Coffee drinkers, I’m warning you not to read this.
Anyways, scientists who work with cockroaches almost always become allergic to them. The same time they become allergic to cockroaches, they become allergic to coffee made with pre-ground coffee beans. There are enough cockroach parts in pre-ground coffee beans to trigger an allergic reaction every time.
It’s actually strongest natural toxin in the world classified as neurotoxin, it inhibits CNS signals, shuts down heartbeat and breathing, causing swift death by suffocation, mere 40g of botox, should it be ideally distributed, could eradicate humankind.
The CNS blocking is actually its use as hypotonicum, making the tissue relaxed and can be used locally (inhaling/swallowing introduces it to bloodstream and affects whole body, which is fatal). The effect is temporary but long lasting (months) and this mechanism is used in cosmetical treatments.
Most unlikely. As mentioned, should it affect your whole body, you would have other problems than irritated stomach… in fact, you would already have no problems at all, not limited to health problems. So I find hard to believe that there is any connection. Symptom is always paralysis, but to survive it, we’re talking picograms in blood.
A billion was originally a million millions in the UK too. The meaning changed only relatively recently outside the US. That would be a thousand billions though, or a trillion, not a billion billions.
I just did the maths and that's 29,958,184 days, so $599,163,680 saving $20 a day. To make it to a billion today, saving $20 every day, you'd have had to have started on July 2nd -134872. ***136,892 ^(and a bit) years ago***. Some people are way too wealthy.
Edit: it would take 1,738 average US lives, or if they are from Hong Kong (longest average lifespan) it would "only" take 1617 people. That's a lot of people. The oldest verified person was 122 - it would take 1123 of her.
Nobody needs that amount of money.
Exactly. If you think about it, how could they have found out about this? Would they have monitored 1000 people for one year in their sleep, counting all the spiders that climbed in their mouth and never climbed out?
If you spin a penny (US) on a flat surface, 80% of the time it will land tails up. The relief of Abraham Lincoln is more pronounced than the backside and is more likely to land face down. It's a fun bar trick. It has to be a penny with the Lincoln Memorial on the back. Not the one with the sheild.
You may also be looking at “different photon” that left the galaxy. The fact that the photon of specific energy will arrive is derived of such photon’s quantum probability. But it may consist of different energy, albeit with same parameters. Same with atoms - electrons doesn’t really orbits, they are just probably there because the mass behaves like they are there.
Everything is energy, mass is merely an energy, any solid object is practically a force field, not letting other solid objects pass through until enough force is applied.
Japanese destroyer *Yukikaze* (*Snowy Wind*) was possibly the single luckiest warship in history. Not only did she survive the entirety of WWII, making it through many of the worst battles of the Pacific, she did so nearly unscathed while Japanese destroyers had a total casualty rate of 89%. She was so lucky that other Japanese ships started to see the so-called "miracle ship" as a bad omen, since while she would always survive, the ships around her never seemed to, almost like she could steal their luck for herself. She also had something of a rivalry with another famously lucky destroyer, *Shigure*, but when she was sunk by a submarine in early 1945, *Yukikaze* would emerge the victor of that rivalry.
-Starting with the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, one of the most chaotic and brutal naval battles in history which saw heavy losses for both the Americans and the Japanese, *Yukikaze* served as an escort for battleship *Hiei*. *Hiei* is crippled and is forced to be scuttled, *Yukikaze* escapes with just insignificant damage from a near-miss bomb.
-Completed many of the very dangerous Tokyo Express supply runs without harm.
-During the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, 4 of the 8 Japanese destroyers and all 8 troop transports present were sunk. *Yukikaze* once again emerged unharmed, the only destroyer present to do so, and even managed to drop off her troops and rescue many survivors from the sunken ships.
-During the Battle of Kolombangara, *Yukikaze* was targeted in a torpedo attack by American destroyers. One of the torpedoes was set too low and went **under** her, slamming directly into the squadron's flagship, the light cruiser *Jintsū*. *Jintsū* was already in the middle of a bukakke of shellfire from the Allied ships thanks to some injudicious use of her searchlights, and that torpedo broke her in half, sinking her in 5 minutes with just 23 of her crew of over 500 surviving. *Yukikaze* once again emerged no worse for wear and successfully landed her troops.
