Things everybody should know but for some reason, most don't.
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Everything is poisonous in a high enough dose. I think breathing pure oxigen. like 100% oxigen is toxic. Give somebody enough water and they'll die tooTipsy Giant said:
. Maybe i shouldn't use poisonous and just keep it with lethal.
A lactose intolerant Cat would probably die before it was diagnosed, seeing as it would drink milk as a kitten, so giving it to adult cats would be almost always safe.Bvenged said:
Every person I know who owns a cat give's their cat milk, and all of them have lived a fairly long life.
Except the one's hit by cars, but that's a little different to the point.
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This is where relativity comes into play.
If something has mass, it has gravity. Anything. YOU have gravity, it's just very weak. It's why gravity is considered probably the weakest force, because something as massive as Earth can be overcome by the energy required to say, lift a rock.
Without getting too detailed, gravity is caused by disruptions in space-time (a sort of dimensional fabric) when there is mass. Light, like anything else, is effected by gravity. Light bends around things with high gravity, so we could see something behind the sun if the light passed close enough to the sun to be bent around in our direction. To learn more just do a little research into light bending due to gravity, and also photons.
As for swallowing time, take this into consideration. It's proven that the higher gravitational field you are in, the slower you pass through the dimension of time. That's why satellites in low gravity have to be reset everyday so your GPS isn't miles off-course. The singularity I mentioned, considering a singularity has ZERO diameter, should technically have infinite gravity, so inside that singularity time effectively stops.
I have a few to sort of 'vent' here, and yes I know most of them are probably petty, but this seemed like the place to write all of this.
*Walking really stupidly on a wet floor to 'avoid footprints' not only causes more noticable toe-prints (all your weight on your toes) it is also the quickest way to slip/trip/fall on your face.
*Knowing software doesn't make me the guy to fix hardware and vis versa.
*Arguing with someone who 'remains neutral' is a loss/tie no matter how hard you push. (only difference is if you walk away pissed off)
*Leaving a bathroom door ajar is the easiest way to show that it is vacant, aside from having a sign on the door.
And above ALL that I have listed here, this is the most MAJOR thing that ought to be common sense, but seems woefully underappreciated.
**If you get mad/stopped having fun, STOP PLAYING the game or take a BREAK, because vocalizing your anger over the mic or chatbar only serves to lose what little gamer-cred you had on the server in the first place. (It's only funny when ChoZo 'plays' mad)
*Walking really stupidly on a wet floor to 'avoid footprints' not only causes more noticable toe-prints (all your weight on your toes) it is also the quickest way to slip/trip/fall on your face.
*Knowing software doesn't make me the guy to fix hardware and vis versa.
*Arguing with someone who 'remains neutral' is a loss/tie no matter how hard you push. (only difference is if you walk away pissed off)
*Leaving a bathroom door ajar is the easiest way to show that it is vacant, aside from having a sign on the door.
And above ALL that I have listed here, this is the most MAJOR thing that ought to be common sense, but seems woefully underappreciated.
**If you get mad/stopped having fun, STOP PLAYING the game or take a BREAK, because vocalizing your anger over the mic or chatbar only serves to lose what little gamer-cred you had on the server in the first place. (It's only funny when ChoZo 'plays' mad)
Qitz said:
Yeah, QI is a show made in the UK.
The whole point of it is to point out and discuss information like this, with a regular host (stephen fry), one regular guest (Alan Davies,who isn't always the brightest) and the other three guests being pulled from a string of comedians, TV personalities, actors and whatnot...
Pure brilliance, funny as all hell and the only show iv'e seen where the audience has scored more points than all the guests..
"Don't fuck with the people who handle your food." - Ryan Reynolds' character from Waiting...
Seriously, I apologized to a waitress once for not saying "please," and she answered "don't worry, you're not the rudest I've seen." What do these people go through? I would probably explode if I worked in a restaurant.
Seriously, I apologized to a waitress once for not saying "please," and she answered "don't worry, you're not the rudest I've seen." What do these people go through? I would probably explode if I worked in a restaurant.
Yeah, I don't mind if people say it wrong when they are talking face to face with someone as I constantly slur words and replace verbs with nouns like "I went running at the run" so that's fine but when they type it I raise my eyebrows.Vixxy said:
Most of these seem to be related to social etiquette rather then obvious minutiae of social knowledge and things people do actually know but just don't do.
Knowledge is power.
With great power comes great responsibility.
Money does not equal happiness.
The world is shit.
Humanity will eventually destroy itself.
With great power comes great responsibility.
