination of factors, not a single cause.
Most people seem to forget to mention that part.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:06:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://uncertaintyblog.com/2013/08/15/fooled-again-pinker-puts-a-nail-in-the-coffin-of-the-freakonomics-crime-theory/comment-page-1/
Eudaimonics ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:12:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
As mentioned in the article, Freakonomics actually goes into the other contributing factors and they are right. It is probably a combination of factors, not a single cause.
People seem to forget this or actually haven't read the book or saw the documentary.
IIRC they only attributed 40% of the drop in crime due to abortion. The other 60% were from a combination of other reasons.
Your link also doesn't mention anything about gasoline and lead.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:27:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yeah, as mentioned by some no name blog operator. His opinion is irrelevant, I'm linking Pinker.
And if you actually read the rebuttal you'd see the reasoning behind why abortion couldn't even lead to a 40% drop.
And how the fuck have you not heard the lead hypothesis yet? How far behind can you be? It's been dominating the public health and sociology fields for the past 3 years.
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposure-gasoline-crime-increase-children-health
You should read it: it's an incredibly interesting article (and actually inspired my major).
Wazula42 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:11:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's wrong about that? Less abortions mean less overcrowded families, less babies no one can afford, less people being driven into desperate circumstances or forced to abandon families they can't support. Seems like a pretty obvious correlation to me.
guepier ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:21:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Itโs a very plausible hypothesis, which is why serious researchers have entertained it.
But there are problems with it. For one thing: legalising abortion probably does not increase abortion rates [1]1. Instead, thereโs a multitude of factors at play here, all feeding back into each other.
1 Yes! Now that is a fact that sounds extremely wrong.
Wazula42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:39:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is pretty interesting. Also horrifying. But it's true, abortions will either get done by professionals in safe environments or they'll be performed with coat hangers or flights of stairs.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:32:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah it was intuitive to me. Pretty hard to say it wouldn't reduce crime.
immski ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that a question?
MacduffFifesNo1Thane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:14:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently, according to redditors.
immski ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:29:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
According to you. You put a question mark at the end.
MacduffFifesNo1Thane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:40:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of unbelievability and confusion.
savageboredom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:56:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also unleaded gasoline.
jabba_the_wut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:15:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm Ron Burgundy?
Just_Look_Around_You ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:48:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's surprising?
MacduffFifesNo1Thane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:09:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not illegal abortions....all crime. And apparently, it's controversial in this thread.
Just_Look_Around_You ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:09:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't even think of it trivially in that way. Abortion is a super powerful tool for controlling reproduction and so poverty and then crime. I thought this was extremely well know
DraftOrtiz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:14:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm Ron Burgundy?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:20:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Correlation does not imply causation.
samcuu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:59:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Legalize anything reduce crime.
Hellzapoppin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:01:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Legalizing anything reduces crime.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:20:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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MacduffFifesNo1Thane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:11:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only in Colorado and if you sleep with President Clinton.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:43:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, technically, legalizing anything reduces crime. (Since there's, like, less crimes to commit.)
Th3Harbinger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:59:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that a question?
MacduffFifesNo1Thane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:11:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently?
WIENS21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:05:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only in black ghettos
ShadowWriter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:13:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Love Freakonomics.
MacduffFifesNo1Thane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:12:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I finished the book yesterday. And I just couldn't believe the data, hence the original question mark.
Resquiat in pace, my inbox.
ShadowWriter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:01:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Believe it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:31:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so does legalized extermination of poverty stricken communities, as it turns out.
Aroumia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:40:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Having a child can put pressure on a financial situation. If that situation wasnt' stable and you can't abort your baby it'll push you into poverty. Beeing in poverty increases the chance of desperate actions like crime.
Iunnrais ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:41:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is a correlation, not a proven causation. From arguments presented to me, it seems more likely that lead reduction reduces crime, which happened to coincide with legalized abortions.
MasterTacticianAlba ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:43:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If we legalised everything we would have 0% crime rate.
MacduffFifesNo1Thane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:12:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except the existence of crime would have been made illegal.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:57:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe
Tuba4life1000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:14:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. Some situations are with people who are too poor to handle a child, too young, or flat out don't want a kid (rape or whatever other reason). If the child is raised in a "bad" environment, it goes back to the " nature vs. nurture" bad childhood mostly yields bad adulthood.
Codenamekino ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:17:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Technically, legalizing anything that is currently illegal reduces crime.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:34:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Legalized drugs, murder and theft reduces crime. I think we're onto something.
Not saying abortions should be illegal. Just saying ... something. Not sure.
SandersClinton16 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:51:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
correlation is causation!
aidenandjake ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:34:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Legalizing everything would eliminate crime all together.
t3hcollective ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:04:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, the more stuff you legalize then the less crimes there are to commit.
Wait, this is Reddit...of course crime goes down, you will have less black people!
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:48:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See, everybody else here is posting facts, but you're asking a question. Either tell us something or get rid of that question mark.
goodevilgenius ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:52:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In particular, it reduces the number of illegal abortions.
Z_Coop ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:43:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nothing to do with abortion specifically, but doesn't crime technically always decrease when something becomes legal because you're decriminalizing it?
MacduffFifesNo1Thane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:04:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes but the argument in the book I read said it cuts all crime because the low income people who get abortions are the most likely to raise children who commit crime, especially if the child is not "wanted."
javilla ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:01:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like this one is a bit wierd. I mean, if you legalized theft you'd see a reduced crime rate as well.
I'm neither pro nor against abortion, just wanted to point it out.
MacduffFifesNo1Thane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:05:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The argument is that the children would grow up unwanted would be more likely to commit crime at all.
Tommy2255 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:05:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Legalizing most things would reduce crime, because there would be fewer crimes that could be committed.
Trivi ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:44:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Debunked
Plsdontreadthis ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course it does. Just like legalizing theft would lower crime. If it's not illegal, it's not a crime.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 01:55:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, shit. I wanna murder someone, but I don't wanna go to jail for it... I'll just hump the hell out of this girl, and she and I will get an abortion! Loophole!
draldan ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 12:56:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are insanely more ways to arrange a deck of cards than the universe's age.. in seconds
AES512 ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 13:58:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How many? 52!
ProgramTheWorld ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 14:40:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
52!!
SadGhoster87 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:53:26 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
52!!!
Maplekiller ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:08:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And more than the amount of atoms on earth!
sirthinker ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:11:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mother of bullshit.
Maplekiller ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:08:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The amount of different ways to shuffle a deck of cards is 52!. And 52! Is a very high number, 80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883277824000000000000 to be exact, or 8x1067. Meanwhile the universe is 'just' 4.32ร1017 seconds old.
In fact, there are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards then there are atoms on earth (approx. 1.33x1057)
sirthinker ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:22:09 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Grandmother of bullshit.
whacko_jacko ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:46:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At any given moment, there are always at least two people on the planet with exactly the same number of hair follicles.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:43:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eli5?
satanic_satanist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:55:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The only explanation I could imagine is that we have less than 7 billion hair follicles..
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:35:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
100,000 to be exact.
A moderately sized city, thus, has many people with the same number of hair follicles as each other.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:56:40 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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whacko_jacko ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:18:53 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For a population of roughly a billion or more, it is necessarily true. In my original statement I meant to include body hair. If we just mean hairs on the head, then a couple million should be more than enough. In that case there would be 100% certainty unless you can explain why it is possible for someone to have a million hairs on their head.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:34:34 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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whacko_jacko ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:10:04 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure, that's true but it is totally irrelevant. Let's try something simpler. There are only 7 days of the week. There are much more than 7 people on Earth. Therefore, it must be the case that there are at least two people who were born on the same day of the week. It's not just highly likely, it is a logical fact.
By the same argument, there must be at least two people on the planet with exactly the same number of hair follicles on their bodies. This will remain true as long as the number of people on Earth remains higher than a few million.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:14:15 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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whacko_jacko ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:17:28 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Read my comments again. I never said that there are at least two people born on Saturday, only that there are at least two people born on the same day of the week. Maybe everybody was born on Monday, I don't care. I meant everything I said in this thread exactly as I said it.
whacko_jacko ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:13:05 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I doubt you are 5 so I will just explain. As long as "number of hair follicles" is a well-defined discrete quantity, then the statement I gave is automatically true by the pigeonhole principle (read about it if you like).
Everybody has far less than a couple billion hair follicles (average around 5 million on the entire body), and so it is not possible for everyone to have a unique number of hair follicles as long as the global population remains relatively high. If everyone had a unique number of hairs, then there would necessarily be people with billions of hairs. There's just not enough surface area on a human body to accommodate such a thing.
weltallic ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 07:09:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most cruel, sociopathic people live full, rich lives of bountiful plenty, and die warm, peacefully, content, and unrepentant; fully convinced they died a winner.
missbutterfree ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:54:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless they go to prison, i.e. Bernie Madoff
Or lose their ill-gotten fortune, or have their reputations otherwise damaged.
dens421 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 14:49:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They can even run for president using the best words and lots of winning!
Zonnewyzer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:09:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oooooh, edgy.
nicktanisok ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:54:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seems like a good deal.
ApocalypticPsyche ยท 177 points ยท Posted at 23:51:02 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Childhood innocence is a socially constructed idea. I mean, the phrase sounds wrong, but it's true. Although it's a good construction.
Agastopia ยท 60 points ยท Posted at 00:10:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No shit? That doesn't mean we shouldn't respect the idea though... Most socially constructed ideas are fantastic. Like don't kill people. Or don't rape.
[deleted] ยท 97 points ยท Posted at 00:16:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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SPacific ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 02:54:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not being raped is one of my favorite things.
kangarooninjadonuts ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:58:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But how would you know? Maybe you should try it so you can make an informed choice?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:49:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're welcome.
UlyssesSKrunk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:37:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How would you know เฒ โกเฒ ?
orangejuicenopulp ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:23:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't know :'(
ApocalypticPsyche ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 00:46:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You may think it's obvious, but I guarantee you, most people wont realise it.
I literally addressed this in my comment. Although it's a good construction
Alternative_Reality ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 01:24:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The idea of childhood also didn't exist until the early 1900s.
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 02:46:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lloyd deMause, the founder of that widely criticized theory, is the founder of the hilariously unscientific Journal of Psychohistory.
Its biggest contribution to society has been publishing this quote, which anyone whose used a Japan-related forum in the 2000's should be familiar with (the Humboldt University of Berlin website has stopped hosting that article series for whatever reason):
BleedingEdginess ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:08:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fuck
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:07:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hang on, so that quote is accurate or not?
xatmatwork ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:31:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit. Obviously it's fucking not.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:59:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously though, ive never heard of this
Alternative_Reality ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:17:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not talking about psychohistory. I'm talking about how the concept of childhood became institutionalized through laws and social projects in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when juvenile courts were invented, "problem child" schools were founded, and a substantial difference between adults and children were put into place legally.
ApocalypticPsyche ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:30:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's so strange to look back before that time, children were dressed the same as their parents! They really just looked like small adults.
adrianmonk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:01:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know what that's even supposed to mean.
Alternative_Reality ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:08:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The concept of childhood as a time of innocence and needing more than basic protection didn't really exist in the West until after the industrial revolution. Children were another member of the family that worked, they were just smaller adults. There weren't differences in sentencing between minors and adults for crimes, because being a minor didn't exist. You had the same accountability as an adult.
goodevilgenius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:03:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't mean anything. It's completely bunk.
nastybacon ยท 223 points ยท Posted at 00:14:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's also a load of shit.
Kids aren't innocent. They purposely test their parents, and teachers to see where the boundaries are. They throw stones, they bully each other. In fact kids can be so f**in mean to each others its unbelievable. They waste food like no one else without a care in the world about the cost of having it. They don't give a shit about money or how much of it is spent on them. I'm talking kids that are old enough to understand that mummy and daddy have to work to make money. they expect everyone to clean up after them too. They take everyone for a ride.. they are assholes!
ApocalypticPsyche ยท 158 points ยท Posted at 00:50:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think when people talk about childhood innocence, they are not referring to definition that you're using, which is more of a guilty/innocent situation. I think it's referring to keeping "adult experiences" away from children, for example, children used to work from really young ages to help support the family, and now that societies idea of childhood has changed, this in no longer acceptable.
that1prince ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 07:17:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When people say childhood innocence all they really mean is ignorance.
TheAtlanticGuy ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:31:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a kid I was perverted as hell. I didn't really know it at the time though.
kampamaneetti ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 06:49:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See, that's innocence.
eseern ยท 59 points ยท Posted at 01:45:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not what they mean by childhood innocence
mythicreign ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 03:49:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Many people forget that kids are just miniature people. Miniature people that are going to almost certainly grow into full-sized stupid shitheads. While kids may be naive and lack education or experience, people don't give them enough credit and try too hard to shelter them and or take any responsibility away from them. Children may start out far dumber than the average pet, but after a certain point they have an absolutely firm grasp of what's right and wrong, and are well aware of how to manipulate situations and adults.
I don't hate kids, I really don't. What I hate is the sub-par, apathetic parenting that most people practice, and the fact that they'd rather rely on completely censoring what their kid is exposed to over having difficult (but necessary) conversations with them. A child is not a dog or cat. If you aren't prepared to invest a huge part of yourself into actually raising them and ensuring they don't become a detrimental drain on society, then you shouldn't have any in the first place.
Noisetorm_ ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:08:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit so much this. Kids buy $10 worth of lunches, and end up throwing away half that (it's not even bad stuff, its like chips, pizza, ice cream, etc.) instead of you know... even when they could give it to someone else.
therealocshoes ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:33:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Innocent is not the same thing as good. Being wasteful can also mean being innocent as they are entirely unaware of the repercussions of their actions.
LeapYearFriend ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:18:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember being a kid (younger than 10) and having a really grumpy neighbor. I said to myself "Boy I'm glad I'll never be a grumpy old ogre like him"
I'm reading your comment and agreeing with everything. To hell with kids. They're loud and stupid.
Kind of disorientating that we're now at the age and mentality of people we didn't like or scared us as kids.
MakingItWorthit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:58:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I recall some damn kid around 5 to 7 trick me into moving my thumb into one of those sport squad tables before he purposely slammed the handle in.
Kids aren't innocent. They're often little monsters.
tef_gong ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:18:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's kids from a certain culture. I know of other cultures where kids are quite different.
Prodigy195 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:25:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah this is definitely looking at the stereotype of a spoiled modern American kid. Children of different cultures or kids who are raised with more boundaries don't necessarily behave that way.
mycannonsing ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:55:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That ignorance, and/or indifference is the innocence, dude. The burden of veing an adult hasn't crippled them.
Reaper_of_Souls ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:37:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know in my case at least, I was modeling this behavior because I saw the adults in my life doing the same thing.
trianuddah ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:25:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Innocence and not being an asshole are different things. You can be ignorant of social mores, have no concept of the values of food, dignity, personal space and human life, and still technically be innocent.
HydraJuice ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:37:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL reddit hates children. Nice I should fit right in.
No mom, I'm not getting married and making you a grandson this year. Or the next. Or ever. In this shithole of an economy, I kinda enjoy whatever little free time and disposable income I have. Gimme a couple million in cash for a house and car, then we'll talk about it.
nastybacon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:36:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Welcome on board :) Thats exactly how I feel!
NamelessNamek ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:48:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why did you sensor yourself?
nastybacon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:35:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was before the watershed when i posted it.
ademnus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:41:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and then... they become the parents.
baconnmeggs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:59:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the result of shitty parenting
uhhhclem ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:43:41 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Innocent's literal meaning is "unharmed," not "pure" or "good."
Iamhereforcats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:34:54 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
or they are not taught very well.
TotallyNotSamson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:31:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ethics in general is a socially constructed idea that is derived entirely from empathy. From the perspective of a fully objective, omniscient being, there is nothing bad about something tremendously horrible like, say, massacring and raping millions of children in the most violent way possible. We use personal empathy and learnt social rules derived from empathy to determine whether something is good or bad.
Before the NSA puts me on a watchlist, I do experience empathy and I would never be able to bring myself to hurt anyone. Except maybe Greg.
poptimist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:21:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously, fuck Greg.
Thameus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:17:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/dZq_XVmJ_as
Jasmonster ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:37:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nice try, Jared.
ApocalypticPsyche ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:42:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good one, Jasmonster.
Nirheim ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:47:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of ethic and moral might just all be socially constructed ideas.
Altcauseisuckatlent ยท 209 points ยท Posted at 02:13:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your mailbox is property of the federal government (if in the US).
snhvnc ยท 106 points ยท Posted at 05:07:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Postal Carrier here. That's not entirely accurate. If you have a roadside box that we drive right up to, you own that box. You're charged with maintaining it, not us. USPS is just the only ones allowed to put anything into it. If you live in an area with central delivery, there's a good chance that USPS owns those boxes, but not 100% of the time.
ninjosh97 ยท 82 points ยท Posted at 05:53:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was gonna say. If I have to go to Lowe's and buy it, it's mine.
Incruentus ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 10:29:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You paid for your driver's license but it's the property of the state.
VTwinVaper ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 12:25:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, you paid a licensing fee.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:01:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:14:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean probably technically, but if we are honest everyone does that
thatJainaGirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:20:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I drop stuff in my friends' mailboxes all the time, watcha gonna do about it?
Altcauseisuckatlent ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:16:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I got this info directly from USPIS
Also, when I worked for UPS they told us the same thing.
snhvnc ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 05:55:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's only considered federal property in cases of vandalism and theft. If you want to walk down your drive way and destroy your mailbox and rip it off its post, you're free to do so. You just won't get mail until you fix it.
Altcauseisuckatlent ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:02:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Huh, thats confusing. You probably know more than I.
Sll3rd ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 06:59:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm, it makes sense. In the eyes of the law, the mailbox is still yours, with all the rights and priveleges that bestows. But if somebody screws with your mailbox, then the law chooses to recognize that as screwing with Federal property, with all the scaryness that includes. A legal deterrent.
chobi83 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 07:38:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know I'm being pedantic, but laws can be this stupid. Does that mean we can't put anything in it ourselves? Mail that the mailman is supposed to pick up for instance?
snhvnc ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:47:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course you can put outgoing mail in your box, that's what the flag is for. However, people can't just walk down the street and throw fliers for whatever homebrew business they're starting into your mailbox.
CaptSmallShlong ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:18:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
flag?
hypotheticalhawk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:25:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most mailboxes have a (usually) red arm thingy on the side. When you send mail by putting it in your box for the carrier to pick up, you have to flip it from horizontal to vertical. That signals that the mail in the box is outgoing mail. They take it, and flip the flag back down to tell you that your mail has been sent, and that if there's mail inside, it's incoming mail.
derefr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:10:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not living in a place where these curb boxes exist, I always assumed the flag was a "new mail" indicator that the postal carrier would flip up if they put mail in the box (whether or not there was already mail in the box), and you would flip down when you visited the box (whether or not you took all the mail.) Like an app notification badge.
nightmarebunny ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 05:03:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In Aus too. Also, if you're running from the cops and have something you need to get rid of quick, if you can jam it in a postbox you're good. Here only federal police are able to open them legally and rarely do.
Vaspir ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:40:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're fucked in the ACT then, they're all AFP here.
act5312 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:20:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Joke's on you, I took mine out of the US!
TheJohnny346 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:38:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe it's also illegal to put anything in a mailbox other than mail from the post office (so no birthday invitations etc.)
Altcauseisuckatlent ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:40:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. Even UPS or FedEx cant use mailboxes.
Although I seriously doubt a cop is gonna charge and prosecute a kid who uses a mailbox like that.
Bhelkweit ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 06:39:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I won something online and the dude giving the prize happened to live in the same town as me. He just dropped it off in my mailbox. Told me it was there.
When I checked there was nothing, but the next day a mailman came to me and told me I'd have to pay a shipping fee to have it.
He actually took the package back to the post office, weighed it, and brought it back to me.
baconnmeggs ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 13:50:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's just an asshole
MattMakesPhotos ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:41:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I agree. I'd make that person my mortal enemy if it weren't for the consequences.
snhvnc ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:50:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not the police jurisdiction, that's what the Postal Inspectors are there for.
Altcauseisuckatlent ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:52:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're federal law enforcement, definitely cops.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:16:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So in all those American teen movies I've seen where they drive along and destroy mail boxes with baseball bats they are in fact committing a federal crime?
Altcauseisuckatlent ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:28:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. Its even a felony.
Smoke731mcb ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:36:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This always pissed me off a little, if it's theirs then they should freaking pay for it when those damn kids go whacking at it with their bacchi ball bats
Altcauseisuckatlent ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:40:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah it is kind of a tax on people who get mail delivred.
Mongladoid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:54:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even my Drafts folder?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wtf
Altcauseisuckatlent ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:38:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mail is a federally guaranteed service. So the federal government owns the mailboxes
Doughnuts67 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:56:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But I bought it!
8wdude8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:32:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i did not know this
doctorscurvy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:32:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this to make mail theft a federal crime?
Altcauseisuckatlent ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:52:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, or any obstruction of the mail system really
Trogdorocks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:48:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which is why it's a felony to bash mailboxes. You'll get in less trouble if you're arrested for robbing a house.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:23:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've always thought this one was interesting. I can go buy something with my own money, nail it to the side of my house that I paid for with my own money, with a hammer and nails that I bought with my own money, and the U.S. government can tell me what I can and can't do with it.
MattMakesPhotos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:42:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well they can also tell you what you can and can't do with your house too to be fair.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:21:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're right. They can tell you what you can and can't do with a lot of things.
androsgrae ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So that's why all those fucking rednecks won't leave...
Scrappy_Larue ยท 96 points ยท Posted at 02:13:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If a human is born underwater, it can live it's entire life underwater without ever surfacing for air.
Belgiummayo ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 03:11:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Granted, that life won't be very long...
BurnerAcctNo1 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:27:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You win. I don't believe the fuck out of that.
ieshido ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 11:24:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's true, but the human in question's entire life will be about two minutes long, max.
BurnerAcctNo1 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 11:26:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok. Whew.
KimoCroyle ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 13:07:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've never seen someone so relieved to learn a baby will die.
BurnerAcctNo1 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:04:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm relieved that it was a joke vs. that I was unaware that the human race had the ability to be Aquapeople. Basically relieved at my own stupidity.
and_rice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:03:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then youve never worked in a free clinic : (
TheRevEv ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:58:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Build a man a fire, and keep him warm for a night; set a man of fire, and keep him warm the rest of his life
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:06:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait what? I don't get it.
Squiblbledoo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:14:14 on April 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well, you're not wrong
AwesomeElephant8 ยท -12 points ยท Posted at 02:55:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is not true.
rebelliousmelon ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:04:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is someone going to explain this to the awesome elephant...
AwesomeElephant8 ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 03:07:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.answers.com/Q/Can_a_baby_still_breathe_underwater_after_birth_if_they_have_the_umbilical_cord_connected_to_its_mother
The umbilical cord is connected to the placenta, not the mother.
mvp725 ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 03:31:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
....it's a dark joke....the baby dies, but it lived its whole life underwater
AwesomeElephant8 ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 04:00:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How did I miss that? I love these types of jokes, I guess I was too caught up in being right to see it.
Riff-Ref ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:45:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At first I was expecting an explanation of the water-breathing thing in The Abyss.
and_rice ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:21:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
important sidenote, no it certainly is not breathing amniotic fluid. While the umbilical chord ( and placenta) is still connected and functioning, the baby is not breathing. Oxygenated blood from the mother is being used to supply tissues of baby with oxygen. This means that until you cut the chord, that little dude could be submerged in anything and still live (if not for the fact that they dont do super well with cold temperatures)
Xannin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:06:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The baby would not live very long.
snpi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can technically live you entire life doing anything. It's just a question of how long your life is.
McShuckle ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 09:29:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
muskratboy ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 04:51:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Make a man a fire, he's warm for a day... set a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Shadow60_66 ยท -13 points ยท Posted at 03:02:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Complete BS.
Captainpopololo ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:05:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No its true cause the baby will die underwater. Thus living its entire life underwater.
BLankChan ยท 75 points ยท Posted at 00:43:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tomatoes are fruits.
anormalgeek ยท 61 points ยท Posted at 03:56:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This whole argument can be summed up by realizing that "vegetable" is strictly a culinary term. It has no basis on biology. Fruit is used in both the culinary and biology fields, and has slightly different definitions in each.
When this arguments comes up, it is ALWAYS someone comparing the culinary definition of "vegetable" with the biological definition of "fruit".
You might as well be comparing apples to oranges.
1forthethumb ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 10:06:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They both round, edible, and have seeds inside WHATS THE BIG DEAL ABOUT COMPARING APPLES AND ORANGES?
sniperFLO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:50:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An orange would be considered an apple in a previous time.
1forthethumb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:57:37 on March 31, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would be called an apple, because that was the word for fruit hence pineapple.
CCondell ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:08:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Biological apples to culinary oranges, that is.
esach88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:10:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those are the same thing...
crackanape ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:59:55 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought that "technically", a vegetable was any edible plant or plant part, and so the category includes all fruits as a subset.
anormalgeek ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:10:18 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. I promise you that there is no strict scientific definition of "vegetable" whereas a fruit is just the "fruiting body" of a plant.
When it comes to culinary definition it usually goes something like: is it sweet and soft? Fruit. Is it hard and nutty tasting? It's a nut. Is it the leaf/root? Vegetable. Is it ground up into a powder? Spice.
bigpipes84 ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 02:14:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The difference between knowledge and wisdom? Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not put it in a fruit salad.
[deleted] ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 02:30:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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DRM_Removal_Bot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:09:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except the monster was Victor's son. Thus, it was also named Frankenstein.
MrDeckard ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:17:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Charisma is calling a fruit salad with tomato "salsa".
rlbond86 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:50:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Constitution is being able to eat a rotten tomato
theniceguytroll ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:37:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Knowledge is realizing that eating a rotten tomato isn't a good idea either way.
Mousedigits ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:43:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Strength is smashing the tomato in the chef's face.
Sorry, intelligence is my dump stat.
hawaiims ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:49:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tomato Jam is absolutely delicious. You should try it.
Dyesce_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:08:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not convinced it wouldn't taste good in a fruit salad. Tomatoes are quite sweet.
thatJainaGirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:26:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Charisma is selling a tomato based fruit salad.
Racing2733 ยท 54 points ยท Posted at 01:37:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My friends keep yelling at me saying "No, it's a vegetable because it's made into soup."
Baron_Von_Badass ยท 268 points ยท Posted at 02:07:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
By that logic, chickens are also vegetables.
Ebscer ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 02:50:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Maybe I actually am a vegetarian...
Baron_Von_Badass ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:54:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can be anything if you're angry enough.
ManyConfusion ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:33:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So the right logic?
8bitslime ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:40:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's definitely not left.
ioncehadsexinapool ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:57:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love chicken broth so much more than chicken noodle soup. Especially if you use more Boykin cubes. With saltines too omg
Highbard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So it would be okay for vegans to eat them?
Baron_Von_Badass ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:23:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, pretty sure the Vegan Police will still show up and take away their Vegan powers.
Highbard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You just made me actually laugh out loud with that, though I do hope that's not unintentionally prophetic.
Baron_Von_Badass ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:48:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you haven't seen Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, I highly recommend it.
Highbard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:14:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know, I kinda wanted to see that when it first came out. Now, I have to see it.
Potatoguy123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:13:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Once you take off the head they can be.
hijomaffections ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL i am a vegetarian
Edible_Pie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:15:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You say that like they aren't...
SinisterMinisterT4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brb, need to call my vegan friend and tell him the good news!
midvote ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:29:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, they're dinosaurs.
Vacant_Of_Awareness ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Meat is
murdergardeningjobblejosh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Huh, TIL.
DaSaw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:03:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Chicken isn't vegan?
NinjahBob ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:31:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, vegetable is actually a culinary term, not a scientific definition and therefore a tomato is actually a vegetable.
soayherder ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:23:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Show them this and blow their mind: allrecipes.com/recipe/215802/apple-and-pear-soup/
itisan0ther0ne ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:33:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad.
ninjajake1499 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:30:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Botanically it's a fruit, but in a culinary sense it's referred to as a vegetable because it doesn't have your usual fruity taste.
higs87 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:27:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your friends clearly haven't had banana soup.... and neither have I. I just made it up then. Sounds delicious though
pharmaSEEE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:28:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No it's a fruit because it's put in salads
Racing2733 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:07:44 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They also said they grow in the ground and that makes them vegetables
AwesomelyHumble ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:45:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is ketchup still a vegetable? 'Murica
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:27:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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AwesomelyHumble ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:43:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm referring to several years ago when the USDA had classified ketchup as a vegetable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup_as_a_vegetable
raygundan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:43:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are a lot of delicious fruit soups.
TheRealJeffMangum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Applesauce is soup too when you have the right attitude.
curly_spork ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:54:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My high school sweetheart said it's not a fruit, because you'll never get one in a fruit basket.
gracefulwing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:53:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
but... there is also soup with mangoes. does that make them a vegetable?
smookykins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:04:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
peach bisque
KingDarkBlaze ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:14:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know, both of these are completely correct.
Racing2733 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:26:03 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They told me they can be only one.
UlyssesSKrunk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:35:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well to be fair, your friend was right, tomatoes are vegetables. Them being fruits doesn't change that.
Marshmallow_man ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 02:18:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its also a vegetable. Vegetable is a culinary term only.
Savage47 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:20:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nutritional too. Not sure if it differs.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:57:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
According to the United States Supreme Court, it's a vegetable, because of taxes.
grifmasta ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:23:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought that was pizza.
mattoly ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:41:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not right at all.
Botanically, it is a fruit.
Culinarily, it is considered a vegetable. Since most people talk about foods in a culinary sense and not a botanical sense then they also think about it as a vegetable when, in fact, it is taxonomically a fruit.
OneGoodRib ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:57:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It being considered a culinary vegetable is WHY it's legally taxed as a vegetable.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:01:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure, but it doesn't change the SCOTUS ruling. Tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, etc. are legally vegetables.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden
EmperorJake ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:37:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So are olives, avocados, capsicum, cucumbers, pumpkins, eggplant, zucchini, squash, peas (the pod), and probably a few others.
Fun fact, cucumbers are closely related to rockmelons and honeydew, which is why they all taste disgusting.
grifmasta ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:23:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You misspelled delicious there.
GrandHofTarkin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:20:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I cannot stand the taste of melon and the smell of cucumbers is repulsive to me.
adudeguyman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:52:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks. Any 4 year old will tell you this
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:11:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Bananas are
nutsberries.[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:23:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bananas are berries.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:24:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, that's it. ::drunk::
JaronK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:27:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Intelligence is knowing tomatoes are fruit. Wisdom is knowing you shouldn't put them in a fruit salad.
EchoPhi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:44:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pumpkins are berries.
Anthony356 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:10:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fruit part of a vegetable plant
Drake132667596 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:10:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cucumbers and zucchinis are also fruits. I believe that it has to do with the seeds being inside, but I am not sure
BaronVonSlapNuts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:17:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So ketchup is a smoothie.
kperkins1982 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:25:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who doesn't know this?
I mean, of all the "Did you know..." type facts, this has to be the one at the very top.
BasketeerOverHere ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:03:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As the saying goes, knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
ObsoleteXero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:51:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anything that contains the seeds of a plant is its fruit. So most vegetables are fruits.
TrillianSC2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:13:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remember reading that tomatoes are both a fruit and vegetable. Fruit being a botanical classification and vegetable being a culinary definition.
ihuha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:04:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All tomatoes are whales but not all dolphins are fruits..
turdmogrol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:04:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I learned that it was actually a vegetable but falls into the vegetable subcategory of a fruit.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:04:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So are cucumbers.
AssholeBot9000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:27:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In culinary arts things are fruits and vegetables depending on what you call them.
If you are a chef and you want your orange juice to be a vegetable smoothie. It is. Because you consider oranges vegetables.
emoposer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:07:06 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vegetable isn't a scientific term. It's a culinary term which by definition means, "Any part of a plant that is consumed by humans as food as part of a savory meal."
Tomatoes are almost always used in savory applications, hence can be called vegetables.
jahmoke ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:28:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yet it doesn't appear in fruit salad or fruit cocktail or fruit cake or fruit pie or fruit juice
bbcslave92 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:32:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you ate seedless tomatoes all your life?
tavissd1 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:07:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Intelligence is knowing that tomatoes are fruit.
Wisdom is knowing not to put tomatoes in a fruit salad.
Heroshade ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:19:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Women are things.
i_should_go_to_sleep ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:23:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad." -Miles Kington
FlyThruDown ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:38:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I learned just today that we think of them as vegetables and not fruits because the natural sweet-tasting sugars were accidentally bred out of them by scientists trying to get them to have a solid red color instead of the multiple red/yellow/green hues that occur naturally.
MolotovFlirtini ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:54:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ratio of gut bacteria to cells in the human body is 1.3:1
myanusisbleeding101 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:19:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is actually widely debated amoung scientists and it ranges from 1:1 to 10:1 depending on many different factors.
MolotovFlirtini ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:54:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like pooping. I chose to go with the more recent number, the 10:1 ratio was proposed in the 70s I think.
TheDyingDandy ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:24:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you travel the Panama Canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific you travel east.
kevlarisforevlar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:35:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Southeast actually.
svacheem45 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 12:06:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
John Tyler, who was born in the late 1700's and served as President pre-Civil War, has grandchildren still alive today. His youngest child died after World War II.
notoriousmrtom ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:39:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Turtles can breath out of their anuses.
houtman ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 20:31:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can only exhale
BthreePO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:59:09 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your breath is terrible though
1Original_Username ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 02:42:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guarantee some of these replies will be on r/todayilearned
lucysalvatierra ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:56:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That doesn't sound extremely wrong.
dose_response ยท 52 points ยท Posted at 01:46:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The Monty Hall problem ... Still makes no goddamn sense to me.
Edit: I understand the stated rationale. It still makes no sense to me. Ultimately you have two doors to choose from, so why isn't it 50/50?.
ultimately_an_idiot ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 02:55:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Consider the strategy of always changing doors. What are the possible outcomes?
1) You pick the winning door (1/3 chance) and change after the host opens any other door. You lose.
2) You pick a losing door (2/3 chance). The host opens the other losing door, as he will never open the winning one. You change to the remaining, winning door. You win.
Therefore, using this strategy, the only way to lose is by choosing the winning door first (1/3 chance). Therefore, if you always change doors, you win with 2/3 chance.
dose_response ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:01:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This helps a bit but see my edit above.
vineetss ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 05:01:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just do it with 99 doors instead of 3. Say there are 99 doors and you pick one. Then 97 doors are opened to show that there is nothing behind them. Do you think the one you picked out of 99 doors is more likely to have the prize or the one that just happened to be not opened by the host.
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:54:30 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But shouldn't it still be a fucking 50/50?
mudkip201 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:44:51 on May 31, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not at all. If the two doors at the end were the only two doors, then yes. But they aren't.
Assume that there are 100 doors. You pick one. The odds of you picking the door with the prize behind it is 1/100.
If you picked the correct door (1/100): Switching would get you to the wrong door, and thus in that situation, switching would not work.
If you didn't pick the right door (99/100): 98 of the other 99 doors do not have the prize behind them, but the other one must. Since the host has to open 98 non-prize doors, the non-open door that you didn't pick is the door with the prize.
Therefore, switching will cause you to not get the prize with probability 1/100 and will cause you to get the prize with probability 99/100.
df27hswj95bdt3vr8gw2 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:54:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It helps if you know how the game works. Monty has to leave it so you have the choice between an empty door and the prize door for your second choice.
Imagine there were 100 doors, 99 without a prize, 1 with a prize. You make your first choice, Monty eliminates 98 empty doors. You either picked right the first time (1% chance) or chose wrong (99% chance). Now, you get to choose again: would you stay with the door you had a 1% chance with, or switch to the door that Monty narrowed down for you?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:32:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh that makes so much more sense thank you.
SadGhoster87 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:55:41 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But... the chances have still changed for both of them! Why isn't it still 50/50? Why do the chances of the unopened doors magically migrate to only the one you didn't pick?
df27hswj95bdt3vr8gw2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:04:51 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The chances migrate because there are only two options for Monty's door: prize or no prize. There are 100 options for your door: prize, no prize, no prize, no prize [...] and no prize.
killerpoopguy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:17:50 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So it changes to a 50/50 chance...
Do the chances not reset after the other doors are opened?
df27hswj95bdt3vr8gw2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:00:52 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, because it's the same game. The whole thing includes both rounds. The chances don't change because you're still working with the same doors.
Try not to think of the second round as 50/50. The second round is a choice between 2, but the first affects the second. It's actually the opposite of the Gamblers' fallacy: the first round does influence the second.
ultimately_an_idiot ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:30:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is true that you will have two doors to choose from once the host has opened one. It isn't 50/50 though, because your possible choices now doesn't consist of any to doors. They consist of the door you picked first and the door which the host didn't open, and that matters because you know the host will never open the door with the prize. When your first pick is a losing door (2/3 chance), the host will have to open the other losing door and by doing that he will be telling you that the prize is behind the unopened door.
bakercub1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:10:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
His explanation is the best. Basically you initially have a 2/3 chance to pick a bad door and 1/3 chance of picking a good door. Since you will pick the bad door most of the time, the door you switch to has a higher chance to be the good door.
MarsupialMole ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:19:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It isn't 50/50 because you know something about what's behind the doors. Redo the problem with 5 doors and you're allowed to choose two at the start. If I then open two doors you didn't choose and ask you if you want to switch to the one I didn't open or let you open both of your doors, what would you do?
Rather_Dashing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:21:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know you've has a lot of other good explanations, but this is the way it makes most sense to me. If Monty just randomly chose to open one door and it happened to have a goat behind it, you would be right in saying it's a 50/50 chance. But actually he knows what's behind the doors and always opens one with a goat, so that gives you additional information. He won't open the one you picked, he won't open the one with the car either. 1/3 of the time he'll have two goats to pick from, but the rest of the time he has a car and a goat, and he will pick the goat. He basically eliminating one bad option for you and increasing your chances of winning on e you switch.
newtoon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:35:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Some years ago, I pondered a lot on finding the right straightforward explanation.
Now, here it is : think about "GROUPS" of choices (chosen doors and not chosen ones).
Of course, during the first choice, you have the "bad group" (less probability of winning, typically 1/3). Then, TV host offers you to switch to the best group (biggest probability of winning, obvious, remember ?). The fact that he opens one bad apple is just SMOKE ! It does not change anything to the initial probabilities of each group. Only the switching of groups counts. If you switch, you then have a better probability of winning.
dpash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:41:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You were given extra information. Assuming 50/50 is ignoring that extra information.
marijn198 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:16:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have explained it in different ways to someone in my post history but im not gonna search for that as its 5am here and i should be sleeping. Good night!
MyLiesAreTrue ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:26:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can I just say, I understand this, but I don't know how I understand this, because I can't understand what you wrote.
But I understand the Monty Hall Problem in... general?
I can't explain this properly.
gardano ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:52:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ah.... that's the detail that always eluded me.
lifeentropy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:25:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What are the odds of choosing wrongly the first time? (Of course, 2/3). Well which door does he open when we choose wrongly? There are only 2 remaining doors, one right and one wrong. He has to choose the only other wrong door (He's not going to open the door with the car behind it, you'd just pick that one!). That means that 2/3 times you will choose wrong and he will eliminate the other wrong choice, leaving the right choice as the only option! However, 1/3 we'll choose correctly first and be switching into an incorrect door.
You can also actually map out every possible decision in a decision tree and see that when you switch doors you will ALWAYS get the opposite result of what you originally chose. If you were right, you'll be wrong, if you were wrong, you'll be right. So what are the odds of being wrong first? 2/3. Therefore 2/3 times when we switch, we will be correct!
seekerdarksteel ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:19:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It helps to try to skew some of the probabilities involved. Imagine instead of 3 doors there are 100 doors. After you pick a door, the host opens 98 non-winning doors and offers to let you switch. There's a 99% chance you initially chose a non-winning door and thus a 99% chance that the door you switch to must be the winning door.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:40:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I like this explanation as well.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:33:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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freedomgeek ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:06:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, it works because the 98 doors opened by the host weren't randomly selected (except in the 1 in 100 chance you initially picked the right door).
When you select a door think of it as splitting the doors into two groups; the door you picked and the other 99. In effect you're choosing between the two groups of doors; is the car in the group of one or the group of 99. Because if the car is anywhere in the group of 99 he'll open all of the other doors and you'll be left only with the car door and the group of 1.
w2g ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:41:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats exactly why it works though.
electric_pig ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:15:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Think about it this way (it's not the formal Bayesian approach but it makes me less likely to pull my hair out):
If you initially picked right, you have zero percent chance of winning if you switch
If you initially picked wrong, you have 100 percent chance of winning if you switch.(because he opens the other door)
What is the chance you initially picked wrong? 2/3
So overall chance of winning if you switch is (1/3)0 + (2/3)1 = 2/3
NoneApplicable ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:37:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Think of it like this. You have three doors. You choose the left door. That door has a 1/3 being the right one. There is a 2/3 chance that the correct door is to the right of the door you chose. Now say the host opens the middle door and shows there's nothing behind it. He then closes the door and keeps it there. Now there's still technically a 2/3 chance that the correct door is to the right of the first door you chose, but now that you know one of those doors is wrong the remaining door is the one has a 2/3 chance of being the right one
bbcslave92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:46:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now try it in your mind with 99 doors and it should make a lot more sense
IceWindHail ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:40:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine a deck of 52 standard playing cards. Imagine if you pick the ace of spades you get a prize.
First you're allowed to randomly choose a card from the deck without seeing any of them.
Second I flip over and reveal every card in the entire deck besides 1. None of them are the ace of spades.
Now which is more likely the ace of spades? Is it the 1 card you randomly chose from a deck of 52? Or is it the 1 mystery card left after I knowingly eliminated any other possibility on purpose?
ThisIsMyFloor ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:52:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Numberphile has a video about this. Maybe it will help you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lb-6rxZxx0
kingofeggsandwiches ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:37:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
You need to differentiate two things first. One is the chance something will happen, and one is the probability you can logically infer from a situation. If someone offers you a coin toss, it makes no difference if you choose heads or tails, because coin flips are assumed to be 50/50. However if it turns out the coin was weighted then obviously this was a false assumption.
Now when you're offered two doors and asked to guess, assuming we have no other information, it's logical to treat it as a 50/50 chance to win. However, ultimately the prize is behind 1 door, and if you pick that door there's a 100% chance of it being correct, and if you pick the other 0% chance of winning.
The thing about the monty hall problem that people don't realise is that eliminating one door is a bit like saying "The coin is weighted towards heads". Because the person who eliminates one choice knows the winner and is unable to eliminate the winner, they are giving you a hint so to speak about which door has the prize behind it.
Which door wins is set and never changes, the probability is actually to do with the chance you'll guess correctly, and not the chance that a specific door will win. The elimination informs your guess so it's no longer logical to treat it as a 50/50 chance of winning. Many people mistakenly think of probability as a fixed part of reality rather than a question of what we know, so they mistakenly think it's magic when the swapping increases the odds of winning, as if it's some mysterious magic force that's changing the location of the prize. Nothing so exciting I'm afraid, it's as simple as the reality that the act of elimination is indirectly giving you information about the probably set up of the doors.
viscence ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:56:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But you know something about the doors that you're not taking into account.
If you flip a coin it can land heads, tails, or on its edge but that doesn't mean there is a 33% chance of an edge result.
RedditDraws24 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:37:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is a good way to understand the intuition. Instead of doors, use a deck of cards. Say you want to pick the ace of spades from a pile of face down cards. You pick a card at random and hope it is the ace of spades. The rest of the deck is 51 cards, so it's almost certain that the ace of spades is in that second group, right?
Well, now the dealer gets rid of 50 cards and tells you that none of them were the ace of spades. You can stick with your original card, which had a 1 in 52 chance of being the ace, or you can switch to the other. Well, the other card IS the ace of spades as long as your first guess was wrong, and chances are your first guess was wrong.
Sabedoria ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:40:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Starting out, what are the odds you chose the correct door?
KRosen333 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:03:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
edit: deleted my original post. oops. recopied it here.
You don't have just 2 doors to choose from. You have 3 doors to choose from.
So you have 3 doors. They are mixed up so you don't know whats behind them.
[$] [๐ฉ] [๐ฉ]
you pick 1. 1 of them has money in it, the other two has poop.
3 doors. You choose a random door.
[1] [2] [3]
^
The host, me, tells you "okay, so one of the remaining doors has a poop in it."
From here, we're gonna go 2 directions. First, I'll show you which one has the poop in it.
[1] [๐ฉ] [3]
Now you have to choose between 1 and 3. You think its 50/50, but its not... but lets rewind.
Let's say I show tell you "okay, so one of the remaining doors has a poop in it."
... but I don't show you which one has poop in it.
[1] [2] [3]
You have a choice - keep your first door, or don't keep your first door. Do you still have a 50/50 chance?
No. You have 1 out of 3 chance. The fact that the host shows you one of the doors you didn't choose has ๐ฉ in it doesn't change anything. You knew that when you picked your door.
The choice isn't whether you choose door 1 or 2, or 1 or 3, or 2 or 3, but whether you leave your original door.
cafezinho ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:14:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just because there are two choices, doesn't mean both are equally likely. For example, a person is shooting free throws. Either the ball goes in the basket, or it doesn't. But not equally likely. To imagine this, just stand further and further back. It becomes harder and harder to make a basket. Yet, there are still only two choices. Either you make it, or you don't.
Odatas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:16:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do it with 100 doors. You pick one door and I open 98 doors so 2 doors are left. Would you still Stick to your door or Switch?
UlyssesSKrunk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:37:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I never understood how people had so much trouble with this. It's not like it's a paradox or something, it's like a hs probability problem that should make sense 5 seconds after being explained.
SpecialSause ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:24:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One thing you have to remember that most people leave out when explaining it is that the HOST has to know what the winning door is so the host will not pick a winning door. That means that when you picked the first door, it's possible that your door was not a winning door so the host was not able to choose it. That means that it's more probable that the door that was left was left because it was the winning door.
princhester ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:41:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, god, here we go...
chinaman1472 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:01:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's easier if you expand it out past 3 options.
Think of it this way. A deck of cards is shuffled randomly and you get to pick one card and you win if it's the Ace of Spades. The game show host reveals 1 card (not the AoS) and asks if you want to switch out your card. You'd probably say no.
However, if the hosts reveals to you 50 cards, all not the AoS, would you switch? Remember that he's never going to reveal the AoS. Do you think you luckily picked the AoS on your 1/52 chance, or do you think the host has it because he'd have a 51/52 chance of having it?
Simplistically we want to think its 50/50 because of the options available.
DeuceThunder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:04:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A key factor in the problem, which is often understated, is that the host always knows what is behind each door and always intentionally chooses to reveal a goat. If the host randomly revealed one of the two unchosen doors instead, then switching wouldn't matter. Staying put would win a third of the time, switching would win another third, and the last third would be an automatic loss when the host reveals a car.
Eain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:44:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your edit hits the nail on the head: you THINK you have two doors. You do not. The actual problem is three doors. You have three doors to choose from, and then you get asked whether you think you chose correctly. The entire system is designed to make you THINK you're choosing two doors, but you aren't; you're betting on whether the choice you made was correct when there were three doors.
Hellzapoppin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:49:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have to think in terms of the starting odds. You have a one in three chance of guessing correctly the first time. After one door is revealed and you swap, it is 2 chances in 3 to get it right.
To make it intuitive imagine 100 doors. Choose one, the chances of you getting it correct 1 in 100, right? Now imagine that 98 doors are opened, this leaves only 2 doors closed, the one you initially chose, and one other. There is a 99 in 100 chance that the other door has the prize behind it, it is therefore logical to always swap.
The latter problem is identical to the original problem, it helped me to understand by imagining the open 98 doors open and only 2 closed.
kasper117 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:54:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thing is that Monty knows where the car is, and he isn't randomly eliminating a door. He has extra information about the problem, but by eliminating one door he 'unwillingly' exposes part of that information. That is what you take advantage of by switching doors
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:39:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, because which door the host opens wasn't random -- there were rules guiding which door he could open. He can't open the door that you picked, and he can't open the door with a car. So essentially, the door that he opens tells you nothing.
So, you pick your door, knowing that there's a 2/3 chance it's in one of the doors you didn't pick. Then, when he opens one door and reveals a goat, we've already said that 'the door he opens tells you nothing', so there's still a 2/3 chance it's in one of the doors you didn't pick.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:56:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I want to present another explanation that I like:
Doors 1, 2 and 3.
You choose Door 1.
Monty can open door 2, or door 3, to reveal a goat. Let's say he opens door 2.
If door 3 has a car, there is a 100% chance that he will open door 2.
If door 2 has a car, there is a 0% chance that he will open door 2.
If door 1 has a car, there is a 50% chance that he will open door 2.
So, we know that we picked door 1, and he opened door 2, and we know the above information. We can obviously disregard the middle possibility, because we see that there is a goat there behind door 2.
Either we put Monty Hall in a situation where there was a 100% chance he'd open door 2, or we put him in a situation in which there was a 50% chance to open door 2. If you normalize these probabilities, 2/3 goes to 100% and 1/3 goes to 50%.
I don't know if that's more confusing... :S
Restil ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:07:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have 2 doors to choose from along with information about the winning door that has a 66% chance of being accurate.
bbcslave92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:47:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
visualize the problem with 99 doors instead of 3
it should be intuitive now
nighthawk252 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:59:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of people are using a very similar argument, so let me try something else.
Let's say you're playing a 3-case game of Deal or No Deal with 2 goats and a car instead and that you've picked Case #1 as "your" case. When you ask the host to reveal Case #2 and it has a goat behind it, you're learning something meaningful. Now there really is a 50/50 chance Case #1 has the car.
The only reason the Monty Hall problem works is because the host knows which door the car's behind.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:03:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All the gold ever mined on Earth would, if made into a cube, fit on two tennis courts side by side.
ziggymeoww ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:21:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But what would its height be?
Mynameisnotdoug ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:24:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Two tennis courts high. Don't you know how cubes work?
cowdawg ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:50:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But tennis courts aren't square.
Mynameisnotdoug ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:09:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Two side by side are. 60' X 120', so 120 feet long, high, deep for a cube two tennis courts wide.
I-Am-Keith-Perfetti ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:49:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're half the width of their length
Ric_Fieldon ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:45:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more permutations of a 52 card deck than seconds since the big bang.
SherbetHead2010 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:53:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
8e67/(606024*365)=2.5e60 years
Age of universe: 1.4e10 years.
The math checks out. Gotta admit I was skeptical about this one.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:16:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'These data'
sacrosanctt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:14:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This datum
BthreePO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:42:11 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cry every night, for you
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:36:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your comment is underappreciated.
Wetalkaboutssss ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:49:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Samuel J Seymour was present in the Ford Theater when Abraham Lincoln was shot. He was also on the CBS TV quiz show "I've Got a Secret".
fletchindubai ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 10:37:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Leicester are about to win the league
anotherandomer ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:10:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
00 = 1
Don't believe me, get a scientific calculator and try it.
mudkip201 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:49:12 on May 31, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not necessarily: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indeterminate_form#Indeterminate_form_00
Also, that would break 0x=0
anotherandomer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:39:04 on May 31, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But anything to the power 0 is 1, there is no exception.
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:57:30 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But x0 = 1 where x can be anything at all.
Technically true, but misleading.
thumpas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:34:21 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also 0! is 1.
scottm3 ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 06:50:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
100% of people who drink water die.
Let's ban water
Zombiecidialfreak ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:59:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
100% of all living organisms that breathe oxygen die at some point.
Ban air.
Pluky ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:43:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
100% of humans die
Ban humans
Seal3824 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:01:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Billions of humans have died on Earth, but none have died on other planets. Nobody has died on the sun, either. Ban Earth.
SherbetHead2010 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:47:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dihydrogen monoxide is scary stuff.
TransitRanger_327 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:22:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's the major of polluted rivers and lakes.
morris1022 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:38:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay Jenny mccarthy
farqanator ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:34:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Water is the leading cause of drowning.
Dangerous stuff.
dpash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:44:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Water is actually toxic. Mostly because toxic doesn't mean what people think it means.
Madness20 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:32:58 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
100% of the alcoholics drank milk in their childhood. Therefore drinking milk turns someone into an alcoholic :D
FrenchFriday ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 06:53:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You don't make friends with salad.
morris1022 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:43:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, you don't win friends with salad
Nettius2 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:49:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Salad makes friends with you?
[deleted] ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 06:14:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My wife doesn't love me.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:39:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Divorce her and marry someone that does.
Sexymcsexalot ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 10:38:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, delete facebook and go to the gym.
Did I do that right, Reddit?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:39:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then reactivate Facebook and post pics of yourself with her BFF.
Sexymcsexalot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:40:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then threesome?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:42:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. But she will watch from behind a glass wall. Forced to watch.
elpresidente-4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:06:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do you know she doesn't love you?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:07:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Words.
TheButcherPete ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:24:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's ok, we do, even if that heartless bitch doesn't.
WheeMe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:13:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry, there are millions like us. I think.
satanic_satanist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:52:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's news to me
iamalbus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:05:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am sorry. hug
Wsweg ยท 90 points ยท Posted at 01:50:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
.9999 repeating is equal to 1
your-opinions-false ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 04:05:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
x = 0.999...
10x = 9.999...
10x - x = 9.999... - 0.999...
9x = 9
x = 1
x = 0.999...
0.999... = 1
kasper117 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:02:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People really had (and still have) problems with that one. The proof is logically sound and correct. One can also prove it in other ways, using epsilon delta proofs (and the mathematical definition of 'the surrounding' of a point). It gives the exact same result.
theexpertgamer1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:15:55 on May 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I use this to explain the .999 = 1 phenomenon.
1/3 = .33333
2/3 = .66666
3/3 = .99999?
it always gets them.
deshe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:25:45 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I actually disagree that the proof above is sound.
It kind of assumes that 9.999... = 10 in one of its stages.
Of course, the proposition is still true beyond doubt, but if you want an actual proof I don't think you can get around defining what 0.999... actually is (in terms of limits).
Edit: If you disagree explain yourself rather than being a downvoting coward
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your-opinions-false ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 16:17:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is no final digit. This is what students often fail to understand. There's no 1 or 0 at the very end - there is no end. Never. There's always another 9. Hence the proof is sound.
[deleted] ยท -22 points ยท Posted at 20:50:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Galle_ ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 21:24:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you know what the word "endless" means?
jywn4679 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:52:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What do you think 1-0.99... is?
[deleted] ยท -13 points ยท Posted at 20:43:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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jywn4679 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:47:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do you define 0.(000...)1? It isn't a normal decimal under teh standard definition.
[deleted] ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 20:55:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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jywn4679 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:58:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Decimals are usually defined a sequence of digits. Sequences don't have a last term, so your definition doesn't make sense.
0.99... is standard, it corresponds to the sequence (9,9,9,...).
Infinity does do weird stuff, but not here.
If you want a proof that 0.99...=1:
0.99... =sum from k=1 to infinity of 9/10k =limit as n->infinity of the sum from k=1 to n of 9/10k =limit as n->infinity of 1-1/10n =1
itsallcauchy ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:54:09 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It does weird things, like make people that have no idea what they are talking about think they know what they are talking about.
bobconan ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:48:27 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
10 doesnt add a zero it shifts the decimal place right.
Madness20 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:52:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is no 0 at the end of the number, infinite repeating decimals doesn't have a "end", the same way conventional infinites don't have an end. If they had an end, there would be a number between 0,(9) and 1. Which is technically impossible.
For starters, 1/9 = 0,111... And naturally 0,111... x 9 = 0,999... , which is the same as 1/9 x 9 = 1
On the other hand you can take 0,(9) as an infinite series of the type 9/(10n+1) and by convergent series result you get 9/10 x 1/(1-1/10) which is 9/10 x 10/9 = 1. So 0,(9) equals to 1 by convergence.
columbus8myhw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:40:20 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you saying that, for example, 1.23*10=1.230? With decimals, multiplying by ten does not put a zero at the end.
deshe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:20:09 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
By the way the real numbers are constructed, it follows that two distinct numbers have a positive difference.
I.e., if 0.999... != 1, then |1 - 0.999...|>0.
So assume that |1-0.999...| = E for some E>0.
For a large enough finite amount of nines, you get that 1-0.999....9 < E. And since 0.999.... > 0.999...9, it follows that |1-0.999...| < E, a contradiction.
This is less confusing if you stop to define better what 0.999... is. Let a_n be a decimal point followed by n nines (a_1 = 0.9, a_2 = 0.99, a_3 = 0.999, etc.).
One can prove using basic theorems of infinitesemal calculus that this sequence has a limit. I.e., that there exists some number r on the real line such that |a_n - r| approches 0 as n approaches infinity (for example, because this sequence is increasing and bounded, so it must have a limit). We define 0.999... to be this limit, and the argument above proves that r has to be 1.
EightyMercury ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 17:42:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
9.(9999...)0 is equal to 9.9999...
So making the "final digit" 0 wouldn't change anything.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:00:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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EightyMercury ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:09:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you write "0.999" do you mean "0.999..." or literally just 0.999 (i.e. 1-0.001?)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:22:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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EightyMercury ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:58:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay, so getting back to our original train of thought, you're saying that 0.999... (that is, 0.9 followed by an infinite number of 9s) is not equal to 0.999...0 (that is, 0.9 followed by an infinite number of 9s followed by a 0)
Which of them is bigger?
sfurbo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:31 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It makes no sense to write 0.999...0. What 0.999 means is the number where every decimal is a 9, so there is no place to put the 0. There is not final digit, just an endless list of 9's.
EightyMercury ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:20:05 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm aware, I'm making a point.
migueltrabajador ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:43:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I got into such a ridiculous argument with a friend of mine in high school about this. He wouldn't listen no matter how I explained it. I proved it the way you did, by using explicit definitions of what the repeating bar actually means, I proved it graphically, he wouldn't believe me. Frustrating as hell.
An easier to understand, although less convincing proof is this:
1/3 = .33 repeating
1/3 * 3 = 1
.333... * 3 = .999...
1 = .999...
Edit: formatting
Edit2: Damn, I must've been tired and wrote a whole bunch of 3.3, 9.9, etc...
TransitRanger_327 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:25:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you have the decimal point shifted over 1 place. You need to have 1/3 = .333โฆ, not 3.33โฆ
migueltrabajador ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:31:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you.
[deleted] ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 06:21:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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TheRoadHome ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 06:26:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The first line of the proof.
Since x = 0.9999... if you subtract x from one side and 0.999... from the other you are doing the same thing to both sides.
mudbutt20 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:44:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://ltcconline.net/greenl/courses/CAHSEE/FunctionsAlgebra/2step.htm
I'm basing my thought process off of problems like these.
[deleted] ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 06:39:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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TheRoadHome ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:55:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He is doing that.
10x = 9.99999....
Since x = 0.999...
10x - x is the same as writing 10x - 0.999... = 9.999... - x
Since we already know x we could say 10x - 0.9999... = 9.999... - 0.999....
Since x = 0.999... we can, for the sake of this problem, substitute x back into the equation because we know they are equal.
So look at it this way and solve each side independently:
\ 10x = 9.999...
- x = 0.999...
Which would come out to 10x - x = 9.999... - 0.999...
Edit: Remember we aren't solving for x, we are proving x = 1. It's a little bit strange at first, but it works.
mudbutt20 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:02:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes that makes sense to me.
So I have one question more then. This is correct purely in a formulaic understanding and not a physical real life understand right?
TheRoadHome ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:07:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
What exactly do you mean? It works for both, but it is basically a math trick and the same type of thing (kind of) is used to solve series equations.
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/DE/SeriesSolutions.aspx
Don't look at this unless you really want to learn about Differential equations.
Edit: You can also use math fuckery to prove 1 = 2.
lokoom ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:33:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To everyone who lost fate in math : When he canceled (a-b) he have to assume it is not zero!
But!! If a-b โ 0 we get aโ b contradictory to our assumption
sheepoverfence ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:31:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's 0
TheRoadHome ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:33:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea, you assume non zero.
sheepoverfence ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:37:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A-b=o......0*(a+b)=o.....
mudbutt20 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:26:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking math is crazy.
mudbutt20 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:16:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well let's say you have 1 inch and it is as close to 1 inch as physically possible even down to the sub atomic particle level. 0.999... Still isn't the same as 1 in that sense right? The reason we might say it is is because the measurement would be too small for us to detect so it would appear to be the same.
TheRoadHome ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 07:29:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh yes, yea in the real word we have rounding errors. We can only be so precise, but no more. That isn't to say 0.999... = 1, but there becomes a point where we can't tell the difference.
mudbutt20 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:39:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you so much! :)
kogasapls ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:13:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please be clear that the person you just replied to is incorrect. While there are rounding errors, this is not one of them. .999... is exactly equal to 1, no rounding involved whatsoever. That infinitesimal bit that appears to separate .999... and 1 does not actually exist; there are no infinitesimal values in the real numbers. It would need to be finitely small, not infinitely small, in which case it would not be equal to 1. 0.999... where the number of 9s is finite (it can be larger than the square of every particle in the universe, but still finite) is not equal to 1. But what we mean when we use those dots is an infinite number of 9s. In this case, .999... is exactly equal to 1.
mudbutt20 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:33:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry I'm dumb when it comes to math.
When you have a set distance that equals say exactly 1 inch, 0.999... wouldn't actually be the 1 inch because you are measuring the distance to exactly the distance that is 0.000...1 less than the 1 inch?
kogasapls ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:48:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They are exactly the same. That .000...1 inch doesn't exist, because that would involve numbers (that 1 on the end) coming after an infinite amount of other numbers (000...) which is intuitively impossible. There can't be anything after something which never ends (in the real numbers, which is what we generally assume we're working with). In other words, .000...1 is not a (real) number. This is one way to show that .999... and 1 are the same: there are no real numbers between them.
mudbutt20 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:53:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But isn't 0.999... Not a real number since everything as far as we know has a set distance even down to a planc length?
kogasapls ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:01:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Numbers don't necessarily match up to a physical counterpart in the universe. Planck lengths have nothing to do with how we define the real numbers.
.999... is a real number because it is a rational number. It is a rational number because it is infinitely repeating.
mudbutt20 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:10:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah. I see. Thank you. :)
migueltrabajador ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:58:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For people who think that this is untrue because 0.9 repeating only gets closer and closer to one, consider this:
You are standing on one side of a room, opposite the door. You walk halfway to it, now you walk halfway from that point to the door.
You keep doing this. You can deduce that there are an infinite number of halfway points between you and the door. If you keep repeating this process, you'll never get to the door. You'll keep getting closer, but never actually there unless you repeated the process infinite times, which you can't do, right?
Wrong. There is one way you can, just fucking walk to the door. How did you do this? Simple, you repeated the process infinite times.
There were infinite halfway points, and you tackled all of them. Therefore, you repeated the process infinite times.
That's what the bar above the 9 means. That's what repeating means. It doesn't mean it repeats for a while. It doesn't repeat until it gets bored and goes home. It repeats INFINITELY. You could write out all the nines if you wanted until you die trying to do a simple math problem, or you could write the repeat bar once, and everyone understands what you're saying.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:09:43 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm going to steal this example for the future. What a wonderful way to put it.
migueltrabajador ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:16:58 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks. I need to give credit to my high school calc teacher, Mr. Davidson. Without this example, I'm not sure I'd be able to understand calculus.
SassyMcPants ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:14:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My favorite version of this is:
.499999999 repeating "rounds" to 1 instead of 0.
Here the standard rounding operation for integers is that you round any number to the nearest integer. If a number has a mantissa equal to .5 you simply add .5 to said number.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:55:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How is this true?!
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teh_hasay ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 11:36:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Isn't this more of a flaw in our number system rather than some sort of odd truth? It's only "true" because there is no way to accurately illustrate thirds in a base-ten system. It's true within the confines of that system but if you can't disprove something so obvious within that artificial system, why should I place any value on what that system claims is true in this case?
The way I'd look at it is that it's not true, but we live with it because it's easy enough to overlook and doesn't really create any unmanageable complications.
EDIT: Can someone at least explain why I'm wrong rather than just downvoting me?
EightyMercury ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:44:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're wrong because there is a way to accurately illustrate thirds in a base-ten system. 0.333... (or put a bar over the 3, if I weren't typing on a keyboard.)
j909m ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:17:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
.9 repeating is equal to 1.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:04:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Oh oh oh I can prove this. Set x=0.999...
Multiply by 10 to both sides
10x=9.999โฆ
Subtract x from both sides:
10x - x=9.999โฆ - x
Since we set x=0.999โฆ, we can substitute the x on the right side with 0.999โฆ:
10x - x=9.999โฆ - 0.999โฆ
And simplify: 9x=9 (every 9 in 9.999โฆ after the decimal place is being subtracted by another 9, so the end is 9.000โฆ=9)
Divide by 9 to both sides: x=9/9=1.
I proved that x=1. But what's x again? It's 0.999โฆ, like I defined in the beginning. Thus,
Ommageden ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:30:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For those wondering it can be proved using limits in addition to changing 1/3 to decimal form (although that one is more due to the limitations of our number system)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:14:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Proof:
maz-o ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:00:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
another cool math thing.. there are different size infinites. infinite isn't just an endless number, they can vary in size.
for example take every whole number from 1 upwards: 1,2,3,4,5,... and so on. you will have an infinite number of numbers.
then take every even number; 2,4,6,8,... and so on. you will also have an infinite number of numbers.
but which ever point you look at, there will always be 2x more whole numbers than even numbers. thus the one infinite is 2x bigger than the other infinite.
Carl_Bravery_Sagan ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:31:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, it's even stranger. Those are both the same size infinity โ you have to think differently about orders of infinity since it's not a number. They're the same size infinity because for each object in your set of whole numbers, there's exactly one corresponding object in your set of even numbers.
If you can imagine a hotel with an infinite number of rooms that's totally filled, you can still accommodate an infinite number of additional occupants. If an infinite number of people barge in and want rooms, you can accommodate them by telling the current occupants to go to the room number that's double their current room number. Now you have a full hotel with an infinite number of people.
