Current Events > Hit me with some mind blowing science facts/memes

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im talking like , things that illustrate how big space is or how deep the ocean is, etc

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in japan mario 2 was called doki doki panic

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wayne gretzky will still be the all time nhl points leader if you just count his total assists alone.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCWVVDGTYN4

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The average person has cancer maybe 6 times in their lifetime but the body picks up and puts an end to it before ever becoming malignant or anything noticeable to us.

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I saw a video that went over several interesting things about extraterrestrials, human evolution, human DNA/blood types and more. It explains things like how, when non-African people have their hair get wet on a rainy day, it smells like a wet dog... Africans do not have that happen to them, because non-Africans have hair follicles that are genetically identical to that of a dog. And how mothers with Rh- blood types (Rh stands for Rhesis monkey literally means monkey blood) attempt to conceive a child with Rh+ blood types, the body of the mother creates antibodies that perceive the child as a foreign entity, and is therefore destroyed, causing a miscarriage. The only other time that happens in nature is when you have breeding between a horse and a donkey, to make a mule.

I'd link the video but idk if it would go against GameFAQs ToS for trolling or whatever bs they come up with. It's an hour long, but it's extremely interesting. I'll link it if you want.

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Alright the #6 and 7....damn that's wild.I did delve into DNA many years ago that said how special ours were and that they couldn't explain where some extra links came from.Interesting.

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Meanwhile the Cosmos is rich beyond measure: the total number of stars in the universe is greater than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.

Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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Do you know why you should always be using FLAC? FLAC uses lossless compression, while MP3 is 'lossy'. What this means is that for each year the MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps, assuming you have SATA - it's about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. You don't want to know how much worse it is on CD-ROM or other optical media.

I started collecting MP3s in about 2001, and if I try to play any of the tracks I downloaded back then, even the stuff I grabbed at 320kbps, they just sound like crap. The bass is terrible, the midrangewell dont get me started. Some of those albums have degraded down to 32 or even 16kbps. FLAC rips from the same period still sound great, even if they werent stored correctly, in a cool, dry place. Seriously, stick to FLAC, you may not be able to hear the difference now, but in a year or two, youll be glad you did.

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Donald Trump has access to the internet




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Butterfiles posted...

Do you know why you should always be using FLAC? FLAC uses lossless compression, while MP3 is 'lossy'. What this means is that for each year the MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps, assuming you have SATA - it's about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. You don't want to know how much worse it is on CD-ROM or other optical media.

I started collecting MP3s in about 2001, and if I try to play any of the tracks I downloaded back then, even the stuff I grabbed at 320kbps, they just sound like crap. The bass is terrible, the midrangewell dont get me started. Some of those albums have degraded down to 32 or even 16kbps. FLAC rips from the same period still sound great, even if they werent stored correctly, in a cool, dry place. Seriously, stick to FLAC, you may not be able to hear the difference now, but in a year or two, youll be glad you did.

a quick search suggests that's copypasta from 4chan

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you can fit all the planets in the solar system inbetween the earth and the moon

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Um. The average depth of the ocean is 12,000 feet. Here's 12,000 ft above ground

The deepest part of the ocean is more like 36,000 feet deep. Which is like:



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#16, I really like those kinds.Imagine the pressure at 60ft vs those with volume...ahhhh.

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modena posted...

Alright the #6 and 7....damn that's wild.I did delve into DNA many years ago that said how special ours were and that they couldn't explain where some extra links came from.Interesting.

Yeah there's some crazy stuff out there, science that explains so much more than going with our old "Africans went north and turned white" answer. Like, when you actually read that out loud, it makes no sense. What would sunlight or hair follicles have to do with the actual genetic makeup of our melanin content and blood types? There are genome combinations that, when you compare them and trace to the original DNA found in Africans, are only a few thousand years old. That's evidence enough to suggest we were tampered with. Not only that, but we find genetic traces of dogs and monkeys in our DNA (which I already mentioned), but also mice and fruit flies. Those mutations happened too quick to suggest evolution and natural selection played their role. It's so crazy and hard to believe, but the science is there.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvmq66op0G8

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https://htwins.net/scale2/

Interactive and must be on PC. YouTube version.

https://youtu.be/uaGEjrADGPA

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https://youtu.be/ktwxz5t1fO8

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Xenozoa425 posted...

Yeah there's some crazy stuff out there, science that explains so much more than going with our old "Africans went north and turned white" answer. Like, when you actually read that out loud, it makes no sense. What would sunlight or hair follicles have to do with the actual genetic makeup of our melanin content and blood types? There are genome combinations that, when you compare them and trace to the original DNA found in Africans, are only a few thousand years old. That's evidence enough to suggest we were tampered with. Not only that, but we find genetic traces of dogs and monkeys in our DNA (which I already mentioned), but also mice and fruit flies. Those mutations happened too quick to suggest evolution and natural selection played their role. It's so crazy and hard to believe, but the science is there.

The translations of the Sumerian texts creeped me out along with what you just said.Good thing is,you dont have to be a high browed consperiast to be interested in it.kudos


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Our sun is tiny

rodu_jr posted...

Our sun is tiny

I watched a "Frankenstein Labs" reaction on youtube about the scale of the universe,it was eye opening and funny.

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Super basic fact but it still blows minds.

Every star outside the Sun that you see in the night sky is light that's at least 4 years old.

You can see the Andromeda galaxy with the naked eye. When you do, you're looking at a live image from 2.5 million years ago.

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DoctorVader posted...

Super basic fact but it still blows minds.

Every star outside the Sun that you see in the night sky is light that's at least 4 years old.

You can see the Andromeda galaxy with the naked eye. When you do, you're looking at a live image from 2.5 million years ago.

