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I dunno about you, but I know I would. (Never had an actual prostate exam, just the PSA blood test. My insurance isn't comprehensive enough to pay for the good stuff.) View Quote |
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Sometimes I think about people I know now and wonder if I was ever randomly around them before knowing them. For example, one day my wife and I were talking about our visits to Disney World when we were kids. I was 8 and she was 6. We figured out that we were there about a week apart and stayed in the same hotel. We were from different states and met in our mid 20's. And we lived in the same city for a couple years before meeting. Went to a lot of the same places. Were we beside each other in traffic? Barely missing each other in the grocery aisle? That kind of stuff is crazy to think about. Maybe that other driver you yelled at this morning will be your wife, or boss, or friend one day. View Quote |
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You know how if you shine a flashlight onto a mirror, it will reflect the light and the light spot will show up on another wall? Okay, with that in mind... What if you were in a room where the floor, ceiling and all four walls were covered 100% in mirrors....and you then turned on a flashlight. What would happen? Also, what if instead of a flashlight, you used a laser pointer? |
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Sometimes I think about people I know now and wonder if I was ever randomly around them before knowing them. For example, one day my wife and I were talking about our visits to Disney World when we were kids. I was 8 and she was 6. We figured out that we were there about a week apart and stayed in the same hotel. We were from different states and met in our mid 20's. And we lived in the same city for a couple years before meeting. Went to a lot of the same places. Were we beside each other in traffic? Barely missing each other in the grocery aisle? That kind of stuff is crazy to think about. Maybe that other driver you yelled at this morning will be your wife, or boss, or friend one day. View Quote It just so happens both of our families moved to Colorado when we were young. If either family had even decided to move to a different part of town we most likely never would have met. |
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Okay, this one goes back to when I was a kid. You know how if you shine a flashlight onto a mirror, it will reflect the light and the light spot will show up on another wall? Okay, with that in mind... What if you were in a room where the floor, ceiling and all four walls were covered 100% in mirrors....and you then turned on a flashlight. What would happen? Also, what if instead of a flashlight, you used a laser pointer? View Quote I guess it depends on the geometry of the room. And I could be totally wrong of course. It's much cooler to think the whole room would fill with laser light. |
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Okay, this one goes back to when I was a kid. You know how if you shine a flashlight onto a mirror, it will reflect the light and the light spot will show up on another wall? Okay, with that in mind... What if you were in a room where the floor, ceiling and all four walls were covered 100% in mirrors....and you then turned on a flashlight. What would happen? Also, what if instead of a flashlight, you used a laser pointer? View Quote |
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The laser would probably just reflect off every wall in a continuous chain overlapping itself once it hit enough angles. I guess it depends on the geometry of the room. And I could be totally wrong of course. It's much cooler to think the whole room would fill with laser light. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Okay, this one goes back to when I was a kid. You know how if you shine a flashlight onto a mirror, it will reflect the light and the light spot will show up on another wall? Okay, with that in mind... What if you were in a room where the floor, ceiling and all four walls were covered 100% in mirrors....and you then turned on a flashlight. What would happen? Also, what if instead of a flashlight, you used a laser pointer? I guess it depends on the geometry of the room. And I could be totally wrong of course. It's much cooler to think the whole room would fill with laser light. However, a concentrated laser would hold up to that much better. I need someone to make a huge mirrored room and then do this. |
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What you have to take into account is that the mirrors would not reflect 100% of the light, so it would fade a bit with each reflection. However, a concentrated laser would hold up to that much better. I need someone to make a huge mirrored room and then do this. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Okay, this one goes back to when I was a kid. You know how if you shine a flashlight onto a mirror, it will reflect the light and the light spot will show up on another wall? Okay, with that in mind... What if you were in a room where the floor, ceiling and all four walls were covered 100% in mirrors....and you then turned on a flashlight. What would happen? Also, what if instead of a flashlight, you used a laser pointer? I guess it depends on the geometry of the room. And I could be totally wrong of course. It's much cooler to think the whole room would fill with laser light. However, a concentrated laser would hold up to that much better. I need someone to make a huge mirrored room and then do this. I remember reading somewhere that lasers could be used to modulate time. never made sense to me because it seems like if you slowed down time ina localized area it would cause a literal rift in the material world . |