Stranger still, there really are different orders of infinity, though. The one you were talking about is called "countably infinite". There's also " uncountably infinite". The number of real numbers is "uncountably infinite". In other words, there isn't a one to one mapping of whole numbers to real numbers. If you try to do it, you will inevitably miss some of them.
wanze ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:39:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, there are different infinite sizes, but your example does not demonstrate that.
Since you can create a bijection between 1,2,3,... and 2,4,6,..., they share cardinality and are therefore the same size.
If you try to create a bijection between the natural numbers and the rational numbers, however, you'll fall short. Those are of difference sizes. The former being countably infinite and the latter uncountably infinite.
Madness20 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:30:18 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As others have said, 1,2,3,4... and 2,4,6,8... have the exact same "ammount" of numbers which is infinite, but also the same type of infinite. I can build a function f(x)= 2x In this function i can order each element from the second set with an element of the first. f(1)= 2 f(2)= 4 f(3)= 6 f(4)=8
etc. so for each element of 1,2,3,4... i can find an element in 2,4,6,8... that is correspondent to it.
Anthony356 ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 05:09:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not. The proof is wrong, and it comes from a complete misunderstanding of infinity. It bothers me a lot when people perpetuate this completely untrue "fact".
aahdin ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 05:31:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Okay, fill in the gaps for me.
edit: Now that I see this is getting upvoted, I should mention to any readers that 1 and 0.999... are absolutely the same number.
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 05:42:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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aahdin ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:48:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is true, but doesn't have any bearing on the fact that .999... = 1.
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mudbutt20 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:57:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't the reason the thinking is wrong about this is that you are moving the decimal over to go from 0.999... To 9.99999 which is a completely different thing? Unless that's exactly what you are saying. Sure you can write it out to make sense but on a practical level it's impossible?
greatGoD67 ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 06:00:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha I don't know, I was just pulling all of this out of my ass.
rrussell1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:58:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So why would you pretend to know...
sesstreets ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 07:29:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a whole lot simpler than that silly person. Three perfectly shaped slices of pie (3 * 1/3) equals one pie. The falsehood comes from representing .999... as somehow being the same as 1/3, and sure, .999... can represent a decimal representation of 1/3, it's not the actual same number. The same way actual pi is represented in math by 3.14... but it's not actually a rational number so it goes on forever, but that's not what pi IS, pi is a ratio between a circles circumference and it's diameter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi#/media/File:Pi_eq_C_over_d.svg
TL;DR: .333... and 1/3 are functionally equivalent when doing math, but they aren't entirely the same exact thing.
rrussell1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:45:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think that the argument '0.333...=1/3 therefore 0.999...=3/3=1' is one you should ever actually use, really. To avoid being dishonest you'd then have to demonstrate why 1/3=0.333...
Edit: I assume that's the argument you were trying to put across, because I don't think anyone tries to say that 0.999=1/3
sesstreets ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:52:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And I get downvoted also? That's nice.
Refer to how algebra works with concepts of infinity and infinite set theory.
1/3 != .333
1/3 = .333...
1/3 * 3 = 1
.333 * 3 = .999
.333... * 3 = 1
rrussell1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:57:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't downvote you.
The point I'm trying to make is that you're asking the reader to believe that 1/3=0.333... Which is the exact same as asking someone to believe 1=3/3=0.999...
Which means that the proof is actually just restating that 0.999...=1 in a slightly more intuitive way.
sesstreets ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:09:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not asking the reader to believe anything.
1/3 can be represented by 0.333...
1/3 cannot be represented by 0.333
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4b5aph/what_sounds_extremely_wrong_but_is_actually/d16jqkv
rrussell1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:42:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're not explaining why 1/3=0.333... So clearly you must be assuming that as an implicit fact. You can demonstrate the result easily as the sum of a geometric progression but you could do the same for 0.999=1.
I understand the argument completely, I'm just saying that it's incomplete at best and dishonest at worst! I also seem to remember the linked thread appearing in /r/badmathematics so I wouldn't be too keen to reference that.
sesstreets ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:19:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
http://betterexplained.com/articles/a-friendly-chat-about-whether-0-999-1/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_expression_(mathematics)
I'm not wasting my time explaining accepted mathematical concepts.
rrussell1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:31:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mate, if you'll look at my post history you might notice I'm a mathematics student. I'm not trying to argue over the results, and I'm actively trying to avoid being overly short. What I'm trying to explain is that by stating that 0.333...=1/3 you're employing circular logic to provide an explanation, replacing one question with another of identical nature. This is because the proof for 0.333...=1/3 would be identical to the proof for 0.999=1, if we were to aim for a watertight explanation.
Wetbug75 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:58:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Care to explain why?
maz-o ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:03:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the most simple way to prove this:
1/3 = 0.333...
2/3 = 0.666...
3/3 = 0.999...
3/3 = 1
perrywinkleJr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:24:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you just hurt my brain with that one!
jywn4679 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:45:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here is a proof:
0.99... =sum from k=1 to infinity of 9/10k
=limit as n->infinity of the sum from k=1 to n of 9/10k
=limit as n->infinity of 1-1/10n
=1
Stop spreading bullshit.
Iceyeeye ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 05:40:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Facts" need not be true.
[deleted] ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 03:30:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lies
Knotwood ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 12:04:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It will ALWAYS be less than 1, infinitely. It will NEVER be one.
jywn4679 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 19:53:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It isn't a process, it's a fixed number, it doesn't change.
Knotwood ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 20:44:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Correct. It is infinitely fixed less than 1.
skullturf ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:01:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's exactly 1. You can educate yourself via the following links.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999...
http://polymathematics.typepad.com/polymath/2006/06/no_im_sorry_it_.html
Knotwood ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 00:31:34 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1=1
.999...=.999...
skullturf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:43:04 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So?
There are plenty of examples where different symbols denote exactly the same number.
The symbols 1+2+3 are different from the symbols 1*2*3, but both sets of symbols happen to have the same value, namely 6.
The fact that 0.999... is exactly equal to 1 is part of mainstream mathematics and is not seriously disputed by mathematicians. This has come up many times on Reddit. Read the links I provided in my other comment.
jywn4679 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:46:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No it isn't. Here is a proof.
0.99... =sum from k=1 to infinity of 9/10k =limit as n->infinity of the sum from k=1 to n of 9/10k =limit as n->infinity of 1-1/10n =1
reddit_mind ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:24:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless Keanu Reeves shows up.
Awkwardlyaccused ยท -30 points ยท Posted at 02:37:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mathematically speaking, 0.9999 repeating tends to 1, not equal to 1
Wsweg ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 02:46:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mathematically speaking, it is equal to one. There are plenty of proofs that support this. http://www.purplemath.com/modules/howcan1.htm I think this explains it better than I can.
plasticdracula ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 02:44:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
0.111111... = 1/9
0.999999... = 9/9
9/9 = 1
Wsweg ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:50:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or, 1/3 = .3... , so, 3/3 = .9... = 1
plasticdracula ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:52:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or x = 0.9..., 10x = 9.9..., 9x = 9, x = 1.
We could be here for hours.
Sophosticated ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:21:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this one doesnt make sense.
plasticdracula ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:25:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
x = 0.999999....
10x = 9.999999...
9x = 9.999999... - 0.999999... = 9
x = 9/9 = 1
aitigie ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 03:28:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not going to debate your main point, but 0.3 is in no way equal to 1/3. Multiply 0.3 three times, and as you've noted above you'll arrive at 0.9. Divide one by three (or, take 1/3 of it) and you'll find yourself with 0.33 repeating.
hessdawg3113 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:41:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what the ellipses behind the three are there for. It's an easy way to designate that it means .3 repeating.
aitigie ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:45:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you, I initially misread that as "therefore" instead of "repeating". I've deleted my comment, appreciate your following up though.
aniseikonia ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:12:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More precisely: 0.9999... is a fixed quantity as is 1.0000... Being two fixed quantities one can not tend to the other. Indeed, they are the same quantity - the decimal system does not have unique representation for numbers.
You are thinking about the sequence of numbers x_i = 0.999 [9 repeates i times]. And indeed x_i tends to 1 as i goes to infinity.
Chel_of_the_sea ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:56:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
.9999 repeating is, by definition, the limit of the sequence .9, .99, .999, .9999, and so on. The sequence tends to 1, the limit is exactly 1.
aniseikonia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:20:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What you are describing is similar in spirit to Dedekind cut (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedekind_cut) which is one formal way to define real numbers.
However, the more standard way to define real numbers is as a sequence of digits d0,d_1, d_2 ,d_3...., where the number they represent is sum{i=0}infinity d_i*10{-i}. In particular, 0.999... is a real number, not a limit.
Chel_of_the_sea ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:27:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Infinite sums are themselves limits - the sum from i=0 to infinity of d_i is precisely the limit of the partial sums S_i as i->infinity.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:03:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Chel_of_the_sea ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:30:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True, but what's your point? 0.999999.... is a symbol representing a particular real number, and it is the same real number represented by the symbol 1.
wldmr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:32:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds like 0.99... and 1 are two different numbers (that happen to have the same value) Is that what you're getting at?
aniseikonia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:00:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. Think about 'one' and '1' - two different ways to write the same quantity.
KingdaToro ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:05:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If there is no number between two numbers, they are equal.
aniseikonia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True. But this requires a proof.
alx3m ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:37:10 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The proof is not that difficult though. All we need to prove is that, if two numbers are different, there is a number between them.
Let a and b be two different real numbers. Assume a<b (this proof is identical if a>b). Define c = (a+b)/2.
c is larger than a, because a = a/2 + a/2 > a/2 + b/2 = c. c is smaller than b, because b = b/2 + b/2 < b/2 +a/2 = c.
Thus, a<c<b
QED
aniseikonia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:08 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Indeed.
Dovah1443 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:05:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well the way my AP Calculus teacher explains stuff like limits and L'Hopitals is this:
On exponential equations with limits like 1/x for x>0 that as you approach infinity on the x-axis, the y-value is (by this time he's yelling) SO SMALL IT MAY AS WELL BE ZERO, DON'T YOU THINK?
Same would apply here, it is approaching one to where the space in between .999.... and 1 is SO SMALL IT MAY AS WELL BE ZERO, DON'T YOU THINK?
aniseikonia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:25:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And there are people advocating that it should be taught formally in this way... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreal_number
Dovah1443 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:22:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What do you mean?
gonwi42 ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 12:35:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
not if it takes more than zero time to do an iteration.
jywn4679 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:19:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It isn't a process, it's a number.
[deleted] ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 06:07:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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jywn4679 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:54:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are no infinitesimals in the real numbers.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:56:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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jywn4679 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:02:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Asymptotes refer to sequences and functions, not numbers. A number is fixed, it doesn't approach anything.
What do you think 1-0.99... is? If you say 0.00...01, then you will need to define what that means because it isn't standard notation.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:13:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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jywn4679 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:15:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
0.99... is defined as the limit of a geometric series, yes. The series converges to 1, but 0.99... is defined at the limit of the series.
Philosophy does not have much of a place in math anymore, mathematical theorems are proved using math and only math.
deshe ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:46:11 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is far from correct. There is a very exciting debate about what formal system should stand at the foundation of mathematics which has been pretty much going on continuously since Russel. It has been ferociously rekindled in the 70s when the consequences of Paul Cohen's work made apparent how problematic ZFC is.
This is an exciting, live, and massive interdisciplinary debate in which philosophers have a very strong standing, and for good reasons.
Yes, once you have a formal system you can't use philosophy to prove theorems. But philosophy still plays its roles, for example, in determining what should be true before trying to prove it, or in determining what properties a definition should have, and revising it in case it doesn't.
jywn4679 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 14:55:38 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ZFC is the standard set of axioms, there is almost no debate there. Even when choosing axioms (e.g. large cardinal axioms) the debate is more over which gives interesting and useful mathematics. I know of very little that is done philosophically.
Philosophy used to have a place in mathematics, but it seemed to do more harm than good. Philosophical questions like "do imaginary numbers exist" are irrelavent now, but they used to be key questions. Now we care less about some philosophical notion of existance, and more about what mathematics we get from them.
deshe ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:26:19 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, no debate at all. Only entire fields of research which bother themselves with this questions. Only outstanding efforts to find better foundations for modern mathematics, some efforts so outstanding they have been awarded a Fields' medal.
What you mentioned here (large cardinal axioms, etc.) are extensions of ZFC, not alternatives. There are many proposed alternatives for the foundations of mathematics. Some offer alternative axiomatizations of set theory, while other (actually most) try to abandon the idea that sets should be the basic notions of mathematics altogether.
I suggest that you do some elementary research on the subject, as your above statements are severely outdated ("ZFC is the standard set of axioms, there is almost no debate there") if not downright wrong and baseless ("but [philosophy] seemed to do more harm than good [to mathematics]").
jywn4679 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 15:34:22 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you are refering to things like catagory theory (as your link suggests), and less wel known ones (topos, type theory etc) then they are studied because of the math they give, not because of the philosophy behind them. Foundations are not decided by what people think is more philosophically accurate, but by what makes math nicer and easier. This is very different from how things are done philisohpically.
deshe ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:48:29 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The entire debate about which math is "nicer" is a philosophical one. You can't debate aesthetics formally. Philosophers of math are concerned as much as mathematicians about aesthetics.
You make claims about how things are "done philosophically", but honestly, these alternative approaches would not come to be if it weren't for philosophy. Whenever you are thinking outside the boundary of a given formal system you are doing philosophy. And it is physical considerations that led people to be curious about certain approaches over the others.
From what I gathered it seems that you are under the impression that the way new approaches are formed is through either or an exhaustive search of all possible approaches followed by an attempt to derive all of mathematics from each approach, or pure guesswork.
In practice, though, there are considerations external of math which are useful in constructing a new approach. Philosophical considerations which have been tremendously crucial to the research process.
I have no idea what it is exactly that you think that philosophers of mathematics do, but what they (well, a lot of them) actually do is to contribute towards a better, more unified, aesthetically appealing version of modern mathematics. And they do it with reasoning outside of a formal system.
Your urge to attribute the advent of, say, topos theory, or homotopy type theory, to mathematicians alone mostly reinforces the impression that you haven't the slightest clue how these theories came to be.
edit: Yeah, downvoting everything I say totally makes you right, asshole.
jywn4679 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 16:23:17 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have said that I think that ZFC is the one true foundation of math, but I don't think that at all. I actually reject ZFC, because of the axiom of infinity. The axiom of infinity is just some philosophical bullshit put in, infinity does not actually exist and so ZFC is flawed and inconsistent.
deshe ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:37:48 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh man this just keeps getting better.
jywn4679 ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 16:39:16 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The axiom of infinity is a perfect example of why philosophy should stay out of mathematics. It introduces loads of contradictions for some vague notion of philosophical gain.
Shitgenstein ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:27:46 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your rejection of infinity is, itself, philosophical in nature.
jywn4679 ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 16:46:24 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An example of where infinity causes problems, we can use it to construct the real numbers. Now take the real number 0.00...01. This is a real number as the reals are defined using decimals, and this is a decimal. Call this number x. What is x/2? x/2 is smaller than x, and yet x is (clearly) the smallest possible number that isn't zero, so x/2 must be zero. Agree so far?
deshe ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 16:49:33 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my dear god, what have I gotten myself into...
No, ffs, there are no infinitesimals in the real line. That "thing" you wrote, 0.00...01, is not a number. And if it is, I dare you to... wait, what the fuck am I doing trying to debate someone who clearly views stalking me throughout several subreddits in order to downvote everything I say a legitimate rhetoric? Fuck this, go read a book or something.
jywn4679 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 16:51:05 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I haven't downvoted anything of yours, though I'm tempted to now just to prove a point.
Real numbers are numbers which have decimal expansions right? And 0.00...01 is a decimal, so it is a real number. What's wrong with this?
deshe ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:57:18 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A decimal expansion assigns to each integer a digit, which integer was the 1 in "0.0....01" assigned to? Neither one. Hence, this thing you call "0.0...01" is not a decimal.
For the record, there are ways to extend the real line to include infinitesimals, but you're doing it wrong.
jywn4679 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:58:18 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The 1 is assign to infinity, which exists by the axiom of infinity duh.
Of course, I reject the axiom of infinity, so there is no nonsense infinitesimals in my math.
deshe ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:13:23 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
First of all, I don't understand why the existence of infinitesimals even bothers you so much. But nevermind that. What you are saying is simply not true. That any real number could be represented as a sequence of digits is a property, but not a defining property. This does not mean that any transfinite sequence of digits has to correspond to a real number, neither does this follow from any construction of the reals (simply because it is not true).
You mix properties with definitions, and then generalize these properties without considering how the definitions might be affected, which results in a broken argument.
You want to reject the axiom of infinity? Fine, go right ahead. Just... how do you construct the real numbers without it?
jywn4679 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 17:18:53 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The real numbers are decimals, you learn that in high school. It's how we define them.
I don't construct the real numbers, the real numbers don't exist, because they give contradictions. Another contradiction is 0/0. We know that sin(0)=0, and that sin(0)/0=1, so we have that 0/0=1. Agree so far?
deshe ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:21:48 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That might be how you define them, but that's not how a mathematician would define them, because that is not even a definition.
You have no idea how the notion of a limit works, huh? One thing it does not do is to allow spurious statements such as sin(0)/0=1. Again, you are circumventing conventional definitions to produce non existing contradictions.
jywn4679 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 17:26:25 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's wrong with defining reals by decimal expansions? Are you saying that some real numbers don't have a decimal expansion? Because that's just rubbish.
As for sin(0)/0, try using taylor series and you will see why it's true. The taylor series of sin(x)/x is 1+x(bunch of stuff). Plug in x=0 to get 1, so 0/0=1.
deshe ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:29:56 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So if cats are furry I can define cats as "things that are furry"? C'mon, you can do better than that.
The Taylor series of a function is not the function itself, for example, because it might be defined in points where the function has a removable singularity. You completely ignore the difference between convergence and equality, again, circumventing accepted definitions to recreate the problems these definitions were made to do away with.
jywn4679 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:32:07 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Quick question, just so I don't put words into your mouth, do you think that 0.99...=1? I assume so.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:01:42 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not OP, but yes, he does. What of it?
itsallcauchy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:11:59 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you think they are different?
NeedsMoreReeds ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:26:11 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Axiom of Infinity doesn't state that "infinity exists." It states that the Natural Numbers exist. The counting numbers. The numbers we count with. There's an infinite number of them. If you disagree, please tell me what the biggest number is.
The Axiom of Infinity is necessary because without the Axiom of Infinity, you can only construct finite sets using the other Axioms of ZFC. Furthermore, infinity is not a natural number and therefore is not assigned in the decimal expansion. The number of decimal places there are is the same as the natural numbers, and so there is no "infinite place." Infinity is not a natural number.
There's certainly more real numbers than natural numbers, so they're obviously not able to be constructed without the Axiom of Infinity.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:25:03 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What do you think the axiom of infinity says? Because that's not what it says.
jLoop ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:05:58 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not actually a decimal expansion. A decimal expansion is a sum like the one shown on wikipedia (or an infinite sequence of digits), and there is no way to express 0.000...01 in either form.
The reason for this is that there is no largest counting number, so no digit is the last - that "final" one cannot be one of the decimal digits, since if it were, there would be another digit after it (if it's digit n, for any n, there are digits n+1, n+2...)
QuigleyQ ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:04:32 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're wrong in two very clear ways:
Only if you're a masochist. Typically, it's done with Cauchy sequences or Dedekind cuts. But you can do it with decimals, which brings me to #2:
No. A decimal representation is a sequence of digits. And a sequence isn't just something you can write down willy-nilly. A sequence in X is a map from the natural numbers to X. So which natural number maps to 1 in 0.00...01? Not a sequence => not a decimal representation.
Despite all that, if you're really stubborn, you can assign a meaning to 0.00..01. And interestingly enough, you'll get that 0.00...01 = 0, just like you proved. To do this, we'll have to pin down what ... means. It means to take the limit as the number of [whatever pattern is implied] goes to infinity.
So 0.333... means "the limit of 0.3, 0.33, 0.333, ...". Or if you're bothered by me using ... again: it's also "limit of sum_{i = 1}^N (3/10i ) as N goes to infinity". It's a geometric series with starting term 3/10 and rate 1/10. So the sum of all terms is (3/10) / (1 - 1/10) = (3/10) / (9/10) = 1/3.
In the same sense, 0.00...01 is the limit of 0.01, 0.001, 0.0001, ... . Or more formally, it's "limit of 1/10N as N goes to infinity". And that's zero.
archiecstll ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:16:16 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
0.00...01 is NOT a real number. Moreover, there is no smallest positive real number.
kaladyr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:00:57 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That isn't a real number.
Mrfrenchypower ยท 66 points ยท Posted at 01:03:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Russia is bigger than Pluto
Edit: yes guys I know pulto has a larger volume, I am not that stupid.
columbus8myhw ยท 148 points ยท Posted at 01:51:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. We thought so, but New Horizons measured Pluto's size more accurately and it turns out it's a bit bigger than we thought.
If Russia were to reconquer Ukraine, howeverโฆ
stellarguymk ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 02:21:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Putin isn't done quite yet
courtenayplacedrinks ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 08:32:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Plutin.
Gary_FucKing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:56:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So that's why!
kkibe ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:21:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sauce pls
[deleted] ยท 154 points ยท Posted at 01:54:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, yeah, obviously. Russia is a country, and Pluto's a dog.
NioA_ ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:32:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, the ol' Reddit dog-a-roo.
PM_ME_STEAM_CODES__ ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:10:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hold my furry suit, I'm going in!
FinnishFinn ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:33:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No dude, they meant Russia is larger than Pluto, the Roman god of the underworld.
ByahhByahh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:48:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
woof woof, comrade.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:40:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And they have the same climate!
theassassintherapist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:17:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Our moon is bigger than Pluto.
nouille07 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:01:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But it may be less dangerous for a foreigner to get oil in pluto
bbcslave92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:36:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
not in terms of volume dude
beingforthebenefit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:38:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That doesn't make sense. This flat plot of land is larger than a planet? Bigger than the surface area of Pluto you must mean?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:57:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it also colder?
SCombinator ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:39:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, Russia is flat. Pluto is a solid volume.
Faryshta ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 08:43:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
how can russia have volume?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:48:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Faryshta ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:55:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so much condescendence from someone who didn't understood my question.
zazzlekdazzle ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 02:06:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509โ47) was a tennis fanatic and had multiple courts at his palaces. It's actually a very early sport, starting in the 14th century (with even earlier predecessor's from the 12th century on). Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn, was watching a match when she was arrested and King Henry took a break from a match later to get the news she had been executed.
SilverSteeples ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:34:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haven't checked this, but I'm pretty positive this was badminton, not tennis.
dpash ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:50:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, an early form of tennis, closer to Real Tennis than Lawn Tennis.
PokeytheChicken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
why was executed?
jokerscon123 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:18:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Henry couldn't divorce her due to religion but she and himself had both been unfaithful. Plus he wanted a boy, and she gave him a girl.
sanstress ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:38:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think she was unfaithful, they were unfounded charges brought against her. Also if some people don't know, the girl they had together eventually became queen - Queen Elizabeth I.
lucy_inthessky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:15:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She probably was unfaithful, in all honesty, and probably did so because Henry was pretty gross at that point and he couldn't get a child to her aside from Elizabeth. I think that if she was unfaithful, it was because she was a young girl and also probably trying to make an heir (albeit it an illegitimate one).
sanstress ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:12:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She became pregnant after giving birth to Elizabeth only later to miscarry their son. Some believe that's when her downfall and accusations started.
lucy_inthessky ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:41:25 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh I know. She had more than one miscarriage if I'm remembering correctly.
KRosen333 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:56:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that bitch
panzerkampfwagen ยท 48 points ยท Posted at 02:48:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Nazis didn't call themselves Nazis, their opponents did. It was an insult.
GermBurgers ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 04:21:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's an abbreviation of Nationalsozialismus, which was the party's name. So I think this is a half truth.
Poly_clef ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 08:58:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually Nationalsozialismus means National Socialism. The party was called Die Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), or The National Socialist German Workers Party in English.
SadGhoster87 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:56:48 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Something something Bernie Sanders is a Nazi something
panzerkampfwagen ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:22:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It comes from the Nati but because it sounded like an insult in Southern Germany where the Nazis got their start.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=nazi
maydae503 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So what did they call themselves?
whirlpool138 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:17:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Deutsche
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:42:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nationalsozialisten
[deleted] ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 07:43:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so they did nazi that coming?
panzerkampfwagen ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 07:44:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No Anne Frankly that's a terrible joke.
Fenrir2401 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:12:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Relevant username?
[deleted] ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 08:53:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
jew mad, bro?
panzerkampfwagen ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 08:56:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm Goering tired of this.
[deleted] ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 09:17:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
go kampf under the meins.
theysellcoke ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:20:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.
mov_ah_E1h ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:35:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Milk is acidic.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:45:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You don't need to do rescue breaths when performing CPR. The chest compressions are enough.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:46:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
... because it's all relatively useless and people just die anyway
panzerkampfwagen ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:48:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well........... that may be true........ CPR rarely works outside of a hospital setting (and then rarely works in a hospital setting) and almost everyone who is revived dies within a month anyway (hearts don't usually stop because they're bored) and of the very few who do end up surviving almost all of them have measurable brain damage.
But chest compressions themselves cause some movement of air into and out of the lungs.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:50:35 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think at that point anything and everything helps. Getting oxygen pushed into your lungs is a good thing.
thethinker99 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 12:33:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
not sure if posted in this threat.. but: the sum of all positive, natural numbers equals -1/12
huddie71 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:50:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I still can't get my head around this, even though it's apparently true. Then again, I don't know calculus, which would help. Actually, it would help if I knew maths.
thethinker99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:59:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe this video might give you some insights :)
.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-I6XTVZXww
uncquestion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:47:26 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That video is wrong - https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/2znjne/questions_about_the_numberphile_astounding_result/ is an old reddit thread about it, and you can probably find more refutations of the proof.
MuhTriggersGuise ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:49:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you can perform math operations with a divergent series, sure.
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:58:43 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How does that work?
uncquestion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:46:01 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Numberphile video is wrong - it's basically a magic trick in maths form.
[deleted] ยท 92 points ยท Posted at 00:16:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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kahund ยท 122 points ยท Posted at 01:30:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Huh. I say "this is he." I was way off.
BFlocka ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:34:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just say "This is BFlocka"
craftygnomes ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:12:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just say "speaking."
Darth_Meatloaf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:31:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only one letter, really...
Enkotu ยท 56 points ยท Posted at 00:54:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Speaking."
bebopshaboo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:53:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To whom am I speaking?
EightyMercury ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:40:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"The person for whom you just asked."
hawaiims ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:48:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whom you gonna call?
Ghostbustas.
smookykins ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:10:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ah-hoy-hoy?
GamingTheSystem-01 ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 02:08:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I usually go with "that's me"
mainfingertopwise ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:29:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like "yo!"
SleestakLightning ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:23:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always go with "The fuck you want?"
BasketeerOverHere ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:02:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Hey I have that name!"
Splendidissimus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:22:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Grammatically yours should be "that is I". Congratulations, you just made it even worse.
Namyag ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 01:11:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Catherine O'Hara did this in Home Alone 2. It sounded so so wrong when I first heard it, but now that I know better...
...nahh, still sounds wrong. Grammatically correct, bit it still sounds strange.
RockitMane ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:43:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why does it sound wrong to you?
yracuseOrange ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:10:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like it should be, "This is her."
ademnus ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:44:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The easiest way to realize it is to just reverse the sentence. "She is this" sounds ok, if odd. "Her is this" does not.
mainfingertopwise ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:29:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably just depends how you learned first.
JELLY__FISTER ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:02:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or "I am him"
ademnus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:43:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reverse it. "She is it." You wouldn't say, "her is it."
faithle55 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:18:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's nonsense. Reversing the words of a sentence can completely reverse the meaning.
ademnus ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:08:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It can reverse the meaning of complex sentences, yes, but simple subject and object sentences, no. Also, it's just a general tip to avoid making common errors, it's not meant to be a rule etched in stone to apply to any sentence in creation.
Here's another trick.
A common mistake people make is saying "me and Billy are going to the store" instead of "Billy and I are going to the store." If you ever find yourself stuck for the right answer, just get rid of Billy. "I am going to the store" makes more sense than "Me am going to the store."
faithle55 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 10:05:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, thanks for the trick.
If I ever forget the grammar rules I learned at age 7, I'll refer back to this page.
ademnus ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:08:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Obviously you've forgotten the lessons in manners you learned at age 7. Also, if you are insisting that the majority of adults don't make common grammatical errors, you're out of your skull.
faithle55 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 13:55:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You condescended to me on the internet and I made a slightly mocking return, and now you're complaining about my manners? Marvelous.
In case I wasn't clear, I was taking exception to you assuming that I need helpful tips on grammar.
Even a three word sentence when reversed could result in the object becoming the subject and vice versa. I'd say that would probably change the entire meaning.
nobunaga_1568 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:48:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It makes complete sense to me since I started learning German. The noun used after the link verb is in nominative, not accusative ("Das ist der Tisch" not "Das ist den Tisch").
bbcslave92 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:38:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i beg for more info
Splendidissimus ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:26:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To rephrase DarkMacek in a more approachable manner... Essentially, if there's a form of the word "is" in there, you have to be able to flip the two words around and have it still make sense. You don't say "This is her", because you couldn't say "her is this".
bbcslave92 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:34:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DarkMacek ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:59:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The verb "to be" does not act on objects, even if a subject is using the verb "against" something else.
It seems really odd... but consider that you ask the question "Where are they?", not "Where are them?"
kingofeggsandwiches ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:46:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's just an old fashioned grammar rule that people don't generally observe anymore.
luckierbridgeandrail ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:51:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I usually say, โSorry, they're not here, can I take a message?โ It's the fastest way to end a junk call other than just hanging up.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:16:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it really that odd? I think everyone in my family says this including myself.
patchesnbrownie ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:22:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea I'm confused... what else do you say???
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:10:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"This is her."
Twad ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:04:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I say "speaking"
corgi92 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:24:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it weird that I say "I'm him"?
Capn_Barboza ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:01:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Am him I, I he me.
DarkMacek ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:57:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not uncommon, but it's incorrect.
kingofeggsandwiches ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:49:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really not incorrect unless you're going to go by what dusty old librarians say. The language people use defines what is correct. More people say "It's me" than "It is I" these days, so that's the new correct way to do it.
aidenandjake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You wouldn't say "him is me" you'd say "he is me" so you say "I'm he."
kahund ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:07:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or, "he is I".
aidenandjake ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:00:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes
kahund ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:11:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ja
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:13:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But I'm male.
[deleted] ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 01:46:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You still have to use "she".
goodevilgenius ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:58:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course you do; it's a predicate nominative.
What else would you say?
NeverStopWondering ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:29:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In
EnglishSimple English please?goodevilgenius ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:59:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The verb "is" is a linking verb. When using linking verbs, the object of the sentence takes the same case as the subject of the sentence. Since "she" is the form that's used as the subject ("her" being the form that's otherwise used as an object), when the verb is "is", you would use "she" as the object of the sentence, rather than "her".
kingofeggsandwiches ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:49:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go back to 1890 plz
McAwesomeBoss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:49:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No I don't.
jubillante ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:43:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait that's actually correct? I've been mocking my mother (silently) this whole time because while English is her second (or 3rd) language, it's hard not to laugh when she says stuff like "confisticate" (confiscate) or "aguacuado" (avocado). Combined with her accent, "this is she" has always sounded wrong to me.
canis187 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:02:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"That is the party to whom you are speaking"
Heard this a lot from my uncle who is a lawyer.
XxLokixX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:07:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've never said that. I say "speaking" like most people
steven8765 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:10:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I actually say "speaking"
sheepoverfence ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:12:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always answer, "hello. Is it me you're looking for?"
3rdBestUsername ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:27:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
False. I'm a man.
EricWFernandez ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:50:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you are one in a million in China, there are fourteen-hundred people just like you.
ayeman1234 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:34:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any Daily Mail journalists lurking this thread, this right here is gold for you
MuhTriggersGuise ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:42:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've seen Chinese people, and there are way more than 14 of them that are identical.
The_Condominator ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 08:46:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
White people are a minority
JELLY__FISTER ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 12:06:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depends on where
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:38:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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JELLY__FISTER ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:41:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No shit, almost half of the population is in China or India
TheGorrister ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 12:50:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can't have a majority running things.
quacksdontecho ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 05:35:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gif is pronounced gif, not gif.
Ouija_Squeegee ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:52:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stop trying to make jif happen.
It's not going to happen.
hugh9989 ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 16:36:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's already happened
maybedoctor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:59:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Get out
SodaMahone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:04:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
of town
[deleted] ยท 232 points ยท Posted at 00:43:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
George W. Bush's debt to GDP was the lowest or one of the lowest of modern presidents. His taxes to GDP was the lowest and his spending to GDP was, too.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/nov/12/george-w-bush/former-president-george-w-bush-defends-his-fiscal-/
KingsoftheNorth ยท 271 points ยท Posted at 01:43:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From the linked article:
natched ยท 250 points ยท Posted at 01:57:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a lot easier to not accumulate a lot of debt when the previous guy leaves you a surplus.
Hunnyhelp ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:57:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I blame 9/11 because I refuse to do research
bobsp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:44:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He left a slight surplus....once.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:29:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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narp7 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 07:27:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No... It depends on what the regulations are. Externalities such as pollution can have huge costs such as increased medical bills. In many cases, removal of regulation can decrease GDP. In addition, growth of an economy does not mean that the majority of the population sees an increase in wage prices. While the US economy has been growing for many years, median family income has been dropping.
Regulations do a lot of good. They keep lead out of our food, they keep our air breathable, they make sure that people can't be paid $2 an hour, and they keep our highways safe and funded.
Saying that all regulations are good or bad is inaccurate. Some are good and some are bad.
Guncriminal ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:07:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Considering that GDP calculations often include money spent by the government enforcing these regulations in the first place (money that would otherwise not have been spent), it's not much of a big deal.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:02:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your medical bill example shows how GDP is not the best thing to go for. Making everyone sick and incurring huge medical bills is by definition an increase in GDP.
Toesmasher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:03:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, not at all
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:49:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's an increase in GDP, but it's bad.
nicksvr4 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:07:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But...
I think they are doing fine without minimum wages.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:00:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In those countries, minimum wages are set by collective bargaining rather than the state. Unions are very powerful there.
nicksvr4 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:17:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's to stop that here in the US?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:48:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No unions to speak of. So the state has to serve that role.
nicksvr4 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:52:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Perhaps we don't have strong unions because they can't offer much more than what the state already does.
EightyMercury ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:28:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's definitely something you could say.
nicksvr4 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:31:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well that's how the market works. Walmart probably values a department at a certain amount, if if the labor is too expensive, they just don't do it. In this case, the labor cost X, but after Walmart implemented it, the cost went up, Walmart said "Never mind", and cut their losses.
EightyMercury ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:47:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My point is that the reason the USA doesn't have strong unions could be because the unions have nothing to offer... Or, it could be because major corporations block attempts at unionising by their employees. Which they wouldn't need to if the unions had nothing to offer.
nicksvr4 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:53:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right. Think of all the things unions provided workers decades ago. Now it's basically all mandated. Government regulation as pushed unions to the side and essentially made them useless. All that's left the unions can offer is to try and extort more money out of a company with threats of strikes. It's no wonder companies don't care for them.
TL:DR; Unions have been replaced by Govt, and are essentially useless in the current state of things.
EightyMercury ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:23:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So what kind of extortionate demands have the unions made?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:54:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Violent repression by the state is a more likely explanation, combined with the owning class using race and ethnicity to split the working class.
bam2_89 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:14:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tort liability is a far greater deterrent than FDA/USDA supervision.
If you're in that territory, your options aren't $7.25 or $2.00, they're $2.00 or nothing.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 10:27:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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bam2_89 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:34:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Mass toxic torts and class actions are a thing. So are rebuttable presumption laws and market share liability. How do you think we do it now? This is not a new concept.
Hence the word "deterrent."
robstah ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:47:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/25/19062348-disabled-workers-paid-just-pennies-an-hour-and-its-legal
narp7 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:16:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For every rule, there is an exception. 99.999% of workers in the US are not getting paid pennies, and you know that.
bam2_89 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:10:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Neither are the Goodwill workers. The program is for people who are receiving government benefits.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:20:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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EightyMercury ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:26:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the opposite of what /u/natched said. If the last guy left you with a lot of money, it's harder for the next guy to make you broke.
Simorebut ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:14:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you have all this money so why not spend it?? it's sorta like when rich people leave inheritance to their kids and they go fucking crazy and spend all that shit
DCdictator ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 06:25:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
eh, it was a surplus of twenty million dollars - the better explanation is the better economy.
natched ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:45:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
You are only off by an order of magnitude. It was a surplus of just over 236 million dollars.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals
Edit: Wait, I'm off too - it was actually a surplus of just over 236 billion dollars. Hard to believe, but that's what the spreadsheet says. And this was after Bush the First left Clinton with a deficit of over $290 billion.
It was a surplus of 2.3% of GDP - to put that in perspective, last year was a deficit of 2.5% of GDP.
DCdictator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:30:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you very much for the correction
pburydoughgirl ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:46:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"When Bush got into office he had a surplus of money. Now thereโs like a $70 trillion dollar deficit. Now, just imagine you worked at the Gap.
Youโre closing out your register, and thereโs $70 trillion dollars short.
The average person would get in trouble for something like that, right? Not Bush."
--Chris Rock
Next_Dawkins ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:44:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where they take office on the business cycle will pretty much entirely determine this. Bush had two recessions in his tenure, and the second greatest economic event troughed as he left office.
Your other example Clinton has a huge economic peak right as he left.
If bush took office a year later and left a year earlier it would look entirely different.
sweetgreggo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:27:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where does Obama fall on this. All I've read for the last 3 years is how he's increased our debt more than all past presidents combined.
shittylyricist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:15:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's reduced the deficit from $1.4 trillion to $500 billion.
[deleted] ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 02:45:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Clinton did it with the help of a GOP congress; Bush did it with the help of a democrat congress (America's first since the early 90s).
Led_Hed ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 04:47:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah nope: Bush's first year in office the Senate was 50-50, the House had a Republican majority. From 2002 through the beginning of 2007 the Republicans controlled the Senate and the House. Then the Senate was split and the Dems held the House for the end of Bush' term. By then, the damage was done.
bobsp ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:45:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You misspelled "despite".
ademnus ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:39:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
political party pooper
ovenmitt ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:34:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm guessing this doesn't include all his war spending
UNCOMMON__CENTS ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:47:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't know why you're being downvoted. That is actually true.
blebaford ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:59:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah what is "debt to GDP" anyway?
OnWisCarlos ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:54:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ELI10?
HarryBridges ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:47:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like saying "When the arsonist got there, the house wasn't on fire - surely he deserves some of the credit for that?"
So... it's a monumentally stupid thing to say.
natched ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 01:58:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He didn't accumulate a lot of debt because he started from a surplus that Clinton gave him.
anonniemoose ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 02:24:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That surplus was probably gone after bushs first year in office. Is Clinton responsible for the next seven years too?
natched ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 02:31:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How about a fair comparison then? Compare how much Bush added to the deficit each year relative to his starting point to how much Obama has added to the deficit each year relative to his starting point.
Bush started with a surplus and turned it into a deficit. Obama started with a giant deficit and has turned it into the smallest deficit since 2007.
I judge them by what they changed, and one increased the deficit while the other decreased it.
anonniemoose ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:36:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Going on fair comparisons, Obama took office right at the bottom of the recession and has rode a seven year boom in the markets. Bush left at the bottom. Those have huge impacts on government deficits as well.
natched ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:39:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't claim any of them are responsible for what they started with - they are responsible for what they left us with.
Clinton left us with a booming economy and a surplus. Bush left us with a global economic collapse and a huge deficit.
Unless some crazy shit happens over the next couple of months, Obama is going to leave us with a steady, though certainly not ideal, economy and a deficit that is lower than he found it.
anonniemoose ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 02:43:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Obama is one lucky guy taking office when he did. All due respect, any moron can ride a stock market that triples in a few years
HarryBridges ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:02:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Two terribly mismanaged wars, one of which was completely unnecessary? The worst economic disaster since the Great Depression? The 9/11 Attacks still unavenged? That's "lucky"?
Yours may well be the single stupidest sentence I've ever read in my life. And that's not an insult - it's just an observation. I actually feel a strange kind of awe that someone could honestly write something so utterly foolish.
natched ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:46:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bush's presidency saw the development of, not just one, but two recessions. We had a break of just about 6 years between the two Bush recessions. If Obama was really as bad as Bush we would've had another recession by now, no matter that the country was in recession when he took the job.
anonniemoose ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:55:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Considering the economy boomed through the 90s thanks to the tech bubble, a recession was near inevitable in the early 2000s, especially combined with 9/11. And the 2008 crisis was a catastrophic failure that takes blame from many sources, and going all the way back to Clinton. To say that Obama would have to have three recessions to be worse then bush is completely ignorant of economics and financial markets. If we're gonna criticize bush (and he deserves plenty of criticisms) let's at least do it for things he deserves. There's plenty of material, we don't have to make things up to artificially prop up obamas shitty presidency
UNCOMMON__CENTS ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:41:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, wait, you don't think that any of Obama's policies have had an impact on growth?
Dodd-Frank? Stimulus Package? ACA? Auto bailout? Reduction of PMI for FHA loans? raising the salary required before overtime pay disappears? (forcing employers to either hire another employee, or pay time and a half for the low paid managers they work 60 hours a week)
You genuinely believe anything good that has happened in Obama's term is luck? Let me guess, most anything bad that happens is totally his fault though.
anonniemoose ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:00:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let me guess, everything good from 2001-2009 was because of Clinton, and everything bad from 2001 until forever is bush's fault right?
UNCOMMON__CENTS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:24:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, just because I acknowledge that Obama's policies have assisted the recovery doesn't mean I think Bush's policies created a bad economy.
I like to look at the U.S. as though I'm looking at another country I have no attachment to. It allows me to look more objectively by disconnecting my biases.
Bush's policies didn't contribute to the financial meltdown. The continuous, multi-decade, bi-partisan removal of regulations and lack of oversight created the financial meltdown. The elimination of Glass-Steagall regulations by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 was a central piece, signed by Bill Clinton.
In fact, Bush's policies in 2008 prevented financial collapse:
*Bush was ideologically opposed to TARP, but Hank Paulson was able to convince him that the cost of staying ideologically pure and opposing TARP would be a complete financial meltdown. Bush's leniency here saved the global financial system from destruction.
*The Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 used $152 billion of progressive tax rebates to halt the slowdown in February 2008. Even though we now know the recession started in Q3 2007, GDP statistics showed GDP was still growing at that time... So Republicans supported spending $152 billion on a stimulus package when they thought the economy was still growing, but were opposed to the February 2009 stimulus when it was clear we were in the deepest recession in 70 years.
*Bush, along with Republicans John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, passed the 30% solar tax credit into law in 2008. Not to mention that in 2005 Bush and the Republican Congress created tax credits for hybrid vehicles.
*Dick Cheney successfully lobbied for a provision in the 2005 Energy Policy Act to exempt fracking operations from the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974. Over the next 5 years U.S. natural gas prices plummeted as a boom in fracking natural gas created hundreds of thousands of jobs, boosted manufacturing, and lowered energy prices putting billions of dollars into the pockets of middle class families. From 2010-2014 this boom spread to oil fracking, which led to similar results for high paying job creation, manufacturing components for drilling (even a massive boom in the sand industry), and saved the average American $540 on gas in 2015. The rapid rise in U.S. oil production ALSO significantly impacted the U.S.' trade deficit thus raising the value of the U.S. dollar - making goods cheaper for all Americans and lowering interest rates.
There's a number of areas where I do think Bush's policies hurt this country, but that has more to do with corporate handouts, his fiscal irresponsibility, and his cabinet willingly ignoring multiple pleas from the Director of the CIA throughout 2001 that a major terrorist incident using airplanes was imminent.
From the article:
**That morning of July 10, the head of the agencyโs Al Qaeda unit, Richard Blee, burst into Blackโs office. โAnd he says, โChief, this is it. Roof's fallen in,โโ recounts Black. โThe information that we had compiled was absolutely compelling. It was multiple-sourced. And it was sort of the last straw.โ Black and his deputy rushed to the directorโs office to brief Tenet. All agreed an urgent meeting at the White House was needed. Tenet picked up the white phone to Bushโs National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. โI said, โCondi, I have to come see you,โโ Tenet remembers. โIt was one of the rare times in my seven years as director where I said, โI have to come see you. We're comin' right now. We have to get there.โโ Tenet vividly recalls the White House meeting with Rice and her team. (George W. Bush was on a trip to Boston.) โRich [Blee] started by saying, โThere will be significant terrorist attacks against the United States in the coming weeks or months. The attacks will be spectacular. They may be multiple. Al Qaeda's intention is the destruction of the United States.โ" [Condi said:] โWhat do you think we need to do?โ Black responded by slamming his fist on the table, and saying, โWe need to go on a wartime footing now!โโ
โWhat happened?โ I ask Cofer Black. โYeah. What did happen?โ he replies. โTo me it remains incomprehensible still. I mean, how is it that you could warn senior people so many times and nothing actually happened? Itโs kind of like The Twilight Zone.โ Remarkably, in her memoir, Condi Rice writes of the July 10 warnings: โMy recollection of the meeting is not very crisp because we were discussing the threat every day.โ Having raised threat levels for U.S. personnel overseas, she adds: โI thought we were doing what needed to be done.โ (When I asked whether she had any further response to the comments that Tenet, Black and others made to me, her chief of staff said she stands by the account in her memoir.) Inexplicably, although Tenet brought up this meeting in his closed-door testimony before the 9/11 Commission, it was never mentioned in the committeeโs final report.**
EatingKidsDaily ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 02:37:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Obama began his presidency by permitting the largest deficit in modern history. The subsequent years in which the deficits were less than the largest deficit in modern history are not passing marks.
natched ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 02:53:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Perhaps you missed the bit about the current deficit being less than it was in 2008, a year before Obama took office.
Not to mention that the budget for the 2009 fiscal year was planned for and started before Obama took office.
EatingKidsDaily ยท -13 points ยท Posted at 03:04:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're only seeing what you want to see. Obama and congress the last eight years (in both parties) have an abhorrent economic record. There is a reason the Fed is afraid of their own shadow right now and it ain't because our economy is "too strong."
natched ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:14:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, I'm seeing objective facts. Whether you want to see it or not, the deficit is currently lower than it was in 2008.
Similarly, Obama, who has been President for 7 years, not 8, has a good economic record. That is an objective fact, based on things like GDP and job growth. Even though you deny it, it is still true.
If you want to link to any actual evidence for your positions, please do so. Here's some GDP data:
https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=ny_gdp_pcap_cd&idim=country:USA:RUS:CAN&hl=en&dl=en
Here's job growth data:
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001?output_view=net_1mth
I could go on, but I'll wait till you refer to any data whatsoever, which you have completely failed to do so far.
phweefwee ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:20:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Having written that, I wonder who you'd like to see as president--and in congress, obviously--in these coming years.
UNCOMMON__CENTS ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:44:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The U.S. economy has performed better than every single other OECD country over the last 7 years.
Compared to every one of our peers around the world our economy has outperformed. This is an indisputable fact.
HarryBridges ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:54:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's like saying blaming the firemen for fires or blaming doctors for disease: Obama ran up ginormous deficits to help the country survive the economic disaster Bush gave us. Obama could have chosen to cut spending on unemployment and food stamps, but that would have destroyed the American middle class for a generation. Real life is not an Ayn Rand novel.
UNCOMMON__CENTS ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:46:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually Obama used an Executive Order to freeze all Federal Govt wages.
Believe it or not Democrats tend to be more fiscally responsible than Republicans.
UNCOMMON__CENTS ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:42:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fun fact,
2009 was the peak of the deficit.
The 2009 Federal Budget was passed in 2008 (because that's how budgets work).
Who was President in 2008?
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:47:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ITT: People who don't understand investment and consolidation cycles
Just_Look_Around_You ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:15:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which makes sense for a right wing president - but lower government spending and taxes aren't really virtuous or impressive.
Elehhhhna ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:06:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He didn't count the wars in his budget. Also from your link:
...Count a President's first deficit as a percentage of GDP to their last. This shows what direction the deficit went during their tenures.
And on this one, George W. Bush does the worst of any president dating back to Eisenhower.
The younger Bush went from a 1.3 percent surplus to a 3.2 percent deficit, a decline of 4.5 percentage points. The best was Clinton, who moved the deficit from a 3.9 percent deficit to a 2.4 percent surplus -- a positive change of 6.3 percentage points. The other presidents all had changes up or down that were roughly two percentage points or smaller.
Shaz201 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why would that sound wrong? Republicans have a reputation for fiscal responsibility, at least in their own minds.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:56:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The statistics favor democrat presidents in terms of reducing national debt. I'm not sure what measure OP is using, I can't replicate his conclusion so I think we may be talking about different stats?
blebaford ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:01:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because what Republicans say and think is wrong, that's common sense.
PvR12 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:51:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Im not American so may I ask why this should surprise people? I know Bush as a republican isnt really populair in redder but was he known as a big spender too? Is this related to the wars he started? Also isnt the debt and GPD during a presidents term also largely to be attributed to his predecessor? Since the influence of policies on such matters is some what delayed?
chocoboat ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 01:57:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Yearly deficit before Bush: $0
Yearly deficit after Bush: $1 trillion. Yes, much of this is because of massive military spending.
You're right, there is a delayed reaction to a president's policies, and presidents can't control everything that happens during their time in office. But you have to look at what happens during his term and what policies he puts into effect. He gave huge tax cuts to the rich while increasing spending, including over $1 trillion on wars in the Middle East. Year after year, the deficit grew larger and larger.
The statistic you're responding to is "surprising" because it's a misleading piece of information. Bush was increasing spending, but because we started at $0 deficit, his 8 year total isn't that high.
Obama started out with a $1 trillion per year deficit, and has cut that down to $439 billion. But despite the fact that he is cutting back on irresponsible spending and Bush did the opposite, far more debt has accumulated during Obama's 7 years.
PvR12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:21:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly what I suspected, thank you for clearing that up!
[deleted] ยท -11 points ยท Posted at 02:47:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The political left thinks Bush was crazy with the deficit.
phweefwee ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 05:15:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure what oh mean by "crazy with the deficit" but the fact that spending increased under Bush is relatively non-controversial.
Clinton left in the midst of a surplus, mostly by his--and the congress'--doing. Then Bush got elected and spending increased by a very large amount. Attribute the increase to whatever you want, but to argue against the increase itself is to fight a losing battle.
thewilloftheuniverse ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:57:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, just don't count that couple of wars he put on the credit card.
Daffypls ยท -14 points ยท Posted at 01:38:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And somehow people blame him for everything and think Obama was a savior
The_Voice_of_Dog ยท -12 points ยท Posted at 01:28:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He did a fantastic job of turnin the Tech bubble into a crashed economy and multiple overseas invasions though, so Obama got stuck with the mess.
His daddy's friends got very rich indeed.
Qlinkenstein ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:01:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, Clinton and the bank deregulation had nothing to do with any of it. Subprime mortgage lending on a mass scale that almost destroyed this country was brought on by letting banks get "too big to fail." Please explain how George W. Bush crashed the economy with his influence on the tech bubble?
[deleted] ยท 138 points ยท Posted at 00:05:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Ryckes ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:23:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
raygundan ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:36:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And links to xkcd comics we've "all" seen before.
androsgrae ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:01:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Clearly nobody clicked but me...
DoomTay ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:52:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
And stuff that really is bullshit
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 10:16:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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dpash ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:46:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Welsh is the main language spoken in parts of Argentina.
vidar_97 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:12:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, the good ol as sole.
fannyathletic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:38:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a Welsh person, I can confirm this.
dens421 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:59:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think Basque is older and the only one not related to other indo-european languages... the old words for "knife" and "axe" contain the root from "stone"
BiggerBangTheory ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 04:45:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more airplanes beneath the sea than there are submarines in the sky.
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:59:42 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's because gravity
BiggerBangTheory ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:45 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everybody known gravity isn't real
thumpas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:09:11 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that one doesn't sound wrong at all.
canausernamebetoolon ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:51:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
0.999... (where the 9s continue indefinitely) is exactly equal to 1. Not just "as close as possible to 1," but exactly equal to 1. It's just a different way of representing it. To help get your head around it, 1 / 3 = 0.333..., and 0.333... * 3 = 0.999..., and 1 / 3 * 3 = 1, therefore 0.999... = 1.
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:01:41 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, 1 / 3 * 3 is 0.999...
CharlesRat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:48:24 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which also equals 1. And besides 1/3 *3 is 3/3 which definitely equals 1.
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:40:12 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess what I meant more to say is that 0.333... isn't equal to 1/3 either, it's just as close as you can possibly get in decimal numbers.
ThinkTankTurret ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:36:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Inflammable means the same thing as flammable.
kredal ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:37:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a country! -Dr. Nick
Voidrith ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:50:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know this is true, but it is still fucking ridiculous.
Who the fuck decided that was a good idea?
JELLY__FISTER ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:18:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was "inflammable", people started using "flammable" for some reason. Language evolves
Gramage ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:39:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
English is the language equivalent of cross breeding a squid with a fox, and then a pigeon with a monkey, and taking those two offspring and cross breeding them. So its a monkey/squid/pigeon/fox. It works but it shouldn't.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 09:18:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Incorrect. This is addressed ITT somewhere.
Keram_ ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 11:43:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australians had a war against emus, fought with machine guns.. and lost.
Chuffnell ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 12:24:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cleopatra was born closer to the first moon landing than she was to the construction of the pyramids.
char_limit_reached ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:57:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically acceptable sentence.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo
BigUM9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:04:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is really cool!
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:59:15 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buffalo bison which Buffalo bison bully themselves bully Buffalo bison.
"Buffalo bison" meaning bison from Buffalo, New York.
RenaKunisaki ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:26:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The NES has a whopping 2048 bytes of RAM. About one billionth of what a modern smartphone has.
The Atari 2600 is even weaker, with 128 bytes. Not even enough to contain this post.
Windows 95 requires no RAM on a modern PC - it can fit entirely in the CPU cache.
dens421 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:57:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so why can't we fucking get the old softwares that worked then to work faster now? Why do we run to stay at the same place like the red queen?
RenaKunisaki ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:16:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Modern software does a lot more. Try to get Unicode, USB, or anything resembling the modern Web working on Win95.
Wtfisthatkid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:20:44 on March 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
USB and unicode were both available on windows 95. Not as advanced as it is now, but they were there.
thatJainaGirl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:31:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A folder containing a rom of every NES game ever made is smaller than an HD photograph.
PizzaMuffins10 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:51:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a custom PC owner for 2 years I love these facts
:)
hphan288 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:31:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The average person is dead.
its_still_good ยท 602 points ยท Posted at 23:35:20 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Later this year: President Trump
Premislaus ยท 844 points ยท Posted at 01:04:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
False. He can't become president until January 20th, 2017.
FlowersForMegatron ยท 1230 points ยท Posted at 02:11:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
False, he will change the calendar to be Trumpuary 20th, year 1 Anno Trumpinae.
electric_pig ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 05:06:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trumpuary
Trumpruary
Trumpch
Trumpril
Trumpay
Trumpune
Trumply
Trumpgust
Trumptember
Trumptober
Trumpvember
Trumpcember
darexinfinity ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 08:00:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey I'm Trump.
I'm not so Trump!
And we're the Game Trumps!
CosmicAnus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:39:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fellow, Trumpfaggot!
Pulpedyams ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:36:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My sides
sixnixx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:31:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's pronounced Trump-ay.
ThisSideUp153 ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 03:48:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like how he made it year 1 but day 20. That extra bit of stupid is just right.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:13:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking rekt.
uniptf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:52:38 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But....but...but he has a very good brain, and he's said a lot of things... Right?
MaddeningDisdain ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 05:11:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's because today is the 20th buddy.
ThisSideUp153 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:39:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but if you start a new year system wouldn't you make the day you started it the first day not the 20th?
muffinmix66 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:02:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
whoosh
BipedSnowman ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:37:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Year of our Trump.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:59:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Anno Trumpinae?" This is
AmericaTrumperica and in Trumperica we speak Trumperican! It'd be Year 1 of the Trump Era (TE), with all previous time being Before Trump Era (BTE)uniptf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:54:21 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except when the rabid evangelical base howls in fury at that, and then he'll trot out that bible again and swear it's the one his dear mother gave him for Christmas when he was just a little boy, and go right back to BC/AD. Because he never actually means any single thing he says.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:23:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Time to start saying "in the year of our Trump..."
isiramteal ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:56:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aladeen
Scarletfapper ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:33:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or someone can do it for him - he only knows what he sees on the internet.
Skittlebrau46 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:00:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, as long as he gets rid of Daylight Savings Time while he is at it...
Seal3824 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:17:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He'll replace it with Trumplight Savings Time
mcorah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then he will have done at least one good thing. We will only have to to worry about counting in one direction after that.
speaks_in_redundancy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:27:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about BT?
mcorah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:00 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is only BT...
BruceChameleon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:12:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that the declension we're rolling with?
immortal_joe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:06:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's pretty promising, every historical leader with a month named after them was great, and every historical leader who reset the calendar was even better!
Faren107 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:09:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, that time France tried to reset their calendar didn't exactly work out.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:53:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All hail the god emperor!
Skunk_gal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:58:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brilliant comment. I can see South Park working that in to a future episode.
princessloui ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:21:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
False. Bears beats battlestar galactica.
fyreNL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:38:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is coming all to close to Brave New World.
BigBillyGoatGriff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:47:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey I just thought of that right now. What a good idea. I have a great brain. I can do this all day. What other questions? I will consult with myself. I'm smart my brain is huge. -Trump
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:57:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which will still not be later this year
Martin81 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:23:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like the French revolution and Julis Caesar, and Nero. Maybe Trump can instead rename "a meter" to "a trump", that way the US would finally become a somewhat modern country.
Deverone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:42:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't wait to enshrine Trump in his eternal golden throne from upon which he will guide mankind as our immortal president.
EoT_FoF_YL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trumpinayy lmao
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:47:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not unless he makes some absolutely amazing deals.
TheSpecialBrowney ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:04:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He has all the years...the best years
ademnus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:38:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that when hell freezes over?
Endulos ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:54:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Technically he's right, because the year starts from when he calls it. So, that's within the next 365 days.
spm201 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:38:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'Rolling year' is the term you're looking for.
justacheesyguy ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:14:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. This year has a designation. It's 2016. He didn't say within a year or even within the year but later THIS year.
If I tell you "I'll pay you back that money I owe you later this month" and it's March 19th, I damn sure don't think you'd be ok with me paying you back on April 18th because that was less than a month later. I specified THIS month, so you would expect payment to happen sometime before the end of this month. Just like the end of THIS year is December 31st, 2016.
jhawkins93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:57:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OK Dwight...
Vacuophile ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And his running mate shortly after.
DeadFamilyMan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:37:18 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
President elect then
GOA_AMD65 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:36:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/the_donald will be so much more fun then.
dexikiix ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:02:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean next year...
ChuckinTheCarma ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:24:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this one of those comments where I do that remindme thing
BrassBass ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:57:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dear fuck, I hope not. Between him and Hillary, I would choose my cat. Just vote for my cat.
[deleted] ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 23:40:00 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no way that shit will happen
[deleted] ยท 132 points ยท Posted at 00:16:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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29425 ยท 80 points ยท Posted at 00:20:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
First they ignore you
Then they laugh at you
Then they fight
Then Donald Trump becomes president and you have to move to Canada
True story
[deleted] ยท 67 points ยท Posted at 00:36:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Qualdrion ยท 61 points ยท Posted at 00:47:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And they'll make USA pay for it?
978507 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:42:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's gunna be yuuuuge eh?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:09:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure! They'll have to do something about the criminals, rapists, etc.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:46:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It just keeps going south. It's walls all the way down!
aDAMNPATRIOT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:48:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
if it keeps liberals out then fuck yes
Reagalan ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:50:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Hey Murica, remember how Al-Quaeda got into your country? Well..there's this big border here...."
[deleted] ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 01:03:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a Canadian - I don't think you Americans realize how hard it is to move to Canada. All this cool shit is ours. It's seriously fucking difficult to get in.
chugonthis ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 01:16:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Canada is too cold and no decent beaches it's why they keep Canada up there
CL4P-TRAP ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:33:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry, global warming will fix that.
lydf ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:28:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are so many nice beaches. Nova Scotia is stunning.
People think of Ontario when they think of Canada. Ontario sucks.
BackToSchoolMuff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:08:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
confirmed. live in ontario.
PM_ME_STEAM_CODES__ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:14:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry, the part of America across the lake from Ontario sucks as well.
chugonthis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:18:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No we just think all of Canada sucks
mattattaxx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:35:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ontario is great. I love the East coast, but Ontario is seriously great.
borutgers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:56:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats just the worst case ontario
SuperArff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:30:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah Onterrible sucks dick. Still better than the praries though.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 01:34:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep.. that's true.. honestly. (I just don't want Americans at my beaches).
chugonthis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:19:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah the two days a year you can swim, enjoy.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:48:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep.. that's true. Honestly!
azorthefirst ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 01:48:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We'll just do what we did to Mexico. Send a whole bunch of people over, start a rebellion, then steal half of your territory.
immortal_joe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:08:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except only liberals will be going to Canada... Texans went to Texas.
freshestpr1nce ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:34:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Louisianians*
The_Man11 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:26:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Half of China has already done it. It can't be that hard.
raygundan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:31:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look, we get that you've got great tolerance for low temperatures-- but I would have called that shit "cold."
LennMacca ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:52:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's just a bunch of cool shit back here and we don't feel like sharing!
immortal_joe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:08:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's almost like every other country on earth doesn't welcome illegal immigration.
523bucketsofducks ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:16:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's insanely difficult to move to any country permanently
superpunkalicious ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:32:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump wants to make our country the same way. Got my vote.
ceeceea ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I actually have looked into it, and yeah, I do not in any way actually meet their requirements unless I marry a Canadian.
drekiss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
after attempting to just visit, I would never try to move there
knifeykins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I know it's wishful thinking on my part.
Canada is pretty cool though.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:27:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just walk across the boarder bro. If Mexicans can do that to America, Americans can definitely do that to Canada
googly__moogly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:13:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a dual citizen, I feel comfortable.
recycleyoursyrup ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:13:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
why is it difficult to get in?
Fireynis ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:36:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you have no job, no prospects, no family and basic education, why would we want you? Same goes for us moving to the US. I need a job before I can move down there permanently, or I need a special visa that they only have so many a year of. It's difficult to just move to a country
itz4mna ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:06:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently there's a lot of public support for a free movement zone between Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. Can't really see the US being involved though, sorry chaps.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:30:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cause the U.S. is 'too cool for commonwealth'
CJsAviOr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:58:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The prospects are more difficult for Canada than even the US. I've had family move to the US because it was easier than getting into Canada.
Fireynis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:03:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ya I have a cousin who is married to an American and he is having trouble getting Canadian citizenship
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:44:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Canada more than most.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:27:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because they've seen what we're like.
GailaMonster ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:35:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Odd that Americans are so mad at Donald Trump for saying things like it should be hard for illegal immigrants to stay in the US, that they want to move to a country that has made it extremely hard for Americans to move there....because they see that country as superior in terms of its policies.
Could you tell me about Canada's practices with respect to people who are found within its borders who have not followed the rules with respect to immigration?
Full disclosure: I support Bernie were I to have my choice of candidates, but I think that much of what Donald says, while designed to be inflammatory and thus newsworthy, contains kernels of truth. And I see such loathsome behavior in his opponents (both within the RNC and in the general public) that they have little leg to stand on when criticizing him as a candidate....
356afan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:14:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hell with that; British Virgin Islands gets my vote!
mashington14 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:18:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone was in the quotes thread!
SmoSays ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:45:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I heard (probably on here) that Canada's immigration site went down from heavy traffic.
7dwn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:49:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm disappointed this comment isn't a completely tangential random wall of text
mattattaxx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:34:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Canada probably won't grant you citizenship, permanent residence, or even an extended work visa.
Also we'll pay for our own wall, don't worry.
immortal_joe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:07:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can't wait to see the shocked realization of those fleeing to Canada that much like Trump is calling for with the United States, Canada does not welcome illegal immigrants.
ShibaHook ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:03:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It could be worse... Sanders could get elected and then we'd all be fucked.
azorthefirst ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:50:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BREAKING NEWS: President Trump announces the reorganization of the United States into the Greater North American Empire. Says the reorganization along with the annexation of Canada will guarantee a "safe and secure society" which "will last for ten thousand years."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:52:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn, my birthday is November 8th... that won't be a good late birthday gift.
DanDalVlan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:04:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
First we had 9/11.
Next we're going to have 11/9.
Theundercave ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:46:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for being reminded about my birthday man! It's my 21st so buy me a beer
douglas_in_philly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:12:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Think you needed a capital "M" in "me" in your "Remindme!'
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:32:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It'S CaSe InSeNSiTiVe.
douglas_in_philly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:01:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
YeS, iT dOeS appear to be!
I just got a message from the bot based on my typing of the r emind me bit. I thought I'd seen the bot make replies in threads before, so since I didn't see one, was trying to help out. Live and learn.
Trevsky ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:49:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remindme! November 9th, 2016 "Did they stump the Drumpf?"
wolfereen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:58:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Face it.lets stay realistic he didnt win yet but what do you expect to happen now
SmoSays ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 01:55:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it will. Here's how.
Bernie loses to Hilary (not happy about it but it looks that way) and she represents the Dem side. Trump represents Rep.
Since that is a choice between 'shit' and 'slightly less shit', most people will go, 'I want neither' and either not bother to vote or write in Mickey Mouse or something. The hardcore ones on either side will be the ones who come out to vote. I think Trump's supporters outnumber Hilary.
