the more you know

[KinKyJ]

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What makes you think ecstasy does? The only study I am aware of [Ricaurte], that came to this conclusion has been well and truly discredited .

Long term memory is blanked permanently if you take enough x (study at the university of Utrecht, 2006)

[MJ]

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There are more atoms in a glass of water than there are glasses of water in all the oceans.

[GregWhelan]

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^Facts like that keep me awake at night. I f****** love random facts!

[nick007]

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Did you know that...If you see a driver flashing the lights in daylight, that probably means that police radar is near and you should be aware of the speed limit. Cyprus is one of the few places on earth that you will see people do that!

Im actually from Cy and i thought ppl do this everywhere haha sneaky

Yip we have it here too.

The big debate is whether it is "defeating the ends of justice" or "crime prevention"

[feather]

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^Drivers in Australia do that too, three flashes on the hi-beam IIRC.

[feather]

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What makes you think ecstasy does? The only study I am aware of [Ricaurte], that came to this conclusion has been well and truly discredited .

Damn I just read something about this last week. Some guy who's reportedly taken the most numbr of pills in his lifetime in any reported study. His long term memory is alright, but his short term memory is absolutely F*U*C*K*E*D. Almost like Alzheimer's, he doesn't even realize he's forgetting things or has a problem

[kassios]

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Yip we have it here too.

The big debate is whether it is "defeating the ends of justice" or "crime prevention"

not a big deal .....

[jasonemryss]

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^ Get shot for that in some places..

yup!!

[jasonemryss]

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God is one of US, just a stranger on the bus/

[Jenks]

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^lol. you're having trouble with the idea of this thread aren't ya?

[Kamal]

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saw this on Nova this past weekend.... INCREDIBLE INCREDIBLE show.....

Fascinating this Bose-Einstein condensate isnt it

absolute zero is -273.15 degrees centigrade (or 0 K).

in 2005, researchers at CERN in Finland cooled helium to 100 piko kelvin (or one tenth of one billionth of a degree above absolute zero). It is not possible to actually cool something all the way to absolute zero, as it would require an infinite time horizon and an infinitely large machine.

when liquids are cooled to very close to absolute zero, one of the strange properties they exhibit is called superfluidity. among other things, superfluids will only rotate at certain speeds....so if you put a superfluid into a container and start to spin the container, the superfluid will stay stationary until a critical speed is reached, at which point the superfluid will start to spin. thus the superfluid is quantized in terms of rotational velocity. <-think about that!

another strange property of some superfluids (Bose-Einstein condensates) is that they can slow light down to unimaginably slow speeds relative to the speed of light. in an experiment, they passed a beam of light through a B-E condensate and slowed it from its usual speed of 299,792,458 meters per second down to a crawling 17 meters per second (the speed of a road bicycle).


yes i'm a big nerd...but i love reading about shit like this.

[fumanchu182]

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Did you know...

A Goliath frog is about as big as a baby deer. Proof:

[rainman]

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In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That's where the phrase, goodnight, sleep tight came from.

[rainman]

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it is impossible to keep your eyes open while you sneeze.

[fumanchu182]

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it is impossible to keep your eyes open while you sneeze.

They will fall out of your eyesockets .