If you took a horse's large intestine and stretched it out end-to-end, the horse would not survive.

jokes aside, the vastness of space is incomprehensible https://www.joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

I have one related, the diameter of the moon is smaller than Australia.

If every human held hand in a straight line around the earth a lot of them would drown

I’m going to go out on a limb and say all of them would die for one reason or another.

Also, my first experience with the internet back in 1994 was a page of elephant jokes, I feel I’ve come full circle now.

There are more hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are stars in the entire solar system

Did you know that if you took a blue whale, the largest mammal on earth, and laid it end to end, tail to mouth, on a basketball court, the game would be cancelled?

Every sixty seconds in Africa, a minute passes

It's hard to imagine any of them would live. I guess one near the top might survive by using the flood of elephant pieces to slow their fall. But an elephant can't survive a ~10 foot fall. That's about 2 elephants tall, and the bottom two or the ones I am most confident are dying in this.

Wouldn't you say that they'll all die? Some from lack of air and some from the weight of a gazillion other elephants on top of them

Mozart had a sister who was also a genius composer, but was forced to quit her training to be more "marriageable."

Mozart was also a completely ungovernable furry with ADHD. He was a child genius, but that meant he was sitting in opera rehearsals as a bored teenager.

And when he’d get bored, he’d start finding ways to entertain himself. This included doing things like playing “the floor is lava” while using the orchestra members as platforms, and prancing around while loudly meowing.

And all of them basically put up with it, the same way that modern tour managers put up with annoying frontmen in popular bands.

i am now mad that this wasn't included in the movie

It's probably not this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leck_mir_den_Arsch_fein_recht_sch%C3%B6n_sauber

Mozart also invented a system that used dice to randomly generate music. My unverifiable theory is that he continued refining the system and it got so good that he used it to compose all his greatest hits and stopped telling anybody about his random music generator.

Pet is french for fart, and Mozart had a fart fetish. It also rhymes.

What if I replace most of my organs with younger ones? If a billionaire gets a whole body transplant, does that also de-age his brain?

Another example of things lasting far longer than people think is more years passed between the Stegosaurus and the T Rex than the T Rex to today.

Ancient Egyptians had higher education programs, almost like us and universities. One "major" was the equivalent to what would be archeology. As in, there were ancient egyptologists who studied an even more ancient Egypt.

They had archeologists, kind of wild when you think about it.

Brb drugging my family with anti nausea medicine

So, more than the 1 star in our solar system? Did you type that right?

Hey! Same for Rush's YYZ. The morse code for Y-Y-Z (the airport code for the Toronto airport where the band no doubt spent a lot of time) is --.- --.- --.. which is a rhythmic motif that appears a bunch in the song in some ungodly meter I don't care to look up right now.

Practical use? None I can think of. But I love learning this. Thank you.

It may not have that much of ause, but that's exactly why we consider Music to be Art.

Ok that's pretty genius.

But I liked all of the drugs.

Lol yeah its called self medicating

I have ADHD and I trend to get into a comfortabele alcohol Buzz every evening because it shows down the train of emotions. Amphetamines don't really feel good, nor do other drugs. I hate speed and weed.

People who are addicted to alcohol, without exception, have an underlying anxiety disorder.

People with ADHD and similar brain functioning tend to choose amphetamines.

I feel attacked…

OK but you basically just did the mood axis what do the THC, opiate, dissociative anesthetic, and hallucinogenic users have?

Is this related to the cravings for certain food?

We should pass a funny law that requires all humanoid robots to grunt as they move.

I've really enjoyed this fact, thank you!!

Muscles can be either voluntary (choosing to lift a chair) or involuntary (a beating heart) as well.

Along these lines: a major league baseball batter must predict where the ball will be before it leaves the pitcher's hand. There is literally not enough time for the neural signal to get from the eyes to the brain, be processed and then an impulse sent to the arm muscles to swing the bat in the time it takes for the ball to travel to home plate at 95mph.

I thought there were four Beatles.

The barrels smallest diametral dimension has to smaller than the bullet, otherwise the rifling wouldn't engage.

Is that what the 0.350" are referring to?

