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My first thread rename! It is a good rename.  More effort posts from me soon. Probably some more ghost flights 
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mostlygray posted:I disagree. I have, in the past, misinterpreted clouds and bright city lights for morning only to discover that I had awoke at 1AM instead of my usual time. When you get up just before the break of dawn, small changes make a difference. You're groggy and not thinking. There's a big difference from waking up in bed and confusing the light on the ceiling or coming through the drapes/blinds for morning, for a moment before you check the time, and waking up in a mining camp, observing the light in the sky, coming to the conclusion that it's apparently morning despite the light coming from the aurora and you're still poo poo tired, and then making breakfast.
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Jun 29, 2015 04:38
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The veracity of this Detail cannot be proven or disproven; it is thus not worthy of Discussion and furthermore is of no consequence to the Story; the Crux of which is the Aurora Borealis; and the vibrance thereof; it is common for an Eye Witness Hyperbole [Exaggeration of Fact] to be interpreted as a Truth; and thus stated as a Truth in subsequent accounts eventually becoming an Integral Component of the Happening; this is why it is important not to express Hyperbole; but to recount Events in a manner that is Calm; Succinct; Explanatory; Sound in Science and Philosophy; devoid of Personal Prejudices; so as not to impact the recording of History. I would like to witness an Aurora Borealis of ordinary intensity; I inhabit the Southern Hemisphere so I can not (the Aurora Borealis occurs only in the Northern Hemisphere; hence the Casual Name of "Northern Lights"; in fact this is a literal Translation of the term "Aurora Borealis"); alternately I would like to witness an Aurora Australis of ordinary intensity ("Aurora Australis" is translated as "Southern Lights"; the Aurora Australis is witnessed in the Southern Hemisphere; the word Australia is derived from "Australis"; as is the Latin Name Austroplebeia australis [the Native Bee]); I love Rainbows and Light Spectrum Events such as the Aurorae; which are a Colourful Dance of ionised air particles in the Polar Sky.
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Jun 29, 2015 06:05
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Jun 29, 2015 06:13
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Literally Kermit posted:My first thread rename! I don't believe you, Kermie.
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Jun 29, 2015 06:20
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Yeah, why didn't those 19th century miners simply check the time on their phones, realise it was still night and correctly assume that the light was caused by a solar storm? Oh right. The solar storm would have disrupted the electronics on their phones.
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Jun 29, 2015 14:32
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dads_work_files posted:Yeah, why didn't those 19th century miners simply check the time on their phones, realise it was still night and correctly assume that the light was caused by a solar storm? The most incredible part of the story is that they got up and "started fixing breakfast." You know miners aren't cooking breakfast. They probably only took enough time in the morning to nuke a ham n egg hot pocket and ate it on the way to the mine.
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Jun 29, 2015 14:54
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Their wimmin would definitely have been making breakfast for them.
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Jun 29, 2015 15:23
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Have you ever gotten home from work/school exhausted, laid down for a nap, then woken up at 8 or 9 in a panic, thinking you were late, only to realize it was still the same night? It was probably something similar with some miners and the aurorae.
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Jun 29, 2015 16:02
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Does anyone remember the story someone posted in here earlier of one of the first guys to die of radiation poisoning and they had to keep him alive for study despite how painful it was because we needed to know in what order the organs melt?
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Jun 29, 2015 17:11
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Transistor Rhythm posted:I hadn't heard of this, but I'm finding the "Morning Zoo" style to be really at odds with the subject matter. The tone is like "How did this get made?" or something like that, with a bunch of snark and people talking over each other and doing stupid voices and stuff. Did I just catch a bum episode or are they all like that? I've listened to a few episodes and they all seemed to be like that. The one on the Keddie murders is almost impossible to follow, they jump all over the place starting with town gossip before talking about the crime. I've seen Websleuths postings more comprehensible.
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Jun 29, 2015 17:20
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Alvarez IV posted:Does anyone remember the story someone posted in here earlier of one of the first guys to die of radiation poisoning and they had to keep him alive for study despite how painful it was because we needed to know in what order the organs melt? http://www.amazon.com/Slow-Death-Days-Radiation-Sickness/dp/1934287407
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Jun 29, 2015 17:38
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Enhydra lutris posted:
That was entertaining, now do one about my posts! I personally can't wait for more Ghost Flight stories. I find things like that fascinating. There's a lot of good posts in this thread.