ChickenInASuit ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 02:27:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I think you seriously underestimate how many left-leaning people would prefer Hillary over Trump if they can't have Bernie, even if they don't particularly like her.
Also, and I don't quite know how likely this is to happen but I know it's being seriously talked about, there is a growing number of Republican party members talking about running a third candidate independently as an alternative to both of them - which could very likely split the Repub vote and give Hillary an easy win.
I'm not saying Trump won't win, but I don't think it's as surefire as you do.
EDIT: spelling
Manic_42 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:12:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup. I'm not a Hillary fan, but I would vote for her in a heartbeat if meant keeping Trump or even Cruz out of office. I know it's anecdotal but I know a lot of people that feel the same way.
SmoSays ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:12:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I sincerely hope you are right.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:40:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hope you realize that Hillary is the only one of the three with literally any foreign policy experience. That's kinda sorta marginally important.
hawaiims ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 05:19:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah ummm... about Hillary's foreign policy history:
https://wikileaks.org/hillary-war/
I'll trust Julian Assange and the other heroes at Wikileaks more than just saying "hillary is good mmmkkaay"
mecrosis ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 02:19:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you underestimate the number of Bernie supporters that would rather eat their own genitals than have Trump be president.
skullturf ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 02:40:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably also a lot of slightly conservative but mostly centrist people who don't love Hillary, but would still vote for a relatively mainstream centrist candidate instead of Trump.
RoosterFucker ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:01:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but most of them won't pull away from their XBox long enough to take the bus to the polling station.
cobysev ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 04:41:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Bernie supporter here. If Sanders doesn't make the nomination, then we're screwed and I might as well vote Trump. No way I want Hillary in office, and maybe Trump will fuck it up so bad that the American people will finally stand up and reform the whole damn broken system.
JangleAllTheWay ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:29:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love Bernie, but I urge you to reconsider. This is the same argument that Nader made back in 2000: Gore and Bush are indistinguishable. I don't agree. I think Gore would have done better than Bush, most certainly on global warming.
There's that old saying that "politics is the art of the possible." I think Hillary is definitely the lesser evil, and I doubt that Trump will really catalyze any kind of revolution.
qwertx0815 ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 08:43:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
mainsoda ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 13:54:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think breaking the fucked up system is Trumps main appeal. I feel it too, burn it to the ground.
NioA_ ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:27:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
President Mickey Mouse.
Can't wait.
7171618283763 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:36:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah because Trump instills apathy in his opponents...
Wazula42 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:09:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This will happen but it will favor Hillary. Hillary's supporters far exceed Trump's, he just has more cultish support. Trump getting the nomination will be a godsend for whoever opposes. This isn't always clear when you spend all day on reddit, but Trump is deeply unlikable. He can kiss liberal, moderate, and minority votes goodbye.
Elranzer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:23:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More like....
99% of Democrats will still vote for Hillary.
99% of Republicans will still vote for Trump
Democrats currently outnumber Republicans in this country, so Hillary wins.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:20:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://youtu.be/XvyRIgPImOY
iamthegraham ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:55:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
for real. Hillary has this shit on lock, the only question at this point is whether the Republicans will fuck things up so badly that the Dems can retake Congress too.
jonnyp11 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:45:49 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ha, it's funny because that's the point of this thread. We all hate it, but it's more likely than we like to think (especially with the normal low democratic participation, but high Republican turn out, and trump has brought more out)
everyday847 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:06:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Primary turnout for a party doesn't correlate to general election turnout. It's mostly about how competitive a primary is. On the left, you have a feeling of inevitability guest starring a surprise challenger who gave her a decent run for about a month. On the right, you have holy fuck the GOP is going to hell--rather than a big tent, the right has multiple small, mutually incompatible tents each satisfied by a different candidate or combination thereon. Evangelical vegetarian? Evangelical judicial originalist penny-pincher? Pro-immigration hawk? Pro-immigration moderate? An IBM CEO! Two governors! The Donald!
Literally five or six other candidates, but you can see why that might generate more voting than "I saw this coming from a mile away" vs. "maybe a socialist this year?"
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[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 00:07:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Urbanviking1 ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 00:10:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The guy really hates getting downvotes...
diegojones4 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 00:15:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He might want to switch to decaf.
[deleted] ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 00:12:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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coleymoleyroley ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:53:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have an upvote
HOBBITTONY ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:54:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't even read!!!!!
simmelianben ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:41:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You and the "Geraffes are dumb" kid should hang out sometime.
its_still_good ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:15:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Surprised he made it to the end without going ALL CAPS !!!
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 00:13:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 00:16:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please refrain from saying God's name in vain. I find it very offensive and I'm certain others do too.
356afan ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:13:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remember, what YOU find offensive is YOUR problem. :)
jo-ha-kyu ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:41:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The suffering that is within you when someone uses God's name in vain is caused by none other than yourself. Rather than searching for the solution to this suffering outside of yourself, why not look within?
vtec375 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:56:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Perfectly well said.
SinkTube ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:05:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God can suck a dick. I hope that offended you.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:03:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude.
Paragraphs.
Seriously.
MoxMono ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:43:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Downvoted for asking why you were downvoted.
AboveDisturbing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:10:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I upvoted because I thought "smashing pissers" is a hilarious euphemism for sex. I'd smash pissers with her too.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:44:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's alright. We've all been in denial one time or another.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:32:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i think you're drunk
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:39:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're not wrong.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:05:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well, me too. let's by nonpartisan friends
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:15:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm an independent that has no idea who I'm going to vote for this campaign season. I could've voted for the last to presidential elections. I will shit myself if it actually does come down to Trump and Bernie. I somehow like them both.
kangarooninjadonuts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's going to happen and we're going to deserve it.
chugonthis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:15:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's exactly what I said when hillary ran the first time so Donald is just as likely as her to win.
Random_Citizenn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:01:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sadly I think it will, it's between Trump and Hillary or Bernie, none of them should be president, but trump supporters outnumber Hillary and Bernie supporters. Any way you spin it we're fucked.
SpiderDolphinBoob ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:19:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why? He's leading the republican primaries right now I believe
redfern54 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:48:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You cuck!
-r/the_donald
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:48:45 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I must still be in denial over this because I just can't see this happening.
El_Frijol ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:44:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump is going to hit her hard about the emails:
and Libya/Benghazi (plus her comments that 'no U.S. troops died in Libya')
Potentially the Reagans being low-level advocates for HIV/AIDS comment too.
How she talks about democratic planks in her platform, and votes against those very planks time after time
...etc.
She gives a lot of fodder, but the email scandal might hit her before the national election is over too, and then what? Her dropping out?
AboveDisturbing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:55:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know it ain't a popular opinion, but I'm still thinking that Trump is playing a game, and the result will be Hillary in office. Didn't he spend a lot of money on Bill's campaign, registered Democrat for the longest time, and even have the Clintons at his wedding?
I know it's a conspiracy theory, and I hope I'm wrong because it would be a perversion of democracy.
El_Frijol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:00:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even if this theory were true, it says a lot about the other candidates if he can beat them. He says terrible things about Hispanics and he still gets the majority of hispanics to vote for him. That right there shows you how bad the other candidates are on these issues.
AboveDisturbing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:10:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't quite get that. He's one hell of a speaker if he can talk shit about people and still get them to vote for him.
El_Frijol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:17:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, Cruz is even worse than Donald when it comes to Hispanics and especially gays. On the Hispanic issue he wants to build a wall AND triple the size of the border patrol. Rubio has flip flopped to a more tougher stance against Hispanics too.
AboveDisturbing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:29:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, I didnt see that one coming. So Cruz isn't too popular with the Hispanic voting demographic?
RoseL123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:00:20 on April 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
but there is one thing Hillary has that Trump does not have: the 'at least it's not Trump' factor.
bmoviescreamqueen ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 03:06:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
His speeches are at the level of a middle schooler, I just don't see him out debating her without resorting to completely offensive tactics. His side won't bat an eye but it would piss off neutrals who see him as a joke to the process.
El_Frijol ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 04:03:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He might try to belittle her in some way, but honestly who knows. He could go the other way and say that he's friends with her, and that she came to his wedding and then elaborate how she is bought and paid for.
Trump should (and I think will) definitely attack her on the things I listed and they will all be valid points against her. Trump talked about the media trying to downplay him by not showing the vastness of his crowds. I'm a Bernie supporter and I wish Bernie was more forceful against the media for doing almost the same to him (even worse, cause Trump gets so much airtime on any major cable news channel) Trump will fight Hillary and not let her walk over him on issues that she has said one thing and voted the opposite.
Hillary is a bad debater too. She goes on the offensive, lies, and also manipulates time to speak longer. Trump will not let her go on long rants and he will put her in her place.
Yeah, but if he hits her hard enough on the ongoing indictment of her emails, her terrible gaffes, how hawkish she is...etc. those are issues that it will be hard to argue against. Yes, he's a self-centered, egotistical asshole...etc but if he makes it hard for people to vote for someone who is all lip-service it might keep neutrals/undecideds, independents and democrats from voting for her. Not to mention those disenchanted because Bernie won't be the nominee.
Trump's biggest problem is how he feels against women and minorities (sexism and bigoted remarks). If half the women in the country aren't going to vote for Trump, he's fucked. Then a great portion of the Latino and Muslim voters on top of that. Even more fucked.
hawaiims ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:43:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-a-champion-of-women-his-female-employees-think-so/2015/11/23/7eafac80-88da-11e5-9a07-453018f9a0ec_story.html
I'm not a fan of trump, and he does say some ridiculous things from time to time to grab the media's attention ( he has really mastered the phrase "there is no such thing as bad publicity".) But I wouldn't call him a misogynist by any means. He's brazen and a narcissist, and he doesn't have the filter of career politicians. He's never been a tea party religious nut, and he could have just as well run as a democrat instead of as a republican. He's always been a moderate, and his statements like insinuating that many of the illegal immigrants were criminals were just a ploy to get the really conservative voters to rally around him. Then progressively, he softens his stances just enough to keep those really conservative voters while also rallying a new base of more moderate voters. He's a manipulator if anything, he knows exactly how to get votes from people who are sick of politicians.
And if he really was a racist latino hater, things like this would not happen: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/02/latino-vote-nevada/470829/
Keep in mind the Washington Post and The Atlantic are both vehemently anti-Trump.
El_Frijol ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:16:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is a whole anti-Trump ad with women repeating sexist Trump comments.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/14/politics/donald-trump-ad-women/index.html
He will definitely come more center after he gets the nomination, but these anti-Muslim and anti-hispanic comments could be how he really feels. Regardless if he's pandering to a republican base or not it hurts him incredibly.
Trump usually has a good majority of votes in general between the 4 (before Rubio dropped out) so I'm sure he has a higher percentage of Hispanic, black, gay votes than everyone else. Cruz is terrible when it comes to his opinions on gays; the absolute worst. Plus, everyone else in the field has terrible immigration policies.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/feb/22/ted-cruz-says-hed-deport-all-illegal-immigrants-us/
and Obama said it best about Rubio:
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/269613-obama-rubio-running-away-from-immigration-reform
immortal_joe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:20:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So insulting women in much the same fashion as you insult men is sexist? Isn't that equality?
Obama and Jimmy Carter have both closed our borders to Muslims at different times, we're at war with radical Muslims, it's in the constitution that the president has the power to close borders to any group of people who they believe poses a threat to us. Do you believe either of them were racist?
As to anti-Hispanic, the comment was specifically about illegals and referencing a salon article about the findings of an Amnesty International study. Is Amnesty International racist for saying at least 60% of undocumented women and girls traveling to the united states through mexico are raped in transit?
Like all things, actions speak louder than words, and Trump has a long history of being forward thinking in terms of equality. He was the first to put a woman in charge of a major construction project when he built Trump tower and his businesses have averaged 50% women in senior executive positions (the wage gap has never been a thing for Trump employees), and has fought discrimination wherever he's encountered it, such as the palm beach golf circuits http://netrightdaily.com/2016/03/trump-insisted-on-including-jews-and-blacks-at-palm-beach-golf-course-in-1990s/ .
El_Frijol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:53:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How has he insulted men in the same fashion? Calling someone a liar or little is nowhere near the same as saying "you would look good on your knees" to a woman.
Where in the constitution does it say that the president has the power to close borders to any group of people? Obama and Jimmy Carter never did that. You're making shit up.
Show me this Amnesty international study? Trump said that they're not sending us their brightest they're sending rapists, murderers and drug dealers. That is incredibly bigoted. Most that do illegally immigrate do it to better the lives of their families in Mexico and in other countries as well.
He also has a longer history of sexist and bigoted comments. One or two stories of him doing something good doesn't negate all the racist and bigoted comments he's made.
immortal_joe ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:17:40 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump said Mitt Romney would have dropped to his knees for his endorsement when running, which is the same implication and more insulting. He literally treats men and women the same way. I think you can tell which women appreciate equality and which want to be treated like delicate little princesses by how they react to that. The woman he said that to didn't even recall the comment and stated she was never offended by him.
Legality of Trumps plan: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1182
Obama suspending travel: http://thefederalist.com/2015/11/18/the-obama-administration-stopped-processing-iraq-refugee-requests-for-6-months-in-2011/
Jimmy Carter banning Iranians: http://www.snopes.com/jimmy-carter-banned-iranian-immigrants/
Article on terrors of illegal immigration including a link to the amnesty international study: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/12/central-america-migrants-rape_n_5806972.html
He has a long history of progressive hiring that any CEO would be proud of and attacking racist and sexist institutions well before culture dictated the change. Feel free to provide me with further examples if you still think he's at all sexist or bigoted but maybe Google the facts I respond with yourself moving forward? It gets a little tedious.
El_Frijol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:46:17 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here Trump is saying Romney would beg for his endorsement. That is not the same as telling a woman "being on her knees would be a pretty picture".
Banning ALL Muslims from getting Visas is nowhere near legal.
Trump's own words were โWhen Mexico sends its people, theyโre not sending their best. Theyโre not sending you. Theyโre not sending you. Theyโre sending people that have lots of problems, and theyโre bringing those problems with us. Theyโre bringing drugs. Theyโre bringing crime. Theyโre rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.โ
This is not the same as women migrating through different countries and getting raped. He specifically said that Mexico is sending druggies, rapists and criminals here.
immortal_joe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:34:59 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The implication is he'd suck dick for an endorsement, pretty much everyone took it that way, it's the same and you can find numerous examples of trump being equally insulting to others, he doesn't pull punches for anyone, and the comment you're talking about wasn't even poorly received.
From the article I pulled the legal code link from โWhenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate,โ the 1952 law states.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/12/08/trump-can-legally-impose-muslim-ban/#ixzz43XHBa6m5
What carter said for the reasoning was irrelevant, the message is clear. Both dealt with hostile situations with temporary bans, and we are in a hostile situation with radical Islam, the United Kingdom has the second highest rate of Muslims leaving the country to join ISIS outside of the Middle East, there's not a country we can associate this problem with, it's religious extremist group, trying to disassociate religion from them is insanity.
I'm not seeing the issue in regards to the comments on Mexico, the numbers are clear. Who do you imagine rapes 60 to 80% of those women? Do you think American vacationers are doing it while they spend the week in Cancun or do you prefer calling Mexican nationals rapists as opposed to illegals. Likewise are you denying that Mexico is a narco-state? Do you think more people transporting those drugs are entering the country legally and submitting themselves to CBP screenings than are trying to enter illegally with it? Likewise do you not associate those things (and human trafficking besides which we haven't gotten into with crime?). This is why Trump supporters talk about common sense, these aren't just facts, they're obvious, common sense facts.
AboveDisturbing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:00:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same thing happened during WWII in America. Japanese internment was a big deal. They also did something similar in Germany, but on a larger scale...
Just because the president has the power to do something does not make it right.
immortal_joe ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:34:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you really equating temporary holds on immigration and foreign travel with internment and concentration camps? That's incredibly disingenuous. Read about the refugee crisis in Sweden and Germany right now, I can't tell you what news sources to believe and what not to, it's hard to tell, but regardless of how bad it is or isn't what's clear is two remarkably progressive, tolerant countries are becoming less progressive and tolerant by the day due to a large group of unscreened refugees and/or economic migrants being loosed in their countries without the systems in place to vet them. If you want a less tolerant country, with homosexuals and Jews fleeing to other nations and women dying their hair dark and avoiding areas of their own cities out of fear, then we should follow Sweden's example and that's where we'll be in a decade.
bmoviescreamqueen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:20:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I agree that his issue will be getting most women and minorities to vote for him. For Romney it was just minorities, although I don't know his final women count. He had to convince them that he will protect them and erase their disadvantages and he has to have actual plans for them. I'm interested to see how he deals but I don't see him succeeded in carrying that much minority vote.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 00:09:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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ragbagger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:45:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Sources? It's been a long time since I formally studied political science but back then it was generally accepted roughly 40% of the population identified as Democrat, roughly 40% as Rebublican and 20% as independent. As such it was pretty critical for a candidate to pick up that independent vote.
A few of the articles I've read in the past year suggest a trend of more people identifying as "independent" indicating a split that is somewhere in the neighborhood of 30/30/40 assuming accurate data.
I'm not sold yet that we'll see a Clinton v Trump contest but it does appear likely at this point. Assuming the 30/30/40 split is correct, I think we can safely say both candidates will have to soften their rhetoric in an effort to capture more of the independent vote. It will be interesting to see how far and exactly what the softening entails.
November is still a long way off. I think it's a bit premature to call it for Hillary.
Edit: relevant Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party_strength_in_U.S._states
BuzzWeedle ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 00:44:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, Trump is going to fucking schlong Hillary in the GE. She has so many skeletons in her closet it'd make your head spin. She's going to go to jail, and guess what, the Clintons are going to pay for it.
Agastopia ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:46:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This just shows the trump support on reddit, 90% memes and 10% serious.
BuzzWeedle ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 00:51:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To clarify, Most of the things I said in the sentence above are actual opinions of mine, but they're dipped in memes to give it this fine layer of meme magic.
Agastopia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:52:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And Sanders supporters are the young ones
BuzzWeedle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:33:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"I'm 15 years old and I'm phonebanking, there's no excuse" was an actual post on /r/sandersforpresident. Dude.
And yes... Sanders supporters are the young ones. That's demographically true.
Agastopia ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:44:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes and trump supporters are the uneducated, that's demographically true
BuzzWeedle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:45:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, the mix of uneducated and educated Trump supporters is about that of the population.
What's wrong with Trump in your eyes, if you don't mind me asking?
Agastopia ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:02:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Literally said he wanted to kill the families of terrorists
wants to increase torture
siding with the government in the fbi vs apple case
calling the majority of illegal immigrants rapists
saying he wants to fucking ban muslims
building a wall between the US and mexico
Flip flops on literally everything that comes out of his mouth
talks about his dick size on the stage of the debate
retweets and doesn't disavow white supremacists and KKK members
he lead the fucking birther movement
doesn't believe in fucking climate change
thinks vaccines cause autism.
he has zero tact in diplomacy and would get flustered the moment he realized he can't push around the leaders of other countries
I can probably add on another 30 if you'd like
BuzzWeedle ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:22:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, he said he wanted to go after them. Perfectly reasonable, actually, because a lot of the time, unfortunately, the family knows.
Ah, the unfortunate waterboarding thing. Look, it's not a good thing to have to waterboard, nor is it a good thing to have to bomb a country. But can you say that if you knew a guy knows the location of a nuclear bomb in New York and wouldn't tell you, you wouldn't do that in order to get that information? You'd rather let thousands die than waterboard one person?
I don't want the government to be able to access all phones, no, but I can guarantee you Sanders and Hillary would both do the same thing if it weren't politically bad. First of all, the government is going to get into that particular phone one way or another, and I'm relatively sure he was referring to that one phone, which apple could easily help the fbi with. It's the phone of a terrorist. What's wrong with checking it?
Considering 80% of women crossing the border get raped, I'd say it's not too much of a stretch. Also, he didn't say most.
I guess we shouldn't have banned Germans during WWII. Islam isn't a race, it's an ideology. Obviously he doesn't mean citizens of the US or citizens of other countries who have legitimate passports. I don't want people to be banned from coming here, but unfortunately, there's a lot of radical Islam in the middle east. Look at Europe, they're going down the toilet. The crime rate is going up. It's not a coincidence. We've fucked up the ME, and we can't just leave and go "Welp, deal with it fucks". We need to fix it, but do it right, like we did with Japan (no, I'm not referring to nuking them, I'm referring to what we did for them afterwards)
What's wrong with that? Countries have built walls for thousands of years, not only will it bring revenue into the country (tourism), but it will give people jobs (along with all the other infrastructure things Trump wants to do).
Top kek, a video without a like system and without a comment section. How thin skinned are you liberals? Anyway, a lot of examples in the video aren't flip flops, they're changes in opinion that everybody has. I don't see what's wrong with that. As much as I like to narc on Hillary, and I love to narc on Hillary, a lot of flip flopping that she's accused of is simply how humans are. By that same token, a lot of the stuff she's accused of is actual flip flopping. The other ones, like the healthcare thing, aren't him supporting government run health care, he's supporting government funded healthcare. I don't see how those two are the same. And you want to talk about flip flopping, Bernie Sanders was for the exact same immigration policies that Trump is talking about. Now, this can be attributed to him changing his opinion, but he also flip flopped on gun control (which makes me like him more, actually), and on his campaign website (while they were building it), he was very anti-crime (I can't find the source for it, but I've already posted more sources than you have).
After Rubio did, I don't see anything wrong with him defending himself. If Bernie had said that Hillary had a smelly cunt or Hillary had said that Bernie has an unclipped disgusting penis, or alluded to it, I don't think anyone would blame them for defending themselves.
Holy shit dude, he did disavow the KKK member. But if you really want to go down that road, both Hillary and Bernie were friends with a former KKK grand wizard.
What's wrong with asking questions? He didn't keep at it after the fact.
Actually, he's said that he does believe it, but he doesn't think humans have as big a role to play as some people say.
Yeah, not anymore. He was shot down by Carson, and now Carson is endorsing him. I don't think he would if he still thought that.
That's not even a true statement. Sanders has zero experience just like Trump has, so we don't even know that. The fact is, he would probably better our relations with Russia, which isn't something to sneeze at.
So go ahead, add another thirty if you'd like. I'll respond to them, and then I'll cite reasons not to like Sanders.
Agastopia ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:08:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"The other thing with the terrorists is you have to take out their families, when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families. They care about their lives, don't kid yourself. When they say they don't care about their lives, you have to take out their families"
Is what he said, not, "We have to interrogate the family members of terrorists" (a reasonable stance. He's literally saying that we need to take out the innocent families of extremists.
Except the fact that Torture doesn't work . It's as simple as that. Aside from that, we're a 1st world country. In this day and age we shouldn't be advocating for torturing people and killing civilians.
I have a degree in computer science so let me explain why you don't really understand the issue at hand. The FBI wants to have apple give them a method to access EVERY iphone. Not just this one phone. If the court sides against Apple, than theres a precedent for apple to do this with any phone the fbi wants them to. The government can and will get in that phone, it's easy. The problem for them is if they get into it illegally, the court won't allow that evidence. This is how our legal system works. Apple can't "easily help the fbi with" it. They've said it would take weeks for a team to even be able to crack it in the first place.
"What can be simpler or more accurately stated? The Mexican Government is forcing their most unwanted people into the United States. They are, in many cases, criminals, drug dealers, rapists, etc.โ Well he did say that so... Also in many if not most cases it isn't the other immigrants doing the raping, but border gangs, border crossing assistants, and even government officials.
That comparison is just nonsense I'm sorry. Islam has over 1.5 BILLION members. The fact that he wants to ban what makes up 20% of the global population is just absolutely ridiculous. This country was founded on people trying to practice their religion in peace, and now this so cold constitutionalist wants to revoke that right. Just ridiculous.
First of... lol. You think building a wall across the border is going to bring tourism...? Are you kidding? We already have walls across the border. Please explain to me how in the world a wall is going to solve any of the problems. You think these multi-billion dollar drug cartels can't just bring a fucking ladder? Also, you realize the majority of drugs are brought over the border by mules on planes? Also, could I have a list of some of the other "infrastructure things Trump wants to do"? Because all I see is that he said that he likes to build, he wants to build, and he likes to build under budget! (Paraphrasing a direct quote from the donald himself). Nowhere, not his website or any interviews I could find, do I see a specific plan for infrastructure.
He brought it up at one of his rallies and it was an aside. Not a big deal. But to then bring that to the debate stage just shows how absolutely classless he is. Instead of assuring us there was no problem with the size of his jonhnson, why not criticize rubio and say something like, "Marco has been saying some really nasty things about me, even insinuating that since my hands are small something else must be to, so I just want to say that I think that's a totally classless thing to say and that shouldn't be your attack for a politician." Something along those lines would've been infinitely better compared to bringing up the size of his dick to the audience. Show how he's better than marco, but instead... nope.
After the fact. He was literally told 3 times that he was the leader of the KKK and each time Trump said he didn't know the guy, so he wouldn't disavow him. Then that night he goes oh no I completely disavow this dude.
Because it was 100% racially motivated. Sanders is the son of two immigrants. So why did no one ask for his birth certificate?
I mean he literally doesn't? He said it was a fucking hoax by the Chinese and that "I Believe It Goes Up And It Goes Down, So I am not a believer, and I will, unless somebody can prove something to me, I believe thereโs weather."
lol
I'd love a source on where he has since said he doesn't think vaccines cause autism. Also, you should hear Carson himself explain why he endorsed Trump. It's fucking hilarious. He flat out admits to only endorsing him because Trump offered him a position (against the law by the way) and that he doesn't even think Trump will be good, but that he thinks Trump will probably win so it's the best move for his career.
Sanders may have the same experience in literally interacting with the leaders of other nations, but Trump literally has 0 experience in anything in politics, compared to Bernie who has consistently been right on a lot of foreign policy decisions and has been praised on his foreign policy multiple times.
When Mexico said there was no way they'd pay for a wall, Trump said "It just got 10 feet higher!"
You think that's how real diplomacy works? He's a joke to the rest of the world, the UK parliament held a discussion on wether or not to ban the guy from the country.
BuzzWeedle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:19:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
(My comment was too long for this part)
Now, turnabout is fair play, so let me explain to you why Sanders is a bad idea. First of all, if you crunch the numbers, you wouldn't be able to pay just for the college even if you taxed the top 10% (that's those earning over 150,000 a year, those assholes) and cut the military entirely, it would only get to about 16 trillion a year. The college is going to cost 18 trillion a year. Not only that, but we have to throw in medicahe for awl in there, and that's going to cost a shit ton, and we've got to add on the fact that he'll inevitably drive business away from America with his shit policies. And honestly, it's not the taxes that I'm too worried about, it's the fact that there are hundreds of bureaus in America that shouldn't exist but do because they survive on tearing businesses down. Somebody said that they had a restaurant in new york that was doing great, but they got fined for shit like dented cans. Because these federal bureaus won't exist unless they find things that no longer apply to fine businesses for. Which Donald has said he will take care of. Bernie not so much, Bernie loves big government. And as far as the dream of single payer healthcare being great, dream on, here is a video of someone going through the whole process. And it costs Canada a shit ton of money! They're going into debt! We need someone to do things that other politicians don't do. Sanders is an ideal president, but we live in a less than ideal world. I'd love it if his policies work, but they don't and it's been proven time and time again.
Agastopia ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:40:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the fuck kind of math are you finding... college isn't going to cost anywhere near 18 trillion. Are you delusional? Is this really the bubble of misinformation Trump supporters live in? Free public tuition would cost 75 billion dollars. 18 Trillion? What the literal fuck is that number from.
Source for that 75 billion number
http://www.collegerank.net/tuition-free-college/
https://www.aei.org/publication/how-much-will-free-college-cost-new-study-suggests-colleges-respond-to-more-financial-aid-by-increasing-tuition/
and literally every other site if you just google how much would free college tuition cost.
literally every country in the world is in debt
I mean I'm sorry, I'm not even going to respond with anything more than this. Your comment is 100% ancedotal, there's no facts, the tiny bits of facts you do have are completely wrong.
Except for every other 1st world country in the world has universal healthcare.
Finland, Austria, Norway, Germany, Brazil, and Sweden all have free college tuition.
There's a reason we've fallen behind them in every category of math and science rankings. It's because they're getting free higher level education, as opposed to the ignorance in the united States. Especially in your comment alone. I'd suggest you actually do some research, and not just repeat the shit you see in /r/The_Donald. Don't bother responding, because I'm not going to reply again. I don't care who you vote for, but at least know what each candidate stands for.
BuzzWeedle ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:01:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alright, so don't even fucking open the video I gave you. I opened every single one of your goddamned videos and watched them all the way through, and you can't even give me the courtesy of giving my videos a watchthrough? It's not anecdotal evidence, it's video of a guy going through several different ways of getting healthcare in Canada. Don't be an idiot. Also:
That doesn't mean it's a good thing.
Way to capitalise United. You've had spelling errors all throughout, and there's really no excuse for it considering spellcheck. And common sense. Anyway, I think a large part of the reason we're failing in education is because of Common Core. Since it was instituted, New York has had a worse literacy rate than it did in the late 1800's. It doesn't work. You know what's been proven to work? Charter schools, where you get a classical education. They put them in Harlem and Harlem's been doing much better since then. As far as college, not everybody can go to college. And by that I mean, not everybody should go to college. Somehow in this country we have a high rate of unemployment (the official numbers are low, but they include people no longer looking for a job, which is kind of fuckin' stupid) and a lot of open positions. That's because those open positions are trade positions. How about we encourage trade schools? Colleges aren't for everyone and it's stupid to think that they are.
Anyway, I screwed up a little when I said just colleges would be 18 trillion, that's all his policies.
BuzzWeedle ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:19:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But it's clear, given the fact that he said "They say they don't care about their families, but they do", that he's clearly talking about an interrogation tactic. "Take out" their families means get them out of the whole situation so they can't do it again. That could mean arrest and it could mean kill. And it depends on the situation, obviously. Nothing is "100% all the time".
I know it doesn't work, but that's if you're trying to figure out something like "Did you do this". However, if you have irrefutable proof that someone knows something, like the location of something (which you can't lie about), then it's better to waterboard than it is to let hundreds of people die. I don't like waterboarding, but again, if you knew that someone knew the location of a bomb, you wouldn't waterboard if it meant saving even just a few lives?
And I disagree with that, but the president doesn't really have a hand in whether or not they do it. I do think that Apple should help the FBI though. Now, the thing you don't understand is that Trump is a negotiator. A good negotiator comes in with the highest/most extreme thing, that way he can make it seem like he's going down, when really he's just reaching the place he wants. He says a lot of extreme shit, yes, but a lot of the time it's because he wants to be able to go down on it, as in less extreme, so that he still gets what he wants, but the other party thinks that they're also getting what they want.
Not really, Islam is an ideology just like any other religion. Also, he didn't say indefinitely, he said "until our leaders can figure out a way to do it better". Which is good. We can't just willy nilly allow people in our country. There's gotta be a system. I want us to be able to have these refugees come it, but we can't do it the way Europe is doing it, it'll destroy the country.
Yes, in peace. There's a lot of radical jihadists that aren't peaceful. That's the problem, and it's a problem we can't ignore. We have to address it one way or another. Christianity went through a reformation period, and I can assure you, it was a lot messier than "Well we gotta figure out this shit before we can let them in".
I guess the Great Wall of China doesn't bring tourism then. Look, I understand, it's old, whatever. If we build a decent looking wall, and one that you can walk on, there's a good chance that people will want to visit it.
Please explain to me how in the world a wall is going to solve any of the problems. You think these multi-billion dollar drug cartels can't just bring a fucking ladder?
Lol a ladder. Fuck off with that shit dude, you can't "just bring a ladder" to a wall. I guess the Huns could just bring a ladder to the Great Wall of China. That was the solution.
Also, you realize the majority of drugs are brought over the border by mules on planes?
The majority of illegal immigrants aren't though. It's not just drugs
Also, could I have a list of some of the other "infrastructure things Trump wants to do"?
"We need to rebuild our bridges, 60 percent of our bridges are in disrepair". That's a huge one for me. Obviously he wants to rebuild our roads, that's part of infrastructure, and that's also important. He's mentioned airports, hospitals, power plants, etc. I don't see what's controversial about that.
Because infrastructure is boring to the average american and doesn't make or break a campaign. You can't run on infrastructure.
Of course when someone else mentions it, it's not a big deal.
So now being classy is all that matters?
Because that sounds forced and fake, and that's because it is.
Gonna completely ignore the Bernie and Hillary friendship with the former KKK grand wizard huh? Whatever dude. Honestly, he probably didn't want to randomly disavow a dude just because the reporter was telling him that he was bad. What's wrong with that? Maybe he was thinking "Huh, maybe this guy is a former KKK member and he's a good guy now, I wouldn't want to disavow that". Seriously dude.
"BECAUSE IT'S RACIST". You guys are cheapening that word. It used to mean something. As far as Bernie goes, that's because it's well documented that he was born here. Obama has a sibling in Africa, and you know, he was born in Hawaii not long after it officially became a state, and often in the mess of that type of thing, you sometimes get the records wrong. Especially considering there were a lot of people in Hawaii that became citizens of the US, so some people came to Hawaii right when that was happening to become a citizen.
He later said that he was clearly being sarcastic with that tweet, which is backed up by the fact that it was a common thing to be sarcastic about when he said that.
He never even said he thought that by the way, he said that "I think we should check into it". Big fucking deal. He was likely trying to get attention. He knows what gets attention, and that was it. And guess what, it worked? Have you ever read the Art of the Deal? Because he's basically doing what it said to do in the Art of the Deal. His campaign would make a whole lot more sense if you read it. He's literally fucking doing what it said to do in his book. Seriously, read it if you haven't. Now anyway, he didn't say "I don't think he's going to be good" he said "Even if he's not a good president, which I don't think will be the case because he's surrounding himself with good people, we're only looking at 4 years", and he's also talking about Supreme Court Justices. I don't want a stacked SC, for either party. If the Democrats win, we're looking at a stacked SC for years. That's terrible. That means the laws of the country, the actual constitution, will be in the hands of one party. How can you support that?
To say that Trump has 0 experience in politics is dumb, he was literally in the game of betting on politics (by supporting certain candidates).
Because they're authoritarian as fuck and don't have 100% free speech. I don't give a fuck about the British government, they don't have a say in what we do.
BuzzWeedle ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 00:50:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think my support used to be 90% a meme and 10% serious, but I'm afraid I've been nimbly navigated over to the Trump Train. I think it's about 40% a meme at this point. Meaning 40% is just because it'd be funny and I want to see what would happen, and 60% is because I've actually grown quite fond of his policies.
Agastopia ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:51:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry I can't take you seriously when literally all of your posts are on circlejerk or the donald. Even in this paragraph you use another meme to describe your support.
BuzzWeedle ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:31:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, I'm just having fun. What's wrong with that? What's this world coming to where everything, even a dude shitposting on the internet, has to be 100% serious?
Also, yes, I used to go on /r/circlejerk, I don't anymore. A lot of link karma was gathered from /r/circlejerk. Don't knock it 'til you try it.
p3tey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:48:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hate this, yet I still up-voted it?
Endulos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:53:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And it'll be Hillary vs Trump.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:11:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When we are getting loaded onto the trains to the camps, I'm gonna remind everyone in the cattle car that I voted for Kasich in the primaries.
TSUTiger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:42:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*President-elect
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:15:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How come torture is illegal and violates the Geneva conventions, and when a civilian does it they go to jail, but we are legally able to elect someone who has stated he WILL be a prolific torturer? For that alone he should be immediately disqualified. People shouldn't get to shit on human rights because they have a lot of money and power, or because they're part of the government, It's still just as fucked up and illegal. Imagine if I said I was going to torture someone. The FBI would be knocking on my door, and so they should be knocking on Trump's too.
The fact Trump is allowed to run is shocking.
elpresidente-4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:07:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I prefer Trump rather than Hillary and I'm not even American. At least he won't do the bidding of unknown inner circles.
johnnyr1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:38:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It will be Emperor Trump.
Lobotomist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:01:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hehe. At year 2000, Simpsons had an episode where Bart travels to future. And to make things really unlikely they had Trump as president.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_to_the_Future
hobb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:03:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that people are voting for him ... i just ... what?
Sklushi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:33:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God bless
MarblePython ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:19:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An outsider to the US here. I thought Congress proposed bills of law so that even if a crazy person like Trump did get in he couldn't mess America up that badly?
Xazrael ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:43:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Over my dead body.
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:59:35 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, he's still wrong.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 01:20:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Geez, I wonder if the U.S. knows that the world is judging their IQ's by how far Trump gets.
opallix ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 01:43:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, we have a few outcomes here:
The GOP does some brokered convention bullshit and the rest of the world laughs at America's farce of a democracy
Hillary beats Trump and the rest of the world laughs at how America is willing to elect a liar and a criminal
Trump wins and the rest of the world cries tears of admiration as America becomes great again
lye_milkshake ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:31:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nobody would laugh at you for electing a liar, everybody does that. Electing Trump on the other hand...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:45:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ho boy
harithCOYG ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:34:56 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh so naive. We've elected liars before and we will again, and again, and again.
mainsoda ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:55:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think any of that matters anymore after a second Obama term. We are proven idiots.
Poop_like_Papayas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:59:37 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
next year*
its_still_good ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:06:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
already pointed out*
flakjakkit ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 02:30:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are never actually touching anything.
For the readers
For the watchers.
thedeadlyrhythm42 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:36:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nooooooo please don't send me down the Vsauce hole
Fine. See you guys in a couple days.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:36:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actual physicists say that's wrong. In fact, there's entire scientific papers written on how we do actually touch.
flakjakkit ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:54:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd love to read those papers. All I can find in my searches are physicists and regular people saying yes and no at the same time.
Manadox ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:28:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here's an angry physicist saying that we do indeed touch things
https://youtu.be/P0TNJrTlbBQ
Fessenden ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:38:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you so much for providing something for both audiences. Can't tell you how many links I've avoided clicking because I don't have the patience to watch a video for ten minutes.
So before I go waste the next holy shit it's 6 AM hours on reddit, thank you.
flakjakkit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:03:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're welcome!
SujTheScrooge ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 03:45:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The average person has fewer than two legs.
I_HATE_FIZZ_SO_MUCH ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:48:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ive seen similar comments about this, I dont get it though. There are more people in the world with one/no legs than people who have legs?
j_u_n_h_y_u_k ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:59:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let's say there's a room with 100 people. If 1 person had only 1 leg while everyone else had 2 legs, then the average amount of legs one person has would not be 2, but something along the lines of 1.9, thus making a person in that room that has 2 legs have more than the average.
edit: input a few more words at the end
SujTheScrooge ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:44:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The whole thing about this is actually a fantastic way to explain the benefits of using median as an alternative to mean (average) in statistics. Most people have legs, so we'll call anybody who has fewer an outlier, since they are significantly different from an overwhelming mode (2). I assume there are a few people with more than two legs, but not enough to make a difference compared to those with less. So if you find the mean of the data, you are going to get slightly fewer than two legs because of the amputees bringing the number down. However, if you use median, which is basically lining up all the numbers in order and selecting the number in the middle, you will get 2 legs because people with fewer only take up a tiny section on the left side of the spectrum.
Boomshank ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:20:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have more than double the average number of penises.
fairysdad ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 09:17:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Late to the party but never mind.
The UK is more densely populated than China.
thumpas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:23:17 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heihe%E2%80%93Tengchong_Line#/media/File:Heihe-tengchong-line.svg
94% of China's population lives east of that line.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 13:22:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The plural for "fish". If I see a school of fish, I always say "look at all the fish", however, the correct thing to say is "look at all the fishes". I know this, but I'll keep saying it the first way as long as I live cos "fishes" just doesn't sound or feel right to say!
Holyholley ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 13:39:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, you're right. For a school of the same species, it's Fish, if it's different species, it's Fishes.
http://grammarist.com/usage/fish-fishes/
fox365 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:30:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Plural for deer is... Deer.
2muchcontext ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 05:42:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have been far deeper in your mother's vagina than your dad has.
MuhTriggersGuise ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 15:44:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The vagina ends at the cervix, so if a man has a penis long enough to bump the cervix, this isn't true. Plus not every child is born vaginally.
and_rice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:08:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This. Most times a redditor says "vagina" he or she is using the word incorrectly
MrRedditUser420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:24:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is true in general, not just this site.
and_rice ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:56:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So there i am in an adult nursing scool an the whole class is women. Anatomy and physiology is the class. More than half the class didnt understand their pee hole was not involved with or part of the clit. (For those wondering, its just a hole on its own, a bit south)
FakeOwlExterminator ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:21:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For someone out there, that isn't true.
Seal3824 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:19:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You don't know me!!
ExiledSenpai ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 14:03:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Women do make, on average, 77 cents for every dollar a man makes.
Women do NOT make 77 cents for every dollar a man makes for the same work.
The reasons for this are a combination of personal choice, societal pressures, and in some industries, discrimination.
SadGhoster87 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:00:50 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you point that out people will say "well it's a problem that women don't have the same jobs!" which is true, but irrelevant.
thumpas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:19:00 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly, this is because on average, women work comfy less dangerous jobs that pay less. coal miners and high voltage line technicians make a lot of money and there are very few women who do those jobs. When the researchers came up with that 77 cents, they took all the wages earned by woman divided by woman in the work force and compared that to the same calculation for men, which is horribly inaccurate.
NegroConFuego ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 01:24:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alaska is the state farthest North, West and East in the US. The Aleutian Islands cross the 180ยฐ meridian of longitude.
Source
Deathless-Bearer ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 01:38:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it really applied itself it could also be the farthest south as well, but instead it spends all of its time on the computer.
TheNorthSeaEnds ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:01:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/me_irl
goodevilgenius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:07:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't know Alaska had a Jewish mom.
HolyNipplesOfChrist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:12:54 on March 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also Africa is in the north, south, east and west hemispheres
Minus-Celsius ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:41:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dinosaurs didn't go extinct.
Most clades died off, but birds are still very much alive.
Tszemix ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:27:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But birds are the boring dinosaurs :(
TransitRanger_327 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:21:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No they aren't, the fastest animal in the world is a dinosaur. It reaches this speed when it is hunting other dinosaurs.
Other living dinosaurs are strong enough to grab monkeys out of trees. Some dinosaurs have wingspans longer than a small car.
Seal3824 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:18:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Antarctica has a very large population of dinosaurs
Tszemix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:16:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes but they don't look like the dinosaurs I imagined :(
TransitRanger_327 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:20:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No offense, but the popular image of dinosaurs is wrong. Many dinosaurs had feathers. A velociraptor looks kind like a chicken. But they have huge claws and 10ft. Verticals.
Crabcaked ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:55:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you lined up all the planets in our solar system they could fit between the earth and the moon.
analanchovies ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:58:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you fucking kidding me
thedantasm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:46:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With the exception of Earth.
Should be all of the other planets.
thedantasm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:46:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With the exception of Earth.
Should be all of the other planets.
Enginair ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:15:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you put a fan into a closed room the room will heat up.
Outdated_reality ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:19:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless the increased air circulation improves heat transfer to outside.
bigcamel44 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 09:03:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The US Navy has more Aircraft than the US Air Force
ITGuyLevi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:56:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've heard (cannot confirm), the US Army has more boats than the Navy.
djab1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:51:38 on April 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the US Army has more aircraft than the US Air Force.
MissInkFTW ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:05:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All the DNA in your body, if unwrapped and stacked end to end, would stretch from the sun to Pluto and back about 6 times.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if we took someone's DNA and made a bridge out of it that stretched from New York City to London to Cairo to Shanghai to Sydney to Los Angeles then back to New York City?
Mikal_Scott ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:34:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The United States and the Holy Roman Empire both existed at the same time
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 14:53:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Mikal_Scott ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:20:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure where you're getting your info.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire
z3r0sand0n3s ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:17:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".
mudkip201 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:53:48 on May 31, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe 'undreamt' and 'redreamt'
z3r0sand0n3s ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:26:16 on June 1, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GASP!!! You brilliant bastard!!
SherbetHead2010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:11:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except DMT.... Jk
z3r0sand0n3s ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:45:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Smartass :P
Mmm, DMT...
Wtfisthatkid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:22:22 on March 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
dimethyltryptamine does not end in "mt"
...to get overly serious about it
ego_sum_chromie ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:11:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you drive directly south from Detroit, you end in Canada.
tehlaser ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:41:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you travel due North from Gadsden Arizona, you will enter Mexico.
im_from_detroit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:58:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Earth's magnetic north is at the south pole.
The end of the compass that points north was named so, before it occurred to people that two north poles repel. Therefore, the north end of a compass is attracted to the earth's magnetic south pole.
SherbetHead2010 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:00:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Similarly, electricity actually flows from negative to positive. We just didn't know before defining it. This always confuses me when wiring any sort of circuits.
im_from_detroit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:30:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, and electricity doesn't just take the path of least resistance, it will take every path available, inversely proportional to its resistance.
squngy ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:30:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you get stabbed by something, DO NOT PULL IT OUT.
Go get help first, if you pull it out your bleeding will increase and the pain might put you in shock.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:31:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless it's a needle and then pull that shit out.
Saltyshack ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:53:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The plural of beef is beeves.
mayorcracker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:25:25 on April 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My English teacher was astonished by this when we were reading The Odyssey
macadore ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:42:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Data is plural of datum.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:21:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Axis Powers
They actually called themselves that. It's like they wanted to sound evil.
Bob9999999999999 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:54:52 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The name only sounds evil to us because we've been associating it with evil for over seventy years now.
falsethor ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:28:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In String Theory (as yet unproven): If an atom were magnified to the size of the solar system, a string would be the size of a tree.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:45:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'Thou' was not formal. 'You' was formal.
Prophet_Muhammad_phd ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:49:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The last Civil War veteran died on August 2, 1956. And the last Revolutionary war veteran outlived Abraham Lincoln.
Civil War veteran: Albert Woolson
Revolutionary War Veteran: Lemuel Cook
agort ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:50:08 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to live like five miles from Albert Woolson
Trippid ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:53:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm always super late to these, but the fact that highway 401 in Ontario Canada is the busiest highway in the world.
If you don't know anything about Canada, maybe that doesn't sound too crazy, but when the state of California has a larger population than all of Canada combined... It's crazy. How does one highway in Canada have more vehicles per day than any of the other highway in the world? No one ever believes me when I tell them this either, hah.
suburban_hyena ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:29:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flammable and inflammable mean the same thing
letsplayordy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:24:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Woohoo for English!
Tech_Hulk ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:14:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That we need to find Ja Rule to make sense of things.
mattemer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Glad someone said it.
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:02:27 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But is he Ellie?
DreamWeaver714 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:20:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo.
That sentence is grammatically correct
"The sentence uses three distinct meanings of the wordย buffalo: the city ofย Buffalo, New York; the uncommon verbย to buffalo, meaning "to bully or intimidate" or "to baffle"; and the animal itself,ย buffalo. Paraphrased, the sentence can be parsed to mean, "Bison from Buffalo, which bison from Buffalo bully, themselves bully bison from Buffalo."
ms-anthrope ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:35:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what is it saying though?
DreamWeaver714 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:44:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Posted explanation
ms-anthrope ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:56:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ahh thanks! I'd never heard it as a verb.
whirlpool138 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:23:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It get's even crazier because their is a AAA baseball team from Buffalo called the Bison.
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:02:56 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's actually "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo".
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:50:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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cclites ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:52:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that a dick joke?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:04:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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cclites ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:46:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In that case, Bravo. I thought maybe you had misspelled poll.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:51:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
95 percent of all people who participate in a plane crash survive.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:03:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:15:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
subbookkeeper has four
M-Lin ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:22:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gary Newman is older than Gary Oldman
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:16:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*Gary Numan
deadbird17 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:44:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aluminum is more corrosive than most metals, including steel.
mp256 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:56:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You meant to say, most likely to get corroded. Yes. But it is not at the bottom of galvanic series. Magnesium is more likely to get corroded
http://corrosion-doctors.org/Definitions/galvanic-series.htm
Corrosive means a substance that creates corrosive effects, e.g acid, water
http://chemistry.about.com/od/chemistryglossary/g/Corrosive-Definition.htm
deadbird17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:14:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for the correction
Al2718x ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:16:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you lie down on the train tracks for an hour every day, you greatly reduce your risk of getting cancer
Koriania ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:22:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trex lived closer in time to the modern computers than to stegasaurus.
Similarly, Julius Caesar lived closer in time to the moon landing than to the great pyramids.
luckycommander ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:18:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Came here for this
highlyannoyed1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:27:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The statue of Liberty is in NJ
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:28:30 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's actually an island of New York, surrounded by New Jersey.
highlyannoyed1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:28 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's similar to saying washington DC is in virginia.
mudkip201 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:02 on May 31, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No it isn't
highlyannoyed1 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:02:29 on May 31, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes it is...infinity
TwistedxRainbow ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:38:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Charlie wanted you and me to go with him to the mall."
Most people have it ingrained in them to say "you and I", however, that only makes sense in the subject of the sentence and not the object. You wouldn't say "Charlie wanted I to go with him", you would say "Charlie wanted me to go with him". Therefore, "you and me" is the correct usage in this sentence.
padmasundari ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:10:42 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes! Similarly, photos captioned "A photo of my mother and I". It's surely not hard to understand that this is wrong?! It fills me with annoyance. Or should I say "it fills I with annoyance". (I'm from the UK for the full stop can go outside the quotation marks).
sipiwi94 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:45:19 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Europeans have a higher average IQ than africans
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 06:30:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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tommyfever ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:04:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From what I recall it's actually that their ancestors were already HIV-immune, and they inherited it.
MuhTriggersGuise ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:46:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the black plague resulted in white people being more resistant to HIV than other races.
keefy2 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:36:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More people died in WW2 than the average person will ever see in their whole life
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 09:03:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you drop a bullet and fire a bullet at the same time from the same height, they'll both hit the ground at the same time.
Helmic ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:03:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's if you fire horizontally. Shoot straight down and the fired bullet will most certainly hit the ground first.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:46:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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MuhTriggersGuise ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:57:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What does weight have to do with the acceleration of a body in a gravitational field?
Unexpected_Artist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:30:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does the trajectory of the fired bullet count? I'd assume this wouldn't apply if firing skyward.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:46:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, you have to fire it parallel to the ground, straight forward. Gravity affects the bullet whether its dropped or fired, so the fired bullet descends on the vertical access at the exact same speed as the dropped bullet. All of the force from the explosion that propels the bullet moves is horizontally, so it moves a very great distance as it falls, but it's airtime is the same as the dropped bullet.
Unexpected_Artist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:51:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fascinating.
In the words of Zak Brannigan "You win again, Gravity!!"
Wtfisthatkid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:35:20 on March 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.wired.com/2009/10/mythbusters-bringing-on-the-physics-bullet-drop/
Air resistance sir.
LeprosyMan ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:27:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Canada is a country, but it is larger than the continent of Australia.
LawdDangerzone ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 15:44:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia isn't a continent though....
MagicalKartWizard ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:14:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, it is.
ZeldaDrummer ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 03:46:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump might become president
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:00:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I still don't think that's right.
SplitArrow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:56:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump has no guaranty of getting the nomination even if he wins the primaries. http://lawnewz.com/important/how-the-gop-could-steal-the-nomination-from-donald-trump-even-if-he-wins-majority-of-delegates/
guidoninja ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:51:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are 6 US state capitals west of Los Angeles.
Honoluluย Juneauย Olympiaย Salemย Carson Cityย Sacramento
The_Captain_Spiff ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:43:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the roman empire actually existed until 1453
misternumberone ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:02:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a bit hard to say whether it counts but, the capital city Theodoro of the Principality of Theodoro remotely administrated by the Byzantine successor state the Empire of Trebizond across the Black Sea on a southern sliver of the Crimean peninsula actually fell to the Ottoman Turks in December 1475. The truly last physical fragment of the Roman Empire lies in ruins at the outskirts of modern Russian-occupied Sevastopol.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:05:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well eastern, so the Byzantine
Imperito ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:07:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The "Byzantines" - which is a term they never used - were Romans. They called themsleves Roman.
They just lost the Western part.
Peanut4michigan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:18:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Roman Empire also invented running hot and cold water like 1200 years before anyone else
sapiophile ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 16:16:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The people of Nazi Germany were just like you and I, and a comparable tragedy is absolutely possible "here" (wherever "here" is for you). Nationalistic extremism (and other horrors) can creep upon a society very subtly and incrementally, and those swept up in it may not even realize that it's happened.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:58:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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formenleere ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:35:15 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh wow, that analysis is fantastic. So many things make so much more sense with this! Thank you so much for that link!
Hey, everyone! Read this! It is a bit long, but my god is it worth it. (At least look at the graphics. Just wow.)
89XE10 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:50:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmmmm, reminds me of something..
milenpatel ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:56:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On average, humans have one testicle
monkwren ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 05:04:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Less than, actually. Since some males are missing testicles.
Macaronimonster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:53:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, but 51% of humans are male.
gazpachian ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:24:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, 51% of newborn humans are male. Due to longer life spans there are however more women alive than men.
Which sort of also sounds extremely wrong to be honest.
and_rice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:05:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Untrue
paliperidone_2014 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:38:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Goods transport by cars called a shipment, but when transported by ship, it's called cargo.
Small crowd.
Exact estimate.
Original copies.
Pretty ugly.
Fully empty.
Act naturally.
Only choice.
Seriously funny.
Clearly misunderstood.
Found missing.
headbutt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:21:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
These are all really good man. Great post
Poison_Ctrl ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:41:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mr Rogers says "it's a beautiful day in THIS neighborhood"
asmcnelly ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:54:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
Krillo90 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:40:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The answer to the Monty Hall problem.
RealArtysin ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 10:26:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's only one country between Finland and North Korea
tesseract4 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:56:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Norway sounds better.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 00:15:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Leonardo DiCaprio and Ennio Morricone won their Oscar after 6 nominations, this year.
Edit: and if you think that's amazing, Al Pacino won his after 8 nominations!
notafraid1989 ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 02:12:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You think that is a long run? Kevin O'Connell is a sound mixer. He has been nominated for 20 Academy Awards, but has never won.
Ziggyrollablunt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:19:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
.....I have an uncle Kevin O'Connell.....
TheZeus410 ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 05:01:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everything in the world is either a DVD of the movie Shrek or it is not a DVD of the movie Shrek
RegulusMagnus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:05:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But I thought all dichotomies are false dichotomies!
[deleted] ยท 56 points ยท Posted at 00:42:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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JonesMacGrath ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:01:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It also spies on the rest of the planet, and you're kidding yourself if you think otherwise.
hawaiims ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:58:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And "THE SCARY TERRURISTS" is only one of many reasons for that spying.
A lot of it has to do with industrial espionage on foreign corporations to give US based companies an artificial leg up, another aspect is spying on the diplomatic cables of foreign governments etc...
The terrorism scare is a perfect scapegoat. You're a million times more likely to die by getting hit by a car when walking to your local park than you are to get beheaded or killed by some ISIS bomber.
JonesMacGrath ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:46:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I knew this already but to me when I first heard it it was surprisingly uplifting because i'd rather die because of some car accident than some fucking extremist killing me in a futile attempt to further their campaign against any who disagree with them.
whos_to_know ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:26:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They also catch a lot of them masturbating.
HGF88 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:46:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty hot, if you ask me.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:28:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
China "legally" censors on its citizens.
[deleted] ยท -22 points ยท Posted at 02:03:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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hawaiims ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:56:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a joke. How can you possibly call warrant-less collection of private data from all citizens legal?
They're not engaging in selective collection of data based on probably cause, they are hoarding data from everyone and everything.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
RoofShoppingCartGuy ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:41:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you avoided all forms of news outlets for the past decade or so?
[deleted] ยท -14 points ยท Posted at 03:58:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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RoofShoppingCartGuy ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:13:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So did Edward Snowden
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:35:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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RoofShoppingCartGuy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:08:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Zing
JokeDeity ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:49:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
everything explained.
Born-Confused ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:31:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We found the lizard person.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
K
SirMildredPierce ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:25:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You make it sound like the end-goal of the NSA's collections is to secure a conviction in court.
If the NSA is actively using illegally obtained intel and tipping off various law enforcement agencies, those agencies will then use parallel construction to build their case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
For the most part the NSA is going to vacuum up as much information it can get it's hands on and store it, the vast majority of what the NSA saves is never even looked at, but it gives them the ability to go back and look at it later if it deems it necessary.
BarcodeNinja ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:37:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Um
FiddlerOnTheDesk ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:52:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The plural of a title that ends in "general."
For example, if you have the current attorney general and his or her predecessor at a press conference. You have two attorneys general present. If they were doctors, you'd have two surgeons general.
Also, I am not an alumni as I sit alone at my computer, I am an alumnus.
Mynameisnotdoug ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:16:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Poets laureate.
Battles royal.
Sergeants major.
Professors emeritus.
Notaries public.
Nachos supreme.
Whoppers, Jr.
YohanAnthony ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:52:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IIRC, that is because the term "attorney-general" and similar terms in that form are loan words from French, where the adjective comes after the noun.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:03:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The last time someone died from a spider bite in Australia was in 1979.
orangejuicenopulp ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:08:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Swim. Swam. Swum.
"I like to swim at our lake."
"My best friend and I swam to the dock and jumped off."
"I have totally swum to the other side and back."
spoonybard326 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:03:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The final score of an NFL game can be 6-1, or 8-1, but it can't be 7-1.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:40:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not american and only a casual fan at best but how does a team score 1 point and how does it relate to the other team scoring?
The only thing I can think of is scoring from an interception or fumble in the PAT is worth 1 point.
spoonybard326 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:18:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's possible but requires a really flukey play to happen. You can score a safety on a PAT, and this is worth one point. It's happened at least twice, in college, and the videos are on youtube.
However, in those cases, it was the team on offense (that just scored the touchdown) that got the 1 point safety. To get a 6-1 score, the defense must get the one point, which requires the ball to be downed on the opposite side of the field from where the try is attempted. This is of course extremely unlikely, but it's not impossible.
One way this could happen is: The offense decides to go for 2, and they pass the ball but the pass is intercepted. The defender runs it back almost all the way, but fumbles on the 5 yard line. An offensive player recovers the fumble and, seeing defenders closing in, backtracks into the end zone. Unable to escape, he is tackled in the end zone. This is a safety, and counts as one point because it happened on a PAT play.
If this is the only scoring all game, the final score is 6-1. If the winning team also gets a (normal) safety at some point, they win 8-1. There's no way to get the score to add up to exactly 7-1.
Canada_is_gay ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:13:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not a true fact. A return on a PAT is worth two points not one. You can't have a score of one. I am an American and therefore football is my religion (I mean the real kind, not soccer).
Eastern_Cyborg ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:43:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If football is your religion, you have not been paying attention in church lately. No better way to look like an idiot than to be pedantic and wrong at the same time.
scousecafuu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:19:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Soccer is the real football numb nuts. If the whole world calls an OLDER sport football but only one nation does not than its pretty obvious which one is the original/real one
bootshick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:05:03 on April 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes but I'm American and therefore more important.
scousecafuu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:03 on April 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was born in the USA as well but i'm not ignorant
bootshick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:56:10 on April 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Relax man it was a joke. Do I really need to post /s so people like you don't get their panties in a wad?
scousecafuu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:16:30 on April 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No need. I'm just passionate about the sport... Certain tones aren't easily read online. My mistake, carry on.
bootshick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:52:30 on April 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I guess that some people are stupid enough to sincerely say that. No biggie
Canada_is_gay ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:11:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It cannot. A return of a blocked PAT or pick or fumble on a two try is worth two points for the defense, not one. This is the case in the NFL, the NCAA, the Queen of England's rarely used winter chalet, Canadia, and all of football. It is impossible to have a score of one.
Glathull ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:57:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wrong. 1-point safety during PAT rules were added in 2015.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/11/sports/football/a-1-point-score-in-the-nfl-now-its-possible.html
bionicjoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:28:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought that was only in college or Canadian football. 2 point tries just fail in the NFL. In college a recovered fumble or interception returned to the opposite end zone is worth 1.
spoonybard326 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:33:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True until recently. The NFL changed their rules.
Absolute2014 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:05:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Montreal is further south than Seattle
Judean_peoplesfront ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:26:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As far as we can tell the 'shape' of the universe is a bubble. The part which sounds incorrect is that we exist on the surface of that bubble, not in the cavity.
DaSaw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:16:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that a four-dimensional "bubble"?
rhino_aus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:18:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The throttle makes an aeroplane go up; and the elevator makes the plane go faster.
IsItcoolLIKEPHILS ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:55:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tomatoes are a fruit.
Galle_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:56:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
0.9999... = 1. Even knowing perfectly well why this is true, I still can't manage to really grasp it.
JELLY__FISTER ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:17:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1/3 = .333333333...
2/3 = .666666666...
3/3 = .999999999...
LuvLowHangers ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:03:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I deny this one. Don't care if its true. I deny it with all my being.
Galle_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:15:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The simplest proof of it I've seen goes like this:
The problem is that while there are real numbers that have an infinite number of digits, like 0.9999..., there are no real numbers that have an infinite number of digits, followed by a finite sequence. If 0.9999... didn't equal 1, then 1 - 0.9999... would have to equal something like "0.0000...001", where the "..." is short for "an endless sequence of zeroes". But you can't attach a 1 to the end of an endless sequence for obvious reasons, so that number can't exist.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:14:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you snap your Achilles tendon it doesn't shoot up to your knee.
Can't remember how many times I've been told that it does. I've torn my Achilles tendon and I've been told I'm a liar when I tell people the separation of the two pieces was only 1.5cm.
Traiklin ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:47:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can serve a longer jail sentence for copyright infringement than for second degree murder
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:50:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's the same time of day in a state on the East Coast of the US and a state on the West Coast.
(Alright, it's only for an hour a year, but still. The westernmost part of Florida is on Central Time. The easternmost part of Oregon is on Mountain Time, 1 hour behind. When the Central Time Zone switches from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time at 2 a.m. on a Sunday morning in the fall, it becomes 1 a.m. At that moment it's also 1 a.m. in the Mountain Time Zone. The relevant parts of Florida and Oregon thus have the same time for exactly 60 minutes.)
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:53:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Kill4meeeeee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:06:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
False. A bullet is like 5000 feet a second dropping is like 15 feet
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:21:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Kill4meeeeee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:43:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mia under stood your statement thought you Ment if you shot it at the ground and throw a bullet at the ground
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:47:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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BiPolarBulls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:27:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you held a bullet at the end of the barrel and fired a bullet at the same time you let the one go that you are holding, they would both hit the ground at the same time.
articfire77 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:40:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
Wtfisthatkid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:34:45 on March 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
False. Air resistance plays a part in this, and the fired bullet experiences more air resistance.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:35:29 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Wtfisthatkid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:45:05 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bahahaha yeah I may have read a lot of this thread haha.
regcrusher ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:56:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Atlanta is west of Detroit.
ChubbyWalrus77 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:03:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more than 200 dead people on Mount Everest.
thedroxer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:03:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Swedish is more related to Hindi than to Finnish even tho Sweden and Finland are neighbours
KdogCrusader ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:37:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence in American English
2planks ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:39:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please explain this.
KdogCrusader ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:42:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo
2planks ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:47:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you :)
meshpimpf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:44:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Indeed. Please explain to us mortals not riding their horses in the arizona desert.
sazzer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:09:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To the nearest whole number, the sun makes up 100% of the mass in the solar system.
DeathStarJedi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:39:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you're riding a motorcycle or bicycle around a high speed curve, you have to turn the handle bars in the opposite direction. It's called countersteering, and most people don't even realize that they do it.
DuckWhispers ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:55:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It kind of comes naturally with leaning the way you want to go though.
Vaspir ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:07:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I dislike this comment solely because lack of knowledge on counter steering can kill inexperienced motorcyclists.
CarnelianHammer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:44:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Russia has more surface area than pluto
panzerkampfwagen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:50:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are a number of weapons, or variants of them, from WW2 that are still in active use today with professional militaries (not counting insurgencies and the like which just use whatever they find).
These include, but are not limited to, the M2 Browning, Bofors 40mm and the MG3 which is a variant of the MG42.
CarpeCyprinidae ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:21:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty sure that a handful of ww2 warships were still in use in the earlier stages of the War on Terror too.
za419 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:30:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, the US did reactivate the Iowa class battleships under Reagan's presidency. They were refit with more modern weaponry though, although the big 16-inch guns stayed for artillery fire.
rydan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:56:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is actually much hotter just outside of the sun than on its surface. Also same deal with the outer layer of the Earth's atmosphere.
LikPik ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:35:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
iceland is not all icy and cold and greenland is not sunny and green,, its the opposite.
Readingwhilepooping ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:41:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder how many of these comments will be reposted as TIL's tomorrow.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:20:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:21:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have size 14.
OhThatsRich88 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:20:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is a greater amount of time between the invention of the saddle and the stirrup than between the first flight and the moon landing.
abirw ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:32:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. is a grammatically correct sentence.
bubble_master ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:35:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you start flipping a coin, the sequence HTTTT will occur before the sequence TTTTT with 98% probability, even though both sequences are equally likely.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:04:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eli5?
dens421 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:10:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
on your first flip you have a 50/50 chance of H/T if you get T you might be on your way to your TTTTT goal but it's highly unlikely you get there without first getting a H in between... If you keep flipping to get your TTTTT you will do so after having had a H so you will get you HTTTT right before you get (H)TTTTT
The only time you can get TTTTT without getting HTTTT first is if you get it from the start and you have only 2% chance of that happening (didn't check the OP's maths but seems about right)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:21:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahh it all makes sense now!
danetrain05 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:16:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Swans can be gay.
Zappy212 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:46:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stop it, you'll make her cry!
rageofheaven ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:45:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Corporations have the same rights as humans in the eyes of the law.
fencehoppa ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:46:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You "ex" does not still have feelings for you.
RobboBanano ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:20:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
11am is later than 12am.
555nick ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:21:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"pho" pronounced correctly
snakesnake9 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:49:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More time has passed between today and 9-11 than between Hitler coming to power in Germany and the end of World War 2.
mechtonia ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:02:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bristol, TN is closer to Canada than it is to Memphis, TN.