It's also kinda funny how the most common rifle rounds are smaller calibre than 9mm, so if you ignore all the other metrics, most handguns shoot "bigger" bullets than most rifles.

Also we literally can trace, at least with some pyramids, people who built them. They weren't slaves, they were masons and craftspeople and levied labor - and from graffiti we've found, it was considered a pretty great honor to work on one. Even just from a religious angle, do you want heathens who you've forced into slavery to build your vehicle for ascension into the afterlife?

Strawberries are not berries.

Surely Watermelons are larger than pumpkins? Can they tie for first? Or is the largest pumpkin ever bigger than the largest watermelon?

Pythagoras advised followers to “abstain from beans because they are flatulent and partake most of the breath of life; and besides, it is better for the stomach if they are not taken, and this again will make our dreams in sleep smooth and untroubled” (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, 8.1.24).

Later, in a passage insinuating that the problem with the beans potentially resided in mystic ritual purification issues, Diogenes Laertius wrote that Pythagoras called for, “abstaining from meat and flesh of animals that have died, mullets, gurnards, eggs and egg‑sprung animals, beans, and the other abstinences prescribed by those who perform mystic rites in the temples” (Lives of Eminent Philosophers, 8.1.33).

Finally, in terms of potential symbolic reasons for the bean ban, Diogenes wrote, “According to Aristotle in his work On the Pythagoreans, Pythagoras counselled abstinence from beans either because they are like the genitals, or because they are like the gates of Hades . . . as being alone unjointed, or because they are injurious, or because they are like the form of the universe, or because they belong to oligarchy, since they are used in election by lot” (Lives of Eminent Philosophers, 8.1.34).

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This is "God Impregnated me" level unhinged, but with lower stakes. I infer he may have farted once with an attractive partner and it scarred him.

To be fair we can't see other planets outside the solar system too well.

I don't know. I can think of some space probes that were pretty fuckin' fire.

Do stars not count as fire?

False! The Russians caught Mir on fire at least once. So fire has also been seen in low Earth orbit.

The Appalachian Mountains are 2-3x older than sharks.

I read that as "Sauron"'s rings. 🙃

Sharks are older than trees.

Significantly more aluminum, calcium, titanium, magnesium, and silicon. My understanding is that a large percentage of the moon was the earth's former crust.

I had this idea for a sci-fi short story that involved a long-lived alien that has been watching the earth since the solar system formed. It finally decides to speak to humanity and starts telling the story about how the earth formed from the collision of two bodies, and the humans are all "yeah yeah we know. Here's a movie we made of it" and the alien is all "WTF? How do they know that?"

Not with that attitude

But you can beat one long after it dies

Arthur has a bottle of horse reviver that would beg to differ.

Hell I can't

Piss comes from blood!

Tell that to my body. Fluid goes in, fluid comes out. Explain that.

That picture of mushroom ketchup is vile.

And in the Philipines, ketchup refers to a banana ketchup, not a tomato ketchup.

Thank you. This sounds like the kind of useless knowledge I can use.

It also took a long time for tomato ketchup sales to take off because it was very difficult to make shelf stable for transporting and selling in stores. Heinz was the first company to make one that sold well. Before that, tomato ketchup was typically made at home if you wanted something vaguely decent.

700 Thespians who did not have some macho ridiculous warrior creed

Such drama queens.

That's fast! They must take their supplements!

Found James Iry

https://youtu.be/H0Ek86IH-3Y

Ok, but why then when you open a bottle of bleach or container of chlorine pellets, does it smell like chlorine. Do they add the piss ahead of time?

My eyes are blue and I have to almost shut my eyes in bright sunlight.

Depends on what you mean by that. The creator's last name was German. So really, they are German. Just not the way you are thinking.

It's the same with Ceasar salad. It's not the Caesar you are thinking of, but it is still Ceasar. The guy Ceasar from Mexico.

Häagen-Dazs ice cream is from the Bronx, New York.

Sind sie Deutsch?

Reading The Sparrow. There is a discussion between characters (one is a priest) about celibacy. He quips:

"When asking 400 honest priests if they still partake in self pleasure, 398 will say yes."

"What of the other two?"

"Elementary Watson. Clearly we can deduce they have no hands."

a baby's mission is to put pretty much everything they can into their mouth. we have trained long and hard to be able to make those predictions!