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Jun 29, 2015 18:07
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Enhydra lutris posted:The veracity of this Detail cannot be proven or disproven; it is thus not worthy of Discussion and furthermore is of no consequence to the Story; the Crux of which is the Aurora Borealis; and the vibrance thereof; it is common for an Eye Witness Hyperbole [Exaggeration of Fact] to be interpreted as a Truth; and thus stated as a Truth in subsequent accounts eventually becoming an Integral Component of the Happening; this is why it is important not to express Hyperbole; but to recount Events in a manner that is Calm; Succinct; Explanatory; Sound in Science and Philosophy; devoid of Personal Prejudices; so as not to impact the recording of History. I would like to witness an Aurora Borealis of ordinary intensity; I inhabit the Southern Hemisphere so I can not (the Aurora Borealis occurs only in the Northern Hemisphere; hence the Casual Name of "Northern Lights"; in fact this is a literal Translation of the term "Aurora Borealis"); alternately I would like to witness an Aurora Australis of ordinary intensity ("Aurora Australis" is translated as "Southern Lights"; the Aurora Australis is witnessed in the Southern Hemisphere; the word Australia is derived from "Australis"; as is the Latin Name Austroplebeia australis [the Native Bee]); I love Rainbows and Light Spectrum Events such as the Aurorae; which are a Colourful Dance of ionised air particles in the Polar Sky. I think I get your gimmick now - the bolded stuff is for emphasis because you're Bobcat Goldthwait
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Jun 29, 2015 22:01
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Ozz81 posted:I think I get your gimmick now - the bolded stuff is for emphasis because you're Bobcat Goldthwait I was thinking more like a Southern Baptist preacher or old timey medicine man show.
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Jun 29, 2015 22:15
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Ozz81 posted:I think I get your gimmick now - the bolded stuff is for emphasis because you're Bobcat Goldthwait No, he's obviously Robert E. McElwaine and wants to make sure UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED.
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Jun 29, 2015 22:16
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I use Bold Formatting to emphasise Important Words within my Posts; so that Casual Readers may find them easier to Parse; and obtain my Message at a convenient pace; due to a Hectic Modern Life the attention span of Internet Browsers is quite short (estimated at only Two (2) Seconds by Studies) and I must maximise Convenience so that the large amount of Information with in my Posts is absorbed by the Audience; I have experimented with neglecting the Bold Formatting; reports indicated that this negatively impacted the Comprehensibility of my Posts and the accessibility of the Data therein.
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Jun 29, 2015 22:54
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I do the same thing sometimes, too! Bold bros.
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Jun 29, 2015 23:03
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Thank You for your Kind Words.
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Jun 29, 2015 23:04
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Enhydra lutris posted:I use Bold Formatting to emphasise Important Words within my Posts; so that Casual Readers may find them easier to Parse; and obtain my Message at a convenient pace; due to a Hectic Modern Life the attention span of Internet Browsers is quite short (estimated at only Two (2) Seconds by Studies) and I must maximise Convenience so that the large amount of Information with in my Posts is absorbed by the Audience; I have experimented with neglecting the Bold Formatting; reports indicated that this negatively impacted the Comprehensibility of my Posts and the accessibility of the Data therein. It bugged me at first, but I've gotten used to your style. Are you going to be posting cool photos here too? By the way, congrats on your cool avatar! 
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Jun 29, 2015 23:07
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Enhydra lutris posted:emphasise easier to Parse convenient pace attention span quite short Two Seconds maximise Convenience large amount absorbed neglecting negatively impacted Comprehensibility accessibility I'm sorry but I just read your post and it makes no sense 
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Jun 29, 2015 23:33
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Enhydra lutris posted:Thank You for your Kind Words.  Sorry, still all I can think of when you post v  v
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Jun 30, 2015 00:19
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I hoped that if you read each bolded word, a secret message would appear. Unfortunately, I am not even close to deciphering a valid solution. On an unrelated note, I like that candy called nerds. edit: I was beaten up once, it kinda sucked. The Mighty Moltres has a new favorite as of 02:12 on Jun 30, 2015 |
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Jun 30, 2015 02:09
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monster on a stick posted:I'm sorry but I just read your post and it makes no sense That's why I automatically skip past that poo poo. Stupid gimmick isn't funny.