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Okay, this one goes back to when I was a kid. You know how if you shine a flashlight onto a mirror, it will reflect the light and the light spot will show up on another wall? Okay, with that in mind... What if you were in a room where the floor, ceiling and all four walls were covered 100% in mirrors....and you then turned on a flashlight. What would happen? Also, what if instead of a flashlight, you used a laser pointer? View Quote With the laser pointer I mean. |
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Kind of odd, but it happened to me, the prostate exam by a female physician's assistant. I was a cop at the time and the county I worked for provided all cops/fireman a free total physical exam. Everything: blood pressure, joint reaction, height, weight, blood test, hearing, prostate, etc. I think I was worried about it so much that I didn't get a boner. I'm mean, I was married and had kids. But, it was also over very fast. Not like she was wiggling it around, which also made me suspicious that I didn't get a proper prostate exam. But, I couldn't imagine having to go before internal affairs about having a boner during my "county employee physical" and explain it. The 'worry' scared me enough. View Quote |
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Sometimes I think about people I know now and wonder if I was ever randomly around them before knowing them. For example, one day my wife and I were talking about our visits to Disney World when we were kids. I was 8 and she was 6. We figured out that we were there about a week apart and stayed in the same hotel. We were from different states and met in our mid 20's. And we lived in the same city for a couple years before meeting. Went to a lot of the same places. Were we beside each other in traffic? Barely missing each other in the grocery aisle? That kind of stuff is crazy to think about. Maybe that other driver you yelled at this morning will be your wife, or boss, or friend one day. View Quote I think about the fact that there are millions of people who live life and I will never know them nor will they know me. Our lives have no intersection and had neither of us lived it wouldn't matter one iota to the other person. It wouldn't change a single thing about their life. |
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How can soap get dirty?
Soap is how you make things clean! It would be like water getting dry. Water is how you make things wet! |
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Before it does, it is a component of that grey slime on your car and the backs of semi trucks that you get when it rains. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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If you pay a hot young chick to have sex, it's a crime.
If you pay a hot young chick to have sex, film it and put it on the internet, it's a business. |
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Reptiles that lay hard-shelled eggs appeared around 100 million years before birds. The egg definitely came first.
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If the entire World population stood shoulder to shoulder and toe to heel it would fit in an area the size of Los Angeles or about 503 square miles.
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IF you could travel the speed of light AND turn on a light towards your heading, would you be able to see that beam of light? View Quote |
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Corn is not a naturally occurring plant and will die out if not cultivated by man. At one point there were thousands of species of corn, some with kernels the size of quarters and half dollars, now we're down to maybe 50? View Quote |
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Modern cows are descended from Aurox, a wild European bovine. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I have thought about this in depth. I have zero answer for where bread came from. Still a mystery. If you don't get the proportions of ingredients just right, you're fucked. More frightening is bovine. All the way back to the earliest recorded human history, cows were cultivated, but I have never seen any evidence of wild cows in ancient texts. I'm talking about herds of Holsteins wandering the country side ... yet steak is the most divine of foods. Blows my mind. |
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A lot o' people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch o' unconnected incidents 'n things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice o' coincidence that lays on top o' everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness.
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You can't actually see anything. All you can "see" is light that reflects off of whatever it is you are "looking" at. In fact you can't even "see" that light, you can only perceive the neural impulses as interpreted by your brain, after stimulation of receptors in your eyes, and you can change that process with any number of chemicals and so, how do you know that your senses are reliable? Are you sure? Your dog thinks everything is B&W with some blue shades, yet it can get along pretty well.
