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Krowser
Canada788 Posts
On June 08 2012 00:14 Whitley wrote: Aleatoric music - music in which some element of the composition is left to chance not really weird or creppy, but pretty cool. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleatoric_music Yeah, I heard that ''The Dillinger Escape Plan'' rolled dice to determine their time signatures for certain songs. | ||
Myles
United States5162 Posts
On June 08 2012 01:09 sharky246 wrote: So the article posted in the OP about the wiki article max headroom and polybius, are they real? And if they aren't real, how much of the science wiki articles are real? Cause wiki is my go-to site for physics and chemistry research. They're real. The events surrounding them are probably erroneous/exaggerated, but they both happened. | ||
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DonKey_
Liechtenstein1356 Posts
I wish I could understand the effect as to how the laughing is contracted by others. | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States46301 Posts
On June 08 2012 01:46 DonKey_ wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanganyika_laughter_epidemic I wish I could understand the effect as to how the laughing is contracted by others. What the... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_mania Hell? | ||
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JiYan
United States3668 Posts
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Snotling
Germany885 Posts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figging | ||
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Heh_
Singapore2712 Posts
Edit: The list of list of lists was amazing. For such a massive database generated by multiple independent users, wikipedia is sure organized. | ||
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PassiveAce
United States18076 Posts
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thurst0n
United States611 Posts
This is some very messed up torture. It's also a cool sounding word. This sounds is pretty messed up. Not for the weak stomach. | ||
intrigue
Washington, D.C9935 Posts
here's one of my staples... i don't even know if there's anybody who hasn't read it by now. just in case, ok? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions | ||
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sztuczyn
Poland694 Posts
![[image loading]](http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/the_problem_with_wikipedia.png) | ||
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Whitley
United States238 Posts
On June 08 2012 01:30 Krowser wrote: Yeah, I heard that ''The Dillinger Escape Plan'' rolled dice to determine their time signatures for certain songs. Dilinger is sick. I actually discovered this whole thing from a band called "The Books" they had a song called Aleatoric with tons of random sounds and voiceovers from random stuff and it was so cool I was forced to check out it's meaning. There was another band(the name escapes me) that supposedly just had some old radios set to random AM channels and then pressed record.. I heard it a few times.. was pretty intense. | ||
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Lyndsay
United Kingdom40 Posts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramjet | ||
zatic
Zurich15366 Posts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_disappeared_mysteriously There, knock yourself out. | ||
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tianGO
Argentina591 Posts
On June 08 2012 02:29 intrigue wrote: i think wasting time on wikipedia is the best waste of time in many senses. like it's time-consuming AND it stimulates your thinky bits and maybe your tingly bits. and it's showing off to people behind you that you are literate and such a fact-based reasonable person! also you can tell your boss that you're doing research. wtf best thing ever. this thread will consume delightful hours of my life and i can't wait. starting on first article now! here's one of my staples... i don't even know if there's anybody who hasn't read it by now. just in case, ok? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions Lol, check this quote from that article: "In South Korea, it is commonly believed that sleeping in a closed room with an electric fan running can be fatal. According to the Korean government, "In some cases, a fan turned on too long can cause death from suffocation, hypothermia, or fire from overheating." The Korea Consumer Protection Board issued a consumer safety alert recommending that electric fans be set on timers, direction changed and doors left open. Belief in fan death is common even among knowledgeable medical professionals in Korea. According to Yeon Dong-su, dean of Kwandong University's medical school, "If it is completely sealed, then in the current of an electric fan, the temperature can drop low enough to cause a person to die of hypothermia."[205] Although an air conditioner transfers heat from the air and cools it, a fan moves air to increase the evaporation of sweat. Due to energy losses and viscous dissipation, a fan will slowly heat a room." | ||
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andReslic
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NicolBolas
United States1388 Posts
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Chapes
United States30 Posts
Kept me busy for a while, but I skipped ahead to more recent times. The more recent ones may have been recorded (public event/figure, etc.) and online if you're like me and way too curious. | ||
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pinnacle
United States86 Posts
On June 08 2012 02:29 intrigue wrote: i think wasting time on wikipedia is the best waste of time in many senses. like it's time-consuming AND it stimulates your thinky bits and maybe your tingly bits. and it's showing off to people behind you that you are literate and such a fact-based reasonable person! also you can tell your boss that you're doing research. wtf best thing ever. this thread will consume delightful hours of my life and i can't wait. starting on first article now! here's one of my staples... i don't even know if there's anybody who hasn't read it by now. just in case, ok? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions Just read the whole thing. It was really interesting. | ||
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Holytornados
United States1022 Posts
On June 08 2012 01:09 sharky246 wrote: So the article posted in the OP about the wiki article max headroom and polybius, are they real? And if they aren't real, how much of the science wiki articles are real? Cause wiki is my go-to site for physics and chemistry research. The max headroom story actually happened. I don't know anything about the video game however. Most of the articles are based on primary/secondary sources, so most are accurate. Wikipedia should not be your only source you cite, especially for things in the scientific community. | ||
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