Do you know any cool useless facts?
I recently got schooled by my son in 2nd grade.
He says to me "dad, did you know you can't grow an apple tree from a seed out of that apple you just ate and get the same apple?" I said sure you can. How do you think they grow apple trees. If you can't plant apple seeds how would we have these apples? He said "no, you can't. It won't grow the same kind of tree". So I looked it up and sure enough you can't. If you plant an apple seed from lets say, a Red Delicious, it will grow into one of 2 or 3 "wild" apples that are nothing like the one you ate. All the good store bought apples you eat are all grown from root stock from another tree....not from the seed.
He also schooled me on the fact that potatoes are not roots. I said sure the are. Well, guess what, they are not roots. They are stems. I had to look that one up also. The eyes are the roots. Who knew?
I guess public schools can teach kids.
And tomatos are not vegetables. they are fruits. Fun stuff Eh?
Aaron
And so are zucchinis, eggplants, capsicums, chillis, cucumbers, squash and chokoes for your useless information!
isn't capsicum, the peppers? or the spicy in peppers?
They are what you Amurricans would call peppers, yes. :)
Ok ... Useless facts .... While the fruit of the banana is a 'fruit' .... In the grand scheme of Botanical reference ... The plant is a herb!
And bamboo is a grass.
Eating a whole nutmeg can give you a bad time!!
You can graft oranges to grow on an apple tree!
Worker bees are sterile females and can lay eggs also ... But the eggs will only ever become drones (males) .... The drones purpose is to mate with the queen ... The rest of the spring time they only eat and walk around the hive occasionally flapping their wings to 'help' ventilate.... It's a good life ...
Till the end of summer or when the pollen/nectar flow in the area dries up.... Then the workers drag the drones out of the hive, bite their legs and wings off and leave them to die outside ... 8)
You can't eat a spoon full of cinnamon powder.
Bumblebees only live in nests of 12-20 ish members. Because of this, they are extremely reluctant to sting. They also nest in different locations each year. The only surviving member of each nest is the new queen, which hibernates through the winter months and lays its eggs in the early spring.
Or something like that.
Male bedbugs have a hard, corkscrew, shaped genitalia. When they go to mate, they literally have to screw into the female bedbug.
Good luck sleeping tonight! :)
Quote from: Janx101 on December 09, 2013, 01:34:26 AM
Ok ... Useless facts .... While the fruit of the banana is a 'fruit' .... In the grand scheme of Botanical reference ... The plant is a herb!
so is marijuana
Quote from: Big Rich on December 09, 2013, 05:54:42 PM
Male bedbugs have a hard, corkscrew, shaped genitalia. When they go to mate, they literally have to screw into the female bedbug.
Good luck sleeping tonight! :)
Same thing with pigs.
Quote from: Janx101 on December 09, 2013, 01:34:26 AM
Ok ... Useless facts .... While the fruit of the banana is a 'fruit' .... In the grand scheme of Botanical reference ... The plant is a herb!
When you cook the banana as a flower which we do in India and its freaking delicious, the part of it you cant eat is what becomes the banana if it were to grow fully.
A banana tree will only produce 1 flower and if its cut as a flower its done ... it will just rot and die.
So we Injuns eat the whole bloody thing. The stem is chopped and cooked.
The leaves are what you eat on. Its the "plate".
The flower too gets cooked and eaten.
Cool.
Buddha.
Quote from: The Buddha on December 09, 2013, 09:07:18 PM
Quote from: Janx101 on December 09, 2013, 01:34:26 AM
Ok ... Useless facts .... While the fruit of the banana is a 'fruit' .... In the grand scheme of Botanical reference ... The plant is a herb!
When you cook the banana as a flower which we do in India and its freaking delicious, the part of it you cant eat is what becomes the banana if it were to grow fully.
A banana tree will only produce 1 flower and if its cut as a flower its done ... it will just rot and die.
So we Injuns eat the whole bloody thing. The stem is chopped and cooked.
The leaves are what you eat on. Its the "plate".
The flower too gets cooked and eaten.
Cool.
Buddha.
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Quote from: Janx101 on December 09, 2013, 01:44:55 AM
Eating a whole nutmeg can give you a bad time!!
Did you know that Mace (the spice) comes from the same plant as Nutmeg? It is the red "lacing" around the nutmeg itself. Very strange.
Did you know that
raisins and consequently grapes, though to a lesser degree by volume, can be fatal to dogs?
Back to bananas, I actually researched bananas a while back because of something I read in book.
Bananas are the largest herb on earth. There is no trunk on a banana tree, just folded leaves. They exist in most every country on earth. They can only be grown from a banana rhizome (root sucker).....they don't have seeds. So, how do they grow everywhere, even on remote islands, without seeds (look it up, it will make you think)? They have all the ingredients we need to live. They are the perfect food and they grow over the entire planet.
