Mildly interesting
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If you had a big enough needle and could drag it through the Mariana Trench it would play ‘Paul Is Dead’.
wrote on 26 Jun 2020, 11:22 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
If you had a big enough needle and could drag it through the Mariana Trench it would play ‘Paul Is Dead’.
Only if you did it backwards.
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topic:timeago-later,about a month
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wrote on 28 Jul 2020, 02:17 last edited by
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wrote on 28 Jul 2020, 02:24 last edited by
@jon-nyc Very cool!!! Why does that happen?
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wrote on 28 Jul 2020, 02:26 last edited by xenon
I'm guessing because the bricks are not allowed to fall "all the way" until the last one. And that little bit is the difference between them falling all the way down vs. catching the edge ever so slightly.
V. cool. Must have been super tedious to set up (probably some sort of spacer.
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wrote on 28 Jul 2020, 02:32 last edited by
I'm guessing cinder block magic, but Xenon's guess is also valid. You just need to live your own truth when you decide who is correct.
#LivedExperienceOfCinderBlockMagic
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I'm guessing because the bricks are not allowed to fall "all the way" until the last one. And that little bit is the difference between them falling all the way down vs. catching the edge ever so slightly.
V. cool. Must have been super tedious to set up (probably some sort of spacer.
wrote on 28 Jul 2020, 02:33 last edited by@xenon When the second to last one falls, it makes sense that the space between that one and the last one is a little bit more than the space between all of the previous ones. But what makes that second to last one "jump" forward just a little bit? Would like to see this in slow motion. LOL
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wrote on 28 Jul 2020, 02:37 last edited by
I pride myself on knowing what was going to happen before it did.
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wrote on 28 Jul 2020, 02:41 last edited by
I have yet to see any scientific proof that it wasn't cinderblock magic.
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wrote on 28 Jul 2020, 13:42 last edited by
@George-K Aaaaah!!! Thanks George!!!
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wrote on 28 Jul 2020, 13:46 last edited by
People are coming up with so many ingenious ways to entertain themselves during quarantine, I can't imagine that we don't have the ingenuity to fix the mess.
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wrote on 28 Jul 2020, 14:09 last edited by
Now children everywhere will grow up not believing in cinder block magic. Great job George.
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Now children everywhere will grow up not believing in cinder block magic. Great job George.
wrote on 28 Jul 2020, 21:02 last edited by@Horace said in Mildly interesting:
Now children everywhere will grow up not believing in cinder block magic. Great job George.
I keep hearing that as "cinder block magic woman" in my head
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@Horace said in Mildly interesting:
Now children everywhere will grow up not believing in cinder block magic. Great job George.
I keep hearing that as "cinder block magic woman" in my head
wrote on 29 Jul 2020, 01:37 last edited by@xenon said in Mildly interesting:
@Horace said in Mildly interesting:
Now children everywhere will grow up not believing in cinder block magic. Great job George.
I keep hearing that as "cinder block magic woman" in my head
Side story: I knew a girl in Taiwan who worked in a pub. She was a mountain person (native tribe to Taiwan) who had darker skin, who really liked that song (Black Magic Woman).
Anyway, I saw today that the guy who wrote that song just died. And his group (Fleetwood Mac) did not make it famous. It was famous by somebody else.
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wrote on 29 Jul 2020, 13:53 last edited by
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.
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wrote on 29 Jul 2020, 13:58 last edited by
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!"
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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.
wrote on 29 Jul 2020, 14:00 last edited by@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.
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@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.
wrote on 29 Jul 2020, 14:21 last edited by@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?"
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
