cool facts you have just discovered

scrumhalf

If all of the members of this forum were laid end-to-end I wouldn't be in the least surprised.

octatonic

If light is sent through two slits and if you observe which of the two slits it comes through, it behaves like a particle.
If you look where it lands beyond the slits, it behaves like a wave.
But even weirder, if you wait for it to pass through the slits and then look, it will force the light to have passed through one slit or the other.
Basically, the future can affect the past.

fob

The transfer 'tattoos' that you will have rubbed onto yourself as a kid started life in 1930s America and were soon called 'Cockamamie' tattoos. Cockamamie now coming to mean and idea or action that is transient and without authentic merit.

thing

Modem is short for modulation/demodulation. I'm embarrased I didn't know that.

Guitar_Slinger

2018 and you're still on bloody dial-up?

thing

No good asking me. It's all white man's magic to me, I just use it. I know I'm on cable. That's about it.

pmbomb

The reason yew trees are common in graveyards is they are toxic to grazing animals so planted to discourage them.

Sesh

EricTheWeary said:

Sesh said:

Guitar_Slinger said:

On Simplex locks, it doesn't matter what order you put numbers/letters in. Press C to clear and try it.

Which is why they are generally easy to crack, without resorting to trying every combination.

We have a bunch of them at work, I amaze people regularly by putting the numbers in using different combinations. 

If you twist the handle hard enough you can feel the difference in stiffness of some of the buttons. Pressing the stiffest one, then repeating means you can generally open it within a minute without knowing the code. They're not very secure.

thing

pmbomb said:

The reason yew trees are common in graveyards is they are toxic to grazing animals so planted to discourage them.

I have visions now of cows grazing contentedly fifty foot up an oak tree.

Bygone_Tones

This is not very cool, in fact its a tragedy. Orange viscount biscuits became extinct in 2014. You can only buy the mint ones now.

Dominic

scrumhalf said:

chillidoggy said:

Four Christmas trees in the house are insufficient.

Depends on your religion, bubbeleh.

 @ scrumhalf ;okay ;so what about mezzuzot on EVERY door ...........enough already

EricTheWeary

Bygone_Tones said:

This is not very cool, in fact its a tragedy. Orange viscount biscuits became extinct in 2014. You can only buy the mint ones now.

I was thinking about Viscount biscuits today. Eric Jr was reading me something in the news about the royal family and he mentioned Viscount Severn ( eleventh in line to the throne) which he pronounced to rhyme with discount heaven. I said it's like Viscount biscuits but he didn’t know what I was talking about. 

Deadman

When I'm losing weight, my tits disappear before my chins. Actually it's back fat first, then tits, then chins.

stephen.wood125

Deadman said:

When I'm losing weight, my tits disappear before my chins. Actually it's back fat first, then tits, then chins.

Is that because once they go, you've nothing to play with so you go out running? (sorry couldn't resist, no insult meant) 

Deadman

I don't play with my tits mate. I'm not a porno actress. I'm off to bed shortly too so if I have 'funny' dreams you're getting the blame.

JerkMoans

Get a room, lovebirds x

DrCornelius

Jordan Henderson isn't actually shit after all, who knew ?

stephen.wood125

Deadman said:

I don't play with my tits mate. I'm not a porno actress. I'm off to bed shortly too so if I have 'funny' dreams you're getting the blame.

Drat! There's pressure I didn't need *facepalm*. Congrats on the weight loss anyhow. I'm hoping mine kicks in soon.

munckee

EricTheWeary said:

Bygone_Tones said:

This is not very cool, in fact its a tragedy. Orange viscount biscuits became extinct in 2014. You can only buy the mint ones now.

I was thinking about Viscount biscuits today. Eric Jr was reading me something in the news about the royal family and he mentioned Viscount Severn ( eleventh in line to the throne) which he pronounced to rhyme with discount heaven. I said it's like Viscount biscuits but he didn’t know what I was talking about. 

I bet you said "I vant a  viscount"

Kalimna

octatonic said:

If light is sent through two slits and if you observe which of the two slits it comes through, it behaves like a particle.
If you look where it lands beyond the slits, it behaves like a wave.
But even weirder, if you wait for it to pass through the slits and then look, it will force the light to have passed through one slit or the other.
Basically, the future can affect the past.

Oh, it get's wierder than that. If you set up the experiment to only let single photon's through (possible, but tricky) - in other words particles of light - when all the photon's are summed up on the detector screen a pattern emerges. And this pattern is what's known as an interference pattern - in other words something that only occurs with waves....... Pretty much the best way of describing this phenomenon came from Richard Feynman who suggested that each photon went through *every* possible path at the same time, and interfered with itself (no sniggering at the back!).

Quantum is freaky.

Adam