Look up why bananas should not exits.
Quote from: pliskin on December 10, 2013, 08:48:48 PM
Back to bananas, I actually researched bananas a while back because of something I read in book.
Bananas are the largest herb on earth. There is no trunk on a banana tree, just folded leaves. They exist in most every country on earth. They can only be grown from a banana rhizome (root sucker).....they don't have seeds. So, how do they grow everywhere, even on remote islands, without seeds (look it up, it will make you think)? They have all the ingredients we need to live. They are the perfect food and they grow over the entire planet.
Look up why bananas should not exits.
Bananas do tend to exit when you eat them...sooner or later.
You can also survive by eating nothing but coconut. However, they give you the trots something fierce and the stench may kill you.
or the simple question really of any egg laying creature. but this question. what came first the chicken or the egg? thechicken lays the egg, but to get a chicken you first need the egg. but to get said egg, you need a chicken, which NEEDS the egg. I need to sleep. suspending postwhoritude for a few hours.
Aaron
What came first, the plant or the seed? Or maybe those organisms came to existence from single cell organisms or more simple lifeforms via evolution? Who knows? Anywho, back to useless information. Russia has 564.6 police officers per 100,000 citizens (highest proportion in world), UK 262.1 per 100k, AUS 257.5 per 100k and 226.7 per 100k for America.
However, Murder per 100k are as follows, 10 for Russia, 1 for UK, 1 for Australia and 6 for America. Strange no?
Some really smart scientists believe it is very likely we are actually living in some kind super advanced computer simulation. They theorize the odds we are a simulation running withing a simulation, within a simulation on a super computer. Odds so great it out numbers the odds we are real billions or trillions to 1. They have even discovered an error checking code in the physics of our universe that is identical to the type of error checking code that is written into software programs we use today. We could actually be living one of a billion virtual existences. Created by a simulation that became self aware (AI) and then created it's own simulation, and so on and so on.
Ponder that.
if thats the case ... i want a word with the coders!!! ... i keep getting the muddy end of the rope! :icon_rolleyes:
If we are in a simulation, you could be the only real person and everyone else is a simulated response to your simulation. So you exist - my response to you is a programmed response that looks like a really cool smart dude in Seattle.
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There was an Outer Limits show where they teleport people to another planet. However, what they did was make a COPY of the person then destroy the original.
The premise of the episode was they got a response that the copy failed so they did not destroy the original person. Then they got word the copy was OK and wanted to destroy the original person but the person didn't want to die - even though there was an exact copy of the person on another planet.
Now think about that: you have an exact copy somewhere else. What is the problem with destroying the original? Spooky thought. I have a copy somewhere so kill me? WTF? Is a copy the same as the original person? Should it matter? Or is there some cosmological essence (soul, spirit) to a person where the copy is not the same as the original?
If my copy were here and I were destroyed, what would my copy think or would my copy be mad if it were to be destroyed and I were to continue on? Would my copy equally think it were me the same as me?
Think about it.
Maybe it comes down to what is consciousness? What is being self-aware?
why is it you rarely ever see a sick latino/Mexican, is it eating the peppers in their diets?
Quote from: pliskin on December 10, 2013, 08:48:48 PM
Back to bananas, I actually researched bananas a while back because of something I read in book.
Bananas are the largest herb on earth. There is no trunk on a banana tree, just folded leaves. They exist in most every country on earth. They can only be grown from a banana rhizome (root sucker).....they don't have seeds. So, how do they grow everywhere, even on remote islands, without seeds (look it up, it will make you think)? They have all the ingredients we need to live. They are the perfect food and they grow over the entire planet.
Look up why bananas should not exits.
I will have to look at this - I do believe most banana's have seeds, they are in the center of the banana ... you know why a banana was split to make the icecream ... and how it was ...
It was split in 3 length wise in the old days and they removed the seeds in the middle.
Quote from: yamahonkawazuki on December 12, 2013, 01:35:36 AM
why is it you rarely ever see a sick latino/Mexican, is it eating the peppers in their diets?
The fact they lived in a very "microbially diverse" country got their immunity very very high ... almost the same reason Injuns (like me - not my son) dont get sick either. My son promptly falls sick in synch with the white kids ... and whenever he goes to India.
Cool.
Buddha.
Atleast partially correct pliskin -
Modern cultivation
All widely cultivated bananas today descend from the two wild bananas Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. While the original wild bananas contained large seeds, diploid or polyploid cultivars (some being hybrids) with tiny seeds are preferred for human raw fruit consumption.[58] These are propagated asexually from offshoots. The plant is allowed to produce two shoots at a time; a larger one for immediate fruiting and a smaller "sucker" or "follower" to produce fruit in 6–8 months. The life of a banana plantation is 25 years or longer, during which time the individual stools or planting sites may move slightly from their original positions as lateral rhizome formation dictates.[citation needed]
But the banana's you find all over the world including the 20 odd varieties I have eaten in India have seeds.