OfficialCasualCat ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:52:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Martin Luther King Jr. and Anne Frank were born in the same year.
Ang1990 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:37:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prepare for all the TIL posts later today...
Leuvedo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:43:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most poor people are not lazy, and work just as hard if not harder than most well off people.
ookyle ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:31:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump is running for president.
AG9090 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:57:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Antarctica is the largest desert.
http://geology.com/records/largest-desert.shtml
Antarctica is roughly 14 million KM2
Sahara is 9 million KM2 (imperial numbers are in the website provides)
A desert is "measured" by how much rainfall it gets.
fatfook ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:27:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All religion is man made mythology.
YOU_LEFT_THE_OVEN_ON ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:15:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Source ?
Cielbunneh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:58:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"There are no invisible pink unicorns". Give me a source for this.
CaptainJack0 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:53:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donal Trump is running for president
FriedOctopusBacon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:28:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If X% of AB is Y, then Y% of AB is X.
wiloghby ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:36:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is more evidence that global warming is real (not due to random variation) than that cigarettes cause cancer.
A_2spooky_Sloth ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:27:28 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police police... and so on into infinity is a grammatically correct sentence.
As long as you end the sentence, even if there are 1e100,000,000,000 "police"s in the sentence, it makes sense.
It works because police is an adjective, verb, and noun. For example:
"Police police police police".
The first police is an adjective describing the second police. The third police is what the police police are doing. The fourth police is the direct object, or who is being policed by the police police.
And so on. As long as your sentence ends, it makes sense.
Reaper_of_Souls ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 00:02:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence.
Not just the animal and the city, but it's apparently a verb meaning "to bully or intimidate."
Muffinizer1 ยท 70 points ยท Posted at 00:19:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And who polices the police?
The police police police police.
And who polices the police police?
The police police police police police police.
This can be repeated infinitely and still be grammatically correct.
Not_A_Train ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 02:23:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like I'm having a stroke.
_coyotes_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:34:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did I stroke out? Did they stroke out? Someone here has stroked out.
dandelion_king ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:54:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Roxannnnneeeee!"
itz4mna ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:11:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spam spam spam spam eggs and spam spam bacon spam and spam!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:44:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The police police police police police police while listening to The Police
Reaper_of_Souls ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 00:21:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If guns don't kill people and people kill people, then... toasters don't toast toast, toast toasts toast?
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:02:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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356afan ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:19:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
YEAH TOAST!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUQz_vAKyvc
Reaper_of_Souls ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:06:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're taking the fun out of it.
tanman334 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:21:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If guns don't kill people and people kill people, then... toasters don't toast toast, people toast toast.
billb0bb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:10:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
guns don't kill people. bullets do.
voidFunction ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:06:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher.
Reaper_of_Souls ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:07:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WAIT I need to know how this one works.
voidFunction ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:16:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With punctuation:
For instance, the teacher quizzed the two students on whether or not the correct tense to use in a sentence would be "had" or "had had" (the past perfect tense of "had"). The correct answer was to have the word twice, so "had had" produced a better effect on the teacher.
A_Waskawy_Wabit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:58:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shouldn't that be:
James, while John had had "had", had had "had had"; "had had" had had a better effect on the teacher.
The punctuation isn't applied if it's within the quotations
Reaper_of_Souls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:19:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...that's actually awesome. Gonna have to use that one!
kalethan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:19:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also a sauce!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:13:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher is also correct
Lukethehedgehog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:48:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This hurts my brain
notwatchingthekids ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:01:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, so, : City animal City animal animal bully City animal"?
Eudaimonics ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:46:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Source: /r/buffalo
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 09:43:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can see the moon from the Great Wall of china
TehWit ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:08:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm booking tickets as we speak! Can't believe I'll see the moon!
ilikelxdefightme ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:00:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's more expensive to execute someone rather than have them serve a life sentence in the US.
MochaMike ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:36:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mathematician checking in: there are infinitely-many different types of infinity, each one bigger than the last. (See the section on general sets here.)
Leuia ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:03:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the moon landing than to the building of the pyramids.
infamous-spaceman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:33:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She also lived closer to the moon than she did to the pyramids.
GLOOTS_OF_PEACE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:37:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
if i read this fact one more time i'm gonna go jump off a pyramid, dressed as a stegosaurus
Navy_Pheonix ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 08:50:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Picasso died 43 years ago.
This one messed with my head because for the longest time I assumed he was a renaissance artist like the people who inspired him. Nope. Maybe I'm just stupid though.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 09:14:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Seal3824 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:42:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If this were true, most employers would only hire women.
thumpas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:21:43 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly, sure some people are actually sexist and that influences their decisions, but the vast majority of people want profits over anything.
JELLY__FISTER ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:15:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I make minimum wage, so if my female coworkers are getting 77% of that, they should know better
diariesofpierce ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 01:46:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The majority of people have an above average number of legs.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:54:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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RegulusMagnus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:03:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mean. The median number of legs and mode number of legs are both almost certainly 2. Since there are likely to be more humans with fewer than two legs than there are humans with more than two legs, the mean is slightly less than 2. Slightly.
bbcslave92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:47:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But the average is well above 2 thanks to the 1015 ants all around us
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:45:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In other words, the average person has an above average number of just about anything
Paradox2063 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:12:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except money.
lifeentropy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Until that octopus kid throws off the goddamned bell curve
RegulusMagnus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:04:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The statement "50% of people are below average" however is not necessarily true. "50% of people are below median" is true, though.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:42:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
During WW2 a German soldier who disobeyed orders and completed their mission would be rewarded. A soldier from one of the democracies would be punished.
German soldiers were trained to think for themselves, Allied soldiers to shut up and follow orders.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:30:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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panzerkampfwagen ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:31:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry, should I do some research so I can individually write out about the tens of millions of soldiers who took part?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:33:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, clearly, one philosophy worked better. Also, were that truly the case, then the Nazi's wouldn't have lost North Africa because Rommel would have told Hitler to shut his bitch mouth and let the big-boys do the warring.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:35:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Um...... Rommel was ordered to NOT go on the offensive in North Africa. The whole battle for North Africa was because Rommel disobeyed orders. He was promoted to Field Marshal for doing so.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:40:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He also told Hitler what he needed to complete the campaign that he was winning with very little difficulty and instead, Hitler decided to cut off his supply lines. Had Hitler listened to what was undoubtedly one of the wisest generals of the last few centuries, that war could have been considerably different.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:39:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, Rommel had no idea about logistics or strategy.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:55:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So then this narrative that the Nazi way was better falls apart. As, like you said, Rommel was promoted to Field Marshal.
whirlpool138 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:29:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but that's how you lose a war. The Allies won because that same idea of thought was used for everything. All parts of the war planning were coordinated to work efficiency. It's a lot easier to get your war plans together/mobilize when everyone is on the same page and knows their place. Plus at least for the United States, showing courage, thinking for yourself and showing problem solving often lead to earning a higher ranking. Of course people would get punished for disobeying orders when you are trying to launch a massively organized counter offense, everyone needed to know their place and job. If you look at a lot of the big names on the Allied side of the war like MacArthur, Patton and Eisenhower, they all quickly jumped up the leadership ranks after showing how effective their methods were.
This also can be applied to the war technology. The German tanks such as the Panzer were way more complex machines, but the American produced tanks were simply designed and could have parts switched out. The Allies rigid system of organization and rank ended up being way more flexible and reliable when it actually came down to it.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:40:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, they won through numbers. The Germans outclassed the Allies on the battlefield because they thought on their feet.
whirlpool138 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:23:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And how do you think they managed to organize and control those numbers? That's exactly what I was trying to say. It doesn't matter how well your soldiers can think on their feet when your whole organization and deployment of forces is a mess. Germany had several chances to turn the war around and blundered it due to the high amount of internal fighting.
On top of that you can't deny that the British, Americans and Soviets won some very decisive battles against the Axis powers. The Battle of London, The North African theater with Rommel and Stalingard all illustrate how dysfunctional the German war machine was.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:08:38 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rommel didn't allow his soldiers to think for themselves.
whirlpool138 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:20:15 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So wait you defend the Nazis for being able to think for themselves, yet when Rommel does it and breaks orders, you claim it was a loss because he wouldn't let his soldiers think for themselves? What? I don't get what you are trying to get across here. Germany lost the war because of how unorganized their ranks were along with all the internal fighting. The Allies won because they had their shit together and worked as a system. On top of that Allied Generals did get promoted to too commanding roles for showing leadership, while look what happened to Rommel. Nothing your saying makes sense.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:43:22 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Defend the Nazis? I'm out.
cheap77 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 00:35:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He was hanged until death.
Snuffy1717 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 01:57:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but he was also hung... ;)
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:32:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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fucktheocean ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:59:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Either that or he was hanged until he came.
PickleJarAshTray ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 23:25:31 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hot water freezes faster than cold water.
FetchFrosh ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 23:54:04 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In some very limited circumstances
jonnyp11 ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 23:53:23 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect
Apparently it's not really a fact, because it hasn't been defined enough to validate, and we don't know why
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 01:15:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect
Non-mobile link
SinkTube ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:00:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect
Mobile link again.
boaza ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:56:50 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is not always true. A quick google search told me that this effect (known as the Mpemba effect) is not always readily reproduced, and only occurs under certain conditions.
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 23:50:40 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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SinkTube ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:59:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How is it ill defined? Take two containers of water, one with a higher initial temperature than the other. Freeze both, and time how long it takes. Boom, reproduced.
kingrich ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:05:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've tested this. The cold water froze faster.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:48:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My theory about this is that hot water molecules line up better than cold ones. Like they have more energy to move into position than cold water molecules.
Also I'm totally commenting out of my ass, I'm pre-law, not a molecular physicist.
Rubeclair702 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:16:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now that is not true. Hot water will change temperature faster, but once it get to the same temperature as the cold water that freeze at the same rate.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:58:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it because of the larger differences in energy between the water and its surroundings?
LawnChairDare ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:19:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes
sapeetapottus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:17:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No one has ever died from AIDS.
alwayslookon_tbsol ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:30:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wearing a seat belt increases your chance of getting cancer.
FloopieNoopers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At first I thought this was garbage, but then I realized that it's 100% true.
goodevilgenius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:20:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because you live longer. The longer you live, the more likely you are to get cancer.
Vaccinations also increase your likelihood of getting cancer.
NeverStopWondering ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:39:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder how the odds work out when you take into account that a couple of them (particularly the HPV vaccine) prevent cancers like cervical and penile cancer. I would imagine that for the HPV vaccine at least, the odds balance is still favourable.
SmoSays ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:37:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'i before e except after c' is actually correct fewer times than the opposite.
JELLY__FISTER ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:11:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"And in sounding like 'a' as in 'neighbor' and 'weigh'"
Also doesn't count when the letters are in 2 different syllables like in "science" and "deity"
Ouija_Squeegee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:12:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"I before E, except after C,
And in sounding like A as in Neighbor and Weigh,
And on weekends, and holidays, and the month of May,
And you'll always be wrong no matter what you say.
You're a Dickhead, just memorize the words."
El_Nicos ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:00:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more museums in the U.S than there are McDonalds are Starbucks COMBINED.
HSharpest ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:38:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Source?
El_Nicos ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:04:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/usmuseums.asp
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/06/13/there-are-more-museums-in-the-us-than-there-are-starbucks-and-mcdonalds-combined/
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:44:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
something Cleopatra Pyramids JFK
sk1nnyjeans ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:28:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most of these random facts will become TILs this week.
McAwesomeBoss ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:43:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
if you removed all the blood vessels from your body and straightened them out, you would die.
camed93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:03:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice
karatelemon ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:07:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Assume earth was perfectly round and you tied a rope all the way around. You'd only need ~ 6 more feet, to have the rope 1 foot off the ground all the way.
thedantasm ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:06:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wrap a rope around a tennis ball. You would need 6 more feet to have the rope one foot away.
Try it with the sun. You would need 6 more feet and would probably burn your hand.
GIOverdrive ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:01:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Police police police police police police police police.
Is grammatically correct.
loklanc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:45:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who watches the watchmen? More watchmen of course.
isthisfunforyou719 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:57:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oxford University is older than the Aztec civilization.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:05:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Hegiman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The same could be said about numbers ending with any number as there is an infinite number of numbers. So technically there are an infinite number of numbers ending in zero (or any other nobler) just as there are an infinite set of whole numbers.
dens421 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:58:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man I love math but still I san't understand that one... If there are as many nimber that ends by 1 as there are number that don't ... Then there are as many numbers that finish by 1 or 2 as there are numbers finishing by 1...
And come on there should be twice as many ....
But infinity is a strange place
Hegiman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:28:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Indeed it is
Hegiman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The same could be said about numbers ending with any number as there is an infinite number of numbers. So technically there are an infinite number of numbers ending in zero (or any other nobler) just as there are an infinite set of whole numbers.
pkulak ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 07:52:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I'm wrong about something. Could someone please respond to me in the most condescending way possible?
Firzen_ ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:38:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Citing yourself and being wrong is kind of embarassing.
Two sets have the same cardinality when a bijection exists between them. In this case the bijection is obviously multiplying the natural numbers by 100.
BlissnHilltopSentry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:45:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah dude, y=100x ezpz
But then you can't do that for all real numbers mapped to all natural numbers
Firzen_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:40:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure. I don't think I disputed that.
BlissnHilltopSentry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:16:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know, I wasn't arguing against you, just adding on
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:32:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Excessive consumption of chemically pure water will leach the minerals from your body and kill you.
Manic_42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:04:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
source?
Sssiiiddd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:12:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
False. As long as you eat anything you will get the minerals you need. If you don't, you'll starve first.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:42:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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losinator501 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:17:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm assuming dissolved into the water and excreted.
Kevin_Wolf ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:22:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Berenstain Bears. I swear up and fish that is Berenstein, but apparently, I'm wrong. My sister and parents all remember Berenstein, too.
mrsix ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:36:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The last time you read a Berenstain bears book, how good of a reader do you think you were?
Additionally the common Bernstein name thing that jelly__fister mentioned.
Ouija_Squeegee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:19:30 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the point. We were learning to read at that point in time, and asking,"How do you pronounce Berestein?"
It stands out because we were learning to read.
TransitRanger_327 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:28:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Something something parallel universe something something.
JELLY__FISTER ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:20:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because -stein is a common ending to a last name, so if you actually haven't seen one of the books in a while, it makes sense that you remember it as a more sensible name. Our long term memories are really shitty
messejueller21 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:22:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A million seconds equates to about 11 1/2 days
A billion seconds equates to about 31 years.
Seal3824 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:47:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A trillion seconds is about 32,000 years
dasdrawer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:38:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Marlon Brando is both the best and worst actor of all time
IronicJeremyIrons ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:48:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
-looks at Godfather then Island of Doctor Moreau-
Checks out.
Ouija_Squeegee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:07:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, Nicolas Cage.
Watched Valley Girl and The Wicker Man.
IAmGoingToFuckThat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:55:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain in the world.
DoppleFlopper ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:13:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Strawberries aren't actually berries.
dens421 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:17:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But bananas are.
DoppleFlopper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:05:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now that's one special berry.
angryleprechaun1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:20:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oxford University pre-dates the Aztecs
sigh_riss ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:22:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hot water freezes faster than cold water.
Canada_is_gay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:24:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vast over simplification. It is possible in certain conditions for hot water to freeze faster than cold but if and only if the conditions exist that the evaporation process of the heated water is drawing more energy out of the water than the it takes to cool the water by normal thermal conditions.
SparklePonyBoy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:34:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're not breaking ribs you're not doing it right. CPR.
luminousbeing9 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:39:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are 206 bones in the average human body. Over half of them are in your hands and feet alone.
feddiemercury ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:45:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Water is poisonous if you drink too much.
audeus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:47:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There was more time between the Stegosaurus and the Tyrannosaurus Rex than between Tyrannosaurus Rex and you.
KitSnicket18 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:48:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The average person has one fallopian tube.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:26:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Slightly less than one, I believe.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:15:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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fito316 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:22:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
not really because you forgot punctuation
RectumCheese ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:30:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fwuckin fwuck.
sonofashoe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:18:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reno is west of LA
SantaIsADoucheFag ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:48:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more ways to arrange a deck of cards than there are atoms in the Earth
SherbetHead2010 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:00:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
No way. I disproved this in another post.
EDIT: Sorry sir I stand corrected. After doing the math, there are a bit over 1.28e50 atoms on earth and 8e67 combinations of a 52 card deck. This calculation was excluding carbon, hydrogen, and all trace elements so the actual number of atoms on earth is higher but still likely not over 8e67. Most of the versions of this fact that have been posted here usually say more than the solar system or even the universe, which is definitely not true. Just estimating I would say there are around 8e67 from just the sun to the earth, without having to go farther out into the solar system.
diplomatsgirl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:08:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cleopatra lived closer to the time of the Moon landing, than to the building of the pyramids.
MookieB88 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:17:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Using had 11 times in a row and being grammatically correct
James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher
Mynameisnotdoug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:23:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Needs punctuation to be actually correct.
HeyBriansOn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:19:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The first R in February
watchZnow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:19:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"She's 'pretty ugly'"!
KommandCBZhi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:22:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That Tyrannosaurus is more closely related to the Hummingbird than it is to Allosaurus.
drcmaysv2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:27:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are at least more than 5 peppers and counting that are hotter than the ghost pepper.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:28:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Entinu ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:37:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's actually entirely wrong as capitalization is considered a different spelling. The only time they are spelled the same is if polish(to make something shine) is the first word in a sentence.
Rick0r ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:38:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have an above average number of arms.
cable1oo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:40:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vikings never wore horned helmets. They were just an afterthought that some Norse artist stuck on a decorative helmet, thinking it looked neat.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:36:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, there were horned ceremonial helmets as far back as the bronze age. And it was in the Romantic period that the horned Viking helmet was added, not in old Norse times.
cable1oo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:50:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh man, thanks for dropping a bit more knowledge on me! Point still stands, there were never any burly, horned Scandinavians running around like Skyrim.
hertlforpres ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:41:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more ways to arrange a deck of 52 cards than there are stars in our solar system.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:44:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, duh
SherbetHead2010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:38:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've been disproving most of these 52 card deck combination facts. I almost started to, then I actually realized what you are saying. Nice one.
MrMeltJr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:43:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ice is a mineral.
flyingtauntaun ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:48:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you burn a lot of garbage the fumes float up into the air and make stars!
Mndlssphnx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:22:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The plural of 'beef' is 'beeves'
Angrysausagedog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:28:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In what sentence would anyone need a plural of beef? Lol
ddub74012 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:21:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"We have twelve packs of ham lunch meat, and eleven beeves."
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:29:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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TheKingofCascadia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:41:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is Canada's southern-most point?
krogger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:03:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Southern+tip+of+Canada&l=1
bmdisbrow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:36:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The highest temperature ever recorded in Hawaii is the same as the highest temperature ever recorded in Alaska, 100ยฐF/37.8ยฐC.
kroopster ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:37:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My alarm clock :(
TyCooper8 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:55:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nintendo was founded the same year that Navigable Balloons were invented (which eventually evolved into Zeppelins).
JeffTennis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:56:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1 x 1 = 1
Or 1 divided by 1 is 1.
It just feels wrong but I know it's not.
alienatedtruth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:07:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Inflammable means flammable
StixTheRef ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:41:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a country!
Voidrith ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:09:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is more than one level of infinity.
Not all infinities are created equal.
DEAGOLLUM ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:13:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Zero is a plural number
tinygraycells ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:51:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't understand this one, a quick Google gave me this:
I could have:
Zero books
One book
Two books
Never noticed this before - we use the plural noun for zero objects.
chilliconcarne1234 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:13:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alaska is about two times the size of Texas
MuhTriggersGuise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:03:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More than two times. If you divided Alaska evenly into two new states, they would both be bigger than Texas.
prancy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:18:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The number of animals humans kill annually is higher than the number of stars in the Milky Way.
autra1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:38:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
- 1 * -1 = 1
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:42:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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JerkwaterJeff666 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:50:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're not bad cars.
whirlpool138 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:46:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought my mom's was pretty cool as a kid.
sweetjPDX ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:43:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds made during sex
thatdudeman52 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:48:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Atlanta Texas is closer to Atlanta Georgia than El Paso Texas.
Spokehead82 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:49:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"u need to use a condom"
100bigmacs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:51:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
UK - Edinburgh is further west then Bristol.
redit_usrname_vendor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:53:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The chemical processes, oxidation is loss of an electron and reduction is gaining of an electron.
SherbetHead2010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:03:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OIL RIG. Saved my ass many times in undergrad Chem.
DlProgan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:55:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Every second 100.000 vertebrate animals die and 700 billion insects.
Rodyland ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:56:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Antarctica is the driest continent.
If you define "driest" meaning having the lowest rainfall.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:57:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The plural of cul-de-sac is culs-de-sac.
Auxilae ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:59:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The high five was invented in the late 1970's.
nacmar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:59:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"All pseudoscience is homeopathic: the less content it has, the more popular it is." --Phil Plait
endridfps ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:02:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Objects are hung, people are hanged.
myztry ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 09:21:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Negros are well hanged...
B_Hartman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:03:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
30! (Thirty Factorial) drops of water could fill 12,000 hollowed-out Earths. And 31! Could fill over 380,000 Earths!
Jass1995 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:51:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Earths!=?
I'm kidding I'm kidding.
kbigz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:10:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"an historic..."
jcswindell ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:18:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Malaria has killed half of all people to ever live
BlueRajasmyk2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:18:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes hot water freezes faster than cold water
SherbetHead2010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:55:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Upvote for "sometimes"
NoSarcasmIntended ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:25:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We share over 50% of our DNA with yeast.
NoSarcasmIntended ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:29:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you ice skate, you're literally gliding on a thin layer of liquid water.
SherbetHead2010 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:09:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've been disproving a lot of stuff on here and really don't feel like doing any more research but isn't this debated? Sure the skates create friction that should melt the ice but it also applies pressure which would have an opposite, negating effect.
NoSarcasmIntended ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:40:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, the pressure lowers the freezing point. The temperature of the water remains the same, but the ice directly under the skate turns to liquid because it is no longer as cold as it needs to be to remain frozen at that pressure. Source: Materials engineering class.
SherbetHead2010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:13:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
A quick look at any water phase diagram clearly shows that increasing pressure pushes water from vapor to liquid and finally to solid. Please explain to me how you concluded that pressure lowers the freezing point. Granted it's not the normal solid phase of ice, but rather ice VII or ice X. But it is still a solid phase nonetheless.
Water phase diagram:Click Here
Source: I'm a chemistry major.
pofor123 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:29:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most domestic violence is reciprocal.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:30:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And most individual acts are committed by women.
ParaVirtual ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:32:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's spelled: Berenstain
IVTD4KDS ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:37:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mars is the only planet exclusively occupied by robots
BiPolarBulls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:35:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OMG, that's true !!!
il_paulo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:38:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For every human on earth there are about 10000000000 insects.
Kh444n ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:39:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump /s
radrico ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:45:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh I have the perfect answer! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx6lhTj0iV4
BiPolarBulls ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:32:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great clip .. thanks
StrawberrySheikh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:45:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'Inflammable' and 'flammable' mean the same thing.
jzl_116 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:03:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"don't worry, it's inflammable!"
explosion
"huh??? 'inflammable' means 'flammable?'"
BiPolarBulls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:28:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love Dr. Nick
LuxDeorum ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:49:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To make something which is 99% water into something having 98% water, you must remove a little more than half of the water.
krepkee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:52:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sentence:
He had had lost his keys the day before.
Past Perfect with 'have'.
Cnidaria21 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:55:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Out of 80,000 lobster eggs laid only 1 will make it to adulthood, making the probability of survival 0.00125%, roughly about the same chance as getting struck by lightning.
JJisTheDarkOne ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:58:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder if this was mentioned. There's an old story about a guy who cheated the king out of all his rice stores with a simple trick. It was either pay him a massive amount of gold, or all the rice he could fit on a chessboard. Sums up like this:
Take a chess board
On the first square put a single grain of rice
On the second square put 2 grains of rice
On the third square put 4 grains of rice
Continue on like that.
Basically, it ends up being the entirety of the rice stock.... so fucking much rice.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:00:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How does that fit on a chessboard?
BiPolarBulls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:18:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Either a very large chess board,, or very small rice !
Henkersjunge ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:20:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its 265-1 pieces of rice or around 1 trillion metric tons
General_Urist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:59:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
everything to do with quantum physics. everything.
_Papa_Squat_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:07:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
donald trump has a solid chance at being the president of the US
DB_Cooper_lives ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:11:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ben Affleck has won 2 oscars
desperadow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:13:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sailing from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean in the Panama Canal you're actually going east.
MatrixCakes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:14:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bleach is made by electrifying salt water. There are no other steps.
petriomelony ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:15:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The pass rate for secondary school students in the UK is less than 56%.
IlikeJG ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:16:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
There are more ways to arrange a deck of 52 cards than there are estimated atoms in the solar system.
Datbobforbob ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:17:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ancient Roman's are as old to us, as the ancient Egyptians are to the Roman's.
HunterWindmill ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:30:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My school is older than America.
masterxak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:35:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Boiling water freezes faster than cold water.
bubbadang ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:36:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That hot water gets colder/freezes faster than cold water
trollblut ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:41:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you shouldn't stop using heroin during pregnancy.
Just-An-Asshole ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:42:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Withdrawls?
trollblut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:00:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sudden heart failure in the fetus
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:46:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is more time between the existence of the stegosaurus and the tyrannosaurus than there is between the tyrannosaurus and human beings.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:48:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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--rubberdicks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:43:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia is known as the largest island but smallest continent
blueroom789 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 10:50:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia exists you idiot.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:58:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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AndThusThereWasLight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:44:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Africa because of the Suez?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:04:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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AndThusThereWasLight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:01:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Using your same sarcastic logic of South America being the biggest island.
SIr_Sarcasm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:57:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia is a continent.
CRU-60 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:30:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia is a continent.
blueroom789 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:22:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_(continent)
The continent of Australia is better dubbed 'Australasia' as it also encompasses the surrounding islands such as PNG and Timor. Mainland Australia is, in fact, not a continent.
Zeos42 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:49:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump is the current Republican front runner in the race to the presidency.
Retarded_Charizard ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:50:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you cut your wrist: sideways for attention, longways for results
noodlyjames ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:51:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oxford university is older than the Incan empire
shlam16 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:52:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
0.99999... = 1
Sweetbobolovin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:53:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence
ktv13 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:54:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Berlin is further north than London. And a bonus, there are more stars in the Milky Way than sand grains in an average volleyball field.
imnamenderbratwurst ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:08:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This. Or the fact that it is much, much further north, than New York. It is in fact more to the north than each and every of the major Canadian cities (even Vancouver, which is at 51ยฐ north, Berlin is at 52ยฐ). New York is at the same latitude as Rome.
nivulich39 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:11:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sentence "Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is grammatically correct.
fruitbat18 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:12:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the UK, women cannot be charged with rape, only sexual assault.
Grimsqueaker69 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:14:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That if you add up all the numbers between 1 and infinity (as in 1+2+3+4+5...etc) the result is -1/12
MetalMiketh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:17:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Penguins can be found in South Africa
RobotsRaaz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:42:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think they flew there from Madagascar.
miniRNA ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:17:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Arkansas pronunciation, even more when Kansas exists...
(Granted, I'm from Europe and English is not my first language)
CRU-60 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:24:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here's why, friend: http://www.businessinsider.com/why-we-pronounce-kansas-and-arkansas-differently-2014-2
miniRNA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:42:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for the link! I had read something about it, but this is the most clear and actually it makes sense.
But guys, English is wierd enough without getting wierder thanks to French
GoGators2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:20:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The "G" in the Green Bay Packers logo does not stand for "Green Bay". It stands for "Greatness".
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:21:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
0.99999.... = 1
It isn't less than 1, it EQUALS 1.
runemachine ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:25:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump is going to be the Republican nominee
recalcitrantJester ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:28:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The average human being has roughly one testicle and one ovary.
Felix1987 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:28:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. Known as Mpemba-Effekt.
theWet_Bandits ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:33:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only under certain conditions.
SherbetHead2010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:55:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you. I had to explain this to someone recently. Cold water will crystallize faster if you seed it.
dilfybro ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:37:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the US, white men commit suicide at 2.5x the rate of black men.
your_tits_pm_me_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:56:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's because the blacks are killed before they can commit suicide.
Mintfriction ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:37:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every father is a motherfucker
NScorpion ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:41:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I still don't believe it.
https://youtu.be/1bsKIle7LjQ
grayecho ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:42:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cummingtonite is a real mineral.
bwisey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:43:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Futurama isn't coming back anytime soon.
oversizedvase ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:39:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sad indeed.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:50:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Maฬori settled Aotearoa New Zealand at the same time a college in Cambridge University was founded.
bbibber ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:51:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
0.99... = 1
Felix_Tholomyes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:53:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An event which occurs with probability 0 can still occur.
Also an event with probability 1 is not guaranteed to occur.
Jailout2000 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:57:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Republicans are Red and Democrats are Blue.
theprettychillguy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:57:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are going to more than likely be the choices for the 2016 American Presidential election.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:58:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you post incorrect information in threads like these, people will believe them.
cacarpenter89 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:59:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maine is the US state closest to Africa.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:02:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ITT: People watch vsauce
Starvalley ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:04:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No English manager has ever won the Premier League.
AdmiralPellaeon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:07:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That Martin Luther King and Anne Frank were born in the same year (1929)
PhilosophicallyBuilt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:10:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Taxation is theft
bwisey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:12:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more slaves today than anytime in the past.
QuarkGuy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:12:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Has no one mentioned the monty hall problem? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem
MuttyMo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:13:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The grandson of President John Tyler, the 10th President of the United States who was born in 1790, is still alive and lives in His grandfather's house in Virginia. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/01/president-tyler-grandson-alive.html
kasper117 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:15:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reno, Nevada lies north of San francisco and west of Los Angelos.
Zingingcutie27 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:18:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is my favorite thread.
Wagonxt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:21:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
race car apelled backwards is race car
lespaulstrat2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:39:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
No it isn't; that is rac ecar.
Wagonxt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:24:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
touchรฉ
random_pinkie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:26:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The chance of you winning the lottery this week is the same as the chance of someone winning this week's lottery and next week's.
Goofster ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:30:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are fewer grains of sand on earth than stars in the universe.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:35:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Africa is the size of China, The United States, and most of Europe put together.
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2445615/True-size-Africa-continent-big-China-India-US-Europe-together.html
especiallyunspecial ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:42:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The darker the roast of your coffee, the less caffeine it has. I.e. lighter roast implies more caffeine. Green coffee being the "lightest roast".
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:42:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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MediumFarva ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:05:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope
barttaylor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:44:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To go boldly where no man has gone before.
sinocarD44 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:44:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Monty Hall problem.
Fengoat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:45:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dish soap does not go in the dish washer.
fishpowered ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:48:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Boiling hot water freezes faster than cold water
Lereas ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:50:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you go directly South from Detroit, the first country you hit is Canada.
GoingToSimbabwe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:59:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Edit: nvm, Canada has that little 'peninsula' reaching into the USA lol..
Wait really? Do you happen to have some map projection showing that somewhat?
I am curious and can't really wrap my head around how this would work given that a 'straight' line southwards would need to go through the atlantic to not hit any Middle- or Southamerican country.
KLULESS_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:57:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cleopatra is closer in time to the moon landing then the building of the pyramids
ionceheardthat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:01:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If two vehicles run into each other traveling in opposite directions, it is not the same as running into a stationary object at twice the speed (eg 70mph and 70mph don't make a 140mph crash). They actually would be similar to a 70mph crash into a stationary object.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:04:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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ionceheardthat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:11:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you may have forgotten what thread you're in.
Kirby64 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:18:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Surprisingly, it's true! Mythbusters link: http://youtu.be/r8E5dUnLmh4
fortmoney ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:04:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more cells in our brain than there are brains in our entire body
STALTA ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:08:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sentence: "The old man the boats."
NEXT_VICTIM ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:33:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is an example of a garden path sentence/phrase. It's correct but can be confusing to read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence
theuniman123 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:12:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ten Percent of all the pictures ever were taken in the last 12 months.
chilehead ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:16:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
China has a reputation of having an insanely high population, but India has 94% of China's population in only 34.25% the space. (34.13% of the area of the US)
The US has only 23.6% the population of China in roughly the same area.
whitecompass ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:20:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We landed on the moon before we put wheels on suitcases.
star_storm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:20:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The word "swum"
therats ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:23:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This thread is a Karma gold mine
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:29:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The 64 wealthiest people have as much wealth as the 3.5 billion poorest.
autoposting_system ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:29:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
.99999.... = 1.
Not approximately. Equal.
Tamzid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:36:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Critical Radius of Insulation
When adding insulation to a pipe, if you only put enough insulation where the total radius doesn't pass this critical radius, you're actually increasing the amount of heat lost. If you add enough that your final pipe radius is above this critical radius, it will actually insulate it.
So you could end up insulating a pipe and only making it worse.
CantStopTheDrumpf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:38:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the United States, you'd think with chemical regulations the government would treat an unknown chemical as dangerous until proven harmless, right? Well they do the opposite; they treat chemicals as harmless until they're proven dangerous.
timothydog76 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:39:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The words "funner" and "funnest."
YouBecame ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:41:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sun still doesn't set on the British Empire, because of about 50 people that inhabit The Pitcairn Islands
_ELAP_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:44:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You'll catch more flies with vinegar than with honey.
bad_at_hearthstone ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:44:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All the gold we've ever mined over the course of human history would just about fill three swimming pools.
ultralame ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:47:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now that people have used the word "literally" incorrectly so often that Websters has added the incorrect usage as an additional definition, the English language literally no longer has a word with an unambiguous original definition of 'literally'.
NEXT_VICTIM ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:52:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because English is an "active" or "living" (depends on who you ask) language, definitions change and new words appear all the time. Hell, LOL and BRB have actually been put into the dictionary.
ultralame ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:02:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, I understand why. There's just something interesting about a word being used as hyperbole so often that it's official definition changes to include the direct opposite of what it actually means.
Dumava ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:14:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remember when gay ol time meant something totally different.
TheAC997 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:43:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The "literally" in "I'm so hungry I could literally eat an hippopotamus" doesn't change the definition of "literally" for the same reason it doesn't change the definition of "entire."
vonflare ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:48:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
there is a place in the USA where you can walk south and end up in canada
SPACEMANSKRILLA ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:51:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landings than to the building of the Great Pyramids.
ChristopherKlay ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:56:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doing something with a 5% chance to win twice won't result in a 10% chance overall.
dare7000 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:57:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human beings share 50% of DNA with bananas.
graverubber ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:57:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sharks have been on earth longer than trees.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:58:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sharks have been on this planet about 50 million more years than trees.
Sutarmekeg ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:58:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We are closer in time to tyrannosaurus than dimetrodon is.
nimbycile ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:59:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your digestive tract is outside your body.
The best way I've heard of this explained is to think of a stack of donuts. The holes in the donut represent your digestive tract. Something isn't in your body until it crosses a membrane.
-ChewbaccaThe3rd- ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:59:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Swans can be gay
DoctorDizzyspinner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:00:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
cries
Seringol ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:00:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Helicopters work by removing the air above them and moving into the emptier space
Loggie86 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:01:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you press the brake in your car you accelerate.
Explanation: The definition of acceleration is the rate of change of velocity per unit of time. So technically, when you brake you are accelerating.
mfb- ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:02:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most cells in a human body are not human cells.
The actual fraction of human cells is just about 10%, although they make up most of the total weight.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:02:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Can't think of something
dogshenanigans ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:03:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ted Williams debuted in 1939. Julio Franco played in MLB until 2007 and still plays independent baseball. They both faced Jim Kaat in a major league game.
darkonark ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:04:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If a train runs into a brick wall. The train and the wall exerted the exact same amount on force upon one another. Only in opposite directions.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:04:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Almost 100% universe is empty space.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:04:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Strawberries aren't berries. but bananas and melons are.
ruleroflemmings ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:05:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flammable and inflammable are synonyms
homestarpony2000 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:05:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gramatically "enamored of" is correct even though almost everyone says "enamored with"
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:06:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
During a tornado, the doors and windows of your house blow out, not in, due to changes in pressure
Sniper881 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:07:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
inb4 buzzfeed article '15 things that sound wrong but are actually true'
kliman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:09:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
Matzaburgaz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:20:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gomez and Morticia had a third child, a son they lovingly named Pubert
Tarpo76 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:26:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He was born with a terrific mustache
SuckMy_Diction ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:24:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Betty White is older than sliced bread
Team_Braniel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:24:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
toolatealreadyfapped ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:26:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shuffle a standard 52 deck of cards a few times. You have now created an arrangement/order of cards that has very likely never existed before, nor is likely to ever exist again.
BrazenNormalcy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:27:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hot water freezes faster than cold water.
Rexeisenberg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:29:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wrong
BrazenNormalcy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:31:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Source?
seycyrus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:52:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your article seems to mention cooling rates.
As a thought experiment, I would bring up that a volume of hot water, must at some point be equal to the starting temperature of the cold volume that it is "racing" to the freezing temperature. From that point on, the times required should be the same, correct?
Unless you are saying that water somehow has a memory of what temperature it was previously. In that case, I'd ask how far back in time does this memory effect go?
BrazenNormalcy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:18:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Honestly, I'm not a scientist, so I can't answer, but I can relate my own experiences, and what I've read since.
I had a roommate once who told me this scientific "fact". I called BS, told him no way - the hot water has to unload the extra heat before it can even start to freeze, so the cold water has a head start. This was before internet was common, so we couldn't really research, so we decided to test. We filled 2 ice trays - one with water heated to a simmer, and the other with water chilled in the fridge, and put both trays in the freezer at the same time. The results - our hot water tray did freeze just a bit faster than the cold water tray.
After I got internet, I looked into it, and was surprised to find that scientists couldn't explain it. It was named the Mpemba effect for the person who introduced it into modern scientific discourse, but it had been known a long time before then (Aristotle stated it was already well known in his time).
A lot of different hypothesis involving evaporative cooling or convection currents, or some such had been put forth, but none of the answers were satisfactory to the scientific community until the answer about hotter molecules having an increased rate of hydrogen bonding was put forth (see the article I linked to). It makes it easier for me to grasp if I use the phrase "becomes solid" instead of "freezing" in my mental description. Again: not a scientist, but the molecular bonding explanation makes me feel that what's going on is more about converting from the liquid to the solid form, and less about temperature lowering.
In other words, the ice that started as hotter water went solid even though it still contained more latent energy than the ice which started as colder water - for both to reach the same absolute temperature after becoming solid, the one which started hotter would still have more heat to lose after becoming ice.
Sorry for the wall of text.
seycyrus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:27:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You boiled the water, which altered the chemical composition.
Suppose you took one sample of water at 205 F and another at 33 F. Would the hotter one still freeze before the cold?
I agree with you that a problem might stem from the use of the word "freeze".
BrazenNormalcy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:34:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The chemical composition of both remains H20 the entire time.
If you heat it to 205 degrees, it's no longer a liquid, and then you're talking about a rate of sublimation (direct gas to solid conversion) and comparing it to a rate of freezing, and is so different it might make it a completely different experiment.Edit: I'm an idiot and misremembered the freezing point of water, so disregard the part about being a gas. Sorry. I didn't check the exact temperatures of my own ice tray experiment, but the simmering water was almost boiling, so it might well have been 205 degrees.
seycyrus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:48:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think that if you boil water, you drive off impurities which will alter the freezing temperature.
If the water was simmering, then that is pretty much 212 F.
I brought up the numbers to make sure that the hot volume was NOT boiled. And to also make an extreme case, where the hot volume was 1 degree away from boiling, and the cold volume was 1 degree away from freezing. Certainly, in such a case the hot volume would not solidify faster than the hot volume, regardless of what the solidification temperature was, unless the solidification temp of the hot volume was something like 211 F, but then we are not really talking about water, are we?
"Hot water freezes faster than cold water" should be be changed to something like, "Under some circumstances, hot liquids comprised of some portion of water, will solidify at a higher temperature than cold mixtures comprised of a portion of water."
BrazenNormalcy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:59:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your hypothesis may be right. It would be a good question for actual laboratory scientists. My first guess would be that one of the first things they would have done would be to distill the water to remove impurities, though.
Langley391 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:29:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Zachary Taylor, the 10th president of the United States and born in 1784, has two grandchildren alive today.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:12:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.snopes.com/history/american/tylergrandsons.asp
BoldGambit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:30:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you read this don't go any further into this thread, they are murdering childhoods and sacred cows.
onlysane1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:32:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a bridge in Detroit where you drive south to get into Canada.
O3AMA ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:32:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All of the planets in our solar system would fit between earth and the moon.
slowshot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:53:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you including the newly speculated super planet 9, which is thought to be the largest of all?
O3AMA ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:34:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hi dad.
Red-Jester ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:40:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cinema popcorn costs more per pound than gold bullion
masg12 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:43:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump is leading the race for the Republican Nomination for President
smerkwithskizzle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:46:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Arthur guiness signed a 9000 year lease for the guiness storehouse in Dublin
BukkitGod ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:50:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pantera were originally glam.
thomasDDS ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:53:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If someone who you really don't like asks you to do them a favor, you will like them more after doing that favor.
RULINGCHAOS ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:54:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Beeves is plural of beef
commi_furious ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:56:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cats kill more than 3.7 billion birds a year I'm North America.
zeinshver ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:21:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
cracked podcast?
commi_furious ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:51:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I actually heard it on Rogan when he was to that ex vegan. I was shocked because that's the low estimate.
strychnineman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:57:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
If you go due south (on a map) from the lowest tip of Florida, you drop to the LEFT of the entire continent of South America
EDIT: clarity
Ryike93 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:06:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The best way to get a girl back when she starts to go cold is the no contact rule.
no guarantees, but it's still your best option
00yoshi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:10:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher" is a valid sentence.
camed93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:07:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
James, while John had had "had", had had "had had"; "had had" had had a better effect on the teacher.
FannyPunyUrdang ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:10:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Pontiac Trans-Am has a phoenix painted on the hood/bonnet, while the Pontiac Firebird has none. I lost a $100 bet over this one.
austinitise ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:11:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The human brain is made largely of fat and cholesterol.
TheFunkiestWhale ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:14:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We're closer to 2030 then we are to 1999...
bkcmart ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:15:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
there they're
apfpilot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:15:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are more likely to have an engine failure in a 4 engine aircraft than a twin.
AntiqueDoorHardware ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:17:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more libraries in the united states then there are Starbucks and mcdonalds combined
camed93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:06:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isnt it museums?
savor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:20:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The term Immaculate Conception refers to Mary's own conception, not Jesus'.
zeinshver ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:18:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
huh?
savor ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:40:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From Wikipedia: The Immaculate Conception, according to the teaching of the Catholic Church, was the conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the womb of her mother, Saint Anne, free from original sin by virtue of the foreseen merits of her son Jesus Christ. The Catholic Church teaches that Mary was conceived by normal biological means, but God acted upon her soul (keeping her "immaculate") at the time of her conception.
The Immaculate Conception is commonly and mistakenly taken to mean the conception of Mary's son Jesus Christ in her own womb, and the Virgin Birth of Jesus.
da5id1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:24:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Part of Florida is west of Chicago.
da5id1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:26:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Greenland was named by Eric the Red to attract settlers. Early example of medieval marketing?
LincolnsLostSpeach ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:27:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sky isn't blue.
arhanv ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:27:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jerry Seinfeld is older than Bill Gates...
It blew my mind the first time I heard this.
Derped_my_pants ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:05:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not "I lied in bed yesterday" or "I laid in bed yesterday" It's "I lay in bed yesterday"
janetplanet ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:13:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your fingers don't have any muscles in them.
valhallasfinest ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:15:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Around half of ALL human death EVER has been from Malaria
TheCatsBananas ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:15:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Water is denser at 4 degrees than at 0 degrees.
tjwor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:23:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With the same beans, light roast coffee grounds have more caffeine than dark roast coffee grounds when measured in scoops.
GhostOfKings ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:28:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The plural of surgeon general is surgeons general. The past tense of surgeons general is surgeonsed general.
ancientRedDog ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:30:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vitamin C does nothing for cold prevention or recovery time.
heybrother45 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:38:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because of Alaska, the US is north, south, east and west of Canada
Charming_AntiQuirk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:42:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you fold a piece of paper in half 42 times it would be tall enough to to reach the moon
ohhfasho ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:52:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Using the word data as a singular word.
Incorrect: This data is confusing. Correct: These data are confusing.
sandberg_93 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:59:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more trees in the U.S. right now than there was 100 years ago.
CheesyJeevesYT ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:59:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are 10x more bacterial cells in and on your body than there are your cells
chopsueywoo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:07:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This Chinese poem makes perfect sense when read aloud: "shรญ shรฌ shฤซ shรฌ shฤซ shรฌ, shรฌ shฤซ, shรฌ shรญ shรญ shฤซ. shรฌ shรญ shรญ shรฌ shรฌ shรฌ shฤซ. shรญ shรญ, shรฌ shรญ shฤซ shรฌ shรฌ. shรฌ shรญ, shรฌ shฤซ shรฌ shรฌ shรฌ shรฌ. shรฌ shรฌ shรฌ shรญ shฤซ, shรฌ shว shรฌ, shว shรฌ shรญ shฤซ shรฌ shรฌ.shรฌ shรญ shรฌ shรญ shฤซ shฤซ, shรฌ shรญ shรฌ. shรญ shรฌ shฤซ, shรฌ shว shรฌ shรฌ shรญ shรฌ. shรญ shรฌ shรฌ, shรฌ shว shรฌ shรญ shรญ shฤซ shฤซ. shรญ shรญ, shว shรฌ shรฌ shรญ shฤซ shฤซ, shรญ shรญ shรญ shฤซ shฤซ. shรฌ shรฌ shรฌ shรฌ."
goberkfell ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:44:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you have 23 people in a room, there is a 50/50 chance of two people having the same birthday. 75 people? A 99.9% chance.
Wastesofa ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:49:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fire produces water.
sqectre ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:02:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The US forcibly sterilized minority women until 1981.
iNToXiQator ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:11:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
350$ PCs are more powerful than consoles
MistaFotso ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:19:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every single person in the world could fit inside of Rhode Island.
MarmadukeHammerhead ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:27:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If three million people left the state of California there would still be more people in California than in all of Canada.
phlupple ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:28:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's 'pronUNciation', not 'pronOUnciation'
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:41:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Babe Ruth signed his original contract with mustard.
legalize-drugs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:43:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That people encounter aliens on the drug DMT. It's happened to me many times.
DJLinFL ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:59:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do they know the aliens are on the drug DMT?
legalize-drugs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:39:20 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I know because I've been fortunate to do it over 100 times; I've dedicated a lot of my life to it. It's the most unbelievable thing, far beyond anything words can describe.
Here's a documentary about the phenomenon: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LtT6Xkk-kzk
And here's an incredible collection of these stories: http://www.serendipity.li/dmt/340_dmt_trip_reports.htm
bossydinosaur ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:43:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The word "inflammable" and the fact that it means the same thing as flammable.
kefefs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:45:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Canadian city I was born in is south of the US.
OnRazersEdge ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:04:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Windsor, Ontario, Canada is actually south of Detroit. When you cross the border, you travel north into Michigan.
The USA isn't actually entirely bellow canada.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:07:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Corn is actually a type of grass.
Eagle694 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:16:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The average person has less than 2 arms
rochielm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:40:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
First Roman Catholic saint and martyr born in North America was martyred in Japan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_of_Jesus
mattholomew ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:45:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Violent crime in the US has been declining since the early 90s.
Hepcat10 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:13:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you order your alcoholic beverage with lite ice or no ice, you're going to get a much weaker drink.
coreanavenger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:21:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Lolita is a nickname for Delores.
Makes you look at all those grandmas named Delores a little differently.
Source: that book by Nabokov.
tammit67 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:28:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nearly everyone is below average
sega31098 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:45:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dictionaries don't actually define words per se. They are usually descriptive, not prescriptive.
OmidMnz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:51:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
6 weeks, is 10! (10 factorial) seconds.
van-_-hohenheim ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:17:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Chances are that you have an above average number of legs.
CausticCatalyst ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:33:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Accoridng to the CDC half of black women have herpes
PLEASE_DONT_HIT_ME ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:48:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reno, Nevada is further west then Los Angeles.
propsie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:26:39 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
evolution and revolution can be antonyms or synonyms
evolution: 1) gradual directional change 2) a turning movement of the body
revolution: 1 ) A sudden, vast change 2) the turning of an object
zathalen100 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:38:17 on April 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The city of Seattle was built the way it was because of exploding toilets.
Bsn8810500 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:24:28 on April 13, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more stars in outter space then all grains of sand on all the beaches in the world combined.
danald_tramp ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:43:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Donald Trump is the winning Republican primary candidate
*phone typo
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:09:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I knew he didnt drink beer.
Happ4 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:08:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you misspelled whining.
PhreeBSD ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:49:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Household electrical. You are presented with two wires, black and white (and ground, obvious). The logic goes: White, good-- Not harmful. Black, bad-- Hurt you. It's actually the opposite.
EDIT: I realize after posting this it somewhat sounds racist. Racial bias shouldn't be taken into consideration while attempting to presume engineering decisions. White is light, light is good. Darkness is bad. Better?
Naldaen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:00:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
White is heat, heat is power.
Black is dead, dead is ground.
_Ceddy_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:35:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you saying it's the opposite of what you said first? That would be wrong.
Black - Hot/Phase - 120 volts - Bad Touch
White - Neutral - Grounded Conductor - 0 volts
Green - Ground - Grounding Conductor - 0 volts
Still not a good idea to touch the White/Neutral as it is current carrying. Open neutrals are very dangerous and can/do kill.
steven8765 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:14:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
white is right. FTFY
In_WrongThread ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:31:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I agree, Jinx was very good upon release, but ever since they hit her with those Attack Speed nerfs, I feel like she has been lack luster when it comes to being a good ADC. It also just feels unsmooth switching between your minigun and your rockets, I keep canceling auto attacks when I use the rockets.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:50:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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dens421 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:18:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
his username may give a clue
sensual_massuse ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:58:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That auto-cancelling gets me all the time, too many kills missed :(
2jzo ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:27:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
America is fucked after our next presidential election.
PaladinReid ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:52:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sucks to be you guys.
Seal3824 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:46:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sucks to be the rest of the world too. The U.S economy can affect the world a lot.
SolDarkHunter ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:40:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Monty Hall problem.
For those who don't know it, the set up is this:
You have three doors in front of you. Behind one door is a prize. You guess which door hides the prize. The announcer will then open one of the two unchosen doors that does not hold the prize. You are then given the option to change your guess on which of the remaining two doors holds the prize.
The question is: are you more likely to get the prize if you change your answer, or if you stick with your original answer?
The answer is: you are more likely to get the prize if you change your answer. You have a 2/3 chance of winning if you switch your answer, and only a 1/3 chance if you stick with your original guess.
Most people find this intuitively unbelievable... in fact, Nobel-prize winning scientists with backgrounds in probability have been fooled, but it is true.
severoon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:46:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The explanation is...
Say there are 100 doors. You choose one (1/100 chance you got the prize).
Monty opens 98 doors, leaving only one shut and asks, "Would you like to keep your original choice or switch to the other door?"
You'd have to be nuts to keep your 1 in a hundred shot when he basically just showed you the door that had the prize, unless you happened to get lucky enough to pick it in your first shot.
Basically, the decision boils down to: Would you like to choose one out of the available doors, or all the other doors?
yeezus-101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:00:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you!! This makes sense to me now. Finally.
DorkHarshly ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:00:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think its 1/2 if you switch
SolDarkHunter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:50:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That's the part that confuses people. You'd think so, since there are only two doors left to choose from, but no, it's 2/3.
hughby1 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:24:35 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
you can drink oxygen.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:56:09 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
*oxygen
Also, it boils at -300F, so yeah you could drink it but you'd also die. Some crazy Russians made juice drinks that are 'enriched' with gaseous O2. Basically a foam where the gas in the bubbles is oxygen instead of air. That might be what you're thinking of.
hughby1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:01:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ive been awake for 29 hours...i lose all sense of spelling when i'm sleepy.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:05:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I actually had to google it because when I typed it out neither way looked right. Oxygen. Still looks weird.
throatfrog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:08:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds extremely wrong, but could actually be correct...
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 23:31:41 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More than once?
hughby1 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 23:36:55 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
yes, their is such a thing as liquid oxygen. When you drown it isnt because your lungs are full of water, it is because their is not enough oxygen in that water.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:51:13 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I realize it's a thing, but wouldn't it be like -200 celsius?
sysadminbj ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:56:49 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have obviously not seen The Abyss.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:03:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a perfluorocarbon, not pure liquid oxygen
sysadminbj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cool. Maybe I need to re-watch.
hughby1 ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 00:00:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it is closer to 0 degrees actually when drinkable not to create, but when drinkable. you can last about 30 min drinking it without harm. Unless you get a tube straight into your lungs and poor it down that. The only issue with that is it is highly uncomortable.
f_leaver ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:01:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WTF are you on?
rainbowdashtheawesom ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:41:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Liquid oxygen apparently :p
jonnyp11 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:48:09 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In water, it's bonded to hydrogen, I didn't think we could separate it? Also, pure liquid oxygen would cause hypothermia wouldn't it?
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:57:24 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's also gaseous oxygen dissolved in the water. That's what fish breathe. But humans don't have gills, so it doesn't work out great for us if we try.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:57:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, jonnyp11 is correct when oxygen dissolves in water it forms strong attractions to hydrogen in water in a process called hydrogen bonding, human lungs aren't adapted to deal with this so you would drown in most oxygen concentrations of water.
(source:A Level Chemistry)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:23:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure if troll or just wrong but I'll assume the latter:
In water molecules, hydrogen is bonded to oxygen. This is true. But it doesn't happen when oxygen gas mixes with water. The water already has it's oxygen atom or it wouldn't be water. You could create water by mixing H2 and O2 and lighting it on fire, or as a byproduct of a lot of other reactions such as the catabolism of carbohydrates, but that's not happening in normal liquid water.
On to hydrogen bonding: hydrogen bonding occurs when hydrogen is attached to a highly electronegative atom (N, O or F primarily and possibly exclusively? Not sure.) The electronegative atom pulls electron density away from the hydrogen, creating a relatively strong dipole. The negatively charged N, O or F in one molecule is attracted to the positively charged H in other molecules, often of the same type. Water, for example, hydrogen bonds to itself very well, which explains a lot of it's properties like high surface tension and boiling points. Oxygen does not hydrogen bond because it doesn't have any hydrogen. It's not even polar because it's just O2.
Source: Am chemist.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:19:35 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I could be, and probably am wrong, I'm only in my third month of A Level Chemistry and you seem more knowledgeable on the subject, I completely forgot diatomic oxygen is non-polar. I must have been applying concepts that only apply to oxides
hughby1 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 23:58:38 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you can drink it for about 30 minutes without damage.
f_leaver ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:00:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No you can't.
Snazzy_Serval ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:03:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You would most likely die as liquid oxygen is โ183 ยฐC or -297ยฐ F.
hughby1 ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 00:07:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Basically, you have to have a tube down your trachea and a circulation pump to force the fluid in and out of your lungs fast enough to provide the needed oxygenation and carbon dioxide removal. This is said to be deeply unpleasant for conscious people, and therefore is not in use on adults except for limited experiments
Ohhnoes ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:48:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NOT liquid oxygen. You're talking about breathing liquid perfluorocarbon. Liquid oxygen would cause massive damage to your lungs because it's so cold.
Snazzy_Serval ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:09:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've never heard of that procedure. And yes, it sounds deeply unpleasant.
hughby1 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:10:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i never said it was easy, but technically it can be done.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:01:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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AssholeBot9000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:45:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's actually oxidane. Please use the IUPAC name.
Source: am chemist.
marx2k ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:37:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_breathing
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:43:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When Alaska's loan to the USA expired, the Soviets did not want to take it back because it was a deal the Tsar made and they wanted nothing to do with it.
wurrukatte ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:16:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's literally called the Alaska Purchase.
reptomin ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:43:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Loan? Thought it was sale
[deleted] ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 03:06:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was a loan.
usoland-sama ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:45:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A small one of 1 million square acres
juandh ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:31:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. It wasn't.
[deleted] ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 05:46:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was, though.
ILikeBumblebees ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:12:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here's the actual treaty, which says, verbatim, "His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias agrees to cede to the United States..."
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 08:28:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, that's all there is to the history.
ILikeBumblebees ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:09:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, that's correct.
isuckcock ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:10:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guys give much better blowjobs than girls
Kawiisugoi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:40:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you give better blowjobs than girls. Ftfy
DaSaw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Personal experience?
klanny ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:42:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
North Korea is best Korea.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:14:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The phrase, "I would have liked to have". Try explaining that tense to foreigners. It's intense.
Northus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:04:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For some people apparently "should have" sounds wrong, so they write "should of" instead. Stop doing that you illiterate morons.
agingbythesecond ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:37:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its 100% due to the sound the contractration should've makes. When you say it it sounds exactly like should of.
Northus ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:12:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I get that, but "should of" makes absolutely no logical sense in terms of meaning.
agingbythesecond ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:26:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except that it sounds exactly like should have in contraction form. Its not illogical if you think of it like that.
Northus ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:44:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sound-wise it may make sense, but not meaning-wise. We say we "have" or "haven't" or "ought to have" done our homework, so naturally it's "should have" done it rather than the nonsensical "should of".
agingbythesecond ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:00:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, i understand why its wrong. I understand should of is completely wrong but its not illogical.
Northus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:34:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Meaning-wise it's utterly illogical, but whatever.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:08:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You for president.
[deleted] ยท 113 points ยท Posted at 23:34:06 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That girls in South Africa have a higher chance at getting raped than learning to read
illiterati ยท 1088 points ยท Posted at 02:48:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Females have a 93.1% literacy rate in SA.
I suspect that women in South Africa have a better chance of detecting bullshit when they read it than you do.
SCombinator ยท 326 points ยท Posted at 03:32:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Correct - estimates of rape prevalence for women in SA are around 30% - which is shockingly high enough that no one needs to lie about it.
Just_Look_Around_You ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:11:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know FFS who invents these lies. Firstly because it discredits the truth in South Africa which is unacceptably high. And also because there's are probably countries in which this may actually be true.
[deleted] ยท -19 points ยท Posted at 07:52:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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mathewl832 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 10:02:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
here
CunnilAbsent ยท 61 points ยท Posted at 03:33:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OP is misquoting the original statistic, which was that a girl born in Africa is more likely to be raped than learn to read. Literacy rates among women of all ages may be 93.1%, but if there's a large increase in child rape (which there has been) and a significant decrease in the availability and quality of education (which there has been since apartheid ended), then literacy rates won't debunk this.
asshair ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:53:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...Why do people rape children [instead of post-pubescent] girls?
blackledbetter ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:23:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This was something that I was told in highschool and don't really have a source so take it with a grain of salt. Apparently the reason they road children there is because they have a weird misconception that it cures AIDS and other diseases to have sex with a child.
dolphincss ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:01:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ftfy
wyatt1209 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:46:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your question is a good question too, but the one he was asking is also valid.
CunnilAbsent ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:50:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because they're fucked up. But also, culturally, I think there's a belief that having sex with a virgin will cure AIDS. So I would guess some men rape young girls because they're more likely to be virgins.
jarod467 ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 03:19:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, i heard this and it just did not sound right. Googled it, it's bullshit, because as you said the female literacy rate is 93.1% so that's obviously untrue
LennMacca ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:48:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously, South Africa isn't some wretched hive of scum and villainy.
speaks_in_redundancy ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:25:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I dunno about that. I saw Chappie.
AerasGale ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:48:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/u/illiterati should know
Deaks ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:38:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Username checks out.
Fizzay ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:52:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, the women who have already learned how to read won't learn how to read again, so he's technically correct.
BZen07 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:34:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL if you're a woman in South Africa, there's over a 93.1% chance you're gonna be raped. It's science.
VBNSTI ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:37:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For those looking for the references: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2103.html
https://africacheck.org/factsheets/factsheet-south-africas-201415-assault-and-sexual-crime-statistics/
mathent ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:44:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hope to god one of you are wrong.
XDSHENANNIGANZ ยท -21 points ยท Posted at 03:27:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But 94.5% of them are smoking hot bombshells.
[deleted] ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 03:17:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Triforcebear ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:56:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did some research. CIA worldfackbook agrees with /u/illiterati - females do have a 93.1% literacy rate (you can check for yourself here). Wikipedia claims that about 40% of women in South Africa will be raped within their lifetime. So yes, by this OP is incorrect. However, OP may have misremembered or made a typing error and in fact meant Southern Africa - which in all honesty still seems somewhat fishy because areas closest to the south of Africa tend to have decent literacy rates (Zimbabwe - 84.6%, Botswana - 88.9%, Nambia - 84.5% - All from Wikipedia, so numbers may be off). From what I've read, this 'fact' almost holds true for Sub-Saharan Africa, in which it seems 50% of women are literate and about the same number are victims of sexual violence in their lifetimes (I wouldn't take this as fact either, though - there were few articles that I scrounged up from google but most did seem to agree).
JimMorrisonFuckedMe ยท 397 points ยท Posted at 00:23:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have another tab open with some thread about Fun facts, I got confused and thought I was reading that one instead so I thought to myself "Well, that's not a very fun fun fact." That's actually horrible and not very fun at all.
[deleted] ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 00:46:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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JimMorrisonFuckedMe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:53:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, it was fun facts, it was posted a couple of days prior to not fun facts!
Again, it's reposted every fucking time
BuzzWeedle ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:46:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did he actually?
jimmorrison- ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:28:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey again!
Lysergicassini ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:42:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And not a fact
_oceanix ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:34:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's also not true. Hooray!
LuxDeorum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:50:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure when you commented, but you might be interested to see his fact turned out wrong
Lockjaw7130 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:48:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not just not very fun, it's also not even remotely true.
eatmynasty ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:17:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
9 out of 10 people enjoy gang rape.
fax5jrj ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:21:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oddly enough, I'm pretty sure that the fun facts thread you're talking about was in response to a not-so-fun fact thread, where this was posted.
Just_Look_Around_You ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:12:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It also isn't a fact
darth_stroyer ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:24:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Come on that's like the least bad African country.
EuclidsPimposaurus ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:12:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is not true at all
skaol ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 23:40:36 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Source??
[deleted] ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 00:03:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit yesterday.
Trivi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:40:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit was wrong. Again. This is false.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 00:35:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.ngopulse.org/press-release/women-born-south-africa-have-more-chance-being-raped-learning-how-read-rapecoza
45eurytot7 ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 02:18:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From the article.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:42:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure, no way they're biased at all.
SinkHoleDeMayo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:54:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tumblr
kingeryck ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 00:17:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
South Africa
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:25:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Still better odds than my dad's tool shed.
robow556 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:36:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If there is even a chance you can teach your shed to read you should take it. You and shed could be best friends and start a book club, and read Huck Finn and talk about it. That sounds so cool. I wish my shed could ready.
rjolly ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:03:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not true
SSSS_car_go ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Source?
evan164 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:05:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This thread has been mostly fun until now...
chadsexytime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:11:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That explains the failure of my "try not to get raped today" pamphlet
fyreNL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:42:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't that a hoax?
compliancekid78 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:48:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sweden is currently the rape capital of the planet.
writeallnight ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:57:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's because of differing definitions and feeling free-er to report it to the police. If you would use the same definition all over the world, I doubt any European country would make the top 100.
compliancekid78 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:16:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Norway has slightly stricter definitions and they're second to Sweden.
However you cut it up, Sweden and Norway are the centers of rape on planet Earth.
Note on that: the vast majority of rape reports of strangers doing the rape.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/26/police-sentry-posted-to-swedish-swimming-baths-after-child-rape/
coldmtndew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You missed the "what's NOT a fun fact" thread by a couple days.
thewilloftheuniverse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:54:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure that's where he learned it.
Wolfir ยท -15 points ยท Posted at 02:35:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So you're saying that improving the literacy rate among girls in South Africa will prevent those girls from being raped?
juggernaut_alpha ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:56:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How did he say that at all?
gabrielchap ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:23:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
paper product companies are actually huge conservationists by way of prevent large swaths of land from being developed. instead they grow timber and provide habitats for lots of critters. i know about this because my family use to be part of a hunting club that had a lease with Georgia Pacific. if we kept up with the roads and we could hunt on their land.
MichaelOLynn ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:29:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vatican city has 2 popes per square kilometre
tehzephyrsong ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:44:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And about 6 popes per square mile.
gokc69 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:53:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Mall of America in Minnesota is over 4 million square feet and does not have a central heating system.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:27:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On average more than 90% of people in a plane crash survive.
TerpBE ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:44:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yet over 99.9% of people who are passengers in a plane that lands safely die.
CaptainPunisher ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:49:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you accidentally dunk your phone in water, submerse it in rubbing alcohol (after removing the battery, and SIM & storage cards).
dratjr ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:41:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is actually a really good tip. I work for a Digital Repair place and our water damage treatment goes as follows: take apart > dehydrate board(s) > use ultrasonic cleaner (warm alcohol bath) > dry > test. I can't say that your screen will come out undamaged, but you have the best chance of saving your board(s) and subsequently your data. (Works best with 91% Isopropyl Alcohol)
CaptainPunisher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:44:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I try to get 95+% whenever possible. If I still worked at the silicone manufacturer, I could get 100%.
dratjr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:30:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh yeah. Does it actually work that much better for the 4%?
CaptainPunisher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:58:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know. Haven't had to use it yet for a phone. Either way, the less water in it, the better it is at drying it out.
SherbetHead2010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:16:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Methanol would work better. The kind for adding to your fuel lines more precisely. Rubbing alcohol has a bit of water in it. Fuel line methanol is meant to absorb water.
CaptainPunisher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:57:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any high purity alcohol, the less water the better. I keep 95% IPA around my house anyway.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:53:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
%100 of people who smoke marijuana in their lifetime die.
