When the great pyramids were being built there was still woolly mammoths walking the earth.
The Moon is 384,400 km away from Earth. If you took every elephant on Earth and stacked them one atop another most of them would die.
If you took a horse’s large intestine and stretched it out end-to-end, the horse would not survive.
If you laid every road on earth end-to-end a lot of people would be annoyed with you
I’m going to go out on a limb and say all of them would die for one reason or another.
Also, my first experience with the internet back in 1994 was a page of elephant jokes, I feel I’ve come full circle now.
If every human held hand in a straight line around the earth a lot of them would drown
Did you know that if you took a blue whale, the largest mammal on earth, and laid it end to end, tail to mouth, on a basketball court, the game would be cancelled?
Wouldn’t you say that they’ll all die? Some from lack of air and some from the weight of a gazillion other elephants on top of them
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Mozart had a pet starling. And when it died he gave it a funeral and burial and wrote a poem for it that he read at the service.
Mozart had a sister who was also a genius composer, but was forced to quit her training to be more “marriageable.”
I actually have a theory that I can’t prove, that perhaps a few of the pieces we attribute to Wolfgang were actually hers. Here’s why I think that…
We know they corresponded regularly after she got married and that she continued to compose and send her brother her work, and he wrote back praising her. I have a suspicion that he might have given some of her pieces to be performed, telling patrons they were his. Not to take credit, but so her music would at least be heard.
Again it’s not something I can prove, more like a headcanon thing.
Mozart also invented a system that used dice to randomly generate music. My unverifiable theory is that he continued refining the system and it got so good that he used it to compose all his greatest hits and stopped telling anybody about his random music generator.
Pet is french for fart, and Mozart had a fart fetish. It also rhymes.
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I learned today that transplanted hearts will grow biologically younger or older to match the new body.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.15.751836v1
What if I replace most of my organs with younger ones? If a billionaire gets a whole body transplant, does that also de-age his brain?
It’s the blood that seems to matter more than the organs, and not all organs follow this rule. Kidneys for example don’t really change much.
Our ability to feel social judgment and shame reuses the same neural circuits as physical disgust or nausea. This effectively makes it so you can take anti-nausea medication to temporarily make you less judgy of other people’s life choices.
Brb drugging my family with anti nausea medicine
With vanishingly rare exception, addicts choose the mood altering substance that is closest to what the medically accepted treatment for their underlying disorder(s) would be.
People who are addicted to alcohol, without exception, have an underlying anxiety disorder.
People with ADHD and similar brain functioning tend to choose amphetamines.
The list goes on and it gets very complicated, because most mood altering substances have multiple effects, and most people have a blend of underlying issues. But the point is, there is a very noteworthy observation there, I feel.
I feel qualified to say this as myself I am 11 years sober and have worked in the field of addiction for 8 years and I’m formally educated.
But I liked all of the drugs.
That means you have all of the problems!
Call me Ash, because I gotta catch 'em all!
Lol yeah its called self medicating
I have ADHD and I trend to get into a comfortabele alcohol Buzz every evening because it shows down the train of emotions. Amphetamines don’t really feel good, nor do other drugs. I hate speed and weed.
People who are addicted to alcohol, without exception, have an underlying anxiety disorder.
People with ADHD and similar brain functioning tend to choose amphetamines.
I feel attacked…
OK but you basically just did the mood axis what do the THC, opiate, dissociative anesthetic, and hallucinogenic users have?
That sounds like someone who just wants the pain to go away
And I know psychedelics were good for my trauma
I need answers NOW!
A good fucking time.
The Mission Impossible theme, you know, the “Dun! Dun! DADA! Dun! Dun! Duhduh!” one, written in 5/4 time? That’s supposed to spell MI for Mission: Impossible, in Morse code.
--..dash dash dot dot, MI. The first two notes are dotted quarter notes, 1.5 beats each for a total of 3 beats, then two quarter notes for each dot, total of 2 beats, grand total of 5 beats per measure. 5/4 time.FIND A PRACTICAL USE FOR THAT SHIT.