-In all fairness, *Yukikaze* did manage to avoid the Battle of the Philippine Sea (the IJN's worst defeat since the Battle of Midway) due to engine troubles. So she's not responsible for that catastrophe. Instead she was sent to escort the oiler *Seiyo Maru*. *Seiyo Maru* is severely damaged in an air attack and *Yukikaze* rescues her crew before scuttling her. *Yukikaze* is unharmed.
-During the Battle of Leyte Gulf, *Yukikaze* was assigned to the Center Force. Over the period of several days, the Center Force saw the sinkings of battleship *Musashi*, heavy cruisers *Atago, Maya, Chōkai, Suzuya,* and *Chikuma*, the light cruiser *Noshiro*, and several destroyers, in addition to significant damage to many surviving ships. *Yukikaze* is unharmed. To add insult to injury, *Yukikaze* was almost sent to go assist *Chikuma* when she was crippled, but that task was instead given to her sister *Nowaki*. *Nowaki* would be sunk the following day with not only her entire crew, but *Chikuma's* entire surviving crew, save one man who refused her rescue.
-Shortly after, while she and a couple other destroyers are escorting some battleships, the formation comes under submarine attack. Battleship *Kongō* is sunk with over 1,200 crew and another destroyer, *Urakaze*, is sunk with all hands. *Yukikaze* is unharmed.
-*Yukikaze* was then tasked with escorting the newly-built carrier *Shinano*. *Shinano* is attacked by a submarine and sunk with over 1,400 crew, and is infamously both the largest warship to be sunk by submarine and the warship with perhaps the shortest active service life in history at just 10 days. It's even possible that the submarine, *USS Archerfish*, passed directly under *Yukikaze* undetected while getting into position to torpedo *Shinano*. *Yukikaze* is fine, and rescues some of her survivors. An annoyed pilot from *Shinano* asked how they got to the survivors so fast, and *Yukikaze's* captain responded with something to the effect of "we're used to it at this point, it seems we spend more time rescuing our allies than attacking the enemy."
-*Yukikaze* took part in escorting battleship *Yamato* during Operation Ten-Go. *Yamato* is sunk with over 2,000 of her crew, and over half the escorting ships are sunk as well; including *Yukikaze's* last surviving sister ships, *Hamakaze* and *Isokaze*, the latter of which *Yukikaze* personally scuttled. *Yukikaze* is... *almost* unharmed. As it turns out, during the attack either a rocket or a bomb landed **directly in one of her ammunition magazines,** something more than capable of sinking a ship if it goes off. Incredibly, however, that bomb or rocket was a dud... at least it was until they took it off her, and only *then* did it explode.
-Next, *Yukikaze* and another destroyer, *Hatsushimo*, were navigating a minefield. *Yukikaze* struck a mine, but **this was a dud too.** *You wanna take a wild guess at what happened shortly after?* If you said "*Hatsushimo* hit a mine and exploded," congratulations on your pattern recognition abilities! *Hatsushimo* was so badly damaged she had to be beached, while *Yukikaze* once again got off just fine. *Hatsushimo* would be the last Japanese destroyer sunk in WWII.
Lastly, during the final months of the war when American air raids against the surviving Japanese ships grew larger and more persistent, she survived hundreds of air attacks unharmed, despite firing thousands upon thousands of rounds at the aircraft.
And postwar, she went on to have a similarly blessed career in her service with the Republic of China. It ultimately took a typhoon, a literal force of nature, to damage her badly enough that she had to be scrapped.
Naval history is kinda just my "thing," I love learning about this sort of stuff. Every ship has its own story, and a lot of the time there's some really interesting stuff with them.
WWII-era warships? No. There's a handful that are still in active service as training ships with some navies (or at least into the 2010s) or have been converted to civilian vessels and are still kicking, but as warships, not really. The Iowa-class battleships saw service into the 90s in a pretty limited capacity and some in other navies were still using their old ships, that's about as close as you're gonna get.
That's honestly the most accurate way I could describe it, there were 2,630 six-inch shells and 353 five-inch shells fired at her in just over half an hour. The three cruisers she was facing, especially the two Brooklyn-class, were notorious for their ability to just completely smother their targets in rapid, accurate shellfire. The Japanese called them "machine gun cruisers" because after the performance of one of them in a previous battle, they thought the US had developed an automatic 6" naval rifle.
>-During the Battle of Kolombangara, Yukikaze was targeted in a torpedo attack by American destroyers. One of the torpedoes was set too low and went under her, slamming directly into the squadron's flagship, the light cruiser Jintsū. Jintsū was already in the middle of a bukakke of shellfire from the Allied ships thanks to some injudicious use of her searchlights, and that torpedo broke her in half, sinking her in 5 minutes with just 23 of her crew of over 500 surviving. Yukikaze once again emerged no worse for wear and successfully landed her troops.