Only bloody worthless genetically modded garbage "green banana" is "seedless"
One more reason I hate the stupid things.
Odd ... In India as a kid growing up it was my favorite.
Cool.
Buddha.
I ventured off the Tard Farm and came across this thread.
Then I read this thread top to bottom.
I came away with this...
1.) pliskin is one clever fellow. Post #23 (and his tag line) are nothing short of fascinating.
2.) I never met an Indian I didn't like, (or at least find very entertaining).
3.) I've learned more here in five minutes than I have trolling the Tard Farm in the last four years.
Just sayin' (http://www.websleuths.com/forums/images/smilies/sittingonthefence.gif)
-Ej-
definition of fart:
1. fart
1. 1-man salute
2. 7.4 on the Rectum scale
3. Acid-rain maker
4. After the thunder comes the rain
5. Air bagel
6. Airbrush your boxers
7. Anal acoustics
8. Anal ahem
9. Anal audio
10. Anal salute
11. Anal volcano
12. Arse blast
13. Ass blaster
14. Ass-scented methane
15. Ass biscuit
16. Ass thunder
17. Ass whistle
18. A turd whistling for the right of way
19. Backdoor breeze
20. Backfire
21. Bad sprinkling
22. Baking brownies
23. Barking spiders
24. Bean blower
25. Beep your horn
26. Belch from behind
27. Better open a window
28. Blast off
29. Blast the chair
30. Blasting the ass trumpet
31. Blat
32. Blow ass
33. Blow mud
34. Blow the big brown horn
35. Blowing the butt bugle
36. Blowing you a kiss
37. Bomber
38. Bottom blast
39. Bottom burp
40. Break the sound barrier without a plane
41. Break wind
42. Breath of fresh air
43. Brown horn brass choir
44. Brown thunder
45. Bun shaker
46. Burnin' rubber
47. Buster
48. Busting ass
49. Butt bleat
50. Butt burp
51. Butt hair harmony
52. Butt percussion
53. Butt trauma
54. Butt trumpet
55. Butt tuba
56. Buttock bassoon
57. Cheek flapper
58. Cheesin'
59. Colonic calliope
60. Crack a rat
61. Crack one off
62. Crack splitters
63. Crimp off some breakfast biscuits
64. Crop dusting (surreptitiously farting while passing thru a cube farm, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust) <-----------guilty
floating an air biscuit
silent but deadly
he who smell't it deal't it
broccoli cloud
gambling and loosing (thought is was a fart but it was solid)
or "The Shithorn" as we call it in our family, or an air-poo, or a fluff...
Squeaky floorboards
That damn dog!
Stepped on a toad
Lo and behold...a thread with some really awesome philosophical posts...gets shot down by fart jokes.
Why do our fingers and toes wrinkle when wet? You probably believe, like I did, it was just our skin soaking up the water.. :icon_rolleyes:
It's actually our blood vessel constricting to increase our grip!! (http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution/why-skin-wrinkles-when-wet-130109.htm)
Quote from: steezin_and_wheezin on December 16, 2013, 12:36:13 PM
Why do our fingers and toes wrinkle when wet? You probably believe, like I did, it was just our skin soaking up the water.. :icon_rolleyes:
It's actually our blood vessel constricting to increase our grip!! (http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution/why-skin-wrinkles-when-wet-130109.htm)
That's awesome! I often wondered.
You weren't thinking about your breathing until just now, and now you are consciously controlling it. Hehe
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Quote from: Kijona on December 16, 2013, 08:36:08 AM
Lo and behold...a thread with some really awesome philosophical posts...gets shot down by fart jokes.
Typically speaking...
The LPW crew shows up and puts a productive thread into a nose-dive.
Once the topic has been maligned and the original participants are in full turmoil, they quietly slip away in search of a fresh kill.
Just sayin' :dunno_black:
You want a useless fact?
Roman chariots were built to a very specific width...that being about two horses' asses wide. You think that's important? Well...
The guys who built the roman chariots laid the foundation for all the roadways in Europe. The Romans travelled all over Europe with their little chariots. Those big, wooded wheels cut a lot of ruts in those roads. The people of Europe, needing to cope with the abundance of Romans, had to make their own carts and such about the same width. If their wheels fell one in/one out of a rut at the right angle...broken wheel. A broken wheel on a cart in those days meant you would probably starve to death...it was important. So, for quite some time, because the romans put a bunch of ruts in the roads, nearly every cart in Europe was about two horses' asses wide.
This carried on for a very, very long time. Eventually these guys went to the New World...then, not only did you have the same width carts in Europe, but they started rutting up some roads in the States. These guys building all the carts used essentially the same jigs some time later to build....trains. That's right: A train's track is about two horses' asses wide. Because of Roman chariots. See where this is going? You probably don't yet.