Ultinado ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:27:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
100% of people who don't smoke marijuana in their life will die.
itsthehumidity ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:01:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bristol, Tennessee is closer to Canada than it is to Memphis, Tennessee.
forkintheroadsufjan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:28:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
best thread ever. my mind has exploded countless times
rubixium ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:58:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ted Cruz wants to fine media outlets that criticize politicians.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:28:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump is running for president.
EastoftheRiverNile ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:54:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you add 1+2+3+4+... to infinity the answer is -1/12.
Sounds insane but is very true and actually has a lot of practical applications in quantum physics. This video explains it nicely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-I6XTVZXww
sceptacus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:41:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump is most likely becoming the republican presidental candidate.
andyt8765 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:51:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The University of Oxford and The Aztecs were around at the same time.
Charezza ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:37:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
George W. Bush sat two terms as president.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:04:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You could fit every planet in our solar system in the gap between earth and the moon.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:18:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pony and bologna rhyme
nostalgya ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:59:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This made me happy. Have an upvote.
dnomirraf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:49:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can fix broken PC parts like graphics cards by putting them in the oven.
Nicolay77 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:20:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fix will have to be repeated after a few months, and it will only work 3 or 4 times.
NEXT_VICTIM ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:39:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. Just no.
I can hear it now...
HALP! I put my graphics card in the oven cause Windows said it crashed and now I have a bunch of chips in my oven. Also, when should I take the cookies out of the computer (to make sure their done)?
dnomirraf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:05:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously it's true, if the connections are broken to oven melts thw solder and can fix the connections. It ruins your warranty but its sort of a last ditch attempt to fix it beforw you throw it out.
NEXT_VICTIM ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:10:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I get that but saying "you can fix broken part" by putting them in the oven could result in a fire or more damage to the board if your not careful. There are uses for it but for that guy who broke off part of his PCI connector: it's not going to help.
mikk0384 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:57:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No fire, provided you don't set your oven to temperatures above 300 C (575 F). At those temperatures the PCB will delaminate and the damage is irreversible, but if the part is broken anyway, what is the risk?
Google the temperatures needed before trying, though.
State10 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:57:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you burn the trash in the bar the smoke goes up into the sky where it turns into stars
gatormania31791 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:13:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That doesnโt sound right, but I donโt know enough about stars to dispute it.ย
ayeman1234 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:36:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
why in a bar? you saying if i burnt trash at home it wouldn't turn into stars?
Hypothesis_Null ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:08:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dietary Fat doesn't make you fat. Sugar makes you fat.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 00:09:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Canada is a state.
State-a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government.
Canada is certainly a nation organized under one government.
[deleted] ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 00:44:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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columbus8myhw ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:03:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mexico, India, and Brazil all have states. On the other hand, the full name of Israel is "The State of Israel".
dpash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:57:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's literally the United Mexican States. Estados Unidos Mexicanos.
UnwarrantedPotatoes ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:54:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The United Mexican States
TheHolyFool ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:10:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Greece had city-states a looooong time ago, Athens and Sparta among them. They had spats with each other occasionally. Tell your friend he needs to read more
dlawnro ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:04:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's in for a surprise when he learns about Mexico.
Tea_Junkie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:43:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia has states
_property_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:51:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And Territory's.
Tea_Junkie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:59:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yeah i think they're making northern territory a state too? i remember hearing something about it.
Moving_Upwards ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:50:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...there are other countries with "states" in the name as well...
Iceyeeye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:46:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kevin Bacon wasn't in Footloose.
Alton1231 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:56:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He probably confuses the actual definition of state with the American connotation of country or nation, which have very different definitions but are often conflated in America because we happen to be all three and contain the former, but only think of ourselves as latter two, containing the former.
Milko3399 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:25:34 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australian here. Can confirm that we have states
dexikiix ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 01:14:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like to argue the stereotype of Americans being stupid isn't true but some of us make it so hard.
whos_to_know ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:32:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There will be stupid people, no matter where they are located.
SigmaKnight ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:46:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But we have a special kind of stupid not found anywhere else.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:45:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How many other places have you been to? Everywhere has their own special brand of stupid.
SigmaKnight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:51:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
North America, Caribbean, Western Europe, Middle East.
slimepuddle ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 01:00:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the United States, technically speaking, has 50 provinces in one state.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:12:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, during the times of the Articles of Confederation, where the states had more power than the federal government, they technically WERE states due to that fact.
Elranzer ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:38:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was originally a commonwealth of States, that shared a federal government for military purposes as well as currency.
Basically, we did the EU before the EU.
severoon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:48:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The US is a nation state comprised of state states, commonwealths, etc.
dpash ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:59:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's higher than 50, as you have a number of territories and districts that aren't states.
bbcslave92 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:45:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the beauty of a word with multiple meanings
Tp_Roject ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:03:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this true though, because there are three different types of government in Canada; provincial, municipal and federal. So by your definition a state could be a city, province or the whole country. So Canada is a country made up of states from provincal states from the state of Canada? I'm thinking into this too much aren't I...
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:33:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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James29UK ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:35:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess it saves on batteries.
Snoochey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"There is a 60% chance that it is already raining."
xxDIRTYxREDxx ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:23:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anything that comes out of Gavin Free's mouth
Malleyot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:33:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gavin or Google Google or Gavin Which one said it? Let's find out
are_you_a_cookie ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 10:24:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Switzerland is not part of the EU, it's right in the centre of Europe, but still not a member.
dpash ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 14:02:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To anyone in Europe this is obvious. They're famously isolationist.
orangejeans ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:11:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Although I do live in Europe, educate me, why do they not want to be part of the EU?
LuciferLux ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:14:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably because they have a special deal with the EU. EU member states have to pay into the budget of the EU as well as follow all laws created by it.
Norway is also not a member of the EU.
orangejeans ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:20:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Makes sense. Do you know more on this 'special deal'?
dpash ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:20:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They have an official policy of neutrality. Their isolationism is a consequence of this. They only joined the UN in 2002, for example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolationism#Switzerland
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:54:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Basically they are a tax haven
panzerkampfwagen ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:59:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Water is blue. Just ever so slightly blue but blue nonetheless.
LibertyIsNotFree ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:22:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Bush Tax cuts went predominantly to the lower and middle classes.
Wrecked--Em ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:10:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Octopodes, the plural of octopus. It's a common misconception that octopi is the correct form, but octopus comes from Greek not Latin.
HGF88 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:42:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/octo#Latin https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pes#English
Wrecked--Em ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:03:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/video/octopus
This gives the background on it. No form is really more correct than the other because all are used in English, but if you're trying to make the case for "the most correct" octopodes would be correct etymologically.
bbcslave92 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:40:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
meanwhile I'm going around saying the plural of "sauna" is "saunaa" and not "saunas" because it comes from finnish
my point is, you're being silly
ciswhitemailman ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:39:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We bake cookies and cook bacon. Also we call buildings buildings even though they are already built.
ANotSoSeriousGamer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:43:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What do we call them when they are being built?
Luckylemon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:44:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jobs?
fluffykittenmitten ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:06:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump has a shot at becoming President
panzerkampfwagen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:14:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you stretched all your blood vessels end to end you would die.
lilyspears ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:24:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you take enough DMT, it will relax your mind and body so much that you will experience your own death.
Ignoremyanus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:40:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, you die? Or you feel like you're dying?
lilyspears ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:38:31 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you turn off the power to your computer... Does the computer die?
It's much the same, and the reports of near death experiences echo the DMT experience perfectly.
But you come back after seeing the afterlife its pretty cool.
theruneman ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 10:59:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The same can be achieved with Tylenol.
lilyspears ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:16:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tylenol overdose is the most common cause of acute liver failure in the country.
Guess one doesn't permanently kill you?
bionicjoe ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:07:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sum of all numbers is -1/12.
Careful! You can hurt your brain on this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-I6XTVZXww
bearsnchairs ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:49:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No it isn't. This results from the manipulation of a certain form of analytical sum. The sum of all natural numbers is divergent.
This is a case of bad mathematics.
tinygraycells ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:43:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really enjoyed this video... Thanks for sharing
Electric_Balls ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:53:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If a child is born underwater, it can live the rest of its life underwater.
SassyMcFluffles ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:55:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fairly short life though.
TsarOfOolong ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:16:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is false
Fuh_Queue ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:33:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it dies, it lived it's whole life underwater.
TsarOfOolong ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:42:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahh. I feel stupid
formsofforms ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:38:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's because you are stupid.
TsarOfOolong ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:07:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks bro
cat_on_tree ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:46:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You could live the rest of your life underwater too...
RoosterFucker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:59:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know which one of you is right, but as soon as I can knock up the wife and get her to pop that thing out, we are gonna see of Mermaids are real.
jahmoke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:18:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
only if the umbilical cord hasn't been cut, right?
Electric_Balls ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:26:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Both ways
h_saxon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Appreciate the effort towards recycling.
Electric_Balls ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:45:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I try not to be wasteful :)
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:01:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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jywn4679 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:43:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No it doesn't, the series diverges.
accidentalginger ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:33:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ELI5?
Vaspir ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:07:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's bad mathematics.
thumpas ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:32:10 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, it's a divergent series, there are processes that can find the limit of a divergent series as if it were convergent, but for all practical purposes outside of some math, the limit is infinity.
Millennium_History ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:02:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What ? A negative fraction. What ?
argumentativ ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:45:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
If you add 1+2+3+4... to infinity it equals -1/12
Here is a second proof that is a little harder (or maybe a little easier) to understand
Wikipedia article
bbcslave92 ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 02:40:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
check
no dice, the series is divergent, it doesn't "equal" anything
the reason this "fact" keeps getting repeated is because of some grad school riemann shit
in some circumstances it is convenient to treat something like the series as -1/12 but the "fact" is still wrong
sorry bro
Tamerlane-1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:49:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Zeta functions are wonderful things...
OxidizingTree ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:32:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry to sound ignorant, but what's a zeta function?
Tamerlane-1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:14:26 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's isn't something you would run across in everyday math unless you were a professor or something. Basically zeta(s)= the sum of all fractions 1/Ns where N is every natural number (1-infinity). S is a complex number but only directly yields a solution(the series converges) if the real part is greater than one. So for example example Zeta(2)= 1/12 +1/22 +1/32 ...=1.645...=pi2 /6. In this case s= 2+0i, or just 2. Zeta(-1) is the sum of all real numbers and, as you probably noticed, isn't actually in the domain but using something called analytic continuation you can evaluate it as if it was in the domain, which gives -1/12. -1/12 actually does have application in certain areas of theoretical math and math heavy sciences. The zeta function itself has some very interesting properties that can be read about in Wikipedia.
Sorry about the shitty formatting, I am on mobile. Edited to fix all sorts of stuff.
captainnermy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:30:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How does adding only whole, positive integers ever equal a negative fraction????
argumentativ ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:33:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Infinity is a weird thing.
987asdf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:37:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Many disagree. It rests on 1-1+1-1..=1/2 but it could ewually be argued that 1=1/4+1/4+1/4+1/4. So 1-1+1-1...=1/4+1/4+1/4+1/4-(1/4+1/4+1/4+1/4)+...=1/4-1/4+1/4-1/4+...=1/4-(1/4-1/4)-(1/4-1/4)...=1/4-0-0-0..=1/4.
In fact you could get 1-1+1-1+1... to equal irrational numbers to (infinite sums of rational jumbers)
So you could get 1-1+1-1... to equal all real numbers.
This proof shown in the video hasnt been proven wrong but is far from agreed upon
Chel_of_the_sea ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:58:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The 'proof' in the video is far from rigorous and is in fact just plain false.
Chel_of_the_sea ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:58:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God, that video is a cancer on the internet. No, it does not equal -1/12.
lilbittygoddamnman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:09:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man, you just sent me right down the rabbit hole. I had no idea. Still scratching my head.
unthrowabl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:28:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How can such trollish idea be taken seriously is something that baffles me
987asdf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:51:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Proof that 1+2+3... cannot be less than 0 (by induction):
Basis: 1+2=3>0.
Inductive step: Suppose a+(a+1)>0 for some a>0. Note since a>0, a+2>0 by closure of natural numbers under addition. Also by closure of natural numbers under addition a+(a+1)+(a+2)>0.
(Since this is induction, note that this process can be repeated an infinite number of times)
Therefor, 1+2+3...>0.
jywn4679 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:40:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
False, you cannot manipulate infinite series like that.
omnisDatum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:22:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Either you wrote that wrong or it's not true... unless you can provide a proof?
EDIT: Looks like I'm wrong! Thanks for adding links.
zer0zer0x ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:05:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe you should watch the video that the post links to before posting.
omnisDatum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He edited his comment after I posted mine.
zer0zer0x ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:00:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That would make sense then. It is a very weird, but very simple,proof.
01_throw_away ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:40:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We were just talking about zeta function at work. (we're nerds...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%2B_2_%2B_3_%2B_4_%2B_%E2%8B%AF
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeta_function_regularization
atropine_jimsonweed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:24:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
how?
argumentativ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:26:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Very sneaky math, I just linked a video in the OP.
thewilloftheuniverse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:55:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Basically, the bullshit of modern set theory. Henri Poincare knew it was bullshit, but he got ignored.
jywn4679 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:39:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nothing to do with set theory at all.
ExPerseides ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:41:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Think you're missing some negative signs there. Don't think the sum of all positive integers converges to a negative number.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:52:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you look at either link?
ExPerseides ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:09:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, oops, had the link open from earlier before he edited the links in. :/
Vrdka ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:28:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's more bacteria in you than there is you in you.
naughtydismutase ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:40:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not true.
lye_milkshake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:42:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think what you mean is there are more bacteria in you than the number of cells you are made up of. There certainly isn't 'more bacteria than you' though, because a lot of your cells are hundreds of times bigger than the average bacterium so your body is collectively bigger/heavier.
KillerPacifist1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
By number of cells, yes.
By mass, no.
HGF88 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:38:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
holy shit
bluesam3 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:55:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The first History students at Oxford University didn't learn about the Aztec Empire because it wouldn't exist for another three hundred years.
bbcslave92 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:05:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
also because mesoamerica wasn't discovered yet lmao
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:58:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's only a one hour time zone difference between Pensacola, Florida and Ontario, Oregon.
madogvelkor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:48:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lรถwenbrรคu is older than both the Aztec and Inca empires.
Sanik_Soigneur ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:49:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
US civil war veterans were still alive during WW2.
Tsquare43 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:39:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The last Confederate vet died in 1953 I believe.
mikdavi84 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:16:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Two of them fought
tacolikesweed ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:53:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alaska has over 3 million lakes.
Athuo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:05:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bison and buffalo are not the same animal.
goodevilgenius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:26:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bison and American Buffalo are.
TJzzz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:09:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Betty white is older then sliced bread
TheBari ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:11:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Acura is Honda and Lexus is Toyota.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:21:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought everyone knew this?
TheBari ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:35:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, yeah. It just doesn't really make sense when you say it out loud even though it's true.
agreenster ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:19:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Infiniti is Nissan.
Ten_bucks_best_offer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:27:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ford and Mercury
Dodge and Chrysler
Chevy and Pontiac (GMC)
Most automobile companies have dopplegangers
vbcbandr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:33:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Audi is VW
Tsquare43 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:20:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
powdered non-dairy creamer is inflammable
rushclay ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:28:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
powdered non-dairy creamer is both inflammable and flammable at the same time.
cambo2121 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:51:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Explain please?
rushclay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:04:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Both words mean the same thing, but they appear to mean the opposite. It sounds like it must be wrong but it is correct.
Firetree420 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:21:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alaska is the most North, West and East state.
dlsmith93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Doesn't the international date line divert to avoid the Aleutian Islands? I'd like to hear more about how it's the furthest east.
Edit: upon further inspection, 180 degrees longitude determines east vs west, not the IDL.
eldritch-mcleod ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:31:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the date line might, but the meridian does not.
innagaddadavita28 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:01:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is only inside or outside.
glassjoe92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:06:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mayhem222 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:57:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A cannibal tribe used to refer to humans on their diet just as "long pigs"
TedTheAtheist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:17:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The light that hits us from the Sun is over 10k years old.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:33:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wouldn't it be like 8 minutes?
TedTheAtheist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:40:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's only travel time!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:42:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what else is there?
TedTheAtheist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:55:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, the creation of the protons of course.. it all starts in the middle and works its way out.
DeadCello ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:27:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It needs to escape the core first, which takes that long. Once it reaches the surface, it's 8 minutes.
IUsedToBeGoodAtThis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:33:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Inflammable means flammable
RudezAwakening ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:41:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every time I hear or read "hanged" it drives me crazy.
I don't understand how it is not "He was hung" and the proper version is "he was hanged." It sounds so dumb to me...
ocient ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
im basing this on pretty much zero fact checking, but i think hung refers to strangulation. hanged refers to snapping a spine
TimoculousPrime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:20:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, "He was hung" would be correct. A hanged man has been hung from a rope.
Platfoot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:43:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't this a difference between British-English and American-English?
Crookesy321 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:43:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump has a good chance at becoming the next US president
SweetTardigrada ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:45:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pronouncing GIF as JIF
Ouija_Squeegee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:51:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stop trying to make jif happen.
It's not going to happen.
SweetTardigrada ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:22:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't have to happen if that's the way its meant to be
saintofhate ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:05:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I will pronounce GIF as JIF when graphics are pronounced as jraphics.
1978TransAm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:41:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hate JIF. I only pronounce it the correct way when I'm talking to someone who else pronounces it the correct way, and I do it very begrudgingly.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:15:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Point nine repeating equals one.
0.9999999... = 1.0
TheKingofCascadia ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:47:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No it does not...
Gramage ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:05:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah it does.
CyborgBadger_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:35:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
x = 0.99999...
10x = 9.999999...
10x - x = 9x
9.99999... - 0.99999... = 9
9x = 9
x = 1
4th_and_Inches ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:21:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
North Korea is closer to Alaska than Hawaii.
GeneralJesus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:27:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The westernmost point in mainland South America is still in the same timezone as the East Coast of the US
Pooeymagoo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:32:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus lived closer to today than that of when the first Egyptian pyramid was built in 2700 b.c.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 07:39:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Gramage ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:48:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All religions come from older religions/stories which got them from even older cultures' stories which got them from bedtime stories which got them from stories told before beds even existed which came from a species with blossoming intelligence as yet unable to explain the world around them and made shit up. Kinda makes sense when you think about it.
stankhead ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:45:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lake Tahoe is further West than Los Angeles
panzerkampfwagen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:46:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When "Star Wars" first showed at the cinema in 1977 it was only Called "Star Wars". The whole Episode IV business was added years later when they decided to make a sequel.
Boush117 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:28:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really cool that they called it Episode IV instead of I, since it essentially starts in the middle of the story.
On the topic, pretty weird that the off-hand mention of Clone Wars in ANH has lead to another movie trilogy, two animated seriesnever forget the 2003 Clone Wars and countless of books, toys, games etc.
Grug16 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:50:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You flip two coins and one of them lands heads. The probability that they are both heads is 1 in 3.
drcl ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:53:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't you mean 1 in 4?
Grug16 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:02:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. It's 1 in 3.
drcl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
do an experiment. You will see I am right. Flip 2 coins 100 times and you get 2 heads approx 25% of the time.
I would explain it to you mathematically but there are plenty of websites that will do that for you.
Grug16 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:20:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then I will explain logically.
There are four possible results: HH, TH, HT, and TT.
Since one coin is heads, the result cannot be TT. That leaves 3 possibilities. Therefore, the chance of both being heads is one in 3.
drcl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:35:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Before you throw any coin there are 4 possible outcomes
(aH bH) Coin A heads, Coin B Heads
(aT bH) Coin A Tails, Coin B Heads
(aH bT) Coin A heads, Coin B Tails
(aT bT) Coin A Tails, Coin B Tails
OK so lets thrown Coin A:
Coin A can only be heads or tails. I think you will agree that there is a 50 % probability of Heads.
Now lets throw coin B:
Coin B can only be heads or tails. I think you will agree that there is a 50 % probability of Heads.
So there is a 50% probability of coin A being heads and a 50 % probability of coin B being heads.
Now you might not know this but when you have 2 independent probablities and you want to find out the combined probabiliy of both occuring you multiply the 2 probabilities. 0.5 x 0.5 = 0.25 or 1 in 4.
The simpler way to look at it is like this though:
These are the 4 possible outcomes - ALL EQUALLY LIKELY WITH A 1 IN 4 CHANCE
(aH bH) Coin A heads, Coin B Heads BOTH HEADS
(aT bH) Coin A Tails, Coin B Heads NOT BOTH HEADS
(aH bT) Coin A heads, Coin B Tails NOT BOTH HEADS
(aT bT) Coin A Tails, Coin B Tails NOT BOTH HEADS
The most likely outcome is actually heads and tails.
In high school I used to make money from people like you because most people have a really bad understanding of how probability works.
Grug16 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:46:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would be a one in four chance if you were just flipping two coins. However, in this problem the coins are already flipped and you know for a fact that one is heads, which is really a way of saying "The result is not TT". Therefore there are only three possible combinations remaining, one of which is HH, hence 1 in 3.
drcl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:11:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
OK if you say so. Just do the experiment. Seriously.
dens421 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:10:45 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No it's not, it is 1 in 2! When you say that one coin is H it's not the same as saying it's not TT. It also implies that you have to eliminate either TH or HT since you cannot keep them both!
In you one of them lands H you have to know which one it is you are talking about from there the other can either be H or T with a 50/50 chance of each.
Grug16 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:20:40 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The premise is "two coins were flipped and one of them lands heads". You don't know which got heads, which is the point. It could have been the first or second. The only thing you can know for sure is that it's impossible for both to be tails. That allows you to eliminate one of the four possible results. Since HH is one of the three remaining possible results, the answer is 1 in 3.
dens421 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:02:30 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't matter that you don't which it is. What matters is that the person telling you, knows which it is. That information means that you are either in the situation ?H or H? with a 50/50 chance.
In both situations the probability to get ?=T knowing H is 1/2.
Another way to put it : Indeed, after excluding TT, HH is 1/3 but non-HH is 2/3
Therefore after excluding TT the probability to get HH is (1/3)/(2/3)=1/2
Grug16 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:06:57 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For your first example, 50/50 means that only one or the other can be true. But if the result is HH then both ?H and H? are true. You're saying that the possibilities are TH, HH, HT, and HH. You're counting HH twice, which is why your math is breaking down.
For your second example: By your logic, if I have a box with 1 red ball and 4 blue balls, I have a 1/5 chance of getting the red ball and a 4/5 chance of getting a blue ball, so (1/5) / (4/5) = 1/4 chance of red ball. What if we have 1 red ball and 1 blue ball. (1/2) / (1/2) = 1, so it's a 100% chance of a red ball? Dividing the probabilities merely says that HH has half the odds as non-HH, not that HH has a 50% chance of happening.
dens421 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:47:52 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually no it's where yours break down you HAVE to count it twice if you are ignoring the fact that you already know if you are in the ?H or H? situation.
Let's put it another way you toss two coins that I can't see (in a cup). If at least one of them was H you show it to me by sliding it out of the cup. Now the only unknown is what is the chance that the other one is T and that is 50/50 (a coin toss). It doesn't matter which one it was I know this one is not T for sure so TH has been removed from the choices as well as TT (since the coins are tossed simultaneously you order them by which one you show me first).
Maybe it's more obvious if you have a blue coin and a red coin you toss them both If Blue is H the chance that Red is T is 1/2 If Red is H the chance that Blue is T is also 1/2 because they are independent.
As for dividing the probabilities it is what you do when you have conditional probabilities it's the chance of X happening knowing that Y already happened in this case what has already happened is EITHER ?T or T? not both. Both is still only a 0.5 probability knowing that either ?T or T? is true and this is why you count it twice as you put it.
Cannot comment on your balls exemple since you didn't say if you pulled them at the same time or not but yes if you have a box with a blue and a red ball and you pull them both the chance of having one red is 100%.
dens421 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:39:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would say 1 in 2...
When you throw two coins and you only counts the trows where at least one coin gives H the chance that the other is also H in 1/2.
you get 50% chance of AHBH knowing that AH OR 50% chance of AHBH knowing that BH
panzerkampfwagen ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 07:54:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1 in 4
Grug16 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:02:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:03:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry, didn't see you said one of them lands on heads.
It's 1 in 4 for the overall odds.
Grug16 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:18:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Incorrect. It's still 1 in 3.
There are four possible Results:
A. HH
B. HT
C. TH
D. TT
Since one of the coins is heads, it cannot be D. That leaves A, B, and C. Therefore it is a 1 in 3 chance to be two heads.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:23:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what I just said.
spirituallyinsane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:32:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, conditional probability. Such an arcane mystery to me :)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:52:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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blukes ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 08:01:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only when rounding to whole numbers
Au_Sand ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:30:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Woman's suffrage is a wonderful thing.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:49:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone will post the 52 playing cards fact again in about 6 posts.
SherbetHead2010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:18:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They already have and I've disproven most of them. Except for the one about there being more combinations than seconds since the Big Bang. That one is true. I was really surprised.
fibianofthemarsh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:21:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We'd had-we had had.
celestisdiabolus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:21:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When referring to a band or some other collective noun, you don't use is, you use are
BobaFettuccine ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:21:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean is Standard British English? Because that's true. But in the U.S. we use "is". There are no absolute truths in language.
celestisdiabolus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:45:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've seen it in American English textbooks, FWIW
ITGuyLevi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:45:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about bands like NIN?
celestisdiabolus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:05:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anything that's a collective noun should be using are
If you say the band's full name, it sounds and is correct
ITGuyLevi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:18:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As the full band is one person does that rule still apply?
celestisdiabolus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:35:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That wouldn't be a collective noun then
ITGuyLevi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:10:26 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
English is so much fun; so, "Nine Inch Nails is going to release a new album!" or, "Pearl Jam are going to release a new album." would both be correct?
celestisdiabolus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:31:59 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ya
91Jacob ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:43:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Theoretically speaking, if you managed to fold a piece of paper in half 50 times, it would be so thick that it would reach from earth to the sun. Unfortunately 8 times is pushing it, as shown in Myth Busters. If you can't believe this, remember we're dealing with powers here: each fold is an extra power of 2.
McChrist1776 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:44:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence.
DoubleJam ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:46:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Malaria has killed half the people that have ever lived.
schzap ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:54:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
awkward_redditor99 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:59:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Media is plural for medium.
COOLSerdash ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:03:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's only one country separating Finland and North Korea.
hiddendll ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:19:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In Denmark you're allowed to buy alcohol in shops/stores with up to 16,3% alcohol in and drink it on the street without the fear of being arrested. Popular shots that got low volume come with 16,4% - you have to be 18 to get into clubs and stuff though.
It's also legal to have sex when you're the age of 15.
Thought this would shock Americans.
wh33t ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:53:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flammable and Inflammable mean the same thing.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:42:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is a substance made from something highly flammable and a flame accelerant. If you pour it on a fire will extinguish it rather than explode. Its water. This has always fascinated me.
Sssiiiddd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:18:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's because water already has been burnt.
Lumitoon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:54:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vaccination... who knew..
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:58:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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NEXT_VICTIM ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:58:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure! Only if ketoacidosys is your thing though.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:16:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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NEXT_VICTIM ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:23:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Source?
The whole issue with the core Adkins (no carb) was the body basically overloads the liver (enlarged liver) AND causing ketoacidosys. I can source that if you'd like.
Manic_42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:22:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
source please?
NEXT_VICTIM ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:03:16 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is a list of source material and a few examples. I can get more for you if you want.
Sub-20 carbs per day leads to ketosis directly.
Source: http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/weight-loss/in-depth/low-carb-diet/art-20045831?pg=2
Adkins can adversely effect the liver if your at risk for liver issues
Source: http://www.livestrong.com/article/292609-atkins-diet-liver-problems/
Notes on ketoacidosis See section relating to ketoacidosis
Source: http://www.m.webmd.com/diabetes/what-is-ketosis
Additional notes on ketoacidosis (Wikipedia link)
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketoacidosis
A doctorate study of ketoacidosis in rodents related to liver diseases
Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3679496/
Woman has sub-20 carb diet but is not diabetic. Has multiple ketoacidosis episodes and uses diabetic insulin (for a few days after) to recover from it before Gives a technical explanation for how it happens.
Source: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc052709
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:39:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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NEXT_VICTIM ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:43:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm offering a source for mine. How about yours?
OffbeatBlitz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:10:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On average, humans have less than one arm.
farstriderr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:30:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
There is no physical process pulling magnets together(or pushing them apart). Same thing with gravity. No physical interaction going on there.
VibrantIndigo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:18:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is correct to say: "it happened to John and me" rather than "It happened to John and I."
Most people say, "John and I" though so that SOUNDS right because it's what we're used to hearing. But it's not right.
You wouldn't say, "It happened to I". You'd say "It happened to me." Which is why you say, "It happened to John and me."
lanzr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:47:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Earth produces people like an apple tree produces apples.
MagicalKartWizard ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:20:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know. I've found more than a few rotten ones.
CybaltM ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:50:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've said this before but every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
ChaosWolf1982 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:01:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The 2016 top Republican candidate is a racist homophobic misogynist who advocates violence against minority races.
the_mighty_moon_worm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:03:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
about twenty years after slavery was abolished the automobile was invented.
I bring this up every time people argue that slavery was so long ago we couldn't possibly still see its effects on our society.
urPenguinsRbelong2us ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:17:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
israel was founded on terrorism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing
whirlpool138 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:55:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a country or government, the United States is actually older than Germany, France, Italy, Russia and a whole lot of other nations. For instance, the Constitution and founding of the US predates Germany by nearly 100 years (Germany didn't actually become a country/unify till 1871 and even then the modern version isn't the same as the Empire started by the Kaiser). The culture and people are the same, but it's not the same consistent nation or government.
ManamiVixen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:07:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Water is lighter than air, but is also much denser at room temperature. But when heated, evaporates and floats up. It's why clouds can be suspended in the sky.
Jack_Asperger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:48:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More Americans are murdered by being beaten/kicked to death than with rifles or shot guns
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-homicide/expanded_homicide_data_table_8_murder_victims_by_weapon_2009-2013.xls
Here's some of the 2013 statistics.
Rifles 285
Shot guns 308
Hands/feet 687
Knives 1,490
Hand guns 5,782
You'd think with all the efforts by Washington to ban assault rifles ( a small percentage of rifles sold ) that crimes with rifles would be common.
I cant find a chart that breaks the statistics down by regular rifle and assault rifle , but we usually have more people die from lightning strikes each year than by Assault Rifles.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:45:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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panzerkampfwagen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:16:02 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, we actually don't. They were terrible at science. Ideology told German scientists what their results were, not their results.
frosted1030 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 00:53:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The USA is a republic, not a democracy. You don't get a vote.
goalieman392 ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 01:21:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't it a democratic republic? We vote for those that vote.
natched ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:10:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And a democratic republic is a form of representative democracy.
Tsquare43 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Constitutional Republic
natched ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:24:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Constitutional federalist democratic republic.
HW90 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:41:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A republic is voting for those who vote. Most countries elect representatives but also hold referendums so are a hybrid between a democracy and a republic. There are likely a handful of pure republics but no pure democracies because it's a rather ineffective way of doing things.
frosted1030 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 01:44:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You vote for those that have enough resources to run. And they vote on your behalf to impoverish you.
blackfox1 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 01:25:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a democratic republic.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:46:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of Korea?
frosted1030 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:42:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like instant water, just add water. Right? LOL
tirmanadir ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 01:18:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's both. Fucking google their definitions.
frosted1030 ยท -12 points ยท Posted at 01:21:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No such thing.
yperite ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:44:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is a republic at the federal level, but a democracy at the state level. We vote all the time for state laws, deemed issues on the ballots, hence a democracy. However in terms of federal laws, our elected officials vote, thus a republic.
Seadgs ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:13:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nuh-uh, you just tick republican or democrat then turn ESPN back on.
tirmanadir ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:10:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A republic has an elected head of state, a democracy has an elected government. The US is both. The UK is an example of a democracy that isn't a republic, as the Queen isn't elected.
Zeldafoof ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:31:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought we do get a vote and we are a democracy. Lots of people go vote, and I believe that vote counts.
RyanU406 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:47:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
As far as voting for a president, the vote kinda counts. You the voting citizen don't decide the president, you tell the members of the electoral college in your state how you want them to vote. They are the ones who actually vote for president. As far as laws (city, county, state and federal) you vote for representatives to vote for you on them.
Edit: grammar
Zeldafoof ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:00:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, that's what I meant. Thanks!
azorthefirst ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:08:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Technically the United States is a Democratic Federal Republic. Democratic in that the people vote, a republic because instead of voting on laws directly we vote on individuals, and Federal because of how our government is organized.
Zeldafoof ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:40:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for supplying reasons rather than just telling me I'm wrong.
frosted1030 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:41:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You vote for people to represent you to vote for other people, and those people, they are appointed, so no. You don't get to vote.
Zeldafoof ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:43:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But you get to decide who represents you. Doesn't that mean you get a vote?
HW90 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:42:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a republic rather than a democracy, being in a democracy means the people directly vote on laws and policies, or in other words you get to vote in referendums. Most countries are a hybrid between a republic and a democracy as you elect officials to do most of the voting but have the occasional referendum.
Zeldafoof ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:40:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks.
frosted1030 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:52:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You aren't voting for anything. It's busy work for morons.
Zeldafoof ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:01:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Read my other comment.
RockitMane ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 01:46:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha, no, it really doesn't.
Zeldafoof ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:01:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Read my other comment.
PukeBucket_616 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:17:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here's the scary part, this doesn't sound wrong at all, it sounds absolutely right, but people still call it the other thing.
natched ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:12:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well however it sounds, it is wrong. The US is both a republic and a democracy.
Democracy does not mean direct democracy where the people vote on the laws. Democracy means a government where power is derived from the people, as the first sentence of the US Constitution states our government does.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/democracy
Panzerdrek ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:00:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is wrong on a number of levels. First, the U.S. is a federalist system. That means government exists at state and federal levels. For many states, those government have provisions for direct democracy. For example, in my state measures can be put on the ballot through direct efforts, and are voted on directly by the voters.
In addition, the federal government is a democracy. It has a house of representatives and a senate. The House of Representatives is a representative body elected democratically, hence House of Representatives. The U.S. is thus both a republic and a representative democracy. As representative democracy is a subclass of democracy, the U.S. is therefore a democracy.
Finally, you are using a specific definition of Republic that is not commonly recognized anywhere outside the U.S.
In most contexts, it is more accurate to say that the U.S. is a republic that is not a direct democracy.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:08:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The United States is a semi-republic, semi-democracy. The Electoral College's votes are determined by the Popular's votes.
frosted1030 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:21:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The electoral college is appointed and has no legal obligation to vote as the people do.
Doomulus_Supreme ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:33:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have a piece of paper.
If you cut another paper in half and cut that piece in half and cut THAT piece in half and repeated that cycle infinitly, you would never have as much paper as the first piece.
Qualdrion ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:52:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean if you add up the pieces? Because if you do you actually end up having exactly as much paper the second time. The key here is that when you repeat the process infinite times you converge to a specific sum, in this case sum i=1 to infinity 0.5i.
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sum+i%3D1+to+infinity+0.5%5Ei
apinc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:35:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every time you cut you lose an almost immeasurably small piece of paper. Keep cutting and eventually you'll lose enough to make a noticeable difference.
That and good luck making the cuts 100% perfect every time.
Skirtz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:50:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think this is a problem meant to be explored mathematically, not with human error and real world limitations
thedantasm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:28:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Conservation of matter. The dust doesn't disappear.
bbcslave92 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:26:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Proofs?
brandonjeffi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:42:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you throw a dart at a board, the probability of hitting a point on the board is 100% (let's assume you're not going to miss). That being said, the probability of hitting any one point is 0%.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:45:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Um............ what?
KillerPacifist1 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:20:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's defining "point" in the mathematical sense of an infinitely small one dimensional point and is assuming the dart is infinitely sharp.
So on this mathematical dart board you have an infinite number of infinitely small points, and the probability of hitting any one point is infinitely small. 1/infinity=0.
So even though the dart has a 100% chance of hitting the dart board, the chance of it landing on any particular one of the infinite number of points is 0%.
Of course, in real life the head of the dart isn't infinitely small, and the dartboard can't be divided into infinitely many points, so that chance of it hitting a given point isn't zero when you actually throw it. This is really just a thought experiment to show how bizarre infinity is as a theoretical concept.
brandonjeffi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:25:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Way to explain it better than me!
The dartboard model is just for familiarity in explanation really. I'm pretty sure there are plenty of situations where effectively infinite parameters like this do apply, and thus the field of probability evolves to suit them!
Unfortunately, however, I'm no longer studying math, and my knowledge and explainability continues to wane... But the field is full of this kind of interesting stuff
snpi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:27:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
kind of like a 2 dimensional version of Zeno's paradox.
brandonjeffi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:34:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's really weird but it's a convention we have to follow for math to make sense!
The reason is there is an uncountably infinite number of points in any space (in this case two dimensional) and if you assign each point a probability greater than zero then the total probability will immediately go to infinity which can't happen; the total probability has to add up to 1, or 100%.
Remember a mathematical "point" has no dimension, it just is. For example the coordinates (1, 2) and (1.0000001, 2.0000001) represent different points.
This makes probability class significantly harder though....
panzerkampfwagen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:38:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But then reality comes along.............
Xannin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:11:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesnt that depend on the size of the point?
brandonjeffi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:28:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A "point" has no dimension in physics and math. For example, a point exists at the coordinate (1, 2) and nowhere else. (1.000001, 2.000001) is a different point, and so on
brandonjeffi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But you're right in a way. We effectively change the size of points by simplifying the probable outcomes to make calculations doable, or at least easier.
Xannin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Both of yours are good points.
bigditka ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:46:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The word "inflammable" actually means combustible but because of the pre-fix "in" most people think it means that it is flame-proof. As a result, manufacturers and retailers use the term "flammable" (which is not a word) to describe a product likely to go up in flames.
ijklmn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:56:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
8 is half of 13. To prove it, all you have to do is take the Roman numeral XIII and make a cut line down the middle horizontally.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:07:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Touchรฉ
Why_is_this_so ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:21:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oxford University is older than the Aztec empire.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/oxford-university-is-older-than-the-aztecs-1529607/?no-ist
_Raziel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:35:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Atheism.
every downvotes makes it more true.
2ndandlong ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:13:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Social justice warriors and sharia law proponents are one and the same. Inherent to both are radical views of right and wrong. Each is militantly intolerant of any ideology but its own and will seek to suppress by extreme means any divergent viewpoints.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:18:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Horseshoe theory
JesseRodriguez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:48:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump will win the republican primary and likely be the next president of the United States of America.
dino123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:45:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and likely start another war in the Middle East.
LinoaB ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:59:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Perish the thought
CeterumCenseo85 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:40:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bambi is male.
hijomaffections ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:39:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wtf did you think? He grew antlers hung out with his other two male friends, fought off that rambo-bambi, pretty sure is addressed as son by his dad, and becomes the next prince.
Or did you think faline was the male one?
GermBurgers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of kids never actually see he classic Disneys and only know the characters from toys and pictures.
subjectiveoddity ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:34:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The only reason I still have a vcr is so my nieces and nephews can enjoy all the wide world of Disney that I did as a child that I still have on tape.
tyreka13 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:57:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For Havanese dogs it is one of the most popular female names. That is where I named my dog from. A lot of places put the name Bambi as female though the movie was not.
queefy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:44:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
killer whales are not whales.
Snoochey ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:27:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't they breathe through a hole, have babies straight out of the snatch and swim with their tail going up and down? What doesn't classify them as whales? I am very ignorant on this subject haha
Ten_bucks_best_offer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:55:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It falls into the toothed whale category but is further classified into the dolphin family.
Snoochey ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:13:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buuut... dolphins are whales?
Also, "Toothed whale" is still a whale. Is it not?
Ten_bucks_best_offer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you go far enough back in the taxonomy you will get 'all dolphins are whales, but not all whales are dolphins'. Dolphins are a branch off of the whale tree. Whales separate into toothed and baleen, delphinodiea (notice the 'no idea' in the word) are a branch off the toothed branch. That then branches off into dolphins an porpoise.
Evolution is a pain in the ass sometimes.
Food for thought - The hippopotamus' closest living cousin is the whale.
Snoochey ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:15:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I get all dolphins are whales but all whales are not dolphins. But if the killer whale is a dolphin then by that definition it is a whale.
e/ You're confusing the hell out of me. I don't know these things! lol
tehzephyrsong ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:53:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All dolphins are whales but not all whales are dolphins.
neverbebeat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:10:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Life is a sexually transmitted disease that has a 100% fatality rate.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:37:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump is not a racist
jimdandy19 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:42:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everything one is and has is almost entirely the result of luck.
Mynameisnotdoug ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 12:50:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd say "chance" over luck, but yeah.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 00:24:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:45:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Revan343 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:02:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some people never progress past this point
356afan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:11:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They are called politicians...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:11:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some of them stay as one.
AnaIRanger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:24:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"I dived into the water" instead of "I dove". Both are technically correct though.
RockitMane ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:48:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scuba-dove-dove-dove!
Blottoboxer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:36:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Receipt can be a verb.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:15:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's odd about English is that just about any word can be turned into a verb.
zani1903 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:44:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess you could say... you can verb any word?
Blottoboxer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:24:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's just really weird. An app I made at work had a 'Receipted Orders' section. I argued unsuccessfully that it was not common parlance. Apparently in supply chain management, that is a thing.
in_pizza_we_trust ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:37:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More ways to shuffle a deck of cards (52) then there are atoms on Earth.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:16:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now the problem is learning them all.
snpi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah it's tricky because each neuron would be responsible for remembering 806581751709438785716606368564037669752895054408832778240 combinations. A tall order.
SherbetHead2010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:21:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This is wrong. I have proof in an earlier post.
EDIT: Sorry sir I stand corrected. I did the math and it turns out there are more combinations than atoms on earth. As far as there being more combinations than atoms in the solar system like others have said, that is doubtful, and there being more than the universe, definitely not.
thatguyfromthathing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:04:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If a solid object is hot enough, water will turn into beads on contact and slide off if the surface is flat (liedenfrost effect). I can't explain it really, but I know water is turning into vapor slowly and has a pocket of vapor on the bottom to try to keep it away from the surface
myanusisbleeding101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:15:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, its that the water that is in direct contact with the hot surface turns into steam before the water at the center creating a gas bubble around the liquid water.
bbcslave92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:19:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
leidenfrost
ur welcum
columbus8myhw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:04:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Boston (east coast) is directly north of Chile (west coast).
Zarana85 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The word "hanged". I know it's technically right but it just sounds wrong in a sentence.
Ten_bucks_best_offer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:37:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"He was hung."
-"I know that, but how did he die."
ColeYote ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Water expands in its solid form.
spiralbean ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:19:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One-way mirrors are the same thing as two-way mirrors.
Ashybuttons ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:21:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Over half your body weight is bacteria.
bbcslave92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Proofs?
BearyPotter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:35:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Legal slavery in America lasted longer than the Aztec Empire.
ShadyWhiteGuy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:40:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All of the other planets in our solar system could fit between Earth and the Moon.
TheAtlanticGuy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
France shares a border with three majorly Dutch-speaking countries: Belgium, The Netherlands, and Suriname.
Belarus borders Russia to the east. To the west are two countries, Lithuania and Poland, that both also border Russia.
The westernmost time zone in South America is Eastern Time.
There is only one country in the entire world whose land has never been under the control of another country: Tonga.
The southermost point of the European Union is in France. The westernmost point, also in France. The easternmost, also in France.
Hawaii and Eastern Kiribati are at the same longitude. They are 24 hours apart.
Fourteen times as many people live in Puerto Rico than all of the British Overseas Territories combined.
Newfoundland, specifically, is an extra thirty minutes behind GMT. Nowhere else in the area is.
The longest domestic flight in the world, measuring at 5,809 miles, is in France.
If you're in Mongolia and head west into China, you'll have to set your clock forward an hour.
immortalalphoenix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:58:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
most glass is green.
and infinite of all whole numbers <infinite of numbers between 1 and 2.
SdotCarter13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:02:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Air with 100% humidity is less dense than air with 0% humidity.
DankSideOfTheForce ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:02:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Water can be cooled to below 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius) without becoming ice.
Brinsley2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:04:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More people live in California than in Australia.
Canada_is_gay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:46:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More people live in Tokyo metro than in Australia.
Dogswearingsocks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:04:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hot water freezes faster than room temp water
SherbetHead2010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:23:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only sometimes in certain conditions.
tcw1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:04:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Liechtenstein is the last remaining remnant of the Holy Roman Empire.
w-xopher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:06:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Squids have beaks.
Allen_is_gross ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:08:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sum of all positive numbers is equal to -1/6.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:12:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The largest city in Antarctica is the McMurdo Station, with a population of 1,258.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:18:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So not actually a city.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:53:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The largest TOWN.
fucking_troll ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:14:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
AzraelMC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:20:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The first country south of Detroit is Canada.
Panchothepup ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:23:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
A pound of feathers weighs more then a pound of gold.
Precious metals are measured in troy pounds, whereas feathers in the standard avoirdupois. In troy pounds 12 ounces are a pound instead of the regular 16. Feathers therefore weigh more.
Edit: spelling
freebirdflying ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A Ruben sandwich.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:25:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the alps and Himalayas weren't around when dinosaurs romed the earth
archonsengine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more trees on earth than there are stars in the galaxy.
gangin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If there are 23 people in a room, there is over a 50% chance that two of them share a birthday.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If a function of a complex variable is once differentiable, then it is INFINITELY differentiable.
h_saxon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the US every year has two winters.
CanadianJogger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anywhere that has winter has two.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia only has one winter per year.
CanadianJogger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:03:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More like two wet seasons!
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Winter is dry.
CanadianJogger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:08:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh yeah, that would be opposite too.
dragonvulture ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:38:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"extremely wrong" is actually correct
Eurynom0s ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Induced demand.
eruditeseattleite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:41:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The torch relay at the Olympics was invented by the Nazis.
Prometherion666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:42:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eaten instead of ate.
mrord1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:14:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
eaten = perfect passive tense: the food was eaten.
ate = perfect active tense: I ate the food.
thedantasm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:11:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And ball instead of turtle.
Baseball is played with a ball.
thedantasm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:11:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And ball instead of turtle.
Baseball is played with a ball.
upalonyTony ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:42:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
cold water boils quicker than hot one.
Canada_is_gay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:51:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not true. Cold water heats faster than hot water relative to starting temperature but as it heats that slows.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-it-true-that-hot-water/
Ouija_Squeegee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:10:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmmm http://www.gameshowgarbage.com/ind097_worstofhk1.html
RowdyRascal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:43:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Middle of the month bank account mobile updates :P
MrMeeeseeks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I still don't understand the physics of this but when you're making a turn on a bike, you're moving the front wheel in the opposite direction of the turn. If you're turning left, your front wheel is pointing right.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:47:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Um..............
mrord1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe at the very start to force the bike to lean into the turn, but that would be an extremely short moment.
Vaspir ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:26:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope! Bikes, more visibly on motorbikes, fall into turns by turning the wrong way.
The mathematics is beyond my ability to explain but there are tons of videos explaining how it works for motorcycles and the mechanics are the same for a push bike.
Sanik_Soigneur ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cyclist here, no. However at higher speeds the vast majority or the turn is made by leaning the bike not by turning the handlebars.
McFeely_Smackup ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:17:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's actually correct. It's called "counter steering" and is incredibly counter-intuitive, but is a fact.
And leaning does not cause turning, counter steering causes the lean. This has been demonstrated with bikes that have fixed steering, and it's basically impossible to balance, no less turn.
Vaspir ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:23:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Motorcyclist here, you're wrong and it works the same for both. It's called counter steering and is well documented.
dunecan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:53:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are the best.
rfrostm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Daylight Saving Time.
pleonasticmonkey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The average penis is a mean dick.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Canada_is_gay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:56:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It has. Once. 100 is the highest recorded temperature in Hawaii, on the Big Island in 1931.
JohhnyDamage ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:59:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can substitute furnace oil with diesel fuel in your home.
2shitsleft ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But you cannot substitute fuel oil for diesel in a semi.
Sam_Strong ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On average, every person in the world has about 1 testicle.
ExpiresAfterUse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is actually possible to turn lead (or any other element) into gold.
dead_phish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The solution to the Monty Hall problem is completely counterintuitive.
There's a game show, where there are three doors. Behind 2 of these doors is a goat; the other has a new car. You get to keep what's behind whatever door you choose. You pick door number three. The host, who knows what's behind each door, opens door number two, revealing a goat, and asks if you want to change your choice. It is ALWAYS in your favour to switch doors.
Intuitively, this makes no sense. It shouldn't matter - your odds of getting the car haven't changed, the car hasn't moved. What has changed is the information you have. When you picked door number 3, you had a 33% chance of picking correctly. Now, given the choice between door 1 and door 3, you have a 50% chance of picking correctly.
papercowmoo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:09:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You actually have a 66% chance of getting it correct if you change doors.
TheBari ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:15:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup. Because you had a 33% chance of being right on the first guess which means you have a 66% chance of being wrong. The door that opens will ALWAYS have a goat. So in the end, you are betting on weather or not your first guess was correct.
MaybeEinstein ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:07:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The USA and Russian borders are only about 4 kilometers apart at their nearest point.
AnotherStupidName ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:10:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The shortest path from Atlanta to Tokyo passes almost directly over Anchorage, Alaska.
GFrankles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The yolk is not the part that turns into a chick
dingogary ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:14:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most people have more than the average (mean) number of legs.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:15:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Qantas has had 2 planes shot down.
It has also had fatal crashes.
What it hasn't had is a fatal jetliner crash.
autumntraveler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
remuneration
crackpipewizard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
John Tyler, the 10th U.S. President, who was born in 1790, has two living grandsons.
http://www.snopes.com/history/american/tylergrandsons.asp
NuteIla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aluminum is a toxic metal.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:29:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everything is toxic when it reaches a certain amount.
NuteIla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:27:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah vitamins can kill you in large amounts but aluminum is specifically toxic. You should never cook anything acidic in an aluminum pan. Also if you are cutting or fringing aluminum you need an air mask
terriblestperson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:44:40 on March 27, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is physically impossible to suffer aluminum poisoning from eating food cooked in an aluminum pan, regardless of the acidity of the food. The quantity of aluminum just isn't large enough. If it was, your pan would be gone after a few meals.
TVLL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:29:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reno, NV is further west than LA
IM_NOT_A_WAFFLE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:30:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Maine is the closest U.S. state to Africa.
Genghis Khan was responsible for reducing the population of the world by as much as 11%.
FloopieNoopers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let the Kolmogorov complexity of a bitstring be the length of the shortest program that outputs it. Kolmogorov complexity is uncomputable (basic result), and only finitely many strings have provable Kolmogorov complexity (Chaitin's incompleteness theorem).
Czamudio ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The average human has one breast and one testicle
FinalBane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ovary* men have breast.
FinalBane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ovary* men have breast.
RookToFMinor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:32:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Pulchritudinous" means beautiful.
"Crepuscular" means resembling twilight.
"Coruscating" means to sparkle.
steveman1123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:33:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Much like the buffalo sentence: police police police police police police policing police Is also a valid sentence as police can be a verb, adjective and noun.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:34:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The year 2000 was in the 20th century.
bionicjoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're in Reno, NV and head due south by the time you get parallel to Los Angeles you will be in the Pacific Ocean, miles off the coast.
bananas-guerillas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The infinite alternating mathematical series 1 - 1/2 + 1/3 - 1/4 + 1/5 - 1/6 ... and so on, when in that order will sum to ln(2). But, depending on the order in which you sum the terms, the series can be summed to any real number.
bionicjoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:37:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're in downtown Detroit, MI and head due south a few blocks you will be in Canada.
TubePincher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:38:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you drop a heavy thing and a light thing of aproxomately the same surface area, they will hit the ground at the same time.
tres_chill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:38:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reno, Nevada is West of Los Angeles
bionicjoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This sentence makes sense. "Since there is no time like the present he thought it best to present the present."
BRRatchet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:41:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Statistically speaking, nearly every hand you've ever shaken has had a dick in it.
Ten_bucks_best_offer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not if you are a dominating lefty.
Classiccage ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
El Paso, Texas is closer to San Diego, California than Houston, Texas
Splendidissimus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most sentences with a doubled word that fills two roles.
"Those were the same thoughts he had had before."
"I thought that that was the right way to say it."
Ten_bucks_best_offer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
While it is correct, it is unnecessary and redundant. See what I did there?
Splendidissimus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Taking one "had" out of the first sentence changes the tense from past perfect to simple past. (I will admit that "that that" is usually redundant, but mostly that's because the first "that" is a weird part of speech and is rarely actually necessary.)
Ten_bucks_best_offer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:16:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In that sense it would be proper to use the contraction "he'd". It eliminates the redundancy while keeping the past perfect.
Zulishk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Bananas are berries. So are pumpkins.
Strawberries are not.
RollThatD20 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:46:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Strange times in the Berry club indeed.
ChrisMusix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:46:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The speed of light remains constant to your frame of reference no matter what your velocity is.
Burton1922 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:48:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Indonesia is the worlds fourth most populous county after China, India, and the United States.
FiercelyFuzzy206 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:49:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Inflammable and flammable are the same thing.
Bi-annual and semi-annual are the same thing.
aasher42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:50:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
UK is much more higher than Canada's livable regions yet they have much hotter year than Canada
is_he_from_Gabon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:33:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, ocean and thermal currents!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:56:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bleeding will always stop eventually.
Antedelopean ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:56:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Contrary to popular reddit belief, Oedipus is not greek for broken hands.
It's greek for broken feet.
Ookie_Chow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:57:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The lighter was invented before the match
BaldingEwok ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:58:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fossil fuels are just solar power storage.
ArmchairTechnitian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:59:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ITT: Geography and poor phrasing.
short_storees ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Puerto Rican
colombo_o ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you folded a piece of paper 51 times it would reach the sun
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:36:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What
ArtemiPanera ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:03:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The average person eats more bananas than monkeys
TheDeeyaich ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:23:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're right! I'm an average person, and I don't eat ANY monkeys!
jujugrizzly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:06:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flammable and Inflammable mean the same thing.
MrSymphony ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:13:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You could fit every other planet in the solar system between Earth and the Moon.
polot38 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:13:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Absolutely pure water, without the slightest impurity, won't conduct electricity.
SherbetHead2010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:30:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It really depends on what you define as pure. Water can self-ionize into HO- and H+ and can then be conductive. It is still technically 100% water.
LongStrongAndWrong ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:16:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can go directly east from California and hit Canada.
I guess you could go west too, but that would take longer.
dalabean ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:16:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On average there are 2 Popes per square kilometre in Vatican City.
HighQualityNinja ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:18:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than atoms in our solar system.
SherbetHead2010 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:30:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wrong. I have proof in an earlier post.
HighQualityNinja ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:17:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes please.
SherbetHead2010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:49:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Ok. I did all of the math and turns out I wasn't totally correct. But im still pretty sure there more atoms in the solar system than combinations of a 52 card deck.
Earth ~ 5.97e24 kg
32.1% iron = 1.91e27 g @55.845 g/mol gives 3.42e25 moles
30.1% oxygen = 1.79e27 g @15.99 g/mol gives 1.12e26 moles
15.1% silicon = 9.01e26 g @28.085 g/mol gives 3.21e25 moles
13.9% magnesium = 8.29e26 g @24.305 g/mol gives 3.41e25 moles
Total moles: 2.12e26 1 mol = 6.022e23 molecules (or atoms in this case) So (2.12e26 x 6.022e23) = 1.28e50 atoms of iron, oxygen, silicon, and magnesium here on earth. This is excluding carbon, hydrogen and all other trace elements. Seeing that a 52 card deck has at most 52! (52 factorial) combinations, which is in the area of 8e67, there seem to be more combinations than atoms on earth. But like I said, this is excluding carbon and hydrogen. Carbon is essential for all life and hydrogen is the element with the most number of molecules per given mass so I would think that doing a full calculation including the sun and first few planets would definitely put us in the ballpark of 8e67. And considering that the sun is just a big ball of hydrogen, I am pretty sure that there are more atoms just in the solar system from the sun to the earth than there are combinations of a 52 card deck.
WallyHestermann ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:20:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Falcons are more closely related to parrots than to other birds of prey.
jfmjfm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:22:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The word "approximate". IMO it sounds like the definition would be exactly on time, not the other way around.
ModernPoultry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:23:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Detroit faces north of Canada
ebbomega ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:23:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actual grammatically correct sentence: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
It means: Bison from upstate New York, who are fooled by bison from upstate New York, fool bison from upstate New York.
roarbeast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:29:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How to spell fuchsia.
Eldest584 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:30:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He was hanged, he hanged himself etc.
Chrondor7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:46:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...and they was right?
Crashastern ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:34:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The western end of the Panama Canal is actually in the Atlantic Ocean, and the eastern end is in the Pacific.
bionicjoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:35:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you watch Comedy.TV late at night on Saturday while browsing Reddit and the jokes are funny you will still feel a little sad for everyone involved.
phantompath ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:37:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stabbed? Leave the object in.
It goes against every survival instinct that is screaming to escape the source of your pain. Of course, science tells us know that if we remove the object we could bleed out in seconds.
mynameisntjeffrey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:40:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The correct plural of octopus can be either octopuses, octopi, or octopedes.
scSaent ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:42:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"None of them is going to the store"
_coyotes_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:45:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Part of Argentina is south of New Zealand.
chumjumper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:45:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you flip a coin and it lands on heads 10,000 times in a row, the chances of the next result being heads is 50/50.
hsfrey ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:54:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If a flipped coin lands on heads 10,000 times in a row, you are probably justified in determining that the coin is biased and does not have a 50/50 chance of coming up heads.
zeek0us ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:03:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can't be too careful setting those priors...
BigPirateJim ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:49:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is a slight bias in human coin flips - start with heads up and heads results slightly more often than chance. True randomness is difficult to achieve.
chumjumper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:47:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Monty Hall problem. Always switch doors.
z8de ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:49:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more trees on earth then there are stars in the milky way
Hexagon36 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:50:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Bangladesh, the 98th largest country in the world has a larger population than Russia, the largest country in the world.
toomanyd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:50:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hot water forms ice quicker than cold water.
DeTrickz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:51:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tums is for heartburn.
blademagic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:52:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Dutch/Belgian border runs through some houses, so a person may wake up in the Netherlands and make breakfast in Belgium.
TerpBE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:53:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sending a rocket to the Sun requires about twice as much power as sending a rocket completely out of the solar system.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:56:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
According to the dictionary, "literally" means figuratively.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:57:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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ahakimir ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:39:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go on...
Autistence ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:04:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Twice a week & every 2 weeks
philipquarles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:58:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. No one is sure why.
xtylerryanx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:58:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The clothes were hung, the man was hanged.
theburritolord ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:38:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't that just because clothes is in plural and man is singular? Can't you just as easily say "The cloth was hanged" or "the men were hung".
xtylerryanx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:42:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no, you only used hanged for people
aKh26j47592 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:00:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Australian Snowy Mountains receive more snow than the Swiss Alps.
wyther57 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:00:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When freezing, water expands first and then contracts.
Shmallowman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:01:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Water doesn't conduct electricity.
wondown5up ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:07:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pure H2O* has very low conductivity.
Shmallowman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:21:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the idea
SherbetHead2010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:32:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pure H2O can self-ionize into HO- and H+, still technically 100% water, but conductive nonetheless.
trustmeimlyingtoyou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:03:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Amn't I? ... because it isn't 'are I not' (aren't I) it's 'am I not'
JonBlackdick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:04:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That you don't need carbs to build muscle
DamnTheStars ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:05:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
50% of people have an IQ below 100
Jewggerz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:06:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The richest country in the world has the worst healthcare system.
MohrJeansJRE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:07:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sharks are older than trees.
Snoaftheoaf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:08:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The US city of Detroit is north of Canada.
SnowWabbit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:08:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Romans were closer to us than they were to the pyramids causing the pyramids to be ancient even to them
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:08:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Kawiisugoi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:41:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But why would you want to?
Jamiojango ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:11:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The word gruntled actually means happy, pleased, satisfied, and contented.
purutiger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:11:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Multiple sexual partners...
topdangle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:12:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nintendo used to operate love hotels.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:14:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
gachiGasm
edwartica ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Eastern Roman empire lasted until the 1400s.
40footstretch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:16:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Grand Canyon receives more snowfall annually than Minneapolis Minnesota.
donniewright7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:16:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Making babies sleep on their back. When rockstars do it they be dead.
IamBrian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:16:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes being mean to a woman will make her more attracted to you.
Mikeymike2000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:17:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anything in Quantum Physics
TheCandelabra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:17:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Given a sufficient amount of time, a sufficiently large amount of hydrogen will eventually turn into people.
dejavu619 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:17:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human beings aren't biologically supposed to be monogamous.
Neoncbr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:18:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mรฉxico is a colony of the US
MookieB88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:18:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Atlantic entrance of the Panama Canal is further west than the Pacific entrance - still blows my tiny mind
PurpuraSolani ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:42:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pls explain.
MookieB88 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:04:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ted, while Fred had had 'had', had had 'had had'; 'had had' had had the teacher's approval.
PurpuraSolani ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:11:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not what I wanted, but still satisfied.
DCdictator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:18:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Observing a green apple increases the likelihood that all ravens are black.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wat
DeusMexMachina ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:19:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reno, Nevada is further west than Los Angeles.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the USA you don't actually vote for president. You vote for a slate of electors to the electoral college who are pledged to vote for your preferred candidate for president.
brasco975 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:15:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And they can still vote for whoever they want to
CyborgBadger_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:44:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So trump could just buy them out?
_PM_ME_UR_PENGUINS_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:21:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Statistically, during a crash, having your one-year-old riding rear-facing in the car is 500% safer for them than if they ride forward-facing.
brasco975 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:14:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well.. Yeah that one makes complete sense
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:21:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oxford university is older than the aztec civilization.
MrDoctorSatan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:23:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The United States is still executing people. In 2016.
edinc90 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:23:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you travel directly North, South, East, or West from Stamford, CT, the first state you hit in all directions is the same state (New York.)
Nephys ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:24:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A million seconds is 11 days, a billion seconds is 31 years.
Also, Russia's area is bigger than Pluto's.
pluscoach ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The corrective advice by the parents - sounds extremely wrong, but is actually correct. Is it not?
SufficientlyClever ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The [correct as of creator's standards] pronunciation of gif
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Indonesia is closer to Australia than New Zealand. Dallas, Texas is the same latitude as Baghdad, Iraq.
marcm6246 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Southern Ontario is at the same latitude as Northern California.
Ridtom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:27:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A relative of Booth's saved the life of one of Lincoln's relatives, prior to Lincoln's assassination.
torchwar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:27:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you picked up Chile and dropped it in the North Atlantic you could walk from Ireland to Maine.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:28:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ITT: Geography.
clem-ent ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:29:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Colder water can boil faster than warmer
Zakimations ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:57:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It can, sometimes.
source
clem-ent ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:39:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. Thermodynamics
JamesMRevis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:29:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Abortions tickle
ShoePooper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:29:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Defrosting something frozen in cold water is more effective than warm water.
WonkyTelescope ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:29:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
If a trillion stars had a trillion planets with a trillion people shuffling a trillion decks of cards once a second for the entire age of the universe we still would have only visited 0.1% of all deck orientations.
Source
TheNarwhaaaaal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The moon is a satelite
MrAppleSpiceMan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The word "kayak" can alternatively be spelled "Qajaq"
SmashesIt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you are in Detroit you can get to Canada by going North, East, South, or West.
RX91-MAD-J ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:31:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mars is the first and only planet known to man to be invaded by robots.
AnemoneOfMyEnemy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your forearm is generally as long as your foot.
art_of_language ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rome is further north than New York City
phrost1982 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Global warming can cause an ice age.
AdamaLlama ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm gonna phrase this wrong but... It's possible for you to have a lab test result indicate you are infected on a test known to be "99% accurate" and there still be only a tiny chance you're actually infected. I phrased it wrong because I still don't understand it. I saw it discussed on /askscience and I really wish I had seen it on /eli5 instead.
Netsuko ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hot water freezes faster than cold water.
inyourface_milwaukee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right now we are getting closer to the Voyager satellites that are in the Heliosphere
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The shortest flight path between Asia and US east coast takes the aircraft over the North Pole, due to the curvature of the Earth. Flying straight east over the ocean would add thousands of miles to the distance flown, but due to the strong jet-stream, can shorten the flying time on particularly strong jet stream days.
electrodude102 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:35:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Fucking kids"
urdumr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:35:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Furthering civilization. It's a necessary imperative, but the sounds required in "baby-making" are all wrong.
internetmexican ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bananas are radioactive
TastyBrainMeats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is possible to force rhubarb to grow so quickly that you can hear it growing.
PushingTheRope ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The median human has an above-average number of limbs.
PopeMolestusXXX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Violence amongst humans has been steadily *decreasing over millenia, and today we are living in the most peaceful times the human race has seen.
https://youtu.be/_gGf7fXM3jQ
traceurling ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Carson City, Nevada is West of Los Angeles, California
hunsonaberdeen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:37:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The more mild flavored and lighter the coffee, the more caffeinated it is. The coffee bean is inherently caffeinated, the roasting process leaches a portion of that from the beans.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:42:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dammit :(
hunsonaberdeen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:58:29 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dark roast aficionado?
Worm_Whomper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:37:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The String Around the Earth problem
repsilat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:38:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bill cycles from A to B and back. He has a tailwind on the way there, and averages 30km/h. He has a headwind on the way back, and averages just 10 km/h on that leg.
Over his whole trip, his average speed is 15 km/h.
Entinu ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:50:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stupid question but wouldn't it be 20km/h as 30+10=40 and then 40/2=20?
repsilat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:55:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Say it's 30km each way. In total that's 60km round-trip. Bill takes one hour there, three hours back, so four hours all up.
60km/4h=15km/h.
