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Re: I Didn't Know That

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 2:34 am
by Beyond
ALERT - ALERT

The San Francisco Bay Bridge is under attack by the lightning bugs!
Grab your Phasers and light sabers!

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/ligh ... 01421.html

Re: I Didn't Know That

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 4:43 am
by Ann
rstevenson wrote:
Canada issues glow-in-the-dark dinosaur quarter.
That simply commemorates the fact that Canadians too glow in the dark. We have to; there's so much dark up here.

Rob
I guess we have about the same amount of dark as you, Rob. But I don't know if we glow.

Ann

Re: I Didn't Know That

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 4:44 am
by Ann
Beyond, what a stunning picture! Stunning - that's it! Set your phasers on stun! (Glad I wasn't on that bridge!)

Ann

Re: I Didn't Know That

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 6:13 am
by Beyond
Ann wrote:Beyond, what a stunning picture! Stunning - that's it! Set your phasers on stun! (Glad I wasn't on that bridge!)

Ann
Oh, i don't know, Ann. You might have gotten a real charge out of it. :shock: :yes: :mrgreen:

Re: I Didn't Know That

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 2:50 am
by Beyond
Purple crabs. Whatever will they find on this planet next :?: :?:

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/newly-disc ... 20026.html

Re: I Didn't Know That

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 3:05 am
by Ann
Wouldn't it be fun if someone found blue mammals?

Yes, yes, I know there are some kind of apes with red and blue faces and genitals... but...

Ann

Re: I Didn't Know That

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 3:59 am
by bystander

Re: I Didn't Know That

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 3:44 pm
by orin stepanek
AndI didn't know that parrots could be this smart! :shock:
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Re: I Didn't Know That

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 1:19 pm
by geckzilla
Okmulgee is the city I grew up in until eventually graduating from the local college and moving away. I probably knew this guy. And, if this somehow disabled his ability to procreate, it's probably a good thing. Unfortunately, he probably already succeeded at least once.
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Re: I Didn't Know That

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 2:01 pm
by bystander
The Real Problem with Driverless Cars
Discover Blogs | 80beats | 2012 Apr 28
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Re: I Didn't Know That

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 7:17 pm
by orin stepanek
bystander wrote:The Real Problem with Driverless Cars
Discover Blogs | 80beats | 2012 Apr 28
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Click to play embedded YouTube video.
Interesting; however, I find that electronics malfunction from time to time> :? For instance I find that my computer loses Internet on occasion; and my cable box has to be reset from time to time. Scary in the least!! :roll:

Re: I Didn't Know That

Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 6:52 am
by Moonlady
bystander wrote:Japanese researchers build a gun capable of stopping speakers in mid-sentence

There have been times I wished I had one of these.
Technically this shouldnt be hard to make stopp people making sound, if not stop making them talk (that would be induced paralysis, scary)

A device that can detect sound from human voice range 60-7000 Hz or and human hearing range 20 Hz-20 kHz has to create and overlay it by its opposite wave character to annihilate the wave...
take a sinusoidal wave with a delayed one, till both sinusoidal waves result a destructive interference...
the disturbing sound/noise should be gone...and the sound is silence....


or...just use earplugs!

Re: I Didn't Know That

Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 2:40 pm
by Beyond
Moonlady wrote:...and the sound is silence....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YSh1-XuUKE

Re: I Didn't Know That

Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 12:58 pm
by Moonlady
Beyond wrote:
Moonlady wrote:...and the sound is silence....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YSh1-XuUKE
I love that song so much

Re: I Didn't Know That

Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 6:12 pm
by Beyond
Moonlady wrote:
Beyond wrote:
Moonlady wrote:...and the sound is silence....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YSh1-XuUKE
I love that song so much
The sound is not only silence, but it is also golden. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyj2qL-bQ4E

Re: I Didn't Know That

Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 10:44 am
by Moonlady
Moonlady wrote:...and the sound is silence....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YSh1-XuUKE[/quote]I love that song so much[/quote]
The sound is not only silence, but it is also golden. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyj2qL-bQ4E[/quote]


Sooo we take the Human-Sound-Mute-Device and choose if we want silence or gold. (The scientific team Tremeloes discovered "Silence is golden")
For silence we can push the Huygens button and with a wave interference, sound is destructed.
For making gold, we draw the human sound (waves) into a box, which is
located under this fabulous machine and we can push the Newton-particle maker button.
Waves turn into particles and a ( not yet explained) transformator makes waves into gold dust.

Re: I Didn't Know That

Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 12:56 pm
by Beyond
WOW, Moonlady. I never realized that the Tremeloes were scientists and alchemists. THANKS :!: :yes:

Re: I Didn't Know That

Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 4:02 pm
by Moonlady
Beyond wrote:WOW, Moonlady. I never realized that the Tremeloes were scientists and alchemists. THANKS :!: :yes:
Oh yes, having a lot of time as alchemists, they had a part-time job as musician... :lol2: :lol2:

Re: I Didn't Know That

Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 3:28 am
by Beyond

Re: I Didn't Know That

Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 3:58 am
by Beyond
Sandwich celebrates the 250th anniversary of the sandwich.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-18010424

Re: I Didn't Know That

Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 4:55 pm
by Ann

Re: I Didn't Know That

Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 7:28 pm
by Beyond
Ha-ha, i almost posted a guy surfing a 78 foot wave yesterday. Glad i didn't, it would have gotten wiped-out by Ann's 90 footer. ::ouch!::

Re: I Didn't Know That

Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 8:33 pm
by Moonlady
Beyond wrote:Maine sets 27 pound lobster free.

http://www.usatoday.com/video/1469897042001?csp=taboola

I am glad for the lobster, the fisherman could have made a lot of money by selling it, but he didnt, yay!

Re: I Didn't Know That

Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 8:47 pm
by Moonlady
I didn't know that... they are quite serious about sub-moon, anti-moon , semitransparent-moon and pseudolites! They think that the flag of United Nations is an evidence
for their assumption. I thought at first that it was meant as a joke. They suggest to use aluminium foil for protection by moonlight :lol2:

http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/foru ... board=20.0

Re: I Didn't Know That

Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 3:31 am
by Ann
The original tin foil hat people, eh? I wonder if they would need any kind of protection against you, Moonlady. You might emit dangerous moonlight, with that name you've got! :shock:

I once read that a Flat Earth woman claimed to have proved that the Earth is flat. Yes, because she had traveled by cruise ship from the United States to Australia, and she had seen that the ocean was flat (only disturbed by waves) the whole time! :shock:

Ann