Carrots do not help people see in the dark.
The story started in world war two when the British were using the radar to shoot down German planes in the night before the Germans could even see them. Germany got curious so as to prevent Germany from finding out about the Radar they let false information get out that the aliied nations were giving their pilots extra carrots to improove night vision.
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Nothing is transparent. When a photon hits a piece of glass, the atoms that make up the glass are excited which leads to a chain reaction that follows the internal structure of the glass. This reaction lasts until it reaches the other side where the last set of atoms emit a new "copy" of the original photon, thus making anything "transparent" more like a projector than anyhting else. An item's tranparency is based on how well it can absorb and emit photons, not how well photons can pass through it. Cuz they don't.
You are a minion to someone, something, or some...oh, look! A squirrel!!
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Productions at weren't so favourable would tend to be blocked from accessing those archives.
that goes with out saying. i wouldnt give a guy $20 dollars if he's gonna use it to buy bullets and shoot me.
The episode of the venture Bro's, where they introduce Jonas (rusty's twin brother) is actually based on a actual condition, where the twin does exist inside the other.
http://www.interestingfacts.org/?page=fact&id=449 [interestingfacts.org]
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Running Anew an exercise blog.
I'm gonna love you till the money comes, half of it's gonna be mine someday.
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The "peace" sign is from witchcraft, It comes from a ritual they do when someone from a "church" upbringing wants to join a coven. The witches get antsy and a little uneasy when someone that wasn't raised in witchcraft wants to join, so they take a cross (usually made out of clay) and make the initiate turn it upside down and break the sides down, to signify the rejection of Christianity. This gives the coven "peace" that the person is 100% into it. That's why the symbol is also referred to as a "broken cross' by witches. So remember this the next time your kid tries to tell you it's just a cool hippie symbol.
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The peace sign was a rune long before it was a crooked Petrine cross. :)
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As a form of recruitment propaganda, films that had the approval of the U.S. military (because they portrayed it in a favourable light), were allowed privileged access to all sorts of footage of military machinery in action.
So you get shit like Fire Birds with Nicholas Cage, and the Iron Eagle series.
Productions at weren't so favourable would tend to be blocked from accessing those archives.
Not quite right. If the soldier/silor/marine screws up he/she has to be shown getting proper diciplinary consequences. (Stripes, Blackhawk Down, Hamburger Hill, Heartbreak Ridge The last treated the SNAFUs of Genada in a realistic and honest manner)
For every stupid positive flag waving military supported film there's another that bothers to get it right. The wartime films are another example of this especially those made outside the USA as the British audiences weren't as easily fooled. (compare the US and British versions of One of Our Aircraft is Missing)
The Iron Eagle series was not supported by the US military. All the aircraft and technical assistance came from the Israeli Air Force. Who didn't care how the USAF was depicted. In Top Gun Maverick gets the consquences of his wreckless actions. It had an intelligent script as far as Navy pilots were concerned. They really are like that. lol!
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bravo1102Well that's the official policy as I've heard it. :)
Not quite right.
Shyeah... The "peace" sign has nothing to do with witchcraft or runes. We know the direct heritage was the Victory sign and before that the insult Where the insult version came from however is up for debate.
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Shyeah... The "peace" sign has nothing to do with witchcraft or runes. We know the direct heritage was the Victory sign and before that the insult Where the insult version came from however is up for debate.
Just like any sign it's history is more complex than that, so you're both right, at different times it has been used by different cultures for different reasons.
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BffSatanNo. I'm right, I usually am. :)
so you're both right
The point wasn't whether the facts happened to have a ring of truth, but about the heredity of the sign. The alternative origin isn't involved in the story of the peace sign we know today ;)
It's like Katanas and rapiers are both swords, but had very different histories even though they're both swords and used for much the same purposes and even if most swords had some common origin. So grafting something of the history of the Katana onto the history of the rapier would be silly.
-Something Humorman would do, since confusion and silliness is his raison d'etre. ;)
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Well if you want to go by direct history then you're both wrong. The peace sign originated from Nixon's use of it, it couldn't have been Churchill, the sign came about long after WW2 and in America, not England. The other theory is that John Lenon and Yoko Ono helped it to cross over into American culture, Yoko Ono is Japaneese and in Japan it is custom to make the sign in photographs. Most likly both theese reasons created the sign, but we can't know for certain, no one actually can proove where it came from, it was just somthing that evolved. One thing is certain however, and that's that Winston Churchill had nothing to do with its invention.
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No Satan, you're not going by a timeline of causation there all you're doing is cherry picking instances in a random order, outside of their contextual relationships and cultural influences and history, therefore your statement is a complete mess :)
I'm well aware of ALL those instances and exactly how they fit together and exactly which came before and influenced which, unlike both you and humorman.