Hey! Same for Rush’s YYZ. The morse code for Y-Y-Z (the airport code for the Toronto airport where the band no doubt spent a lot of time) is
--.- --.- --..which is a rhythmic motif that appears a bunch in the song in some ungodly meter I don’t care to look up right now.So, I don’t know if it did it on your end, the reason why I put my morse code in a code block is it expanded the two dots into three. Don’t know if it does it on all UIs but on my end it made your Z into dash dash dot dot dot.
He says, as if it matters.
It does matter! And I noticed shortly after I posted it, was mildly annoyed, and didn’t bother to fix it.
Edit: until now
Practical use? None I can think of. But I love learning this. Thank you.
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We should pass a funny law that requires all humanoid robots to grunt as they move.
Muscles can be either voluntary (choosing to lift a chair) or involuntary (a beating heart) as well.
Along these lines: a major league baseball batter must predict where the ball will be before it leaves the pitcher’s hand. There is literally not enough time for the neural signal to get from the eyes to the brain, be processed and then an impulse sent to the arm muscles to swing the bat in the time it takes for the ball to travel to home plate at 95mph.
A quarter of known animal species are beetles.
I thought there were four Beatles.
As long as we’re doing pyramids, Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landing than the construction of the Great pyramid of Giza.
Edit: someone beat me to it. Here’s another one. If you take the timeline of the Bible literally, the Israelites did not build a single pyramid. They would have been hundreds of years too late (and the Bible never references pyramids, just that the Israelite slaves built cities).
Also we literally can trace, at least with some pyramids, people who built them. They weren’t slaves, they were masons and craftspeople and levied labor - and from graffiti we’ve found, it was considered a pretty great honor to work on one. Even just from a religious angle, do you want heathens who you’ve forced into slavery to build your vehicle for ascension into the afterlife?
We live on Earth v2.0
There was a body in our orbit and then another large body (neither were planets, I guess, since they hadn’t test cleared their solar orbits of other bodies) crashed into it. The heavier parts stayed in what became the Earth we know. The lighter parts coalesced into what is now the Moon. The Moon is slowly leaving us because it has enough leftover motion to do so.
Significantly more aluminum, calcium, titanium, magnesium, and silicon. My understanding is that a large percentage of the moon was the earth’s former crust.
I had this idea for a sci-fi short story that involved a long-lived alien that has been watching the earth since the solar system formed. It finally decides to speak to humanity and starts telling the story about how the earth formed from the collision of two bodies, and the humans are all “yeah yeah we know. Here’s a movie we made of it” and the alien is all “WTF? How do they know that?”
Sharks are older than fire! It took billions of years for Earth to get the oxygen levels and fuel (land plants) needed for fire. Earth is the only place in the universe where we have seen fire.
Sharks are also older than the north star
To be fair we can’t see other planets outside the solar system too well.
None has the conditions for fire
False! The Russians caught Mir on fire at least once. So fire has also been seen in low Earth orbit.
I don’t know. I can think of some space probes that were pretty fuckin’ fire.
If you own a rig to run local LLMs, your computer can also pretty much run weather prediction softwares
GraphCast: AI model for faster and more accurate global weather forecasting — Google DeepMind https://share.google/R24aEDxkDuFfnitzo
This is the most recent one I learnt.
The continents move at roughly the same speed that your fingernails grow.
That’s fast! They must take their supplements!
There is no thru line from mouth to urethra. You drink water, it gets absorbed into your blood, your urinary system filters excess water and waste, you pee it out. Your pee is filtered blood, the only thru line for water to take from your mouth is your ass. I understood that when it was taught, but I didn’t really think about it…
Piss comes from blood!
Does the blood god accept pee? Your move, “science”!
So does breast milk
Wow, of course you are correct, I never even thought about that.
Tell that to my body. Fluid goes in, fluid comes out. Explain that.
you can’t resurrect a horse
Not with that attitude
But you can beat one long after it dies
Hell I can’t
