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Umph posted:Not sure if this has been posting but something about this really bothers me. The idea of higher functions disappearing and you just finding some place to hide and die like an animal. I would think that terminal burrowing is an instinctual last ditch effort to try and find a safe area away from the source of cold that may be easier to prevent heat loss in and regain heat. Animal brain kicks in. Probably too late by then though. I actually think its awesome except for you know, the whole dying part.
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quote:the so-called "iron harvest  Sounds very Greyjoy.
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May 17, 2013 09:33
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DicktheCat posted:That was an insight I never hoped to have. Yeah I actually found the explanation of methodology one of the more terrible things I've read in this thread. edit; permabanned posted:
They actually got somewhere with some of it then, yeah. The common rumour I always heard was The Smurfs being propaganda. Socialist smurfs being chased by Garagamal to be turned into Gold (capitalism). Or something like that. I'm sure there's websites with chemtrails stuff on them that analyses it in more detail. hambeet has a new favorite as of 03:11 on May 20, 2013 |
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May 20, 2013 03:06
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Boneitis posted:Yeah, that one has always freaked me out, because I had a house in Georgia that would be within the blast radius. As I recall, they have lead poo poo-tons of investigations and searches because Savannah would be in danger if it ever actually did detonate, but despite never finding the bomb itself, they used Geiger counters or metal detectors or something and narrowed down the area that the bomb could be in to roughly a football field. The silt in the marshes covers everything, and if you have ever even stepped in one you know that you are up to your knees in mud within a matter of seconds. Chances are that bomb is dozens of feet under the silt where the radiation cannot really do much and most metal detectors cannot penetrate, though the water in that area is fairly corrosive, and might start to etch away at the metal after this much time I actually thought you were paraphrasing the article. Or you wrote it 
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Jun 6, 2013 23:52
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That is now the most interesting thing I've read in a thread that is chock loving full of interesting things. I want to know more. They should kick start research funding or something. I'd chip in  Poor whale. 
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Jun 10, 2013 02:01
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GIANT OUIJA BOARD posted:They don't claim that the film made it up, just that it sparked a renewed interest in it. They even quote the filmmakers talking about how the legend has been around for a while. Back in my day  Snopes used to try and find the origin so as to better disprove not just grab the most obvious.
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Jun 23, 2013 00:27
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I was at a bucks day / night that day drinking copious amounts of beer in the 46 degree weather in West Melbourne and I was keeping tabs on my phone of the weather using this site : http://www.baywx.com/melbtemp.html Here's the graph plot from that day, at 4:30pm the temp just dropped around 17 degrees in the space of 10 minutes:  Was a surreal day.
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Jun 23, 2013 23:38
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Jack Gladney posted:The best are the people freaking out about the wall outside the elevator being different after the doors open. How could the wallpaper change like that? I didn't read the comments as it's a self preservation strategy: are you for real? Holy poo poo.
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Jul 3, 2013 06:03
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abigserve posted:In my mind the spooky thing about that video isn't so much that she's freaking out, she's clearly out of her mind, but why don't the elevator doors close? Is that ever explained? Did she press a button for a floor? It looks like she tries to interact with the emergency button but doesn't press a button for a floor. The lift might be set not to close the doors when no floor has been pressed and there is a weight in the lift.
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Jul 3, 2013 06:24
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Ockhams Crowbar posted:Yeah, some of these are crushing. A lot of them seem to be trying to cram as much into a last meal as they can, one last chance to try a lot of things they enjoyed, but the simple ones are really heartbreaking. A box of Frosted Flakes; a cup of hot tea and half a dozen cookies; a bag of Jolly Ranchers. Imagine trying to pick the last thing you'd ever get to eat, and it makes you wonder what significance those simple little tastes had for those guys. What gets me is a lot of it is all hamburgers and what not and that's fine, then you see someone ordered Shrimp but they had none so he had a hamburger. I wonder how many of them didn't get what they wanted so just had a hamburger.
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Jul 4, 2013 00:36
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Jerry Cotton posted:I'd never seen a man with a humbler before. Thanks, I guess. Umm, someone wants a citation that it causes considerable discomfort...
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Jul 4, 2013 23:13
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Khazar-khum posted:I...how can you...I don't want to think about this. Well I was looking at this thread on my phone and couldn't see the picture on wikipedia well so GIS'd it....... Don't
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Jul 26, 2013 03:57
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Zombie Raptor posted:Jesus. I knew that pretty much all institutions of the sort were awful. I didn't, however, know that it was such a widespread issue. Well, drat, now I'm sad. This whole thread is basically people_are_shit.txt I've read this whole thing over the course of a week or so and I hate humanity that little bit more because of it. This thread is bad for your mental health.
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Aug 5, 2013 13:49
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Blimpkin posted:Those are two different cases. I apologize for not saying the Chicago Tylenol murders. and the following possible goon connection. PM'd Noisycat. Will come post.
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Aug 6, 2013 03:32
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Stare-Out posted:Man, that is creepy and all but his Wiki-parenthesized claim to fame being "(stalker)" is pretty hilarious. Compared to say, "(astronaut)" or something. It made me wonder if there was a 'list of stalkers'. There wasn't.
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Oct 16, 2013 03:19
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Vladimir Poutine posted:Spiders fell from the sky in Salta Province, Argentina on April 6, 2007.[29]  Frogs and fish are funny.... That's just hosed.
