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and in the spirit of this thread tycho brahe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_brahe

dude died because his kidneys exploded also he was an astronomer or something.

After reading his page I watched a video of the recent exhumation and when they pulled his casket out I was like "damn this dude was short" then they opened it and it was just a pile of his bones lol.

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03-09-2011 , 09:08 AM

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Maria_Mierscheid - fictional German politician

reminds me of this guy from my alma mater:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_P_Burdell

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03-09-2011 , 09:14 AM

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puma_Punku

I can't even fathom how pre-columbian societies and other ancients did this kind of stuff

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03-09-2011 , 09:19 AM

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Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the ocean, which is a low point in the Mariana Trench that reaches nearly 36,000 feet below sea level. To put that in perspective, Mount Everest reaches what like 29,000 feet above sea-level.

Challenger Deep

I'm sure this is scientifically feasible, but it just sounds like a catastrophic idea to this layperson:

Possible nuclear waste disposal site

Like other oceanic trenches, the Challenger Deep has been proposed by scientists as a potential site for nuclear waste disposal.[25] If placed on the site's subduction plate, the nuclear waste would be pushed deep into the Earth's mantle.[26] The disposal method is technically feasible, but such dumping is forbidden by the London Convention.[27][28][29]

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03-09-2011 , 10:25 AM

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I'm sure this is scientifically feasible, but it just sounds like a recipe for creating Godzilla to this layperson

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03-09-2011 , 04:11 PM

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Yeah that all sounded pretty crazy. It took humankind months to cap an underwater oil leak and we think burying radioactive waste at a depth of 36,000 feet below sea level (where pressure is unimaginable) is doable. Thank God for the London Convention, whoever organized that shindig.

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03-13-2011 , 10:22 PM

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NutzyClutz

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Tony Alamo "religious" leader

And his website

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03-13-2011 , 10:25 PM

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man that alamo guy gives us 9/11 conspirators a bad name

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03-14-2011 , 06:05 AM

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo

A doomsday-scenario where in the future, computerized machines designed to make other machines has a glitch, where it becomes a tumor and creates more and more machines. If the machines being reproduced are microscopic, a 'grey goo' matter would expand exponentially faster.

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03-19-2011 , 12:48 AM

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

It states: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." In other words, Godwin put forth the hyperbolic observation that, given enough time, in any online discussion—regardless of topic or scope— someone inevitably criticizes some point made in the discussion by comparing it to beliefs held by Hitler and the Nazis.

Imho, now all my hand history discussions will include things such as ''nice panzer check raise'' and ''pfff blitz the river''

And of course, i have to add my second wikipedia article on the pilot with the most air casualties - a german of course.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Hartmann

I also will add

The longest siege in warfare history - 21 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Candia

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03-19-2011 , 01:04 AM

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Lagtastic

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Originally Posted by NutzyClutz

Tony Alamo "religious" leader

And his website

lol @ that pic of him on the wiki page, but I must admit it does go perfect with a name like "Tony Alamo"

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03-19-2011 , 01:17 AM

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Candia

"In 1644, the Knights of Malta attacked an Ottoman convoy on its way from Alexandria to Constantinople. They landed at Candia with the loot, which included part of the Sultan's harem, returning from a pilgrimage to Mecca.

In response, 60,000 Ottoman troops led by Yussuf Pasha disembarked on Venetian Crete [...]."

Don't **** with the Sultan's harem imo.

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03-19-2011 , 01:19 AM

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By the end of the war, the Sultan didn't even care about his harem, he was going after the daughters.

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03-19-2011 , 09:27 PM

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Joseph Hewes

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Timothy Treadwell, protector of grizzly bears

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03-20-2011 , 01:14 AM

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Stanislav Petrov

Manned a Soviet ICBM detection/launch post and possibly single-handedly avoided nuclear war in 1983

EDIT: someone in the thread already mentioned another averted nuclear missile attack by the Soviets during the Cuban missile crisis.

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03-20-2011 , 04:58 AM

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Col...ceanic_contact

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Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact is the proposed interaction between indigenous peoples of the Americas who settled the Americas before 10,000 BCE, and peoples of other continents (Africa, Asia, Europe, or Oceania), which occurred before the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Caribbean in 1492.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia

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Panspermia (Greek: πανσπερμία from πᾶς/πᾶν (pas/pan) "all" and σπέρμα (sperma) "seed") is the hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe, distributed by meteoroids, asteroids and planetoids.[1][2]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_stones

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Sailing stones, sliding rocks, and moving rocks all refer to a geological phenomenon where rocks move in long tracks along a smooth valley floor without human or animal intervention. The force behind their movement is not understood and is the subject of research.

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03-23-2011 , 12:37 PM

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I did a search but this may have already been posted.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chase_Vault

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The Chase Vault is a burial vault in the cemetery of the Christ Church Parish Church in Oistins, Christ Church, Barbados. It is best known for a series of unexplained incidents in the early 19th century involving the coffins within the vault. Each time when the vault was opened to bury a family member, all coffins but one had changed position. When this had happened several times without explanation over a number of years, the vault was eventually abandoned.

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03-23-2011 , 12:49 PM

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in regard to godwins law, doesn't every conversation head towards subject X with a probability of 1 given infinite time?

yes, i know its a joke

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03-23-2011 , 02:51 PM

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No... For example, the following conversation never involves hitler, no matter how long it lasts:

She: "I love YOU more"
He: "No I love YOU more"
She: "No I love YOU more"
He: "No I love YOU more"

etc.

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03-23-2011 , 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by NoahSD

eventually you love someone so much, weiner schnitzel is inevitable

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03-23-2011 , 03:27 PM

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tbh Noah that might go down to "Ich liebe dich" to try to make it cuter saying in German and her going "wtf who do you think you are? Hitler?!"

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03-23-2011 , 03:45 PM

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in regard to godwins law, doesn't every conversation ON THE INTERNET head towards Hitler with a probability of 1 given infinite time?

fyp

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03-23-2011 , 05:13 PM

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Stop taking over this thread, you nazis.

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03-23-2011 , 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by prohornblower

Stop taking over this thread, you nazis.

very well played sir.

Also, crosspost from the other thread on the page (worth a read):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin

Bitcoin is basically an online underground currency people are using to buy all sorts of illegal weird and fancy things.

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