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    So in Sweden, you have to plan spontaneity and get a permit in advance? :D
     
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    The theatres started using asbestos curtains which were also hazardous, they seemed harmless at the time.
     
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    Yup. :laughing:
     
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    Not entirely unlike the Mormons and their long underwear. It is intended to prevent tempting others by accidentally showing skin.

    I once saw a documentary where the so-called Reformed Church of Latter Day Saints [Mormons] was investigated. They still practice polygamy. There was this one guy who had 13 wives, IIRC, and 30 or 40 kids... it might have been more like 50 or 60 kids. They had a large piece of property with a separate dwelling for each family. Some of the women acted as mothers and focused on the children. Others focused on maintaining the households, cooking, shopping, etc. Four or five of the women worked and brought in income. His main job was to maintain the property and buildings.

    The front door on each house had a hook. He would hang his hat on the door where he would be staying that night.

    For a moment, I seriously considered the idea of being a Mormon. LOL!
     
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    There was a documentary about the Shakers - a religious sect in the fashion of the Amish or Quakers, and famous for their hand-made wood furniture. They would only have sex through a hole in a sheet. One mustn't allow the bodies to touch any more than necessary.
     
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    It is why I never put a g-string on a guitar
     
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    Smart move. Air guitar wows an audience.
     
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    Mars has two moons - Phobos and Deimos. Deimos, the smaller of the two, has a gravity field so weak that with a good running start, an astronaut could jump right off and go into orbit; or even escape the gravity of Deimos and get pulled into Mars. How would you like to jump off a moon and land on a planet?

    Companies looking to commercialize earth's moon for tourists, have been working to develop lunar activities for the rich. Huge halls can be made using inflatable modules. And with only 1/6 the gravity as on earth, it is possible for a person to put on a pair of artificial wings, and fly like a bird.
     
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    What do you call the person who graduated last in their class, from the worst medical school in the country?







    Doctor.
     
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    In the 1600 and 1700s people generously opened their home to any traveler who presented themselves. It was considered rude to inquire how long they intended to stay. Still, there were only so many beds in a home, and residents often had to sleep with a strange bedfellow. This was also true in taverns, where one could rent half a bed. Bundling boards were sometimes placed down the center of a bed to divide it. Bundling was also practiced when a young woman and man became engaged. In that case, they would sew the two up in separate bags to ensure that no hanky-panky occurred.
     
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    I can't think of anything I'd rather do.
     
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    I think Ardy was making a joke.
     
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    Vagina Dentata - vaginas with teeth - is a psychological condition, a folk tale, and real.

    There are tales of vaginas with teeth to keep young men at bay. There is also a psychological condition where men develop a fear of vaginas.... And then the are the situations where vaginas really do grow teeth

    http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/parts/teeth-in-vagina.htm

    So remember porn stars: Smile for the camera!
     
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    I think I was too.
     
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    Majel Barrett Roddenberry was the only actor to have appeared or lent her voice to every official incarnation of Star Trek until she died. She was Number One in the first pilot (additional trivia: producers liked the first pilot enough that they wanted Gene to make a second one, but they wanted him to get rid of the pointy eared alien. Spock was the only character Gene kept, and the first pilot was later used as a two part episode). She was Nurse Chapel in the Original Series and Animated Series (as well as some other character voices). She played Lwaxana Troi on TNG and Voyager, and was the computer voice for everything through Enterprise, including several video games.
     
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    The flashing lights on the Borg drones [on TNG] were programmed to flash the names of the Star Trek actors, in Morse Code.

    I've watched the entire House series twice and then some. I noticed that the most often suggested disease or condition to explain a patient's condition, was Sarcoidosis. It is suggested in at least one of every three shows, if not more. House often said things like, it's always Sarcoidosis. But over the entire series, they never had one confirmed diagnosis of Sarcoidosis.
     
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    There is a Netflix documentary made by William Shatner, called The Captains. He interviews all of the actors who played a captain on any of the Star Trek shows. Perhaps the most striking detail that emerged was the huge toll it took on all their lives. Most ended up divorced. Kate Mulgrew said that to this day, her kids resent the Voyager series so much that none have ever watched it. They resent that it took their mother away for 7 years.

    Avery Brooks, the Captain on Deep Space 9, is one very strange dude! But he did seem to be as high as a kite when Shatner met with him... at least I hope so! :D
     
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    The ubiquitous guppy (Poecilia reticulate) found is aquariums all over the globe, was discovered by Robert John Lechmore Guppy in 1866, a British born naturalist living in Trinidad . Although rumored to be a clergyman named Rev. John Guppy, he was actually an agnostic. Having come into an inheritance from a relative, he left England at the age of 18 and was shipwrecked on the coast of New Zealand in 1856. After living with the Māoris for two years and mapping the area, Lechmere left New Zealand for Trinidad.
     
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    Go here to see when the International Space Station will be going over your house. You should get a couple of opportunities a night, every couple of days.
    https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/index.cfm

    Just enter your zip code, click down to your location, and select "View Sighting opportunities"

    And this is cool - a global real-time lightning map. It is handy in tracking local activity [to see if I need to start unplugging things]
    https://www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en#m=sat;r=0;t=3;s=0;o=0;b=;n=0;y=50;x=3.8477;z=4;
     
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    Live Feed from the Space Station
     
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    How about going 729 MPH in free fall?

     
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    Infinities are funny things. You can keep adding to them but they don't get any bigger. You can fit one inside another and then some. There is no end and no beginning. And you can get as close as you like to the end but never get there.

    In fact, there are an infinite "number" of different infinities.

    Zeno touched on the complexities of infinities back around 450 BC. He reasoned that there is a problem with motion.

    So if you break time down into moments and look at any moment, the arrow doesn't move. And if it isn't moving in any moment, then it can never go anywhere. After all, time is just a series of moments.

    What is interesting now, looking back at Zeno, is he had a point. Quantum Mechanics tells us that time may well tick along in Planck Seconds; where indeed, objects in motion "jump" from one position to the next, with nothing in between. This was the core of the problem Zeno recognized... in 450 BC.
     
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    But I think my favorite story comes about 200 years later, around 240 BC, when Eratosthenes realized not only how to prove the world was spherical, but estimated the size to within 10% accuracy. The Greeks already knew the earth was spherical but estimating the size was another matter.

    https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200606/history.cfm
     
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    A number 3 soap box racer is on a tootsie pop wrapper.
     
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