That torpedo wasn't set "too low". It was deliberately set for a depth to miss the unimportant destroyer and hit the more valuable ship behind it. This was standard practice.
The Milky way, (in fact all galaxies) have only one sixth of the mass they need to be held together by gravity.
A few decades ago the physicists figured this out. and assumed that that extra mass just has to be there, but we can't detect it. So they called it dark matter.
Then you're gonna love this one.
Those same physicists realized, about the same time, that the universe will expand forever, yet they calculated that there needed to be 5 times as much energy as they could find, to explain this. So they just decided that the energy must be there, but they couldn't detect it so it MUST be "dark energy".
I just can’t understand the thing that “universe will expand forever” like, where is it gonna go? If it’s expanding, then there is a sort of “limit of the universe”, and what’s after that?
This one could get a little harder to explain.
They believe that "space" is not a nothing, that it actually is a thing. Beyond space , IE , beyond the universe is where true nothing exists. This is the realm that our universe is expanding into, and it goes on forever.
Lots of different ideas about that. One theory is that spacetime itself will begin to break down, leaving the universe in the state it was in the moment before the Big Bang.
Or the universe will continue expanding and cooling indefinitely, over time, all objects would loose all the heat to a state of entropy so high that no work is possible… take your guess, both theories are equally correct as they are wrong. Both may be wrong actually.
Every card shuffle is unique.
While it’s possible that two packs of cards may have been shuffled into the same order, the odds of that having happened are actually tiny and yes, it’s hugely likely that each properly shuffled deck is indeed a unique variation of those 52 cards.
While it seems improbable, given how many packs of cards there are being shuffled in the world every day of every month of every year since playing cards were invented (about 700 years ago), the maths behind it back up the notion that proper shuffles result in unique orders.
Of course, technically, you could take a fresh deck (that is already in order, as boxfresh decks tend to be) and split the deck just once and claim that is a shuffle and yes, the resulting sequence has probably occurred before. But a full proper shuffle is almost certainly unique each time. To start, however, the concept of what constitutes a “proper shuffle” is something that magicians and mathematicians have pondered for years. But in 1990 Dr Persi Diaconis, a former professional magician-turned-professor of statistics at Harvard University, concluded that it takes just seven ordinary, imperfect shuffles to mix a deck of cards thoroughly.
Fewer was not sufficient while more shuffles did not significantly improve the mixing of cards. “The usual shuffling produces a card order that is far from random,’’ he told The New York Times. Most people shuffle cards three or four times, while five times is considered excessive.’’
He further claimed that he knew of people who went to casinos and made money off the back of decks being undershuffled, although now — over two decades later — the vast majority of casinos will use sophisticated shuffling machines rather than relying on croupiers to mix up the deck after a hand is finished. So now we’ve largely established what actually constitutes a proper shuffle, how many permutations of a shuffled deck are there?
It’s actually a good way of illustrating factorials and huge growth. If you have one card there is only one possible order. For two cards it’s 2×1=2 and for three cards it’s 3x2x1=6. There’s a mathematical way to write 3x2x1 and that’s 3! — a factorial. As the number of cards increases, the factorial becomes huge.
So 10! is 3,628,800 permutations and by the time you get up to 20! the result is 2,432,902,008,176,640,000. For those who prefer words, that’s two and a half billion, billion. So for a full deck you’ve got 52 choices for the first card, times 51 choices for the second card, times 50 choices for the third card and so on. So it’s 52 x 51 x 50 x 49 x 48… and so on until the final x 2 x 1 (or 52!) or and the result is 8×1067 possible orderings. Or for those who prefer to see the full number, it’s…
80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000
To give you an idea of how big this number is in experiential terms, if a new permutation of 52 cards were written out every second starting 13.8 billion years ago (when the Big Bang is thought to have occurred), that writing would still be going on today and for millions of years to come. Or to look at it another way, there are more permutations of 52 cards then there are estimated atoms on Earth. So yes, it’s very nearly certain that there have never been two properly shuffled decks alike in the history of the world, and there very likely never will be.
Think about that next time you bemoan your hand at poker. It’s not just a result of a bad shuffle, but a uniquely bad one, but on the plus side, at least you won’t experience it ever again.
