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CALDARI CITIZEN 14330909
The Conference Elite
Safety.
#1 - 2014-10-17 08:38:49 UTC
Ok, so eve is full of a rather unique group of people.
I think that it would be a great way to share random factual knowledge for the community to help spread said smarts. I will start out with something that I have known for a while, but still always amuses me saying. Other people contribute.


Today I learned: Liquid tungsten freezes in lava.

The Artist Formerly Known As AC. 

The terminal end of the digestive system. 

The Best CSM Candidate
Derrick Miles
Death Rabbit Ky Oneida
#2 - 2014-10-17 09:10:32 UTC
TIL: Quantum mechanics uses imaginary numbers to indicate the probability of a particle being at any given point.
WhyYouHeffToBeMad IsOnlyGame
#3 - 2014-10-17 16:53:45 UTC
TIL Piracy is non-existent, but instead there is Resource Re-Approperiation.

Everything's a game if you make it one - Uriel Paradisi Anteovnuecci

CCP: Continously Crying Playerbase - Frostys Virpio
Ria Nieyli
Nieyli Enterprises
SL33PERS
#4 - 2014-10-17 17:36:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Ria Nieyli
Derrick Miles wrote:
TIL: Quantum mechanics uses imaginary numbers to indicate the probability of a particle being at any given point.


√-4 ?
Tollen Gallen
Glory of Reprisal Enterprise
#5 - 2014-10-17 17:37:13 UTC
I like Cheese.

Zimmy Zeta - I f*cking love martinis. the original ones, with gin, not that vodka martini crap. Your old Friends can use me for 7 days, free!!!
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#6 - 2014-10-17 22:49:31 UTC
TIL: IS is training some of their members to fly three MiG-21 or MiG-23s they captured. Some lucky coalition air force pilots are going to get some easy noob kills.
Black Panpher
CastleKickers
Rote Kapelle
#7 - 2014-10-17 23:49:08 UTC
TIL: Liquid Nitrogen is safe to hold.
Derrick Miles
Death Rabbit Ky Oneida
#8 - 2014-10-18 01:22:47 UTC
Ria Nieyli wrote:
Derrick Miles wrote:
TIL: Quantum mechanics uses imaginary numbers to indicate the probability of a particle being at any given point.


√-4 ?

2i
Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2014-10-18 04:47:10 UTC
TIL: macDonalds black halloween burger isnt as good as BKs black halloween burger. Lotterias black halloween burger will be tried tomorrow.

"I think you should buy a new Mayan calendar. Mine has muscle cars on it." - Kenneth O'Hara

"I dont think that can happen, you can see Gray has his invuln field on in his portrait." - Commissar "Cake" Kate
Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2014-10-21 05:08:43 UTC
TIL: I cant wait until i have kids so i can get a legit excuse to buy lego.

"I think you should buy a new Mayan calendar. Mine has muscle cars on it." - Kenneth O'Hara

"I dont think that can happen, you can see Gray has his invuln field on in his portrait." - Commissar "Cake" Kate
CALDARI CITIZEN 14330909
The Conference Elite
Safety.
#11 - 2014-10-21 05:15:11 UTC
Graygor wrote:
TIL: I cant wait until i have kids so i can get a legit excuse to buy lego.



I went to the Lego store at Rockefeller Center here recently... they were building what I could only assume to be the Halloween exhibit. Was breathtaking.

The Artist Formerly Known As AC. 

The terminal end of the digestive system. 

The Best CSM Candidate
Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2014-10-21 07:59:27 UTC
Saw something similar in tokyo. Was awesome. Id love to be a lego master builder.

"I think you should buy a new Mayan calendar. Mine has muscle cars on it." - Kenneth O'Hara

"I dont think that can happen, you can see Gray has his invuln field on in his portrait." - Commissar "Cake" Kate
CALDARI CITIZEN 14330909
The Conference Elite
Safety.
#13 - 2014-10-21 08:30:42 UTC
Graygor wrote:
Saw something similar in tokyo. Was awesome. Id love to be a lego master builder.

Dream Job Ahoy!

The Artist Formerly Known As AC. 

The terminal end of the digestive system. 

The Best CSM Candidate
CALDARI CITIZEN 14330909
The Conference Elite
Safety.
#14 - 2014-10-21 08:32:26 UTC
TIL: There are vastly more aspects of the series 7 licence than I realized.

The Artist Formerly Known As AC. 

The terminal end of the digestive system. 

The Best CSM Candidate
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#15 - 2014-10-21 12:58:32 UTC
Graygor wrote:
TIL: I cant wait until i have kids so i can get a legit excuse to buy lego.
You need an excuse?

TIL that Lego has an Imperial Star Destroyer and a plethora of other Star Wars stuff available; way too cool for kids.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

New Player FAQ

Feyd's Survival Pack
Indahmawar Fazmarai
#16 - 2014-10-21 13:56:01 UTC
TIL that TIL means "Today I Learned" (can a TIL be more meta than this?) P
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#17 - 2014-10-22 01:53:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Khergit Deserters
TIL: There were more than one species of homo sapiens on the Earth at once. For example, the 1 meter tall "hobbit" homo sapiens found in Flores Island, Indonesia. (But if homo sapiens is a distinct species, how could it have several species? Don't know, read it in The Economist, maybe the non-paleontologist journalist got his biology terminologies mixed up).

The point is, modern humans didn't develop as a direct line back to a primate ancestor. There were branches of diverse humans co-existing at once, and from those came modern us. Which raises the question: were gnomes, brownies, elves, and giants real? If you're a 1.8 meter human seeing a 1 meter human in the woods, he looks like a Gnome. If you're the 1 meter high one spotting the 1.8 meter one, he looks like a Giant....

*Related: Neanderthal art found in a cave in Spain(?) maybe, somewhere in S. Europe I think. It's deep gouges in a rock wall that look like a tic-tac-toe/noughts and crosses board. Neanderthals had some urge to express something graphically, same as cro-magnons.
Azda Ja
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#18 - 2014-10-23 08:33:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Azda Ja
Khergit Deserters wrote:
For example, the 1 meter tall "hobbit" homo sapiens found in Flores Island, Indonesia.


I'm pretty sure I read that they were most likely descendants of homo erectus, based off of the shape of skull apparently. If I find the article where I read it again I'll edit it into this post. Not to nitpick or anything, this kind of stuff interests me a lot as well.

TIL Saturn's moon Titan may have very salty subterranean oceans beneath it's surface.

Grrr.
Indahmawar Fazmarai
#19 - 2014-10-23 09:26:36 UTC
TIL that my mother's first words when I was born where: "Li falta alguna cosa?" (Is there something missing?) Shocked

I was born right after the talidomide scandal and my mother had been taking a totally unrelated medication for a chronical disease, and her doctor asked her to stop taking the medication if she planned to get pregnant. Albeit she didn't took her pills, she was very concerned that something had been left in her system and it could affect me... but I was born whole and she was very relieved. Lol
Derrick Miles
Death Rabbit Ky Oneida
#20 - 2014-10-23 13:26:15 UTC
TIL String theory is a theoretical framework for describing gravity in quantum mechanics.
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