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Yeah, I heard that ''The Dillinger Escape Plan'' rolled dice to determine their time signatures for certain songs.
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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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a list of list of lists. that was amazing
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was looking something up about ginger in the german literotica. Made the mistake to curiously click on this link (ill post the english version):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figging
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That polybius article is like the most poorly written thing iv ever read on wikipedia.
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intrigue
Washington, D.C9931 Posts
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
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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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I spent many hours reading about scram jets at collage. I don't know why but i was and still am fascinated by them. Maybe due to the general simplicity of the idea or what but i think it is cool!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramjet
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Zurich15242 Posts
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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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Man like a year ago, i had no internet, and I was bored since i couldn't login on steam for a reason, and I realize i had polybious installed (the version that is on the website) i was about to play it when my internet come back, thanks goddddddddddddddddddddd. :D
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In the category of shit blowing up, there's the 1883 Krakatoa eruption. Of particular interest is the diagram of the island before and after. The animated GIF of the evolution of the islands is also interesting.
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List of unusual deaths: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths 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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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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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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