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Chichevache posted:Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy! Kennedy's was named Lincoln! Lincoln was in Monroe, Maryland just before he died! Kennedy was in Marilyn Monroe just before he died!
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Kennedy was a president, and then he died. Lincoln was a president, and he died too. COINCIDENCE?
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Aug 9, 2015 06:40
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Screaming Idiot posted:Kennedy was a president, and then he died. Lincoln was a president, and he died too. Most presidents, actually, have died. Seems like the ones still living should be interrogated about it but i'm not the police
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Aug 9, 2015 06:42
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flosofl posted:Statistics much? That wasn't what i was talking about.
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Frostwerks posted:That wasn't what i was talking about. Yep, misunderstood. Carry on.
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Aug 9, 2015 06:51
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Wasabi the J posted:You'd be surprised about how quickly things coincide in a 365/366 day calendar. I haven't run the numbers on this, but is this a misstatement? Wouldn't it be: in a group of x people, there is a yy% chance of some pair having the same birthday? Not just a pair including you in particular.
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Aug 9, 2015 23:01
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Nth Doctor posted:I haven't run the numbers on this, but is this a misstatement? Wouldn't it be: in a group of x people, there is a yy% chance of some pair having the same birthday? Not just a pair including you in particular. Yeah, if that is what he was referring to, he fundamentally misunderstands how it works.
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Aug 9, 2015 23:23
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Nth Doctor posted:I haven't run the numbers on this, but is this a misstatement? Wouldn't it be: in a group of x people, there is a yy% chance of some pair having the same birthday? Not just a pair including you in particular. Yes, that's what's true.
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Aug 9, 2015 23:25
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Here's real horror: The Upstairs lounge Fire. http://weekinweird.com/2015/06/26/horrific-arson-upstairs-lounge-haunts-new-orleans-gay-community/ Warning: dead people.
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Tiberius Thyben posted:Yeah, if that is what he was referring to, he fundamentally misunderstands how it works. I hosed it up, but yes.
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Aug 10, 2015 02:44
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There's a quality of writing out of Florida's Bay-area papers. Longform.org reprinted this Sunday, about the investigation into the murders of three Ohio women whose bodies were found in the water in 1989.quote:This was June 4, another hot and beautiful day. The Amber Waves, a sailboat on its way home to Tampa after a trip to Key West, had just crossed under the Skyway when several people on board saw an object in the water. It looks like a body, one of them said.
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Aug 11, 2015 04:21
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RC and Moon Pie posted:There's a quality of writing out of Florida's Bay-area papers. Longform.org reprinted this Sunday, about the investigation into the murders of three Ohio women whose bodies were found in the water in 1989. Well, there went half of my night. I hate these things -- they're so well-written and compelling that I wind up completely losing track of what I was doing before. This was a great read and made even creepier by the fact that I've been many of the places described. Compulsive use of spoiler tags, sorry! For me the worst part is that, 3 years after they executed him, they proved that he murdered another woman from an unsolved case from 1990. There's really no telling how many other murders he committed if they only linked him to that in 2014.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:There's a quality of writing out of Florida's Bay-area papers. Longform.org reprinted this Sunday, about the investigation into the murders of three Ohio women whose bodies were found in the water in 1989. This is a fantastic read.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:There's a quality of writing out of Florida's Bay-area papers. Longform.org reprinted this Sunday, about the investigation into the murders of three Ohio women whose bodies were found in the water in 1989. I seem to remember seeing either a documentary or true crime show like Forensics Files (except I seem to remember it being longer than a 30 min show - but my memory is bad). Does anyone remember that one? I remember being horrified when I saw it. The only other documentary (that I've seen) that did that was the one on HBO about the Iceman (the professional assassin).
