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OT: Interesting Facts (history, geography, science, etc.)

It it possible for the universe to be both finite and infinite.

Imagine the universe as the surface of a balloon. As the balloon expands every point on the surface of the balloon gets further away from every other point. The surface can expand forever meaning that it is infinite. But at any given point in time. It is finite.
 
The larger question is can God make a rock so big that he can't pick it up?
 
UcannUconn said:
Nice. Elon Musk is also a proponent of mass breeding, is constantly talking about how we need to fix the fertility rates in the west. I believe he has 7 children now.
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My fun fact is that Elon Musk is moron.
 
Hey Adrien! said:
My maternal side of the family goes back many generations to the town in American that geographically closest to Africa: Eastport, Maine.
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Close 2nd, yet the town of Lubec objects and Quoddy Head State Park/peninsula is even closer
 
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The only way a game of Monopoly can end officially is when one player flips the board and everything on it over.

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In any of the United States, the furthest points both west and east are in Alaska. The easterly site’s higher latitude makes it further from Africa than Quoddy Head State Park peninsula in Maine.
 
husky429 said:
My fun fact is that Elon Musk is moron.
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I mean, he’s right. Take Japan’s 1.4% fertility rate. Extrapolate that over just a handful of generations and you end up with almost no people. US seems to be the only western country with fertility rates even near replacement level. I don’t think importing massive amounts of people from undeveloped countries is a reasonable solution.
 
UcannUconn said:
I mean, he’s right. Take Japan’s 1.4% fertility rate. Extrapolate that over just a handful of generations and you end up with almost no people. US seems to be the only western country with fertility rates even near replacement level. I don’t think importing massive amounts of people from undeveloped countries is a reasonable solution.
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Are we ignoring the rest of the planet's fertility rates now? It doesn't take a genius to notice western countries have low fertility rates. It takes less of a genius to bother to look at third-world countries on Wikipedia too. Starting mass breeding programs is potentially the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. And I am a public school teacher--I hear stupid ideas every single day. There are 100+ countries with replacement level fertility on this planet man. Including India, with what, close to 20% of the world's population already?

Musk fanboys are repulsive all over every corner of the internet. The JJ Starling stanning is a more enjoyable schtick for you. He's a hell of a player
 
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Never doubt the influence of natonalism on language development...

In England, as the influence of the Classical world was revived in the 15th century, scholars of English desired to remind their readers that most of the words in the language originated in Latin and Greek.

To show off their knowledge that ‘doubt’, then spelled 'dout' because it came into medieval English via French doute, was derived originally from Latin dubitare, they added the b — and it stuck. In its way, it was a nationalistic gesture, reasserting the (more prestigious) Classical origins of English over Dutch, French, German, and Norse influences of the intervening millennium since Roman influence waned in Britain from the fifth century and Anglo-Saxon languages began to infiltrate.

So, those in positions of power (read: printing presses) added in extra letters to words just because they could. In a time when language was far from standardized, this was a fairly easy feat to accomplish.

This can also be seen with "sign", which came from the same root word as "signature", so they kept the "g". Of course they also went rogue on occasion, as with "knife", of Germanic origin, where the "k" was indeed pronounced.
 
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MCNPA said:
Sharks have been on earth longer than trees.
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As this is the Boneyard, and as we are, collectively, a great.big pile of pissants; please allow me to speak for the group:

Sharks are in the water. Trees are upon the earth.
 
husky429 said:
Are we ignoring the rest of the planet's fertility rates now? It doesn't take a genius to notice western countries have low fertility rates. It takes less of a genius to bother to look at third-world countries on Wikipedia too. Starting mass breeding programs is potentially the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. And I am a public school teacher--I hear stupid ideas every single day. There are 100+ countries with replacement level fertility on this planet man. Including India, with what, close to 20% of the world's population already?

Musk fanboys are repulsive all over every corner of the internet. The JJ Starling stanning is a more enjoyable schtick for you. He's a hell of a player
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They have a vocabulary of like 500 words in some of these countries. Integrating them into highly developed society’s is setting them and us up for failure. They’re still in Hunter gatherer mode. It won’t work.
 
UcannUconn said:
They have a vocabulary of like 500 words in some of these countries. Integrating them into highly developed society’s is setting them and us up for failure. They’re still in Hunter gatherer mode. It won’t work.
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Yes, India is in hunter-gatherer mode. Got it.

This is not only stupid but racist. I can't believe you actually typed that.

You do realize that saying "people from x country cannot be civilized" is racist right? I mean, you're entitled to be racist; it's a free country after all. I just hope you realize it.

There are so few people in this world who still rely on hunter-gatherer life. This cannot be serious man. This is exactly the kind of faux-enlightened crap I'd expect Musk to spew. This isn't clever like you think it is. It's factually false.

Also 500 word languages? Are you thinking of pidgin languages? Because no one speaks those as a first language. This is also a stupid point, because it probably applies to no one on this planet, and even if it does, it is such a small portion of people to be irrelevant. Good effort though.

Being an overly enthusiastic fanboy works a lot better for you than racist nincompoop. Stick with the former if you can.
 
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Paul McCartney neither reads nor writes music.

(By the way McCartney 321 on Hulu is a great series.)
 
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When we visited New Zealand, the two cites where we had the most fun were Hamilton and Napier.
 
UcannUconn said:
They have a vocabulary of like 500 words in some of these countries. Integrating them into highly developed society’s is setting them and us up for failure. They’re still in Hunter gatherer mode. It won’t work.
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This is an extraordinarily poor post.

Setting aside a lot of things inherent in that post, which we should all probably circle back to, those few hunter gatherers that are left (and that certainly aren’t itching to move to Atlanta) have in many cases extraordinarily complex language and a wealth of knowledge about the natural world we’d be wise to learn from.
 
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