Entinu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:07:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
......damn you, brain and math!
mharrizone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:38:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your foot is the same length as your forearm (from elbow to wrist).
Entinu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:49:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only from heel to the tip of your big toe. It kinda helps to specify as some idiot is going to do it from heel to the tip of their middle toe.
AirshipsAway ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:41:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hanged
Trick85 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:42:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The spelling of "conscience"
demyst ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:43:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Swans can be gay.
Mynameisnotdoug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
๐
MattYorick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:43:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Example:
"The winner of the race was him/her."
That is not correct, although people say it all of the time.
The correct way of saying it is:
"The winner of the race was he/she."
It is a difference with the subject/object and how it is voiced. The latter is correct, but sounds weird, in part because of the passive voice.
EricWFernandez ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:54:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats because any normal person would just say "He/she won the race" which sounds just find.
SuperMcG ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:45:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Boston, MA is roughly at the same latitude as the California and Oregon border.
socrates111 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:45:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some philosophers think we cannot know we have hands. (That we don't know anything, including even the most mundane facts.)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:46:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently me when in an argument with my wife
revnasty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:48:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My parents when I was a teenager.
100percent_right_now ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:48:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A plane on a treadmill will take off in the same amount of space/time as the same plane on a runway.
The backward momentum of the wheels is irrelevant because they're free spinning. It's the air being pushed that moves the plane, not the ground being pushed.
bounding_star ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:50:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But the wheels have friction
100percent_right_now ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:21:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But the wheels are free spinning. This means they can rotate backward at 5,000 mph and the plane can still take off forward. They have no effect on the position of the plane while it's under power, such as trying to take off.
bounding_star ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:35:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
if the plane was not under power on the treadmill, and the treadmill started moving, the plane would move backwards because of the wheels' friction, and the plane has to make up for this small amount of speed as it takes off.
100percent_right_now ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:11:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure, but because the wheels are able to spin at any speed relative to the plane and the plane is still able to provide the power to move forward it would always, and quickly, overcome any backward momentum inbided by the treadmill.
bounding_star ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:37:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it will quickly overcome the force from the treadmill, but not instantaneously, so you have to count that still
Emonnick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:20:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
but wouldn't the plane on the treadmill be stationary relative to the air around it making the upward thrust from the wings not exist because the planes wings cant get the air around the to move fast enough. this is probably the reasons aircraft carriers don't have a treadmill and use a slingshot for takeoff.
100percent_right_now ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:23:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why would it be stationary? What is stopping it from moving forward under it's own power? The wheels are NOT connected to the power system of the plane, they're just there to reduce friction to the ground, as opposed to sliding on the plane's belly.
The plane pushes against the air to move forward so it doesn't matter what the wheels are doing.
Emonnick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:32:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Than it would just push its self off the treadmill when it starts to move no matter how fast the treadmill is going.
100percent_right_now ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:33:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless the treadmill was long enough for it to take off within the length of the treadmill, yes.
stingray85 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:48:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trees are mostly made out of air.
taintedms ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:49:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trial by combat is still legal in the EU
way2odd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:52:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kingdom Hearts 3 is the 11th game in the Kingdom Hearts series.
ohaiyofman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:54:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's space in between the earth and the moon to fit all the planets of our solar system side by side
FF13LightningReturns ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:54:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It is absolutely impossible for you to hand fold one piece of paper in half completely flat 7 times.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:54:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your cancer results came back negative....
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:56:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Bacon is carcinogenic"
TellEmHawk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:56:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Potted meat is fish in a yard.
MattTheFlash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:56:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Historians aren't certain how long Oxford University has been in operation. The earliest record of teaching at the site is the year 1096 AD.
DiabeticWombat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:56:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Awesome things have a lot of awe and awful things have none.
ScottH87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:57:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tyrannosauruses Rex
lespritd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:57:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One cm3 of human flesh generates more heat than one cm3 of the sun.
twilightassassin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:58:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Found this out earlier today while eating dinner at a restaurant, courtesy of my eight year old stepbrother- there's a bird known as the Cock-of-the-rock. He was practically shouting this and no one could stop laughing.
1978TransAm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:58:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The past participle of 'drink' is drunk.
Example: "I have drunk an inordinate amount of Irish whiskey in the past two days. "
'Drank' is correct when conjugating the word 'drink' in the past tense, for example, "I think I drank too much last night. I woke up naked in the backyard to the neighbor's dog licking puke off my face."
YoungTrece ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:58:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Accounting balance sheet: As AT 20 March 2016 rather than as OF.
the_lost_boys ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:58:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL: I'm to dumb to understand why all these are mind blowing.
Middy2Fiddy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I broke into your house with every intention of robbing you and in the process I broke my leg by tripping over your couch. I could sue you for failing to provide me with a duty of care and claim damages for my broken leg! Now that's some fucked up shit...
Angrysausagedog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:22:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That shit wouldn't fly here in Australia, lol
Middy2Fiddy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:57:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm Australian and this is precisely what happens here! It was in the news a while back... some guy tried robbing a store and the shop attended started hitting the robber with a hockey stick. The robber sued for damages and won.
Angrysausagedog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:22:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Yeah thats kind of a different story,
That's excessive force..
There is self defence, then there is revenge.
Middy2Fiddy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:41:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about a guy who snuck onto someone's property without permission to use their bathroom and slipped and broke their leg. They sued for duty of care and won
Middy2Fiddy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:42:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
there are numerous accounts of this, that actually are used as precedence... so yeah.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:00:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Betty White is older than sliced bread.
Usagii_YO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:45:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*commercially sold pre-sliced bread...
Odatas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:00:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People who are drowning don't look like they are drowning.
pnwbg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:01:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Slavery wasn't technically illegal in the United States (Mississippi) until 2013.
Link for those who don't believe this:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/mississippi-finally-ratifies-slavery-ban-article-1.1267133
Usagii_YO ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:44:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank god I did all my slavery-ing in 2012.
Tzvifishkin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:02:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can fit all the planets of the solar system between Earth and the Moon
spicymemeball ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:02:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Harry Styles has 4 nipples.
Final_Cut_Bro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:03:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo
Monstertruck_Gnar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:03:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i before e except after c
kredal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's weird how feisty this heinous phrase is reinforced, almost being deified.
TheNerdOverlord ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:52:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This rule only applies to the long E sound.
ci5ic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:03:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The word "hanged" (as in during an execution or suicide)... Just seems like it should be "hung".
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:26:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
could've been originally improper grammar that became widespread
Marlfox70 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:04:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A single ejaculation from an average male contains enough sperm to impregnate every woman on earth.
DirtyTeacherHands ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:04:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That not only is what he said completely correct but also where he was was the right place to say it is true.
GiantDwarf01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:05:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That there are 4 states of matter - solid, liquid, gas, and plasma.
And plasma, the one most people don't know, is the most abundant state of matter in the universe.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:10:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is a lot more than just 4.
GiantDwarf01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:20:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure, crystal, superfluids, dark matter, photonic matter, the list goes on and on, though I was referring to the 4 fundamental states of matter.
Usagii_YO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:43:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Earth(solid)
Wind(gas)
Air(liquid)
Fire(plasma)
GiantDwarf01 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:56:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not quite. More like
Water (Liquid)
Earth (Solid)
Fire (Plasma)
Air (Gas)
... long ago, the four states of matter lived in harmony. Then everything changed when schools decided plasma was too difficult. Only the higher education, teacher of all subjects could stop them. But when the world needed it most, it got too expensive...
xtremechaos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:06:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Certain cosmetic companies lobby to keep circumcision legal to continue their source of foreskins for harvesting.
They use harvested foreskins from infants and toddlers and their fibroblast content which is an active ingredient in their facial cremes.
Gramage ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:11:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You don't need to slice my dick to get facial cream from it... ;D
pooplamp13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:07:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The word "unawares" in the second-person plural.
Excelsior_i ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:07:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Russia has more surface area then Pluto.
Ylatch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:07:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
12th is spelled twelfth.
PMme10dolarSteamCard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:08:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eagles eat baby deer
chemicalclockwork ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:08:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cleopatra was alive closer to the moon landing than to the building of The Pyramids of Giza
Namiez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:08:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Say you had a single piece of rope surrounding a sphere the size of earth. To lift that rope one foot off the ground everywhere and still have it be a complete loop you would only need to add a little more than six feet of rope.
nerdyPagaman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:09:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is no such thing as a fish. (also the name of a podcast by the QI elves)
bonerofalonelyheart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:09:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more black bears in Maine than black people.
g_squidman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:09:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL the United States of America is upside-down...
Sorcatarius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:10:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The country closest to Canada (not count the United States) is France.
profeDB ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:14:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you want to get technical, it's actually Denmark. See Hans Island.
GuiltyOfSin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:32:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
once a year we take down their flag put up our own and leave a bottle of whiskey. they in turn take down our flag put up their own and leave a bottle of schnapps. it's debateable whether it's canada or Denmark.
Gramage ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:10:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If war broke out between Canada and Denmark over that island, it would actually be a drinking contest. And nobody would care who won. :)
GuiltyOfSin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:53:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
we would lol but only because it's would be shameful to be out drank by a Dane lol
Sorcatarius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:42:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Hans Island is considered part of Canada as well, not sure how exactly it's split, I don't think either country really cars seeing as it's also uninhabited. Saint Pierre and Miquelon on the other hand is fully under Frances and has a population of approximately 6000.
Edit: Also the Vimy Memorial in France.
cheds08 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:10:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Using the word sneaked. I fucking hate it. Say snuck.
ghallo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:11:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Since 1990 more planes have been struck by turtles than by drones.
DarkSpartan301 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:11:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She'll never love me again.
Gramage ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:08:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are 3.5 billion women in the world, if you can fall in mutual love with one you can fall in mutual love with another :)
dillyia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:12:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cardiac vein is in the stomach, and deltoid ligament is in the ankle
bobbo007 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:12:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Emancipation Proclamation wasn't designed to free all the slaves in the Union.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:12:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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ihaveamonkeyonmyhead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:18:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
are you referring here to the french territory of New Caladonia or mainland france?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:12:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The millennium was almost twenty years ago. 9/11 was almost 20 years ago.
Shad0wriderz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Crocodiles are more closely related to birds than they are to lizards.
Edit:
DNA similarity, four-chamber heart, vocalization, care for young... Crocodilians are archosaurs โ the same family tree as dinosaurs and birds.
Seems weird right? Think of it like this: whales are more closely related to porcupines than they are to fish.
TheKingofCascadia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:57:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Crocodilians birds and turtles make up the archosaur clade. Whales are actually more closely related to Artiodactylylids; even toed ungulates (deer, elk, etc.) than they are to porcupines (rodentia)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:30:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I know... I was just picking a random mammal that was very dissimilar to a whale. Oh, and I'm pretty sure that turtles aren't archosaurs.
TheKingofCascadia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:08:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oops my mistake, turtles are just outside if that clade
MostlyALurkerBefore ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:14:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have more bacteria cells than human cells. You are 90% bacteria.
Source
walkmandosch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:15:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I apologize in advance if this fact had already been submitted. Laid end-to-end, an adult'sย arteries, viensย and capillaries would stretch for about 100,000 miles - enough toย wrap around the world nearly four times.ย
americanpegasus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:15:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How you better come.
Birkeholm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:16:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Leicester is pronounced "lester"
BrokelynNYC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:16:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When make a really fast left turn on a motorcycle the front wheel is actually turned right slightly
thermite_works_too ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:17:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Woot
NocturnalQuill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:17:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oxford University is older than the Aztec civilization
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:17:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One trillion seconds ago humans were just starting to paint on cave walls.
Alarid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:18:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The record for folding a piece of paper in half 9, 10, 11, and 12 times was all set and beat in one day.
PoppinJ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:18:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Turn in the direction of the skid.
StillUnbroke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:18:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you add all positive integers together, you get -1/12
TheKingofCascadia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:46:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prove it.
StillUnbroke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:10:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/w-I6XTVZXww
Ryias ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:19:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Julia Child was a secret agent before she settled down to a life of cooking shows.
Gankstar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:19:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't run from a bear.
RogerKickass ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:20:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The high five was invented in the 70s by a gay baseball player who would end up dying from AIDS.
BlokeyBlokeBloke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:20:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Tom Cruise is older than Nigel Farage.
wecanworkitout22 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:23:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more ways to arrange a deck of cards than there have been seconds since the big bang. Any random shuffling of a deck of cards is almost guaranteed to produce an arrangement no one else has ever held.
krogger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:23:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Canada is further south than California is north.
TheKingofCascadia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:45:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
False.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:54:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It means that the southern-most part of Canada is further south than the northern-point of California.
Jebb145 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:26:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Too late for the party but most people use the word random completely incorrect. Almost every time someone uses the word random they should replace it with stochastic. It is not random when you meet someone from high school at a bar. There is a statistical probability that you will meet someone you know when you go out in a crowd. That is not random, its stochastic.
blukes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:38:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guess again, nothing is random. http://youtu.be/9rIy0xY99a0
Gramage ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:00:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But stochastic means "randomly determined"
The_Real_dubbedbass ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:26:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here are some of my favorites.
The computer, jet engine, taxi, alarm clock, vending machines, automatic doors, and simple robots all existed well before we invented sliced bread. In fact, the ancient Greeks and Romans had all that stuff (except their computer was analog and non electric). Even crazier, the Jet engine, vending machine, and automatic doors were all invented by one dude Hero of Alexandria.
iZombs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:27:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Islamists strap bombs to themselves because of their religious beliefs, not because of politics.
hardknox_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:04:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Strapping on a bomb must have some purpose outside of worshipping god or Islam would've blown itself up completely. I think they're using (twisting) religious ideology to further the power of their religion, which brings us into the political sphere.
Davemusprime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:27:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
flammable means flammable by a strange twist of human ingenuity inflammable also means flammable.
noorah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:27:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"extremely wrong"
dangshnizzle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:27:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The average person has one fallopian tube.
lagista ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:28:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Summation of all positive integers is a negative number.
GoodsonGuys ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:28:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more (Theoretical) games off chess than Atoms in the known Universe.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km024eldY1A
Qewbicle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:28:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Americans are all people living in North America, Central America and South America. It's usually used incorrectly to refer to the citizens of the United States only.
DeGozaruNyan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:29:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The first tiem you hear it, the monty hall problem.
Futurist110 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:30:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Rumsfeld was both the youngest and the oldest U.S. Secretary of Defense.
megamoze ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:31:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Martin Luther King Jr and Anne Frank were born the same year.
niboswald ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:32:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Obama is the 44th white president. Tiger Woods was a successful Asian golfer. The Wachowski Sisters have double the ratio of female to male directors in Hollywood.
Lorithad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:35:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on earth.
TheKingofCascadia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:38:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more atoms in your body than stars in the universe
Gramage ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:41:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more universes in the multiverse than atoms in this universe. Actually I'm talking out of my ass but damn it's cool to think about.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:36:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:38:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not true. Estimates are between 40 and 110 billion people. There are up to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:47:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:51:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Sun is quite a massive star (just that most stars are less massive than the Sun) and so while the mass of the Milky Way may be 100b solar masses that comes out to about 400 billion actual stars.
And just looking it up the Milky Way is about 1 trillion solar masses. A lot of the mass is in dust clouds.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:00:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:02:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm being a dick because you're wrong?
Ok.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:04:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:05:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No one says the Milky Way is 100 billion solar masses. You probably read 1x1012 solar masses and thought that was 100b when it's a trillion.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:37:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"No, I am your father!" instead of "Luke, I am your father!" in Vader's revelation.
He says "No!" in reference to Luke saying "[Obi-Wan] told me you killed [my father]!"
BoozeoisPig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:37:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depending on how you define them, one half of the surface of The Earth is almost completely covered in water.
Killer-Barbie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:38:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The plural of cul-de-sac is culs-de-sac
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:47:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well yeah, like attornies general or courts marshal
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:39:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When doing chest compressions for CPR you cut off the clothing with scissor even the bra if it's a woman and you don't stop doing chest compression even if you break there sternum.
Stittastutta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:40:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you add 66% to thing A and thing A happens to be 60% of thing B you end up with thing B.
Autistence ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:07:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
2/3 not 66%
Stittastutta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:24:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
66.666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666...
Autistence ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:35:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Simplified as 2/3*
Saganasm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:41:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fax machine was patented 33 years before the telephone was patented.
antiward ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:43:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hummingbirds can only fly in a straight line
lucidillusions ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:44:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Make prostitute of means wasting ones talent.
Natiak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:46:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
.9 repeating is equal to 1.
midnight3896 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:48:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But it's not...
Natiak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:53:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is.
1/3 = .3 repeating.
.3 repeating x 3 = .9 repeating
3 x 1/3 = 1
midnight3896 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:59:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you round it yeah, but .999999999999999 still doesn't equal one, and .333 x 3 is still .999. It will never reach one unless rounded.
Natiak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:05:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's only in the context of an infinite string of 9's that this statement is true. No rounding required.
bam2_89 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:47:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hot water freezes faster than cold water.
RedWingsRule666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:47:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hot water turns to ice faster than cold water
spirituallyinsane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:37:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
False, although previously boiled water at room temperature may sometimes freeze faster than regular water at room temperature.
RedWingsRule666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:54:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True, it's called the Mpemba effect
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:47:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Could you hand me a pliers"
dusmeyedin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:47:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
0.99999... recurring is actually mathematically equal to 1.
drcl ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:57:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
prove it
Natiak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:00:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1/3 = .3 repeating.
.3 repeating x 3 = .9 repeating
3 x 1/3 = 1
Therefore 1 is equal to .9 repeating.
nick9000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:05:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I prefer this explanation
drcl ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:16:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that proves that 1/3 +1/3 +1/3 = 1
Doesnt prove 1/3 + 1/3 +1/3 = 0.9999 recurring
Natiak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:25:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1/3 = .3 recurring
.3 recurring + .3 recurring + .3 recurring = .9 recurring.
So yes, .9 recurring is equal to 3/3rds which is equal to 1.
drcl ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:38:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
proove that .3 recurring + .3 recurring + .3 recurring = .9 recurring.
monken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:47:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Madagaskar is more densely populated than America.
ra66itz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:47:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Election rights for women in Switzerland exist only since 1971 and was enforced as late as 1990 in the last cantons!
antiward ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:48:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People who confuse correlation and causation end up dead
SharksFan4Lifee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:48:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The United States of America only has 46 "States."
The other 4 (Kentucky, Mass., Virginia, and Pennsylvania) officially refers to themselves as Commonwealths.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:55:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Commonwealth is just another name for a state.
saffers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:48:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans share around 50% of their DNA with Bananas
BlazingMetal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:51:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The average human has 1 testicle and 1 boob. Also half a penis.
bit1101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:53:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pianist
Lipophobicity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:54:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The woman who has given birth to the most children is in the lead by 7.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_the_most_children
grepnork ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:56:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
London is closer to Paris (288 miles) than Edinburgh (416 miles)
SuddenDickTornado ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:56:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
India and China combined accounted for more than 60% of the world GDP until the 19th century.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/06/the-economic-history-of-the-last-2-000-years-in-1-little-graph/258676/
Ace-of-Spades88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:56:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You could lay all the planets in our solar system side by side and they would fit between the Earth and our moon.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:56:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The main German fighter plane of WW2 was not the Me 109.
It was the Bf 109.
TheTyke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:56:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Romans discovered Brazil, but it fucked up so much of Brazil's history they decided to just cover the Roman shipwreck with concrete and deny it ever happened.
Despite releasing news reports on it.
dafootballer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:57:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Ottoman Empire had one of the world's first airforces.
hotcereal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:59:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
fartin
JacobIasou ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:59:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/u/ICanBreakRealityTime: This is Truth
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The United States Air Force wasn't formed until after WW2.
Sithdemon666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:01:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo is a grammatically correct sentence.
erraticerror ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:13:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what does it mean Basil?
PangoriaFallstar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:11:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Something about angry buffalo from Buffalo, that bully other bullying buffalo from Buffalo. Or something like that. Though the sentence may be grammatically correct, it's a nonsensical nightmare.
thundercuntsunite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:01:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fax machine was invented before the telephone.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:03:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can dispose a human body completely with acid in a plastic bin
Mynormaluserwastaken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:03:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump could be president
esco123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:03:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Universe is expanding
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:05:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your taste buds regenerate every ten days.
Cessnateur ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:06:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The release date of Terminator II is closer, chronologically, to the date of the moon landing than to the present day.
Cessnateur ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:06:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Leaving Detroit, if you fly directly south, the first foreign country you'll overfly is Canada.
DJBooks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:07:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The word set has 464 definitions.
upyours192 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:07:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We still don't know why ice is slippery.
Source: http://www.livescience.com/32507-why-is-ice-slippery.html
Degru ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:19:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it was because the pressure melts a very very thin layer on top, which makes it slick?
SherbetHead2010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:50:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An increase in pressure causes liquid water to shift toward a solid phase. Look up the phase diagram of water. This is why it is still debated how ice skates work etc. ice skates cause friction which should melt the ice but the increased pressure at the boundary point should have an opposite and negating effect.
Degru ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:54:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, I see.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:07:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
oh askreddit... the question has now turned into "What are facts?"
natty1212 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:08:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Comptroller is pronounced "controller."
Getting_cheesefries ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:09:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A banna is not ripe til it is spotty
Dioskilos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:12:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We are currently in an ice age
boineg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:14:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ordnance
AnalogBubblebath ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:16:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Despite featuring impressive vistas of Earth and the Moon, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey was released in 1968, a year before we first set foot on the moon or had seen Earth from space.
sirgog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:16:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ePi*i = -1.
Dutchan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"The less you wank, the more you cum"
doublsh0t ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That every planet in our solar system would easily fit between earth and the moon, with room to spare. The distance between us and our moon is farther than most think, and the diagrams of our solar system are all inaccurate. The space shuttles that went to our moon traveled for several days at 20k+ mph.
edit: this video is one of the few accurate portrayals of the planets and the distances we're talkin bout with our solar system https://vimeo.com/139407849
thewpo2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:19:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of these are just American geographic things
teclordphrack2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:19:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump will run the USA economy!
lazylion_ca ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:21:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The province of Alberta in Canada has a wild life preserve that is roughly the same size the Philippines.
Yet the population of the Philippines is over double that of Canada.
BiPolarBulls ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:12:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In Australia we have farms that are bigger than Texas!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:21:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are the same amount of real numbers in the interval [0,1] as there are in [0,100]. Or between any two infinite closed intervals on the real number line. Infinity is weird.
Exodus111 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:22:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Literally actually (also) means figuratively.
1260DividedByTree ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:24:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Men and women have the same ammount of hair on the body around 5million.
BZen07 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:24:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That we don't actually have free will.
The-Wizard-Pendragon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:24:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My dad is a microbiologist, and he claims there are more microbes on earth then stars in the universe. Can anyone confirm?
MrGodzillahin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:44:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can only confirm that there is no way to know how many stars are in the universe. The observable universe, maybe, but that only tells us something about our own technological limitations.
The-Wizard-Pendragon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:36:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, it's the same for microbes, I think. You cant sit down and count them. The most you can do is calculate the amount in a given area and even that is loosy-goosey.
BiPolarBulls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:10:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can imagine your dad starting his career... 1,2,3,4,5,6,7..... !
The-Wizard-Pendragon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:06:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay, I texted him and he says: The number of stars is estimated by multiplying the number of stars in our Galaxy (300,000,000,000) by the number of galaxies (100,000,000,000): 1023. Number of bacteria is by multiplying bacterial concentrations in differing environments by the volume of that environment. The sea alone has 1000,000 per ml: 1028 in total (ie 10000000000000000000000000000).
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:24:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you start at the North Pole, travel South for 100kms, travel West for 100kms and then travel North for 100kms, you end off at exactly the same spot you started at.
Also, If you heat a metal washer, the hole in the middle of the washer expands.
inquisitive27 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:25:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spell therapist.
Winfinity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:26:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The human fingetip is so sensitive that if it were the size of the Earth it would be able to feel the difference between cars and houses.
themathemagician ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:26:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Given a sphere, there exists a way to cut it up into pieces and put it back together into two whole spheres, both the same size as the original.
ih8umum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:04:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're talking about the Banach-Tarski paradox, that's a bit misleading.
Mugros ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:27:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
American politics
MusicMelt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:28:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ITT Mercator perceptions.
SuperMyl3z ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:28:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Giraffes have 7 vertebrae in their necks, the same number as humans.
slydunan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:29:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, you're right that makes more sense
pweeed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:29:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everything in /r/nottheonion
ItsJustMeGary ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:30:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Leicester is pronounced "Lester"....
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:30:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reno, NV is west of LA.
TMI-nternets ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:30:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anal sex
OppositeFingat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:32:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Quantum physics
leahcure ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:32:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
96% of the world population speaks 4% of the world's languages.
Kubrick_Fan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:32:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flamable and Inflamable mean the same thing.
spafford2242 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:33:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The song "Hurt" was first released by Nine Inch Nails in 1996. In 2002, "Hurt" was covered by Johnny Cash.
KPdvr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:33:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pure Oxygen at any depth below 10meters is poisonous.
Walkman1080i ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:35:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Take one grain of beach sand and consider it at the atomic level. There are more atoms in that single grain of sand than there are stars in our galaxy. However, there are more stars in our galaxy than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth.
wedontlikespaces ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:31:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And there are more trees than stars apparently.
Mynameisnotdoug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:01:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So wait, he's saying there are more trees than grains of sand? I disbelieve this.
VitaminClutch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:35:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Saying the past tense of sneak isn't snuck it's actually sneaked
Mshell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:35:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" also "Fish fish fish fish fish" and "police police police police''
Mynameisnotdoug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:21:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But who polices police police?
Mshell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:32:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The police.
Mshell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:34:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You may also be asking Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%3F
ForumPointsRdumb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:35:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Phone was ded dad.
vancheat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:37:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Graffito is the singular word for graffiti.
Verlepte ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:38:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The average number of limbs for all animals is less than 0.1
Aquareon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:38:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Electric cars came before gas ones and for a while were more popular. In 1914 there were public charging stations on most street corners in New York City.
Also, rebreathers came before Scuba.
Lovurr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:38:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Peeled blueberries are green.
Crow_eggs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:38:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The second largest exporter of bananas in the world is Belgium.
CeeArthur ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:39:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jupiter's core is hotter than the surface of the sun.
H32B ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:40:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ITT: All countries are closer than you'd have thought
Thraxx01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:40:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pigs are the most similar animal to humans
peterismyhusband ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:41:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My car..
MiggyEvans ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:42:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tahoe is west of L.A. (bullshit, snapple.)
MiggyEvans ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:42:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hot water freezes faster than cold water.
Croswynd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:43:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Poison can heal you and medicine can kill you.
IggyJR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:44:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People repost the same fucking questions on /r/AskReddit over and over and over again.
speeros ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:44:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Net migration from Mexico to the US is below zero
Eddiegage ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:44:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Niggardly
Is defined as being stingy
gullman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:45:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's no such thing as fish.
ramiatararaddit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:45:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way.
Harislodhi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:47:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky milky Way.
amnesiac-eightyfour ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:49:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Using just 52 playing cards, you can lay out more combinations of cards than there are atoms in the universe
SherbetHead2010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:53:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Sorry but this is totally wrong. There are about 8e67 combinations in a 52 card deck and at least 4.5e46 of atoms of water in just our earths oceans. Not including air and solid matter. I can assure you there are at least close to 8e68 atoms just here in our solar system if not more.
Cros3n ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:49:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Russia is bigger than Pluto
julmariii ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:50:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know everybod knows this, but that in a vacuum a feather falls just as quickly as an bowling ball.
Jass1995 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:55:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeap! One of my favourite episode from MythBusters.
KariRaiha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:50:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jรผrgen Drews sings the german opening song to Disney's Darkwing Duck.
13loki ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:51:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Boiling water on the stove is faster without the lid on.
paul_mirra ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:09:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sounds shaky
emceelokey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:52:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans have been further up in space than deeper down in our oceans.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:52:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's just obvious.
Jass1995 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:54:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think he means that we haven't gotten to the deepest parts of the ocean yet. But regardless, in a way its still obvious.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:56:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But we have been to the deepest part of the ocean. Even the director James Cameron has been there.
Jass1995 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:07:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pardon my mistake. I thought we had not as of yet.
FOOLAnonymous ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:55:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The beginning of this song
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:56:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:57:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
in this thread: people who have no idea what this planet looks like
F1simracer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:59:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If your car starts sliding turn towards the direction you are sliding to correct it.
Jass1995 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:53:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Upon correction, enjoy the rush and consider enrolling as a professional drifter or stunt driver for the next Tokyo Drift movie.
F1simracer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:01:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
And never being satisfied going the speed limit again...unless it's icing or snowing...and then you're sitting on the highway to-da-looing along at the speed limit, listening to Four Seasons, and rude people who have no idea how to drive are honking at you.
Racefiend ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:00:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
2 similar cars hitting head on at 60mph is the same as one car hitting a wall at 60mph (not 120mph)
jacks_night_mare ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:00:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
During the first six weeks of human development in the uterus, male and female human embryos are essentially identical. During this time we have both male and female genitalia.
Source:http://www.urologyhealth.org/urologic-conditions/normal-and-abnormal-sexual-differentiation
Flash_me_im_worth_it ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:00:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The US Army actually sends troops in Alaska to Fort Drum NY to conduct cold weather training.
DeeRawk69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:01:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Canada burnt down the white house
el___diablo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:04:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MASH was broadcast with canned laughter in America, but without in Europe.
Staytune ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:04:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everywhere is within walking distance.
Unexpected_Artist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:20:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Other continents? The moon?
sprocket_monkey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:05:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can sail downwind in a circle from Europe to Africa to New England and back to Europe. The winds and currents make a circle, but the route was called the triangular trade.
tip_off ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:05:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can shatter a diamond by hitting it with a hammer.
somethingslow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:06:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This answer
w32smile ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:09:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nemo (like Finding Nemo) actually means "nobody" in latin.
ejpierle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:10:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reno, NV is further west than Los Angeles, CA.
East_by_west ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:14:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is I.
JooJoona ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:17:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dinosaurs are not extinct.
CyFus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:29:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
birds?
JooJoona ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:01:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Indeed.
trentbat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:56:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Many dinosaur species are though,, and the ones that are extinct are the ones that people usually consider as "dinosaurs".
JooJoona ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:06:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, well that is the explanation why the statement sounds extremely wrong... but it is actually correct... which is what the point is.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:19:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:21:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sure Saddam wasn't happy.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:19:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:20:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, don't do that.
GraveChild27 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:26:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
oh shit, I prolly shoulda double checked that.
CyFus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:28:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what about peeing on jellyfish?
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:28:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's ok. Hopefully they'll sting themselves!
trifelin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:20:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Dark" coffee has less caffeine than "light" roast coffee.
SirHamsterton ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:22:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This sentance is completely wrong
bigups43 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:23:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All of the gold on earth, if put it one place, would be the size of two Olympic pools.
Haydezzz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:24:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
fecundity. sounds like two swear words in one
zombies8mypi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:24:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hot water freezes faster than cold water.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect
hungryhappysleepy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:26:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
8 hours of sleep per night.
wasajazzmusician ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:26:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
.999... repeating = 1
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:28:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The first Gameboy Colour game was released about a month before the Gameboy Colour.
MuzzleBlast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:30:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well managed trophy hunting. When it is done properly the conservation positives are absolutely huge and this has been proven by many a study.
Swizzlstick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:31:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
2+2=5. Doubleplusgood eh?
wazzup987 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:38:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ROOM 101 NOW
disc2k ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:31:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It takes the sun 18 years to emit 1 kg of photons
BiPolarBulls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:41:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But gravity on the Sun is only 28 times that on earth!, but the magnetic field strength at any one point is 20,000 Gauss (which is HUGE) A super strong NIB magnet (but tiny) is 2000 Gauss. But the Sun is slightly bigger than a strong pocket magnet.
Dolly__Dagger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:51:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought photons don't have mass? They have energy and momentum, but aren't they massless particles?
disc2k ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:01:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See the Mass-energy equivalence, or E=MC2
Since photons have energy, they have mass. It is very tiny, though. Less than 1.783*10-36 kg per photon.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:31:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Playing video games doesn't make you sexist.
Boush117 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:32:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty weird that the off-hand mention of Clone Wars in Star Wars Episode IV/ANH has lead to another movie trilogy, two animated seriesnever forget the 2003 Clone Wars and countless of books, toys, games etc.
Oh, another weird thing is that Disney has officially said (obviously not in these words) "Lol nope, these decades of material that kept Star Wars alive (the Thrawn books and other old EU stories kept the series going after the original trilogy) are not canon. Fuck y'all, we are ignoring decades of work people put to stretching the universe."
iblogalott ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:32:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.emlii.com/a583540f/28-Puzzling-Facts-About-Time-That-Will-Leave-You-Stunned
All of these facts. The Cleopatra fact is what always gets me!
rafner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:32:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A normal deck of cards can be organized in more ways than the amount of atoms in our solar system.
Every time a person shuffles a deck of cards, the chances of that exact organization/order of cards having existed before throughout history is unfathomably small.
Squiggledog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:33:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more chess games than there are atoms in the universe. (~Shanon number)
There is enough space to fit all the planets between the earth and the moon.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:33:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
After Hitler killed himself no one else became Fuehrer.
lazerbeat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:34:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Octopuses
Beefy23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:34:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The pronunciation of Asus. A-soos.
TheYadda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:35:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Star Citizen ship insurance depletes based on the ship owner's in-game time, not real-world time.
Meaning you need to be logged in for 2190 hours to deplete three months of insurance.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:36:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
deleted What is this?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:37:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Boiling water freezes faster than room temperature water
scw55 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:38:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Daffodils only have one petal (the trumpet).
phatsphere ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:38:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The US decided that tomatoes are (legally) vegetables, although botanically they are fruits. As a European it makes no sense to me to call them vegetables... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden
Henkersjunge ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:31:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Theres vegetable/fruit in a botanical context and vegetable/fruit in a culinary context.
wazzup987 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:40:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can believe its not butter? also it makes great lube
stewart789 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:44:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hanged. "That person you are up there with the note and makeshift shoelace noose has been hanged".
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:45:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you pointed the Hubble at the Moon and took a picture of the Apollo landing sites you wouldn't see anything. In fact, if we built a football stadium on the Moon the HST would be hard pressed to see it. It'd be about a pixel in size.
nick9000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:48:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's been 20 years since 'Toy Story'
anschelsc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:50:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Communist Manifesto was written 15 years before the Emancipation Proclamation.
77Zaxxonsynergy77 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:51:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Sally and them were at the park"
AwkwardBamboo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:55:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We share 50% of our DNA with bananas.
DuckWhispers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:56:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The time separating Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus is greater than the time separating Tyrannosaurus and you.
Similarly, the Pyramids were as ancient to Cleopatra as she is to you.
CarpeCyprinidae ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:18:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
BULLSHIT. Cleopatra and Julius Caesar had an affair so she was living about 2100 years ago. Pyramid-building continued until about 3700 years ago. A few notable ones like the ruins at Saqqara or the Great Pyramid at Giza are old enough that you can make that statement, but the pyramid-building culture was far more recent a thing to Cleopatra than she is to us
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:20:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cleopatra was a Greek, not an ancient Egyptian though. Egypt pretty much stopped being a sovereign area by 525 BC and Persian conquest.
CarpeCyprinidae ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:21:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, descendent of one of Alexanders generals, I know - what relevance has that to the point I was debunking?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:30:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The relevance is that she can't really be counted as an ancient Egyptian. Read what I edited about Persia above.
freenarative ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:58:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The following is a grammatically correct sentence:
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo."
AppleDane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:58:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it takes a clock 5 seconds to strike 5 o'clock, it will take the same clock 6.25 seconds to strike 6 o'clock.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:03:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rubber comes from plants
Dragonrooster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:04:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
0!=1
Wilreadit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:08:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Income inequality.
EJacobsn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:09:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The country with the most time zones on their territory is France.
Doctor1597 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:09:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans are more than 95% genetically identical to the bananas we eat.
Mr_Original_II ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:10:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just can't get my head around the unnecessary, yet correct use of the word "had" when used like "had went" or "had gone".
jnet ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:33:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about had had. Doesn't that just send you spare? :)
Mr_Original_II ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:39:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How about had sent me spare?
...never heard the term "send you spare" before.
jnet ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:03:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is a British saying, meaning to go mad/crazy or to get angry. It's very common.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:12:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm the boss at my work location.
Shocks me too.
FurryElephant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:15:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sum of all natural numbers equals -1/12.
tententai ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:16:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Napoleon and George Washington were contemporary.
vinzz73 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:17:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
New Zealand and Italy have the same shape and size roughly, and mirrored.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:19:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The length of Norway from Oslo to the northernmost point is the same as the distance between Oslo and Rome.
irongi8nt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:20:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Chicago to Moscow is closer than Miami is to Rio de Jenero.
AmbivalentFanatic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:21:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Suppose you have two bullets, one in your hand and one loaded into a gun. They are at the same height from the ground (doesn't matter what the height is.) Provided you drop the bullet in your hand at the instant you fire the bullet from the gun, both bullets will hit the ground at precisely the same time. That's because the force of gravity is independent of the sideways velocity of the fired bullet.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:23:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fired bullet will actually hit after the dropped one. Bullets tend to rise after coming out of the barrel.
AmbivalentFanatic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:28:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They only rise if the barrel is angled slightly upward, as seems to be the case with some weapons.
http://www.sniperforums.com/forum/cartridges-calibers/2746-myth-rising-bullet.html
If the barrel is perfectly level, the bullet will not rise.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:34:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't remember how many vids by supposed physicists have stated that bullets rise after coming out of a gun.
za419 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:22:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If the bullet pulls up at all, then it probably gets a small lift force to keep it aloft longer. But I don't see any reason that, wind or something notwithstanding, the bullet shouldn't fly straight
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:05:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If there is no rise in the bullet fired from a chamber, this is still assuming no interference between either bullet and the ground on their given trajectories.
For example, if there is a chair beneath you and you are firing into an open field, the bullet fired may hit the ground first.
On the other hand, if you are firing into a tree, the bullet dropped may hit the ground years before the other.
thepseudonym12344 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:21:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Norway and North Korea are separated by one country.
ConfusedGrasshopper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:21:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reading this thread is so strange, it feels like I can actually recite every top comment here.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:21:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you watch a movie with CGI in it some poor prick had to sit at a computer screen, all day, every day, doing nothing but trace around everything frame by frame so that the CGI could be added in.
krepkee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:22:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more foreigners in London than English people.
sebastiaandaniel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:23:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Inevery shit you take (provided it's of reasonable size), there are more bacteria than the number of humans who ever lived by approximation.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:24:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The last Monarch of England was in 1707.
thenewyorkgod ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:24:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The opposite of inside out is not outside in. It's outside out.
cutiebug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:25:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Cactus food" is a thing.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:27:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Himmler was a bit of a pussy. He once turned pale and vomited after witnessing an execution.
SeptemberEmbers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:27:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sun is a star.
RedditTwistG ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:27:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
A Rubik's cube can always be solved in 20 moves or less
aiya_au ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:28:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
hot water freezes faster than cold water
Your_Vader ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:29:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are 10 times moreย starsย in the night sky thanย grains of sandย in the world's deserts and beaches.
leagueofgreen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:29:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm late but .. Bruce Lee was alive during WW2. Also Harry Truman and Eminem were alive at the save time
ribagi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:29:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Infinite Sum of ( (-1)n ) / (2n + 1) ) is pi/4
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:30:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hot water freezes faster then cold water
mangiafazola ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:30:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Chimpanzees are genetically closer related to us humans than to gorillas or any other kind of apes.
arniec776 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:32:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
identical with all the word 'sanction'. To enable and to reprimand.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:32:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Capitalism is not theft
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:32:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans and bananas have a 50% DNA match.
tom_is_pullin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:32:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo' is a grammatically correct sentence.
Also if you read it too many times your brain starts to question whether 'buffalo' is actually a word
Monaco-Franze ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:32:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Greenland is north, west, south and east of Iceland.
kieppie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:33:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are people alive today, walking around with no pulse.
inteusx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:33:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nothing, we can never have a correctness to an arbitrary degree, there is always some detail missed out
debo2007 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:34:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are significantly more stars in the universe, than grains of sand on the entire earth
Lieutenant_Doge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:35:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There was a time American and German fight together during world war II
Nexttimee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:35:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buffalo can jump 6 feet high.
MuffinCompiler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:36:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In very cold surroundings, hot water freezes faster than cold water.
greasedonkey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:37:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1/10 of marriage are between cousins.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:01:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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CarpeCyprinidae ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:13:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
No. The inbreeding just causes shorter life-expectancy, lower IQ and a pandora's box of slightly disabling side effects
Add these genetically sub-standard people AND a religion that - like many others - has a lot of violence in it, AND a region with a lot of geopolitical problems, AND poverty then you have the middle east problem.
There's a good argument to be made for the low levels of Vitamin D in Middle-Eastern cuisine being partly responsible too, vitamin D deficiency is known to science to cause violent behaviour. Maybe we should be bombing them with jars of marmite.....
CRU-60 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:32:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not just in the Mideast; It is perfectly legal for you to marry your first cousin in the state of California.
TheMephistopheles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:38:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Stephen, you're retarded."
donotbelieveit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:40:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The US and Russia are only 2.4 miles apart at its closest point.
akadave ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:51:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can see Russia from my house.
CraftyDrac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:40:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some countries are ahead by over a day, and some places use a +0:15 timezone
monvie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:41:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seth Rogan has never smoked weed with James Franco.
knightsmarian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:41:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anne Frank and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. we're alive at the same time
max252 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:42:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Finland isn't real
Dobias ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:43:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
source
kieppie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:45:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Africa is bigger than China, India & the US - combined.
Ceejae ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:45:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only 10% of the entire human population lives below the equator.
DerpusDraconis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:13:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
5 guys named Bruce, and a penguin is about it.
Ceejae ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:16:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about me? D:
DerpusDraconis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:18:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Gday Bruce, I'm Bruce. We are the
10%(7.5ร10-8)%Ceejae ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:50:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bruce 2017
3rdweal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:46:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're much, much more likely to kill yourself than to be murdered by someone else.
FoxMcClaud ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:46:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The usual textbook maps that we know and learn are not really accurate, because they are 2D. The real world looks completely different.
saniaqueen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:46:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way."
Bassflute ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:47:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good point about spoken English usage!
Qualdrion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:47:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Strawberries aren't berries, while oranges are.
BlackPresident ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:47:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fidel Castro is still alive.
skiman13579 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:49:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not a single part on an aircraft can be original, but it is still legally considered the original aircraft that came out of the factory.
embaked ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:49:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you multiply all the fingers on the left hand of every human alive or dead by each other (5ร5ร5...) the result is 0.
WhyAName ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:50:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
James, where John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher.
My favorite example of how messed up this language actually is
Gunslinger_Rex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:50:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When compensating for bullet drop in long range shooting, you must aim low when shooting either downhill or uphill.
Teh_Concrete ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:36:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
but wah?
Gunslinger_Rex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:03:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, this explains it, but is over my head.
Basically, it boils down to gravity having maximum effect on the projectile when it is acting perpendicular to the bullet. But if the bullet is fired at, say, a 45 degree angle either up or down, the reduction of the gravitational effect is the same.
theruneman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:51:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On average, sharks kill one human every two years while humans kill one million sharks every year.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:09:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sharks kill like 30 to 40 people a year.
theruneman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:19:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Google gave me U.S. figures.
blueroom789 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:52:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ITT: Factchecking is a must. Also should have had a serious tag.
Typhoonjig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:53:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Coreans had multiple rocket launchers in 1400.
ChiefMedicalOfficer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:54:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more ways of rearranging a standard deck of playing cards than there are atoms in our Solar System.
SherbetHead2010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:18:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I'm sorry but no way. The total number of combinations of a deck of playing cards is 52! (Factorial) or about 8e67. The number of MOLECULES of just water in earths oceans is about 4.4e46. Multiply this by 3 for the amount of ATOMS in a molecule of water and you see that this is already pretty close (considering astronomical orders of magnitude). Now factor in that this is accounting for only water and only on planet earth and you see that there are a lot more atoms in our solar system than expected. If you were to account for air in our atmosphere and every other bit of solid matter, that number gets much much larger. If you factor in the sun, I'm pretty sure there are more than 8e67 here in our solar system.
SherbetHead2010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:22:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I'm sorry but no way. The total number of combinations of a deck of playing cards is 52! (Factorial) or about 8e67. The number of MOLECULES of just water in earths oceans is about 4.4e46. Multiply this by 3 for the amount of ATOMS in a molecule of water and you see that this is already pretty close. Now factor in that this is accounting for only water and only on planet earth and you see how wrong this actually is. If you were to account for air in our atmosphere and every other bit of matter, I can assure you there are much much more atoms just on earth than there are combinations of a deck of cards.
EDIT: after doing the math more completely... Turns out there in fact seems to be less atoms on earth than combinations of a 52 card deck. However, after factoring in the sun, I think it's safe to say there are probably more atoms than combinations of cards in just the first 3 planets from the sun.
ChiefMedicalOfficer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:27:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, I was looking for the answer because I've never believed it and I'm not smart enough to work it out.
SherbetHead2010 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:33:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha no worries it's a bit confusing. I was kind of guesstimating before but after doing the calculations there are actually more combinations than atoms on earth. That really surprised me. As far as there being more than the solar system though... I really don't want to do all of the rest of the math for all the planets so I guess I can't definitively say for sure but I'm highly doubtful. Then again you never know.
jbrooksuk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:54:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The word prohibited sounds like it's allowed.
StoplightLoosejaw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:54:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Are these, 'they'"
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:56:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:54:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As somebody who makes his own beef jerky...this is not quite correct.
It's cooked at low temperatures (typically 150ยฐ F), but it is cooked.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:03:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:11:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Technically speaking, even the 140ยฐF to 145ยฐF range is still 'cooked.' It may not be cooked 'properly' per FDA standards on some items, but it is still considered 'cooked' nonetheless.
http://www.foodsafety.gov/keep/charts/mintemp.html
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:58:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
evolution can produce very harmful and negative traits in humans/animals
LorenzoVonMatterh0rn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:00:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The southern most point in Canada is further south than the Northern most point in California. (South ontario)
Achmann1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:00:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
2014 was the last time someone was "tried" and executed for witchcraft - It was Saudi Arabia.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:01:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ITT people thinking anything before 1950 belongs to the Middle Ages.
zero_poison ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:22:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I never tought that..
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:01:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trying to increase gdp is the cause of our problems
gkiltz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:03:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Time and space are two different views on the same thing.
Oolybully ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:06:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
MagnusTheGreat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:08:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Greenland is further South, North, East and West than Iceland without surrounding it.
icithis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:09:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Things which are the same temperature can feel like different temperatures. Like 75F air vs 75F water.
SherbetHead2010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:03:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This just has to do with the heat capacity of certain substances. It takes very little energy to heat the air so our bodies create a microclimate of warm air around us. On the other hand, water takes a great deal more energy to raise the temperature by the same amount. Because of this, our bodies cannot warm it up as quickly and we feel a difference in temperature.
icithis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:36:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I majored in physics, but it's not intuitive.
oil_beef_hooked ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:11:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The tenth President of the USA, John Tyler, was born in 1790. two of his grandsons are still alive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tyler#Family_and_personal_life
vinzz73 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:19:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mind blown..
Edit: remarried a 30 year younger woman during his presidency.
EVERYONESTOPSHOUTING ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:11:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most people have more than the average number of legs.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:11:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Many languages change so little that it's not uncommon to be able to read texts which are ancient. However, with English we struggle to read texts which are only hundreds of years old.
Skaggered ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:13:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more possible games of chess, than atoms in the known universe.
blockey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:14:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you put a rope all the way around the earth and then lifted it a meter up everywhere around the earth, you would only need an extra 7m of rope for the ends to meet
Iihemc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:14:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A million seconds is equivalent to about 11 days.
A billion seconds is almost 32 years.
ghosttowns42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:14:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The longest word that is typed only with the left hand is "stewardesses"
killer3james ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:14:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Saudi Arabia import sand and camels from Australia
MandMcounter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:15:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Neither she nor I am a virgin."
The grammar sounds fucked....
sunkzero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:16:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The plural of Lego is Lego, not "Legos"
Waimang_NINJA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:16:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you put a cylinder around the eiffel tower the air in the cylinder will weight more then the tower itself.
Kettch144 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:31:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where did you get that from? It seems pretty far fetched
Waimang_NINJA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:33:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://wordpress.mrreid.org/2011/02/11/an-interesting-fact-about-the-eiffel-tower/
Not where I originally heard it from but backs it up with the numbers
themadscientist420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:17:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The melting of icebergs does not contribute to the rise of sea levels
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:44:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That one's actually false, sorry.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18841-melting-icebergs-boost-sea-level-rise/
themadscientist420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:57:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
hah this makes sense! TIL, cheers
SherbetHead2010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:58:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm intrigued, please elaborate.
Lenny-pls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:17:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We're going to build a big fat wall.
jonassm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:20:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump is the frontrunner in GOP
Nuddadacadac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:20:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Heres something from one of the best TV shows of all time, The West Wing: 'What the hell is that?' 'Its where you've been living'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVX-PrBRtTY
The Gall-Peters projection, or how maps are racist
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:21:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An hospital is correct due to English accents.
RandoMonkey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:21:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL a lot of fun facts
pecanha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:22:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When the first trees appeared, there were already sharks in the oceans.
paracelsus23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:22:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The 400 richest people in America have so much money they could give $5000 to every man woman and child in the country - and STILL BE BILLIONAIRES!
(The combined net worth of the Forbes 400 = $2 trillion. Subtract out $400 billion so they so they can remain billionaires, and you've got $1.6 trillion.
1.6 trillion dollars / 320 million people = five thousand dollars per person.)
LexingtonGreen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:37:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
But is their wealth cash or arbitrary value?
EvaRia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:22:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The average human has less than two arms.
Tykenolm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:24:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donale Trump for President.
_md ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:25:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How an internal combustion engine works; Suck, Squeeze, Bang, Blow.
CRU-60 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:21:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jets too!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ul8tkoQ1xA
electricmaster23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:25:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Elvis was alive when Star Wars was released.
usernameXXXX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:27:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Time slows down as you speed up.
Finnball ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:27:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
an MRI
AboveAverageUnicorn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:28:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm always late to these. Inflammable and flammable mean the same thing.
BrutalTruth101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:29:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Michigan has a longer shoreline than California or any state in the continental US. or Hawaii.
GreatApostate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:29:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit had upvotes for 4 years before Facebook had likes.
lsrwLuke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:42:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They are different things though
david_swe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:30:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You could fit all the planets in our solar system between earth and our moon.
http://www.universetoday.com/115672/you-could-fit-all-the-planets-between-the-earth-and-the-moon/
conehead88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:31:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are related to every single living creature on this earth
SherbetHead2010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:54:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except viruses (if you would consider them living). They are simply random strands of dna that has evolved on its own parallel to the rest of life on earth.
YackiSmaCK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:32:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brazil is bigger than Australia
TheEnglishman28 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:33:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Voting Libertarian
privatly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:33:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That Trump is a real person.
electricmaster23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:33:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More time had passed between Star Wars: Episode I โ The Phantom Menace and Star Wars: Episode VII โ The Force Awakens than the time that had passed between Star Wars: Episode VI โ Return of the Jedi and The Phantom Menace.
firemyth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:38:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
doesnt that stand to reason? 1 to 7 is going to be great than 1 to 6
electricmaster23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:47:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Episode 1 was released in 1999; Episode IV was released in 1983. George Lucas made prequels for the original trilogy, and, as such, the numbering goes 4,5,6,1,2,3,7. (Yes, it's confusing.)
firemyth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:41:33 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I see, you meant actual time, I thought you meant the time within the story
Ichibankakoi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:34:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man I hate jumping in late, but the sky isn't actually blue.
rpars ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:34:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Despite what modern maps show, Africa is actually roughly double the size of Russia
QuickCrapTwoSeconds ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:35:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo. It's grammatically correct.
CRU-60 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:17:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers badgers mushroom, mushroom.
shakeyjake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:35:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is a city in Texas that is closer to Montana than it is to other Texas cities
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:35:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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SherbetHead2010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:46:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry but incorrect. You are thinking of adderal, which is in fact amphetamine (racemic salt mixture). Ritalin, otherwise known as methylphenidate, is more closely related to cocaine.
SlipperyFish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:36:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're half your height at 2 years of age.
DankTiger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:36:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mammoths were still alive when the pyramids were being built
iced327 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:38:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why no game show paradox?
AdmiralHackIt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:38:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People get death penalty for not believing in Islam in many Muslim countries.
Iamnotwithouttoads ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:40:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the old man the boat.
Animal31 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:40:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mexican
like if you call someone a mexican it sounds racist, but its the offical nomenclature for someone from Mexico
Harperlarp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:44:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The word "stupider". It sounds entirely wrong but is somehow grammatically correct.
Momochichi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:44:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your parents, when you're a teenager.
maganda1220 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:45:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:05:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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contraspontanus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:20:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bison from Buffalo that bison from Buffalo bully likewise bully bison from Buffalo.
TrollManGoblin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:45:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The D sounds in "dark" and "deal" sound nothing alike. (Record yourself with an app that supports spectrograms and take a look)
kdusie1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:45:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Galapagos penguins are the northernmost penguins in the world.
dinosorejesus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:45:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
80s show failed because the sexual tension was gone, the guy and girl hooked up in the first season
GleichUmDieEcke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:46:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Per pound, per second, you emit more energy than the sun.
kdusie1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:46:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your cousin's cousin is your sister (or brother) ((or you don't have siblings and this makes no sense)).
Purple10tacle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:46:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Germany's indecent exposure law (ยง 183 StGB) only applies to men, not women. It's also not illegal if the only reaction to the indecent exposure is laughter, curiosity or pity.
Guitar46 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:46:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some people on Reddit are smart.
dinosorejesus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:47:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Japanese aren't japanese. They are Nippon.
tennorabbit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:56:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nihonjin
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:48:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The blanket of freshly fallen pollen explodes from the male pine cone.
nsentrepreneur ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:48:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It takes 4 hours to get to Cuba from Nova Scotia, Canada by flight. It takes 13 hours to get to Alberta by flight.
Crazy
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:48:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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CRU-60 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:10:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
While it is true that Bob reached the rank of Master Sergeant in the Air Force, he was never an MTI at Lackland Air Force Base; He was a squadron First Sergeant at Eielson AFB in Fairbanks, Alaska.
irfanburningowl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:49:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Arkansas
Alan_Pinchloaf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:49:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My wife.
billsthrills ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:49:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Negative reinforcement refers to the removal of something unpleasant, e.g a headache, as opposed to being punished for doing something
lord_kante ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:49:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only 66 years separates the Wright brothers 1st successful flight and humans walking on the moon.
Even less time for unmanned flights and only orbiting the moon.
ObnoxiousGamer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:50:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Sun makes up 99.8% of the entire mass of the whole Solar System
One million Earths would be needed to be the same size as the Sun
DYELB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:50:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you fold a piece of paper 43 times its width would reach the moon. If you would fold it 103 times its width would be wider than the universe.
Obanon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:50:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nothing actually ever touches anything else.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:50:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump is running for the US Presidency ... and is in the lead.
OBSTACLE3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:51:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
a duck is a type of crab
Man_V ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:51:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is just a fancy way to question, "please state a random bizarre fact you know below."
EvilMortyC137 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:51:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Monty Hall Problemn
Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a prize; behind the others, nothing. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has nothing. He then says , "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?
The answer is yes. By switching your odds go from 1/3 to 2/3
Darkimus-prime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:05:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone has watched "21" with Kevin Spacey
EvilMortyC137 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:23:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I haven't. Or I only watched 20 minutes before I stopped out of boredom. But I did hear Sam Harris bring it up.
Darkimus-prime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:00:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a really good film, you should.
EvilMortyC137 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:39:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I tried, it's just not entertaining to me. Glad you liked it though.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:51:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1 = 0.999โฆ
MiracleNinja ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:51:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A shaved guinea pig turns into a mini hippo
confuseum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:52:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are ALL going to die!
Chillypill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:52:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No Donald Trump joke as top? Im dissappointed reddit ;)
georgefrymire ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:53:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
These are they is in fact correct, not these are them.
ZapAppington ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:53:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence
monkeyfullofbarrels ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:54:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Canada extends into the united states as far south as California.
(Point Pelee)
petalcollie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:54:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was going to eat that cheese but then "I thought better of it."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:55:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can fit all the planets of the solar system between the earth and the moon.
Castra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:55:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not all animals in Australia want to kill you.
ObnoxiousGamer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:55:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The word astronaut comes from the Greek word "Astron" which means star and "nautes" which means sailor. The Russian cosmonaut has a similar meaning from "kosmos" meaning universe and again "nautes" for sailor
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:15:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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ObnoxiousGamer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:19:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Quite possibly, I'm sure if they changed what they call the Moon more people would go
rompapa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:55:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The answer to Monty Hall problem. Go search it up, think about it and you'll say "ooh right" but it sounds so wrong if you don't think about it first.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:56:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The rings of Saturn are only 30 feet thick.
heimdahl81 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:56:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are less days in a year now than there used to be. Around 350 million years ago a year was 385 days and around 620 million years ago a year was around 400 days. This is due to the gravitational effect of the moon on the earth.
AlienAbductor97 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:57:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Greenland is an ice land and Iceland is a green land
karmaceutical ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:57:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Women earned the right to vote in Switzerland in 1972
themightyspitz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:58:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Carson City, NV is farther west than San Diego, CA.
dynoraptor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:58:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jackdaws are crows.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:00:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can rearrange the letters in "Mother in law" to get "Woman hitler"
shockfuel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:00:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Those sweetners are a by-product of coal
edit: ow :(
only one form of it
Beowulf85 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:01:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Havin six fingers is a dominant gene while having five fingers is a recessive trait.
Beowulf85 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:01:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Havin six fingers is a dominant gene while having five fingers is a recessive trait.
Nicolaselizas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:02:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it is Radio , Thanks , :)
http://www.thecheesyanimation.com/2D-3D-Cartoon-Animation.html
ColdCappuccino ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:02:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You could fit all the planet's in our solar system between earth and the moon
QuantumScout ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:03:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Stegosaurus was extinct for approximately 80 million years before the appearance of the Tyrannosaurus
StriveSeekFind ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:06:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Restaurateur
RandoAtReddit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:07:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you burn plastic, the smoke goes up in the air and becomes stars.
ColdCocking ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:11:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can toss a cat off of a skyscraper and it'll probably be fine.
thedamnedbro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:11:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death metal is a actually a really complex wide genre.
takkischitt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:11:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sharks have been around longer than trees.
TenYearsLovin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:11:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That Courtney Stodden & Dakota Fanning are the same age of 22 years old. Courtney married Doug Hutchison (55) in 2011 after dating for 2 years; so...um...go ahead & calculate that.
iDuLicious ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:13:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the opposite side of your wenis could be considered your wagina
Sniperawd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:14:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm in the us and the fastest way to get to Canada starts out by heading south to get there.
MrDrPatrick2U ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:15:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is a club for survivors of attempted suicide off the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, CA. Also as I am typing this 500 people died around the world.
OriolesTalk45637 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:15:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a gramatically correct sentance
ThriceOnSundays ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:15:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL I should own a globe
atad2much ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:15:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The word flaccid is really pronounced "flak-sid".
thefrankyg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:16:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can have a sentence entirely made up of the word buffalo and it will make grammatical sense.
Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.
RedGene ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:16:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The public radiation dose from Fukushima was not high enough to observe one excess cancer death above the background rate.
triagon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:17:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human's dna is about 50% similar to banana's.
juliakim87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:18:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Mental retard. I think its changed now, but when i was a nursing student, i charted 'mentally challenged' and my instructor shamed me by saying, "Are you trying to insult?" She then said to cross out 'challenged' and write 'retard'.
I was so confused...
SpeedyVT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:18:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When your dad owns you in a Video Game and then ironically states, "I fucked your mom last night!".
Eudaimonics ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:20:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Universal healthcare (an expanded Medicaid) would save the vast majority of Americans money.
Meek0n ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:21:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The driest place on earth? Antarctica
http://www.livescience.com/30627-10-driest-places-on-earth.html
Pain-Causing-Samurai ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:21:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Objects fall at the same rate, regardless of weight.
toddsmash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:22:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Theory:
There's an edge to the galaxy and it's expanding. Into... As far as we.... Absolutely nothing.
admiralEagl3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:23:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the imperial system does actually not make sense
brianfsanford ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:23:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The word "remuneration". I've always thought "renumeration" makes more sense. I mean, how do you 'munerate', let alone Remunerate?!
nlpnt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:25:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Packard and Toyota were both available as new cars on the US market for one model year (1958).
differentialdude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:25:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A helium party balloon inside a car will move forwards (toward the dashboard) when the car accelerates and backwards when braking.
brandonjslippingaway ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:26:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The oldest professional football club in the world is not an Association Football club, nor is it even English. It's the Melbourne Football club, which was founded in a city only 23/4 years of age at the time. Australian football in general also is the oldest form of modern football (codified 1859).
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:27:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
gyroscopes
liberalsupporter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:28:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My opinions on reddit
ndpugs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:29:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If your penis doesn't fit, don't try to force it.
Thrownitawaytho ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:29:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This question is asked every month, sometimes even twice!
Edit: Nah, that sounds unsurprising.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:29:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
vitamin supplements barely do anything if at all
Lus_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:30:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Internal layout organs, and skin of a pig, are almost the same for human, than every other animal.
Quadroflange ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:30:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Paul McCartney's middle name is Paul.
tofu747 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:30:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sharks were around on earth approx 50 million years before trees.
jorillac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:31:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:32:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This question. Usually people say something sounds wrong if it sounds sexual or suggestive, not incorrect.
CaiHaines ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:33:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
we've got four we've got 4 nostrils
HeatCreator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:33:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That there is a lot of gold being given in the comments...
dromedarian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:35:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sentence 'i need to find the one which suits me' is grammatically WRONG. It drives me bananas. It's like screenwriters think the word which makes their characters sound smart, but they all failed 8th grade English.
'i need to find the one that suits me' is correct. Which is only used to introduce a dependant clause that isn't necessary to the meaning of the sentence. Also it comes with a comma
'i found this one, which suits me' is correct.
I get that nobody cares about this. It's just my personal beef.
factsbotherme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:36:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't report on teen suicide. it directly leads to more teen suicide.
meowmeowfuntime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:37:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Forte is pronounced fort and not fortay.
ruminajaali ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:57:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
English, but not in Spanish.
EnIdiot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:38:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more possible moves in the game of Go than there are atoms in the universe.
rageofheaven ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:47:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's hard to wrap my brain around that but I read it a few weeks ago.
ciolaamotore ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:39:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are as many real numbers between 0 and 1 as they are between -infinity and +inifinity
IgottagoTT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:40:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
2 + 2 = 11
(Base 3)
alexmlamb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:42:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seattle is farther North than Montreal.
darkhorn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:44:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Part of Kazakhstan is in Europe.
artgriego ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:44:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reno, NV is west of Los Angeles.
njbartilucci ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:44:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More people live in Rhode Island than in Wyoming.
judgerer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:45:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone has a living skeleton inside of them.
happeloy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:45:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When going through the panama canal from the atlantic to the pacific ocean, the entrance is actually further west than the exit.
mynameisbeef ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:46:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ITT: people with a poor grasp of geography and history
JenRedmond ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:47:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more bacterial cells in the human body than human cells
413u43190h ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:49:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
"All's well that end's well" implies that nothing is alright when you factor in the inevitable heat death of the universe. Everything that currently exists without question or any possible recourse inevitably will go to shit in the very end because all matter and energy will be gone forever. This is irreversible too.
It doesn't matter that it will take 999999999999999999999999 etc etc whatever many years to happen, once it does it will be just as real to everything that's ever existed as you waking and putting pants on is whenever you wake up from sleep.
stevesy17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:52:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
T-c-h-o-t-c-h-k-e is how you spell tchotchke
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:53:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The pineal gland is not located in the brain.
OozyJtown ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:54:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Ottoman Empire still existed the last time the Chicago Cubs won a World Series.
Karmeleon86 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:55:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"This is he"
AlphaTyrant ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 13:27:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or in Caitlin's case, "He is she"
pipnewman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:55:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The average human has one Fallopian tube.
qp0n ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:56:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
0.999... = 1
sharrkzilla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:57:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maine is the only state that shares borders with just one other state.
shredfan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:58:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The word "data" is also plural. Every time I hear or read "What the data are telling us" I cringe.
krepkee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:12:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not plural, it's non-countable.
shredfan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:59:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's fair. The awkwardness ends up the same though.
krepkee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:19:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With non-countable nouns, use singular 'be' verbs: is/was
shredfan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:41:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://blog.harwardcommunications.com/2015/08/12/is-data-singular-or-plural/
Basically either is okay, depends on what you are using it for.
DingleDanglies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:58:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Margret Thatcher invented soft serve ice cream (Mr Whippy).
billb0bb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:00:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
can someone confirm if the following is true: i heard it as an explanation of how small atoms are.
if you take a gallon of liquid and dispersed it evenly throughout all the oceans, then dipped a gallon of water back out of the ocean from any point, you'd have 10 million atoms of the original liquid.
AwesomeNinjas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:00:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The majority of people have an above average number of legs.
BredWinner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:00:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your test results came back....its negative.
Chrthiel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:01:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's at least one desert in Scandinavia
UBIQUIT0US ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:01:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pound for pound, you radiate far more energy than the sun.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:02:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A Michael Bay film has an Oscar (Pearl Harbor, Sound Editing) (i think).
Chiefsizzlechest ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:02:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
France is third in nuclear bomb launches right after Russia in second, and the US in first.
mattemer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:02:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your mom loves me. A lot.
hwld ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:04:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sum of all natural numbers to infinity = -1/12
1+2+3+4+... = -1/12
Yeh.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:22:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol
skynet2013 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:04:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An historic
graptemys ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:08:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No.
