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    Colossus in the Playground
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    Default You know, sometimes I just like to come here and be amazed.

    Seriously, its absolutely incredible the sheer breadth of knowledge contained among the members of this site. On the majority of the board virtually no signs of it shows as anything other than a fairly standard gaming/media based forum. then you come here and you see everything from astrophysics to zoology at every point from introductory level to doctoral thesis. Coming here is like coming to a slower, but far more precise and detailed google search. If I want to learn how to repair a 1970 dodge challenger, or a Cordoba C5-CE Cutaway Acoustic-Electric Classical Fusion Guitar, I can find out here. If I want to learn the difference between a neutron star and a white dwarf, I can find it here. If I want to learn why ligers are awesome, I can come here, if I want to learn about the history of the cavendish banana, boom, here is the info I need to know. I just love it.
    "Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
    Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."

    Quote Originally Posted by Nerd-o-rama View Post
    Traab is yelling everything that I'm thinking already.
    "If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."

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    SwashbucklerGuy

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    Default Re: You know, sometimes I just like to come here and be amazed.

    Although that is a good sentiment, why under this subforum? why not in Friendly Banter?

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    BardGuy

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    Default Re: You know, sometimes I just like to come here and be amazed.

    I've found this forum to be a great resource for help with programming code, especially if Google searches and Stack Overflow don't seem to give obvious answers.

    I found it cool a few days ago when I was reading some post about viruses or bacteria. One poster mentioned something about the Center for Disease Control (CDC), and another poster (who, from context, seems implicitly to state that they worked at a/the CDC) gave more details. The perspective of someone actually working at the CDC was cool.

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    Colossus in the Playground
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    Default Re: You know, sometimes I just like to come here and be amazed.

    Quote Originally Posted by anjxed View Post
    Although that is a good sentiment, why under this subforum? why not in Friendly Banter?
    Because this is the forum where it happens. Its a topic about the sheer awesome contained on this subforum, so it belongs here.
    "Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
    Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."

    Quote Originally Posted by Nerd-o-rama View Post
    Traab is yelling everything that I'm thinking already.
    "If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."

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    RedWizardGuy

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    Default Re: You know, sometimes I just like to come here and be amazed.

    There's a lot of really Hoopy Froods here.
    "That's a horrible idea! What time?"

    T-Shirt given to me by a good friend.. "in fairness, I was unsupervised at the time".

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    Colossus in the Playground
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    Default Re: You know, sometimes I just like to come here and be amazed.

    Quote Originally Posted by tomandtish View Post
    There's a lot of really Hoopy Froods here.
    You know, I bet we have at least one or two experts on towels around here.
    "Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
    Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."

    Quote Originally Posted by Nerd-o-rama View Post
    Traab is yelling everything that I'm thinking already.
    "If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."

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    SwashbucklerGuy

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    Default Re: You know, sometimes I just like to come here and be amazed.

    Quote Originally Posted by Traab View Post
    You know, I bet we have at least one or two experts on towels around here.


    This is a Good Morning Towel, one of the most popular towels in my country (I'm not in China if you are wondering)

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    Default Re: You know, sometimes I just like to come here and be amazed.

    Quote Originally Posted by JeenLeen View Post
    I found it cool a few days ago when I was reading some post about viruses or bacteria. One poster mentioned something about the Center for Disease Control (CDC), and another poster (who, from context, seems implicitly to state that they worked at a/the CDC) gave more details. The perspective of someone actually working at the CDC was cool.
    My favourite example of this was a question on the detrimental effects of humans floating in water; one person mentioned an experiment that the crazy Russians did and a follow up post was from one of the aforementioned crazy Russian test volunteers from that very experiment.

    Here we go: link.

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    ElfPirate

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    Default Re: You know, sometimes I just like to come here and be amazed.

    Quote Originally Posted by Brother Oni View Post
    My favourite example of this was a question on the detrimental effects of humans floating in water; one person mentioned an experiment that the crazy Russians did and a follow up post was from one of the aforementioned crazy Russian test volunteers from that very experiment.

    Here we go: link.
    It's mine too. It's just so full of win.

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