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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,074 ✭✭✭RiderOnTheStorm


    New Home wrote:
    as its source, but I'm too tired to try and concentrate long enough to make sense of it.

    Find it hard to believe 1% is in the ocean, and tried to read that source but lost will to live ...
    If this is true, then I DEFINITELY did not know that!


    CruelCoin wrote:
    You could stop a hurricane like "irma" by shooting at it.

    Well, the numbers look right ... But how do you know that the energy from the bullets is being subtracted from the hurricanes energy? The shots could be adding to the hurricane! gasp


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭CruelCoin



    Well, the numbers look right ... But how do you know that the energy from the bullets is being subtracted from the hurricanes energy? The shots could be adding to the hurricane! gasp

    You shoot into the leading edge of the hurricane.

    But aye, you could enpower a hurricane by shooting the receding edge!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 828 ✭✭✭JaMarcus


    If you search for it you can also find the story about when he actually opened and had some customers in. They bought frozen stuff from Iceland (the supermarket) and heated it in the microwave and the people thought it was amazing.

    Here's the video - it's a brilliant watch.



  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    The Corpus Callosum is situatued under the cerebral cortex in the human brain, and among other things it connects the two hemisphere of the brain. In general, the right side of the brain largely controls movements on the left side of the body, and the left side controls the right. Damage to this area on the right side of the brain can result in cognitive issues, as well as issues of control and muscle recognition on the left side of the body. One of the more interesting medical conditions that can result from right hemisphere damage from injury, surgery or illness such as a stroke, is Anarchic hand or Alien Hand Syndrome.

    AHS is a rare neurological condition where one hand basically seems to act on it's own. A person could be writing with their right hand, and if the left is affected by AHS, then the left hand might purposefully move to stop them, or take the pen away. One could lift a fork to one's mouth with a right hand, and the left hand could smack it away. The movements appear considered and deliberate and goal orientated, and a battle to keep things in one hand while the other hand tries to take them away is a common symptom. You could zip up your fly with one hand while the other immediately takes it down. It must be incredibly frustrating. It differs from other disorders in that the patient recognizes it as belonging to them, but it appears to have it's own will.

    It must be distressing to live with and thankfully it's rare since there is no cure for AHS. Drugs offer limited help, vocalizing commands to the rogue hand can sometimes help, and as a last resort strapping the hand down is used. Some people have even reported their hand as trying to hurt them.

    It seems a very unfair business to survive injury, stroke, surgery or whatever, only to be burdened with a rogue hand sabotaging your everyday life from slapping you awake to trying to choke you.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,537 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    CruelCoin wrote: »
    The most searched for term on the Bing search engine has been "Google" for 28 months running.

    RIP Bing
    Bing was caught using Google.

    Hiybbprqag was a made up word with made up results. But after a while Bing started returning results that could only have been scraped off Google.


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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,306 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    A pine tree was planted in memory of George Harrison at a park in LA in 2004 died after being infested by beetles.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    They should have went with Norwegian Wood.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,306 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    Ipso wrote: »
    They should have went with Norwegian Wood.
    They should have just Let it Tree.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,209 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Surely you mean "Let it Bee".


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,306 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    Joan-Pujol_54253876757_54028874188_960_639-1900x1264_c.jpg

    Joan Pujol Garcia was awarded an MBE for his services in WW2 for the allies....but he also awarded the Iron Cross for services to Germany in the same war!

    He first approached the allies to work for them, but they rejected him. So, having developed a disliking for fascism during the Spanish civil war, he decided to go it alone in his crusade against the Nazi's. He went to work for the them, posing as a pro-fascist Spanish government official. He was sent to spy in the UK, a request he ignored and went to Lisbon instead and wrote out bogus reports on the UK, taking information from various public service sources like train timetables and cinema newsreels.

    This information would not have withstood much scrutiny, which is why he invented fictional sub-agents who could be blamed for false information and mistakes. He remained a trusted spy by the Germans.

    He was finally taken on board by the allies when they could see his worth as a spy. His family was moved to Britain and Pujol was given the code name "GARBO". For the remainder of the war, he and his handler Tomás (Tommy) Harris spent the rest of the war expanding the fictional network, communicating at first by letter to the German handlers and later by radio. By the end of it, the Germans were funding a network of twenty-seven fictional agents.

    Pujol played an important role in Operation Fortitude, the deception operation intended to mislead the Germans about the timing and location of the invasion of Normandy in 1944. The false information Pujol supplied helped persuade the Germans that the main attack would be in the Pas de Calais, so that they kept large forces there before and even after the invasion


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Find it hard to believe 1% is in the ocean, and tried to read that source but lost will to live ...

    Easy enough read.

    We find that the kingdoms of life concentrate at different locations on the planet; plants (≈450 Gt C, the dominant kingdom) are primarily terrestrial, whereas animals (≈2 Gt C) are mainly marine, and bacteria (≈70 Gt C) and archaea (≈7 Gt C) are predominantly located in deep subsurface environments. We show that terrestrial biomass is about two orders of magnitude higher than marine biomass and estimate a total of ≈6 Gt C of marine biota, doubling the previous estimated quantity.

