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In Disney's Aladdin, Aladdin tricks Jafar into wishing to become a Genie so that the evil wizard will be trapped in a lamp for all eternity. Actually Genies (or Djinn) are naturally free unless trapped by a powerful magi or holy man. Aladdin's scheme would have backfired horribly, unleashing a malevolent djinn upon the world and dooming the kingdom.
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Applewhite posted:In Back to the Future, Doc Brown's time machine requires 1.21 "jigawatts" to travel backwards through time. The "jigawatt" is not an actual unit of electrical power. The real unit is the "gigawatt" from the latin "giga" meaning "billion." 1.21 Billion watts. "Jigga" is the correct pronunciation for the prefix "giga", but then a bunch of computer nerds who'd only read it but never heard it pronounced started saying it with a hard G sound, such as in gigabytes. The prefix giga comes from the Greek word for "giant". So, in Back to the Future, Doc Brown does say "1.21 gigawatts", but he says it correctly. 
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Mar 1, 2016 18:19
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The Muppet Show segment "Pigs In Space" depicts pigs exploring the galaxy, when in fact all members of the suidae family lack the manual dexterity to build spacecraft.
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Mar 1, 2016 18:20
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Doc Block posted:"Jigga" is the correct pronunciation for the prefix "giga", but then a bunch of computer nerds who'd only read it but never heard it pronounced started saying it with a hard G sound, such as in gigabytes. And yet they pronounce "Graphics Interchange Format" with a "J"...
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Mar 1, 2016 18:22
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mdm posted:ask me a vague question about science and I will come up with the correct simplified platitude you want to hear and it is infinitely more interesting coming from me because *sips wine, is buddy with Bill Nye The Science Guy™*
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Mar 1, 2016 18:37
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American pie perpetuates false stereotypes u can gently caress a pie anywhere tested and proved
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Mar 1, 2016 18:37
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social vegan posted:super mario land isn't very realistic. Italians have evolved an extra bone in their hindlimbs made out of cheesy breadsticks that prevents them, as a race, from jumping more than 10 cm from the ground Luigi is actually Mario's half brother, born of Serbian stock. That allows him to jump much higher. 
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Mar 1, 2016 18:42
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Many modern Christians believe that Jesus is Lord. In fact, there is only one god, Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet.
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Mar 1, 2016 19:45
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If Allah is the light then he will have been red shifted into the microwave range and would no longer be visible.
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Mar 1, 2016 19:52
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BLACK SYENSE MAN Black sience man black sysence man bbbbbbbllllllllllllllaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacccccccccckkkkkkkkkk science maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan blacko scyenseo mano le mano sciencious negros balcka science maaaaaaaaaan oh goddamn black sience manaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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Mar 1, 2016 19:54
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In Shrek, princess Fiona causes a bird to explode by making it sing until it bursts. Brids sing by forcibly exhaling air across the "sarynx," a bony organ located at the bottom of their trachea. Since air is leaving the bird's body as it sings, rather than entering it, there should be no reason for it to inflate like a balloon, much less pop.
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Mar 1, 2016 20:18
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In most first-world countries, a man who places himself under the influence of enough psychoactive substances to cause him to believe he lives in a house like Steve's house in Blue's Clues would be disqualified from even owning a dog, let alone working with children professionally
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Mar 1, 2016 20:33
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In the movie Deadpool, Deadpool would probs smell real bad because sweating all day in a tight costume would start to get funky
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Mar 1, 2016 20:35
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Gandalf's horse, Shadowfax, is often referred to as the king of all horses. Horses are so narrow-minded that seeing animals they are personally unfamiliar with is often enough to make them "spook" badly enough to place themselves in danger; they certainly couldn't handle the intense mental strain and subtle social interactions necessary for statecraft. At any rate, if the horses of Middle-Earth maintain their own sovereign government, why did it not send delegates to the Council of Elrond? Would they not be in a constant war with the Rohirrim for subjugating an entire race of horse to feed their military-industrial complex?
