LostCosmonaut Posted June 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 Neptune's hill sphere is over 108 km in diameter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted June 27, 2015 Report Share Posted June 27, 2015 Today I learned that salmon sperm (known as milt) can be used to extract or recycle rare earth elements in a non-toxic process. Apologies for not linking but I'm mobile with limited bandwidth on the edge of the tundra. Also, milt is a delicacy in places like Japan but I already knew that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tied Posted June 27, 2015 Report Share Posted June 27, 2015 Today I learned that salmon sperm (known as milt) can be used to extract or recycle rare earth elements in a non-toxic process. Apologies for not linking but I'm mobile with limited bandwidth on the edge of the tundra. Also, milt is a delicacy in places like Japan but I already knew that. if its something sperm related theres a 75% chance that its a delicacy in Japan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tied Posted June 27, 2015 Report Share Posted June 27, 2015 Dale and Tucker vs Evil is a good movie not nearly as funny as the marathon of trailer park boys movies i have been watching, but think of it as a 'scary movie' comedy that dosent talk down to its audience its funny enough, but not too satirical, like the characters actually give two hoots that they are in a stick situation i recommend it its by no means fantastic, and isnt as funny as TPB mentioned above its not a bad film, but its one of those movie's that gets props just becuase every satire movie of film cliche's for the last 10 years has been absolute shit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxn Posted June 27, 2015 Report Share Posted June 27, 2015 Today I learned that salmon sperm (known as milt) can be used to extract or recycle rare earth elements in a non-toxic process. Apologies for not linking but I'm mobile with limited bandwidth on the edge of the tundra. Also, milt is a delicacy in places like Japan but I already knew that. We use spermidine from salmon sperm to bond DNA to metallic substrates, so this makes sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted June 28, 2015 Report Share Posted June 28, 2015 Ultra Pedantry Hour: TIL that "hammer forged rifling" is an oxymoron. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted July 2, 2015 Report Share Posted July 2, 2015 One of the most interesting snails I've heard of. Belesarius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted July 3, 2015 Report Share Posted July 3, 2015 13 ISIS commanders were executed today after failing in a coup to overthrow al-Baghdadi. I'm not analyst or anything, but cracks forming within ISIS might show the struggle of their pseudo-state. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted July 3, 2015 Report Share Posted July 3, 2015 Any links or details? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted July 3, 2015 Report Share Posted July 3, 2015 When I get off my phone, links will be inbound Link LoooSeR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted July 3, 2015 Report Share Posted July 3, 2015 I looked in *our* Syrian thread and nobody is speaking about those executions. Seems to me information is not confirmed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted July 3, 2015 Report Share Posted July 3, 2015 This is the closest I've seen to the original claim. ISIS might not report it themselves because of internal divisions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scolopax Posted July 3, 2015 Report Share Posted July 3, 2015 I had seen something rather recently concerning at least one of their top commanders in Iraq being executed on suspicion of plans for staging a coup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted July 3, 2015 Report Share Posted July 3, 2015 The executions seem to have occurred in Mosul, so Iraqi commanders were likely involved. I learned something yesterday. That the phylum Vetulicolia existed and the creatures within that phylum look like swimming buttholes. Didazoon haoae These animals are simple chordates and have simple gill-like structures. They only have appeared in the Middle Cambrian. I just can't get over that they look like a horrid creature that would fit in perfectly in the Alien universe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T___A Posted July 4, 2015 Report Share Posted July 4, 2015 One of the initial flag proposal for East Germany was the Red, White, and Black tricolor used by Imperial Germany. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted July 5, 2015 Report Share Posted July 5, 2015 Georgia recently passed a law allowing higher grade fireworks. Our populace is treating today like I suspect Colorado treated 4/20. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrashbotUS Posted July 7, 2015 Report Share Posted July 7, 2015 The lady and her friend at the store today learned the power of RNG. You should be careful making snide remarks about the people in line behind you (my wife and I) in your own language because the person you are making the remarks about might just speak that language as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scolopax Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 I learned today that Missouri and the territory of Iowa almost had a war over honey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxn Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 The lady and her friend at the store today learned the power of RNG. You should be careful making snide remarks about the people in line behind you (my wife and I) in your own language because the person you are making the remarks about might just speak that language as well. This has happened to a few people I know. There are so many South African expats floating around that speaking afrikaans behind peoples' backs has a good chance of backfiring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 Today Tekky and I tried to puzzle out how fuel cells work. We learned that they work by magic. Hydrogen fuel is pumped past a catalyst that uses diplomacy to convince the hydrogen's electron to part from the proton. Why in the fuck does this work?! Why would hydrogen just ionize like that?! Well, it does, whatever. Then the proton from the hydrogen passes through a magical membrane that only lets protons through, somehow, because the electrons are reprobates and the protons are of the elect. Then the electrons catch up via a wire that goes around the edge, and in their happiness to reunite, the hydrogen mixes with oxygen, only somehow the energy was stripped off when the electrons went through the wire between the cathode and anode. And that is how fuel cells turn fire directly into electricity. Lord Voldemort has sought, unsuccessfully and at length, to understand the secret of fuel cells, but he will always fail, because the secret of how fuel cells work is the one thing he cannot understand. Love. Anyway, if you have a better explanation, I'd like to hear it. Belesarius, Jeeps_Guns_Tanks and LoooSeR 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxn Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 Today Tekky and I tried to puzzle out how fuel cells work. We learned that they work by magic. Hydrogen fuel is pumped past a catalyst that uses diplomacy to convince the hydrogen's electron to part from the proton. Why in the fuck does this work?! Why would hydrogen just ionize like that?! Well, it does, whatever. Then the proton from the hydrogen passes through a magical membrane that only lets protons through, somehow, because the electrons are reprobates and the protons are of the elect. Then the electrons catch up via a wire that goes around the edge, and in their happiness to reunite, the hydrogen mixes with oxygen, only somehow the energy was stripped off when the electrons went through the wire between the cathode and anode. And that is how fuel cells turn fire directly into electricity. Lord Voldemort has sought, unsuccessfully and at length, to understand the secret of fuel cells, but he will always fail, because the secret of how fuel cells work is the one thing he cannot understand. Love. Anyway, if you have a better explanation, I'd like to hear it. Feel for us poor biologists trying to understand ATP synthase and proton pumps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 Today I learned that strychnine was once used as a performance-enhancing drug. Seriously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khand-e Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 Today I learned that strychnine was once used as a performance-enhancing drug. Seriously. Surprisingly alot of toxic flowers contain naturally occuring steroids, such as Foxglove and Nightshade aswell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted August 3, 2015 Report Share Posted August 3, 2015 Today I learned that the number of neutrons produced by fission is dependent on neutron temperature. Apparently fast neutrons from fusion reactions used to fast-fission actinides cause those actinides to produce almost double the number of secondary neutrons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxn Posted August 3, 2015 Report Share Posted August 3, 2015 TIL that media pundits of all stripes know effectively fuck-all about IP law, and manage to know even less (somehow) when bloviating on matters related to IP: Representative sample Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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