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Balto
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how did I never notice this before? post more pics that will blow minds

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broto
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i was actually reading up about how most people are born trichromats which means they see three basic colors and all other colors are mixtures of those. however, there are some women born with mutations making them tetrachromats, allowing them to see 4 base colors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy
Jul 20 2012 1:08AM
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JWoods
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THERE WE GO
Jul 20 2012 2:59AM
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dodgey
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ok gotta clear somethin up just in case... those are definitely not what neurons - the communicating cells in our brain that transmit information - ("brain cells") look like at all. at most those might by glial cells, the support and maintinence cells in the brain.

psych major. had to do it. sorry
Jul 20 2012 3:43AM
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CliffyByro
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okay, so. please bear with me on this one, i was thinking about this last night before i fell asleep. so i'm sure everyone would love to be able to "record" their dreams right? now this is entirely hypothetical since it would take an insane amount of time, and i might be misunderstanding this anyway, but hear me out.

basically couldn't we make up like, a "database" of brain activity, ie how the brain reacts to certain things, and use this to "translate" dreams? like, measure activity while people are dreaming and compare it to their individual database? so like, if their reaction to seeing a cat was x, or feeling scared was y, and so on, could this be used to "read" their dreams? obviously this would be insanely more complicated than that, and would take unbelievable amounts of time to record every possible reaction, but hypothetically could it work?

this sounds so much more retarded now than last night when i thought of it, but i figured i'd post it anyway.
Jul 20 2012 8:50AM
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S.Ki
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This isnt retarded at all. I remember seeing a documentation about dreams and brain activity while sleeping. They had some volunteers and put some wires/electrodes to their heads before they slept and later analyzed the brain activity, which was shown on a screen. When the person remembered their dream and could tell something about it the scientists where able to see how intense the dream was and how active the brain was working.
I remeber in one case the scientist said to one propand "oh you had a exciting dream last night" or something like that and the person answered "yes, [...]" and then told his dream (I dont remember the dream though) It was really wierd but still very interesting. If you do it like you already said and analyze thousands of dreams you could develop a pattern and tell roughly what someone was dreaming and what feelings he had during his dream.


Jul 20 2012 11:40AM
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BigBadWolf
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hahah el gato strikes again
Jul 21 2012 8:02PM
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HumanGenius
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they would cancel each other out. like positive and negative numbers i would just be nothing. not that hard to grasp
Jul 21 2012 9:31PM
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OCM
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an unstoppable force
Jul 22 2012 11:10AM
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84891jnf92048
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Thinking about how the world would look from the outside if we didn't know anything about it, it would probably look fairly scary. Covered with thick vegetation, tall craggy rock mountains, super dry deserts, water falling from the sky as both water and ice, lightning striking all over the place....

Or at least looking at pictures of our earth and imagining seeing it like humans saw Pandora in Avatar and being like HOLY SHIT!

Maybe I'm not making any sense.
Jul 23 2012 4:37PM
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theBearJew
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Minority Report? Thats what I thought of reading your post. There are people who claim to be able to predict the future from their dreams. I remember watching a documentary about some guy in Europe who dreamt of a bank robbery or some kind of explosion, then it happened that day. After that he has reported his weird dreams and kinda works for the government...

If we were able to record dreams we could snatch up all these "precogs" and predict the future. No more crime. Minority Report.
Jul 23 2012 4:46PM
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TheClap.
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Jul 23 2012 7:09PM
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mmallender.
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if you read it, in humans it allows for greater color differentiation and differentiation amongst patterns . regardless, my point is that there is a finite light spectrum, even outside the visible light spectrum, there are no colours that are created in being able to see wavelengths outside of the visible spectrum
Jul 23 2012 9:12PM
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ryantheconnolly
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pretty mind blowing
Aug 3 2012 3:12AM
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JWoods
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I see like, three of those
Aug 3 2012 3:20AM
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ryantheconnolly
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haha its not resemblance, they're voiced by the same person or its showing who did the voice
Aug 3 2012 3:28AM
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broto
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we cannot see ultraviolet wavelengths, if i recall. could be wrong on this
Aug 3 2012 10:16PM
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Aiden-P
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every time i ever see a fed ex truckmy buddis and i scream about the arrow.
Aug 3 2012 10:31PM
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JWoods
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Oh shit
Aug 3 2012 11:21PM
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Caspaaa
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read up on this belief called Solipsism

seems plausible... creepy... yet plausible.


