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    #1592
    maudgonner
    Registered Users Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Chancer3001 wrote: »
    Botox is the most poisonous (toxic?) Substance ever known.

    1kg costs a trillion dollars.

    If you had 2kg of it youd have enough to kill everybody in the world.

    The stuff people inject in their face is diluted to the billionth part and still kills nerves instantly

    And it's been propping up the economy of Ireland's Favourite Town* and St Patrick's holiday destination of choice, for many a year now.


    (A good chunk of the world's Botox supply is made in the Allergan facility in Westport)



    *As voted in some survey. It is a nice spot, in fairness.


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    #1593
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    One of the better known names of the Holocaust is that of Dr Joseph Mengele, who indulged his sadism with acts of barbaric depravity perpetrated on inmates in Auschwitz, many of whom were children, and in particular twins. Mengele experimented on more than 1500 twins, of whom less than 200 survived.

    Devoid of scientific rigour and without hypotheses, he injected dye into his victims eyes, performed surgeries without anesthesia, amputated, irradiated, blinded, brain damaged, and generally tortured his victims in the name of science and then justified it by categorizing his subjects as less than human and no more worthy of ethical concern than lab rodents.

    His data was evaluated by his superior, a man called Otmar Von Verschuer who would often direct Mengele to perform further experiments, yet was never convicted of war crimes and went on to become a well regarded university professor.

    The only positive thing that Mengele was inadvertently at least partly responsible for was the introduction of The Nuremberg Code, a ten-point code of research ethics to be applied to human experimentation, which was devised as a result of the evidence revealed at the post-war Nuremberg trials.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Code

    The monster who murdered so many innocent people was the spark that galvanized the movement to bring ethics oversight to science.


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    #1594
    Chancer3001
    Registered Users Posts: 5,480 ✭✭✭Chancer3001


    We always picture the moon as being just over there.

    And we picture some planets as absolutely huge. Like Jupiter.

    But the truth is that you could fit all our 8 planets between us and the moon.


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    #1595
    Buckfast W
    Registered Users Posts: 571 ✭✭✭Buckfast W


    Chancer3001 wrote: »
    We always picture the moon as being just over there.

    And we picture some planets as absolutely huge. Like Jupiter.

    But the truth is that you could fit all our 8 planets between us and the moon.

    I'd imagine that would do wonders for the tides :P

    Green olives and black olives are not different types of olives they're just picked at different times depending on ripeness, with green olives being picked first and black olives second.


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    #1596
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    Chancer3001 wrote: »
    We always picture the moon as being just over there.
    And we picture some planets as absolutely huge. Like Jupiter.
    But the truth is that you could fit all our 8 planets between us and the moon.
    I tried but failed.


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    #1597
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Squall Leonhart wrote: »
    I had to look it up. It means "having no feet, or only rudimentary feet"

    So to use it in a sentence "as a dancer, I am apoduos":D


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    #1598
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    retalivity wrote: »
    Just north of almeria is tabernas, one of the few deserts in europe. A lot of hollywood western films were shot there in the 50s as the desert looked more 'american' than anything in nevada/arizona - fistful of dollars was filmed there!

    There are also small deserts in Poland, Serbia & Italy, and technically the majority of Iceland and Greenland are also deserts.

    I was reading about the one in Poland recently - it's a fairly odd one in that it's man made. I'm not sure if it even technically qualifies as a desert on annual rainfall grounds. Medieval deforestation led to the lowering of the water table to the extent that the parched soil could no longer support any plant life and eventually turned to dust. It's been slowly but surely shrinking ever since but there are moves to protect it as a fairly unusual landscape.


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    #1599
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,469 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Most of the agent orange defoliant used by the US in Vietnam was actually manufactured in New Zealand (just down the road from where I live in fact), at the Dow plant in New Plymouth.


