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Thread: Questions of a weird mind
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2012-06-30, 04:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Why did they stop making Metroid Prime Trilogy?!
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2012-06-30, 04:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Given a choice I'd live on a Project Utopia yacht--concept can be seen here (middle link at the bottom):
http://yachtislanddesign.com/concepts/
It'd probably still be wandering around in UK waters most of the time, though.
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2012-06-30, 05:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-06-30, 05:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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This is horrifying beyond anything Lovecraft ever wrote or Giger ever drew.
MCulpa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVopG...el_video_title
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2012-06-30, 06:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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This is horrifying beyond anything Lovecraft ever wrote or Giger ever drew.
MCulpa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVopG...el_video_title
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2012-07-01, 04:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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Might possibly only work with water though. As you probably learned early in school, water has a very strong tendency to stick togther, which is way you can fill a glass several milimeters above the rim.
I guess was water sphere in microgravity would probably require more force to reshape than other liquids.
Which also opens the interesting question, why do superfluids flow against gravity? What is the equilibrium-state it attempts to attain?
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2012-07-01, 05:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-01, 06:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-01, 09:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Why is yellow so much harder to distinguish from white than other colors? Whenever I write in yellow marker on a whiteboard, it is much harder to read than it would be if I had written in another color.
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2012-07-01, 09:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-01, 09:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-01, 11:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-02, 01:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Last edited by Ravens_cry; 2012-07-02 at 01:45 PM.
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2012-07-02, 03:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Ravens_cry has a point--I just took a screenshot and checked out the colour values in your chart, Elemental, and most of them have quite widely differing Hue values. That's not to say that darker yellow doesn't exist, but it tends to look sort of murky rather than the bright orange or amber tones you have there.
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2012-07-03, 12:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-03, 04:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Forcing Magnets together against their will. Works. You damage their magnetism if you bind them that way long term though.
Durian: Smells like stale artificial vanilla. If you've ever had the displeasure to experience the stench of rotting durian shells(combined with rotting saliva, maybe), it can really put you off. I've been told I used to eat durian a lot when I was younger, but I have no memory of ever willingly eating durian.
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2012-07-03, 05:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Ah... Macbeth...
My Mum often jokes that Lady Macbeth was telling the dog to go away, but that's not important.
Which means... I have a question...
Where on Earth did the superstition that people in the acting business should never refer to Shakespeare's Macbeth by its proper name arise?
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2012-07-03, 05:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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I don't have the exact names and dates, but what I remember is that some journalist in the 1880s or so made the story up and put it in a newspaper, and then actors actually started doing it.
Yellow is a weird color, as the human eye does not have cells that detect the wavelengths of yellow light. Human eyes are pretty much RGB, simulating yellow color by mixing signals from cells that detect green and red light.
There are some cases of people appearing to have cells that react to yellow wavelength which allows them to differentiate between many more shades of yellow, while for most people these collors are all "just yellow".
We're pretty much all yellow-blind.
And speaking of color blindness, I found this entertaining test: http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77
But given that I scored 100% perfect with 0 errors, I don't know how good it is. 100% does usually not happen. ^^Last edited by Yora; 2012-07-03 at 06:11 AM.
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2012-07-03, 05:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-03, 12:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Actors, like criminals, are a superstitious and cowardly lot.
Actually, I have a theory, a theory mind, that superstitions tend to develop among people with little direct control over their fates.
Like sailors, and soldiers, actors could do things perfectly and still lose.
Also, effort wise, it takes insignificant effort to believe.
If by some chance it helps, it helps, but if it doesn't help, what are you losing?
Table top RPG and wargames dice superstitions have a similar origin I believe.
You could have a great strategy and tactics, but if the dice 'hate you' it can really make things difficult.
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2012-07-03, 08:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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What I read was that That Scottish Play usually requires few actors, and very little in the way of sets, so was usually put on by small budget theatre troupes who needed to make next month's rent. And being low on budget, there were many safety precautions that might have been skipped. Also, they may not have been all that good, so, failing to make the rent, they'd be booted off the premises, giving the impression that the play led to their demise.
Interesting question I semi-answered last night. How do you cure running deafness(kind of like when you blow your nose while pinching it shut)? I told the guy that it was probably caused by having a congested ENT(Ear Nose Throat) system, because it usually only occurs in conjunction with a blocked nose for me(and typically clears up when the weather is less cold/rainy). Am I far off the mark? Is there a solution(beyond drinking more water, but that has its own problems if you're running shortly after). Also, that guy apparently had low blood pressure, which doesn't apply to me. Any relation to the condition?
Edit: Regarding the colour test.
Online ColorIQ Challenge Results
Your score: 83
FM Hue Test Results
A lower score is better, with ZERO being the perfect score. The bars above show the regions of the color spectrum where hue discrimination is low.
Apparently not.
Based on your information, below is how your score compares to those of others with similar demographic information.
Your score: 83
Gender: Male
Age range: 30-39
Best score for your gender and age range: 0
Highest score for your gender and age range: 1520Last edited by AtomicKitKat; 2012-07-03 at 08:55 PM.
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Whenever you mention Pun-pun*SQUELCH!*, Ao kills another Kobold.
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Everytime you kill a catgirl, I get more company.
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2012-07-03, 10:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Why does milk negate the effects of spice or after-taste in general better than other liquids?
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2012-07-03, 10:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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I want to believe it's not that it does it better but that water opens up a part of the tongue making things worse but milks doesn't so it does its job. I think.
This is horrifying beyond anything Lovecraft ever wrote or Giger ever drew.
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2012-07-03, 11:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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What I figured was that milk contains fats, which not only coat the tongue and prevent the chemicals from reaching the receptors but also help dissolve the chemicals responsible for the burn.
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2012-07-04, 12:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-04, 05:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Why do our arm, neck and leg hairs stand straight up if we're cold, scared or furious?
On the subject of cold, what the heck -are- goosebumps?Last edited by Abscondcrow; 2012-07-04 at 05:12 PM.
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2012-07-04, 05:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Vestige from our hairy ape days. Similar to cats, dogs, chimps and almost anything else with fur: your hair stands up to make you look bigger and more threatening when frightened or angry. When cold, it traps a layer of air between your skin and the outside, for insulation.
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2012-07-04, 05:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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On critters with more fur, it's to fluff up to either better trap heat in cold conditions or to look bigger and therefore more threatening.
It doesn't help humans much in these regards, but we still retain this reflex.
The 'goosebumbs' are merely the muscles attached to each hair flexing and becoming more visible.
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2012-07-07, 01:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Why is buying in bulk mostly cheaper than buying small? Setting aside convienience, what is the gain there?
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