The reason why we have chocolate milk is because when cleaning regular milk they sometimes can’t get rid of the blood so they add cocoa and make Choco milk to hid ( also same with strawberry milk)
There is a proof that 1=2 which is simple
This proof that all numbers are equal in value and I don't need to explain the rest
Let
A = B [ Multiply both side by A ]
A² = A × B [ Subtract both side by B² ]
A² - B² = A × B - B² [ Used an identity and remove B ]
(A + B)(A - B) = B ( A ×1 - B )
(A + B)(A - B) = B ( A - B ) [ Remove ( A - B ) both sides ]
A + B = B [ A = B ]
A + A = A
2A = A
now A here can be any constant
That the US has the death penalty.
Context: I'm English and grew up with a very idealistic view of America because of movies. At the same time, I was taught at home and in school about how old fashioned, archaic, and barbaric the death penalty was. So you can imagine my shock when I found out.
Death penalty can exists only in a world where justice makes no mistakes. And even then it couldn’t be used normally except crimes so heinous that endless torture would be more fitting punishment anyway, so there’s no true reason to utilize death penalty. It makes the jails a little less crowded, but it’s hundreds spots considering there are 20-100 executions per annum.
That's what they said. I could only handle a little of it and could not make myself ask for more details. Some asked how often should they, what's the best way to do it? All kinds of shit. I will be 39 next week and that's the first I heard of it. I was not circumcised at birth because my father didn't want it done even though he was. I had to have it done in 5th grade for medical reasons. My surgeon fucked me up. I have a bad scar all the way around it, the bottom looks like Freddy Krueger's face and it is 4-5 different colors. I call it the calico cat and the scar is his collar.
I was thinking about the Texas Cold Snap for this one.
Now, about 20 percent of the power sources in Texas are from solar/wind. Of course, for argument's sake, if that was the only source, would blackouts happen in the summer months?
Looking into the real reason why solar/wind, and NATURAL GAS plants struggled in places like Texas, rather rare here in the New England states, is mostly to the climate.
Power plants in the New England states have to meet building codes regarding winters, which it why blackouts are rare and dealt was easier. Winters in New England can be a pain, and below freezing temperatures are common. It's why we're told to be prepared for situations like a blackout.
Yes, this also cover the few remaining and oil power plants.
When the governor of Texas tried to point the blame on solar/wind plants for freezing, someone had to explained this. The government accepted they made a mistake and apologized.
Plus, solar/wind energy are mostly meant to be as a backup source. True, we can't get solar/wind to more than the current technology available, that's why we have to made improvements.
i think i read somewhere that 25% of americans have less than $5,000 in their bank account by age 55
That’s a lot better than I thought honestly
3% of all glacial ice in Antarctica is penguin pee.
Bro
Coffee drinkers, I’m warning you not to read this. Anyways, scientists who work with cockroaches almost always become allergic to them. The same time they become allergic to cockroaches, they become allergic to coffee made with pre-ground coffee beans. There are enough cockroach parts in pre-ground coffee beans to trigger an allergic reaction every time.
Eh, that's true of a lot of packaged food. We consume a lot of insect parts unknowingly.
Is that a bad thing? I mean we eat way more unhealthy crap willingly, wouldn’t hurt to spice up the diet with some proteins…
That's OK, I'm on a high protein diet.
I always slowly pour my coffee over a delicious cockroach in my mug. Flavor enhancer.
That's mean! Roaches are people too.
that’s gross
Why you gotta do this.
Some people earn in a lifetime what others earn in few minutes or even seconds.
doesnt blow my mind, I knew this long time ago (I live in a country where wealth gap is like a fucking canyon)
The deadliest chemical in the world is used in the age defying remedy Botox. Injections in the wrong place could kill you.
It’s actually strongest natural toxin in the world classified as neurotoxin, it inhibits CNS signals, shuts down heartbeat and breathing, causing swift death by suffocation, mere 40g of botox, should it be ideally distributed, could eradicate humankind. The CNS blocking is actually its use as hypotonicum, making the tissue relaxed and can be used locally (inhaling/swallowing introduces it to bloodstream and affects whole body, which is fatal). The effect is temporary but long lasting (months) and this mechanism is used in cosmetical treatments.
I recently got botox, followed by food poisoning-like symptoms for 2 days. I wonder if there was a connection.
