Fun fact of the day!

[Thee Pie Man]

Funny stuff.

Fun fact here: Earth is not mostly water. The earth is actually 0.0232 % water by mass.

Troll logic? Meet science.

I said planet, I didn't say earth, so Troll logic says SCREW YOU =P

Talking about THIS:

http://24megabytes.com/scientists-discover-new-planet-made-%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8Bup-of-mostly-water/

Also who ever said weight makes everything? You can have more AIr in a place then you can have Water, AKA compressed air. Merp. So even if by mass that's how much water there is in the weight spectrum I was talking about the stuff itself, not the weight. There is more water then everything else ON earth, not floating around, not eating pie, not killing a duck, no I am saying if I meant earth it still would be true D:<

Man it's like saying you can't have an entire ecosystem in one speck, or if you do it's irrelevant because it's mass is less then ours >:L

[Smackman]

Isaac's Pizza and Abortion Clinic, your loss is our sauce!

[Zeus Kabob]

Oh god, smack. That's terrible yet hilarious.

I feel like a planet made mostly of water would suck as a vacation spot.

[montesat]

Random theory, if you go back into the "past" it wouldn't change anything for the people living in the future you came from because that future would be apart of another line of events that did happen, all you'd be doing is going back, changing something so people in another line of time would have better lives/ be richer, etc. I have also thought about it and I think you'd have to have built it in the time period you want to go back to, otherwise how can it exist in the other time? Which brings me to my next thing you'd have to exist in the other time aka you would be as young as you were at that point of time. O:

You are also assuming there isn't a natural order to the universe. Who is to say that even if you did go back in time, there would be no major impact on the time line because the universe is self correcting. While it is true that a butterfly flapping its wings can cause an earthquake in Russia, there are also numerous amounts of steps in that chain that can be corrected to ensure the earthquake will occur even if you go back in time and squash the butterfly!

Your assuming there is a natural order to the universe. What if, using both ideas, that there are multiple natural orders. It all depends on which one you try to change and greatly effect.

[jayjaycaps]

Isaac's Pizza and Abortion Clinic, your loss is our sauce!

As it turns out, if your very wealth or sick (or a combination of the two!) you can get a special facial treatment said to help reduce wrinkles. The main ingredient? Human placentas. They get shipped from Russian Abortion Clinics (Where else?) and get smeared onto rich people's faces.

If you don't know what a placenta looks like, or you just want to be mentally scarred for a while, look it up. It's some nasty as hell stuff.

[talin]

I could understand artificial stem cells being used to "reduce wrinkles" and I could understand using unwanted fetuses for research on how to repair people who are seriously handicapped but combining the 2 is pushing it. Paralysis cure vs wrinkle cream. If I was a fetus who failed to become a actual child due to my mother not wanting me, at least let me help someone in dire need! plus, wtf kind of person wants abortion cream all over there face? Wasteful.

[jayjaycaps]

Some societies even eat the placenta. Oh, and it always happens, placentas. Not just after an abortion (something they won't tell you in health class!) . Just so happens the Russians only donate unwanted ones.

[Smackman]

makes good gravy

[dariusthethird]

Fun fact: In Europe, several hundred years ago or something like that, there was invented a game called Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden. And thus Golf entered the English language.

[FuzzFace]

Fun fact: a person with more than one personality that commits suicide is considered a homicidal killer.

[BlueLight]

You are allowed to slowly and painfully kill yourself by starvation.
However you are not allow to cut your self and make it quick.

[Zeus Kabob]

You can kill yourself with alcohol or cigarettes accidentally, but not with poison purposefully.

Our legal system is boned.

[Paradox]

If you squeeze your left thumb in your fist, you will temporarily have NO GAG REFLEX.

Go on. Test it. You know you want to.

Now ask yourself: "Da fuq?"

[Smackman]

Seems to work... stranges stuff

[maximilianos]

Since your all talking about science and heavy shit, I'd like to post a theory

Today scientists try to make things invisible (using many methods), but all I've heard of results in total darkness under this cloak-devise

So I'd like to say what I'd you had a devise that makes the sunbeams hitting you vibrate in a frequency our eyes can't See
This would ofc make us a black hole(not like the ones in space...) but adding micro cameras all over you would result in you becoming invisible, but still be able to see (as long as you don't have micro cameras blocking your veiwe(wich most likely would result in not seeing))

Mabye if you have the cameras inside your skin (and other tissues) close enough to the surface to still work.

