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    George K
    wrote on 4 May 2022, 14:54 last edited by
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    Human for scale: USS Gerald Ford in dry dock.

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    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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      4 May 2022, 14:54

      Human for scale: USS Gerald Ford in dry dock.

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      mark
      wrote on 4 May 2022, 15:00 last edited by
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      @George-K That's a pretty big boat!

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        wrote on 5 May 2022, 21:54 last edited by
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        Posted on FB with the description:

        Russian photographer Andrey Pavlov has taken one of the most impressive macro photos of ants you will ever see.

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          Klaus
          wrote on 5 May 2022, 22:48 last edited by
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          That photo is almost too good to be real.

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            Aqua Letifer
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            Please love yourself.

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              3 May 2022, 23:25

              @Horace said in Mildly interesting:

              It would be nice to imagine the vomit force being due to a rifling action of the neck, but alas, it's just boring ol' gravity.

              As someone who, presumably, has never had someone literally vomit into your (unmasked) face*, you have no standing to comment in this thread, @Horace.

              *1993, Sunday afternoon, ICU. Yeah, that was more than special.

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              LuFins Dad
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              @George-K said in Mildly interesting:

              @Horace said in Mildly interesting:

              It would be nice to imagine the vomit force being due to a rifling action of the neck, but alas, it's just boring ol' gravity.

              As someone who, presumably, has never had someone literally vomit into your (unmasked) face*, you have no standing to comment in this thread, @Horace.

              *1993, Sunday afternoon, ICU. Yeah, that was more than special.

              So I do have standing? Yay me…

              The Brad

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                Ivorythumper
                wrote on 9 May 2022, 20:22 last edited by
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                Eggs from different breeds of chicken, natural colors of eggshell.
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                  9 May 2022, 20:22

                  Eggs from different breeds of chicken, natural colors of eggshell.
                  eggshell.jpg

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                  George K
                  wrote on 9 May 2022, 21:38 last edited by
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                  @Ivorythumper and they all taste the same, right?

                  "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                  The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                    9 May 2022, 21:38

                    @Ivorythumper and they all taste the same, right?

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                    Ivorythumper
                    wrote on 9 May 2022, 21:43 last edited by
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                    @George-K No idea!

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                    • I Ivorythumper
                      25 Jan 2022, 18:40

                      @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

                      A “petroglyph” (new word to me) from 8000BC.

                      8419FFFF-4166-41FE-8F5C-A7A0EDAA9E04.jpeg

                      As interesting, if not more, is Göbekli Tepe, which has archeologists stumped.

                      It is a fully formed neolithic temple, which somewhat predates any stone founded city, and has no indication of the sort of human habitation needed to organize, build, and service a temple cultus. It seems to have been built by hunter-gathers (pre village, pre agrarian), who yet had 3 dimensional plastic art form of animals carved out of stone, rather than petroglyphs which were carved into stone.

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                      10,000 year old art -- for reference these are more than twice as old as the Pyramids at Giza.

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                      Ivorythumper
                      wrote on 11 May 2022, 01:28 last edited by Ivorythumper 5 Nov 2022, 01:30
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                      @Ivorythumper said in Mildly interesting:

                      @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

                      A “petroglyph” (new word to me) from 8000BC.

                      8419FFFF-4166-41FE-8F5C-A7A0EDAA9E04.jpeg

                      As interesting, if not more, is Göbekli Tepe, which has archeologists stumped.

                      It is a fully formed neolithic temple, which somewhat predates any stone founded city, and has no indication of the sort of human habitation needed to organize, build, and service a temple cultus. It seems to have been built by hunter-gathers (pre village, pre agrarian), who yet had 3 dimensional plastic art form of animals carved out of stone, rather than petroglyphs which were carved into stone.

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                      10,000 year old art -- for reference these are more than twice as old as the Pyramids at Giza.

                      Just following this thread... I've been interested in Gobekli Tepe for about 20 years now. Within the past two years, a much larger and much older temple site (1000 or 2000 years earlier) has been uncovered about 30 miles away:

                      Karahan Tepe

                      This gentleman holding his gentlemanly tool has been covered since about 10,000 BC Sayburc Man c. 11000 BC.jpeg

                      This is "Temple of the Penises" is the oldest know piece of architecture. Karahan Tepe c.10000 BC istock.jpeg

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                        George K
                        wrote on 11 May 2022, 11:56 last edited by
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                        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                          jon-nyc
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                          Only non-witches get due process.

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                            jon-nyc
                            wrote on 16 May 2022, 11:09 last edited by
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                            Trivia: take a deck of cards and give it a good shuffle. You are pretty much guaranteed to have produced an ordering of the cards unique in human history.

                            Like if 8 billion people shuffled cards once a second for a billion years, the number of card orderings would be 1/(42-digit number) of the total possible.

                            Only non-witches get due process.

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                              16 May 2022, 11:09

                              Trivia: take a deck of cards and give it a good shuffle. You are pretty much guaranteed to have produced an ordering of the cards unique in human history.

                              Like if 8 billion people shuffled cards once a second for a billion years, the number of card orderings would be 1/(42-digit number) of the total possible.