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


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp0wkrlPqxQ


    There have been a number of massive alligators spotted in Florida the past few years. The reason for this is that conservation efforts have helped their populations to rise again, and hence more mature ones are being allowed to grow to their full size. Large gators were never seen before because they were usually hunted long before they could grow to the size of the one in that video.


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    #1601
    Chancer3001
    Registered Users Posts: 5,480 ✭✭✭Chancer3001


    If you use sound waves to burst a bubble underwater , the pop gives off a little burst of light

    And nobody really has a clue why


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    #1602
    Outlaw Pete
    Registered Users Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    The next door neighbour of Arnold's in Jingle All The Way (Phil Hartman) was shot in the head by his wife shortly after he went to bed (following an argument about her taking drugs). A short time later, after having told some friends what she did and while the cops were on the way, she took her own life shooting herself in the head.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPH3HSA_EfI



    I actually only found out about this a few nights ago myself right after I had watched an interview he did with Chris Farley (shortly after both left SNL) and so Google'd him to see what he had been up to since '96.


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    #1603
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    Outlaw Pete wrote: »
    The next door neighbour of Arnold's in Jingle All The Way (Phil Hartman) was shot in the head by his wife shortly after he went to bed (following an argument about her taking drugs). A short time later, after having told some friends what she did and while the cops were on the way, she took her own life shooting herself in the head.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPH3HSA_EfI



    I actually only found out about this a few nights ago myself right after I had watched an interview he did with Chris Farley (shortly after both left SNL) and so Google'd him to see what he had been up to since '96.
    Probably best known as Lionel Hutz and Troy McClure in the Simpsons.


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    #1604
    stimpson
    Registered Users Posts: 7,815 ✭✭✭stimpson


    Outlaw Pete wrote: »
    The next door neighbour of Arnold's in Jingle All The Way (Phil Hartman) was shot in the head by his wife shortly after he went to bed (following an argument about her taking drugs). A short time later, after having told some friends what she did and while the cops were on the way, she took her own life shooting herself in the head.

    Worst comedy sequel ever.


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    #1605
    razorblunt
    Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Lionel Hutz and Troy McClure were also "retired" by The Simpsons after his death as a tribute to him.

    Great characters too.


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    Realt Dearg Sec
    Registered Users Posts: 10,822 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    Skylinehead wrote: »
    Probably best known as Lionel Hutz and Troy McClure in the Simpsons.

    Yeah,was gonna say, who knows Phil Hartman primarily as "the neighbour in Jingle All the Way"? It's like calling Bryan Cranston that lawyer in Sabrina the Teenage Witch.


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    #1607
    retalivity
    Registered Users Posts: 14,000 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »
    It's like calling Bryan Cranston that lawyer in Sabrina the Teenage Witch.

    You mean Hal from malcolm in the middle?


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    #1608
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    retalivity wrote: »
    You mean Hal from malcolm in the middle?

    That was Bryan Cranston.


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    #1609
    Roger Mellie Man on the Telly
    Registered Users Posts: 1,096 ✭✭✭Roger Mellie Man on the Telly


    Wood doesn't burn.


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    #1610
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users Posts: 6,210 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Roger Mellie Man on the Telly wrote: »
    Wood doesn't burn.

    It would if you had some Chlorine triFluoride handy. You can burn concrete with that sh!t :eek:


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    #1611
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Roger Mellie Man on the Telly wrote: »
    Wood doesn't burn.

    No solid does. It's the gas given off when it's heated, that burns,


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    #1612
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,091 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    retalivity wrote: »
    You mean Hal from malcolm in the middle?

    You mean Tim Watley from Seinfeld?


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    #1613
    ScrubsfanChris
    Registered Users Posts: 8,599 ✭✭✭ScrubsfanChris


    Skylinehead wrote: »
    Probably best known as Lionel Hutz and Troy McClure in the Simpsons.
    Before his death, Phil Hartman was in talks with James L. Brooks and the Simpsons writing staff about producing a live action Troy McClure movie with Hartman in the titular role.


