The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@Gribnit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra thought those were bell peppers.
My keyboard seems to think Bell is a proper noun.
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@Tsaukpaetra for a second I was wondering. Was Bell much of a polymath, did he dabble in agriculture. It's a bit late to double down. but,
That's because those peppers were invented by Alexander Graham Bell.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra for a second I was wondering. Was Bell much of a polymath, did he dabble in agriculture. It's a bit late to double down. but,
That's because those peppers were invented by Alexander Graham Bell.
But, apparently, not.
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@Tsaukpaetra for my next trick, I will assert that Bell does not have an associated They Might Be Giants song.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra for my next trick, I will assert that Bell does not have an associated They Might Be Giants song.
Not until the fat lady sung it, in any case.
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@Gribnit Triangle man, triangle man, triangle man hates Alexander Graham Bell
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@djls45 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
What about pineapple and mayonnaise
Nope
on pizza!
Even more nope
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@djls45 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
"Mile" comes from the Latin mille, which means "thousand," and the distance of 1 mile is mille passus, or "one thousand paces" of a Roman soldier, which came out to 5280 feet.
Note that these are double paces, consisting of two steps: One with the left foot, and one with the right.
This in contrast with the meter, which is sometimes thought to be based on a single step, but is actually 10-7 of the distance from the north pole through Paris to the equator.
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@PleegWat although now the meter is defined in terms of a number of wavelengths of a particular spectral line of sodium.
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@Benjamin-Hall Still, the many years of triangulation effort put in to get accurate geodesy makes for an interesting documentary.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@PleegWat although now the meter is defined in terms of a number of wavelengths of a particular spectral line of sodium.
No. It's now defined purely in terms of the speed of light in a vacuum (and was never defined using sodium; the spectral line was from krypton).
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@PleegWat although now the meter is defined in terms of a number of wavelengths of a particular spectral line of sodium.
No. It's now defined purely in terms of the speed of light in a vacuum (and was never defined using sodium; the spectral line was from krypton).
Oops--I misremembered that one. Research is posting, but in this case I blame mornings. Because mornings suck.
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@topspin I was recently reading a book about how the first geological map of England was made (and what is considered as the world's first true large-scale geological map, really), and there is a part in there where the guy making it has trouble finding just a blank map to draw his geological stuff on it.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Note that these are double paces, consisting of two steps: One with the left foot, and one with the right.
Well duh!
It'd be two hops if it was the same foot each time...
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
the meter, which is sometimes thought to be based on a single step, but is actually 10-7 of the distance from the north pole through Paris to the equator.
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
now the meter is defined in terms of a number of wavelengths of a particular spectral line of sodium.
@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
No. It's now defined purely in terms of the speed of light in a vacuum (and was never defined using sodium; the spectral line was from krypton).
The meter is defined by whatever Wikipedia currently says that it is, since it apparently changes all the damn time.
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Last I knew, the meter was defined as precisely the distance light travels in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The meter is defined by whatever Wikipedia currently says that it is, since it apparently changes all the damn time.
It was originally based on the distance from the pole to the equator. It was originally defined as the length of a specially-shaped bar of a platinum alloy, kept in paris. (Three versions in succession, I believe). It was the wavelength of a krypton line for a while, but it's the speed of light now.
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@PleegWat DISCUSSION OF MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS IS NOT FUNNY STUFF.
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@blakeyrat no, but it generates other funny content, such as your post
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I take it discussion of how fast snails travel, it being 1 f/f[1] to about 30.5 f/f[1], is verboten then?
[1] furlongs per fortnight[2]
[2] https://itotd.com/articles/2987/furlongs-per-fortnight/
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@PJH said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I take it discussion of how fast snails travel, it being 1 f/f[1] to about 30.5 f/f[1], is verboten then?
Well, Achilles' arrows could not overtake them.
Or was that turtles...
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@PleegWat Achilles had normal arrows whose motion wasn't defined in terms of infinite summation of fractions, if I remember right. The other guy, since infinite series weren't all worked out yet, well...
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@Gribnit Little-known fact:
Zeno's name, with a negation operation applied, is where we get the word "zero":
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@djls45 sentenced to the purgatory of internally consistent fairly unlikely things I will never look up. but I'm only halfway to calling you a liar. this iteration.
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@mott555 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Last I knew, the meter was defined as precisely the distance light travels in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
They should have really fucked with people and made that 1/300,000,000 of a second.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@blakeyrat no, but it generates other funny content, such as your post
Someone's salty
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@xaade Where is funny.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@xaade Where is funny.
The very idea of a Hot Wheels Starship appears to have caused the giggles. No one will ever know why.
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@Gribnit Hot Wheels is a brand name for miniature toys. These are miniature toys.
... hilarious?
"Hahaha! SO FUNNY GUYS! That car says 'Ford' on the nameplate even though it's not being driven by Henry Ford! Henry Ford's not even alive! HILARIOUS!"
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@blakeyrat yeah, you've got it.
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@Gribnit @blakeyrat but it's a starship... it doesn't have wheels!
You're right, it's not very funny.
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@anotherusername I imagine it would be handy to put wheels on a starship, just like helicopters have them now. Although I have to admit I can't think of any examples off the top of my head... the one in Cowboy Bebop was a boat, though, so there's that.
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@anotherusername its propulsy whatevers are definitely hot by black-body laws. so I can only give that a 0 at +1/-1.
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@blakeyrat look ma, no wheels!
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@anotherusername I like to think they made Hamill squat down and carry that whole fucking thing.
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@Gribnit you're seeing the shadow of its engine, reflecting on the mirror that's hiding its wheels.
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@anotherusername Well, now I am.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@blakeyrat look ma, no wheels!
Jolly fuck, now that I can see it in a still, it looks great!
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gribnit Hot Wheels is a brand name for miniature toys. These are miniature toys.
... hilarious?
"Hahaha! SO FUNNY GUYS! That car says 'Ford' on the nameplate even though it's not being driven by Henry Ford! Henry Ford's not even alive! HILARIOUS!"
Hotwheels starships -- starships don't have wheels????
https://i.imgur.com/cpLFTdv.png
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@El_Heffe that's still 0 overall, -1 no wheels, +1 whatever they got are hot.
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@anotherusername I like how the original version of that "special effect" (before the remaster) was they just smeared vasoline all fucking over the lens where the wheels were.
Now that's funny stuff.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gribnit Hot Wheels is a brand name for miniature toys. These are miniature toys.
... hilarious?
"Hahaha! SO FUNNY GUYS! That car says 'Ford' on the nameplate even though it's not being driven by Henry Ford! Henry Ford's not even alive! HILARIOUS!"
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@anotherusername I like how the original version of that "special effect" (before the remaster) was they just smeared vasoline all fucking over the lens where the wheels were.
Now that's funny stuff.