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Postby Roland Deschain » Fri Apr 20, 2012 9:03 pm


That's really cool. I'm either going to make self-replicating spiders made out of lego-like blocks and call them "Replicators", or make some sort of cyborg and call it "Skynet". But seriously, that's really cool.

^^ I was referring to management there, although come to think of it, they wouldn't know what you're talking about. That could be a good thing.
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Postby gronank » Sat Apr 21, 2012 10:13 am


http://xkcd.com/924/
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Postby Roland Deschain » Sat Apr 21, 2012 9:52 pm

^ :lol:

Another one of those "universe perspective" flash thingies
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Postby daftbeaker » Sun Apr 22, 2012 3:52 pm

Ok, ADD/ADHD are real problems and do benefit in some cases from Ritalin. With that said, I definitely prefer this treatment methodology for most of the 'difficult' children I know that have never been taught to sit down and shut up before :evilgrin:

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Postby gronank » Sun Apr 22, 2012 7:42 pm


A carbon atom doesn't look like that, the bohr model doesn't represent very well what kind of an object an atom really is. I suppose people in general just doesn't care enough about spherical harmonical solutions of the schrödinger equation to care.
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Postby Alan Dente » Sun Apr 22, 2012 9:10 pm

Roy Hunter wrote:This is intended as a counterpoint to funny stuff found on the interwebs: stuff that is not funny, but is undeniably cool. So here we go...

The last ever launch of Space Shuttle Discovery as viewed from a commercial airliner.

Not funny. But cool.


That was an awesome viewing perspective of the launch... THANKS!!!
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Postby PKMKII » Thu Apr 26, 2012 11:08 pm

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Postby Qwertyuiopasd » Tue May 01, 2012 1:22 pm

Apologies if this has already been posted, but that reminds me of a... similar video. Gets going at about :30, though the best part is undoubtedly at 4:42.
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Postby black bart » Wed May 02, 2012 7:52 am

I really like Alan Dente's avatar.
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Postby pieces o'nine » Wed May 02, 2012 12:10 pm

Ashes and Snow

Since 1992 [Canadian] photographer and filmmaker Gregory Colbert has collaborated with more than 40 species around the world to create a 21st-century bestiary. These images attempt to express the world not only through human eyes, but also through the eyes of a whale, an elephant, a manatee, a meerkat, a cheetah, or an orangutan.


The flash version is quite nice.
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Postby PKMKII » Thu May 03, 2012 9:22 pm

Courtney Love Loses Rights to Kurt Cobain's Image. Said rights will pass to his daughter, Frances Bean Cobain.

I've never been a huge Nirvana or Cobain fan, but I'm glad that trollop can't keep leeching off his legacy, or screwing with it for her own, personal gain.
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Re: Cool stuff found on the Interwebs

Postby black bart » Fri May 04, 2012 7:41 am

pieces o'nine wrote:Ashes and Snow

Since 1992 [Canadian] photographer and filmmaker Gregory Colbert has collaborated with more than 40 species around the world to create a 21st-century bestiary. These images attempt to express the world not only through human eyes, but also through the eyes of a whale, an elephant, a manatee, a meerkat, a cheetah, or an orangutan.


The flash version is quite nice.


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Re: Cool stuff found on the Interwebs

Postby Roland Deschain » Sat May 05, 2012 10:39 pm

gronank wrote:A carbon atom doesn't look like that, the bohr model doesn't represent very well what kind of an object an atom really is. I suppose people in general just doesn't care enough about spherical harmonical solutions of the schrödinger equation to care.

I know, but I suppose it's the most easily recognisable "shape" of an atom to most people, and it keeps the graphic simple, too.

Parenting win indeed, PK. I had flashbacks to Wayne's World, and doing that with school friends in cars.
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Postby black bart » Thu May 10, 2012 7:57 am

Get your Queen masks ready...yes you Scottish persons as well:

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Postby PKMKII » Sat May 12, 2012 12:17 am

What Disneyland would look like after the Apocalypse
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