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Jun 30, 2015 03:06
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Sierra Nevadan posted:That's why I automatically skip past that poo poo. Stupid gimmick isn't funny. What the gently caress did I tell you about signing your posts
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Jun 30, 2015 07:01
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Sierra Nevadan posted:That's why I automatically skip past that poo poo. Stupid gimmick isn't funny. What a joyless life you lead.
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Jun 30, 2015 14:40
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Checking an obituary I saw cause of death as Lewy body dementia. Sounds kind of kooky, let's check it out:wikipedia posted:Lewy body dementia (LBD) is a progressive degenerative dementia primarily affecting older adults. Its primary feature is cognitive decline, which can lead to hallucinations, as well as varied attention and alertness when compared to a person's baseline function. Persons with LBD display an inability to plan or a loss of analytical or abstract thinking and show markedly fluctuating cognition. Wakefulness varies from day to day, and alertness and short term memory rise and fall. Persistent or recurring visual hallucinations with vivid and detailed pictures are often an early diagnostic symptom. REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a symptom often first recognized by the patient's caretaker. RBD includes vivid dreaming, with persistent dreams, purposeful or violent movements, and falling out of bed. LBD symptoms overlap clinically with Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, but are more commonly associated with the latter.[1] Because of this overlap, LBD in its early years is often misdiagnosed.  Putting that on my list of conditions to avoid.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia_with_Lewy_bodies
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Jun 30, 2015 17:56
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Hey kids, it’s time for Ghost Flights III When there’s no one at the controls of a plane, and it’s just up and flying and generally not giving a poo poo about gravity, it’s informally known as a “ghost flight”. It is universally accepted as a “not good” state for a moving aircraft to be, but once in a while it will happen. We first covered crew abandonment - where a plane is abandoned because of damage or dangerously low fuel. They tend to last as long as you’d expect a plane to last when it is out of fuel and/or on fire. Then we covered crew incapacitation, when a plane is in mostly good shape, but a structural or mechanical flaw has knocked out the crew. If conditions were such that it happened with a autopilot set, they can last for hours, long enough for authorities to notice and respond… even if “responding” means sending jets to escort the doomed aircraft along and helplessly watch it crash. After that, we explored a common cause of crew incapacitation - hypoxia due to depressurization. Surprisingly, the human body needs the right amount of oxygen to function. As you ascend to higher and he altitudes, the brain begins starving for oxygen and eventually shuts down. Because planes operate at such extreme altitudes, they absolutely need to maintain atmospheric pressure and circulate the air. A sudden rupture or a slow, unnoticed leak can knock out even an experienced crew before they can react - and as we're about to learn, sometimes the plane itself lies to you if a problem even exists! So! With our loins girded with this knowledge, we can boldly dive into the meat ‘n’ potaters of our next case, that of Helios Airways Flight 522. We're going back nearly ten years, to August 14th, 2005, location of Larnaca International Airport, Cyprus. 115 passengers and 6 crew had boarded, with their intended destination of Prague,Czech Republic. A stopover was scheduled at Athens International, in Greece. The 58-year-old captain had 16,900 hours under his belt, spanning a 35 year career in flying. The first officer had 7549 hours of his own. The flight, which would have lasted less than two hours, was the very definition of the term “milk-run” but this is not the “routine, boring, safe” wikipedia thread now, is it? As for the plane itself, it was a Boeing 737-300, registration “5B-DBY” - but they called her “Olympia”.She was one of four planes leased by the airline, Helios, making a modest fleet that ran passengers from Cyprus to various European and African destinations. It first flew in 1997 - still pretty young considering the average age of commercial jets is about 14 in the United States. While US airlines have an older average fleet age than their non-US counterparts, I want to underline here that jets are built to LAST. And I don’t care how loving cynical your black, gunk-encrusted goony heart may be, but even the most jaded, tight-wad profit-mongering airline executive has conceded that dead customers are not returning customers. A twenty-year-old creaky jet that has the faded seats and ashtrays has almost certainly been subject to constant upgrades and refits throughout its storied career - making it look pretty and comfortable inside is second to passenger safety. And on top of routine maintenance, spot checks that turn up a serious problem are repaired by specialized personnel as soon as possible. My point is while you’re grumbling about the overpriced peanut packets while a baby shits itself a few feet away