This is because I'm an extremely knowledgeable individual, with excellent talents for looking at history and pop culture as a continuing, evolving organic timeline of ongoing events, not as a series of unconnected instances like most people these days. ;)
I won't connect the instances you mention in the correct order and outline the relationships because I suspect it would do little to change your perception and it would men wasting more time than I've already done with this post. :)
I'm well aware of ALL those instances and exactly how they fit together and exactly which came before and influenced which, unlike both you and humorman.
This is because I'm an extremely knowledgeable individual, with excellent talents for looking at history and pop culture as a continuing, evolving organic timeline of ongoing events, not as a series of unconnected instances like most people these days. ;)
I won't connect the instances you mention in the correct order and outline the relationships because I suspect it would do little to change your perception and it would men wasting more time than I've already done with this post. :)
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I decree this very interesting thread has been silent far too long!
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400 million years ago, Africa was roughly located where Antarctica is today.
The vampire myth emerged from the days of the Bubonic plague where villagers, confused by the decomposition of a number of victims, believed the recently deceased would feed on their death shrouds and spread the sickness to the living. Instead of stakes to the heart, inedible objects were placed in their mouths to stop them.
In Minoan artwork it is rare to find males in fresco, but common to find them in statue form.
The Santa Ana volcano in El Salvidor is only 200 years old.
Including the constellation Ophiuchus, the snake handler, some interpreters determine that there are 13 signs in the Greco-Roman zodiac.
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400 million years ago, Africa was roughly located where Antarctica is today.
The vampire myth emerged from the days of the Bubonic plague where villagers, confused by the decomposition of a number of victims, believed the recently deceased would feed on their death shrouds and spread the sickness to the living. Instead of stakes to the heart, inedible objects were placed in their mouths to stop them.
In Minoan artwork it is rare to find males in fresco, but common to find them in statue form.
The Santa Ana volcano in El Salvidor is only 200 years old.
Including the constellation Ophiuchus, the snake handler, some interpreters determine that there are 13 signs in the Greco-Roman zodiac.
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valesseYep, and all that Elizabeth Bathory and Vlad the Impaler stuff is much made up. They were historical figures and leaders, but not as exotic as the silly vampire, blood etc stuff made them out to be.
The vampire myth emerged from the days of the Bubonic plague where villagers, confused by the decomposition of a number of victims, believed the recently deceased would feed on their death shrouds and spread the sickness to the living. Instead of stakes to the heart, inedible objects were placed in their mouths to stop them.
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Yep, and all that Elizabeth Bathory and Vlad the Impaler stuff is much made up. They were historical figures and leaders, but not as exotic as the silly vampire, blood etc stuff made them out to be.
Often made up during their life-times by their enemies. Though Vlad's nailing of the turbans and the impaling did happen. That was the brutality of the war he fought. He knew his enemy and that terro was an effective weapon.
The concept of Vlad Dracul as a vampire was entirely Bram Stoker's invention.
Elizabeth Bathory was stuck with the smear of bathing in blood that was thrown at nearly every noble woman who aged well. (Athenais; the mistress of Louis XIV, Madame de Pompadour, Catherine the Great, Elizabeth I ...)
Just change the names and keep the smears.
Of course Elizabeth Bathory has a great Hammer film made about her that cemented the whole vampire thing about her (Ingrid Pitt drool). (Vampire Lovers is one of favorite vampire films)
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Albert Enstine one of the worlds smartest men and the man who came up with E=MC^2 was actualy really bad at math
Thats all i got for now
Thats all i got for now
From the shadows of darkness i call upon weapons it destory you all
AND SOMETIMES PIZZAS!
AND SOMETIMES PIZZAS!
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Albert Enstine one of the worlds smartest men and the man who came up with E=MC^2 was actualy really bad at math
Thats all i got for now
Well, that's pretty much incorrect. Einstein was a mathematical prodigy, mastering integral calculus in his early teens. This misconception comes from falsified anecdotes teachers give to discouraged students to help give them confidence in doing better at math.
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I never understood that. A man heralded as the greatest mathematician who ever lived is supposed to be bad at maths? How does that make any sense at all?
Hey buddy, you should be a Russian Cosmonaut, and here's why.
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He failed due to the rote learning style used in his school because of his intuitive undertanding of mathematics. He didn't absorb and vomit back as his teachers expected and like everyone was supposed to.
He was so far ahead of his peers that he did his thought experiments in class and not pay attention to the rote learning.
He was so far ahead of his peers that he did his thought experiments in class and not pay attention to the rote learning.
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A good breakdown of how the "Einstein failed math" myth contiues:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2004/06/23/1115185.htm [abc.net.au]
The myth also continues because he did rely on his friend Marcel Grossmann (and probably others) to go over his math to make sure he wasn't making any mistakes. But that's the case with pretty much any mathematician/scientist.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2004/06/23/1115185.htm [abc.net.au]
The myth also continues because he did rely on his friend Marcel Grossmann (and probably others) to go over his math to make sure he wasn't making any mistakes. But that's the case with pretty much any mathematician/scientist.
