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Interesting Stuff Thread

Dades · 2006-09-14 14:24:01

Hey folks, About time we had a sticky for links that users of this forum may find interesting. Links don't have to be specifically atheist/agnostic related, but should have some relevance to the topics that crop up here. It might also be best to keep links to news articles or humour pages (with the exception of the Lego…

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#2432 23-05-2012 8:36am
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koth wrote: »

Can't find one with those exact dimensions. Link to the images I could find via Google.

Sweet!

Everyone in work will be so jealous of my new desktop! :cool:

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#2433 23-05-2012 2:00pm
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MagicMarker wrote: »

Don't suppose there's a 1280x1024 version floating about anywhere?

It's a fake but here's a link to the original if you want to make a nice wallpaper

http://a4size-ska.deviantart.com/art/Eclipse-144235675

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#2434 24-05-2012 2:49am
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koth wrote: »

Can't find one with those exact dimensions. Link to the images I could find via Google.

Unfair. I've only just changed my desktop to that mind-blowing photo of sunrise on Mars.

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#2435 24-05-2012 2:50am
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robindch wrote: »

Unfair. I've only just changed my desktop to that mind-blowing photo of sunrise on Mars.

A programmer/software guy and you don't have multiple desktops or terminals or whatever you folks call them?

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#2436 24-05-2012 3:02am
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Jernal wrote: »

A programmer/software guy and you don't have multiple desktops or terminals or whatever you folks call them?

I've a couple of monitors on my desktop, but only one of them is widescreen...

This might just be the reason I need to upgrade.

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#2437 24-05-2012 3:11am
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Here's a photo that's no where near as aesthetic from 27,000m. Notice how small the sun and moon are compared to the pic that features, the sun, moon and somehow The Milky Way.

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#2438 24-05-2012 8:39am
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Oxford University to probe 'yeti' DNA

Supposed yeti remains are being put under the microscope in a collaboration between Oxford University and the Lausanne Museum of Zoology.

The Oxford-Lausanne Collateral Hominid Project has been created to try and entice people and institutions with collections of cryptozoological material to submit it for analysis. Anyone with a sample of organic remains can submit details of where and when it was collected, among other data.

If you can read this, you're too close!

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#2439 24-05-2012 10:37am
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robindch wrote: »

Unfair. I've only just changed my desktop to that mind-blowing photo of sunrise SUNSET on Mars.

FYP

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#2440 24-05-2012 11:06pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJmGrNdJ5Gw

Very interesting.

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#2441 24-05-2012 11:14pm
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Going with the theme of awesome space wallpapers -

a quasar (not a real one)

looks utterly magnificent on my 30" monitor.

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#2442 25-05-2012 1:24am
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Put your glasses on, it looks like shît (and wtf is posting an image of 'not a real one' ?)

Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.

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#2443 25-05-2012 10:54am
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Just some info on Men's Health Week 2012 (June 11-17).

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056649546

Lots of stuff to be doing.

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#2444 25-05-2012 7:11pm
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Because I love the shuttle.

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#2445 25-05-2012 7:16pm
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I think there is only one thing more frightening to me than sitting on a plane with a space shuttle sitting on top of it, attached by a few poles, and that's sitting in the shuttle itself.

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#2446 25-05-2012 7:44pm
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MagicMarker wrote: »

I think there is only one thing more frightening to me than sitting on a plane with a space shuttle sitting on top of it, attached by a few poles, and that's sitting in the shuttle itself.

I on the other hand, would happily climb into the shuttle, and then jump out with a parachute or one of those wing suits.

I really want to do that!

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#2447 25-05-2012 7:48pm
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While screaming "I AM IRON MAN!"

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#2448 25-05-2012 8:01pm
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Sarky wrote: »

While screaming "I AM IRON MAN!"

Good gods yes!

I may be so much of an Iron Man/Marvel fan I made a special HUD for my Laptop and my PC.

Here!

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#2449 25-05-2012 8:31pm
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Anyone who's seen the intro to Contact will understand the significance of this.
http://jackadam.net/misc/radio_broadcasts/radio_broadcasts.jpg

What's that!? You haven't seen Contact!!!? Watch it tonight!!:mad:

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#2450 26-05-2012 12:05am
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^^
That is so cool. Such perspective...

Good movie. Great book.

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#2451 26-05-2012 10:22am
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Dades wrote: »

^^
That is so cool. Such perspective...

Good movie. Great book.

****e movie.

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#2452 26-05-2012 9:20pm
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CerebralCortex wrote: »

****e movie.

Yeah the movie really was a disappointment. Left out so many things that made the book great.

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#2453 26-05-2012 9:22pm
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I loved the movie, haven't read the book though.

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#2454 26-05-2012 10:08pm
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MagicMarker wrote: »

I loved the movie, haven't read the book though.

Don't mind those splitters. The movie is just a movie and the book is a book. Different media, different treatment.

I know they changed the "reveal" at the end of the movie, but it worked okay, too.

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#2455 26-05-2012 11:25pm
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Without endorsing (or not) any book or movie, can I just say that that picture was awesome (literally) - we can fool ourselves all we like about our own self-importance, but apart from that small purple dot in our own galaxy we may as well never have existed.
That's not to mention the unknown number of galaxies out there - just our own one - and even in our own one we're insignificant.

Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.

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#2456 27-05-2012 12:10am
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Dades wrote: »

Don't mind those splitters. The movie is just a movie and the book is a book. Different media, different treatment.

I know they changed the "reveal" at the end of the movie, but it worked okay, too.

They changed a lot. I just thought that how it was done in the book was a much better story. That's usually the way though.

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#2457 27-05-2012 12:53am
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^^
The trick is not to expect one to be too much like the other!

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#2458 27-05-2012 1:12am
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The trick actually is to watch the movie first and then find the book, start reading it and go
"Holy Sh1t books are amazing why don't I read them more often!?"

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#2459 27-05-2012 9:19am
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Dades wrote: »

Don't mind those splitters. The movie is just a movie and the book is a book. Different media, different treatment.

I know they changed the "reveal" at the end of the movie, but it worked okay, too.

Never read the book and found the movie terribly boring.

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#2460 27-05-2012 1:23pm
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Dades wrote: »

^^
The trick is not to expect one to be too much like the other!

I think this may have been the problem. I read the book first and was really excited to watch the movie because the book was so good... and then...

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#2461 27-05-2012 10:06pm
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Teen solves Newton’s 300-year-old riddle

http://www.canada.com/technology/Teen+solves+Newton+year+riddle/6685617/story.html

An Indian-born teenager has won a research award for solving a mathematical problem first posed by Sir Isaac Newton more than 300 years ago that has baffled mathematicians ever since.

The solution devised by Shouryya Ray, 16, makes it possible to calculate exactly the path of a projectile under gravity and subject to air resistance.

Bloody smart arse! :pac:

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