You ever see those two big booster rockets hanging off the bottom of the space shuttle? They were never really quite as big as the engineers wanted them to be. Those rockets are...or were, rather...made in Utah. You might know that the Space Shuttles never launched from Utah. How do they get them to Florida? By train. Through a tunnel.
That's why the SRB's that get the space shuttle into orbit are about the width of two horses' asses.
I do see a connection here...
I know quite a few railroaders that are "horses asses"
Nice post. :thumb:
He he he ... one more random fact semi related to this ...
In India when we used to study railroad crap - which you have to as a civil engineering student ... It used to have random numbers like this semaphore signal is 7.317 meters tall ... and we go WTF ... through the whole course we freaking had to remember this random garbage ... and we find out it was 24 feet ...
Over and over, we had crappy numbers that were round numbers in feet ...
BTW random food fact - If you left tea outside unrefrigerated for months, it would grow a bunch of about 5-6 bacteria, all of which are good for you. If you add some sachromycess Boullardii a type of bacteria that naturally grows in the tea, but @ less than 5%, but you get that guy around 25%, your tea will be 5-8% alcohol. Good for you and will get you lightly drunk.
Cool.
Buddha.
On the topic of alcohol. Central and South Americans made and still do make a traditional drink called Chicha which is made of corn. A few people would get together and chew up corn off the cob and spit it into a vat along with their saliva, which would then sit in the sun for about a week. The spit was actually beneficial, as it is full of enzymes needed for the yeast to break down starches for conversion to sugars. Obviously though the modern variants of this drink are not prepared in this way.
Quote from: Zookmang on December 17, 2013, 10:58:25 PM
On the topic of alcohol. Central and South Americans made and still do make a traditional drink called Chicha which is made of corn. A few people would get together and chew up corn off the cob and spit it into a vat along with their saliva, which would then sit in the sun for about a week. The spit was actually beneficial, as it is full of enzymes needed for the yeast to break down starches for conversion to sugars. Obviously though the modern variants of this drink are not prepared in this way.
But you see @ the chi-chi's restaurants they do spit in your food ... :mad:
Cool.
Buddha.
funny word of the day:
smeg·ma
noun \ˈsmeg-mə\
Definition of SMEGMA
: the secretion of a sebaceous gland; specifically : the cheesy sebaceous matter that collects between the glans pe.nis and the foreskin or around the clitoris and la.bia minora
I like the use of the word "cheesy".
Coffee was discovered by a farmer noticing his goats would get hyper after eating the coffee beans.
Now how it went from that to cultivating, roasting, and steeping in water is a mystery to me.
Quote from: john on December 19, 2013, 08:09:31 AM
Coffee was discovered by a farmer noticing his goats would get hyper after eating the coffee beans.
Now how it went from that to cultivating, roasting, and steeping in water is a mystery to me.
Roasting I can solve. The ethiopians (where coffee was first discovered) didn't want to sell live beans cos they can be planted and grown. So they roasted them, they found it was better tasting, so they would only sell roasted or roasted ground beans.
Cool.
Buddha.
Quote from: The Buddha on December 19, 2013, 10:39:47 AM
Quote from: john on December 19, 2013, 08:09:31 AM
Coffee was discovered by a farmer noticing his goats would get hyper after eating the coffee beans.
Now how it went from that to cultivating, roasting, and steeping in water is a mystery to me.
Roasting I can solve. The ethiopians (where coffee was first discovered) didn't want to sell live beans cos they can be planted and grown. So they roasted them, they found it was better tasting, so they would only sell roasted or roasted ground beans.
Cool.
Buddha.
I thought you Indians were experts in tea not coffee :cookoo:
Where a church has two spires, look carefully and compare them. Often in older churches the right one is bigger than the left one. The larger right one is the male steeple and the smaller left one represents the women.
Facts I learned in Prague
You're welcome. :D
Quote from: Electrojake on December 16, 2013, 09:12:38 PM
Quote from: Kijona on December 16, 2013, 08:36:08 AM
Lo and behold...a thread with some really awesome philosophical posts...gets shot down by fart jokes.
Typically speaking...
The LPW crew shows up and puts a productive thread into a nose-dive.
Once the topic has been maligned and the original participants are in full turmoil, they quietly slip away in search of a fresh kill.
Just sayin' :dunno_black:
:D :angel: ....... :icon_twisted:
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Quote from: john on December 19, 2013, 12:10:50 PM
Quote from: The Buddha on December 19, 2013, 10:39:47 AM
Quote from: john on December 19, 2013, 08:09:31 AM
Coffee was discovered by a farmer noticing his goats would get hyper after eating the coffee beans.
Now how it went from that to cultivating, roasting, and steeping in water is a mystery to me.
