Something interesting you learned recently

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  1. Meliai

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    I've never been in a sauna so this is probably common knowledge to most people, but I learned the typical sauna temperature is between 175 and 210

    So I was today years old when I learned humans wouldnt keel over and die in temperatures between 175 and 210
     
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  2. Meliai

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    Fahrenheit*
     
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  3. hotwater

    hotwater Senior Member Lifetime Supporter

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    The Admiral of the Ocean Sea made frequent references to the Hebrew Bible in his personal log, so some scholars (Mostly Jewish Scholars) have speculated that he might be part Jewish.
     
  4. lode

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    Those Mission Impossible face masks are real. Here's the former CIA master of disguise talking about it.

     
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  5. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    I learned that someone figured out how to isolate a Josephson's Junction in order to study the many body problem in quantum mechanics.
     
  6. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    Garage door torsion springs are listed as being .218" dia gauge wire, when they are actually .2187. So they round down, but mine is tagged .219, which means they rounded up.
     
  7. YouFreeMe

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    Gary Numan is 13 days older than Gary Oldman
     
  8. Meliai

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    This made me lol far harder than I would like to admit
     
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  9. Ashalicious

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    As can ignorance
     
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    Some info about my laptop. And also one very usefull thing - I learned how to download videos from youtube. I did not know that it was even possible. I got some info at site about app and I finally understand wich way I can do that. I suppose it's going to help me a lot im many ways
     
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  11. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    I learned that Huawa is on the rocks, which is what they've said about the company ever since it was founded. They are so obviously a front for the Chinese government, which is stealing every piece of technology they can get their hot little hands on, in a desperate bid to enter the 21st century. Sadly, most of China's assembly line electronics are already being automated and the real issue is just how soon everybody's jobs will be automated worldwide. It ain't happening overnight, and this is going to get Ugly first if you ask me.

    China just spent over half a century modernizing their infrastructure as best they could, including an extensive highway system like that of the US, because they knew the shit was about to hit the fan and without even roads and buildings they would be helpless. Something like a single skyscraper has to order the steel alone three years in advance and you don't throw up and extensive infrastructure overnight unless you want to kill yourselves.

    While that might sound like the Chinese are smart, Intel would have already reached their goal of a computer a million times more powerful than the human brain, if they were not derailed by unexpected limitation in silicon that required the entire industry convert to multicore processing. China's infrastructure is already surpassed what they had hoped for, because Intel got setback 15 years at least in their plans to conquer the modern world with computers and robots.

    Intel's next gen chips are 15 watts, have their own power supply regulator built in so they be slapped on cheap motherboards, are 22mm in size, stack memory right on top of the processor, and should be able to contain about 60 billion transistors, or about six modern laptops combined. Their next gen chips after these, will use 10,000x less power and stack as high as 100 chips for a rather impressive supercomputer on a thumb drive. No doubt, local weathermen will want one for their laptop. As powerful as that might sound, its already outdated and could be a million times faster and more efficient, and cost a fraction of what Intel will pay to make theirs. The money is driving the development of the technology, and the money itself is increasingly automated.

    Yang must transform into yin, and money must become far greater than any mere sum of its parts, as mother nature takes over humanity's future. She is the Great Void, the Singularity, the Mother of All and all is about to be revealed, more than anybody really wants to know!
     
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  12. soulcompromise

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    I learned that my biology class has a zero-cost textbook in play... It doesn't start until June 17, 2019 so I haven't seen it yet. But I've had other classes with zero-cost texts; namely the Social Problems course textbook which I constantly quote around here; Social Problems: Continuity and Change. Social Problems: Continuity and Change – Open Textbook
     
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    Saunas are incredibly therapeutic. They work extremely well for physical and mental healing. 175 is my sweet spot.
     
  14. Total Darkness

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    Yes. Like awareness everyone is ignorant to some degree. The more aware of your own ignorance, the better and less destructive.
     
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    From time to time I enjoy saunas and steam rooms as well. Probably because i like extreme heat.
     
  16. Vanilla Gorilla

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    Its many body problems, plural. A group of problems describing how many bodies of the same thing interact. Its not "in" quantum mechanics

    And "how to isolate a Josephson Junction" makes no sense as the experiment itself was isolating across an insulating barrier.

    Just actually read the articles rather than pulling out phrases that sound heady and mixing them all together
     
  17. Vanilla Gorilla

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    You are still doing that I see
     
  18. wilsjane

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    Hopefully someone brought them to their senses.
    The earths atmosphere burns up Helium 3, which may well be the only solution to our energy crisis in the future.
    Due to its atmospheric conditions and lack of oxygen, their is a layer of it deposited on the surface of the moon that could keep us out of trouble for several centuries.
    All we have to do is perfect 'cold fusion' technology.
     
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  20. MeAgain

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    Auto parts stores no longer carry oil filters for old Gravely walk behind tractors.
    You have to order them now.

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