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' 

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. 

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.

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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 ... 
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 

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. 

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' 

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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 

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?

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!! 

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.
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Buddha.