Did you Know???

[lostinidlewonder]

- Did you know that they have made robots which look very human?
https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=eac_1288271075

[birba]

As much as I admire the Japanese and what they accomplish and the way they live, I cannot understand this fixation with robots!  They're so good at imitating and copying, I have a feeling they're trying to copy god.   

[m1469]

Did you know that wolves and coyotes have started cross-breeding, which has led to a couple of coyotes killing a woman?  I don't have a link, sorry.  But, maybe you can find one online.

[lostinidlewonder]

- Did you know that in 1964 American authorites allowed the cutting down of a 5000 year old tree?

From https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/21/10-most-magnificent-trees-in-the-world/
"...in 1964, Donald R. Currey [wiki], then a graduate student, was taking core samples from a tree named Prometheus. His boring tool broke inside the tree, so he asked for permission from the US Forest Service to cut it down and examine the full cross section of the wood. Surprisingly the Forest Service agreed! When they examined the tree, Prometheus turned out to be about 5,000 years old, which would have made it the world’s oldest tree when the scientist unwittingly killed it!"


The "Prometheus" tree stump.



More info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_(tree)

[Bob]

https://news.yahoo.com/video/health-15749655/the-fattest-place-on-earth-23708335

Scary.  Kind of a nice example of a real world experiment on people though. 

Although I don't think "Western" means processed junk food all the time. 

[thalbergmad]

Did you know that I once cleared a queue at McDonalds with a huge fart.

Thal

[Bob]

Before or after eating there?

[lostinidlewonder]

- Did you know that a former owner of a funeral home and cremation service in Newark (NJ USA), was sentenced to five years for theft of human remains? Payment was $1,000 per corpse.
Apparently they took things like bones from the bodies and replaced them with plastic pipes so it wouldn't be noticed if the families requested a viewing!

Stephen Finley alone sold access to up to 100 bodies. None of the stolen parts was screened for disease, as required by law. As a result, transplant recipients nationwide may have received tissue infected with cancer, HIV or other diseases.

https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/06/ex-newark_funeral_director_rem.html

I googled this sort of crime and saw it has happened quite a few times!

[birba]

Doesn't surprise me.  New Jersey - and newark, especially - is the mafia's cove for the whole east coast.  And you can be sure this is mafia based.  What I wonder is what did they do with the bones?  Reminds me of the cappucine cemetary in Rome - a whole chapel made up of dead monks' bones...YUCK!

[lostinidlewonder]

I believed they sold the bones for transplants. Something like this:
https://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5333626/description.html

I didn't know about NJ's reputation, that's interesting.

[birba]

I should never have read that article.  I just had a bone transplant done.  Along with bone taken from my tibias, they used some bone from a bone bank!!!   

[thalbergmad]

That is interesting. Just think, you might have some bone from a mass murderer.

Reminds me of a horror film.

Thal

[birba]

Thanks Thal!    On the other hand, I might have bone from some stolen saint's reliquary. 

[littletune]

That is interesting. Just think, you might have some bone from a mass murderer.

Reminds me of a horror film.

Thal

Thal don't be so mean!!!    Why would it be a bone from a mass murderer??  I don't think that's possible!!

[littletune]

- Did you know that in 1964 American authorites allowed the cutting down of a 5000 year old tree?

From https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/21/10-most-magnificent-trees-in-the-world/
"...in 1964, Donald R. Currey [wiki], then a graduate student, was taking core samples from a tree named Prometheus. His boring tool broke inside the tree, so he asked for permission from the US Forest Service to cut it down and examine the full cross section of the wood. Surprisingly the Forest Service agreed! When they examined the tree, Prometheus turned out to be about 5,000 years old, which would have made it the world’s oldest tree when the scientist unwittingly killed it!"


The "Prometheus" tree stump.



More info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_(tree)

    
That must have been a very wise tree!
(and the people who cut it down sooo NOT wise at all!!!)

[Bob]

I heard vandals cut down or killed another one of those trees.

[Bob]

https://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Harbin-Ice-and-Snow-Festival/ss/events/wl/010611harbin

[littletune]

https://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Harbin-Ice-and-Snow-Festival/ss/events/wl/010611harbin

Wow that's really beautiful and cool!!   

[Bob]

The end is nye! 

https://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110107/sc_yblog_thelookout/florida-temporarily-closes-runway-due-to-magnetic-pole-shifting

I heard the magnetic poles are supposed to completely flip in 2012.

[birba]

Which corresponds, more or less, to the mayan calendar end of the world as we know it...

[littletune]

And then what? We're just all going to die??   

[Bob]

The articles I've seen said the poles haven't completely shifted for 780,000 years.  No one really knows what will happen.  I'm guessing it will screw up some electronic stuff and things like this compass situation.

[Bob]

Mammoths might walk the Earth again.

https://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110117/wl_asia_afp/japansciencemammoth_20110117104445

[birba]

Typical Japanese recreation.