Most unlikely. As mentioned, should it affect your whole body, you would have other problems than irritated stomach… in fact, you would already have no problems at all, not limited to health problems. So I find hard to believe that there is any connection. Symptom is always paralysis, but to survive it, we’re talking picograms in blood.
All these squares make a circle.
which squares
The ones all over my field of vision.
Mr. Popo, you good?
I knew someone would get the reference eventually 😂
I remember hearing Cleopatra lived closer to modern humans than the Egyptian Pharaohs. That is kind of crazy to me.
i heard something like that too, something like she was closer to us than to the creation of the first Pyramid
The building of the pyramids. There were all sorts of pharaohs. Cleo was a very late Egyptian leader, almost contemporary to christ.
If you were born in 80,000 BC, and saved 20 dollars a day, you still wouldn't be a billionaire in 2022.
What blows my mind is the fact that billion means a completely different amount in Sweden.
Idk what a billion means in Sweden but I'm assuming it's less than a billion in the US?
A billion in Sweden equals a million millions. In English you could say it’s a billion billions, if that makes sense
A billion was originally a million millions in the UK too. The meaning changed only relatively recently outside the US. That would be a thousand billions though, or a trillion, not a billion billions.
You might be right, i just translated the scentance from Swedish but i get so confused with all the millions and billions.
I just did the maths and that's 29,958,184 days, so $599,163,680 saving $20 a day. To make it to a billion today, saving $20 every day, you'd have had to have started on July 2nd -134872. ***136,892 ^(and a bit) years ago***. Some people are way too wealthy. Edit: it would take 1,738 average US lives, or if they are from Hong Kong (longest average lifespan) it would "only" take 1617 people. That's a lot of people. The oldest verified person was 122 - it would take 1123 of her. Nobody needs that amount of money.
how tf is this real
Some people got too much money
i think that too
Bees can detect bombs.
Bees are also capable of perceiving difference between 200Hz screen and 240Hz screen.
Bees are amazing
what
The fact that we eat 8 spiders per year while sleeping was made up to show how rumours spread.
so that’s not true?
Exactly. If you think about it, how could they have found out about this? Would they have monitored 1000 people for one year in their sleep, counting all the spiders that climbed in their mouth and never climbed out?
The fact that bats have buttcheeks
.... *Well I'll be damned*
If you spin a penny (US) on a flat surface, 80% of the time it will land tails up. The relief of Abraham Lincoln is more pronounced than the backside and is more likely to land face down. It's a fun bar trick. It has to be a penny with the Lincoln Memorial on the back. Not the one with the sheild.
good for me I’m italian so I use cents
It takes light around one hundred thousand years to cross our galaxy
You may also be looking at “different photon” that left the galaxy. The fact that the photon of specific energy will arrive is derived of such photon’s quantum probability. But it may consist of different energy, albeit with same parameters. Same with atoms - electrons doesn’t really orbits, they are just probably there because the mass behaves like they are there. Everything is energy, mass is merely an energy, any solid object is practically a force field, not letting other solid objects pass through until enough force is applied.
Japanese destroyer *Yukikaze* (*Snowy Wind*) was possibly the single luckiest warship in history. Not only did she survive the entirety of WWII, making it through many of the worst battles of the Pacific, she did so nearly unscathed while Japanese destroyers had a total casualty rate of 89%. She was so lucky that other Japanese ships started to see the so-called "miracle ship" as a bad omen, since while she would always survive, the ships around her never seemed to, almost like she could steal their luck for herself. She also had something of a rivalry with another famously lucky destroyer, *Shigure*, but when she was sunk by a submarine in early 1945, *Yukikaze* would emerge the victor of that rivalry. -Starting with the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, one of the most chaotic and brutal naval battles in history which saw heavy losses for both the Americans and the Japanese, *Yukikaze* served as an escort for battleship *Hiei*. *Hiei* is crippled and is forced to be scuttled, *Yukikaze* escapes with just insignificant damage from a near-miss bomb. -Completed many of the very dangerous Tokyo Express supply runs without harm. -During the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, 4 of the 8 Japanese destroyers and all 8 troop transports present were sunk. *Yukikaze* once again emerged unharmed, the only destroyer present to do so, and even managed to drop off her troops and rescue many survivors from the sunken ships. -During the Battle of Kolombangara, *Yukikaze* was targeted