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Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 9:11 pm
by geckzilla
Now you know why I hide my online status. So I can conceal how much time I waste in this section...
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 11:32 pm
by orin stepanek
geckzilla wrote:Now you know why I hide my online status. So I can conceal how much time I waste in this section...
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I guess I don't see what difference it makes on how much time someone spends in any section!
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Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 3:53 am
by geckzilla
Just a joke, orin. It's kind of silly to come to a forum just for its off-topic section, I guess. I mean, we're all here for the astronomy, right?
right? ![Embarassed :oops:](./images/smilies/icon_redface.gif)
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 4:26 am
by TNT
Well, this is the only forum that does not really relate to astronomy...I guess people like to take a break from talking astronomy and talk about other things, which I think is the purpose of this forum. Actually a good idea.
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 1:59 pm
by orin stepanek
geckzilla wrote:Just a joke, orin. It's kind of silly to come to a forum just for its off-topic section, I guess. I mean, we're all here for the astronomy, right?
right? ![Embarassed :oops:](./images/smilies/icon_redface.gif)
![Cool 8-)](./images/smilies/icon_cool.gif)
I love pictures of the day; but the discoveries on the planets and the moons really intrigue me. Day by day I set up a different picture of the day for my wallpaper.
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Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 10:40 pm
by Beyond
Worlds largest yellow diamond auctions for almost $11,000,000.
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Looks nice,but i think i would rather spend $11,000,000 on
LOTS of 'other' things
Here's an article about it.
http://news.yahoo.com/worlds-biggest-ye ... 04823.html
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 10:47 pm
by geckzilla
But how else would you transport $11 million around in your pocket? Pretty convenient, if you ask me.
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 11:01 pm
by Beyond
geckzilla wrote:But how else would you transport $11 million around in your pocket? Pretty convenient, if you ask me.
Until you go to spend it
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Try buying a coffee and donut at Dunkin donuts, for instance. Even
IF they could make change,
YOU wouldn't be able to carry it home with you.
VERY INCONVENIENT, if you ask me.
That's what a checkbook is for
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Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 2:36 am
by geckzilla
Well, the fun part would come in auctioning it back off and adding on a few more million down the road.
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 2:56 am
by Ann
Or else, when you want to buy your coffee at Starbucks, you bring out your diamond saw and saw off a sliver of it.
Maybe you'd prefer one of these Swedish 17th century coins. As you can see, you could indeed saw off bits to use as payment. This "coin block" contains five coins for the price of one - or at the very least, you can carry all five of the coins with you without having one of them slip through the hole in your pocket!
Ann
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 2:04 pm
by orin stepanek
Ann wrote:Or else, when you want to buy your coffee at Starbucks, you bring out your diamond saw and saw off a sliver of it.
Ann
I never saw a diamond saw!
![Mr. Green :mrgreen:](./images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif)
Now you're carrying around more than the diamond!!
![Shocked :shock:](./images/smilies/icon_eek.gif)
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 2:41 pm
by Beyond
Orin wrote:I never saw a diamond saw!
You've never saw a diamond saw
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I sea. I've seen a seesaw see-sawing and I've seen a diamond saw sawing, but as to just what they were seeing and sawing, I'm not sure. My see-ers don't saw to good anymore.
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Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 3:07 pm
by orin stepanek
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 4:08 pm
by BMAONE23
The graceful Dove dove from its perch
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 12:51 am
by makc
I didnt know that I ever posted in this thread, and yet it's on my posts list.
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 1:04 am
by Beyond
Well, ya have now
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Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 7:10 pm
by TNT
What are all of those bots, spiders, crawlers and whatnot that appear on the bottom of the index page, topics, and threads? They've been catching my eye for a while now and it would be nice to know what they are.
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 7:26 pm
by Chris Peterson
TNT wrote:What are all of those bots, spiders, crawlers and whatnot that appear on the bottom of the index page, topics, and threads? They've been catching my eye for a while now and it would be nice to know what they are.
Automated tools that feed information to search engines, RSS services, and the like.
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2011 4:47 am
by Beyond
Physicist Builds Lego Large Hadron Collider. (It's really just the ATLAS Detector)
Ah, finally
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Something i can relate to.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology- ... 00100.html
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2011 1:52 pm
by orin stepanek
Took a few Lego's I wager!
![Mr. Green :mrgreen:](./images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif)
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2011 3:15 pm
by Beyond
Orin, you must have missed where it said 9,500 bricks and that they cost $2,600. I guess you were just overwhelmed by the technology.
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Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2011 8:03 pm
by Ann
It's at times like these that I want to call myself a Scandinavian, so that I can sun myself in the glory of the Danes. Lego, of course, is a Danish invention, and the name, "Lego", comes from the Danish expression "leg godt" - "play well".
And not only did the Danish invent Lego, with whose help you can build the whole world from small plastic building blocks, but they also explained quantum theory, thus literally building the entire universe from even smaller and non-plastic building blocks.
And not only did the Danes create Lego and quantum mechanics, but now a physicist working at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen actually, truly built a Lego model of the Large Hadron Collider, the place where physicists search for proof that the fabric of reality is really made of the particles they think it is made of!
Ann
(who is baffled at the occasional brilliance of the Danes!) ![Shocked :shock:](./images/smilies/icon_eek.gif)
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2011 8:35 pm
by orin stepanek
Beyond wrote:Orin, you must have missed where it said 9,500 bricks and that they cost $2,600. I guess you were just overwhelmed by the technology.
![Wink :wink:](./images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
Must have missed that!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-Yq1I8gIA0
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2011 11:13 pm
by Beyond
That explains it, orin.
![Mr. Green :mrgreen:](./images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif)
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2011 6:48 pm
by Beyond
The Hexagon Secret
I live in "The Quiet Corner" of Connecticut. I've just read an article concerning a "secret" that was kept for many decades on the western side of the state, in a town called Danbury. Now I'm wondering if the title "The Quiet Corner", is just a blatent cover to help hide.... "something".
http://www.startribune.com/nation/136203688.html