[lostinidlewonder]

- Did you know that recently the eastern side of Australia has been experiencing catastrophic flooding? This pair where glad that they had something to hold onto something that floated I'm sure!!!

Pair rescued after riding on .....      

lol @ the last sentence of the article.

[birba]

WILD!!!!!

[Bob]

I was going to post something along the lines of "That's not mine!" but man....  I am kind of curious how you go from point A to the point B of ending up in a flood.  It doesn't say -- Maybe they were stranded by the flood, killing time?  "other inflatable items" salvaged... like inflatable furniture?  Or they had a fake people party going on?


I did hear about the flooding.  It's been going on for more than a week or so now?  Not to be a downer, but I think there was a news story from those floods where a boy told a rescuer not to take him but to take his brother instead.  The boy and his mom ended up drowning when the rescuer couldn't get back to them in time.  Tragic hero.


Oh I see.  *reading article better*  Or not.  It doesn't really say why or how they ended up riding an inflatable doll down a flooded river.  I was thinking it was an accident.  On the other hand maybe one of them suggested it.  And then the other agreed that, yes, that was a good idea.  "Let's ride an inflatable doll down the river."  "Yeah.  Naked!"   

[lostinidlewonder]

- Did you know that if you type  "I am extremely" in google search it comes up with a very peculiar first search option? The same occurs if you type "I am scared" or "I am terrified".

What the..?

[lostinidlewonder]

- Did you know that there was computer games like this? I can play all these pieces on piano but this looks like more work!!

[lostinidlewonder]

- Did you know someone needs to tell this guy that there is such a thing called wheelbarrows?

https://www.metacafe.com/watch/2072711/hard_labour_guy_stacking_20_bricks_on_his_head/

[Bob]

Did you know.... Woody Allan and Lewis Black had a love child?

https://rivals.yahoo.com/highschool/blog/prep_rally/post/Two-handed-bowler-wows-way-to-state-title-with-w?urn=highschool-324437

[lostinidlewonder]

- Did you know we have an Australian who bowls like that Bob?

[Bob]

Lightning produces anti-matter?

https://whoknew.news.yahoo.com/?nc&vid=24289011

[Bob]

Did you know . . .?   *Bob is careful with his ellipses.*

. . . Some bears like their food prepackaged.

https://shine.yahoo.com/event/green/see-through-bubble-tents-provide-incredible-views-2458337/#photoViewer=1

[lostinidlewonder]

- Did you know that Jo Ann Castle had some amazing chops! Look at those feet go, she is amazing! I love it how she looks at the camera it is as if shes not even playing and makes what she does look like its the easiest thing in the world, so good!

[Bob]

Hard to top that...    That hair. Haha.

[birba]

- Did you know that Jo Ann Castle had some amazing chops! Look at those feet go, she is amazing! I love it how she looks at the camera it is as if shes not even playing and makes what she does look like its the easiest thing in the world, so good!

OMG!  I remember her!  The Lawrence Welk Show!!!

[lostinidlewonder]

- Did you know that some people can really make the piano talk? Try playing that!

[lostinidlewonder]

- Did you know that it make more sense when you look at it this way?!

[lostinidlewonder]

- Did you know you can mix colors like this?

[birba]

Huh?!  wow.

[countrymath]

Did you know that there is a website that posts random facts daily?

https://www.learnsomethingtoday.com/

[birba]

Thanks!  I've bookmarked it!

[ongaku_oniko]

any significance in doing exactly 5 spins for the laminar flow?

Would it perhaps be better (turn out exactly the same way) if you had a machine spin it at a constant speed rather than a person?

Are they trying to prove determinism with this?

[birba]

I read up on this and it seems that what happens, is that the colors never really mix in the first place.  They're in three different layers spread out, one behind the other.

[ongaku_oniko]

yeah, that's what I thought, it didn't look mixed.

[lostinidlewonder]

- Did you know that the Mephisto Waltz no 1 could be played this way? This guy was a mad genius! Such immense demonic like power, almost in the undecipherable range sometimes but somehow it works! Maybe being married 10 times gave him this fury.

[birba]

Very interesting.  I had never heard of him.  Thanks for posting.  The best part in the mephisto waltz were the trill leggero sections.  I also liked the opening tempo.  but other then that, I didn't really enjoy it.  He really revelled in the bass, didn't he.  But for me it was too much.  He added double bass octaves everywhere that just made it monotone at times.  what a character.  It also makes me realize just how enslaved we are to the written note.  Maybe he went overboard, though, in that realm.  But I don't think I got the musical idea he had in his head.  Like what he was trying to create.  I bet Beethoven in his later years played like that!

[Bob]

Yes, interesting but so heavy too.  Things get lost. 

[Bob]

https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_netherlands_sunless_farming

(Food for the Morlocks, the vegan Morlocks.)