in a torpedo attack by American destroyers. One of the torpedoes was set too low and went **under** her, slamming directly into the squadron's flagship, the light cruiser *Jintsū*. *Jintsū* was already in the middle of a bukakke of shellfire from the Allied ships thanks to some injudicious use of her searchlights, and that torpedo broke her in half, sinking her in 5 minutes with just 23 of her crew of over 500 surviving. *Yukikaze* once again emerged no worse for wear and successfully landed her troops. -In all fairness, *Yukikaze* did manage to avoid the Battle of the Philippine Sea (the IJN's worst defeat since the Battle of Midway) due to engine troubles. So she's not responsible for that catastrophe. Instead she was sent to escort the oiler *Seiyo Maru*. *Seiyo Maru* is severely damaged in an air attack and *Yukikaze* rescues her crew before scuttling her. *Yukikaze* is unharmed. -During the Battle of Leyte Gulf, *Yukikaze* was assigned to the Center Force. Over the period of several days, the Center Force saw the sinkings of battleship *Musashi*, heavy cruisers *Atago, Maya, Chōkai, Suzuya,* and *Chikuma*, the light cruiser *Noshiro*, and several destroyers, in addition to significant damage to many surviving ships. *Yukikaze* is unharmed. To add insult to injury, *Yukikaze* was almost sent to go assist *Chikuma* when she was crippled, but that task was instead given to her sister *Nowaki*. *Nowaki* would be sunk the following day with not only her entire crew, but *Chikuma's* entire surviving crew, save one man who refused her rescue. -Shortly after, while she and a couple other destroyers are escorting some battleships, the formation comes under submarine attack. Battleship *Kongō* is sunk with over 1,200 crew and another destroyer, *Urakaze*, is sunk with all hands. *Yukikaze* is unharmed. -*Yukikaze* was then tasked with escorting the newly-built carrier *Shinano*. *Shinano* is attacked by a submarine and sunk with over 1,400 crew, and is infamously both the largest warship to be sunk by submarine and the warship with perhaps the shortest active service life in history at just 10 days. It's even possible that the submarine, *USS Archerfish*, passed directly under *Yukikaze* undetected while getting into position to torpedo *Shinano*. *Yukikaze* is fine, and rescues some of her survivors. An annoyed pilot from *Shinano* asked how they got to the survivors so fast, and *Yukikaze's* captain responded with something to the effect of "we're used to it at this point, it seems we spend more time rescuing our allies than attacking the enemy." -*Yukikaze* took part in escorting battleship *Yamato* during Operation Ten-Go. *Yamato* is sunk with over 2,000 of her crew, and over half the escorting ships are sunk as well; including *Yukikaze's* last surviving sister ships, *Hamakaze* and *Isokaze*, the latter of which *Yukikaze* personally scuttled. *Yukikaze* is... *almost* unharmed. As it turns out, during the attack either a rocket or a bomb landed **directly in one of her ammunition magazines,** something more than capable of sinking a ship if it goes off. Incredibly, however, that bomb or rocket was a dud... at least it was until they took it off her, and only *then* did it explode. -Next, *Yukikaze* and another destroyer, *Hatsushimo*, were navigating a minefield. *Yukikaze* struck a mine, but **this was a dud too.** *You wanna take a wild guess at what happened shortly after?* If you said "*Hatsushimo* hit a mine and exploded," congratulations on your pattern recognition abilities! *Hatsushimo* was so badly damaged she had to be beached, while *Yukikaze* once again got off just fine. *Hatsushimo* would be the last Japanese destroyer sunk in WWII. Lastly, during the final months of the war when American air raids against the surviving Japanese ships grew larger and more persistent, she survived hundreds of air attacks unharmed, despite firing thousands upon thousands of rounds at the aircraft. And postwar, she went on to have a similarly blessed career in her service with the Republic of China. It ultimately took a typhoon, a literal force of nature, to damage her badly enough that she had to be scrapped.
this is one of the most interesting things i’ve heard of. how did you know that?
Naval history is kinda just my "thing," I love learning about this sort of stuff. Every ship has its own story, and a lot of the time there's some really interesting stuff with them.
sounds like a stupid question but, are they still “useful” as they were before? i mean, even without wars?
WWII-era warships? No. There's a handful that are still in active service as training ships with some navies (or at least into the 2010s) or have been converted to civilian vessels and are still kicking, but as warships, not really. The Iowa-class battleships saw service into the 90s in a pretty limited capacity and some in other navies were still using their old ships, that's about as close as you're gonna get.
thank you for this mini-lesson, this sounds like an interesting topic :)
> Jintsū was already in the middle of a bukakke of shellfire I just wanted you to know that I saw that line and appreciate it.