    Most biomass is land based plants. More animals in the ocean but plants at 450Gt are much larger than animals at 2GT. Bacteria is 70Gt.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    The Palestinians and Israelis in Jerusalem observe different timezones. In the same city.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Most biomass is land based plants. More animals in the ocean but plants at 450Gt are much larger than animals at 2GT. Bacteria is 70Gt.

    What's Gt? Giga ton?

    So pound for pound there's 35 times more bacteria than animals? That is certainly surprising! :eek::eek:


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Wibbs wrote: »

    Could there be more biomass in the "dry" bits? I'd not have an issue with that D, but the claim that the entirety of the "wet" bits only has one percent of Earth's biomass? No way. That has got to be a typo, or some scientists were at the distillation kit in the lab and cooked up a doozie of a beverage.

    I think your disbelief stems from a false idea of how much water there actually is. When you look at the globe it seems to be roughly 3/4 water, but that's only the surface. Even the deepest ocean is barely a scratch on the surface in relative terms.
    Water is shockingly rare and only accounts for something like 1/4 of 1% of the total mass of the planet, that's everything - rivers, lakes oceans, clouds and bottles in supermarkets!.
    So 1% of the biomass is actually fairly teaming with life.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 81 ✭✭IvyTheTerrific


    Bing was caught using Google.

    Hiybbprqag was a made up word with made up results. But after a while Bing started returning results that could only have been scraped off Google.

    And that's not a new trick to catch out fraudsters.
    Dictionary makers put fake words in dictionaries and map makers put false features on their maps so they can tell when they've been copied.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    A dog's noseprint is unique, no two are alike.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    Think of a number.
    Double it.
    Add Six.
    Subtract your origional number.

    Your answer is three


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    If you put headphones in nostrils, close your windpipe and open your mouth, you turn your head into a big speaker.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,209 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    CruelCoin wrote: »
    Think of a number.
    Double it.
    Add Six.
    Subtract your origional number.

    Your answer is three

    Nope. I guess that only works for numbers under 10.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭Barney92


    New Home wrote: »
    Nope. I guess that only works for numbers under 10.

    It doesn't work for numbers under 10 either. Think it is meant to be

    Think of a number.
    Double it.
    Add Six.
    Divide it in half.
    Subtract your origional number.

    Your answer is three


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    The scientific name for "brain freeze" caused by eating something cold is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    And that's not a new trick to catch out fraudsters.
    Dictionary makers put fake words in dictionaries and map makers put false features on their maps so they can tell when they've been copied.

    Film studios put unique markers in screening copies to try detect who shared the screener to pirates.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,209 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Barney92 wrote: »
    It doesn't work for numbers under 10 either. Think it is meant to be

    Think of a number.
    Double it.
    Add Six.
    Divide it in half.
    Subtract your origional number.

    Your answer is three


    So what you do is divide 6 by 2.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    Barney92 wrote: »
    It doesn't work for numbers under 10 either. Think it is meant to be

    Think of a number.
    Double it.
    Add Six.
    Divide it in half.
    Subtract your origional number.

    Your answer is three

    You are correct! I didn't type the divide by 2 bit....


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭Barney92


    New Home wrote: »
    So what you do is divide 6 by 2.

    Exactly.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,558 ✭✭✭✭Fourier


    New Home wrote: »
    So what you do is divide 6 by 2.
    Virtually all number tricks (like doing something always leaving 9 or a number ending in 9 or starting in 123456789... etc) have fairly basic reasons they're true when you pull them apart.


  • Registered Users Posts: 21,489 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Fourier wrote: »
    Virtually all number tricks (like doing something always leaving 9 or a number ending in 9 or starting in 123456789... etc) have fairly basic reasons they're true when you pull them apart.

    Well yeah...... because it's mathematics.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,327 ✭✭✭FishOnABike


    Bing was caught using Google.

    Hiybbprqag was a made up word with made up results. But after a while Bing started returning results that could only have been scraped off Google.
    And that's not a new trick to catch out fraudsters.
    Dictionary makers put fake words in dictionaries and map makers put false features on their maps so they can tell when they've been copied.
    CruelCoin wrote: »
    Film studios put unique markers in screening copies to try detect who shared the screener to pirates.


    These deliberate mistakes are known as copyright easter eggs.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,558 ✭✭✭✭Fourier


    Well yeah...... because it's mathematics.
    I'm not sure what you mean. There are number patterns that are true for deeper reasons, but would also be 'just mathematics'. I more mean many number tricks don't really show an unusual fact about numbers, you're really just "dividing six by two" or similar.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 14,357 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    CruelCoin wrote: »
    The scientific name for "brain freeze" caused by eating something cold is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.

    Interestingly, I tried saying sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia and my brain froze.


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