Could you imagine the day everyone on earth is watching the last images of light outside of our solar system as we count down to the inevitable dark cold? I know that's billions of years away possibly but how old is this planet?

The thought...if we make it that long as a species hopefully that's enough time to build our own controlled ecosystem on a ship that can sustain life.

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modena posted...

The translations of the Sumerian texts creeped me out along with what you just said.Good thing is,you dont have to be a high browed consperiast to be interested in it.kudos

An even creepier thing I recently learned too is that there's remains of a city in southern Africa that predates the Sumerians. They're called the Annunaki (they describe themselves as the off-spring of several "gods" that descended to this world from another) and their DNA is the oldest genome that we can sequence on this planet, which essentially reiterates that black Africans are the "original" human beings. All other human DNA, regardless of who you are or where on the planet your parents are from, is traced back to them. There's a lot of implications that would explain so many answers and raise even more questions about our history as a species if it turns out to be true. It would imply that Africans are essentially descendants of extraterrestrials, while non-Africans are a different sub-species (each with their own physical traits) that are part extraterrestrial, part primate/homo sapien. And that would explain the genetic quirks about blood types and animal hair follicles that I mentioned in my first post.

Whether someone is a conspiracy theorist or not, this stuff is so damn fascinating.

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modena posted...

Could you imagine the day everyone on earth is watching the last images of light outside of our solar system as we count down to the inevitable dark cold? I know that's billions of years away possibly but how old is this planet?

The thought...if we make it that long as a species hopefully that's enough time to build our own controlled ecosystem on a ship that can sustain life.

our sun will have expanded and devoured most of the planets long before the heat death of the universe

Xenozoa425 posted...

An even creepier thing I recently learned too is that there's remains of a city in southern Africa that predates the Sumerians. They're called the Annunaki (they describe themselves as the off-spring of several "gods" that descended to this world from another) and their DNA is the oldest genome that we can sequence on this planet, which essentially reiterates that black Africans are the "original" human beings. All other human DNA, regardless of who you are or where on the planet your parents are from, is traced back to them. There's a lot of implications that would explain so many answers and raise even more questions about our history as a species if it turns out to be true. It would imply that Africans are essentially descendants of extraterrestrials, while non-Africans are half extraterrestrial, half primate. And that would explain the genetic quirks about blood types and animal hair follicles that I mentioned in my first post.

Whether someone is a conspiracy theorist or not, this stuff is so damn fascinating.

Very true how weird it is but makes sense, the Sumerians said they were giant beings that created us and left.

P.s. I'd buy you a beer just to keep this going lol.

Post more CE

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rodu_jr posted...

our sun will have expanded and devoured most of the planets long before the heat death of the universe

By that time,seeing how much we have progressed in the last 200 years do you think it's possible to leave and be like say...the movie Event Horizon and just escape? Serious question,giving the timeline I think Elons 10000th nephew might could pull it off lol.

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If you were to travel back in time roughly 395 million years ago, a year would be 405 days long and a day would be 21.6 hours long due to the Earth's rotation being faster in the past

modena posted...

By that time,seeing how much we have progressed in the last 200 years do you think it's possible to leave and be like say...the movie Event Horizon and just escape? Serious question,giving the timeline I think Elons 10000th nephew might could pull it off lol.

didn't everyone die horribly in Event Horizon?

rodu_jr posted...

didn't everyone die horribly in Event Horizon?

Lol yes man, but I meant leaving out far away from the nearest dying star that could kill us.

Some weird technology that they had to warp ect...Most sci-fi movies have a foothold in old,current and future technology.Just a thought.But yeah I'd be the guy jumping out into the vacuum if I was on that ship.

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modena posted...

By that time,seeing how much we have progressed in the last 200 years do you think it's possible to leave and be like say...the movie Event Horizon and just escape? Serious question,giving the timeline I think Elons 10000th nephew might could pull it off lol.

I mean, there's a Doctor Who episode where we see the stars dying 100 trillion years in the future. Somehow humans are still alive and The Doctor states they went through so much and for a few million years, they existed as data or something like that. Was pretty BS. The scale is too insane.



Clearer version:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/caf7505d5a6e69f2859869c21aca79a6.png

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archedsoul posted...

I mean, there's a Doctor Who episode where we see the stars dying 100 trillion years in the future. Somehow humans are still alive and The Doctor states they went through so much and for a few million years, they existed as data or something like that. Was pretty BS. The scale is too insane.



Clearer version:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/caf7505d5a6e69f2859869c21aca79a6.png

O.O wow I'll check that show out.

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The mustard plant, that produces both mustard seed, and mustard greens, can grow as tall as 20 feet!

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Diabetes helped humans make it through the ice age.

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dr_strangelove posted...

too, jupiter is >300 times as massive as earth

Yeah I was wondering about this one,any fact checking? Really not a whole lot of room for Jupiter, Saturn....ect.

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The common house fly has the largest single-sperm-cell-to-body-mass ratio of any animal on the planet



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dib153 posted...

The common house fly has the largest single-sperm-cell-to-body-mass ratio of any animal on the planet

Did not know that one,but it makes sense.Ive seen some so bloated they land on something just to pop out some maggots on nothing.Nasty bastards, but I am glad their around.(outside)

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Greenland sharks, which are also known as gurry sharks or grey sharks, tend to live long lives. As the longest-living vertebrate on the planet, they can swim around the ocean for up to 400 years and don't reach sexual maturity until they're 150.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AAU_btBN7s&t=54s

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Ketchup being easier to squeeze out after you shake it is based in fact. It's a thixotropic fluid, which means it's viscosity decreases under shear (movement) for a certain time before returning to normal
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rodu_jr posted...

Our sun is tiny

wtf

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InfinityMonster posted...

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Those first 2 pics compare the same 2 stars, but at completely different scales. Which one is it.
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