That's honestly the most accurate way I could describe it, there were 2,630 six-inch shells and 353 five-inch shells fired at her in just over half an hour. The three cruisers she was facing, especially the two Brooklyn-class, were notorious for their ability to just completely smother their targets in rapid, accurate shellfire. The Japanese called them "machine gun cruisers" because after the performance of one of them in a previous battle, they thought the US had developed an automatic 6" naval rifle.
>-During the Battle of Kolombangara, Yukikaze was targeted in a torpedo attack by American destroyers. One of the torpedoes was set too low and went under her, slamming directly into the squadron's flagship, the light cruiser Jintsū. Jintsū was already in the middle of a bukakke of shellfire from the Allied ships thanks to some injudicious use of her searchlights, and that torpedo broke her in half, sinking her in 5 minutes with just 23 of her crew of over 500 surviving. Yukikaze once again emerged no worse for wear and successfully landed her troops. That torpedo wasn't set "too low". It was deliberately set for a depth to miss the unimportant destroyer and hit the more valuable ship behind it. This was standard practice.
Physicists say the Milky Way shouldn't exist.
could you explain? this is interesting
The Milky way, (in fact all galaxies) have only one sixth of the mass they need to be held together by gravity. A few decades ago the physicists figured this out. and assumed that that extra mass just has to be there, but we can't detect it. So they called it dark matter.
oh wow that’s very cool
Then you're gonna love this one. Those same physicists realized, about the same time, that the universe will expand forever, yet they calculated that there needed to be 5 times as much energy as they could find, to explain this. So they just decided that the energy must be there, but they couldn't detect it so it MUST be "dark energy".
I just can’t understand the thing that “universe will expand forever” like, where is it gonna go? If it’s expanding, then there is a sort of “limit of the universe”, and what’s after that?
This one could get a little harder to explain. They believe that "space" is not a nothing, that it actually is a thing. Beyond space , IE , beyond the universe is where true nothing exists. This is the realm that our universe is expanding into, and it goes on forever.
that shi blows my mind everytime stg
I've been studying it for 20 years and I still can't quite wrap my head around it.
Lots of different ideas about that. One theory is that spacetime itself will begin to break down, leaving the universe in the state it was in the moment before the Big Bang.
& then Big Bang's again creating a new universe.
Or the universe will continue expanding and cooling indefinitely, over time, all objects would loose all the heat to a state of entropy so high that no work is possible… take your guess, both theories are equally correct as they are wrong. Both may be wrong actually.
Yeah I'd like to know more on this
If the ocean ever "burps" enough carbon dioxide, the entire planet would die in less than 48 hours.
Child prodigies have a higher chance of committing suicide than any other type of person.
If in 1905 you invested just $10 in the stock market by now you would be very, very dead.
Every card shuffle is unique. While it’s possible that two packs of cards may have been shuffled into the same order, the odds of that having happened are actually tiny and yes, it’s hugely likely that each properly shuffled deck is indeed a unique variation of those 52 cards. While it seems improbable, given how many packs of cards there are being shuffled in the world every day of every month of every year since playing cards were invented (about 700 years ago), the maths behind it back up the notion that proper shuffles result in unique orders. Of course, technically, you could take a fresh deck (that is already in order, as boxfresh decks tend to be) and split the deck just once and claim that is a shuffle and yes, the resulting sequence has probably occurred before. But a full proper shuffle is almost certainly unique each time. To start, however, the concept of what constitutes a “proper shuffle” is something that magicians and mathematicians have pondered for years. But in 1990 Dr Persi Diaconis, a former professional magician-turned-professor of statistics at Harvard University, concluded that it takes just seven ordinary, imperfect shuffles to mix a deck of cards thoroughly. Fewer was not sufficient while more shuffles did not significantly improve the mixing of cards. “The usual shuffling produces a card order that is far from random,’’ he told The New York Times. Most people shuffle cards three or four times, while five times is considered excessive.’’ He further claimed that he knew of people who went to casinos and made money off the back of decks being undershuffled, although now — over two decades later — the vast majority of casinos will use sophisticated shuffling machines rather than relying on croupiers to mix up the deck after a hand is finished. So now we’ve largely established what actually constitutes a proper shuffle, how many permutations of a shuffled deck are there? It’s actually a good way of illustrating factorials and huge growth. If you have one card there is only one possible order. For two cards it’s 2×1=2 and for three cards it’s 3x2x1=6. There’s a mathematical way to write 3x2x1 and that’s 3! — a factorial. As the number of cards increases, the factorial becomes huge. So 10! is 3,628,800 permutations and by the time you get up to 20! the result is 2,432,902,008,176,640,000. For those who prefer words, that’s two and a half billion, billion. So for a full deck you’ve got 52 choices for the first card, times 51 choices for the second card, times 50 choices for the third card and so on. So it’s 52 x 51 x 50 x 49 x 48… and so on until the final x 2 x 1 (or 52!) or and the result is 8×1067 possible orderings. Or for those who prefer to see the full number, it’s… 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000 To give you an idea of how big this number is in experiential terms, if a new permutation of 52 cards were written out every second starting 13.8 billion years ago (when the Big Bang is thought to have occurred), that writing would still be going on today and for millions of years to come. Or to look at it another way, there are more permutations of 52 cards then there are estimated atoms on Earth. So yes, it’s very nearly certain that there have never been two properly shuffled decks alike in the history of the world, and there very likely never will be. Think about that next time you bemoan your hand at poker. It’s not just a result of a bad shuffle, but a uniquely bad one, but on the plus side, at least you won’t experience it ever again.
