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Of the top 20 cities by population I have only been to NY.
And for some reason I don't care if I never see the other 19.
Cairo or Istanbul might be interesting.
That makes me wonder how many of the 20 have been featured in a James Bond film.
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wrote on 25 Dec 2022, 20:06 last edited by
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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
We have a less picturesque version of that, burning since you were in middle school.
Have you been there?
I have.
Probably the closest you can get to what Hell smells like.
When I was there, there was a decent layer of snow on the ground. ...Except for the patches where the sulfur was heating up the ground, which was about half the town. That was bare.
wrote on 25 Dec 2022, 22:05 last edited by@Aqua-Letifer said in Mildly interesting:
@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
We have a less picturesque version of that, burning since you were in middle school.
Have you been there?
I have.
Probably the closest you can get to what Hell smells like.
You should try visiting Widnes.
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Idiot, imbecile, and moron were, not so long ago, used in a psychological classification system, and each one was assigned to a fairly specific range of abilities.
Idiots. —Those so defective that the mental development never exceeds that or a normal child of about two years.
Imbeciles. —Those whose development is higher than that of an idiot, but whose intelligence does not exceed that of a normal child of about seven years.
Morons. —Those whose mental development is above that of an imbecile, but does not exceed that of a normal child of about twelve years.
— Edmund Burke Huey, Backward and Feeble-Minded Children, 1912wrote on 26 Dec 2022, 05:23 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
Idiot, imbecile, and moron were, not so long ago, used in a psychological classification system, and each one was assigned to a fairly specific range of abilities.
Idiots. —Those so defective that the mental development never exceeds that or a normal child of about two years.
Imbeciles. —Those whose development is higher than that of an idiot, but whose intelligence does not exceed that of a normal child of about seven years.
Morons. —Those whose mental development is above that of an imbecile, but does not exceed that of a normal child of about twelve years.
— Edmund Burke Huey, Backward and Feeble-Minded Children, 1912If only Larry were alive to make a comment about liberals...
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wrote on 27 Dec 2022, 20:16 last edited by
photo captures a rare sight of Hawaii’s 65-foot-tall Lava Dome
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After the Big Bang there were all these hydrogen atoms everywhere and 13.8 billion years later some of them are majestic nebulas and others have turned into Cheez-Its.
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After the Big Bang there were all these hydrogen atoms everywhere and 13.8 billion years later some of them are majestic nebulas and others have turned into Cheez-Its.
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After the Big Bang there were all these hydrogen atoms everywhere and 13.8 billion years later some of them are majestic nebulas and others have turned into Cheez-Its.
wrote on 28 Dec 2022, 06:13 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
After the Big Bang there were all these hydrogen atoms everywhere and 13.8 billion years later some of them are majestic nebulas and others have turned into Cheez-Its.
If you don't think Cheez-Its are magnificent then I can't help you with anything.
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wrote on 28 Dec 2022, 09:39 last edited by mark
Elusive glass octopus spotted in the remote Pacific Ocean
Only its eyes, optic nerve and digestive tract are opaque.
This rarely seen glass octopus bared all recently — even a view of its innards — when an underwater robot filmed it gracefully soaring through the deep waters of the Central Pacific Ocean.
More details/photos https://bit.ly/3C0rFdc
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Elusive glass octopus spotted in the remote Pacific Ocean
Only its eyes, optic nerve and digestive tract are opaque.
This rarely seen glass octopus bared all recently — even a view of its innards — when an underwater robot filmed it gracefully soaring through the deep waters of the Central Pacific Ocean.
More details/photos https://bit.ly/3C0rFdc
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wrote on 28 Dec 2022, 12:41 last edited by
@brenda said in Mildly interesting:
Poor guy. He can't even hide that he's eaten the last piece of pie from the fridge.
LOL
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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
After the Big Bang there were all these hydrogen atoms everywhere and 13.8 billion years later some of them are majestic nebulas and others have turned into Cheez-Its.
If you don't think Cheez-Its are magnificent then I can't help you with anything.
wrote on 28 Dec 2022, 14:06 last edited by@Aqua-Letifer said in Mildly interesting:
If you don't think Cheez-Its are magnificent then I can't help you with anything.
And to prove that Cheez-Its have elusive mystical power over all of us that defies understanding, at the very moment I was reading Jon's post, I was eating -- yes! Cheez-Its.
From a box I'd only opened when I opened this thread.
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wrote on 28 Dec 2022, 20:45 last edited by
How a 680,000-pound rock was moved from Riverside to Los Angeles to form the sculpture Levitated Mass
Full story: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-michael-heizers-herculean-effort-move-340-ton-boulder-la (One overpass the boulder later passed under in Chino left a clearance of barely six inches.)
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wrote on 28 Dec 2022, 21:00 last edited by
Here's another shot:
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wrote on 28 Dec 2022, 21:46 last edited by
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Michael Heizer is an American land artist specializing in large-scale and site-specific sculptures. Working largely outside the confines of the traditional art spaces of galleries and museums, Heizer has redefined sculpture in terms of size, mass, gesture, and process. Wikipedia -
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Michael Heizer is an American land artist specializing in large-scale and site-specific sculptures. Working largely outside the confines of the traditional art spaces of galleries and museums, Heizer has redefined sculpture in terms of size, mass, gesture, and process. Wikipediawrote on 28 Dec 2022, 22:44 last edited by@Catseye3 said in Mildly interesting:
Working largely outside the confines of the traditional art spaces
Understatement of the day.
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wrote on 28 Dec 2022, 22:59 last edited by
Is there a warning sign to avoid the walkway during an earthquake?
If not, some Californian will ask for it, sooner or later.
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wrote on 28 Dec 2022, 23:40 last edited by
Striped Icebergs in Antarctica Look Like Candy