Roasting I can solve. The ethiopians (where coffee was first discovered) didn't want to sell live beans cos they can be planted and grown. So they roasted them, they found it was better tasting, so they would only sell roasted or roasted ground beans.
Cool.
Buddha.
I thought you Indians were experts in tea not coffee :cookoo:
He he he Not neccesarily ...
OK the short history is like this.
South Injuns (like my ancestors) are coffee drinkers and coffee is native to south India. However south India is small compared to North India.
North India has been converted to Tea growing and consuming because of the british. The brits were addicted to Tea, but they didn't control china which was the biggest tea growing area in the world. So the brits dragged over lots of tea and grew it in India which they sent en masse to england. Of course now we said FU and we drink it all.
I have been a tea drinker for some reason since my teens.
Sometime around 1998 I also started drinking coffee. I have been drinking both ever since. I am pretty good at judging both.
Cool.
Buddha.
Quote from: john on December 19, 2013, 08:09:31 AM
Coffee was discovered by a farmer noticing his goats would get hyper after eating the coffee beans.
Now how it went from that to cultivating, roasting, and steeping in water is a mystery to me.
How it went from that to searching for undigested beans in rat sh1t and then drinking it, is also a mystery.
Other mysteries include...
Forget about a human missing link, No Animal has a missing link. There is no sign of them, then BAM, there they are in the fossil record. And there they remain unchanged until they disappear and new lifeforms appear some time later. Following on, after each mass extinction on this planet, a while later there is a spurt of new life and lifeforms. Where did they come from? Once there were no Giraffe, then suddenly there were, with no missing link. Terribly mysterious.
If we need omega 3 fish oil as claimed. Then how did we live long enough to learn how to fish so we could get the fish to get their oil?
To the question of being simulations. The answer is: I think, therefor I am.
Why do "insiders" who have some conspiratorial information, only ever come out with that information about the whys, hows and wherefores of the conspiracy - after - it appears in a movie - but - act as if the movie doesn't exist?
If gravity is, as depicted in science shows, like the planet sitting on a sheet and causing a dip in the sheet and thus the orbiting object would like to roll in but its centripetal force keeps it out, then what is causing it to have downward pressure on this sheet and want to roll down the slope in the first place? Furthermore, lets say I accept this and that the sheet has a 360deg plain, and this might be fine for things extra terrestrial (off planet), how does it explain objects inside a box on the surface also being effected? How does it explain objects in said box submerged in water also being effected?
When a wheel is rolling there is always a point of the wheel which is stationary - not moving forward or back or up or down.
There are 48 different railway track gauges in the world ranging from 381mm (15inches) all the way up to 8,200mm (26ft 11inches). Therefore the idea the space shuttle whatever was dependent on Roman Chariot Wheel Spacing is a myth. Sounds good and makes for a good story though.
If electricity is a flow of electrons, how are they able to flow through the solid wire? How come the supply of flowing electrons never seems to run out at the source? How come I am not finding a large pile of electrons at the end? How are these electrons able to break free of the atoms they orbit without damaging the atom or creating new substances as stripped atoms reform into other things? [Don't answer here, figure the answer for yourself]
How is a magnet on a fridge able to expend its energy defying gravity for years without needing to be topped up with more energy?
Is Katy Perry's rise to celebrityism instead of better singing, dancing, looking, hotter bodied women merely because she gives good head behind closed doors? A'la Bill Hicks' Suck Satan's Chicken http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv2qLOiioPc
Why is there RSPCA approved chicken at the supermarket? Don't know about you, but death is about as cruel as you can get, isn't it?
There are way more mysteries, but they will wait for another time...
Quote from: mister on January 05, 2014, 02:37:05 PMHow is a magnet on a fridge able to expend its energy defying gravity for years without needing to be topped up with more energy?
That's not quite how magnetism works...
Quote from: RossLH on January 05, 2014, 03:33:34 PM
Quote from: mister on January 05, 2014, 02:37:05 PMHow is a magnet on a fridge able to expend its energy defying gravity for years without needing to be topped up with more energy?
That's not quite how magnetism works...
Ssshhhhh.... ;) ;)
Quote from: mister on January 05, 2014, 02:37:05 PM
How is a magnet on a fridge able to expend its energy defying gravity for years without needing to be topped up with more energy?
:icon_rolleyes:
oh that ones easy!!! ...
http://www.superpower-inc.com/content/superconducting-magnetic-energy-storage-smes
... superconductors work better with cold yeah? and most fridges by definition are COLD devices ..... AND... and!!! ... superconductors need a power supply in this case.... sooooooo....
(thinking thinking....)
the .... asian chappies who put the .... fridge together.. ummmm ... left a earth wire or power wire a little bit loose... yeah! a bit loose.... and so the micro electric current that now energises the cabinet of the fridge supplies the fridgemagnet with extra grip! (it is a small magnet after all!! ...