Money does not equal happiness.
The world is shit.
Humanity will eventually destroy itself.
How to survive an avalanche.
1) don't go outside the normal routes in the first place ya dope! especially when the radio reports high risk of avalanches.
2) carry a beeper. It's an electronic device that let's other find you easily if you do manage to get burried.
3) if you notice an avalance starting behind you or even right under your feet, ski horizontally out of it's path asap. This is the fastest path out. Not diagonally. And never try to outrun it, you cant.
4) if you cant get out of the way any more, try to "swim" in it. Like you are trying to be carried by a wave of water as far as possible. If you are lucky you can keep it up until it stops.
5) if you can, grab on to anything you pass and hold on for dear life.
6) when you are being burried, hold your hands in front of your face, palms facing outwards. You should than be able to dig a little hole in front of your face once the avalanche stops. This vastly improves your chances of surviving. Don't try to dig yourself out completely though because you cant. Just wait for help.
Captcha: kick the can
wow is it just me or is inglip suddenly a lot more clear about stuff?
1) don't go outside the normal routes in the first place ya dope! especially when the radio reports high risk of avalanches.
2) carry a beeper. It's an electronic device that let's other find you easily if you do manage to get burried.
3) if you notice an avalance starting behind you or even right under your feet, ski horizontally out of it's path asap. This is the fastest path out. Not diagonally. And never try to outrun it, you cant.
4) if you cant get out of the way any more, try to "swim" in it. Like you are trying to be carried by a wave of water as far as possible. If you are lucky you can keep it up until it stops.
5) if you can, grab on to anything you pass and hold on for dear life.
6) when you are being burried, hold your hands in front of your face, palms facing outwards. You should than be able to dig a little hole in front of your face once the avalanche stops. This vastly improves your chances of surviving. Don't try to dig yourself out completely though because you cant. Just wait for help.
Captcha: kick the can
wow is it just me or is inglip suddenly a lot more clear about stuff?
Because, humans got so far on being weaker, hairless, slow, up-right walking mammals.zumbledum said:
It should really be "Survival of the fittest or smartest."
It's way too late. Everything does. Just feel lucky they aren't recording your passwords yet.II Scarecrow II said:It does what now?Nouw said:
It's too late isn't it?
Holy shit, this. I've had to explain the concept of states to people before, it's kind of frustrating.Nexxis said:
Not to be weird, but where in upstate New York do you live? I'm from there as well.
1) Accusing Christianity of being a 'death cult' is just as wilfully ignorant and hateful as the position held by say, the Westboro Baptist Church.gim73 said:
2) Medieval feudalism does not define Christianity.
3) The holy day is Sunday because that's traditionally held to be the day of Jesus' resurrection rather than the Judaic Sabbath.
4) Pro-Life means you oppose abortion, nothing more and nothing less.
OT: Americans who think Europe is a country. Y U NO LEARN?
Well, our history teacher wanted to do something a little more fun today, so he proposed we play a trivia game. Of course, everyone agreed (better than copying notes off the blackboard for an hour, right?). So we split the class into teams and got started, and one of the first questions he gave was: "I was a French general; I suffered an early death, and my military battles are very well documented. Who am I?".
So I immediately tell my teammates: "It's Napoleon, guys"
-"Napoleon Dynamite?", my friend asks
-*Face Palm*, "No...Napoleon Bonaparte..."
-"Who's that?"
-*Another Face Palm*
How can an 11th grade high school student not know who Napoleon Bonaparte is?
But I guess, I'm not any different, as I still have a difficulty naming all the months in order, and I constantly confuse left with right...
So I immediately tell my teammates: "It's Napoleon, guys"
-"Napoleon Dynamite?", my friend asks
-*Face Palm*, "No...Napoleon Bonaparte..."
-"Who's that?"
-*Another Face Palm*
How can an 11th grade high school student not know who Napoleon Bonaparte is?
But I guess, I'm not any different, as I still have a difficulty naming all the months in order, and I constantly confuse left with right...
I'm sorry, I can't let this one slide. Sunspots have almost nothing in common with thunderstorms.putowtin said:
Sunspots are caused where intense regions of magnetic field inhibit convection inside the sun. This convection is one of the mechanisms that transports energy (heat) to the surface of the sun, and so slowing this energy transport causes that part of the photosphere (the layer of the sun that produces visible light) to be cooler than it's surroundings, and hence appear darker.
The Great Red Spot on Jupiter has much more in common with hurricanes on Earth, but again bears very little similarity to sunspots.