Aug 3 2012 11:25PM
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Giggs85
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If you could fold a piece of paper more than the standard 6 or 7 times it would only take 42 folds to have a stack of paper from the earth to the moon.

Aug 4 2012 1:45AM
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ikindalikeskiing
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what?
Aug 4 2012 1:48AM
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ryantheconnolly
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think of this, one fold means the thickness is 2 sheets of paper, 2 folds means 4 sheets thick. after 42 folds, its a huge number. obviously its impossible to actually fold it that many times, he's just saying the thickness of it would reach to the moon
Aug 4 2012 2:23AM
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Giggs85
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Take a single piece of paper (.1mm thick) fold it in half again an again an again till it's been folded in half 42 times. The height of your folded piece of paper would be the same or more even than the distance from the earth to the moon. I know i've basically said the same thing but i don't know how else to word it. (also not going to be able to fold a piece of paper this many times i'm just saying hypothetically)

Aug 4 2012 2:33AM
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KANGAROOJACK
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deaf people think in whatever form of sign language they learned, (there's almost as many sign languages as there are spoken) sorry to ruin that one.
Aug 4 2012 2:46AM
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.AR6rider.
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Apparently you can pull the tops of the ketchup cups apart into bowls...

Aug 4 2012 2:51AM
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ryantheconnolly
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just learned this a couple weeks ago. too bad im not a huge fan of french fries
Aug 4 2012 2:53AM
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Kreech
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^Holy shit
Aug 4 2012 2:54AM
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Giggs85
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If cats always land on their feet and toast always lands butter side down. What happens if i strap toast on the back of a cat n drop it.
Aug 4 2012 6:27AM
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S.Ki
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this here is whats happening

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Aug 4 2012 7:55AM
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Bar_Down
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Aahaha we used to do that at the cafeteria in high school; they would only let us take 1 or else they would charge us, so we were able to get more in one cup like that. /pointless story
Aug 4 2012 7:58AM
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Giggs85
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hahaha dream result. Cat with toast strapped on it's back attached to a generator=clean energy. Global warming has taken a real hit today
Aug 4 2012 8:30AM
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sammiedee
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think of the shower opportunities!
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Aug 7 2012 4:46PM
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snwbrdmilf
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Holy crap that's fantastic.
Aug 7 2012 4:47PM
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mmallender.
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how is that any different from people thinking in their dominant language?
Aug 7 2012 4:50PM
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Spinoza
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Take a knife and chop off your hand to be sure. Disclaimer: I was joking about cutting your hand off and will not be held accountable for the possible stupidity of kids on the Internet
Aug 7 2012 5:07PM
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yuck
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thats actually a pretty common theory, supported by a lot of the world's leading physisicisists
Aug 7 2012 5:24PM
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Pudge
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No, no it's actually not at all. No respectable physicist believes that the big bang originated from the imploding of a black hole? Like wtf that doesn't even make any sense.

That happens anyway, white holes. The same idea as a black hole, extremely dense points except they do the exact opposite, they release matter. They have not been found but Einstein's math allows them to happen. I am a fan of the school of though where if something can happen, then it has happened, is happening or can happen –– at some point and space in time.