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    tomwaterford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    Candie wrote: »
    One of the better known names of the Holocaust is that of Dr Joseph Mengele, who indulged his sadism with acts of barbaric depravity perpetrated on inmates in Auschwitz, many of whom were children, and in particular twins. Mengele experimented on more than 1500 twins, of whom less than 200 survived.

    Devoid of scientific rigour and without hypotheses, he injected dye into his victims eyes, performed surgeries without anesthesia, amputated, irradiated, blinded, brain damaged, and generally tortured his victims in the name of science and then justified it by categorizing his subjects as less than human and no more worthy of ethical concern than lab rodents.

    His data was evaluated by his superior, a man called Otmar Von Verschuer who would often direct Mengele to perform further experiments, yet was never convicted of war crimes and went on to become a well regarded university professor.

    The only positive thing that Mengele was inadvertently at least partly responsible for was the introduction of The Nuremberg Code, a ten-point code of research ethics to be applied to human experimentation, which was devised as a result of the evidence revealed at the post-war Nuremberg trials.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Code

    The monster who murdered so many innocent people was the spark that galvanized the movement to bring ethics oversight to science.

    I did remember reading before somewhere that alot of modern techniques etc into reviving those suffering from hypothermia are as a result/loosely based on nazis hypothermia exexperiments as required for luffwaffe pilots what we're recovered



    The main reason being is that,it's impossible to get volunters to redo this experiments to a proper modern standred



    Dunno how ture this is,I end up reading some random shyte at times


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    #1615
    Cianmcliam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 715 ✭✭✭Cianmcliam


    tomwaterford wrote: »
    I did remember reading before somewhere that alot of modern techniques etc into rewarding those suffering from hypothermia are as a result/loosely based on nazis hypothermia exexperiments as required for luffwaffe pilots what we're recovered



    The main reason being is that,it's impossible to get volunters to redo this experiments to a proper modern standred



    Dunno how ture this is,I end up reading some random shyte at times

    Yeah I remember seeing photos of some poor guy put into an ice bath to see how long he survived the temperatures.


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    #1616
    marcbrophy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,428 ✭✭✭marcbrophy


    pickarooney wrote: »
    You mean Tim Watley from Seinfeld?

    You mean Hammond Druthers from How I Met Your Mother? :D


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    #1617
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    marcbrophy wrote: »
    You mean Hammond Druthers from How I Met Your Mother? :D

    You mean Paramedic #1 in Amazon Women on the Moon?


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    #1618
    maudgonner
    Registered Users Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    You mean Paramedic #1 in Amazon Women on the Moon?


    You mean Parker Foreman/Jerry Wilber/Brian East from Murder She Wrote?

    Not such a great detective after all, were you Jessica? Never spotted that this guy kept turning up under different aliases the whole time, the sneaky divil!


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    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    100 years ago today, Joe McGuinness was elected to represent the voters of South Longford in Westminster, leading to the release of all those held in jail after the Easter Rising a short while after.

    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/all-changed-utterly-after-south-longford-byelection-100-years-ago-today-35694291.html


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


    The most explosive chemical know to man is called azidoazide azide.
    You may think that the military would be all over something like this but no, like this redhead I once knew, it is just too damn explosive for any practical application.
    It explodes when it's touched, the slightest heat will set it off, if you try mix it with any other substance it will likely explode, there was one case where a batch exploded just because a researcher had the audacity to take its photo with an infra red camera!


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    #1621
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,148 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    The most explosive chemical know to man is called azidoazide azide.
    You may think that the military would be all over something like this but no, like this redhead I once knew, it is just too damn explosive for any practical application.
    It explodes when it's touched, the slightest heat will set it off, if you try mix it with any other substance it will likely explode, there was one case where a batch exploded just because a researcher had the audacity to take its photo with an infra red camera!

    sounds a hoot! If you are interested in really nasty chemicals this blog has been running for a few years now. The guy really knows his stuff and is really funny as well. http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/things-i-wont-work-with


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