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07-23-2013, 11:34 PM
French Impressionism - as typified by the work of Monet - was due to Monet having dodgy eyes...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1...style.html
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07-23-2013, 11:37 PM
Vermeer (a favourite painter of mine) may have used
Camera Obscuras in his work:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/emp...a_01.shtml
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07-23-2013, 11:56 PM
Each morning - your life increases in expectancy by 6 hours.
http://www.bermanpost.com/2010/04/every-...tancy.html
Which means we are 25% of the way towards achieving immortality - since immortality would just be when the average life expectancy increases by more than 24 hours - every day.
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07-24-2013, 12:06 AM
The long term storage of nuclear waste raises interesting problems. Some of the deep geological repositories for nuclear waste will be dangerous to humans for the next 10-25 thousand years.
As such - it is very difficult figuring out how to communicate with people in the future since it is hard to imagine what the world will be like then. Particularly if civilisation has fallen backwards after a nuclear war or natural disaster.
Anyway - this article discusses this problem. Some of the solutions (such as glowing cats - mentioned in the wikipedia page) are incredibly ingenious.
http://www.damninteresting.com/this-plac...-of-honor/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Inter...Task_Force
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07-24-2013, 12:10 AM
Similar to the above - was the task of potentially communicating with distant alien civilisations. This was a project which Carl Sagan worked on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque
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07-24-2013, 12:14 AM
If you drop a bullet to the ground from your left hand.
And - at the same time - fire a gun in your right hand.
Both bullets will hit the ground at the same time.
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07-24-2013, 12:19 AM
Good point. But of course - these projects are planned on the basis that humanity may fall backwards in the future - due to some kind of disaster.
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07-24-2013, 12:22 AM
The euthanasia roller coaster:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_Coaster
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The Euthanasia Coaster is an art concept for a steel roller coaster designed to kill its passengers.
In 2010, it was designed and made into a scale model by Julijonas Urbonas, a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art in London.
Urbonas, who has worked at an amusement park, stated that the goal of his concept roller coaster is to take lives "with elegance and euphoria".
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07-24-2013, 12:23 AM
I had the intuition cardguy would burn up this thread.
Good work!
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07-24-2013, 12:34 AM
The word 'Bible' is never mentioned in any of Shakespeare's plays.
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07-24-2013, 12:37 AM
My favourite quiz question.
QUESTION ------------- IN THE BIBLE - WHO KILLS ONE QUARTER OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION?
ANSWER -------------- CAIN.
When Cain killed his brother Abel - there were only 4 people (Cain, Abel, Adam and Eve) on the Earth at the time.
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07-24-2013, 12:46 AM
Andy Warhol designed the famous logo for the Rolling Stones:
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07-24-2013, 12:47 AM
Many Russian universities do not change the questions on their exams for years, including exams for your Master's Degree!!!
You can buy your EGA score (equivalent to SAT).
You can buy admittance to the most prestigious universities in Russia, even with bad test scores.
You can even buy your university education in Russia. Basically, you pay off either your professor or someone who is high-up in the university.
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07-24-2013, 12:48 AM
The story behind the Apple logo is quite interesting. Since there was a dark urban myth behind it which many believed.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/2012/06/...e-logo.htm
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07-24-2013, 12:49 AM
Excellent website here (I have used it for years) which compiles urban myths. And also tries to investigate whether or not the urban myths are true:
http://www.snopes.com/
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07-24-2013, 12:49 PM
Yeah that is correct. I probably didn't explain it clearly enough.
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07-24-2013, 12:57 PM
It's impossible to lick your elbow
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07-24-2013, 09:10 PM
Dead bodies are used as waypoints for mountaineers climbing Mount Everest.
You can see some of the photos of the bodies still lying around on Mount Everest here.
http://imgur.com/gallery/rkRAk [link contains dead bodies/skeletons - so probably NSFW if you work somewhere boring]