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    jon-nyc
    wrote on 28 Dec 2022, 01:43 last edited by
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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.

    Only non-witches get due process.

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      28 Dec 2022, 01:43

      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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      George K
      wrote on 28 Dec 2022, 01:48 last edited by
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      @jon-nyc you expected the universe to be fair?

      "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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        28 Dec 2022, 01:43

        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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        Aqua Letifer
        wrote on 28 Dec 2022, 06:13 last edited by
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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.

        Please love yourself.

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          mark
          wrote on 28 Dec 2022, 09:39 last edited by mark
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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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            28 Dec 2022, 09:39

            FB_IMG_1672220320671.jpg

            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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            brenda
            wrote on 28 Dec 2022, 09:57 last edited by
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            @mark

            Poor guy. He can't even hide that he's eaten the last piece of pie from the fridge.

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              28 Dec 2022, 09:57

              @mark

              Poor guy. He can't even hide that he's eaten the last piece of pie from the fridge.

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              George K
              wrote on 28 Dec 2022, 12:41 last edited by
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              @brenda said in Mildly interesting:

              @mark

              Poor guy. He can't even hide that he's eaten the last piece of pie from the fridge.

              LOL

              "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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                28 Dec 2022, 06:13

                @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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                Catseye3
                wrote on 28 Dec 2022, 14:06 last edited by
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                @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.

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

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                  Catseye3
                  wrote on 28 Dec 2022, 20:45 last edited by
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                  How a 680,000-pound rock was moved from Riverside to Los Angeles to form the sculpture Levitated Mass

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                  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.)

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

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                    Catseye3
                    wrote on 28 Dec 2022, 21:00 last edited by
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                    Here's another shot:

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

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                    • C Catseye3
                      28 Dec 2022, 21:00

                      Here's another shot:

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                      jon-nyc
                      wrote on 28 Dec 2022, 21:38 last edited by
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                      @Catseye3

                      The “how” is interesting, but the “why” is the real mystery.

                      Only non-witches get due process.

                      • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                        28 Dec 2022, 21:38

                        @Catseye3

                        The “how” is interesting, but the “why” is the real mystery.

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                        Catseye3
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                        @jon-nyc
                        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

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

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                          28 Dec 2022, 21:46

                          @jon-nyc
                          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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                          George K
                          wrote on 28 Dec 2022, 22:44 last edited by
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                          @Catseye3 said in Mildly interesting:

                          Working largely outside the confines of the traditional art spaces

                          Understatement of the day.

                          "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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                            Copper
                            wrote on 28 Dec 2022, 22:59 last edited by
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                            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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                              mark
                              wrote on 28 Dec 2022, 23:40 last edited by
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                              Striped Icebergs in Antarctica Look Like Candy
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                                mark
                                wrote on 29 Dec 2022, 23:36 last edited by
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                                New salt-grain sized micro camera

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                                https://www.freethink.com/hard-tech/salt-grain-micro-camera?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=echobox_freethink&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2ueitg7HjAoGNXUyHPu9yyWDTlDuW-6b6YwzaBuo3v1uJ1zLk16wm28sc#Echobox=1671224925

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                                  Aqua Letifer
                                  wrote on 29 Dec 2022, 23:59 last edited by
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                                  @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

                                  @Catseye3

                                  The “how” is interesting, but the “why” is the real mystery.

                                  I think you'd get it if you walked underneath it.

                                  Please love yourself.

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                                    Copper
                                    wrote on 30 Dec 2022, 02:00 last edited by
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                                    So the Beatles ended at the Polynesian Resort at Disneyworld

                                    Today in 1974, while vacationing with Julian at Walt Disney World's Polynesian Village Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, May Pang photographed John adding his signature to those of George, Paul and Ringo on a mass of documents dissolving The Beatles' partnership.

                                    10 days earlier, after Ringo had already signed in the UK, John had failed to seal the deal with Paul and George in New York because "the stars aren't right".

                                    Now, at the urging of an Apple lawyer, John was ready.

                                    “Take out your camera,” he told May before calling his own attorney, Harold Seider, to go over some final points.

                                    "When John hung up the phone, he looked wistfully out the window," May would recall. "I could almost see him replaying the entire Beatles experience in his mind."

                                    Eventually, he picked up the pen - and, in Goons parlance, The Beatles were "deaded".

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                                    Link to video

                                    https://www.facebook.com/BuskinWithTheBeatles

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                                      29 Dec 2022, 23:36

                                      New salt-grain sized micro camera

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                                      https://www.freethink.com/hard-tech/salt-grain-micro-camera?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=echobox_freethink&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2ueitg7HjAoGNXUyHPu9yyWDTlDuW-6b6YwzaBuo3v1uJ1zLk16wm28sc#Echobox=1671224925

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                                      brenda
                                      wrote on 30 Dec 2022, 04:37 last edited by
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                                      @mark said in Mildly interesting:

                                      New salt-grain sized micro camera

                                      alt text

                                      https://www.freethink.com/hard-tech/salt-grain-micro-camera?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=echobox_freethink&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2ueitg7HjAoGNXUyHPu9yyWDTlDuW-6b6YwzaBuo3v1uJ1zLk16wm28sc#Echobox=1671224925

                                      "Makes it even easier and faster to lose it," says hubby.

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                                        jon-nyc
                                        wrote on 30 Dec 2022, 11:34 last edited by
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                                        Only non-witches get due process.

                                        • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                                          30 Dec 2022, 11:34

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                                          George K
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                                          @jon-nyc "i love how no matter what continent you are in, you cannot escape the horror of France"

                                          "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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