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Iblis
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Message 14 of 182 (599739)
01-10-2011 11:07 AM


That water expands when freezing (that home-made slurpees explode rather than implode)

  
Iblis
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Message 20 of 182 (599751)
01-10-2011 12:33 PM
Reply to: Message 18 by Jon
01-10-2011 12:21 PM


Well that's not what I said...
The fuck it isn't.
Dr A writes:
Much of science is counter-intuitive ... What are your favorite examples?
You respond
That I exist.
Even if it does end up qualifying in some sense, you are still a pretentious ass for posting it, because the mere fact of having to dig into some gay philosophical bullshit to get whatever old rotten meat might be there means it doesn't qualify for the detailed qualifiers.
Dr A writes:
One could talk here about relativity or quantum theory, but there are examples that are easier to grasp and equally counter-intuitive at first glance. For example, the world being round. (I can still recall my own incredulity when my mother told me about that one.) Or the fact that large stars burn through their fuel faster than small ones.
Socrates is praying for icewater right now.

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Iblis
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Message 81 of 182 (600261)
01-13-2011 4:26 PM
Reply to: Message 78 by Dr Adequate
01-13-2011 12:34 PM


weight vs mass
I'm a little baffled. You seem to be saying that the door did detect pressure on the ground. If so, yeah, you should have been able to knock this over whatever minimum was required by jumping on it.
Calling this pressure "weight" shouldn't make any difference. Standard scales, the spring and lever kind for example, veer up all out of proportion when you jump on them. Some sort of stable mass-register, might not, but, what in the world ... my imagination starts to fail me at this point.
Give.

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Iblis
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Message 93 of 182 (600300)
01-13-2011 8:08 PM
Reply to: Message 88 by RAZD
01-13-2011 6:28 PM


there is a green blob ... or is it the green goblin?
That's obviously Galactus.
Not the classic original, with the giant purple costume with donkey ears; but rather the new updated one as seen in Ultimate Extinction and Rise of the Silver Surfer
Edited by Iblis, : fix title

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Iblis
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Message 103 of 182 (600438)
01-14-2011 1:16 PM
Reply to: Message 100 by Dr Adequate
01-14-2011 11:09 AM


Christ, is that all? Remind me never to wait for your other shoe to drop ever again.
slevesque got the key point already at Message 79, though no one realized you would be so obtuse as to be sticking on the point of when the door opened rather than meaning that it didn't.
This one tells us more about morbid psychology than it does about physics.

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