RudyardKipling ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:06:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more possible combinations of a shuffled 52-card deck than there are atoms in the observable universe.
Cruven ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:06:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The average person has less than four limbs.
Xharry07X ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:06:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One million times zero is zero & (insert number here) multiplied by anything under 1 gets an answer that is lower than the original number
Shoop_a_Doop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:16:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nothing from nothing leaves nothing, well you gotta have something if you wanna be with meeee!
That song was teaching people basic math and I never realized it.
Xharry07X ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:11:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have no idea what song you are talking about :D
Shoop_a_Doop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:14:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't remember the name of the artist honestly. It's an older song from like the 70's or 80's I think.
ScorpionX-123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:07:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Babe: Pig in the City and Mad Max: Fury Road were directed by the same guy.
Je_suis_les_escargot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:08:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump is winning the republican primary.
Misspelled_username ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:08:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Monty Hall problem
Hitlers_Gas_Bill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:08:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more nipples than people on Earth.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:09:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you have more than 23 people in a room there is a higher than 50% chance that two people in the room share the same birthday. Invite a few more people, with 40 you're near a 90% chance and with 60 there's a higher than 99% chance of two people sharing a birthday.
Obviously, in order to reach 100% you'd need 366 people.
makenzie71 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:09:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of states have vote thresholds. In Texas, that threshold is 20%. This means that if you vote for an unpopular contender, your vote is literally removed and placed with the leading party contender. This means that everyone in Texas who voted for Rubio, Kasich, or Carson LITERALLY voted for Ted Cruz.
Remember, your vote counts...for someone...
mattemer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:27:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For all elections? This... This is wrong? Just as wrong as the electoral college I'd say. But at least this way your vote IS counting I guess..
Intelligent_Fern ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:09:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We collectively spend $15 million every day to solve pointless hashes. This is what we call bitcoin.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:10:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can put out an oil well or gas well fire by carefully placing explosives in the flame. You'd think it would make things worse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil's_Cigarette_Lighter
Shiney79 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:21:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Saw this on an episode of MacGyver.
JonSnowsGhost ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:10:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nuclear reactors are supposed to go critical (super critical is also a thing they normally do).
ms-anthrope ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:38:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that makes me laugh in movies. "oh no, the reactor has gone critical!" hoooraaayy, it's working.
JonSnowsGhost ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:43:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, I've found it's more like "the reactor is critical." "Fuck, I actually have to work now."
the_turn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:11:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"The data are in."
ltdan4096 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:13:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No one in history as any reason for believing in their religion beyond the fact that someone older than them told them it is real.
cream_of_the_crap ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:13:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flammable and inflammable mean the same thing. The opposite is noninflammable.
ms-anthrope ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:37:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what a country!
billb0bb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:14:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the state of Virginia's name is not officially 'Virginia', its the 'Commonwealth of Virginia'. same goes for Kentucky, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania.
also interesting, Massachusetts does not have an 'e' before the final 's'.
Lizzypie1988 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:14:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you gave one single E Coli bacteria enough room and nutrients it could multiply to 4000x the size of the earth in 48 hours.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:16:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We are closer to the year of 2030 than to 2000.
Shiney79 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:19:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shut up. :(
Sam5253 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:16:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher
mistixs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:17:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That we share roughly 30% of our DNA with bananas
BrandeX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:17:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"If I were"
TbagginsMcgillySwag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:18:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Suggesting to friends they might be doing stupid shit and fucking up, and that's why they aren't happy and it never works out for them..
ms-anthrope ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:36:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Once a friend told me, "I am very wise with other people's lives" and it's so true.
Golemfrost ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:18:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We are by definition still living a ice age
server_busy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:19:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reno is west of San Diego
_Surgat_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:19:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you make $11.25/hour or more you are in the top 1% of wealth earners in the world. (based on an avg US 2080 hour work year)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:21:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Source?
mattemer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:23:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thinking the key here is "world."
BringTheNewAge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:21:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the walls of Babylon that repelled even Genghis khan stood until they were broken by artillery.
Pendraggon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:23:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One person is murdered every 21 minutes in Venezuela.
bowenoutofstyle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:24:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So is everyone just copy/pasting from the "what IS a fun fact?" Askreddit? I'm getting a whole lot of deja vu up in here
shapu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:24:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The universe is expanding at faster than the speed of light.
Xipher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:26:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That 0.999... repeating is equal to 1.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999...
Kalistoga ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:27:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Berenstain Bears
TeamRocketBadger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:28:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Until just recently or maybe its still true... In the state of Virginia it is ILLEGAL to have sex with the lights on, or in any position other than missionary.
TheCrowbarSnapsInTwo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:28:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The last mammoth died almost 1000 years after the great pyramids were built.
Edit: Check'd my facts
IngoVals ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:47:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think they actual died much later, around 1600 BC. Weren't the pyramids built like around 5000 BC?
TheCrowbarSnapsInTwo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:24:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay, they died sometime 3600 years ago, like you said. The pyramids of Giza were built 2560 BCE.
IngoVals ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:39:09 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I must have heard 5000 years ago, not 5000 BC.
Bismarcus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:29:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Earth is more massive than Mercury, Venus, The Moon, Mars, Phobos, Deimos, and the Asteroid Belt all combined.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:29:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are less likely to get a computer virus if you have good spelling and grammar skills.
deadlandsMarshal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:32:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm going to call bullshit on this one. Not that I don't believe you, I am just really excited about the proof.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:54:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I heard it from a cyber security podcast yesterday called "The Cyberwire".
Basically, many viruses come through email. Most of those emails originate from countries like Russia or Nigeria where they don't speak much English. The emails often have several grammar and spelling mistakes. The good ones will fix most of those mistakes using automated spelling/grammar checkers... but those checkers will still miss some things like homonyms. If you spot a homonym used incorrectly in an email, it might be a sine :)
deadlandsMarshal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:46:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That makes sense. Thank you!
truthcopy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:56:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seems like it's more about being less likely to fall for phishing scams, since they almost always LOOK legit but a close examination of the text will reveal problems with grammar.
deadlandsMarshal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:46:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Makes sense, thank you.
reidh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:30:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The plural for octopus is not octopi, but rather octopodes, and it's pronounced ock-top-oh-dees!
Source.
ziggymeoww ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:31:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uhh... Sorry, don't know how I skipped over that part. Embarrassing.
Forumrider4life ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:32:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you are in a pinch and need a fast way to refurbish the shine on your dress shoes you can use shaving cream to buff them up quickly. Warning this only works on properly waxed shoes/boots and ruins those with paint on shine...
jessyesmess ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:32:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Betty White is older than sliced bread.
moderndayanachronism ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:33:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If things continue on their current path, either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton will be President of the USA.
ms-anthrope ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:33:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
my boyfriend and i got in an argument about whether or not grasshoppers eat grass. i was wrong!
taybul ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:34:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The correct spelling for the word "appall".
Xeeroy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:34:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Monty Hall paradox.
If you're on a game show where you pick one of 3 doors and each door has either a donkey or a car behind it. There is one car and two donkeys and you goal is to pick the door with the car to win it.
The confusing part is if you pick a door and the game show host ask if you want another door instead, you will have a 2/3 chance of getting the car by taking the door he suggest compared to the 1/3 chance you had before.
Etzix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:38:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You forgot to mention this only works if the game host REMOVES one of the WRONG doors after you have picked once!
Xeeroy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:49:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No I didn't forget as that has nothing to with the Monty Hall problem. If he had removed one of the wrong doors you have a 1/2 chance and not a 2/3 chance as is the case.
Etzix ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:00:50 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He has to remove one of the wrong doors for the chance to change though, thats the Monty hall problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem Sorry not sorry.
maize_maze ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:37:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Women poop.
A_bl1nd_Sn1p3r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:38:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is enough energy stored in a standard science textbook to get a rocket from here to the moon if we were to real saw all it's stored energy.
NEXT_VICTIM ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:58:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just like a cup of gas has 1/4 the energy of a cup of sugar
SteakShake69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:38:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans share about 50% of their DNA with bananas.
mkhan114 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:39:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
idk
SnakeIce30 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:40:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump is the front-runner for the Republican nomination for President of the United States.
lasoxrox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:40:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Steve Martin and Edie Brickell have written a musical, now on Broadway, called "Bright Star." Steve Martin has also taken up the banjo and performs blue grass original pieces.
beuhring ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:42:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Steve Martin has been playing banjo for many years
beuhring ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:42:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Steve Martin has been playing banjo for many years
greensheepman7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:42:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Julius Caesar lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than the building of the pyramids.
Axemic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:42:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are just six introductions away from any other person on the planet.
JFGI
pcre4609 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:43:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Our bodies comprise 10 times more bacteria than human cells.
EarthBoundMisfitEye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:43:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
12am - is midnight- dark out. AM makes it sound like day time.
kolt54321 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:44:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hippo milk is pink.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:44:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more possible combinations in a deck of cards than stars in the visible universe, and every time you shuffle a deck, it is likely you end up with a new combination which has never existed before.
YoBitchCheese ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:45:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of people in this thread don't understand Google exists or how to use it. That's the most truthful statement here.
jaardreign ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:46:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a gramatically correct sentence.
MermaidMathematiques ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:46:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If a baby is born underwater, they can live the rest of their lives there.
ajn19 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:26:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This isn't right...
BigUM9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:15:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why do we not have underwater cities? This needs to happen
Darkashe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:46:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dolphin's nipples are located inside openings on either side of their anus
Gordon_Hamilton ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:46:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can stand the Smell, if you can stand the pain, Darling !!!
paisleycouchcushions ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:48:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drinking coffee hydrates your body.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:49:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buffalo, buffalo, buffalo, buffalo, buffalo, buffalo, buffalo, buffalo
Davisman777 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:49:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr. were born in the same year.
Kern-Dawg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:50:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo, is a real sentence.
Wyatt821 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:51:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are 2 people still alive from the 1800's.
BigUM9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:12:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How does that one work?
Wyatt821 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:53:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's insane
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:52:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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L_D_Machiavelli ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:17:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cause the Allies couldn't read their maps right and the Germans and Italians could. Not the Swiss' fault that other people don't respect their borders.
fyreNL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:16:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, i am well aware why. A number of Swiss villages were also bombed to hell and back by the Allies as they mistook it for Southern-Germany. Makes sense why the Swiss were pissed off about it.
L_D_Machiavelli ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:04:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hell I'm getting pissed off just thinking about it.
JulianneW ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:53:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The word invaluable.
kidenvy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:55:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The completion of the Three Gorges Damn in China changed the Earth's rotation.
PorpoiseCallosum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:56:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." Is a grammatically correct sentence
As well as my favorite sentence.
PorpoiseCallosum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:58:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flammable and inflammable mean the same thing.
dens421 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:58:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The average number of legs per animal on earth in less than one!
Teekno ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:00:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The average person has one fallopian tube.
astobie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:04:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you go green and burn your trash to get a nice smokey smell it will go up into the atmosphere and become stars.
linem_mk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:04:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The word aluminum
Strikedestiny ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:05:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This exact question has gotten to the front page several times.
Dippay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:05:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Carrots cook faster than celery
yourdeadcat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:06:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
3 teaspoons per tablespoon. Seems so wrong.
TheJesusMan30 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:07:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rubberneckers
yaavsp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:08:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't know this until recently, but all the rats at the pet store are the same. I thought the small and jumbo rats were different.
Sniper881 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:08:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Betty White is older than sliced bread
Fooooood84 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:08:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A giraffe has the same amount of vertebrae as a human.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:09:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:11:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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boneleg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:09:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The repeating decimal 0.99999... is equal to 1.0
FunkyHenryGale ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:09:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's spelled Berenstain Bears.
goedegeit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:09:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This sentence is incorrect.
Tarpo76 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:30:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Preceding statement was false
rgbmatter28 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:10:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The distance between New York and Beijing is shorter than the distance between Los Angeles and Sydney.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:12:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Black and white are not colors
Tarpo76 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:29:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course not.. If Black and White were colours then Black and White TVs could have been sold as Colour TVs
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:52:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"What color is your car?" "Black"
LostVisage ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:14:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ei*ฯ=-1
Even as a math minor, Euler's identity boggles me every time I see it.
Akredlm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:43:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I too am boggled, though for a different reason
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:15:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your foot is similar in length to your forearm
Revvvie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:15:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Peanuts are not actually nuts.
WhoDknee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:16:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All of the planets in our sollar system could fit side by side between the Earth and the moon.
davis482 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:17:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your mom jokes.
ricdesi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:17:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump once bought a team in an NFL rival startup just to kill the league and move his team into the NFL. He sued the NFL for monopolization and won... and was awarded three dollars. The USFL summarily died, and so did Trump's team.
highlyannoyed1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:25:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This will be his foreign policy strategy if he gets elected...
moltakkk111 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:17:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stretching does nothing for your workout.
randomguy186 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:18:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People from Mexico are called "Mexicans."
URAseeyounexttuesday ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:18:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My so and i argued about the whole several doesn't mean seven things yesterday
delibes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:19:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nobody seems to think that it's weird that the speed of light is the same no matter how fast you go, or that matter has a wave-particle dual nature?
These are so fundamentally in conflict with what we observe in day-to-day life that it's hard to grasp the ideas even with many different scientifically repeatable experiments to prove it.
cwmma ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:19:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have an above average number of hands (almost all of you)
maniaclawyer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:21:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ernesto Miranda (of the famous Miranda rights) did not get his case dismissed because of the Supreme Court case that bears his name. The Supreme Court sent the case back to Arizona and told them to give him another trial (without using his statement this time). Arizona gave Miranda another trial, convicted him again, and sent him back to prison. (Dismissal of the case never was, isn't now, and never will be the remedy for a violation of the "Miranda" rule.)
djzang ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:21:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The latitude at the most northern tip of California state is the same as the most southern tip of Canada.
SoundisPlatinum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:21:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine the average (or mean for the nitpickers) intelligence of a person, then realise that half the people in the world are dumber than that.
I always have to thank George Carlin for pointing this out to me. I am also kinda cursing him right now for the difficulty of turning this joke into a reliable statement.
Katana314 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:22:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Situation: You are playing a game show in which you pick a prize from behind three mystery doors. You pick one door. Before opening it, the host opens a different door which contains a goat (goat meaning "no prize"). He then asks if you'd like to stick with your current pick, or switch to the other unopened door before opening it.
Unofficial mathematician Marilyn vos Savant wrote a column describing that the game is weighted in the player's favor - if they switch doors every single time the host asks them to, their odds of winning a prize increase from 1/3rd to 1/2. Needless to say, mathematicians all over the world wrote in to explain why she was terribly misguided.
She elaborated on her proof multiple times, and turned out to be correct: When the goat door is opened, information is added about the door you didn't pick, but is NOT added about the door you first picked because the goat door would have been opened anyway. (Not in the article I found, but as I remember it, if you pick the goat door immediately, you lose right away) There's more to read if you like.
inavda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:22:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Spanish word "embarazada" means "pregnant" in English.
sphincterboygenious ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:22:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The average cloud weighs 1.1 million pounds.
drinktusker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:22:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
China is actually having a problem of not having enough people being born, their population is still growing.
LaconianStrategos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:22:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flammable and inflammable mean the same thing.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:23:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Adding salt to water decreases its total volume
Summamabitch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:23:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Women deserve the right to vote.
(Obvious joke)
dang90 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:24:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A panther and a leopard are the same animal.
MuffinMonkeyCat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:24:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1 in 4 animals in the world is some sort of beetle.
mrityunjayaa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:25:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ravel and unravel mean the same thing.
ranaparvus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:25:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not "more healthy", "more quiet", "more likely", it's "healthier", "quieter", "likelier" ... ad nauseam.
nashvortex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:25:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We can guarantee that there is at least one person on the planet with exactly the same number of hair on their head as you do.
FlickeringLCD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:26:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you don't have coctail sauce for your shrimp you just need ketchup and horseradish.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:26:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Akredlm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:29:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hung to death. What a way to go.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:38:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Akredlm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:45:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but how rad would it be to die of having a big dick
ignatius_j_chinaski ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:50:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A picture is hung, a person is hanged.
Badya122 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:26:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You exchange five days of the week of your time during work for 2 days of the week for your life.
MmmmapleSyrup ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:27:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A 2x4 piece of lumber actually measures 1.5"x3.5"
randible ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:53:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The rough hewn form of a 2x4 is indeed 2" x 4". The missing portion is a result of the finishing process.
MmmmapleSyrup ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:54:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
correct
mustafaihssan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:27:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The first University ever was founded by Arab woman. Source
JurijFedorov ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:28:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
White people have higher IQ than black people - and Orientals have an even higher IQ than both those groups.
arekusu89 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:49:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Perhaps, but you can't infer all that much from this because IQ tests are culturally biased.
JurijFedorov ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:55:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Perhaps what?
That's wrong.
clnecropolis864 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:28:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty much everything in modern physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity)
titaniumbutter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:29:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you drive from Austin to San Diego, the halfway point is within Texas. That one fucked with my friends a bit.
Nevets_04 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:29:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
0! = 1
2gudfou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:30:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
a green marker is actually every color but green
intherorrim ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:31:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Because most of an atom is empty space, if you froze time and put the entire universe's protons together, they would briefly fit within Jupiters' orbit.
Then KABOOM.
Amanoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:31:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're American, the word "negroid". It simply means "resembling black", making it much more accurate than "black". In fact, it's the word "black" that's considered derogatory in some countries.
mcprof1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:31:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reno Nevada is further west than San Diego, CA.
bunkscudda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
flammable and inflammable mean the same thing
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That on some inkjet printers manufacturers made the printheads irreplaceable on purpose to force people into buying new printers when they get clogged or worn down. They are a replaceable consumable on older printers and higher end modern printers.
mrityunjayaa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The USA is only about 50 miles from Russia.
Keundrum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:33:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bush did 9/11
JamRel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:34:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If the earth was compressed into a normal year calendar the human race would only exist the in the last hour
ITGuyLevi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:34:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alaska is not only the most northern and western of the US States, it is also the most eastern.
TheDarkoParadox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:36:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A cannon ball dropped and another one fired out of a cannon will hit the ground at the same time.
slowshot ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:50:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Providing the cannon is level. If the cannon is at a 45o angle, the ball will take time to go up, and then down compared to a cannonball dropped from the height of the muzzle, which just has to go down.
TheDarkoParadox ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:07:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good point, should have specified that.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:37:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is more genetic diversity between all some Africans than there are between Caucasian and Asian people.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:38:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sum of all natural numbers (1+2+3+4+...) is -1/12
testthisisa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:39:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The southern tip of Ontario, Canada is further south than the northern border of California.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:44:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can travel south from Detroit into Canada.
JeffJeezy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:39:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Calling someone a Puerto Rican.
savaero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:40:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Zero of the 9/11 terrorists had turbans or beards
Benzerka ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:00:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bullshit, gtfo
bmcelroy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:41:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Taho is west of LA
Name0fTheUser ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:42:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The average person has more than the average number of limbs.
jetfuelcantmeltbeams ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:42:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
0.99 repeating = 1
jusjerm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:42:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the novel by the same name, the "Ugly American" was one of the good examples of Americans abroad.
savaero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:44:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The entire human population of the earth can fit in a cube just 2 miles on a side!!!
TonySoprano420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:44:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
George RR Martin had published two sequels to A Game of Thrones before 9/11.
ktbrava ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:44:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are six state capitals west of LA.
lildil37 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:45:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are always levitate, even if it's on the nm scale.
barrydingal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:48:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wood chucks do not chuck wood
RagdollFizzixx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:09:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But what if they could
barrydingal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:31:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you imagine how much wood they would chuck?
A_Bridgeburner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:49:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you add 50% and then subtract 1/3 you end up with the same number
jasondfw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:50:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The phrase is "Champing at the bit," not "Chomping at the bit."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:51:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Soldier4Christ82 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:03:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If what they sell classifies as chicken anyway...
Monsignor_Gilgamesh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:52:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bike Helmets might kill more people than they save. some source
luckycommander ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:25:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not in Europe they wouldn't, where bike lanes have been invented.
padmasundari ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:19:33 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And where you don't have to or indeed need to wear them.
PointedSticks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:54:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
onomatopoeia
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:54:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have to drive south from Detroit to get into Canada.
ournamesdontmeanshit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:32:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You don't "have to" you can drive northeast on I-94 to Sarnia and get into Canada.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:56:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The human being is mostly empty space.
ermockler ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:50:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
some more than others
Saytahri ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:56:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I will flip 2 coins without you seeing and put one under each hand, and show you a head if there is a head.
We start, I flip both, I lift up a hand to show you a head.
The probability that the other coin is a tails is 2/3.
jonos360 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:57:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo, buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." is a complete sentence.
jonos360 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:57:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo, buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." is a complete sentence.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:58:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Africa is fourteen times bigger than Greenland.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:59:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Penguins are dinosaurs.
spacmanhartley ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:59:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We share 50% of our DNA with bananas
socialistbob ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:00:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No president in well over a century has lost Ohio in the general election and left office alive.
MrScratch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:00:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
0.111111111111...* 9 = 1
bobbinbabble ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:01:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more ways to arrange a standard deck of playing cards than there are atoms in the solar system
haleyrose927 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:01:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The past tense of hang is hanged, not hung.
ournamesdontmeanshit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:24:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually I believe that depends on context, hanged if you're talking about a person, hung if talking about an object. If someone asks you "what did you do with your certificate?" you don't say "I hanged it on my wall"
haleyrose927 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:18:41 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, I agree with you! I mean more in the sense of a person. :)
FormalChicken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:02:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bananas are a berry. Strawberries are not. Blueberries are not blue.
Abysmal_poptart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:02:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you sail in a perfectly straight line from the correct location off Canada's coast in the correct direction, you will finish the journey on Canada's opposite coast without hitting any other land.
SaikoGekido ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:05:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Large companies spend the majority of their profits on stock buybacks and dividend payments.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:06:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gay sex was legalised in Ireland in 1993
teaching-man ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:09:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reno is farther west than Los Angeles
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:09:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lighters were invented before matches.
Machu1299 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:10:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Besides Alaska, Michigan has the most coastline of any state in the US.
D_M_E ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:13:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty much all of South America is east of North America
fakerfakefakerson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:39:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not all of South America is actually south of North America
Al2718x ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:15:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is no city in the world with a higher population per capita than Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:21:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Al2718x ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:16:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:50:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Al2718x ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:18:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, I'm talking about people per capita. Pittsburgh has 1 person per capita. No city has more people per capita.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:51:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Al2718x ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:05:31 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reread my original comment
padmasundari ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:15:17 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm going to guess here that like all cities they have a population per capita of one.
padmasundari ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:15:49 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So technically you're correct.
Al2718x ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:23:37 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah and it sounds extremely wrong!
padmasundari ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:57:16 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I realised that in the end haha!
ThisIsMySafeSpace ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:16:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A piece of paper, regardless of size, can only be folded in half 8 times.
KingMoocher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:19:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
7 times! And there are various ways to break the system, but we wont talk about that :P
acideath ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:20:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
7
randible ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:33:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
false
ibanezfaz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:17:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If we could see all the light from the Andromeda Galaxy with the naked eye it would be 6 times bigger than the full moon.
sikemeay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:18:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The spelling of "phoenix"
aName2NV ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:18:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump is running for president.
slamnasty99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:21:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Edgy
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:18:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
A felon can't be charged under the federal law concerning suppressors or machine guns because of the requirement to register them to be legal. It's considered a 5th amendment violation since they can't own firearms period.
luckycommander ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:19:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also it's spelled 'felon'
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:24:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wth, autocorrect?
yerfriendken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:19:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Radiation from the Sun keeps everything alive.
TwisterII ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:20:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reno, Nevada is further west than Los Angeles, California
dustdiaries ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:23:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of all the known species on earth, 25 percent of them are beetles.
TheIronChefOfVag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:23:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Corn has more genetic diversity between types grown country to country than humans do with chimpanzees.
fax-on-fax-off ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:26:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In a room with 23 people, thereโs a 50-50 chance of two people having the same birthday.
swiftleprechaun25 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:26:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A portion of Virginia is further west than West Virginia.
Asleepallnight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:30:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A cubic foot of water won't fit in a 5 gallon bucket.
IAmAnObvioustrollAMA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:56:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just learned this in my ged math class. One cubic foot can hold 7.481gallons of water.
NeverEnufWTF ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:32:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The phrase, "Spotted dick is delicious."
Bluescentric ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:33:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hot water freezes faster than cold water.
got_mule ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:34:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dumpster is a brand name and is not a general term for what, I suppose, should be called large waste bins.
Switters81 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:34:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The pronunciation of naivety never sounds right to me.
noksky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:34:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are parts of Ontario, Canada more south than parts of California.
MordethMandragoran ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:36:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Paris, France is further north than Fargo, North Dakota.
Sheepiebro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:39:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alaska is the northernmost, easternmost, and westernmost state in the United States
sturmhauke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:41:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Water is burnt hydrogen.
heystupidd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:42:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reno Nevada is further west then los Angeles California. http://mentalfloss.com/article/29542/reno-farther-west-los-angeles
bananamyboat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:42:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tiffany Diamonds has been around longer than the country of Italy.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:44:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lake Tahoe is further west than Los Angeles
layuptobreastspike ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:45:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mischievous is pronounced miss-che-vous not miss-chee-vious. The "che" is like "check" and the "vous" is like "nervous"
Tigrstyl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:51:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reno, NV is more west than Los Angeles, CA.
lolplayerem ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:56:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Coutersteering when riding a motorcycle
Pistolpete3099 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:59:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That "high test" gas has Less explosive energy than regular gasoline and burns slower
Chicago_Surly_Rider ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:59:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That the entire universe was created from nothing
TigaSharkJB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:00:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The pyramids were as old to the Romans as the Romans are to us.
CardSpecialist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:01:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jet memes can melt steel beams.
TheWistfulWanderer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:03:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If two satellites are in orbit, and one needs to catch up to the other, it has to slow down to go faster.
ryan_tls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:06:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maine is the closest US state to Africa.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:10:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For 90's kids currently in college, the person you marry probably won't even be in college until you graduate, considering our generation parents have a 4+ age gap from each other.
JediNewb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:12:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can move through the wind faster than the wind.
RoosterClan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:12:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
North Dakota is the center of North America
whirlpool138 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:15:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jim Morrison's dad was a top admiral in the United States Navy. He witnessed the attack on Pearl Harbor and was the commander of the fleet during the Gulf Of Tonkin incident, which led to the escalation of US forces in Vietnam. While his son Jim was off starting the Doors (living it up in the late 60's and becoming a counter culture icon), he was a top military leader who was helping push the agenda in Vietnam.
mmmbob88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:17:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo.
JagerBombs4Ever ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:18:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Virginia is farther west than West Virginia.
ExMareAdAstra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:22:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
62 of the 97 people aboard the Hindenburg survived when it burst into flames and then crash landed on the airstrip.
MrTrevT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:23:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Things orbiting the Earth are actually going in a straight line. Space-time is curved.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:25:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
reminds me of this john mulaney bit haha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63RcymipKuY
Overly_obviousanswer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:27:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can't fold a piece of paper more than seven times
Racing2733 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:11:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Challenge accepted!
zoomer296 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:19:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I challenge you to fold it 42 times, then climb to the moon.
Racing2733 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:59:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Challenge...
considered...
TheBensonBoy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:28:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most conspiracy theories...
Sometimes...
havearedpill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:36:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
1+2+3+4....+(โ-1)+(โ)=-1/12
edit: PROOF
GHUltimate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:39:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
bs
havearedpill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:45:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds extremely wrong, but is actually correct.
GHUltimate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:56:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what the heck!
havearedpill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:16:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right?
texyx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:00:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Though you're still correct that the sum of all positive integers from 1 to infinity is a divergent series that is positive infinity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%2B_2_%2B_3_%2B_4_%2B_%E2%8B%AF.
The guy in the numberphile video says they don't use "mathematical hocus pocus" to make this work, but I disagree a bit as a layperson. He's assigning different values of infinity for regularization since this mathematical model is applied to the real world (Casimir effect) where there are real, not infinite, values. But I guess that's part of the fun.
kimbledore ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:37:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm probably way too late.
Thine and Thou is actually the informal version of You and Your. So when you read and it and think the the author was trying to sound fancy, it's actually because they were more familiar with the person they're speaking to.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:40:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Clouds can weigh millions of pounds.
Metalmind123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:42:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Munich, in the far south of Germany, lies further north than Seattle.
Also, the entirety of the UK is further north than any point in the lower 48.
Malmskaeg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:48:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In Denmark, kids starts drinking alcohol at the age of 13 now a days.
And in public. It's illegal for them to buy it but not to drink it.
gingieminge42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:48:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In English we use "hanged" as past tense instead of "hung".
Am I the only one that finds that wrong?
Buff_Asparagus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:49:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spain was still a dictatorship in 1975.
jamesthunder88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:49:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump.
FireHazard11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:53:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flammable and inflammable mean the same thing.
rizabove ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:53:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the largest desert in the world is Antarctica
Upnorth4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:54:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The state with the most beaches/coastline besides Alaska is actually Michigan
Siriacus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:21:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The time difference between the extinction of Stegosaurus and the extinction of Tyrannosaurus Rex is greater than the period of time between the extinction of Tyrannosaurus Rex and now.
epicuros ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:22:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Birds are dinosaurs
nim-chimpsky314 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:22:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More people have been to China than I have.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:22:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Donald trump will be the Republican nominee for President."
RoyalOcean ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:26:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Water is a bad conductor of heat.
Trismesjistus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:49:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The circle of life: askreddit today, you should know tomorrow. 9gag next week
Mzahi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:54:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More people drown in deserts than die of dehydration.
irondraconis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:03:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As of 2013, there were more gamers in the United states than registered democrats & republicans combined. (Over 190 million gamers playing at least 13 hours a week, less than 180 million registered republicans and democrats)
Nicktoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:04:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you choose one door out of three on a game show and the host reveals one of the other doors is not the prize and asks you if you still want your original choice, you are twice as likely to win the prize if you change your mind.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:14:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Berenstain Bears not Berenstein
icantbenormal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:28:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump will likely be the Republican candidate for president.
humbucker_23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:32:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you use silver duct tape on a wart it will go away. You have to put a piece of tape on, leave it for 6 days and then soak it and use an emery board or pumice stone. Repeat this process and usually in about 2 months it will be gone.
shamus727 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:33:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Male deer that don't find a mate/arnt capable of impressing one just end up having buttsex with each other.
Gabrealz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:57:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo
shah_x ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:59:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The English language
youhatetruth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:59:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Long ago, a single primordial replicator was produced by chemical reactions. This replicator slowly diversified and became more complex over time due to slightly imperfect reproduction and environmental selection into all the diversity of life we see around us today.
Nightthunder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:03:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's more heat in an iceberg than a burning match.
Jack_Asperger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:05:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its a longer drive From New York to Los Angeles than from London to Istanbul.
dgreximperator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:12:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nuclear weapons preserve world peace
Nicktoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:12:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only you live in the present. Even someone standing one foot away from you is actually 1.01670336 nanoseconds in the past.
upvote-craver ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:16:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
dammit. i want to time travel :(
DJLinFL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:56:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You did - forward.
upvote-craver ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:14:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Female kangaroos have three vaginas.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:14:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any number to the power of zero is 1..... I think.... right?
RazarTuk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:21:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Just because X, doesn't mean Y" is grammatically correct.
briandeli99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:24:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pittsburgh is farther east than Atlanta
Shillz09 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:36:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Loose and unloose mean the same thing...
actjuk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:50:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Poland and North Korea are bordered by a common country : Russia
scheisty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:52:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your phone's not broke, it's just a software bug.
TehMulbnief ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:53:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The size of the set of positive integers is the same size as the set of rational numbers (numbers that can be written as fractions of integers). Even if you include negatives.
majorkev ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:53:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That the sum of all natural numbers, from one to infinity, equals -1/12
FettyGuapo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:55:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So technically it is today and tomorrow in Alaska?
speckledspectacles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:57:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
0.999... is equal to 1
jaded76 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:00:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thaw and de-thaw have the same meaning.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:05:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The country with which France shares the most its border is Brazil.
t3rneado ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:51:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more ants on earth right now than there have ever been humans
hiro11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:03:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cutting taxes raises revenue for the government over time.
MixMasterMaha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:20:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more Scientologists in the world than pandas.
King_Jones_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:39:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your forearm is the same length as your foot
prankerjoker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:40:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are 32 teams in the NFL. 13 of those never won the Superbowl?
At the time the RMS Titanic made her first, only and last voyage: she was considered the largest ship in the world.
ssbowa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:42:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the average human has one breast and less than half a penis.
DrPappas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:42:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mohammad and Oliver were the most common given names in 2015
TubbyBlumpkins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:47:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
JIFF
your_tits_pm_me_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:55:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just got done reading literally every post in this thread.
That sounds wrong, but it is right. What's wrong it's I have an unquenchable thirst for trivia that's destroying my life, apparently.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:56:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
LegitLovallo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:07:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kinda late on this, but Rome is more north than New York is.
ThioJoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:15:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can go the whole rest of your life without eating anything.
LeithWalker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:03:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Edinburgh is further west than Bristol.
mrpear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:11:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An avocado is a berry.
ejly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:19:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ian McKellen is possibly the last actor who can say 'I created a part written by William Shakespeare.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Thomas_More_(play)
DiggyTurp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:20:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Slavery created some of the most awe inspiring man-made structures.
Zodiak213 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:23:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more sheep than people in Australia.
Naphtalian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:23:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nuclear per Merriam Wester can be pronounced any of the following ways.
\หnรผ-klฤ-ษr, หnyรผ-, รท-kyษ-lษr
whiteshadow88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:23:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dived is the past tense of dive. Dove isn't a word. It has always felt wrong to me, but it is right.
nintrader ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:40:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Impactful" isn't a real word. I got hit with that one on my midterm paper, but when I looked it up there was this whole huge analysis about it and everything.
tjgamir ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:20:31 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can sail from Eastern Canada to the Western Canada in a straight line without hitting any landmass. GIF
papiriolovka ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:20:40 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Croatia's annual revenue from tourism exceeds that of Brazil.
LordCloverskull ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:55:02 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eugenics.
screenwriterjohn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:49:03 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Subatomic particles repel each other, but gravity attracts everything larger than these particles to each other.
Nerds everywhere are stumped.
anotherandomer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:52:32 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Force travels through an object at the speed of sound in that object.
ERRORMONSTER ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:54:19 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Water doesn't conduct electricity. The ions suspended in solution conduct electricity. Ultra pure water has a conductance of about 5.5 * 10-8 S/cm.
For comparison, the human body has about 6.7 * 10-4 S of conductance between any two points and copper has a conductance of about 58 *106 S/m
Jackthastripper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:00:32 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In Latin, the plural for Octopus is not Octopi. The plural is Octopodes. Octopi was used enough that it became accepted, and the term Octopuses is also correct.
shrim51 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:11:28 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The proper use of hang in the past tense when talking about a human. "Steve was hanged for theft of a shoe."
Taste_of_Space ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:25:16 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bananas are berries
CamSkeeze ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:32:02 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Might've already been said but Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr were born in the same year. MLK was actually older
WheresMyMoneyDenny ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:22 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Farmers feed beefburgers to swans to make them float better.
OutgoingBuffalo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:13:27 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Buffalo buffalo, Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo? " is a grammatically correct sentence.
Tech-no ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:19:55 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tigers 'starved to death' to make $500 aphrodisiac wine with their bones
LadyMatrix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:26:05 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That Brasilia is the capital of Brazil.
LadyMatrix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:26:06 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That Brasilia is the capital of Brazil.
Chronogos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:46:17 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Daylight Saving Time" (not savings)
silkforcalde32 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:13:10 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
0.9999 (infinitely repeating 9s) == 1
TeddyBridgewater ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:39:46 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When u close one eye, you aren't seeing black, you're seeing the side of your nose. Closing one eye is a good way to grasp what its like to be blind
kieppie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:45:00 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sharks (as species @ ~450m y/o) are older than trees, possibly grass too - & humans may end up wiping out most, if not all, in our lifetime
raidite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:39:52 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
in the sea, you will die of thirst
strykerius1992 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:45:23 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A coalition of Australian soldiers and farmers effectively lost a war against Australia's emu population.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:55:41 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Byzantine Empire lasted over twice as long as the Roman Republic.
Mexichem ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:09:40 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Comment for later use
THROWAWAYPEASANTS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:50:15 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The star wars program is a real thing
Girlsshoot2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:43 on March 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can go the rest of your life without eating.
Bo0tlegHyena ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:57 on March 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Asking "Did you remember to bring the hose?"
chimnado ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:38:37 on March 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My opinion.
hazoos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:09:45 on March 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Phonetically isnt pronounced phonetically
seamonkey89 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:44:55 on March 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There were all those flavors but, you chose to be salty.
NosyEnthusiast6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:03 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Canada has deserts and beaches.
CoffinGoffin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:58:58 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Planets stay in their positions because of gravity.
PM_ME_TACOBELL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:16:11 on March 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The word Wednesday
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:40 on March 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Arsenal is a football team
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:40 on March 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Arsenal is a football team
shoorveer123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:40:18 on March 31, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1> In terms of population, Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is larger than all the countries in the world but 5. 2> In terms of population, India spits out an Australia every year. 3> India actually holds a lesser percentage of world population now, than it used to in medieval ages. India is Euuuuge!
theoriginalrage ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:23:50 on April 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs was founded 5 years before the Shootout at the O.K. Corral.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:42:21 on April 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Deaths caused by extreme weather have dropped GLOBALLY over 95% since the 1920s/1930s
You wouldn't believe it if you watched the news
Dammitwebothreddit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:02:38 on April 10, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Omg... Nope.
No. State schools are cheaper, usually but it often comes with a party or poor reputation. There are quite a few state schools that are much more expensive than some private schools and it really sucks for residents of those states.
For example Penn State's nursing program, for Pennsylvania residents, for tuition only, is about 22k/year. This does not include administration fees, books, housing, medical equipment (blood pressure cuff, etc), scrubs, medical and malpractice insurance, meal plan, parking pass for the school, parking at the hospital you have rotations at or any of the other expenses. Add about another 8 to 15k depending on the year of study, housing situation and if they are paying for health insurance.
Dark_Ham101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:02:54 on April 17, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everything in the universe is either a potato or it's not.
njbartilucci ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:26:03 on May 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is a correct sentence:Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. Paraphrased, the sentence can be parsed to mean, "Bison from Buffalo, which bison from Buffalo bully, themselves bully bison from Buffalo."
Lenny97 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:46:27 on May 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alcohol is more unhealthy for you than heroin
quickjoey71733 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:56:53 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wombats shit cubes because they can't see well.
rommeltheg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:05:23 on July 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More trees on earth than stars in the Milky Way.
lightrider44 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:17:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Money is a worthless and destructive mass delusion.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:14:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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lightrider44 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:47:32 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Joke's on you. Money is debt.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:52:27 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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lightrider44 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:56:14 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do not worry, you will have plenty of your own to deal with.
Mistah_Blue ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:50:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ignore the other guy, PM me. I'll not only gladly take all your money, but I'll spend it so I don't have it anymore.
lightrider44 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:47:37 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Joke's on you. Money is debt.
Mistah_Blue ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:54:11 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Explain
lightrider44 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:22:15 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the context of the current dominant monetary system, fiat currencies such as the US dollar are instruments of debt. Specifically, every dollar is loaned into existence from a central bank like the Federal Reserve. The bank expects to be repaid that dollar with interest. Since the amount of money extant at any time is essentially the principal of a loan, and the bank is only willing to accept dollars as repayment of that loan, then there is literally no way to pay back the loan with the associated interest. This is intentional, and forces many people and businesses into default, bankruptcy and foreclosure. This is why it is worthless and destructive to humanity.
Mistah_Blue ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:12:31 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have any non biased sources for any of that?
I looked through your comments and you seemed pretty eager to take a $20 an hour job doing something you hate. You also seem to be a big believer in bitcoin. Which is also money, albeit purely digital.
So tell you what. I'll gladly take that $20 an hour, and all of your bitcoins. Rid you of some of that debt.
I'll also be sure to let you know when the federal reserve comes calling for the $0.50 in my pocket.
lightrider44 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:55:33 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ad hom attacks indicate a lack of interest in an honest discussion.
Seal3824 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:58:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
By itself, it technically is worthless, as worth is defined by how much people want something and what it can be used for. So if money wasn't used and nobody had any possessions, then it would be worthless. But people want money and you pretty much need it, so therefore it is not worthless
lightrider44 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:46:27 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nobody needs money. We need air, water, food, shelter and healthy human relationships. Money inhibits all of those things.
Seal3824 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:33:02 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But without a way to balance resources like water and food between people, civilization would have never been a thing. Agriculture would have been a huge failure, because selfish people could take all of the food without anything stopping them. Money is a very easy way to make sure that a civilization that is just starting can keep the resource allocation fair.
lightrider44 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:54:45 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you believe that our civilization is just getting started? Do you think it is fair to the people of Flint, MI as to the quality of water they're receiving? How about the many starving children in the world, is it fair to them that they are not allocated decent amounts of food? What about the air quality in China, is it fair to them that they cannot see through or breathe the air easily? Nothing in the monetary system is fair.
Yesitistrueman ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:10:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God did not create man. Man created God
RegulusMagnus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:23:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was one of my favorite "in Soviet Russia" jokes:
expertgamers ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:24:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We all knew it.
Asidious66 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:27:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
George Bush was a decent president.
Napoleon-Bonrpart ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:32:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol
gabrielchap ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:20:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you can't touch anything... you can only feel the magnetic resistance.
seycyrus ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:32:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What?
You mean electrostatic repulsion?
panzerkampfwagen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:37:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which is touching.
seycyrus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:41:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, inasmuch as anything really touches something else, yes.
gabrielchap ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 02:43:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
if you're that incapable of knowing that those two terms, in this context, are interchangeable, then i can't help you.
seycyrus ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:48:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can't even help yourself to know that the term "magnetic resistance" has no meaning in this context. Don't just use big words in an attempt to appear to be bright, learn what the words mean.
bbcslave92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:17:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
maybe english is his second language you never know
ShoggothEyes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:47:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But usually when that is the case, the person who os using the words wrong isn't an arrogant cunt about it.
bbcslave92 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:16:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*feels the electric resistance*
checkmate
Alexlam24 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stuck a fork inside power outlet to confirm.
bbcslave92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:32:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
did you eat it and how did it taste
snpi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:25:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your honor I did not touch that woman. I don't know, she must have been feeling some magnetic resistance from my hands.
glassjoe92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:07:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, is this grounds to make a legal case for hitting, stealing, etc.?
CobaltJett ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:47:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Canola oil was originally named rapeseed oil
luckierbridgeandrail ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:56:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not all rapeseed is canola. Canola is a particular variety of rapeseed developed in Canada whose oil is low in erucic acid.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:03:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depends where you're from, it's still rapeseed oil in the UK.
Satans__Secretary ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:37:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Satan is the true god of humanity.
kaltkalt ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 06:38:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Islam is a disgusting, violent, anti-women religion, and it's most certainly NOT A RACE."
This sounds horribly wrong to most decent people. But it is, in fact, correct. And you can verify it by just reading the koran yourself.
killchain ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:04:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I, for one, won't argue that it's not a race (which I think is obvious).
kaltkalt ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 08:27:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In other posts on here and elsewhere, i've had people viciously argue with me about how it most certainly IS a race, and thus I'm a racist for opposing islam.
If the Soviets had figured out they could call communism a "race" we would all be speaking Russian right now, waiting in line for soup.
killchain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:57:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I haven't encountered such thing yet, but some people strike me to be so ignorant that I wouldn't be surprised. I know Islam is preached in many different parts of the world and I think it's just enough to mention, say, Sudan, Turkey and Indonesia to know that we're speaking of very different people (concerning their race).
kaltkalt ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:14:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, muslims have figured out that they can silence their opposition by calling them "racists." This works because they're both a minority group and because, on average (at least stereotypically) they have browner-than-white skin.
Most people simply are not able to realize that islam is nothing more than an ideology. No different than capitalism or dadaism or any other. It's based on a book (well, the koran plus the hadith) just like Marxism. It's no different.
But muslims will never sit back and let islam be judged on the merits.
Baschdinger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:48:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with the Bible.
kaltkalt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:07:59 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The bible is horrible. I'd never defend it. But the koran is far worse.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:54:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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kaltkalt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:09:14 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The bible is horrible, no question about it. They're both horrible books and every copy of them should be rounded up and burned. It's the only case I'd support book burning - they're just too dangerous to leave sitting around.
But as bad as the bible is, the koran is far worse. I'd say it's more evil than the bible by at least one order of magnitude.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The letter t is silent in the word often. It's pronounced offen (think soften).
hijomaffections ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:43:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depends on your accent
CanadianJogger ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:44:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe in your dialect.
Often comes from the word oft.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=often
green_meklar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But people pronounce it wrong pretty often.
StingRaie13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ingenious is the same thing as genius. Also. That Donald trump thinks he can be the president when he can't even keep "trump steaks" alive.
contra89 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:52:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can't count Broccoli or Milk. They are in fact uncountable nouns.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:30:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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contra89 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:44:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm glad you asked, a uncountable nouns is a substances or concept that cannot be divide into separate elements. For example, you can't count "milk". But you can count "bottles of milk" or "liters of milk", but not "milk" itself.
BloodslidesInMyAC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:04:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can't count them without using another unit of measurement. You can say you have six apples, thats counting apples. But you can't say I have six milks, or six broccolis, that doesn't make sense. You need a unit of measurement to count them, like gallons or pounds. There are many things you can't count without units of measurement.
is_he_from_Gabon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:07:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cordial.
lilbittygoddamnman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:15:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the US if I'm in a drive thru and I'm ordering milk for the kids I say, "I'll have 3 milks."
DasUberVega ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:10:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When riding a motorcycle at high speed, you turn in the opposite direction you want to go. For example, turn left to go right and turn right to go left.
Not that crazy to some people, but to those who have never been on a motorcycle it's a strange concept to grasp.
marx2k ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:45:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Countersteering doesn't even have to be at high speeds. I use this when turning corners on city blocks.
*edit: Well, ok maybe not. Thinking about it, I actually push the bars in the opposite direction of the direction I want to turn to make the bike "fall over" and turn for me.
DasUberVega ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:57:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I say high speeds I really mean anything over like 20 mph
RegulusMagnus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:45:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is also true on bicycles, and many cyclists do this without even realizing it.
When I was learning how to ride a motorcycle, this did sound wrong, but I had just taken a physics class and realized that this is easily explained with torque and conservation of angular momentum.
hypermarv123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:58:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Berenstain Bears"
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:27:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I reject your reality and substitute my own.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:10:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a country in Africa called "Niger"
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:55:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The universe is HUGE in fact there are more Suns then grains of sand, more planets then Donald trump supporters, and it could fit OPs mom
BiPolarBulls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:20:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What I want to know is who managed to get research funding to count all that sand?????
Thoughtsunthought ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:40:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
.9999999999....(recurring) is EXACTLY equal to 1
thegabescat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:51:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because if you divide both by 3, you get exactly .333333333... for both.
Syd_Pilgrim ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:48:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Donald Trump for President"
adinsk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:26:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The liberal immigration policies and left wing politicians are destroying the culture and tradition of Europe and putting their own people at risk
Dontony_Pakkra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:42:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can't have a reddit thread without someone ruining it with politics :/
RusinaRange ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:04:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are as many natural numbers divisible by 2 as there are divisible by 3.
unthrowabl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:24:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only on a finite set equal or higher than 4
RegulusMagnus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:51:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In this context, "as many" must be taken to mean that the two sets (natural numbers divisible by 2, and natural numbers divisible by 3) have the same cardinality, which is a concept not often taught before post-secondary education.
alrashid2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:27:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most crime is committed by blacks.
skateralexo ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 02:12:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everything Trump says in his debates
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:58:27 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Muffinizer1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:16:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kind of.
Essentially the famous Numberphile video did some trickery and oversimplification and it's not quite what people are interpreting it to mean.
As the article mentions, the method they used can also be used to say that ยฝ = 1.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:10:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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ohcomonalready ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:11:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
not to be a jerk but did you mean to say it converges?
Rendonsmug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:26:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It must definitely does not converge to anything.
HawkEy3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:46:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are probably more trees on earth than stars in our galaxy.
bbcslave92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:27:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
luckily for alien lovers there are many galaxies in the universe
highdiver_2000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:49:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A person accused of rapist and murderer will stand trial for the murder charge only
Xannin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:13:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If the person raped and killed the same person. If one was raped and another killed, there would be two separate charges.
incorrectfactspewer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:53:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Statistically speaking the average human has less than 2 legs
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:57:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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bbcslave92 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:09:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
your link is malformed bro
kookaburra1701 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:41:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But I love goats, so I'll win either way!
KidAtmos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:02:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The dodo bird became extinct in 1662.
TheBabySphee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:03:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I think this was said before but :
You can fit every planet in the solar system between between the earth and the moon.
Also half of all humans who have ever lived died from malaria
warchitect ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:11:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Adding up 1+2+3+4+5+...to infinity = -1/12
LOLwilltearusapart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:22:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seeing the same questions again and again in /r/AskReddit is something up with which I can no longer put.
jrosati1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:27:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
if your in Detroit, and head directly south, the first country you'll enter after you leave the U.S. is CANADA!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:50:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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8bitslime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Part of Canada is south of Detroit.
brallipop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:29:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ITT: Geography!
zxcvbnmmssdh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:49:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you have the graph f(x) = 2x on inch by inch graph paper, f(36) (3 feet along the paper) would reach the moon
alanstanwyk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:12:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
bi-weekly means twice a week AND every other week.
imhereforthevotes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flaccid is correctly pronounced "flak-sid"
23Tawaif ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:30:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can someone vouch for this?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
James, while John had had had, had had had had; had had had had a better linguistic effect.
SelfAM ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:35:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you explain this for me?
charbar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:59:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
James had the phrase "had had", John had the phrase "had". "Had had" turned out to have a better linguistic effect than "had". Does that help?
enter-the-labrinth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:58:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
slowly
cameron919 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
0.9999... repeating is mathematically equal to 1
xband1t ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most people have more than the average number of legs.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:50:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's spelled silhouette despite being pronounced sillawet
snailsneedlovetoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One cul de sac; two culs de sac.
At least I think that's right...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:53:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Two culs de sac is correct. It was extensively debated on "The Gilmore Girls."
Idontfuckingcar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:02:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brit here, I will argue this to the grave. Oregano sounds better then Or Ree Ga No. The way Americans say it just rolls off the tongue Brits say as if you don't know how to pronounce as if it's a foreign word you have heard the first time. I know this is loosely relevant but it's the first thing that came to mind
logged_in_to_saythis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:03:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you burn trash, it makes stars.
sonofsicily ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My wife.
Mycotoxicjoy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:10:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Your body is more bacteria than you
Edit: there are more bacterial cells than human cells because bacterial cells (prokaryotes) are many times smaller than eukaryotic cells which contain many organelles
panzerkampfwagen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:14:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No it's not.
Mycotoxicjoy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:20:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-humans-carry-more-bacterial-cells-than-human-ones/
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And you misunderstood it. Human cells are massive compared to bacterial cells so while bacterial cells may outnumber human cells inside the human body due to the mass difference you are still like 99% human by mass.
Mycotoxicjoy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Check my edit but I never said that if you ground a human up you'd have more bacterial cells by mass. You'd have a bucket of water, a large mass of eukaryotic cells, and a half gallon of prokaryotes
panzerkampfwagen ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:28:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And? Your wording is still wrong. Your body is more human than bacteria because of the difference in mass between the cells. You're missing some vital words in your claim.
Mycotoxicjoy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:32:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looking at your comment history you seem to like pointing out this sort of nitpicky bullshit so I'm stopping it here but I'd suggest you get off your goddamned high horse
panzerkampfwagen ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:32:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry that you enjoy being wrong.
mrord1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:10:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
0.9999999999999999999999999... = 1
quasiix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Culs-de-sac is the proper plural of cul-de-sac
sotx35 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:41:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The best place to get the real life pro tips, is un the comment section. Never the OP.
oliksandr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:44:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The following is a grammatically correct and complete sentence in the English language:
"Buffalo buffalo, Buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo Buffalo buffalo."
sh1ft3d ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:46:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That this is a grammatically correct sentence: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
STFUDIAF ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:54:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump is running for president.
CosmicLad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:59:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump could become the next president
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:00:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Weird maths one: n! means the product of all of the numbers up to n. So 1! is 1, 2! is 1x2= 2, 3! is 1x2x3 =6, and so on.
And then there's 0!, which equals 1.
CormacMccarthy91 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:21:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Horrible, Horrifying, Horrific.
Terrible, Terrifying, Terrific.
WTF is with terrific being positive.
Alton1231 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:03:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It comes from ancient meanings of awe and terror. God was considered awesome but his wrath was awful. He was terrific and his wrath was terrifying. Thus his ability to scare the shit out you was deemed bad and good. Horror doesn't have this because it came to be more recently.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:28:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans are a species of ape. This gets funny when someone describes someone (usually with malicious intent) as being "ape like" because it would be like calling a Lion "cat like".
aakkaa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:32:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sum of all natural numbers, that is 1+2+3+4+...., is equivalent to -1/12.
BigPirateJim ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:26:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here is an explanation of the joke:
aakkaa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:37:52 on March 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was interesting, thanks!
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:34:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Nazis were not socialists. They were not left leaning. Doesn't matter that they had Socialist in their name. In 1934 Hitler had the left wing faction of the party purged (as in murdered).
PM_Me-Your_ButtPlug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:37:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oxford university is older than the Aztec empire.
Sources: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_Empire
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oxford
Infected_Cunt_Wart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:44:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo. ( actual sentence )
slackerism ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:46:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just had a linguistics prof who wore that shirt explain it to us
IamLionelRitchie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:46:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It takes the force of biting into a baby carrot to chew someone's finger off.
midgaze ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:46:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The chance of getting HIV by having unprotected insertive vaginal intercourse with an infected woman is 1 in 2,500. Add in condoms, and the chances go down further, by a lot.
It's nearly impossible to get HIV unless you have sex with men who have sex with men, or use IV drugs.
j-shonk ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:39:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wow, you are extremely clueless, misinformed and naive, you should educate yourself on this subject before expressing any opinions publicly.
HIV is transmitted through infected bodily fluids (primarily blood) so maybe your adolescent pencil dick has never made a woman bleed during sex, but the rest of us have .
, and BTW add in condoms and the chances go way down no matter who you are having sex with
midgaze ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:12:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Quiet, you.
CDC stats, numbskull. 4 in 10,000 is 1 in 2,500.
j-shonk ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 11:12:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the only numbskull I see is you, and if you are interested in this sort of thing why dont you check some HIV awareness sights rather than outdated goverment stats which are ALWAYS wrong.
your ignorant stats come from simply counting the number of people who came forward after contracting HIV vaginally compared to the number of people who came forward after contracting HIV after having gay sex, DUH .
if you have unprotected vaginal sex with a woman who has HIV your chances of contracting HIV are EXACTLY the SAME as they are having sex with a gay man who has HIV, infected blood has no sexual orientation ! .
catch a clue fool
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:51:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reno, NV is further west than Los Angeles, California.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:12:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of is not the same as have.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mount Everest while being the highest mountain in the world, is not the tallest mountain in the world. The tallest mountain is actually Mauna Kea, which rises 33,600 feet from base to summit. The catch is that the first 20,000 feet of it is underwater. And neither mountains are the farthest point from the Earth's center. That honor goes to Chimborazo in Ecuador. Because of the Earth's equatorial bulge, the summit of Chimborazo is actually 2km further away from the core than the summit of Everest.
82Caff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An American can travel to England without leaving the continental United States.
source
neotropic9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:26:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If someone can't breathe, sometimes you just need to slice open the front of their neck and jam a bic pen in there (with the inky part removed, of course).
Entinu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:39:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not even a little wrong and it's called a tracheotomy.
pilotavery ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:33:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you have a box of 100 potatos, which are 99% water by weight, and you let them dehydrate until they are 98% water, they will weigh 50 pounds.
hardboiledtoast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:22:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I dunno, man.
pilotavery ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:32:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If they are 99% water, it means 99 pounds of water and 1 pound potato. If it is 98%, and the 1 pound potatos are the same, you need 49 pounds of water for it to be 98%.
soliss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Driver license.
Daylight saving time.
Swagstah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:39:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Axl Rose has a higher vocal range than Freddy Mercury, Mariah Carey and basically all other singers, because he has the highest vocal range of any frontman. Too bad his voice sounds like shit (CONTROVERSIAL UNPOPULAR OPINION)
grimbotronic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:39:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Urine soothes a jellyfish sting.
ThrowAway4Science12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:41:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When someone 'hanged ' themselves. It's not 'hung' believe it or not
SwoccerFields ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:45:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most people have an above average number of legs.
If there's only a thousand people, and three of them only have one leg, the average number of legs is 1.9.. You have 2.0 legs
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:48:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You fucking prick! I lost one of my legs in a car accident! How dare you assume I have 2 legs!
The_Girdle_of_Kirk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:57:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
since you sound hysterical, I'm going to assume you have between 1.0 and 1.2 legs. I don't think you would be this sensitive if you had 1.9 legs or more.
Seriin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:58:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"My boss wanted to talk to Martha and me."
Despite what a lot of people are taught early on, "and I" is used when it is the subject. When it is the object of the sentence, "and me" is technically correct.
1978TransAm ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:33:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember being so resistant when I first learned about this. The trick that helped me "relearn" this grammar rule in the proper way was to remove one of the pronouns in the sentence: "My boss wanted to talk to me." You wouldn't say, "My boss wanted to talk to I." After I learned this trick, the correct way didn't sound quite as foreign to me.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:28:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always heard if you could remove the 3rd party and the sentence still sound correct, it was the proper form. You wouldn't say "My boss wanted to talk to I"
Wrottited ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:04:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the largest number is zero
slick_bridges ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:06:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
0! = 1
G1bs0nNZ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:09:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So it does
HackingModder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:08:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fungi is actually pronounced fun gee, not fun guy.
fezmop ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:43:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But if you say it that way my best mushroom joke doesn't work.
G1bs0nNZ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:12:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
9.9999999999999999999..... = 10
10 / 9 = 1.11111111111111......
1.11111111111111...... x 9 = 9.999999999999999999...
Therefore, 9.9999999999999999999..... = 10
McKoijion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:18:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reno is farther west than Los Angeles.
Razimek ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:22:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you think about it, all words are nouns, in that they're words.
RedXKid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:24:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The 100 Year War lasted 112
BiPolarBulls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:46:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But they decided that "approximately 100 year war" did not sound quite right....
SpookyScarySkelemans ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:26:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hitler considered Native Americans part of the Aryan race.
Clutch51 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:28:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee for president in 2016.
TheKingofCascadia ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 07:42:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
... Better than Cruz
FayteWolf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:29:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Each breath you take contains some of the same molecules from Caesar's dying breath.
sophus00 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:30:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Paper money in the United States is made of 75% cotton, 25% linen and 0% paper.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:40:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Yeah, that's paper. Paper is made from cellulose fibers. Guess what cotton is made out of?
Edit - It's even called COTTON PAPER
thawn21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:36:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The USA isn't actually the centre of the universe.
hardknox_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:51:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The hell you say!?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:36:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:49:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like Optimus Prime.
mydogbuddha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:52:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm far to drunk and stoned to even attempt to respond to such a brilliant question.
Cysolus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:38:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can put thin strips of foil in the microwave over your food to help heat it evenly.
Medic0416 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:39:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is a great thread. Its very informative and interesting. Way to be OP!
Faryshta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:40:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ei*pi + 1 = 0
th_aftr_prty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:40:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
unprotected sex via the pullout method is almost exactly as effective as using a condom in terms of preventing pregnancy. Every time I post this on reddit I get down voted to shit from people so sure they're right they don't even bother to check and find out I'm actually telling the truth.
Here's Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coitus_interruptus coitus interrupted failure rate: 4% perfect use, 22% average use.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condom Condom failure rate: 2 percent perfect use, 18% average use.
The downvotes have already started. When it comes down to it, condoms being used perfectly is more difficult than most people know - "perfect use" includes proper storage, lubrication, pinching the reservoir as you roll it on, etc, hence why average use failure rate is not that much safer than coitus interruptus. I'm not saying you shouldn't use condoms, just that they are more for disease protection than pregnancy protection.
hardknox_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:49:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting. Though it may help in future if you provide a link. :) https://bedsider.org/A/310-5-myths-about-pulling-out-busted
th_aftr_prty ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:01:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks! Updated with some facts
BeijingOrBust ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:41:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.
Above is a grammatically correct sentence.
Gramage ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:25:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only when buffalo from Buffalo get pushy with other buffalo from Buffalo. Aaaand now I've typed that word too many times and it looks like I spelled it wrong.
amagas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:45:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The last execution by guillotine in France was in 1977.
Aarondhp24 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:45:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The tallest mountain in the world is underwater.
curtiwurti ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:48:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.
It takes 243 Earth days for Venus to spin around its axis once and roughly 225 Earth days for it to orbit around the sun.
MontanaSD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:51:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Killer whales are actually a member of the dolphin family.
qq_infrasound ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:55:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sentence,
Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo Buffalo.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:02:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
USSR did nothing wrong. USA has wrought more misery then the USSR ever could.
Snottra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:04:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more combinations a deck of cards can be shuffled into then there are atoms in our solar system.
SeudonymousKhan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:10:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty much every human has a common ancestor from about 6,000 years ago.
russellwilsonsbird ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:10:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In England, the plural of math is maths.
vallexum ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:09:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's just maths, mate.
AnnTheGoldfish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:11:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The average person has one testicle.
thecoe14 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:15:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo." Is a correct sentence which means "Buffalo from Buffalo will buffalo(meaning to bully) other buffalo from Buffalo."
Degru ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your explanation is the only one I've actually understood.
spirituallyinsane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:24:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have a misplaced capital.
hodor_goes_to_ny ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:23:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans and Dinosaurs never met.
FEEZYdoesIT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:39:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
President Donald J Trump
bit_shuffle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:41:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Monty Hall Problem.
Monty Hall was the host of the TV game show, Let's Make A Deal.
The premise of the show was that a player had to pick 1 of 3 doors, behind one of which was a prize.
The Problem was/is, after selecting a door, Monty would open one of the remaining two doors that didn't have a prize behind it, and ask the player if they wanted to stick with their first choice, or switch their choice to the other remaining closed door.
The odds of winning are better if the player switches to the other door.
1337ll4ma5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:45:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is inexplicable without writing it down. I've tried to explain it to people and they just look at me.
bit_shuffle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:50:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The problem or the proof?
1337ll4ma5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:36:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Something about 3rds, I can't remember
theforeku ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:45:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can live the rest of your life without ever taking another breath
ih8umum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:57:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
top kek
notapantsday ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:48:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The highest ever recorded temperature for Alaska is the same as for Hawaii. Source.
forthegiggles1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:00:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
9/11 was an inside job
Angellovelikexo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:00:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that some people glue strips of false lashes to their eyes. I'm guilty of this. But to me. You can't have a finished makeup without lashes.
Picoliko ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:01:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not allowing Chinese tourists inside buffets
rusemean ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:05:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The US is older than the UK, and is in fact one of the oldest countries in the world.
Now, this requires some explanation. The 'oldest' is poorly defined, and there are several ways you could do it. By border, but borders change all the time. By constant culture, but culture too shifts and also if a country is conquered but maintains its culture that shouldn't count. So, arguably, the best yardstick for age of a nation is duration of government. Britain had fairly substantial restructuring of their government not too long ago, which makes them only about a hundred years old. The US on the other hand has had very little change since the 1700s
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:13:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, the UK has only existed since 1801 anyway.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:11:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Axes is the plural for the word 'axis'.
kabukistar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:13:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seatbelts increase your risk of cancer.
HardKnockRiffe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:20:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Germany became a country almost 100 years after the US (1871).
Peachflamin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:20:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
everything in this universe either is or is not a potato.
Debageldond ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:36:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump is the frontrunner for the nomination of the Republican Party for President of the United States.
BiPolarBulls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:36:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But don't worry the Bush's made sure the Reps will never run the country again..
nukul4r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:39:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you shuffle a deck of 52 cards, it is almost guaranteed the first time ever that they are in this exact order.
http://czep.net/weblog/52cards.html
oh_no_aliens ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:49:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The University of Oxford in England existed before the Aztec empire.
monkiih8r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:34:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Media is plural of medium
Blarmoshlashkin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:34:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MPEG doesn't stand for Mega Pixel Electronic Gallery, but rather Moving Picture Experts Group
deepspaceman_1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:51:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The first thing to come into my mind was Donald Trump. # perplexed
sureguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:06:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If something is inflammable, it is extremely flammable.
Alton1231 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:59:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the past, inflammable meant "able to be inflamed" and uninflammable or unflammable meant "not inflammable," but nowadays most of the world uses flammable and inflammable to mean "able tk be set aflame" and "not flammable."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:12:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Alton1231 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:35:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Usually they will also have a scary looking fire next to it so you understand.
deckartcain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:07:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The majority of Muslims fully believe Islamic tenets should be law.
OddDoc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:17:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You eat over a million pounds of dirt everyday.
TheGoodConsumer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:39:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That half of all people are below average at any given thing
GestureWithoutMotion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:39:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm married.
Excelerater ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:40:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel your pain
pwickings ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:53:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Deleting system32 makes your PC faster
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:13:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Are there any downsides to this? If it makes my laptop faster I could REALLY use that!'
Edit: That's actually bullshit, because system32 contains... well, your entire operating system. Besides, you can't delete system32 because a popup shows up saying you can't as a safety measure to make sure you don't delete Windows by accident.
Shoop_a_Doop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:21:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a old 4chan joke.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:12:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right... I don't use 4chan.
Shoop_a_Doop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:57:11 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's fine but it seriously is an old 4chan troll/joke. Someone asks for computer help and then some asshat pretends to be helping you out only to discover that you just deleted the OS from your computer. 4chan really is the cesspool of the internet.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:49:32 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think Windows allows you to delete system32 anyways, because system32 contains the procedures to delete things in the first place.