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Aug 11, 2015 15:51
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Here are some nice nuclear accident reports. http://www-pub.iaea.org/books/IAEABooks/Publications_on_Accident_Response
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RC and Moon Pie posted:There's a quality of writing out of Florida's Bay-area papers. Longform.org reprinted this Sunday, about the investigation into the murders of three Ohio women whose bodies were found in the water in 1989. Pro click right there. I spent half the day reading this between meetings. Terribly sad but fascinating. I would have felt bereft if there hadn't been resolution.
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flosofl posted:I seem to remember seeing either a documentary or true crime show like Forensics Files (except I seem to remember it being longer than a 30 min show - but my memory is bad). Does anyone remember that one? I remember being horrified when I saw it. The only other documentary (that I've seen) that did that was the one on HBO about the Iceman (the professional assassin). Didn't the second season of The Wire start because of a floating body and the fight over jurisdiction because no one wanted the case?
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monster on a stick posted:Didn't the second season of The Wire start because of a floating body and the fight over jurisdiction because no one wanted the case? Sorta, it started with a corpse in the water and McNulty did the research to throw it on his old detective captain dude as a giant 'gently caress you' for putting him on a boat.
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flosofl posted:I seem to remember seeing either a documentary or true crime show like Forensics Files (except I seem to remember it being longer than a 30 min show - but my memory is bad). Does anyone remember that one? I remember being horrified when I saw it. The only other documentary (that I've seen) that did that was the one on HBO about the Iceman (the professional assassin). It was Forensic Files. I remembered the episode as soon as I got to the "blu w/wht" description of the boat. It helps that I only recently finished watching every episode of that show Netflix has available.
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Aug 11, 2015 22:00
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LivesInGrey posted:It was Forensic Files. I remembered the episode as soon as I got to the "blu w/wht" description of the boat. It helps that I only recently finished watching every episode of that show Netflix has available. That show is full of "unnerving". I wish they'd start it up again.
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mumm posted:Here are some nice nuclear accident reports. Yikes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernald_Feed_Materials_Production_Center quote:Fernald would gain notoriety by 1984 when it was learned that the plant was releasing millions of pounds of uranium dust into the atmosphere, causing major radioactive contamination of the surrounding areas. That same year, employee Dave Bocks, a 39 year old pipefitter, disappeared during the facility's graveyard shift and was later reported missing. Eventually, his remains were discovered inside a uranium processing furnace located in Plant 6; a sudden 28-degree drop in furnace temperature (which was kept at a constant 1300 degrees F) had been recorded at 5:15 AM during the night of Bocks' disappearance.[2] After the investigations, insufficient evidence was found relating to the death and the official ruling was that no foul play was involved. Some, however, including Bocks' family, have believed that he was murdered by one or more coworkers who suspected him of being a whistleblower in the 1984 nuclear emissions scandal. Other theories included an industrial accident or suicide. It is believed that Bocks was alive when he entered the furnace. http://unsolved.com/archives/dave-bocks
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Nckdictator posted:Yikes. Oh poo poo I remember that episode! I also remember people years ago wondering if it was made up or the guy's name was changed because nothing could be found about it. How do they know he was alive?
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monster on a stick posted:Didn't the second season of The Wire start because of a floating body and the fight over jurisdiction because no one wanted the case? There's a Swedish/Danish crime TV show called The Bridge that got turned into the FX English language one, both have that as the premise. I liked the Scandinavian one, never saw the FX one.
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RNG posted:There's a Swedish/Danish crime TV show called The Bridge that got turned into the FX English language one, both have that as the premise. I liked the Scandinavian one, never saw the FX one. There's also a British-French version, starring Stephen Dillane, aka Stannis the Rightful King of Westeros.
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monster on a stick posted:There's also a British-French version, starring Stephen Dillane, aka Stannis the Rightful King of Westeros. Nice! I'll have to track that down.