(thinking) .... yeah that should do it!! :thumb:
Quote from: mister on January 05, 2014, 02:37:05 PM
If we need omega 3 fish oil as claimed. Then how did we live long enough to learn how to fish so we could get the fish to get their oil?
Omega 3 is in a lot of things, not just fish. So is omega 6.
Cool.
Buddha.
Quote from: mister on January 05, 2014, 02:37:05 PM
When a wheel is rolling there is always a point of the wheel which is stationary - not moving forward or back or up or down.
By definition, 'rolling' means the entire wheel is moving in a uniform direction. Motion is a relative term. Maybe that point isn't moving in relation to the edges of the wheel, but it certainly is moving in relation to the surface the wheel is on.
Hell, everything is in motion even when it appears to be stationary by all conventional definitions... But in relation to the universe, everything is in motion!
- Bboy
Quote from: The Buddha on January 06, 2014, 08:22:05 AM
Quote from: mister on January 05, 2014, 02:37:05 PM
If we need omega 3 fish oil as claimed. Then how did we live long enough to learn how to fish so we could get the fish to get their oil?
Omega 3 is in a lot of things, not just fish. So is omega 6.
Cool.
Buddha.
Flax Seeds, ground75132.9%
Walnuts16494.5%
Salmon24561.2%
Sardines18955.8%
Beef, grass-fed17545.8%
Soybeans29842.9%
Halibut15925.8%
Scallops12717%
Shrimp11215.4%
Tofu8615%
This looks weird, but google will tell ya ... lots of omega 3 in all sorts of things.
Cool.
Buddha.
Quote from: BockinBboy on January 06, 2014, 09:41:40 AM
Quote from: mister on January 05, 2014, 02:37:05 PM
When a wheel is rolling there is always a point of the wheel which is stationary - not moving forward or back or up or down.
By definition, 'rolling' means the entire wheel is moving in a uniform direction. Motion is a relative term. Maybe that point isn't moving in relation to the edges of the wheel, but it certainly is moving in relation to the surface the wheel is on.
Hell, everything is in motion even when it appears to be stationary by all conventional definitions... But in relation to the universe, everything is in motion!
- Bboy
In relation to the surface? Nope, not moving then either.
Ok, so you are on your bike riding. Not anywhere in particular but you just so happen to be in the country and you've just topped the top of a crest. It's all downhill from here at 60mph. At any single snapshot in time, there is one part of the wheel which is stationary. It is not moving in relation to anything. The only movement it is exhibiting is the same movement a rock has because it happens to be on a big ball of mud hurtling through space at 67,000mph. Otherwise,, it is not moving.
Quote from: The Buddha on January 06, 2014, 11:22:30 AM
Quote from: The Buddha on January 06, 2014, 08:22:05 AM
Quote from: mister on January 05, 2014, 02:37:05 PM
If we need omega 3 fish oil as claimed. Then how did we live long enough to learn how to fish so we could get the fish to get their oil?
Omega 3 is in a lot of things, not just fish. So is omega 6.
Cool.
Buddha.
Flax Seeds, ground75132.9%
Walnuts16494.5%
Salmon24561.2%
Sardines18955.8%
Beef, grass-fed17545.8%
Soybeans29842.9%
Halibut15925.8%
Scallops12717%
Shrimp11215.4%
Tofu8615%
This looks weird, but google will tell ya ... lots of omega 3 in all sorts of things.
Cool.
Buddha.
So... removing the fish from your list we are left with flax, walnuts, grassfed beef and soy.
Flax isn't everywhere. And highly doubtful we picked a rockhard soybean off a tree and started munching, even if they were everywhere which they aren't. the grassfed beef exhibit the same problem I posed to begin with... we would perish before we lived long enough to slaughter the beef. That leaves walnuts which are not grown everywhere.
Buddha, *I* know where there is plentiful Omega 3 without needing those sources. The point of the question is to make you think...
IF we need it as claimed, we would have perished long before we figured out how to fish, or find a soyplant or whatever.
The conclusions which can be drawn from that are...
1. Either we don't need it as claimed, or
2. It is far more readily available in Common plant-based food. But we aren't told this because the people making the Omega claim have a product to sell you.
The north magnetic pole is really south and the south pole is really north.
It used to be called "North pointing pole" because the north pole of a magnet pointed there. Same for south. After a while it was shortened to just "north pole"
http://www.kjmagnetics.com/FAQ.asp#identify
Remember when I had this in a posting back in September 2010? Interesting what has happened since then....
"Once Junior is determined what he will look like, there will be one heck of a garage sale of all the extra parts I ordered (or should I get a 3rd GS500?)"