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Oct 18, 2013 11:01
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mr. mephistopheles posted:Yeah I feel like I might kill myself if it started raining spiders for more than like a day. You have a high threshold. More than a day? I'd say any instance of raining arachnids ever and I'd be running out onto the freeway at night.
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Oct 19, 2013 11:27
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wayfinder posted:The German Wikipedia article on the island says that the local legend of 1 snake per mē never did bear out, but that 1 for every 30mē was the approximate count a hundred years ago. It goes on to say that by mid-20th century, inbreeding led to a large percentage of snakes being unable to reproduce, an expedition in 1965 didn't find any snakes at all, and in the next year only 7 specimens, and it quotes a researcher who in 1977 speculated that the snakes would soon be extinct... That's exactly what you'd say to someone if you wanted them to go visit the island...
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Oct 20, 2013 12:36
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spooky_rob posted:Here's two good true crime articles: Good articles, thank you. I thought I recognized the name in the second article (turns out from earlier in this thread someone linked to the murderpedia article) and even though I had seen the last photo of Regina before, it still really caught me off guard.
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Dec 15, 2013 21:59
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Crow Jane posted:Not even a woman yet. According to the article earlier, she was 14 at the time that picture was taken. Yep 14. Also it looks like she has the chain and padlock around her neck in that photo.
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Dec 17, 2013 03:13
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You know what's worse than people talking about their own weird illnesses / diseases? People berating others about what they should or shouldn't find unnerving. You know what's worse than both of those? Lack or content, so enjoy:  Shamelessly stolen from much earlier in the thread
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Dec 18, 2013 14:07
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The picture was a linked URL to the Wikipedia article on David Corll. Unless I stuffed it due to phone postin'
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Dec 19, 2013 05:40
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Tibor posted:What the gently caress? I couldn't figure it out either but I didn't realise it was anything like that. Is it not illegal to post or look at that? It should be. It's on the Wikipedia article. The boy in the photo still hasn't been identified and wasn't one of the bodies that was found.
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Jan 11, 2014 21:29
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Sanford posted:Can anyone remember the name of the guy who was always hungry, and would eat anything? I think he lived in Paris, and the article talked about him fighting dogs for offal in the streets. He stayed in a hospital until a child went missing and he was assumed to have eaten it. Telling a friend about it and can't remember any more details. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrare Googling 'man insatiable hunger' had it as the first hit.
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Jan 29, 2014 23:03
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Sanford posted:Hah, thank you. Googling "Paris man fights dogs eats child" did not. Hahah, my first google Paris Man always hungry eats child also did not give me what I wanted. A lot of hits regarding french child gastronomy though.
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Jan 29, 2014 23:58
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I've always thought because it was associated with whatever they watched. Watched scary movies / tv shows? You're gonna makes some fearful associations. Disclaimer : generally I don't know what I'm on about. edit: looking at that blurb on the doco about 'the S from hell', it was shown after bewitched and the monkees. Not really a scarefest I guess. My disclaimer came true! hambeet has a new favorite as of 11:23 on Feb 18, 2014 |
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Feb 18, 2014 11:21
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Doctor Chaxtical posted:stuff
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Feb 21, 2014 13:04
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TheHistoryChannel posted:They are only dangerous to insects, we can eat them suckers, ants and all. A real scientist can correct me if I'm wrong but I believe these are the same cordyceps the Chinese have used medicinally forever. Apparrently they can help with depression. I'm dubious that its any more effective on depression than shark fin is for flacid penis. It talks about it on the wikipage. Yes the Chinese have been using it for a number of things for ages and recent research thinks it could be useful as an anti-depressant amongst other things.
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Mar 3, 2014 22:04
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El Estrago Bonito posted:The worst part is that, due to several sources, we know the Romans knew lead was poisonous and was a bad thing to use to make utensils and dishes out of. What we cant figure out is WHY THEY DID IT ANYWAYS. Because there were probably Lead Skeptics back in the day. In relation to the sperm degradation the poster above was talking about, I remember reading an article ages ago about how the Y chromosome is, I can't remember the term they used but 'damaged'? Compared to the x chromosome it's apparently weaker or more mutated and has bugger all left in it. I think they even said the X chromosome is responsible for it, attacking Y continually and making it the way it is. The point was that over time the Y might cease to exist at all and we will have adapted overtime to not need it. Asexual reproduction? I dunno. I know I sound really vague but does anyone recall or have seen what I'm talking about? Phone posting so it's a bit difficult to look up at the moment.
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Mister Adequate posted:Well I've never been accused of being reasonable, but because it's fun http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjawarn_station This link is related to your two. In 1993 Aum purchased a station in Outback Australia. Subsequent followup and search of the property after the Subway attack showed that sheep on the property had been exposed to Sarin gas and it appears that the site was a purpose built facility to test the sarin gas in the lead up to the two attacks. Good old Australian customs let them bring all sorts of chemicals into the country. There is also the mystery of an unknown seismic event that occurred in the region which some theorists have proposed that Aum may have tested a small nuclear weapon (which they were always keen on doing) in the abandoned mines in the area though there has been no evidence for to substantiate that. Given that they took control of the property only a month before the event has always made this a fringe theory and evidence now points to it being a meteor airburst, with the timing of Aum being there nothing but coincidental. edit: 1997 NY Times article regarding suspected nuclear seismic event http://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/21/science/seismic-mystery-in-australia-quake-meteor-or-nuclear-blast.html hambeet has a new favorite as of 22:10 on Mar 13, 2014 |
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Yeah okay I'm checking out of this thread. I've read the whole thing from start to finish and I think I'm done.
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