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    Moi :oldman:

    I once went fishing for a wife but only caught a cold fish. :fishing: :icon_jawdrop:
     
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    The colors of an object are the colors you don't see.

    If something is red, it will absorb red light. It you see a red object, it is reflecting red light, not absorbing it.

    So when you see something that is red, that is the color it isn't. If something really is red, it will appear to not be red.

    However red light really is red. That is why light is additive and paints subtract. If you mix all colors of light, you get white light. If you mix all colors of paint, you get brown heading to black.
     
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    'saippuakauppias' is a 15 letter long Finnish word that reads the same backwards.
     
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    There is a place in New Zealand named Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu

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    There are certain shapes which if actually constructed and made infinitely large, would have the following properties: The surface area would be infinite but the volume is finite.

    In other words, you could fill it but you could never paint it.
     
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    What if you filled it with paint?

    Random trivia;
    "I'm 30"..
    Jeez, I suck at this.
     
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    Here's some random trivia.

    It's found, regardless of lifestyle/choices, 100% of human physical life ends.
     
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    I only know it's not Welsh because I see a vowel, am I right? J/k though, you know I've got respect for Wales though. (and NZ)..
     
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    'Cos that would only paint the inside? [​IMG]
     
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    Oh well it can't be Polish then? :blankstare:
     
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    I have spent way too many hours, and not enough hours at the same time, throwing rocks on frozen ponds just to hear that weird noise when the ice echoes.
     
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    I love the feeling of being in the woods, in the snow. There is no silence quite like it.
     
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    "'We are beginning to see how universes can be created,' Professor Harrison says. 'A small amount of matter -- roughly 10 kg -- at very high energy is forged into a black hole. Under the correct conditions, the interior of the black hole inflates into a new universe that endures for billions of years and contains billions of galaxies.' " At most, he argues, human intelligence is only one million years old. 'If we can already see how in principle universes can be created, then surely our descendants in the far future will have the knowledge and technology to design and create them.'"
    - The Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, June 1999, London Times Report
     
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    Oh screw that. It gets cold out there. I did it sledding on a golf course. Had to get home in time to see my shows.
     
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    Weeenie! I did a lot of backpacking when I was younger and I lived in the wilds for many years.

    Almost went down this waterfall once - as close as you can get without going down! Now that's living!!! For perspective, those tall trees in the background are probably 180-200 ft tall.

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    At one spot on the trail to the falls, there is a sign telling you how many people have died by going down the falls. I guess that should have been a clue?

    I've camped right at the top many times.
     
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    Oh I love ignoring the signs that tell you how many people have died jumping into big holes of water. Living in the wild is not for me. We used to do a lot of camping, playing on over and under mountains and such, be we sure as heck didn't do it when there was snow on the ground.
     
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    Actually, I haven't thought of this in many years, I almost died saving my best friend's life. But I didn't do it on purpose :D and it is a MIRACLE that we both didn't die. True story!

    It's about a five mile hike uphill to the falls. With heavy packs it is a push to get in before dark with a late start [after school on a Friday]. When we got to the top, we dumped our packs, grabbed our Bacardi 151, and sat right at the edge to watch the sunset. We were on a huge outcropping, seen just to the right at the top of the falls. that grew increasingly steep as you got closer to the point of no return. He was a little farther down than I was and just to my left. We were talking when suddenly he started to slip. Once he started to slide, he was a goner! It only got steeper from there. He screamed and I saw him start sliding. I instinctively thrust my leg out for him to grab, which he did, At that point he started to take me with him.

    We were on solid granite which was smooth and slick. Without thinking, I desperately reached out behind me to grab something. But there was no hope. It was solid rock and we were both going to die. EXCEPT, there was a crack in the granite. In that crack a Manzanita bush had grown and died. About 3" of the stump remained. Without even knowing it was there, I reached back and grabbed it as we started to slide - as if I knew it was there! I grabbed it like I knew exactly where it was. And it was enough to stop our descent.

    Years later, he introduced me to his family as the man who saved his life. I had almost forgotten about it by then but his kids treated me like a hero. :) But the fact is that I just reacted. It wasn't a thoughtful risk.
     
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    Rocks are slippery when wet. Everything is slippery when Bicardi 151 is involved. I have busted my noggin or other parts many times climbing on wet rocks around a waterfall in the woods up the road from where my aunt used to live. Couldn't resist though. She didn't have AC and when it was hot as blazes, that water was still ice cold.
     
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    “Our universe is probably a black hole…it meets all of the [mathematical] criteria. If you want to know what it looks like inside of a black hole, just look around your room.” - Dr. Michio Kaku
     
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    I used to think that black holes were the other ends of white holes; I mean...
    Black Hole;
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    White Hole;
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    But then someone told me 1 thing; a black hole is a singularity.
    I'd like to add on then, lol, that our universe is not a black hole.
    Space is a vacuum but... Light and time still can 'move'.


    This isn't a fact/piece of trivia from 2017, this is a question..
    Does space radiate?
     
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    I'm pretty sure Dr. Kaku knows that. ;) He coauthored one of the defining papers for String Theory.

    The Cosmic Background Radiation - the signature of the Big Bang - is found throughout all space.
     
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    When the Cosmic Background Radiation was discovered it confused the scientists. It was a strange radio noise seemingly coming from all directions.

    They finally concluded it was due to bird poop on their antenna. But it turned out to be the signature of the birth of universe.

    Bird poop, Big Bang... one or the other.... :D
     
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    The Naga Fireballs of Thailand



     
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    Notable people from my town atm..
    From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Croydon
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    • Feroz Abbasi, arrested in Afghanistan in 2001 and detained at Guantanamo Bay; lived in Shirley and attended school in Croydon
    • Adegbenga Adejumo (1987–), Croydon born dubstep producer known as Benga
    • Allan Ahlberg (1938–), children's writer (Penguin)
    • Baron Ali (1964–), born and raised in the north of Croydon; multimillionaire media entrepreneur and politician; co-founder of Planet 24 TV production company; MD at Carlton Television; currently chairman of ASOS.com and Chorion Ltd.; a Labour peer; one of very few openly gay Muslim politicians in the world
    • Dame Peggy Ashcroft (1907–1991), actress, born in Croydon and lived in George Street as a child; honoured in the naming of the Ashcroft Theatre, part of the Fairfield Halls; was a school friend of architect Jane Drew[1]
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    The house of Arthur Conan Doyle in South Norwood
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    • Len Jarrett (1921–), former Director of Administration of the World Scout Bureau; former World Organizer of Scoutings's Jamboree-on-the-Air for thirty years; Croydon born
    • Finn Jones (1988–), Croydon raised
    • Oliver Jones (1986–), Croydon born dubstep producer otherwise known as Skream
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    • Steve Kember (1948–), footballer, born in Croydon
    • George Arthur Knowland, recipient of the Victoria Cross during the Second World War
    • Krept and Konan, UK rap duo, raised in Gipsy Hill, Lambeth and Thornton Heath, Croydon respectively
    • Rachel Keen (1997–), singer/songwriter, known as Raye, raised in Croydon
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