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mumm posted:Here are some nice nuclear accident reports. Speaking of nuclear stuff, here's a great article about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima - published in the August 31, 1946 New Yorker issue written by John Hersey. If I remember correctly, the different segments were published in serial format after the bomb landed and were later compiled into one whole piece for the one-year-anniversary. quote:A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb, and these six were among the survivors. They still wonder why they lived when so many others died. Each of them counts many small items of chance or volition—a step taken in time, a decision to go indoors, catching one streetcar instead of the next—that spared him. And now each knows that in the act of survival he lived a dozen lives and saw more death than he ever thought he would see. At the time, none of them knew anything. I've read a print edition of it before (that had pictures of the survivors and other aspects), but Longform reminded me of its existence by recently linking to an online version. Unfortunately this one lacks the images. So there's that! Regarding the prose: some parts may feel a little off, as a couple descriptions in particular are definitely artifacts from the time period. It all depends.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:There's a quality of writing out of Florida's Bay-area papers. Longform.org reprinted this Sunday, about the investigation into the murders of three Ohio women whose bodies were found in the water in 1989. Thanks for this. Read it over my workday. I was familiar with the case, but it is nice to have an in depth article. I drive past that boat ramp twice a day going to and from work.
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UnkleBoB posted:Thanks for this. Read it over my workday. I was familiar with the case, but it is nice to have an in depth article. I drive past that boat ramp twice a day going to and from work. I was absolutely glued to it. It's really rare for me to actually gasp out loud and laugh out loud and so on when reading stuff, but this did. It's haunted me all day.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:There's a quality of writing out of Florida's Bay-area papers. Longform.org reprinted this Sunday, about the investigation into the murders of three Ohio women whose bodies were found in the water in 1989. This is excellent writing. I usually read this thread and think "Wow, that's pretty messed up" before going on with my day. This piece gave me chills and provoked some unsettlingly vivid imagery of that case. Nckdictator posted:Yikes. Not enough detail to be nearly as unnerving as the Tampa case, but still a horrible way to die and just enough pieces of information to suggest that someone helped him into that furnace.
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That Tampa story kept me up for hours. In return have the story of Xichang, a Chinese rocket launching facility. In 1996 the facility was contracted to launch a US telecommunications satellite on a Chinese Long March rocket. American employees of the satellite owner were in the city to help with the launch. They are the only reason the story is known. quote:Still, in the year leading up to the launch, Campbell and others were troubled by some of the things they saw and heard during their visits to Xichang. It wasn’t just the worry about espionage and the uncertainty over who might be listening in on them. (Campbell recalls that after he and his colleagues discussed over dinner the lack of a net on the hotel tennis court, a new net magically appeared.) It was more the Chinese attitude toward safety, which the Westerners thought was lax. Members of the U.S. team witnessed or heard from other colleagues about several close calls and accidents. The Intelsat-708 spacecraft was being prepared for launch at a satellite processing building several miles from the pad, which had been repaired after a solid-fuel rocket motor accidentally ignited and started bouncing around wildly in an enclosed room a few years earlier. quote:The rocket began to rise, and the American engineers in the satellite test room ran out the door. “I got out, turned and ran around the building to my best viewing spot, in time to see the mountain lit from behind, hear the startling rumble and see the rocket emerge,” the diary reads. “But instead of rising vertically for nine seconds and several thousand feet [before starting to arc toward the east] I saw it traveling horizontally, accelerating as it progressed down the valley, only a few hundred feet off the ground. ‘Wrong way!’ I yelled, and for the next few seconds I was frozen in my tracks.” The rocket hit directly into a nearby village, destroying it. China's report says that only 6 people were killed. Other estimates put the number at 200-500. The population of he village was somewhere around 1000 and while China says they were all evacuated eyewitnesses reported flatbed trucks loaded with human remains. quote:Campbell and his friend entered their hotel. Practically every door, window, and piece of furniture was destroyed. Air conditioners were hanging by their wires, toilets were thrown into the hallways, and covers of an underground sewage system pierced the floor. Peculiarly, a clock in the lobby was still hanging, stopped at around 3 a.m. The full story: http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/disaster-at-xichang-2873673/?no-ist 
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The Yanango accident ( for medical images later in the pdf) is the one that I've literally had nightmares about. So, you're welding pipe on a worksite and notice this bit of cable lying around: Odd. Might be part of someone's equipment? Maybe you'll ask around later, but for now you shove it into your back pocket and get back to work. No big deal, right? Ha ha, wrong! You are now walking around with one buttcheek nestled cozily next to a naked 1.37 Terabecquerel industrial radiography source! A radiography source that's usually transported in a container that includes 35kg of depleted uranium shielding! Enjoy the remaining time you have with your blood lymphocytes...and your leg! The SI unit for absorbed radiation dose is the Gray (Gy). Wikipedia lists the average dose from an abdominal x-ray as 0.7 mGy. Estimated dose to our unlucky welder by the time he took his jeans off that evening: ~10,000 Gy for the area of skin closest to the source, falling off rapidly to a "mere" 23 Gy in the gonads. From a random-looking length of cable you wouldn't give a second thought to if you found it in an old coffee can in your dad's garage.