I get the feeling I'm missing something, but tell me what it is so I can edit my theory.

Juuuust realized that the micro camera fibers would make the light frequency manipulator completely worthless

BUT if you have a pair of doubble sided eyeglasses that had a micro camera fiber layer on the inside projecting the outside in front of you, and a micro camera fiber layer on the outside projecting what's behind you!
Then you would get invisible, yet see

[Zeus Kabob]

I'll start at the top.

Light is made up of photons, which have a wavelength and a direction. The wavelength of light determines its visibility (380-750 nm is visible light), and the direction determines where it goes.

A device that changes the frequency of light is possible, but it would have to use one of a few different methods. The only method I can think of would be to vibrate a physical reflector in order to change the frequency of light. This would take advantage of the Doppler effect, the only problem being that to shift red light upwards out of the visible light spectrum, the device would have to be moving at about half the speed of light (1.5e8 m/s). This speed is entirely impractical.

As well, this only makes the object "invisible" in the way that a blackboard is "invisible". To make something truly invisible, you must simulate the action of having all light pass through the object. If all light only moved one direction, this would be easy, but light moves in many directions. A potential setup is a suit made of cameras and an as of yet unknown device that can release light in various directions. The suit would collect light with the cameras, and a piece of software would use the locations of the cameras, the dimensions of the person wearing the suit, and the light input to simulate the light passing through the figure.

As far as I can tell, the technical implications of this setup are ridiculously complex and fraught with error. This is the "invisibility cloak" that is currently being developed, and its current stages are not "invisibility", but "active camouflage" (think fatigues, not Halo).

Another way to cause invisibility is to surround the "invisible" object with a metamaterial that has a negative refractive index for light in the range of 380-750 nm. A proof-of-concept has been made for a metamaterial with a negative refractive index in the 50 cm - 1 m range, so it's theoretically possible to make this material, but it requires nanoscale engineering that we don't have.

I've rambled a bit, but you can probably interpret the ideas here.

Sorry for the wall o' text.

[Zeus Kabob]

New fun fact!

Almost everyone knows about the three main phases of matter: solid, liquid, and gas.

Many people know of a fourth state of matter: plasma.

Very few know of the many other phases that exist. There's the ferromagnetic phase, the antiferromagnetic phase, and many quantum phases.

The fun fact is about these quantum phases. All of them are accessed by changing an environmental parameter such as magnetic field strength while the material is at absolute zero (0 K, -273.15 C, -459.67 F). I spoke with a professor who did work in this research. He cooled a large monocrystal to 1e-6 K, then subjecting to over ten Tesla of magnetism. This caused a quantum electron spin change in the material, which is an indicator of the phase change. As the material wasn't cooled to absolute zero, the phase change didn't occur in totality, but isolated areas changed phase for small periods of time.

For a comparison of the magnetic field strength, an MRI has a field strength of between 1.5 and 3 Tesla, and a 16 T magnet can be used to levitate a frog.

[zeldafreak1]

o.o brain hurts.....too much educational skool things on a porn forum.....must go lurk in creative corner....

[Schramm]

Only a frog? No other small animal or just specificly a frog?
And what type of frog?
Dammit man, I want cold hard facts! After all, this is science!

[BlueLight]

New fun fact!

Almost everyone knows about the three main phases of matter: solid, liquid, and gas.

Many people know of a fourth state of matter: plasma.

Very few know of the many other phases that exist. There's the ferromagnetic phase, the antiferromagnetic phase, and many quantum phases.

The fun fact is about these quantum phases. All of them are accessed by changing an environmental parameter such as magnetic field strength while the material is at absolute zero (0 K, -273.15 C, -459.67 F). I spoke with a professor who did work in this research. He cooled a large monocrystal to 1e-6 K, then subjecting to over ten Tesla of magnetism. This caused a quantum electron spin change in the material, which is an indicator of the phase change. As the material wasn't cooled to absolute zero, the phase change didn't occur in totality, but isolated areas changed phase for small periods of time.

For a comparison of the magnetic field strength, an MRI has a field strength of between 1.5 and 3 Tesla, and a 16 T magnet can be used to levitate a frog.

So um... What are the traits to these phases and do they explain why glass is a liquid and tar is a solid?