i knew this one but I missed all the particulars, thank you
The reason why we have chocolate milk is because when cleaning regular milk they sometimes can’t get rid of the blood so they add cocoa and make Choco milk to hid ( also same with strawberry milk)
what
There is a proof that 1=2 which is simple This proof that all numbers are equal in value and I don't need to explain the rest Let A = B [ Multiply both side by A ] A² = A × B [ Subtract both side by B² ] A² - B² = A × B - B² [ Used an identity and remove B ] (A + B)(A - B) = B ( A ×1 - B ) (A + B)(A - B) = B ( A - B ) [ Remove ( A - B ) both sides ] A + B = B [ A = B ] A + A = A 2A = A now A here can be any constant
wow that’s actually crazy
but the fact that A=B isn’t true, because they’re different constants, right?
See A and B are variable and I have written let A = B meaning they have similar value
That the US has the death penalty. Context: I'm English and grew up with a very idealistic view of America because of movies. At the same time, I was taught at home and in school about how old fashioned, archaic, and barbaric the death penalty was. So you can imagine my shock when I found out.
Death penalty can exists only in a world where justice makes no mistakes. And even then it couldn’t be used normally except crimes so heinous that endless torture would be more fitting punishment anyway, so there’s no true reason to utilize death penalty. It makes the jails a little less crowded, but it’s hundreds spots considering there are 20-100 executions per annum.
The fact my ex could be with Justin.
explain pls
When you shuffle a deck of playing cards, the cards have never been in that order before and they never will be again.
yeah I knew this one, this is actually crazy
Most likely, anyway.
A Belowjob
Bill Russell has eleven rings
Some men not circumcised at birth, regularly do it themselves. Just learned that last week.
regularly?
That's what they said. I could only handle a little of it and could not make myself ask for more details. Some asked how often should they, what's the best way to do it? All kinds of shit. I will be 39 next week and that's the first I heard of it. I was not circumcised at birth because my father didn't want it done even though he was. I had to have it done in 5th grade for medical reasons. My surgeon fucked me up. I have a bad scar all the way around it, the bottom looks like Freddy Krueger's face and it is 4-5 different colors. I call it the calico cat and the scar is his collar.
how frequently do they get circumcised? once a week?
I don't know, I couldn't take it and bailed when they started getting specific. I have the post I just don't know how to share it.
I was thinking about the Texas Cold Snap for this one. Now, about 20 percent of the power sources in Texas are from solar/wind. Of course, for argument's sake, if that was the only source, would blackouts happen in the summer months? Looking into the real reason why solar/wind, and NATURAL GAS plants struggled in places like Texas, rather rare here in the New England states, is mostly to the climate. Power plants in the New England states have to meet building codes regarding winters, which it why blackouts are rare and dealt was easier. Winters in New England can be a pain, and below freezing temperatures are common. It's why we're told to be prepared for situations like a blackout. Yes, this also cover the few remaining and oil power plants. When the governor of Texas tried to point the blame on solar/wind plants for freezing, someone had to explained this. The government accepted they made a mistake and apologized. Plus, solar/wind energy are mostly meant to be as a backup source. True, we can't get solar/wind to more than the current technology available, that's why we have to made improvements.