Somehow I didn't stop at 3..... :cookoo:
Quote from: BockinBboy on January 06, 2014, 09:41:40 AMBy definition, 'rolling' means the entire wheel is moving in a uniform direction. Motion is a relative term. Maybe that point isn't moving in relation to the edges of the wheel, but it certainly is moving in relation to the surface the wheel is on.
Hell, everything is in motion even when it appears to be stationary by all conventional definitions... But in relation to the universe, everything is in motion!
- Bboy
If the surface the wheel is rolling on is used as the frame of reference, there will be an instant in which a designated point on the circumference of the wheel will have zero velocity and zero acceleration.
(http://i.imgur.com/4hh8G7H.gif)
+1
Point taken! Graciously, I'll add... good visual. Seems I was texting during that point in the lecture some 5 years ago...
:cheers:
- Bboy
Quote from: RossLH on January 07, 2014, 06:09:24 PM
Quote from: BockinBboy on January 06, 2014, 09:41:40 AMBy definition, 'rolling' means the entire wheel is moving in a uniform direction. Motion is a relative term. Maybe that point isn't moving in relation to the edges of the wheel, but it certainly is moving in relation to the surface the wheel is on.
Hell, everything is in motion even when it appears to be stationary by all conventional definitions... But in relation to the universe, everything is in motion!
- Bboy
If the surface the wheel is rolling on is used as the frame of reference, there will be an instant in which a designated point on the circumference of the wheel will have zero velocity and zero acceleration.
(http://i.imgur.com/4hh8G7H.gif)
Bingo, we have a winner :thumb: :thumb:
Wonder if you could use that to fight a "failed to stop" charge. Well, your honor the wheels were stopped on the ground...
Then follow up with...
We cannot see movement, only the illusion of movement. Even at 100 frames per second, each frame is a still image. The blending of still images gives the illusion of movement. So I was in fact still, not moving, in all images and even to each signal sent to the eye.... Hmmm...
"Bailiff, please remove this gentleman from my court. You are hereby charged with failure to stop. Your fine is due immediately. And sir, I suggest you keep that attitude out of my court." :police:
On the wheel thing. You are mixing geometry with physics. There are an infinite number of points on the circumference of the wheel. So, if you play that same video of the wheel rotating for all intents and purposes it should be standing still. Or, it's just part of the simulation. :thumb:
OR
Could it be just by observing the wheel moving we are affecting how it's electrons act?
Quote from: pliskin on January 08, 2014, 08:22:11 PMCould it be just by observing the wheel moving we are affecting how it's electrons act?
(http://i.imgur.com/QCsDdFJ.gif)
Quote from: RossLH on January 07, 2014, 06:09:24 PM
If the surface the wheel is rolling on is used as the frame of reference, there will be an instant in which a designated point on the circumference of the wheel will have zero velocity and zero acceleration.
Not quite. The point is always accelerating to towards the center of the wheel.
Quote from: adidasguy on January 07, 2014, 04:32:06 PM
Remember when I had this in a posting back in September 2010? Interesting what has happened since then....
"Once Junior is determined what he will look like, there will be one heck of a garage sale of all the extra parts I ordered (or should I get a 3rd GS500?)"
Somehow I didn't stop at 3..... :cookoo:
I remember this and now we have huhsky. but you say it like its a bad thing. a gs is a good addiction to have lol :)
Quote from: RossLH on January 07, 2014, 06:09:24 PM
If the surface the wheel is rolling on is used as the frame of reference, there will be an instant in which a designated point on the circumference of the wheel will have zero velocity and zero acceleration.
(http://i.imgur.com/4hh8G7H.gif)
Does it actually reach 0 or does the calculation end up being undefined at that point? I'm trying to think it through, and I can't say why exactly it would be undefined, but I feel that it might be.
If you're plotting it on an x/y plane, it'd technically be undefined. At that instant the point is accelerating straight up.
At the point on the plain where the point on the wheel meet, means this........not matter where you go, there you are. P+P=U (point plus point=you). Not that's some good stuff there. Even better than E=Mc2 maybe?
By the way. "No mater where you go, there you are", was my old signature before "a day with out a buzz was a day that never was". It's like I've come full circle. No pun intended.
I don't know but we might solve the mystery of the universe here :thumb:.
Quote from: pliskin on January 12, 2014, 08:52:39 PM
At the point on the plain where the point on the wheel meet means this........not matter where you go, there you are. P+P=U (point plus point=you). Not that's some good stuff there. Even better than E=Mc2 maybe?
(http://i.imgur.com/aPTfxZV.gif)
John, now you're fracking with me. I just watched some comedy movie the other night with that dude in it. Some movie where he was in Martha's Vineyard where he blew up a house. can't remember the name. Never saw that actor in my life and you post a clip of him after I see him in a movie. Like I said, it's a circle. WTF is going on?
Larry David. Pretty well known actor/comedian. He was a co-creator of a pretty popular show you may have heard of, called Seinfeld.
bumpity bump!!