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Darwin never recanted his theory of evolution, no matter how badly some people want this to be true.
Darwin never stated his theory of evolution was a fact, no matter how badly some people want this to be true.
Hyenas are only laughing on the outside...they're really depressed and on the verge of suicide daily*
*not really
Darwin never stated his theory of evolution was a fact, no matter how badly some people want this to be true.
Hyenas are only laughing on the outside...they're really depressed and on the verge of suicide daily*
*not really
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Moderatio est Figmentum: Educatio est Omnium Efficacissima Forma Rebellionis
http://weblog.xanga.com/CroiDhubh - Home to the "Chuck E. Cheese Terror" stories
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Can openers were invented almost a century after canned food became common.
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Dolly Parton wears high heeled shoes in the shower. She had special rubber ones made so she can do that.
I'm not sure why... something about her calf muscles? I dunno.
Well, 20 years ago that would've been pretty hot... -_-
I'm not sure why... something about her calf muscles? I dunno.
Well, 20 years ago that would've been pretty hot... -_-
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Funny laws:
In Iceland, men used to be able to practice medicine without a diploma or any other noticeable qualifications as long as they clearly titled themselves as "skottulæknir" meaning quack.
It used to be legal to kill Turks in Iceland. This law was passed after the country suffered repeated attacks by Algerian pirates but misunderstandings caused the locals to believe they were Turks.
In Iceland, men used to be able to practice medicine without a diploma or any other noticeable qualifications as long as they clearly titled themselves as "skottulæknir" meaning quack.
It used to be legal to kill Turks in Iceland. This law was passed after the country suffered repeated attacks by Algerian pirates but misunderstandings caused the locals to believe they were Turks.
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Iceland suffered from raiders? Ha! What goes around comes around :)
Interesting fact:
As humans judge these matters, Ravens are probably the most "intelligent" non human animal that we have discovered. They're capable of reasoning, making tools, planning, cooperation et.
The tool making skills, as recently observed in a few studies, far exceed that observed by apes. And of course dolphins have never fully lived up to the massive brain idea...
Interesting fact:
As humans judge these matters, Ravens are probably the most "intelligent" non human animal that we have discovered. They're capable of reasoning, making tools, planning, cooperation et.
The tool making skills, as recently observed in a few studies, far exceed that observed by apes. And of course dolphins have never fully lived up to the massive brain idea...
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Iceland suffered from raiders? Ha! What goes around comes around :)
Eh. By the time they finally showed up, Denmark had already taken everything of value from the country. The only thing they ended up being able to steal was some food and people to sell as slaves. The Danish king did launch a campaign to buy these people back and they did manage to rescue few of them. A woman who was rescued had her story chronicled. I don't know if it's ever been translated but she was called Tyrkja-Gudda. [en.wikipedia.org]
Oh and I agree with the ravens. Those critters are scary smart. The dolphins however do deserve some credit. The biggest inhibitor they face when it comes to using tools is their lack of usable limbs. They're capable of learning to use tools custom made for them by humans and have been trained to do all kinds of complicated task. They are also one of few animals who can learn to recognize themselves in a mirror.
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Product PlacementWell they might not have the grasping feet off a raven, but ravens mostly use their beaks anyway, and those birdies can recognise themselves in a mirror too. I'd say they leave the dolphins in the shallows. :)
The dolphins however do deserve some credit. The biggest inhibitor they face when it comes to using tools is their lack of usable limbs. They're capable of learning to use tools custom made for them by humans and have been trained to do all kinds of complicated task. They are also one of few animals who can learn to recognize themselves in a mirror.
-Training doesn't really count too much in these stakes unfortunately though since anything can be trained. :(
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I still say that it's easier for the ravens to use their beaks then it is for the dolphins to use their snouts. Ravens have a much more maneuverable neck, for example.
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lol!
You see the flaw in the human idea of animal "intelligence" then? ;)
What's easier to use than a beak or a snout...? --> hands!
Makes it pretty easy for us to be superior, and if you then add on a handicap for apes (for their crude hands) then they'd only rate as high as a mouse or something. :P
You see the flaw in the human idea of animal "intelligence" then? ;)
What's easier to use than a beak or a snout...? --> hands!
Makes it pretty easy for us to be superior, and if you then add on a handicap for apes (for their crude hands) then they'd only rate as high as a mouse or something. :P
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Well.. essentially there are 3 things that granted us dominance over other animals. Our ability to manipulate objects (hands), our capability to devise complex plans (language) and our intellect to put those other two abilities to good use. It's a holy trifecta.
Octopuses are supposed to be pretty smart as well.
Octopuses are supposed to be pretty smart as well.
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Yeah, it's all just a teeny bit silly and subjective on our part really. If you examine it ;)
But as things go, Ravens are currently at the top of the list currently. :)
currently........
But as things go, Ravens are currently at the top of the list currently. :)
currently........
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