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Sponge Baathist
Jan 30, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
FACT: the mexican cartel usually refers to underground rail smuggling lines as "patrick swayze express"

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Sponge Baathist
Jan 30, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
the electric chair was originally intended to be used in a bid to turn people into skeletons. only recently with nukular powerd plants has the chair been strong enough to kill the skeleton inside too

Suicide Sam E.
Jun 30, 2013

by XyloJW
Science doesn't prove atheists are exclusively correct by their lack of belief, yet they still manage to bring the same zeal and hubris to their meager understanding which causes people to be disgusted by organized religion. Not only are they the people they claim to pity/hate but they have managed to subvert science into something against faith (which it is not) and continually demonstrate a lack of understanding of science's fundamental principles. Good job, dolts!

Noyemi K
Dec 9, 2012

youll always be so sleepy when youre this tiny *plompf*

Suicide Sam E. posted:

Science doesn't prove atheists are exclusively correct by their lack of belief, yet they still manage to bring the same zeal and hubris to their meager understanding which causes people to be disgusted by organized religion. Not only are they the people they claim to pity/hate but they have managed to subvert science into something against faith (which it is not) and continually demonstrate a lack of understanding of science's fundamental principles. Good job, dolts!

same

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

correlation is pretty often also causation

ilikedirt
Oct 15, 2004

king of posting
did you know? cell phone signals are some of the most potent causes of cancer in the world, but human skin is too thick for the signals to penetrate!

ilikedirt
Oct 15, 2004

king of posting

Suicide Sam E. posted:

Science doesn't prove atheists are exclusively correct by their lack of belief, yet they still manage to bring the same zeal and hubris to their meager understanding which causes people to be disgusted by organized religion. Not only are they the people they claim to pity/hate but they have managed to subvert science into something against faith (which it is not) and continually demonstrate a lack of understanding of science's fundamental principles. Good job, dolts!

did you know? stephen hawking sold his soul to the devil in order to unlock the secrets of the universe. satan followed through on the deal but at a price - he made stephen hawking a big dumb retard!

Maldoror
Oct 5, 2003

by R. Guyovich
Nap Ghost
If you could open a wormhole and travel say 1,000 light years away from the Earth, and you were able to bring sophisticated telescopic equipment with you so you could look through it and see the surface of the planet (like Google Earth), the light the telescope would receive would be 1,000 years old, and you would see the Earth as it was 1,000 years ago.

Similarly, if we could figure out some kind of quantum entanglement communication device that could communicate instantly to anyone anywhere in the universe (like the ansible from the Ender novels), if you found a civilization say 1,000,000 light years from Earth, if they have advanced telescopic technology and could find the Earth and resolve fine details, they would be seeing the Earth as it was 1,000,000 years in the past, and they could send us data and images of it.

Given the above, it should be technically possible to see Earth at any point in the past, given the right conditions. It should be possible to see and study one of the impact events that caused mass extinction in real time. It should be possible to actually see what dinosaurs looked like, and how they behaved, with a big enough telescope at the right distance and a way to get the information to us faster than light.

turdriver
May 31, 2014

by XyloJW
all the worlds oceans connect

Seizure Meat
Jul 23, 2008

by Smythe

turdriver posted:

all the worlds oceans connect

so do all of the continents

Noyemi K
Dec 9, 2012

youll always be so sleepy when youre this tiny *plompf*

VikingSkull posted:

so do all of the continents

and the ice caps

bonestructure
Sep 25, 2008

by Ralp
Turkeys are capable of parthenogenesis.

http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/4hpoultry/t02_pageview/The_Tremendous_Turkey_10.htm

butplug accident posted:

There is no Nobel Prize in economics. It's awarded by Sweden's central bank, foisted among the five real prizewinners, often to economists for the 1% -- and the surviving Nobel family is strongly against it.


There is also no Nobel Prize in mathematics, because a mathematician hosed Alfred Nobel's wife on the sly and he found out. Cucked by a math dude and he never got over it. True story.

bonestructure fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Jun 1, 2014

HKBGUTT
May 7, 2009


All stoats are pedophiles. This proves that pedophilia is in fact natural.