In other words, you're deleting the thing that's doing the deleting.
Shoop_a_Doop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:52:17 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually I have deleted that file before on an old pc but I do believe that newer versions of Windows, like anything above 95, has that feature built in. Again it started as a JOKE on 4chan. People seem to keep missing that part.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:40:39 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know that it's a joke, I just mentioned why you can't delete it.
Knowing that it's 4chan, it's no surprise that it's where the joke originated.
Shoop_a_Doop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:47:21 on March 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cool cool, just checking yah know?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:49:51 on March 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah dog, I know.
Dontony_Pakkra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:02:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't do this people....
mr-dogshit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:57:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
0.999... = 1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:57:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:12:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
34 + 66 is 100.
BiteyCat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:59:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hot water freezes faster than cold water.
gatormania31791 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:11:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol
life_xpantion_pack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:23:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you shoot two bullets at the same time. One vertical and one horizontal, they'll both hit the earth at the same time.
shaunlomax ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:26:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
If someone asks you to take a look at three doors, tells you there is a goat behind two of them, a car behind one and asks you to pick. After picking one they open one of the other doors to reveal a goat. Always switch your choice of doors! Your odds go from 1/3 to 1/2 only if you switch at this point. This is called the Monty Hall problem.
ms-anthrope ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:34:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you elaborate?
IngoVals ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:51:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can find a lot of videos explaining this. It's actually wrongly described above it goes to 2/3z Think of it this way. Switching always gives you a win unless you choose correctly to begin with, which was a 1/3 chance so 2/3.
You could also change this to 100 doors, you pick one, Monty Hall opens up 98 wrong ones. Which do you think is more probable, you choose the correct one initially or he left the correct one unopened?
ms-anthrope ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:58:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ohhh. I reread the first comment and had a bit of a lightbulb moment. thanks!
ShankedPanda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:53:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We faked a fkn moon landing. Anyone can land on the moon, but to pretend you did it and get everyone to STFU about it, that takes fkn skill --Bill Burr
remedialrob ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:11:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Republican Presidential Front-Runner Donald J Trump.
weeds96 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:25:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Funner"
It's a word, it passes the one-syllable rule and isn't an irregular like "good" or "bad"
swimsphinx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:25:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That if youre walking towards an Xbox 360 and do a 360 you will infact still be facing the xbox and will not be able to walk away.
affableangler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:26:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The earth is furthest from the sun in the summer, and closest in the winter
Big_DaddyP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:35:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When someone asks "how are you?", if you answer "I am good" you are really saying "I am not evil".
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:56:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Make sea horse give birth not female
Scratchums ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:58:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The center of this triangle is the red dot.
ChaosWolf1982 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:02:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
explain.
Scratchums ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:06:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The red dot is the point at which the midpoint of all three planes intersect! Therefore, it is the center of the figure.
courierdesbois ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:11:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think he's talking about the center of gravity? The center of gravity of certain objects can be located outside the objects themselves. That's the only center I can think of
mywindowisbarelyopen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:24:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Octopuses
BlockedByBeliefs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:46:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The gender based wage gap is actually a myth and women are paid equally with men for equal work.
Mzahi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:18:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"More people drown in deserts than die of dehydration. "
clevelcj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:59:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flammable and Inflammable mean the same thing
Sebby200 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:56:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump might win
maxxed713 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:17:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Voting for Donald Trump.
KittyHammer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:19:07 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depending on the woman, pushing her against the wall turns her on.
Ker_Splish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:07:38 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Insert random controversial political view here:
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 01:33:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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RiverSong42 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:01:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice...
Happ4 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:10:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
Tsquare43 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:42:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can choose a path that's clear, I will choose freewill
HOBBITTONY ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:53:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Am I sensing a Mr. Nobody reference ?
FirstTimeLast ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:35:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flaccid is pronounced "flack sid"
kevlarisforevlar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:33:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also fla-sid.
FirstTimeLast ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:22:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's one of those words whose pronunciation has changed over time because of how many people say it wrong.
At this point, the soft 'c' sound is just as correct.
ShitlordiusPrime ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:04:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't do this to me
FirstTimeLast ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:24:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't blame me.
Blame it on the boogie
Boejangles9819 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 04:47:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump will most likely be the United States next president.
cooliovonhoolio ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:01:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The opposite of inside-out is outside-in. Both of which mean the same thing.
goodevilgenius ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:16:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, that's not the opposite. The opposite is either outside-out or inside-in.
cooliovonhoolio ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:18:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Opposite of inside = outside
Opposite of out = in
Outside + in = Outside-in
goodevilgenius ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:29:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not how that works. -1*-1=+1
cooliovonhoolio ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:42:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This isn't math, this is language.
goodevilgenius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:41:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used it as an analogy. But clearly you're too stupid to understand it.
cooliovonhoolio ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:29:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Analogies are not equivalencies
Keynes_to_success ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:26:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bernie Sanders is not a socialist
j-shonk ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:43:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
then why does he tell people that he is while promoting social policies and agenda's
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:33:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They keep using that word. It does not mean what they think it means.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:34:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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akadave ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:55:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No
markevex13 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:08:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jet fuel can't melt steel beams
couchjitsu ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 00:52:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's pronounced jif.
slimepuddle ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 00:59:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Jraphics Interchange Format."
eleventytwelv ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:32:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah yes, like how SCUBA is pronounced scubbah
Ohhnoes ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:50:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, those GUHraffes really agree. English doesn't have hard rules for pronunciation; get over it. The guy who invented it says jif, it's jif.
MichioKotarou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:03:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One person doesn't dictate the pronunciation of a word or how it's used. Most people say "gif" like "gift" minus the T.
slimepuddle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:43:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Yup! "English doesn't have hard rules for pronunciation; get over it." Said it themselves.
couchjitsu ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:02:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I pronounce it like gift, but recognize in the spec it's stated otherwise
356afan ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:15:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well that's how you're supposed to say it.
Mynameisnotdoug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:05:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's an acronym. If you have to spell it differently to get people to pronounce it a different way, then that's not the correct pronunciation.
Acronyms are pronounced intuitively. We don't say "Skuhbba" for SCUBA, or insist the C is sounded like S.
The acronym is GIF. If your brain codes up with a soft G for that intuitively, well, okay. But buying birthday gifts must be awkward.
bbcslave92 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:28:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no
that's an opinion that I happen to agree with, not a fact
[deleted] ยท -22 points ยท Posted at 23:47:34 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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theultrayik ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 00:59:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's an opinion, not a fact.
bbcslave92 ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 03:37:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
No, it's actually not an opinion
it's an analysis that could be true, but is uncertain because it's a "soft science"
if I say unemployment will rise in 2016, is that an opinion or a fact? (it's a fact)
now if I say "unemployment is bad" that's an opinion
we all know that /u/PKKer probably posted this with a political bias but still, it's not an opinion nor a true fact either
edit: adding this quote from wikipedia, because people aren't believing me
theultrayik ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:39:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not an "analysis," it's wild speculation from some random organization based on a couple of observational blurbs.
bbcslave92 ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 03:43:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Economist is not "some random organization" but is pretty well-known (but it has a political bias)
aka facts
I beg you to actually read the source (if you already did I'm sorry) and address the individual points of my earlier comment, like I did to yours
note that the risks come in three parts: "Introduction", "Analysis", and "Conclusion"
Szygani ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:24:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A fact is something unequivocally true. You mean theory, something that's proposed as true and then gets supported by facts.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:41:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Soros, please leave.
DragonDeezNutsAround ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 05:51:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I got one: Contrary to popular belief, Donald Trump is actually not a racist. gasps
deadlypants1231 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:44:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was watching the Kelly File (I know) the other day and they had this Black Lives Matters representative that was promoting these protests at Trump rallies. He was convinced that trump was racist and accused Trump of saying things like, "Let's make America white again!" Thankfully Kelly challenged on that by asking for a source and he didn't have one. I just thought it was interesting that someone probably told him that and he just flat out believed it. Look, I don't like Trump either but it always annoys me when people make up things about him. If you want a credible argument, don't make shit up.
Szygani ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:22:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Be he does promote violence against people who don't share his views, which is still pretty damn bad.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:28:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Citation needed
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:49:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:54:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Link me a video of a rally where trump is encouraging violence against people who don't share his views instead of the "LOL GO EDUCATE YOURSELF SHITLORD" bullshit.
EDIT: Oh and it better be him encouraging actual violence and not the bullshit kind of "violence" feminists and BLM are pushing.
Lentle26 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:10:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://mashable.com/2016/03/12/trump-rally-incite-violence/#YlDdapSCAiqm
Szygani ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:07:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for that.
JangleAllTheWay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:26:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think Trump personally is a racist. I think he's someone who's so self-centered that he will do or say anything to magnify himself. And he realizes that right now, racism sells. That's actually worse, in my opinion, than having a genuine mistaken belief that one race is better than another.
Diabeetush ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 01:07:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The proper, or at least "common" method of pronouncing the plural of words like octopus or cactus is:
octopuses
cactuses
Same for focuses, platypuses, and lots of other words that "i" is used to pluralize a lot of the time. Using "i" just doesn't match the consistency of words in the English language and doesn't look good. As someone learning German, I'm eternally grateful to our plural rules: don't change it, or add s for non-s and es for -s ending words.
German? Quite literally just do anything you want. Make the first letter an accent. Or the second. Or add an -en.
Oh, and the proper way to form a singular possessive of a last name that ends with an s is as follows:
Jesus's
James's
and it's pronounced "Jesuses" or "Jameses", so you just add an 's like usual and pronounce it as if it's an -es.
hicow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:55:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For names ending in S, both are considered grammatically correct in English, James' or James's
Diabeetush ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:03:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Both are correct, yes, but both fulfill different roles. The problem I have is when people use them interchangeably or incorrectly say that one way is correct for both.
The plural possessive is James' while the singular possessive is James's. So, here's a few examples:
I am going to James' house. (I am going to the house of the James family)
I am going to James's house. (I am going to the house [owned] by James)
James' implies multiple "James", or more often the entire James family, possesses a particular thing. James's implies singular possession. That means one James possesses a particular thing.
opeydopey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:18:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Octopodes?
Diabeetush ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:22:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Octopusepodes.
columbus8myhw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:29:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Octopeople
columbus8myhw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:00:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's foci in math and the sciences (ex: the foci of the ellipse) and focuses otherwise (ex: the focuses of attention).
Diabeetush ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:19:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's focuses more often and "foci" is not math/science specific and is not more common/correct.
Focuses is used the same in math and sciences. The plural of "focus" is just more commonly seen in math and science due to orbit and ellipses and other things. So in those places you see foci used more often.
I'll admit it's a shorter way to right it, but typically not used often enough to justify that shortened form. Maybe if you've got a mathematical/scientific theory relating to focuses? Otherwise no.
columbus8myhw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:22:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've never seen someone refer to the "focuses" of an ellipse in geometry. It's always "foci".
Diabeetush ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:27:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same here, but it's properly, or at least the common way of using it would, be focuses.
Foci, like octupi, has no real etymological history outside of some English speakers randomly using the i to pluralize some words. That can count as "etymological history", but it's illegitimate and can't be counted as correct. Much like octupi, foci probably stuck instead of being changed to focuses because focuses are talked about a lot in geometry. The more common usage means they're less likely to change.
bbcslave92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you basically just cockblocked yourself here
Diabeetush ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:10:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There. Edited. Better?
It's not really incorrect by some counts because of how overused it actually is. By my count, I'd say it's entirely incorrect since it's a Latin pluralization used on whatever word people want to, Greek or Latin or other languages of origin.
bbcslave92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
my point was that your comment wasn't a fact, but instead a style prescription (that I agree with)
it's like me saying "the proper way to cite sources is ...", but there are multiple accepted ways depending on the context
Diabeetush ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:24:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where in my comment am I making a statement that isn't a fact?
Sure, you can do both, but using the "i" method doesn't make sense or etymological sense, so shouldn't be used. Is that method accepted? In any context, sure. Is it very correct, in any context? Not really.
(Includes math and science; they've just used it more.)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:29:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fluent in german. Can confirm your overall point. There are a fuck ton of different ways to pluralize things.
columbus8myhw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:30:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I didn't even realize you included "cactuses". That is definitely wrong. ("Octopuses" and "platypuses" are right, though.)
EDIT: "Cactuses" is also acceptable, but "cacti" is preferred.
Diabeetush ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:40:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No.
The English plural of cactus is cactuses. The plural of cactus, in Latin, is cacti... But the word itself has Greek origins. To give it a Latin pluralization is just not very correct, and in the very least, makes no sense.
That being said, don't take what I'm saying for shit. There's this:
http://grammarist.com/usage/cacti-cactuses/
Pat117 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:02:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anal sex
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:04:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump will be the next president
white_n_mild ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:07:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why is Reddit the Donald Trump constituency lately what the fuck
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:13:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Think about the question again. Then tell me if I'm being a member of the constituency.
Not saying I'm definitely NOT voting for him either though.
white_n_mild ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:14:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm definitely NOT voting for him.
2000and16 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:38:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who you votin for?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:42:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Gramage ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:40:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
-1/12 is -0.833333...
Noremac812 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:57:19 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know. It sounds extremely wrong, but it is correct.
Here. These guys explain it far better than I ever could
edit: fuck link formatting
Gramage ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:39:08 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll be damned. I like the term "mathematical hocus pocus", and it does seem like that, but... damn. It's a credit to the human mind that people can figure that out. I'm gonna cry myself to sleep and question reality now.
ICanBreakRealityTime ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:40:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everything written here
mcbain7484 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:59:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WAT.
expertgamers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:30:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TL;DR anyone?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:00:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would eat your girlfriends asshole but i cherish our friendship just a LITTLE bit more
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:46:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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truthcopy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:56:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
America, technically, is not even a country.
IvImefaget ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:42:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Edison was a dick.
thorshairbrush ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:49:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Burning the trash gives the bar a nice smoky smell, plus the smoke goes into the sky where it turns in to stars.
Doctor_Oceanblue ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 00:56:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The phrase "It is I who am sorry" is grammatically correct.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:38:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mind wants to say "It is I who is sorry" and then I realize I is dumb.
RevBendo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:56:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, I don't get it. That sounds right to me. What's the alternative that sounds right to you?
fucktheocean ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:58:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not hard to believe at all. Unless English isn't your first language.
Ten_bucks_best_offer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:05:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is I, who am sorry.
Punctuation matters if you are going to use "grammatically correct".
PiLamdOd ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 01:13:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Sun circles the Earth.
But it's the Earth that orbits the Sun.
sails23 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:16:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Er, mind explaining how the Sun circles the Earth?
PiLamdOd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:34:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An observer on the Earth would see that the Sun circles the Earth.
Motion is relative. That is why there are more descriptive terms like orbit.
sails23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:43:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, duh.
Gullex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:36:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...what do you mean the sun circles the earth
PiLamdOd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:55:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stand on the surface of Earth and watch the Sun.
The physics explication is that if you center your coordinate axis on the Earth, the path the Sun takes is a circular one around the Earth. This Frame of reference is just as valid as one where the Sun is the reference. The galactic center is also a valid point as well.
Which is the exact reason why terms like "orbit" exist. It is valid to say that the Sun circles the Earth while it is incorrect to say that the Sun orbits the Earth.
Gullex ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:59:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That seems like a kind of silly idea. If I spin in a circle and watch a tree in the distance, the tree isn't circling me. I suppose you could make some kind of semantic argument for it but it's pretty meaningless.
Snote85 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:25:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That if I agreed to work for you for one month. On the first day, you paid me $0.01 on the second $0.02 on the third $0.04 and so on. Doubling each day. That on the 30th day you would have paid me over $9 million.
I have had people VEHEMENTLY agrue that I was wrong/stupid/lying/terrible at math/making shit up. I mean, like red in the face angry. I don't know what it is about that one particular math riddle that makes people so upset. It just seems so far off from reality that people refuse to accept that they are unable to follow such a simple series of multiplication, that they would rather yell at me, than just calculate the answer.
Trust me, it's not me being a dick about about it, or even just me. I don't know what it is, but ever since I heard it on "The Happening" I have asked people that question and have about a 1 in 3 chance of having someone act like a complete asshole when I give them the answer. Which, I guess, is why I keep asking people. It's just such a weird reaction, that I am intrigued enough by it, to want a larger sample size.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:49:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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expertgamers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:29:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or, you know, you could have just used a geometric sequence calculator, f(n)=f(n-1)*2. n=30. 5368709.12 paid on the 30th day and the sum is as you said.
Tamerlane-1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:30 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or because it is 2n you could use the fact that the sum of all 2n equals 2n+1 -1.
Ihatethebern ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 07:47:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bernie Sanders is a joke and doesent stand a fucking chance.
mbelf ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 19:49:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
A pound of feathers is heavier than a pound of gold.
EDIT: Look it up before you down vote me. It's true.
ravensfreak0624 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:36 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Source
[deleted] ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 02:42:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:47:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't sound wrong to me
neodymiumPUSSYmagnet ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 23:23:34 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have to break a few eggs to make an omelette.
Petrichorest ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:01:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have been further up in your mother than your father has.
mattempirelic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:31:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why did this get down voted?
neodymiumPUSSYmagnet ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:37:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit can't handle the truth.
SinkTube ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:57:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vegan omlettes.
ewolf132 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:36:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds correct right off the bat.
severoon ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:47:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The US Constitution does not grant any rights to citizens, it infringes them.
BallardLockHemlock ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 03:27:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Finnish language is most closely related to Korean.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:17:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Altaic family has been "widely refuted". According to the top link on my google search about this horse shit.
Adynaton ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wage gap is a myth.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:48:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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asumello61 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:13:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That turned dark pretty quickly
sexy_bethany ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 05:06:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump is not racist or sexist
GK_Gats ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 14:59:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some people still believe in God in 2016.
Tamerlane-1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:30:14 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh one of those irrational atheist idiots. I wonder when they will be gone.
GK_Gats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:45:58 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being brainwashed during your childhood doesn't allow you to insult me. And using the word irrational knowing that you believe in an invisible guy who created the world is really laughable.
Tamerlane-1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:15:54 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being an atheist is just as irrational as being religious because there is no proof either way, so being proud of being an atheist because you believe it is more rational than being religious is extremely irrational.
JamAndDai ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:39:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Almond! It's pronounced Ah-mund, not ALL-MUND. The L is silent.
baf99able ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 09:21:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
9/11 was an inside job
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 09:47:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Henkersjunge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:29:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bullshit, the wheel was invented approx 1000 to 2000 years before the pyramids where built.
MCdaddylongnuts ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 12:49:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Biologically speaking, there is no such thing as a fish. A salmon is more closely related to a camel then it is to a trout.
IceDragonTrishula ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:39:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump isn't racist
PiotrElvis ยท -13 points ยท Posted at 23:23:45 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If the alligators on Mars are pink, the elephants on Jupiter hate rock'n'roll.
invol713 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:27:45 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tales from Uranus.
boaza ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:57:55 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Usually the tale is right above the anus
delberte ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 03:39:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Atheism
faggot2016 ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 06:32:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump will be the next president of the United States. Bonus, Trump will be the greatest president in the history of the United States.
tm82 ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 06:44:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump is not a racist.
Danizdaman0506 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 12:32:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would be white peoples' fault if trump wins.
lespaulstrat2 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:36:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not true, the only morons who will vote for him do so because they hate brown people, ipso facto it is brown people's fault.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:40:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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bluesam3 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:52:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What "British accent"?
effinx ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:52:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
bbcslave92 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:02:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*cuts open eyes with a blade*
where is your god now ?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:56:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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bbcslave92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:06:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i beg for more details for "originated"
kookaburra1701 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:18:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As did cheetahs.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:59:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That Alaska itself is bigger than Pluto. If you put Pluto in the contiguous United States, it will reach from California to Kansas.
bbcslave92 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:12:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that would lead to the extinction of all life on earth
don't do it bro
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:53:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah bro you can hide out in my bunker.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:08:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Ibelieveicanfly19 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:04:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Explain
Snoochey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:30:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please explain.
gurbs319 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:11:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I call bullshit on the basis that F=ma.
wooddoug ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:11:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hot water freezes faster than cold water.
PKMNtrainerKing ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:12:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Cubs have not won a single World Series title since the Ottoman Empire existed
gabrielchap ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:17:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
if you add "-less" to the end of any word it means you have none of that thing... unless the word is "wreck"
ascitiesburn69 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:50:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except it's actually "reckless"......
didyouleavetheovenon ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:22:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anal.
blalkr ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:29:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On average every person in the population has half a penis and half a vagina.
CanadianJogger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:57:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The world average is slightly less than one testicle each.
Tlr321 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:33:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seth Rogen is 33
Ouija_Squeegee ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:46:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He always read older. Which could mean he'll always read 33?
curiousarmoire ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:34:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can't drive from the US to Argentina.
tcain5188 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:08:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why?
tyreka13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would guess it is because of a canal.
tcain5188 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:48:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then shouldn't that just be "you can't drive from North America to South america"? Plus I'm pretty sure you can drive over the Panama Canal or take a ferry.
racinggerbils ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:50:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
2ร0=0
CanadianJogger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:54:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No! Say it ain't so! Or Zero.
GhostofSora ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:07:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
100% of divorces are caused by marriages.
doublelamphat ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:09:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Live life to the full
IAM_Abe_Lincoln_ama ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:15:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sothern most point in Canada is further south than all of or part of 27 states
James29UK ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:16:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will Smith is older now then James Avery (Uncle Phil) was during the filming of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
kentliec ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:23:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rusia is fucking close to USA
King_of_the_Hobos ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:31:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
Grammatically correct sentence
MathewMurdock ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:35:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This question or similar one gets post at least once a month.
green_meklar ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:43:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is some large finite integer N for which it cannot be mathematically proven that any integer, however large, contains more information than N.
polot38 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:12:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What "information" means is unclear.
green_meklar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:28:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:54:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not spelt 'aquathon'. It's spelt 'aquathlon'.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:06:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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polot38 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:09:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sum of all natural numbers isn't -1/12, nor is the limit of the sum -1/12.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:07:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bullshit, I've never seen someone recover from a university research department overdose. They're all too drain bamaged
EdgeFencer ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:10:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eating with your ears will make you lose weight.
mammablaster ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:14:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The irrational number e to the power of the irrational and imaginary numbers pi and i is equal to exactly negative one. Two irrational and one imaginary number can became a rational and real number.
JustAColombianGuy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:17:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you shuffle a poker deck for about two minutes, that order of cards will be unique in the history of the universe.
CruddlesPlz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:32:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not guaranteed. But quite likely.
FinalRenegade ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:33:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When the sun is closest to Earth, we experience winter, when it's furthest away , we experience summer. (Northern hemisphere perspective)
SemSevFor ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:34:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Addams Family had a third kid that they named Pubert.
Ten_bucks_best_offer ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not canon.
tanr ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:43:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The word "hanged" in lieu of "hung".
MBen7 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:45:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Toronto is south of Minneapolis
bionicjoe ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:49:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only one US state borders seven other states. Kentucky
qwertx0815 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:08:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
non US person here, why does that sound extremely wrong?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:53:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Las Vegas is further west than Los Angeles.
Bob Feller (former baseball player and pitcher, also a member of the Hall of Fame) once threw a pitch 107.6mph and could throw fast enough that the ball would beat a motorcycle going 55mph to a target 100 yards away, (the motorcycle got a 50yd headstart)
Rickey Henderson could run 20mph, and as a result stole over 1,000 bases in his MLB career, 50% more than the 2nd place player. He also walked to leadoff an inning 768 times, more than 56 other Hall of Fame members walked leading off, combined!
buckus69 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:19:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Monty Hall problem. Discuss.
A_RamdomCone ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:32:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
These brownies are so moist.
ethernetcord ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:53:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is no purpose to life.
j-shonk ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:27:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that only applies to you, so it's irrelevant here.
my life has lots of purpose and meaning
Zakimations ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:54:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My purpose is to post this comment.
Goodbye.
ethernetcord ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:57:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Keep telling yourself that.
j-shonk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:25:21 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
its not something I tell myself, it's something I experience every day, it's a reality not a thought
ethernetcord ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:53:31 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You seem pretty reliant on this idea that life has meaning so maybe I shouldn't toy with your fragile psyche.
fr3tus ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:59:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bimonthly can mean both A every other month And B Twice a month
Mynameisnotdoug ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:20:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[Formatting]
Bimonthly can mean both
A: every other month
And
B: Twice a month
Bourbone ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:00:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are three doors. Behind one is a million dollars. You pick one door. The host reveals one of the two remaining doors as empty. He then offers you to switch your door to the one you didn't choose (that remains unopened).
Mathematically, you should switch. Mind still blows each time I read about it.
The Monty Hall problem
Skintanium ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:15:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Turning on off your computer will break it.
NeonDuCoeur ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:17:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anal
nalydnetsok ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:18:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the shortest route between Tokyo and San Francisco takes you north of Dutch Harbor
putzu_mutzu ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:20:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
antisemitism is alive and well. in fact it is the last racial hatred that is socially accepted in the west.
DudeNiceMARMOT ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:22:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anal
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:22:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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panzerkampfwagen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:23:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha, sucks for th........ oh fuck, I'm Australian.
fungol ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:23:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you buy an ounce of gold and an ounce of lead, the gold will weigh more.
Tungurbooty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:33:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think this is wrong
fungol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:47:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
gold is sold in troy ounces which are 12 to the pound instead of 14.
GiantDwarf01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:01:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, an ounce is an ounce. They're both the same weight measurement. But gold is heavier than lead, however, with lead being about 11.36 g/cm3 and gold being 19.32 g/cm3.
fungol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:41:31 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_ounce
GiantDwarf01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:50:23 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
... And? A Troy ounce is just another weight measurement, so unless you're saying an ounce of gold is in Troy ounces and lead is a normal avoirdupois ounce of something, an ounce is an ounce, if they're both the same type of ounce, yes? Or am I missing something here?
fungol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:09:56 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you buy gold, they sell them by troy ounces. My initial wording was specific for that reason.
GiantDwarf01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:35:20 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, I see. Now it makes sense.
DeadCello ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:21:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They are both an ounce.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:28:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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panzerkampfwagen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:33:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. When nukes go off they're hotter than the Sun.
DeadCello ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:18:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even pistol shrimp are capable of producing sun temperatures by snapping their claws. Shrimp. I call BS on this one.
__Osiris__ ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:30:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With out the Nazi rageam humanity and their lust for advantages over their enemy's humanity and many areas of science would be far behind where we are now. So in effect with the great loss of life from nazi slaughter and experimentation more people would be dead now days from the lack of knowledge.
__Osiris__ ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:30:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With out the Nazi rageam humanity and their lust for advantages over their enemy's humanity and many areas of science would be far behind where we are now. So in effect with the great loss of life from nazi slaughter and experimentation more people would be dead now days from the lack of knowledge.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's false. The Nazis sucked at science.
__Osiris__ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok fine hydra then.
daniand17 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:33:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Canada is south of Detroit
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:34:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more potential positions in chess than there are electrons in the observable universe.
theniceguytroll ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:40:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you line up all the planets in our solar system, gravity would pull them all into one disgusting blob of planet.
Magikpoo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:47:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shoving glass in your arse can cause deep gashes and extreme bleeding.
the_one_username ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:57:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump is probably the next president.
LinoaB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:58:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope
kblaney ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:06:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A sphere can be divided into several parts, then those parts can be broken up and reassembled into 2 spheres each with volume equal to the original sphere.
Shallers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:12:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What? I'm gonna need a proof on that one.
kblaney ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Tarski_paradox
Proof requires a bit of measure theory.
chemicalclockwork ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:07:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Las Vegas is due east of Los Angeles
TheDeterminer ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:14:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When we sex with a random person we actually have sex with a relative.
robotgraves ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:20:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Monty Hall Problem
Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?
Very interestingly, switching doors gets you a 67% chance to get a car, and staying gets you a 33% chance.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:30:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:42:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Gaelyyn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:00:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, it's neither. Officially 12:00am and 12:00pm don't exist, they are properly called Midnight and Noon. But taking your point at face value, 11:59:59pm is today and Midnight is tomorrow, assuming you're talking about a time that hasn't happened yet.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:19:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Gaelyyn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:22:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The problem is that you're slightly mistaken in your counting. In time you start with 0. Midnight (the first number you count) is 12:00:00, count 10 seconds from that and you're at 12:00:09.
In this way, with 12:00:00 as the first second of today, and 11:59:59 as the last second of today, you do end up with 24 hours.
Boltizar ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:30:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The song is called "Cum On Feel the Noize" (not "Come On Feel the Noise) and it came out over ten years before Quiet Riot covered it.
Neptune9825 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:32:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Facts are just opinions with sufficient evidence.
Gramage ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:48:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well that's just like, your opinion man.
MonumentOfVirtue ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:16:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Opinions are just facts with not enough evidence
Neptune9825 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:17:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was going with a more positive wording to see if it still got downvoted into oblivion =P
hunter9111 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:32:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The word "separate" is pronounced sePERate but it's spelled sePARate.
internetinsomniac ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:38:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Monty Hall problem it presents a scenario on a game show, where there are 3 doors, and only 1 has a prize behind it. The contestant selects a door, then the host will reveal one of the two remaining doors, showing no prize behind it. The contestant is given the option to change to the last door, or keep their original choice. It's non-intuitive, but staying with the door you select has a 1 in 3 chance of getting a prize (33%), but if you change, that last door has 1 in 2 chance of being a prize (50%).
Swill311 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:51:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Despite what they say, republicans are actually for big government.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:53:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not big government if it's forcing morality on everyone! Big government only means to make you pay more taxes, unless that tax increase is for an increase in military spending.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:53:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most historical 'slavery' was more akin to modern employment than non consensual imprisonment. They were generally provided with housing, protection, clothing and food, and at the end of their term they would often end up with their own riches, in the form of livestock and lands.
tubbana ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:54:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Since I learned that birds are dinosaurs, I've never been able to look them the same way
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_birds
PangoriaFallstar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:17:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alfred Hitchcock's the Avian Dinosaurs just sounds strange.
henlippy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:09:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's more reindeers in Finland than humans
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:23:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Mynameisnotdoug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:28:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great fact there.
"This one time this one thing happened but I can't remember."
_Nej_ ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:27:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Coming in late - the longest seige in modern war was the seige of Sarajevo which ended in 1996. It was longer than the seige of Stalingrad in WW2.
ferlessleedr ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:35:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Monty Hall problem. Suppose I present you with three closed doors. Behind one of them is a car, the other two each are empty (in the original game show it was a goat behind the other doors). You pick a door and then the host, who knows what is behind which doors, takes away one of the doors with a goat. So if you picked door number one the host might say "Okay, behind door number three is a goat." Then you get the opportunity to switch to door number 2 or stay with door number one.
There is a 66% chance that the car is behind door number 2, meaning your odds of getting the car double by switching to the other door.
fesrtyz ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:37:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
euthanasia
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:45:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I fucked ur mom
ihatethecrippled ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:09:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is no such thing as electricity
_BsL_ ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:19:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the most difficult thing NASA encounters on its space en devours is not the space travel at all, but the 100km from ground level to the upper atmosphere.
qbert011 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:23:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Women couldn't vote on the federal level in Switzerland until 1971.
Gamsurslicki ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:28:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All planets can fit in between the earth and the moon.
CptLou ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:29:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
To say that whales are fish is not incorrect.
There are
no(see edit) definitions of "fish" that makes it impossible to include whales in it.If you for example say that fish don't have lungs, you're wrong - there are species of lung fish.
Edit: /u/WeaklyInteracting corrected me, but see my comments below, because I do not take back that whales should belong to the category "fish" in everyday conversation
WeaklyInteracting ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:27:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The definition of a fish is not "not having lungs". There is unsurprisingly a definition of fish that includes all species of fish and doesn't include whales. It is literally the first sentence of the wikipedia entry for fish.
CptLou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:52:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're right, there is a definition. But! Different people define things differently. The laymans definition of a fish, i promise you, does not include " member of a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic craniateย animals that lack limbs with digits." As i said, there are species of lungfish that defy this definition. The truth is that true definitions are hard to come by. Even the definition of "life" and "species" are still controversial. And to return to the point about the layman's use of a term - isn't it so that our use of a word determines its meaning? Take the word "literally". People use it differently than its original meaning. The same thing is true about the word "fish".
WeaklyInteracting ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:09:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Emphasis mine, There exists at least one definition of the word fish that makes it impossible to include whales in it (for a specific definition of whale). The definition "fish are everything that isn't a whale" also works. Now you can certainly come up with a definition of fish that includes whales or teapots or anything you like but that's true for anything and has nothing to do with fish or whales.
The layman's definition of fish almost certainly doesn't include whales since if you ask most people they will tell you whales are not fish.
CptLou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:16:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, my initial comment was flawed.
Definitions only work if you can't come up with a counter-example, and the lungfish is a counter-example to the layman's definition, therefore I say there's nothing wrong with including whales in the category "fish", when speaking casually.
WeaklyInteracting ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:24:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The layman's definition of fish certainly doesn't include whales. If it also doesn't include lungfish then that is problem for the lungfish or the layman.
Surely the fact that whales aren't fish is a counter-example to your definition of fish as much as the lungfish having lungs is a problem to the definition of fish not having lungs?
CptLou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:49:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Since anyone (except maybe a marine biologist) would say "yes, that's a fish", after looking at a picture of a lungfish, then lungfish is included in their definition.
Another example is this; If you tell someone to write down as many insects as they an in 30 seconds, chances are that they will include centipedes, ticks and spiders, while none of these are insects.
There are a lot of literature about this sort of thing. All of these examples talk about problems of conceptual categorization; here, here and here
Also check the prototype theory of concepts here
Mynameisnotdoug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:08:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So I can come up with my own definitions of words?
I'm a layman, I took the definition of fish to include having gills, and that's not an uncommon definition.
Phoenix2409 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:30:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On a motorcycle you turn the handles left to go right and right to turn left.
Was so confused when that was first explained to me.
_Rose_Tyler_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:58:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then explain it please
BiPolarBulls ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:50:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bicycle and motorcycle dynamics
It is also why you can still steer the motorbike when you are doing a wheelie (the front wheel off the ground!).
krepkee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:02:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Think of it as falling into the turn.
Sabanic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:05:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What... That makes no sense.
BiPolarBulls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:43:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is true though. (I has to do with gyroscopic precession).
occupythekitchen ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:39:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I masturbate....with my sinister hand,vi mean left hand
Sophira ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:41:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The word ''piss', meaning 'urine', is old enough to have been used in the King James Version of the Bible (that's the one with all the "thee"s and "thou"s). See, for example, Isaiah 36:12.
I had always thought that the word was relatively recent (as in, the last few hundred years max) slang.
spankx ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:47:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Infinte amounts of zero sum up to a finite value.
streetsworth ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:15:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
5+3=9
Yurei2 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:21:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is no such thing as a "Gravitational Force". Instead, it's more accurate to think of a dropped object as stationary, and the ground accelerates upwards towards it. #physics #GeneralRelativity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NblR01hHK6U
za419 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:26:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Technically, both objects fall towards each other. It's rare in relativity for there to be a correct frame of reference, just more useful and less useful ones. Relativity says that, if you drop a book, it's impossible to say if the book is moving and the earth staying still, or the other way around, or both, because it all depends on which frame of reference one chooses to look at it from. From the book's point of view, the earth moves to meet it, from the earth's perspective the book moves to it, and the stars see both move to meet in the middle.
Also, since when do we use hashtags on Reddit? Is this a thing? Why does no one tell me things?
Yurei2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:31:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hashtags have become a general "internet" thing. Like lolspeak.
As for the rest of your post, yeah! Your absolutely right. But the point here was to state something that seems wrong, but isn't so I left that out.
Of course, from spacetime's POV, the book, the earth, and everything, is at every possible state it will ever be in in every possible location it will ever be in all at the same time... SO maybe I shoulda led with that one.
Scientistworld ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:28:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think that there exist more trees and plants on earth than milky way . and as i think it would be right
Satsuki_Runa ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:31:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A hotdog is a sandwish
thekdawg360 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:32:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a functioning english sentence.
CDev33 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:34:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A Christian group holding 3 masses per week in a Jewish Temple. It's actually happening in Brookline, MA.
Ghost3789 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:35:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aluminium.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:36:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans are more closely related to chimps than chimps are to gorillas.
Humans are more closely related to chimps than mice are to rats.
And one more..
The T-Rex lived closer to modern day, than he did to the first dinosaurs in the Triassic.
TheJester73 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:37:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I prefer the taste of a 15 year old vs a 12 year old. Scotch that is......
cinaak ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:45:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
on average humans only have 1 eye
imnotavegan ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:47:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump could rule the world one day.
BiPolarBulls ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:56:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jimi Hendrix sang the line "Excuse me while I kiss this guy"
Dude-e ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:59:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Deliberately injecting yourself with a disease to gain immunity to it.
Xcfgt ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:08:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Lord is come
sorril ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:19:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
all these are so cool, thanks guys.
BATC42 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:27:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
France is the only country to use 12 different time zones. It's also the one that uses the most of them.
KAtusm ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:55:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most people are above average intelligence.
Oatau ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:57:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that Donald Trump is leading the republican primary race.
svante8008 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:58:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump actually have a chance to become USAs next president.
Verithos ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:58:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
America was built on racism, slavery and thievery.
0belvedere ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:05:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anything my wife says
TehDiscoMachine ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:16:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The grammar weirdo in me took over when I saw this. I immediately thought of, when answering the phone it is correct to say "Yes, this is he/she." It just feels weird to say out loud every time.
darkhorn ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:17:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
There is an 100% Asian country in European Union.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:44:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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darkhorn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:45:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Republic of Cyprus
Ayanhart ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 12:32:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This sounds extremely wrong and is indeed wrong...
darkhorn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:40:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Republic of Cyprus
Ayanhart ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:58:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's considered to be European even if it is right on the 'border' (there isn't really much of a border, it's mostly just semantics) however culturally it's much closer to European than it is Asian, Cypriots tend to consider themselves European (from what I know) and geography is a funny thing that can't be trusted since countries like Turkey and Russia are both simultaneously in Europe and Asia.
So, yes it is European.
darkhorn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:13:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol
SleeplessinOslo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:21:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump might be the next president of the United States.
PM_ME_BAD_SELFIES ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:35:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Michigan has the most coastline of the lower 48 states.
rageofheaven ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:49:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How is this possible?
PM_ME_BAD_SELFIES ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:39:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's surrounded on three sides by the Great Lakes, plus the UP adds even more coastline. Also, Michigan is a lot bigger than people who aren't from here realize.
rageofheaven ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:51:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay. Well, here is a link to a wikipedia page on this subject. Method 2 includes the great lake coastline, and as you can see, you are very, very wrong. Michigan is number 10.
PM_ME_BAD_SELFIES ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:00:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Huh. I've been lied to my whole life. Sorry reddit.
abadir ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:37:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that sugar is more dangerous than Smoke, Alchohol
IgottagoTT ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:46:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a spot in California where, if you head straight out into the ocean from the beach and keep going, the next land you will hit is Antarctica.
(Gaviota.)
yaavsp ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:51:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You never actually touch anything else. Nothing ever actually touches you.
pwickings ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:53:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
how does the science behind that fit? I mean, if "me" is defined by everything that is biologically part of my being, i'd be touching something per definition as soon as my surface makes contact with a foreign object
yaavsp ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:58:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On an atomic level it is practically impossible for you to touch something else. Straightforward article. This is probably the least incredible thing in quantum physics.
nostalgya ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:54:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But, but...when I think of you, I touch myself.
Nacholes ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:53:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Euthanasia
rdominak ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:09:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Monkeys are eaten by humans less than bananas.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:10:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Easih ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:13:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I challenge this:
The Milky Way contains between 200 and 400 billion stars
Somzer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:22:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Untrue, it's in 4 years or so.
51.4 billion chickens are artificially hatched, fattened up and slaughtered after ~42 days every year globally.
QuagganBorn ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:10:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A fish is more genetically similar to a human than to most other species of fish.
genocidalbovine ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:38:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eugenics
Delvana ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:40:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:08:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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shutterdream ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:12:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With a vowel sound.
abcocktail ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:20:28 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wrong.. Has to do with the sound
OneWayOfLife ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:21:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're wrong, I'm afraid. As below, it's a vowel sound, so unless we should be pronouncing the H, an is correct.
ricdesi ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:26:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you took a deck of cards at the birth of Planet Earth and counted off one unique arrangement of it every second until the sun exploded, you would need to find a new planet and repeat the process 240,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times to expend all unique combinations.
toolatealreadyfapped ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:30:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Main is the US state closest to Africa.
Rygar138 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:33:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more outcomes shuffling a standard deck of cards than atoms on earth.
itsalongwaytotheshop ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:42:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
humans can outrun horses motorbikes and cars over ten metres given a dead start.
Swimmerboy36 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:45:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Datum tss ๐ถ
mystic-sloth ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:50:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
blackflag63 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:15:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck me in your asshole
rising0moon ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:24:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Less is more.
da5id1 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:26:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Greenland is larger than Rhode Island.
micro102 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:27:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump could win the Presidency.
mojofun ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:31:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More people drown in deserts than die of dehydration. due to Flooding
OmegaTigBitties ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:32:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Austin, MN, population of ~26,000 has more exits has more exits thank any other town west of the Mississippi River.
D3ad54M ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:39:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When something goes in a black hole it spaghettify
McAwesomeBoss ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:41:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jet fuel can't melt steel beams.
PleonasticPoet ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:48:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jet fuel can't melt steel beams.
Krappy_Theery ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:19:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pokemon Water Blue.
el-cebas ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:19:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump is the Republican nominee for President
Endfinite ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:37:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Often
v99188 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:41:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ITT: Things that dont sound extremely wrong and are correct
emptybucketpenis ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:14:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brian Cox is actually a brother of Courtney Cox, their parents divorced and Courtney went with Mom to the US, while Brian stayed in the UK.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:48:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whenever someone dies, it's good for the rest of us.
Heymanwtvr ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:38:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Black, White and Grey are not colors.
HauntedShores ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:13:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a European reading these comments, something that stands out the most is how amazed Americans seem to be at where their own country and its states are located.
FlexGunship ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:51:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Valet" (that guy who parks your car) is actually pronounced "val-ette". Most people mispronounce it as "val-ay".
userpb ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:29:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Getting ice cubes in your freezer is faster if you put hot water in the ice-cube tray instead of cold water.
dogteam1911 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:34:13 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not true...
userpb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:09:29 on March 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
or is it really?
dogteam1911 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:19:27 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I could have sworn that someone Mythbusted this!
killerghost13 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:29:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buffalo Bill didnt kill any buffalo.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:12:36 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Octopuses
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:06:09 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Boo on me for my totally appropriate contribution!
ianternational ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:18:43 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Polish language
Cyber_Apocalypse ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:43:21 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pronouncing every letter in "socks" means "It is what it is" in spanish (Es lo quรฉ es).
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:57:27 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable.
DeMagnet76 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:27 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Technically, all fruits are vegetables.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:39:57 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. Vegetables are the edible parts of a plant. Fruits are the seed bearing parts.
cjccjhc01 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:14:16 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sherbet. I feel it should be sherbert, but supposedly its sherbet. it sounds so wrong!
Birthez ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:16:52 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you want a road to be used most effectively, you should have the speed-limit at around 35 mph. That is the speed that cars will be able to pass through at the highest rate.
Nicaol ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:19:18 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That 70's show started in 1998.
toomuchpork ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:03:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump is the president America deserves.
XeroXGray ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 05:34:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
66 + 44 != 100
BloodslidesInMyAC ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:46:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Explain.
jywn4679 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:46:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
66+44=110
BloodslidesInMyAC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:00:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, I understand. I didn't understand how 66 + 44 != 100 sounded wrong.
TheTickterd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:50:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's the proof for this?
jywn4679 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:46:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
66+44=110
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 06:01:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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j-shonk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:22:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this is like the ice bucket challenge for you guys, it makes no sense what so ever and it wont actually help anybody with ALS but it sounds nice and all your friends are doing it SO by god you will to.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[slowclap.start]
Bravo, Sir. Bravo.
[slowclap.stop]
immortal_joe ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 08:44:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump will make America great again.
craniumcris ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 09:22:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GOD exists
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 14:39:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Banning gay marriage
nice_memexD ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:52:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what the fuck is your comment history. and why is that right?
Urdu446732 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 20:15:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hitler was a socialist.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:17:53 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No he wasn't. Hitler had the left wing (socialist) faction of the NSDAP purged (murdered) in 1934. It's known as the Night of the Long Knives.
Urdu446732 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:17:26 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have never read his book have you? It could have been written by Bernie Sanders if Bernie hated Jews.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:25:50 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So fucking what?
Actions speak louder than words.
Urdu446732 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:09:13 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They do, and every party claiming to be a socialist workers party has been genocidal.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:24:11 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes and their actions were right wing conservative.
Urdu446732 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:35 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol. Nope.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:20:31 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ian Kershaw says you're wrong.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 20:21:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fatshaming works in motivating people to lose weight.
[deleted] ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 23:36:40 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A dog's mouth is cleaner than a human's mouth.
RoopertPupkin ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 23:48:35 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure that's actually just a myth. I think the amount of germs are pretty similar.
Spartengerm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:38:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I don't eat other people's shit or eat my own vomit.
except saturdays but that's another story.
Baron_Von_Sexingpun ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 23:55:36 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Before or after they get done licking their own butthole?
Nymbra ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:00:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And eating cat shit.
Troppin ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 00:15:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And licking peanut butter off my balls.
Troppin ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 00:14:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This is untrue. A bite (that breaks the skin) from a dog is less likely to become infected than a bite from a human. The reason is because dog's teeth are sharp, causing a clean cut. Human's teeth create a jagged wound, that will more often become infected.
A cut from a scalpel will heal better than a rough tear.
Edit: Thanks u/YouNerdAssRetard
YouNerdAssRetard ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:29:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Either i didnt read that right or im confused. A dogs bite can get infected easier that a humans because it has sharp teeth but humans teeth are more jagged and causes infection easier? Which one is it?
Troppin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:38:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fixed. Thanks.
QazseWsxdr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:48:20 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you know what I mean.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:58:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Before or after they lick your balls?
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 07:30:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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zerobjj ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:34:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is incorrect.
jylny ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:37:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you talking about bell peppers? Because lemons and lime cultivars are literally different species...
Jeff_is_a_catname ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 23:45:23 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
When a fruit is so brown that you don't want to eat it anymore it's called 'ripe', which is strange. Cause 'ripe' sounds good.
Edit: lol sorry that I offended people with my opinion on fruit semantics?
oversized_hoodie ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:14:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would argue that "ripe" has been colloquially redefined to mean "ready to eat" in the context of food
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:41:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You don't have to argue it and it's not colloquial. That's the actual definition of ripe:
Jeff above is describing a food that is "over-ripe."
DiggingNoMore ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 01:34:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you one of those people that uses "literally" when you mean "figuratively?"
qwertx0815 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 11:25:20 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it is correct to use it that way...
DiggingNoMore ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:11:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Indeed it is not.
qwertx0815 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:41:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
100 years ago bitch was a female dog, and anybody using it in any other way would bring the whole rage of the grammer nerds upon themselves.
languages change, and always have. get used to it...
DiggingNoMore ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:42:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uh, it still is a female dog. I would never use it any other way.
qwertx0815 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:00:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bitch
DiggingNoMore ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:04:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What makes you in any way confident that I would care about what Webster wrote in a book?
qwertx0815 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:40:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sooo, your not only a grammar snob, but a grammer snob that has his own headcanon about which words have which definitions?
why should i take anything that comes out of your mouth serious anymore?
DiggingNoMore ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:07:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, it's "seriously", not "serious" in that question, but I never claimed you should. It's also "you're", not "your," among other problems.
qwertx0815 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:30:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ok, i kinda wanted to argue with you, but after looking at a few other comments from you, it appears that you have strong opinions on many subjects.
sadly the most common denominator of these opinions seems to be the fact that they are, to varying degrees, pretty uninformed.
it still strikes me as odd that you would choose a subject of which you clearly have only the haziest knowledge as your 'look how smart i am' topic...
DiggingNoMore ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:53:48 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, knowing "your" from "you're" is a hazy knowledge. Why would I take "look how smart I am" advice from someone with such poor capitalization and punctuation?
qwertx0815 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:02:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
because that someone managed to learn a foreign language to a degree that he can hold a conversation with you ;)
i somehow doubt that the same is true for you. more importantly you somehow believe that distinguishing your from you're gives you any authority talking about general linguistic topics.
like i said, strong opinions, sadly also very uninformed.
DiggingNoMore ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:27:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I lived in the Philippines for a few years in my early-20s, so I speak Tagalog. But you know what happens when you assume, right?
And you somehow believe that speaking two languages gives you any authority talking about general linguistic topics. You're such a hypocritical idiot.
qwertx0815 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:37:46 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
woooosh...
Wikkiwikki420 ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 07:14:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Obama not only one of the Nations worst president's after his first election, America sent him back into office for a second term. Only to lead to him further destroying the wealth this country was rebounding into. America has a lot of political pundits who think sending bernie a socialist or hillary the fascist would be a better move than anything the republicans have. Donald Trump has entered the ring and will now lay down the law and make america great again.
azzagbag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:26:30 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only serious replies please.
Wikkiwikki420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:14:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is.
[deleted] ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 14:50:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Women shouldn't vote.
Miss_xox ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:53:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know if you're trolling - if you're not, can you explain yourself?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:57:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can but I'm pretty sure it will do no good.
Miss_xox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:00:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
C'mon, give it a try - I'm honestly interested to know why you're thinking that.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 00:11:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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faz712 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:34:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure this fits here unless you had never seen the cross-section of a cucumber
serifith ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:07:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Swan can be gay
ElQuesoBandito ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:03:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
cries
gabrielchap ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:19:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
warm water freezes faster than cold water
seycyrus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:33:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Strike two.
Ashybuttons ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:21:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you put a tray of hot water and a tray of cold water in the freezer, they will take the same amount of time to freeze.
seycyrus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:31:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. Try it yourself.
AmnesiaCane ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:30:21 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is enough space between the Earth and the Moon to fit every other planet in the solar system.
tombue ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:20:34 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1+2+3+4...=-(1/12)
MrNoNeedles ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Women's Suffrage
TheFrodo ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more trees on earth than stars in our galaxy.
Axe_wound_crotch ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:07:11 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reno Nevada is farther west than Los Angeles
Trevorius ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:19:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1+2+3+4+5+...=-1/12
eastonrb99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:38:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How
kexkemetti1 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:46:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That "God" does not exist outside. The three soinds G-O-D does not have a reference object. It is empty and meaningless - everyone imagines soemthing else. But the concept is useful : we do need some fantasy about where is the boundary of our own self. Unfortunately this word is useless for it. The original One-God concept Yehowe DOES have asimple meaning: it is Ever-Being or Futurator. (Haya means WAs hove means Being and Yehi means Will-be hence it is the active future form of the verb to be to exist - and hance it is correct to translate Ye-Hoveh as Creator or Maker.) It is crucial for each of us to see this meaninglessness issue. Maybe to express this we should use the translation in a meaningless form like Yeah-How-We...To suggest that it should be meaningful. (It also needs to be known that Ye-Shua the original name of "Jesus" is the Future form of shua meaning Pull-Out /=referring to the pulling-out-from the grasp of death: Saviour is the translation/
The-War-Boy ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:47:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump has a mathematical chance of winning the presidency. :(
hagendaasmaser ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:51:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone has a mathematical chance of winning the presidency....
The-War-Boy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:06:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's even more terrifying.
j-shonk ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:30:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Obama (a person with Zero experience at anything) won the presidency twice, so why would any of this surprise you
Farty_McSimmons ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:48:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dogs can't look up
Morthra ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 07:01:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sum of all positive integers is exactly -1/12.
horsehome ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:25:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would be so happy if people stopped parroting this flat out lie. The sum of all positive integers is divergent, it just gets bigger and bigger. The value of -1/12 arises when you use a very different summation method.
Morthra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:54:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It shouldn't matter which method you use, because the end result is that they should be equivalent. The number is impossibly big if you are evaluating the sum from i=1 to x of all values n and x is a finite value.
You may be thinking of the sum of all positive numbers, which is divergent, but the infinite sum of 1+2+3+4+5+6... is not.
real-scot ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 07:04:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The Kingdom of Denmark is the third largest country in North America
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:25:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What?
tinysideburns ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 07:08:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Redditors ask this fucking question entirely too often.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 07:19:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Moist
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 07:56:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
donald trump will be our next president
9u1931udj ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
not all muslims are terrorists
BUT ALL TERRORISTS ARE MUSLIMS
rivetboy34 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:09:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, I didn't know Timothy McVey was Muslim... He must not have really blown up the federal building in Oklahoma city, it was all fake .. Like the moon landing? (This is all sarcasm and you're a fucking idiot)
phoenix_md ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 09:51:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Studies of identical twins prove that there is no "Gay gene"
ashdelete ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 09:52:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lionmaker, a 27 year old man, likes having sex with 16 year old girls. Sounds wrong, but it's true.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 09:53:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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panzerkampfwagen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:54:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It actually is.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:00:56 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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panzerkampfwagen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:04:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you stop reading at amorphous?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:15:08 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:20:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Derised ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 10:05:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more atoms in your body than there are fundamental particles in the entire universe!
panzerkampfwagen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:06:50 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That doesn't make any sense since those very same atoms are made up of fundamental particles.
TigerlillyGastro ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 10:07:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My penis is longer than average.... much longer.
Timetobeadick ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 10:25:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not all Texans are raging ignorant numskulls.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 10:27:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The upvote button makes a cool sound!
microdon23 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 11:07:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Michael Jackson was a good kisser.
Or so I've heard.
Ultinado ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:16:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From my friend back in elementary school.
110Liam ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 12:13:55 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Justin Trudeau is letting terrorist stay in Canada.
blazerqb11 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 12:29:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
There are more possible combinations in a 52 card deck than there are stars in the observable universe. In fact even if you cube the number of stars it still isn't as much.
Edit: Apparently this is so unbelievable that people didn't believe it. For reference, the number of card deck combinations is 52! or 52x51x50... = 8x1067. The number of stars in the observable universe is approximately 1022, and 1022 cubed is 1066.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 13:00:02 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Shoop_a_Doop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:19:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you've been reading the civil war Era textbooks on American history.
AchillesDPV ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 13:08:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Little boys have tight sphincters
Gnometard ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 14:12:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Black people commit more murder than whites and are a BIG portion of the demographic killing cops.
repeatalifetime ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 14:24:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
we are living in a simulation
chaaPow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:34:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Keep in mind that simulations and holograms are not the same thing, not even close. There are a growing number of evidence that our universe could be a hologram of a sort, where the information contained within the 'universe bubble/sphere' can be described using just the surface area of that same sphere. BUT there are no evidence or testable theories about a simulated universe whatsoever, which doesn't disprove it, but it also doesn't make it a correct statement, or a fact.
Ryferg ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 14:43:00 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I petted my dog.
tksdks ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 14:43:04 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fart
GrowthSpurt9 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 14:56:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That basket ball court above the Supreme Court.
"The highest court in the land"
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 14:57:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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RagdollFizzixx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:06:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just looked up "quote". It is also a noun.
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/quote?s=t
jamesthunder88 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:50:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hillary.
jamesthunder88 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:50:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sanders.
jamesthunder88 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:50:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cruz.
[deleted] ยท -14 points ยท Posted at 01:32:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump will make America great again
DankMemePls ยท -15 points ยท Posted at 11:54:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Blacks have lower IQ's compared to everyone else.
upinflamezzz ยท -23 points ยท Posted at 12:06:14 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The "Black Lives Matter" movement doesn't care about black lives. Hard to believe I know, but if they did wouldn't they be protesting where all the black people are killing each other rather than blocking roadways.
Cathartic_following ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 14:30:03 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're a movement particularly motivated to address police brutality against blacks. Blacks have significantly higher incarceration rates, significantly higher police brutality reports, and are disadvantaged in many ways by the criminal justice system. I am going into law enforcement, I'm halfway through my degree in criminal justice, let me assure you there is a real need for this to be addressed. I am not a fan of the BLM, but despite my differing of opinion on how to deal with the issues I think it's an unfair characterization to say they don't care about black lives.
2000and16 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:33:40 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could... could it be because blacks break the law more? That seems like an obvious, yet racist, yet extremely obvious answer.
Cathartic_following ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:22:27 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not a bad question, I'm sincerely glad you asked. There have been many different people who asked that question and this is what they found:
โWhite Americans overestimate the proportion of crime committed by people of color and associate people of color with criminality. For example, white respondents in a 2010 survey overestimated the actual share of burglaries, illegal drug sales and juvenile crime committed by African-Americans by 20 percent to 30 percent.โ New York Times
โThe standard assumption that criminals are black and blacks are criminals is so prevalent that in one study, 60 percent of viewers who viewed a crime story with no picture of the perpetrator falsely recalled seeing one, and of those, 70 percent believed he was African-American..." (Same NYT article as above).
It is impossible to use the numbers of the Criminal Justice System to determine whether the Criminal Justice System is bias against black people because it's essentially going to show that blacks are more criminal by default. Black males have a 1 in 6 chance of being incarcerated in their lifetime, and white males have a 1 in 17 (I believe). However in my own research I've found that poverty has a lot more to do with criminality than skin color. Source
Of course it's easier to blame something biological, however in this case I have done enough research โand would be happy to provide many many more sources, I just googled nyt for the most part. I have a number of good scholarly articles I'd be happy to send your wayโ to conclude that skin color is not something that makes you more violent. I write this as a white woman who has a 1 in 111 chance of being incarcerated for a crime in my lifetime. The Criminal Justice System is stacked, look up "Stop and frisk" laws (many of which target blacks), or poverty rates and crime in Europe in the 1930s. When poverty rates rise, crime rises too. Crime is a sign of desperation, I encourage you to do some research into more homogeneous countries (especially European countries).
Cocainus ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 00:49:35 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any number other than zero multiplied by zero I have 67 peanut butter cups let's multiply that by nothing...now I have nothing? 0 = Black Hole
dexikiix ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:08:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I gave you an apple 0 times you wouldn't have a black hole... you'd just have no apples.
euming ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 10:58:52 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That Hillary Clinton is the least corrupt American politician to have ever run for POTUS.
Edit: New evidence. http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/fact-checkers-confirm-hillary-clinton-is-more-honest-than-any-of-her-2016-opponents/24196/
CarpeCyprinidae ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:08:58 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
So you are saying that Dwight D.Eisenhower - the President who warned of the increasing power of the military-industrial complex -was more in Wall Street's pocket than Hillary is? Seems impossible to believe. I don't.
euming ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:20:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being in Wall Street's pocket is an opinion. That is your opinion based on whatever political bias you have developed from media exposure. You do not have a similar opinion developed about Eisenhower.
Your opinion about her foreign policy is also largely formed from her experience as Sec. of State under Obama. Note that she was carrying out the policy of her Commander in Chief and not necessarily her own policy. If there lies fault there, then the fault lies with the ones to shape policy, not Clinton.
Do we say that Powell initiated the Iraq War? Is he in the pocket of Wall Street because of the Bush Administration. Perhaps. However, that is not the prevailing narrative we hear about him. Yet, it is for HRC. This is a double standard that is typical of the kind of spin media puts on HRC.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:49:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She's not even the least corrupt American politician running NOW, let alone ever.
CarpeCyprinidae ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:55:06 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Euming's post history on reddit is one long Hillary whitewash. Clearly either on her staff or one of the PACs
euming ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:51:22 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Clearly. Yeah, like someone can't just express views different than yours.
euming ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:22:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for your opinion. That's exactly why it sounds extremely wrong, doesn't it. But is it actually correct?
za419 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:18:16 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have the distinct feeling that, say, Jefferson accepted less bribes from corporations than either Clinton.
euming ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 14:14:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jefferson did not nearly have the scrutiny that Clinton has. Nowhere near. Your "feeling" is just that. A feeling. No facts.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 01:52:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Technically you could fuck and impregnate a girl after she gets first period. According to Laws of nature, she is ready.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:15:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She would also most likely be 12.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:18:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
that was my point! It sounds (and in our society also is) extremely wrong but it is correct.
mrgangsterface ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:04:22 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the way you pronounce metallurgy
it looks like you would pronounce it with the dominant syllable -tal-
like Metallica
SoUnhealthy ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:20:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the US, there are more museums than McDonalds and Starbucks combined.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:50:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eugenics was invented and first practised in Great Britain and the United States. American eugenics programs were the inspiration for the eugenics programs of Nazi Germany. 'Murica!
ew2x4 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:13:23 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eugenics was practiced far before the formation of Britain and the USA. Look no further than ancient Greece.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:16:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fine. Eugenics was rediscovered in the US and UK, and these countries were the first to practice it in the modern era.
ew2x4 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:21:16 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks Margaret Sanger!
herp____derp ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 04:34:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
If you double a penny every day for a month, you will have over 5 million dollars.
polot38 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:03:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not in February on a non-leap year, then you would only have around 2.5 million.
daniel ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:26:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
there are more neurons in your brain than there are atoms in the universe
panzerkampfwagen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:27 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No.
TheLoveBoat ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 07:05:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
women like guys who treat them like shit
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:18:09 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ya no
TheLoveBoat ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:31:13 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thank god reddit user danniro is here to tell us what women want
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:35:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, being a woman who knows many women, I can say for certain it is not common to like guys who treat you like shit.
So sorry that because you're a "nice guy" you haven't had success with the ladies, though.
TheLoveBoat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:42:33 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nothing to do with being nice or not, an adonis can act however he want and women will still fall over for him.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:19:07 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
same could be said for a very attractive woman..... so don't act like this is a thing women do
gjack905 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 07:27:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump is not racist because he has not made racist remarks or advocated racist policy.
maikit333 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 10:34:53 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Women get paid 30% less then men.
Mefs ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 11:02:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are more people alive on earth today than have ever lived before.
panzerkampfwagen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:08:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. 7 billion is not more than 40b to 110b.
CRU-60 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:27:36 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Still too many fucking people on this rock.
DerpusDraconis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:08:25 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
is this some play on words type of thing? I think you might have that around the wrong way. By the sounds of it the dead outweigh the living by a good 100 billion. http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2002/HowManyPeopleHaveEverLivedonEarth.aspx
Killaxxbee ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 12:27:44 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
we share 50% of our DNA with Bananas
belleayreski2 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 15:06:24 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pooping in the shower
Aturom ยท -16 points ยท Posted at 02:41:15 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Loving you
sampearce ยท -24 points ยท Posted at 06:26:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Feminism is what has caused the degeneration of our culture. At the core of our culture, the reason for our youth not wanting to work, dishonest political correctness, transgenderism and promoting gay culture is all because of the influence of feminism. This feminism was pushed by the Russian KGB during the cold war to subvert American culture and to weaken their nation.
Kawiisugoi ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 06:30:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think this sounds false because it is
Zakimations ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:49:51 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can't argue with that logic.
Nebula_Pete ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:34:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Allow me to fold you a tinfoil hat.
jonophant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:08:19 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He doesn't need one...... Anymore
under_your_bed94 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:12:45 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
tips fedora at fellow enlightened gentlesir
throwaway06556552668 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:47:05 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's wrong with transgenderism or gay culture? Also, I think the youth is not able to find work, rather than not wanting to work.
its_still_good ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 00:55:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Later this year: President Clinton
dexikiix ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:10:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What did you think the Donald Trump version of this comment you made wasn't good enough?
it's still next year.
RoosterFucker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:11:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You spelled "inmate" wrong.
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 03:24:47 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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CanadianJogger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:38:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1+1=10
PurpuraSolani ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:33:57 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Binary?
CanadianJogger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:58:39 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup.
spoonybard326 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 04:07:59 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In a baseball game, it's possible for your team to be shut out even though you swung the bat in every inning.
SuperWoody64 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:11:37 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The lowest amount of pitches for a team would be 27.
Cobra32233 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 07:27:31 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
women belong at home
darknessvisible ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 08:02:41 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Women are an oppressed majority.
cuban_edge ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 13:22:43 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought because there are children that visit this site, the 7 words you cannot say on Television SPFCCMT would also apply here. But then children probably know all those words by the time they get out of kindergarten.
Hotshot55 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:09:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you fucking retarded?
H8terFisternator ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 14:57:12 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
my dick up your butt ayy
Quackermano ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 21:56:32 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you look at the evidence, the world is actually flat
Racing2733 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:03:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What evidence?
catfroman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:00:17 on March 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean all the evidence that points to the world being round?
jonnyp11 ยท -22 points ยท Posted at 23:54:26 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I boned OP's mom
Edit: You don't know me or OP's mom, so how do you know what we done?
chodework ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 02:28:49 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1*1 = 1
mochablendedfun ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 04:45:38 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sherbet.
GeileOlle ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 07:07:10 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
licking the pu**y of your friends wife ๐
lucifer3720 ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 01:48:54 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That Islam is actually a religon of peace, and is completely misrepresented by the media. There was interesting video that I saw where two German guys covered a Bible as the Quran and read verses of the bibile to people. Interesting watch. Plus I think by know most people would know this but alas, we live in a world where many are misinformed.
Ten_bucks_best_offer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:26:17 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Quran is meant to be taken literal, the bible is not (yes, this is true, zealots are just dumb). Read them both and try to keep that stance.
greevous00 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:28:26 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is because the Bible isn't a book. Rather it's a collection of 66 books written at different times by different people in different circumstances, unlike the Quran. It is the manner in which they came to be that makes them dramatically different types of literature.
[deleted] ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 08:11:29 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
3 year-olds have the tightest pussies?
Raz0rLips ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:16:01 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck is wrong with you?!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:21:28 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Am I incorrect?
penguinobeano ยท -13 points ยท Posted at 04:47:18 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The car ran over me. It sounds awful
thismadhatter ยท -21 points ยท Posted at 13:22:42 on March 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The word legit is colloquial abbreviation of legitimate. It's trendy to use "legit" instead of "legitimate" - but if you do....you're an idiot.