Something interesting you learned recently

One of the largest stars in our galaxy (VY CMa) is estimated to be so large that it would extend out to Jupiter if it were positioned where our Sun is.

 

*gross fact *
Bacchus Marsh has the worst shit farm

 

In recent years matter has proven to express symmetry between heat and electromagnetism and between local and global forces during a phase transition. When bombarded with extreme frequencies of light it becomes unstable, indicating nonlinear effects in the nucleus that suggest matter expresses the resilience of complex systems. The Golden Ratio, or pi, has turned out to not be entirely random, but to express a multidimensional equation, while time crystals indicate space-time is hyperuniform, implying whether we perceive something to be matter or energy is context dependent, and physicists have documented the existence of photonic-matter that has properties of both.

 

You get everyones knows you dont know what you are talking about right?

π has turned out to be not entirely random????

 

About 60% of mammals on our planet is lifestock, 36% are humans and 4% wild animals

 

Within fifty years every wild land animal much larger than a dog is projected to either be extinct or only exist in zoos, ruining just about every complex ecology on the planet.

 

We'll see.

 

You will not see anything, because the greenhouse effect is expected to accelerate first and the food supply chain is expected to fall apart entirely. Most of us will die first. The shrinking Neo-Nazi white population of the US denies there is a problem and insists democracy is too liberal a solution, while they double the number of underground bomb shelters and accelerate their plans to colonize Mars. To a Nazi, the best defense is any deadly offense.

 

The skin on a human face has 16 layers, while the skin on the lips only has 3 layers. That is why your lips are pinkish in color--you can see the veins beneath the skin more clearly.

 

Xenoglossophobia - fear of foreign languages

Uxorophobia - fear of one's own wife, or wives

 

American Airlines Flight 191 which crashed immediately after take-off at Chicago ‘s O'Hare Airport on May 25, 1979 was the deadliest in U.S history killing 273 people,

 

Up to 100 car pile ups are not unheard of on the Jersey Turnpike on Thanksgiving weekend. Its essentially bumper to bumper 80mph traffic for about two hours of its length, with idiots still attempting to pass each other. Thanks to modern automobile designs, the number of fatalities is usually limited to around three these days.

 

Ahh finally! A name to go with this terrible affliction. I expect more understanding from now on

 

i keep meeting people who seem to be afraid of their own language. is there a word for that?

 

Poor.

 

One reason to not get married... Being able to pronounce this word.

 

Twelve miles a day was an average walking speed for pioneers going west, who often walked in order to spare their horses having to pull extra weight. The average person of the day was lucky if they traveled more than 120 miles from home over their entire lifetime.

 

Today was memorial day in the states. I found a related article about a Dutch lady who has been taking care of a u.s. service man's graveside. The article mentions that many people, and organizations adopted other gravesites as well.

That is very a thoughtful gesture from such great people.

She's watched over this WWII soldier's grave for 74 years. He was a mystery to her, until now

I've always liked the Netherlands; and not just because pot and shroom are legal.