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Tardigrades also known as water bears are nearly indestructible and can survive in the vacuum of space and 6 times the pressures of the deepest water of the ocean even boiling water Linky https://cdn1.wimp.com/images/pthumbs/2017/05/477c8b723e7a92f93c27a28fd8c85f1c_005-5-hardy-water-bears-2022063_800_0.jpg View Quote And the minute someone fucks up in a laboratory and these things escape at 1,000X their normal size is how humans will become extinct. |
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Just in the US alone...how many millions of cars are there on the road? And all 4 of each car'@ tires wear down? Where does all that rubber go? Outside of any dog, actually. |
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Okay, this one goes back to when I was a kid. You know how if you shine a flashlight onto a mirror, it will reflect the light and the light spot will show up on another wall? Okay, with that in mind... What if you were in a room where the floor, ceiling and all four walls were covered 100% in 100% perfect lossless mirrors....and you then turned on a flashlight. What would happen? Also, what if instead of a flashlight, you used a laser pointer? View Quote Unfortunately, IRL, the glass isn't perfect, the reflective coating isn't perfect, it isn't a perfect vacuum between the surfaces, etc, and even if they were, remember the cube square law of distance for the flashlight, and for a laser, it's not a perfect laser, so it's not perfectly coherent light. 99.99997% is still not 100%. A one centimeter neon laser is something like 18" when it hits the moon, IIRC. Remember one of the Apollo missions left a reflector up there, which we use to measure how far the moon gets farther away every year. |
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You can't actually see anything. All you can "see" is light that reflects off of whatever it is you are "looking" at. In fact you can't even "see" that light, you can only perceive the neural impulses as interpreted by your brain, after stimulation of receptors in your eyes, and you can change that process with any number of chemicals and so, how do you know that your senses are reliable? Are you sure? Your dog thinks everything is B&W with some blue shades, yet it can get along pretty well. View Quote saw on the tube that there is some fish (cuttlefish? shrimp?) that can see colors that we cant...wonder what that is like....now I feel like a dog.... |
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My great great grandma was born in 1887 on a subsistence farm in Alabama and died in 1985, a few months shy of her 102nd birthday. She had three sets of grandparents, two white, one black, with the black grandparents formerly being the property of one of her sets of white grandparents. She learned to ride a horse and buggy at a young age, but refused to learn how to drive cars, which became the norm by her 50's. She died in the era of space shuttles and personal computers. She outlived all of her children, which numbered around 15. Imagine growing up on a subsistence farm, raised by a civil war veteran, and dying in the era of color TV and moon landings. Considering technology appears to be evolving exponentially, I wonder what stories we'll be telling our grandchildren. View Quote It is interesting to me, how certain historic events were not all that long ago in the grand scheme of things. I am in my mid-fifties. I am the youngest child of a couple that didn't get married until my dad was in his late thirties. My parent's grandfathers had fought in the American Civil War and they met them. Their grandfathers were in combat using muzzleloading rifles. When my mother was just out of high school, she worked in a telegraph office where messages were sent and received using Morse code, and she lived long enough to see email and texting. My mother's father, was a WW 1 vet. I have a picture of him on the day he got back from WW 1, with my mother in a stroller and he is standing there in uniform with a trench coat and a 1911 in a holster. When I was a kid, the guy that lived two houses away was a WW 1 vet. |
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If the whole world lived in one city, with the population density of NYC, that city would take up a little less than the square milage of Texas.
If that mega city had the population density of Honk Kong, it would only be the size of Delaware.... EVERY HUMAN ON EARTH. We just aren't as important as we think sometimes. |
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The mass of all the ants on the Earth is greater than that of all the humans on the Earth.
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What was the first person that thought it was a good idea to milk a cow?
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prolly a neaderthal. those guys will do anything. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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The statistical probability of the universe to be in its current state is a series of compounding probabilities, each of which are so low as to be considered impossible by most standards.
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The speed of light, so far as we know, is the only non-relative speed in the universe. It is, in fact, a constant. So, no matter the speed of the source relative to any other frame of reference, the speed of light remains the same. In fact, other aspects of the universe apparently change to keep it so. This is why red and blue shifts happen. View Quote |
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Quoted: And wild yeast will leaven bread nine times out of ten just fine, if you get distracted after making dough, for a few hours. All it would have taken is for some woman to get the idea to mix up the matzah dough for tomorrow to save time, and next day, hey! it's all fluffy now! Hmmm! View Quote |
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Quoted: that's cause the dog dosnet know what "color" is (or care).... and how do you know what blue is? saw on the tube that there is some fish (cuttlefish? shrimp?) that can see colors that we cant...wonder what that is like....now I feel like a dog.... View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: that's cause the dog dosnet know what "color" is (or care).... and how do you know what blue is? saw on the tube that there is some fish (cuttlefish? shrimp?) that can see colors that we cant...wonder what that is like....now I feel like a dog.... Quoted: that's cause the dog dosnet know what "color" is (or care).... and how do you know what blue is? saw on the tube that there is some fish (cuttlefish? shrimp?) that can see colors that we cant...wonder what that is like....now I feel like a dog.... |
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. People who have had their natural lenses replaced with artificial ones can see up into ultraviolet - frequencies of light that natural lenses are opaque to, but that the retina can detect. View Quote Hmmmm. Is this accurate? I always thought that we simply didn't have the receptors. Never considered that the lens was filtering out the UV. I'm eventually gonna need new lenses - minor cataracts around the edges - and I'll remember to ask about this on my next visit to the eye-doc. |
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Quoted: And wild yeast will leaven bread nine times out of ten just fine, if you get distracted after making dough, for a few hours. All it would have taken is for some woman to get the idea to mix up the matzah dough for tomorrow to save time, and next day, hey! it's all fluffy now! Hmmm! |
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