Mildly interesting

[89th]

The stupid moa bird went extinct for two clear reasons:

1. It was flightless.
2. It did not believe in cinder block magic. @Horace amirite

[Horace]

Yep. People call me alarmist when I warn of the existential risk of not believing in cinder block magic. But the sad tale of the Moa species should be a reminder to us all.

[89th]

No kidding. The other day some kid made a comment doubting cinder block magic, and I was like "Bro, you're about to go the way of the moa!"

[Loki]

@Horace said in Mildly interesting:

Yep. People call me alarmist when I warn of the existential risk of not believing in cinder block magic. But the sad tale of the Moa species should be a reminder to us all.

Close but no cigar. The Moa bird went extinct because Christopher Columbus’s brother sailed a different route and made it much further. Thanksgiving looked very different in New Zealand.

[Mik]

@Loki said in Mildly interesting:

@Horace said in Mildly interesting:

Yep. People call me alarmist when I warn of the existential risk of not believing in cinder block magic. But the sad tale of the Moa species should be a reminder to us all.

Close but no cigar. The Moa bird went extinct because Christopher Columbus’s brother sailed a different route and made it much further. Thanksgiving looked very different in New Zealand.

It was actually the inspiration for Dickens' Oliver Twist. "Please sir, may I have some Moa?"

[jon-nyc]

[Catseye3]

@Mik said in Mildly interesting:

It was actually the inspiration for Dickens' Oliver Twist. "Please sir, may I have some Moa?"

[jon-nyc]

[89th]

Lol baby elephants are so dumb.

[Horace]

Seriously. Just makes me want to punch them in the face they're so dumb.

[Copper]

Dumb?

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

In a pinch.

[jon-nyc]

[Horace]

Difficult to say how particularly special that is.

[George K]

https://gizmodo.com/the-mathematical-explanation-for-why-you-cant-catch-a-f-1776551693

[Rainman]

@George-K

OK, everyone check out George's link, and see if you can catch a dollar bill.
I could. Every time.
And I think anyone that plays piano reasonably well, can do the same.
That's my hypothesis. Eye/hand coordination is developed to be much faster for pianists.

I used to piss off our cat because I could smack his paw faster than he could try to dig his claws into me. It always started out as a game, but he would get mad after losing over and over. He'd finally hiss, and run away, with me giggling like a little kid. Everyone now needs to go find their cat. If you don't have a cat, just walk down the street calling "kitty-kitty." Cats may be slower so that everyone can play that game and win. Not sure.

[Horace]

I couldn't catch the dollar but when it was increased to 20, I caught it every time. As they say, every man has his price.

[George K]

@Rainman said in Mildly interesting:

I used to piss off our cat because I could smack his paw faster than he could try to dig his claws into me.

Def the post of the day.

[taiwan_girl]

Thought this was "mildly interesting"

-QUOTE-
When the Great Plague of London ravaged through the British city beginning in 1665, Issac Newton was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge. As described in Gale Christianson's Isaac Newton, a few months after acquiring his undergraduate degree in the spring of that year, the 23-year-old retreated to his family farm of Woolsthorpe Manor, some 60 miles northwest of Cambridge. Along with being located a safe distance from the carriers of the horrific disease that was wiping out the population of the city, Woolsthorpe provided the sort of quiet, serene environment that allowed a mind like Newton's to journey, uninterrupted, to the farthest reaches of the imagination. This period is now known as annus mirabilis – the "year of wonders."
-UNQUOTE-

Newton quarantined during pandemic

So, good things can happen during a "stay at home" 555555