Coldstone Cream-my-pants
Jun 21, 2007

Alfred Nobel was never married

The rest of it is also an urban legend type thing too I've read

you irl
Jan 22, 2014

The Royal Scrub posted:

Alfred Nobel was never married

The rest of it is also an urban legend type thing too I've read

please don't post urban legends in this thread, royal scrub, thx

ScratchAndSniff
Sep 28, 2008

This game stinks
All cats (lions, tigers, housecats, etc.) are technically the same species, and they are capable of interbreeding.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

ScratchAndSniff posted:

All cats (lions, tigers, housecats, etc.) are technically the same species, and they are capable of interbreeding.

a liger is basically possible

Comfy Fleece Sweater
Apr 2, 2013

You see, but you do not observe.

Starbuck was originally played by a MALE actor

Hobohemian
Sep 30, 2005

by XyloJW

ScratchAndSniff posted:

All cats (lions, tigers, housecats, etc.) are technically the same species, and they are capable of interbreeding.

Family is not the same thing as species.

Comfy Fleece Sweater
Apr 2, 2013

You see, but you do not observe.

Hobohemian posted:

Family is not the same thing as species.

Said YOUR MOM

Noyemi K
Dec 9, 2012

youll always be so sleepy when youre this tiny *plompf*
fun fact: family is the same thing as species

Hell Yeah
Dec 25, 2012

science fact: if you fart naked it smells different than when you are wearing clothes.

Hell Yeah
Dec 25, 2012

not true for making GBS threads though. it's science

EXTREME INSERTION
Jun 4, 2011

by LadyAmbien

ScratchAndSniff posted:

All cats (lions, tigers, housecats, etc.) are technically the same species, and they are capable of interbreeding.

This WILL upset the house cats though

Hobohemian
Sep 30, 2005

by XyloJW

Noyemi K posted:

fun fact: family is the same thing as species

Did they not teach you KPCOFGS in the one room schoolhouse where you were raised?

Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time
If a man fucks a goat, the goat can give birth to a goatman, but that doesn't make us the same species.

Noyemi K
Dec 9, 2012

youll always be so sleepy when youre this tiny *plompf*

Hobohemian posted:

Did they not teach you KPCOFGS in the one room schoolhouse where you were raised?

fun fact: all creatures are prokaryotes

Comfy Fleece Sweater
Apr 2, 2013

You see, but you do not observe.

Fun fact, the phrase "Scott free" originally referred to actor Scott Bakula

Suicide Sam E.
Jun 30, 2013

by XyloJW

etalian posted:

a liger is basically possible

http://www.ligerworld.com/ligers-in-us-zoos.html

How do you not know about this?

Toadvine
Mar 16, 2009
Please disregard my advice w/r/t history.
Fun fact: evolution is impossible in a closed energy system such as Earth

you irl
Jan 22, 2014
Did you know: cats whiskers are secondary sexual organs. When a cat rubs its whiskers against you it is getting a slight arousal.

you irl
Jan 22, 2014
Goats are more closely related to rhinos than to any other ruminants!

you irl
Jan 22, 2014
What's in a name? Stephen Hawking came up with the term 'black hole' after watching Neil deGrasse Tyson eat a hot dog.

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

you irl posted:

What's in a name? Stephen Hawking came up with the term 'black hole' after watching Neil deGrasse Tyson eat a hot dog.

bonestructure
Sep 25, 2008

by Ralp

you irl posted:

What's in a name? Stephen Hawking came up with the term 'black hole' after watching Neil deGrasse Tyson eat a hot dog.

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

There's no such thing as gravity, really.

Just bends and folds in Spacetime.

ilikedirt
Oct 15, 2004

king of posting

redshirt posted:

There's no such thing as gravity, really.

Just bends and folds in Spacetime.

did u know? ur mom is so fat she has to wash between her bends and folds in spacetime

wetdela
Oct 13, 2012

I CAME BACK AFTER 2 YEARS OF SILENCE SO I COULD AGGRO POST IN THE UKRAINE-RUSSIA THREAD.
If sperm are considered to be 'seed' it follows that babies are considered to be 'fruit'

Jesus Christ
Jun 1, 2000

mods if you can make this my avatar I will gladly pay 10bux to the coffers
Drooping colors are a result of pigment failure.

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ethanol
Jul 13, 2007



I learned today that a bird which farts to communicate is referred to as an 'anal duck'

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