from your face, an army of people you never think about have been working tirelessly to ensure that those are the worst of your problems, instead of hurdling to your death and having to choose which rear end-cheek you want to first kiss goodbye. Olympia in fact was flagged by a problem after it arrived from London that morning - the previous flight crew reported a frozen door seal and abnormal noises coming from the right aft service door. A ground engineer carried out the inspection, which includes a pressurization leak check. Normally this system automatically ties into the engines, so in order to test without them on, the engineer switched the system from “automatic” to “manual”. After carrying out all tests and getting ready to move the jet back into service, however, the engineer neglected to switch the system back to “automatic”. That’s a bad, thing. Actually, that is more like leaving switch labelled “EVERYONE LIVES” and “EVERYONE DIES” left on the bad setting (the one where everyone dies). But this is the airline industry, where no one does anything without being cross-checked at least three times. And as a matter of fact, the oncoming crew had no less than three checks to make sure the pressurize system was automatically, y’know, pressurizing the fuckin' cabin: during the pre-flight procedure, the after-start check, and the after takeoff check. Next time: WHOA HA HA, WHAT ARE THE CHANCES!?
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Jun 30, 2015 17:58
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Misread that as Lewd Body Dementia, was very diasppointed.
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Jun 30, 2015 17:59
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:Checking an obituary I saw cause of death as Lewy body dementia. Sounds kind of kooky, let's check it out:
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Jun 30, 2015 18:45
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Literally Kermit posted:Actually, that is more like leaving switch labelled “EVERYONE LIVES” and “EVERYONE DIES” left on the bad setting (the one where everyone dies). 
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Jun 30, 2015 19:13
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quote:Farside Not to be "that guy," but Larson asked the internet nicely not to post his stuff around, and we goons have been pretty good about respecting that.
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Jun 30, 2015 22:55
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Solice Kirsk posted:Not to be "that guy," but Larson asked the internet nicely not to post his stuff around, and we goons have been pretty good about respecting that. 
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Jun 30, 2015 23:00
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Solice Kirsk posted:Not to be "that guy," but Larson asked the internet nicely not to post his stuff around, and we goons have been pretty good about respecting that. it was on a t shirt
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Jun 30, 2015 23:01
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Solice Kirsk posted:Not to be "that guy," but Larson asked the internet nicely not to post his stuff around, and we goons have been pretty good about respecting that. 
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Jun 30, 2015 23:15
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Solice Kirsk posted:Not to be "that guy," but Larson asked the internet nicely not to post his stuff around, and we goons have been pretty good about respecting that. Not to be "that guy," but it's an old rear end newspaper comic used non-commercially as a punchline. Calm your tits.
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Jun 30, 2015 23:32
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Are there any good podcasts about stuff like this? I tried out Thinking Sideways but couldn't stand the main dude's voice. Big fan of the Dollop already. Tia god bless
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Jun 30, 2015 23:38
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Solice Kirsk posted:Not to be "that guy," but Larson asked the internet nicely not to post his stuff around, and we goons have been pretty good about respecting that. I don't get the joke here. Can someone explain it to me?
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Jun 30, 2015 23:40
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Chichevache posted:I don't get the joke here. Can someone explain it to me? The artist of The Far Side, Gary Larson, wrote a sappy letter to the Internet years ago asking people not to share digital copies of his comics because he and his agent and lawyer and whoever wanted to be able to keep making money from creating and reselling compilations of his work without fear of decreased sales due to file sharing. Goons fell for this poo poo hook line and goddamn sinker and would dogpile anyone who posted a The Far Side image. You were able to post whatever the hell copyrighted poo poo you wanted but goddamn you even try posting "Cow Tools" or whatever he asked nicely he asked nicely nicely he asked nicely he asked nicely he asked nicely he asked nicely
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Jun 30, 2015 23:48
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It's ok, I have all of the Gary Larson comics in my closet so we can all just pretend we're at my house looking at them.
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