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Mar 1, 2016 20:38
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Anonymous Internet dwellers often make assertions to me that my mother is immensely, grotesquely obese, and also that she is extremely promiscuous. Sometimes they cast aspersions upon her intelligence, as well. What they apparently lack the brainpower to process is that a woman who manages to attract so many and varied sexual partners despite being so physically repellent and mentally deficient would logically need to be a pick-up artist of unprecedented skill, and I am proud to be related to her. Love you, mom. #MothersDay
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Mar 1, 2016 20:45
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loquacius posted:Anonymous Internet dwellers often make assertions to me that my mother is immensely, grotesquely obese, and also that she is extremely promiscuous. Sometimes they cast aspersions upon her intelligence, as well. What they apparently lack the brainpower to process is that a woman who manages to attract so many and varied sexual partners despite being so physically repellent and mentally deficient would logically need to be a pick-up artist of unprecedented skill, and I am proud to be related to her. Love you, mom. #MothersDay This one is pretty spot on
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Mar 1, 2016 20:45
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I was about to write up a post about how the planet from The Little Prince, which needs Earth-equivalent mass to generate Earth-equivalent gravity, is smaller than its Schwarzschild radius and so should be classified as a black hole, but I looked it up and the Schwarzschild radius for an object with the mass of Earth is like 9 millimeters oops I NDT-tweeted my own NDT tweet 
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Mar 1, 2016 20:53
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I was about to write up a consolation post about how the atoms that make up an object dense enough to be The Little Prince's planet would probably be so large that they're also radioactive as poo poo, but it turns out I was misremembering high-school chemistry and nucleus size doesn't actually necessarily correlate to nucleus instability (it has more to do with the balance between protons and neutrons) It's official, guys, The Little Prince is scientifically unassailable
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Mar 1, 2016 21:01
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It wouldn't need to have the mass of earth since its radius is much lower.
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Mar 1, 2016 21:32
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Germstore posted:It wouldn't need to have the mass of earth since its radius is much lower. drat meta-meta-NDTed (this would mean the schwarzschild radius is even smaller btw  )
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Mar 1, 2016 21:35
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In Hellraiser unlocking the Lament Configuration would in reality open a portal to my anus.
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Mar 1, 2016 21:44
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"I hate anything fun or entertaining, btw I'm smarter then you"
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Mar 1, 2016 21:46
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Baron Munchausen lifting himself by his own hair is a physical impossibility.
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Mar 1, 2016 21:49
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"The force" featured in Star Wars is not real.
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Mar 1, 2016 21:52
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https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/704778034809851904
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Mar 1, 2016 22:44
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Doc Block posted:"Jigga" is the correct pronunciation for the prefix "giga", but then a bunch of computer nerds who'd only read it but never heard it pronounced started saying it with a hard G sound, such as in gigabytes. But the "j" sound doesn't exist in Greek  the original Greek is γίγας, and the closest way to approximate the pronunciation of that in English phonetics is "yiyas".
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Mar 1, 2016 22:46
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this but unironically
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Mar 1, 2016 22:57
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Jesus would pick Hillary cuz jay z would
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Mar 1, 2016 23:54
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i'm a big weenie who transitioned from being funny and entertaining into being a pedantic nerd that gets swirlies everyday
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Mar 2, 2016 00:03
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In La Traviata, Violetta sings of her recovery from and eventual relapse into tuberculosis. In reality, operatic singing is a slow and inefficient method of communication, and the stresses it places on the lungs are likely to make such a disease worse.
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Mar 2, 2016 00:39
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"I will always love you." A fine sentiment, but 'always' would span the entirety known time from the beginning of the universe to its possible eventual end; a period hundreds of millions of times longer than that in which Whitney Houston's limbic system was capable of generating the hormones necessary to experience 'love'.
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Mar 2, 2016 00:53
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TacticalUrbanHomo posted:But the "j" sound doesn't exist in Greek It would be Ancient Greek, so wouldn't it still be a hard /g/ sound?
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Mar 2, 2016 01:02
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In Cosmos: A Personal Voyage Carl Sagan proclaims "If you wish to bake an apple pie, you must first create the universe" - nice try Carl, if that is your real name, but only Almighty God has such a power.
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Mar 2, 2016 01:03
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Cnut the Great posted:It would be Ancient Greek, so wouldn't it still be a hard /g/ sound? maybe, idk. definitely not "j", though.
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Mar 2, 2016 01:08
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I was voted the sexiest astrophysicist alive by People Magazine in 2000. *cock whips journalist*
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Mar 2, 2016 01:17
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TacticalUrbanHomo posted:maybe, idk. definitely not "j", though. True. jig'ə-wŏt is still considered to be an acceptable English pronunciation, though. It just has nothing to do with the original Greek.
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Mar 2, 2016 01:20
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loquacius posted:In most first-world countries, a man who places himself under the influence of enough psychoactive substances to cause him to believe he lives in a house like Steve's house in Blue's Clues would be disqualified from even owning a dog, let alone working with children professionally Most first world countries? He lives in America. His beliefs are protected by the Constitution.
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Mar 2, 2016 01:24
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Billions and billions of stars
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Mar 2, 2016 02:14
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TacticalUrbanHomo posted:But the "j" sound doesn't exist in Greek I said giga comes from the Greek word for giant. For whatever dumbass reason my phone wasn't letting me copy/paste the actual word from Safari into Awful.app. And Y->J and J->Y phonetic conversions between languages are somewhat common.
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Way down below the ocean is NOT where you'd wanna be. In addition to being unable to breathe, pressure increases as you increase depth. In fact if you change depth too quickly your own blood can kill you. She may be... But most likely she would have succumbed to these factors
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