I will gladly school any of you toddlers in an astro-phyisics mind=blown contest. Right here, right now with real people, really.
Aug 10 2012 1:48AM
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technique.
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can you teach me to be a cool astro-physi-mind-blownacist like yourself? maybe once im 6 years old.
Aug 10 2012 11:00AM
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Kimbo~Slice
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Um, I assume you are an intelligent guy and I concede I haven't done physics for a while, but there is definitely a case for a "big bounce".

In laymen terms the universe expands slower and slower due to the enormous gravitational pull it has on itself (density becomes infinite). The gravity eventually becomes too much and the universe collapses on itself becoming many black holes, which collapse on themselves forming what we understand as the state of the universe prior to the big bang (a black hole) which in turn will also expand in the same way the big bang did.

Interestingly this cycle could have happened an infinite amount of times before this one and if it is true will happen an infinite amount of times after.

Please correct me if you know better, but I believe I know my shit.
Aug 10 2012 7:01PM
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Zimmerman
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Actually, a few years back they discovered that the universe was not slowing down, but still speeding up at a rate too fast to ever allow a "big crunch." Instead, many believe that a "big rip" will occur in which everything is spaced the fuck out and torn apart.
Aug 10 2012 7:14PM
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Kimbo~Slice
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AKA the big freeze yeah, atoms get so spaced apart there's no interactions between them which means everything gets really cold. I thought they hadn't completely diproved it yet?
Aug 10 2012 7:16PM
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Pudge
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No, the Big Rip =/= the Big Freeze.

If dark energy's current strength increased, the universe would expand at an exponentially faster rate. In roughly 20-30 billion years objects, even if bound by gravity, would fly away from eachother. First galaxy clusters, then galaxies, stars and so on. Ultimately space would be a soup of neutrinos and other subatomic particles. Everything would disintegrate and time would stop (because the fabric of space/time would RIP), marking the end of everything. This scenario is the second most unlikely, after the Big Crunch.

The Big Freeze however is and ending where dark energy's current strength remains the same. So only objects NOT bound by gravity would fly away from one another. So stars away from one another, and planets away from stars, and their orbiting bodies. But the bodies themselves and their atoms will stay intact (so there would be no heat because the nearest star would be flying away at speeds faster than the speed of light, really cold, big FREEZE). This is the most likely scenario for the end of everything

I read this book called The Universe every night ahah. I am getting this shit straight from pages 54 and 55
Aug 10 2012 9:14PM
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Bar_Down
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This thread went from Mind=Blown to Mind=wut.
Aug 10 2012 9:28PM
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Pudge
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It was in the 1920's with Hubble not a few years ago (;

BUT the rationale for it didn't come along until Einstein who first theorized about the force behind the universe's expansion. He referred to it as the cosmological constant, not dark energy. But he was shutdown and he called it his biggest blunder.

THEN in the 90's with the advances in telescopes and shit, we were using red shits discovered by Hubble in conjunction with the standard candle of supernovae (all supernovi emit the same brightness regardless of the size of the star) we found that the universe was not only expanding as thought, but it's accelerating. So physicists revisited Einstein's constant. They did the math and found even when he thought he was wrong, he was right. Dark matter would not only explain the expansion but it would account for the missing 70 percent of the mass-energy density of the universe that is required to make it flat.

I can keep going with this annoying know-it-all thing. Are you not entertained?





Because if you're not I am not shocked. No girl anywhere, ever will be attracted to my knowledge of astro-physics.

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Aug 10 2012 9:35PM
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Pudge
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Red shifts***
Aug 10 2012 9:36PM
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partywithsloots
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threads
Aug 10 2012 11:18PM
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Zimmerman
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Go on if you will.
I like it.
Aug 11 2012 3:28PM
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chicken
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everything in this post was correct, but if you read what he said he was not incorrect either.
Aug 11 2012 4:23PM
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Pudge
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I suppose!!
Aug 11 2012 4:41PM
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sack
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to be honest, it fascinates me although I understand almost none of it. (I really wish I did)
there's a nerd somewhere out there for you :)
Aug 20 2012 9:46AM
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