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That is sheer insanity. Radiation and rabies are two of my biggest fears in life because of their capacities to lurk unnoticed until it's way too late to save an afflicted person. And they can both be found in the unlikeliest, most innocuous of sources, so it can be hard to reliably protect yourself from the dangers. Rabies can be airborne, for god's sake!
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Man, that Tampa story is so good, I'm using a text-to-speech program just so I can keep 'reading' while at work. EDIT: Ugh, 'NaturalReader' is anything but. Any recommendations on TTS programs that are free? Rupert Buttermilk has a new favorite as of 15:01 on Aug 14, 2015 |
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In a lighter tone, instead of losing limbs to radiation, or serial killers, or explosions, let's talk about the Mandela Effect, and in particular: a specific instance that is hitting the internet lately. The Mandela Effect was first characterized by a group of people who all remembered hearing about Nelson Mandela dying in prison. Obviously that's incorrect since we know he died in 2013. The interesting thing, though, is that there were several people all independently incorrectly recalling his death. How we get to today: do you remember the series of children's books about the family of bears: Mother, Father, Sister, and Brother Bear who lived in a tree and taught you about things like working mothers, not talking to strangers, having too much birthday fun, and not being a greedy little poo poo? The series was named after the authors. What was the name? The BerenstAin Bears Did you remember it correctly? I sure as hell thought it was The Berenstein Bears
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Nth Doctor posted:In a lighter tone, instead of losing limbs to radiation, or serial killers, or explosions, let's talk about the Mandela Effect, and in particular: a specific instance that is hitting the internet lately. I always thought it was the second as well. 
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Bernstein is a normal name. People hear it all the time. Why is it weird to assume some fictional name of a book you read 20+ years ago would use the correct spelling instead of some weird spelling that no one uses? Like Donkey Kong 2: Diddy's Kong Quest. People usually remember it as Donkey Kong 2: Diddy Kong's Quest because that makes sense. The correct name is a pun that unless you remember exactly wouldn't make much sense. RCarr has a new favorite as of 17:18 on Aug 14, 2015 |
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RCarr posted:Bernstein is a normal name. People hear it all the time. Why is it weird to assume some fictional name of a book you read 20+ years ago would use the correct spelling instead of some weird spelling that no one uses? But it's not a fictional name, that was the point. That's the last name of the authors.
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Nth Doctor posted:The BerenstAin Bears RCarr posted:Like Donkey Kong 2: Diddy's Kong Quest. gently caress. The idea that its alternate realities is totally wackadoo and lolworthy, the fact that our memories can just gently caress with us and just fill in the blanks like that is offputting enough.
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Well I meant it was the name of fictional bears in a children's story. I don't think there's anything weird about assuming the name was spelled in the usual fashion. Especially since most people haven't seen the correct name in 20 years or whatever.
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I remember it the second way, in fact I even remember them singing it that way in the theme song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjXiIZYsGJY NOPE!
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