This only seems magical because you forgot your infantile experiences in doing just those things.

I bet you know what it would feel like to bite into a wooden desk.

Wait but this is useful.

Sure, for people who work 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year. Ugh that sounds exhausting.

UPDATE: the wiki has been updated! “However, a 2024 paper by RJ Graham et al. argues that silicate weathering is far less temperature-dependent than initially thought, and that falling carbon dioxide levels are unlikely to lead to the death of life on Earth” yay!

I learned Calculus from one of them.

Closer? It's standing right behind me isn't it?

Are we assuming sound is traveling through space as if it were air?

If it were like sound through water it would be even louder.

It's actually an even greater level of abstraction: we feel the rate of heat flow through our skin. This is (kind-of) why plastic feels warmer than metal. Colder things don't feel colder because they are colder. Colder things feel colder because they more efficiently sap heat from our skin. Wet things feel colder because water and other highly conductive fluids which have wet the skin (and are thus in direct contact with it) are much more efficient in removing heat, thus feeling colder. This is the twofold reason why oil doesn't feel as cold as water: it has significantly worse heat conductivity, and it doesn't readily evaporate (as evaporation is a highly endothermic process, sapping heat even more efficiently than a conductive liquid on its own.)

I feel like that's like "you can't see or touch the world or experience time, your eyeballs and molecules that never touch anything are just affected by magnetic and gravitational waves and translate that to feeling and experiencing those things"

Like I guess it's technically true in that perspective, but effectively false

Further knowledge about Mechwarrior 2: 31st century combat:

At various stages in the campaigns, you'll face off against Elementals, escort a Tarantula, and fight a Battlemaster. Through cheat codes, you can add these to the mech lab and play in them in the "Trial of Grievance" free play mode. The Elemental works fine, it functions as a tiny mech, the Tarantula works mostly correctly, but it isn't 4-legged. It looks like it is but the front two legs are legally arms, they can be blown off and it works fine. Trying to select the Battlemaster in the mech lab will immediately crash the game.

Cheat codes for Mechwarrior 2 were the very, very first thing I searched the internet for.

Probably more difficult if you have pets

I don't know. Sounds kind of useful to me.

That's.... An odd choice but okay lol

And the moon drifting away is stealing some of our rotational energy, making the days longer.

We're also lucky to be on this planet during the time the sun and moon's apparent sizes match. Being able to see a total solar eclipse where you can see immediately around the sun without needing a spaceship might be incredibly rare in the universe. Though total solar eclipses in general are pretty common, assuming our gas giants' accumulation of moons is typical for giant planets, they'd happen any time the moon passed through the giant's shadow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_tide

Whelp… yet another thing to add to my never have again list.

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What a lovely name. It means "of the forest".

Annoyingly, they can possess disease-causing genetic mutations which only appear in specific parts of the body, too. Making them harder to spot in genetic testing.

I think Spice and Wolf paints a pretty good depiction of the market (and world) of the early middle age' europe.

Man, spends his whole life starving to death.

There is also decarcinization for when a crab loses its crab body plan and becomes something else

Glass is made of silica. So, nah.

Past tense of a noun phrase 🤔

I think that's also anold school orthopedic test when done gently for compression?

Does it injure the thumb if you do this? I can't give myself another rock climbing injury

And yet, if I show you various things, you'll be able to tell me if they are a vegetable or not. Vegetables are a social construct, not a biological construct. But that's OK. Money is also a social construct.

Shapes don't exist because actually they are all squares, circles, triangles, etc.

::: spoiler spoiler Shapes & vegetables both exist. Provide your definition of Vegetable & source if you actually want to push this issue. :::

Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is technically a fruit.

Wisdom is knowing not to put tomatoes in Fruit Salad

They don't like people who question things in military anyway. Probably a reason too, why Autism and ADHD are reason for exemption (in Switzerland at least).

And according to some weirdos on the internet who apparently know some concerning things from experience, human meat tastes the same as pig meat. Tastes like Pork. But now I'm curious why pork & ham & bacon are three distinctly different tastes & textures if they all come from pig.

Not with that attitude.

Yes you can

do it now...