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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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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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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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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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Striped Icebergs in Antarctica Look Like Candy
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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
The “how” is interesting, but the “why” is the real mystery.
I think you'd get it if you walked underneath it.
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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".
Link to video
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@mark said in Mildly interesting:
New salt-grain sized micro camera
"Makes it even easier and faster to lose it," says hubby.
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Ten examples of prohibited baby names reportedly include King, Queen, Jesus Christ, III, Santa Claus, Majesty, Adolf Hitler, Messiah, the symbol @ and 1069.
I went to high school with a guy named King. He set the state scoring record in basketball, so it worked for him.
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/baby-names-reportedly-banned-america-what-to-know
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wrote on 5 Jan 2023, 16:03 last edited by Catseye3 1 May 2023, 16:04
This Is A Photo Of Dr. Eugene Lazowski, A Polish Doctor Who Saved 8,000 Jews By Creating A Fake Typhus Epidemic In Stalowa Wola (Nazi Occupied Poland), 1943
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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
The “how” is interesting, but the “why” is the real mystery.
I think you'd get it if you walked underneath it.
wrote on 5 Jan 2023, 16:06 last edited by@Aqua-Letifer said in Mildly interesting:
@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
The “how” is interesting, but the “why” is the real mystery.
I think you'd get it if you walked underneath it.
It would certainly elicit a gut level response, one way or another. Much like a roller coaster.
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Mildly Interesting: Copper Edition
On September 30th, 1956, During A Drunken Argument In A New York City Bar, A Man Named Thomas Fitzpatrick Claimed He Could Fly An Airplane From New Jersey To New York In Under 15 Minutes
To prove himself, Fitzpatrick left the bar, stole an airplane from a New Jersey airfield at 3am, flew without lights or radio completely intoxicated, and landed the airplane in the street in front of the bar.