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                              Klaus
                              wrote on 16 May 2022, 11:35 last edited by
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                              @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

                              Trivia: take a deck of cards and give it a good shuffle. You are pretty much guaranteed to have produced an ordering of the cards unique in human history.

                              Like if 8 billion people shuffled cards once a second for a billion years, the number of card orderings would be 1/(42-digit number) of the total possible.

                              On the other hand, given enough time, a monkey hammering away randomly on a typewriter would produce Homer's Odyssey eventually.

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                                16 May 2022, 11:35

                                @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

                                Trivia: take a deck of cards and give it a good shuffle. You are pretty much guaranteed to have produced an ordering of the cards unique in human history.

                                Like if 8 billion people shuffled cards once a second for a billion years, the number of card orderings would be 1/(42-digit number) of the total possible.

                                On the other hand, given enough time, a monkey hammering away randomly on a typewriter would produce Homer's Odyssey eventually.

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                                jon-nyc
                                wrote on 16 May 2022, 11:55 last edited by
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                                @Klaus said in Mildly interesting:

                                On the other hand, given enough time, a monkey hammering away randomly on a typewriter would produce Homer's Odyssey eventually.

                                Before he got it right, he would miss it by just a few letters many billions of times.

                                Only non-witches get due process.

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                                  16 May 2022, 11:35

                                  @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

                                  Trivia: take a deck of cards and give it a good shuffle. You are pretty much guaranteed to have produced an ordering of the cards unique in human history.

                                  Like if 8 billion people shuffled cards once a second for a billion years, the number of card orderings would be 1/(42-digit number) of the total possible.

                                  On the other hand, given enough time, a monkey hammering away randomly on a typewriter would produce Homer's Odyssey eventually.

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                                  Catseye3
                                  wrote on 16 May 2022, 12:24 last edited by
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                                  @Klaus A Bob Newhart sketch.

                                  A roomful of monkeys, each sitting at a desk and banging away on a typewriter. Men in white coats wandering the aisles, observing. One of them stops, stares, and cries, "Jim! Jim! Get over here, quick!" The other man joins the first, who points to what the monkey had typed: "To be or not to be, that is the geframenplatz."

                                  Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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                                    2 Apr 2022, 23:39

                                    TON 618 must be the stone God created when He was asked to create a stone He cannot lift.

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                                    Axtremus
                                    wrote on 16 May 2022, 12:48 last edited by
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                                    @Klaus said in Mildly interesting:

                                    TON 618 must be the stone God created when He was asked to create a stone He cannot lift.

                                    Define “lift” when the object you’re supposed to “lift” is the dominant gravitational attractor.

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                                      Copper
                                      wrote on 17 May 2022, 13:56 last edited by
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                                      A lot of this is true
                                      I don't care if it is all true, it is still interesting

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                                      Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.

                                      John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

                                      Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.

                                      John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

                                      Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.

                                      Both wives lost a child while living in the White House.

                                      Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.

                                      Both Presidents were shot in the head.

                                      Now it gets really weird.

                                      Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.

                                      Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln.

                                      Both were assassinated by Southerners.

                                      Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.

                                      Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.

                                      Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

                                      John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.

                                      Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.

                                      Both assassins were known by their three names.

                                      Both names are composed of fifteen letters.

                                      Now hang on to your seat.

                                      Lincoln was shot at the theater named "Ford."

                                      Kennedy was shot in a car called "Lincoln" made by "Ford."

                                      Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.

                                      And here's the "kicker":

                                      A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.

                                      A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.

                                      AND...................:

                                      Lincoln was shot in a theater and the assassin ran to a warehouse...

                                      Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and the assassin ran to a theater...

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                                        Catseye3
                                        wrote on 17 May 2022, 22:13 last edited by
                                        #340

                                        The Wonder and Tastykake food companies are supporters of USO. Between 2018 and 2022, they will have donated up to $1.8 billion to that organization.

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                                          17 May 2022, 13:56

                                          A lot of this is true
                                          I don't care if it is all true, it is still interesting

                                          061d7373-9606-4886-92f9-c128412b355f-image.png

                                          Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.

                                          John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

                                          Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.

                                          John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

                                          Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.

                                          Both wives lost a child while living in the White House.

                                          Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.

                                          Both Presidents were shot in the head.

                                          Now it gets really weird.

                                          Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.

                                          Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln.

                                          Both were assassinated by Southerners.

                                          Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.

                                          Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.

                                          Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

                                          John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.

                                          Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.

                                          Both assassins were known by their three names.

                                          Both names are composed of fifteen letters.

                                          Now hang on to your seat.

                                          Lincoln was shot at the theater named "Ford."

                                          Kennedy was shot in a car called "Lincoln" made by "Ford."

                                          Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.

                                          And here's the "kicker":

                                          A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.

                                          A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.

                                          AND...................:

                                          Lincoln was shot in a theater and the assassin ran to a warehouse...

                                          Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and the assassin ran to a theater...

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                                          George K
                                          wrote on 17 May 2022, 22:14 last edited by
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                                          A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.

                                          A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.

                                          Bears repeating.

                                          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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