Yama .. heres the bee box info
http://www.johnlguilfoyle.com.au/australian%20hive%20sizes.htm
for your edification! :D :thumb:
another one Yama :thumb: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk
and im not right 'into it' on the whole steampunk scene ..
but i think this movie has a nod towards the steampunk idea ... plus its got Will Smith .. so its cool! :D
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120891/
Oil discovered in Australia. Almost as large as Saudi oil... possibly MUCH bigger. I guess we'll be even closer friends with the USA now.
Interesting thing about WHERE it was found...
Cobber Pedy. Small town in the middle of buttfuck. Was a shooting location for the movie Pitch Black (which is kinds the color of oil), which stared Vin Diesel. Diesel, get it? Ok, start the twilight zone music now....
Mister, the USA has nothing to do with oil. We have more than enough oil here to supply our country with all we need at a super cheap price if only we where allowed to drill it (just like Australia will never drill it). We can't because it would put a hurting on OPEC. They want you to think it's the US that's after all the gas. It's the oil cartels of that dictate the price and flow of oil. Wake up, everybody has got their hand in it.
Quote from: pliskin on February 08, 2014, 09:42:49 PM
Mister, the USA has nothing to do with oil. We have more than enough oil here to supply our country with all we need at a super cheap price if only we where allowed to drill it (just like Australia will never drill it). We can't because it would put a hurting on OPEC. They want you to think it's the US that's after all the gas. It's the oil cartels of that dictate the price and flow of oil. Wake up, everybody has got their hand in it.
Oil is traded in US$ Therefore the US has Something to do with oil.
Australia already exports oil. Have down for ages. But we also import oil - a different grade of oil. Our oil price is based not on the Middle East oil, but the trading price of oil in Singapore.
The USA has a base in Australia in Pine Gap, only 425miles from Coober Pedy.
Final fact of this post.... oil does Not come from decomposing forests or rotting dino bodies.
I hear so much crap about oil from so many unverifiable sources that all I know for sure at this point is that people whine about gas prices :dunno_black:
And of course all we really need is a leap in battery / energy transfer technology and electric cars will be very competitive with gas.
Quote from: mister on February 08, 2014, 08:59:04 PM
Oil discovered in Australia. Almost as large as Saudi oil... possibly MUCH bigger. I guess we'll be even closer friends with the USA now.
Interesting thing about WHERE it was found...
Cobber Pedy. Small town in the middle of buttfuck. Was a shooting location for the movie Pitch Black (which is kinds the color of oil), which stared Vin Diesel. Diesel, get it? Ok, start the twilight zone music now....
Was that a poor mountaineer that barely kept his family fed? Then one day he was shooting at some food and up from the ground come some bubbling crude?
Quote from: Janx101 on February 07, 2014, 05:12:18 PM
another one Yama :thumb: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk
and im not right 'into it' on the whole steampunk scene ..
but i think this movie has a nod towards the steampunk idea ... plus its got Will Smith .. so its cool! :D
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120891/
steampunk also has been referenced in building sculpture using mechanical watch parts I find out
Did anyone ever see the anime move Steampunk? I've been wanting to see it. I hear it was an amazing movie. Also, if you ever get a chance to see the Akira animated move do it. It really is a good film with amazing animation for 1988. I highly recommend it. It has motorcycles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_%28film%29
Here are some statistics for the Year 1910:
(applies to the USA)
The average life expectancy for men was 47 years.
Fuel for this car was sold in drug stores only.
Only 14 percent of the homes had a bathtub.
Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.
There were only 8,000 cars and only 144 miles of paved roads.
The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.
The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower
The average US wage in 1910 was 22 cents per hour.
The average US worker made between $200 and $400 per year.
A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year,
A dentist $2,500 per year, a veterinarian between $1,500 and $4,000 per year,
And a mechanical engineer about $5,000 per year.
More than 95 percent of all births took place at HOME.
Ninety percent of all Doctors had NO COLLEGE EDUCATION!
Instead, they attended so-called medical schools,
Many of which were condemned in the press AND the government as 'substandard.'
Sugar cost four cents a pound.
Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen.
Coffee was fifteen cents a pound.
Most women only washed their hair once a month, and used Borax or egg yolks for shampoo.
There was no such thing as under arm deodorant or tooth paste.
Canada passed a law that prohibited poor people from entering into their country for any reason.
The five leading causes of death were:
1. Pneumonia and influenza
2, Tuberculosis
3. Diarrhea
4. Heart disease
5. Stroke
The American flag had 45 stars.
The population of Las Vegas Nevada was only 30!
Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn't been invented yet
There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.
Two out of every 10 adults couldn't read or write and only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school.
Eighteen percent of households had at least one full-time servant or domestic help.
There were about 230 reported murders in the ENTIRE U.S.A.