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When I was like 11 I thought hey, when you move one end of a stick the other end moves at the same time. So, I thought, why not make a huuuuuuge stick that went from Earth to places wayyyy far away. You could move one end of the stick on earth, and the other end would move on mars or whatever, and you'd have faster than light communication. I legitimately thought this idea would revolutionize communications and thought I was a genius. Anyways, post ITT really stupid ideas you had when you were a kid that you thought were smart.
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Thought the ambulance and fire truck noises were coming from my friend's house across the street. IDK why I have a vivid memory of a firetuck in their living room.
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# ? Mar 24, 2017 02:26 |
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that I would find love.
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# ? Mar 24, 2017 02:27 |
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don't give up on your dreams op make the stick
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# ? Mar 24, 2017 02:28 |
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why don't people just dry out any liquid and add water later when they need it
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# ? Mar 24, 2017 02:28 |
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When I was real young in in one of those early second language programs I was super confused at the concept of different languages. I was like "if people say dinero and just mean money, why not say money in the first place". Like the idea that people weren't thinking in english was just beyond me.
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# ? Mar 24, 2017 02:28 |
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hot dogs stuffed with spaghetti
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# ? Mar 24, 2017 02:30 |
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Harald posted:hot dogs stuffed with spaghetti wait like spaghetti in a hot dog bun, or like a hollowed-out frank with spaghetti shoved inside?
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smug n stuff posted:wait like spaghetti in a hot dog bun, or like a hollowed-out frank with spaghetti shoved inside? the second thing
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# ? Mar 24, 2017 02:35 |
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you could save sunlight by keeping it in a chamber made of mirrors
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# ? Mar 24, 2017 02:36 |
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the stick would totally fuckin work dude
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# ? Mar 24, 2017 02:38 |
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For awhile I used to think traffic arrows applied to airplanes as well as cars, particularly the green up arrow
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# ? Mar 24, 2017 02:39 |
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I was like 12 when I registered my forums account so I guess that
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Parallax Scroll posted:the stick would totally fuckin work dude thx for ur support, I'll shoot an email to NASA asap, I think they'll be real interested!
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a bone to pick posted:you could save sunlight by keeping it in a chamber made of mirrors Had to explain to my brother why this was impossible. He was in his early thirties.
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smug n stuff posted:thx for ur support, I'll shoot an email to NASA asap, I think they'll be real interested! Isn't it basically just a space elevator? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator
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# ? Mar 24, 2017 02:41 |
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"Huh, something awful dot com? Wow, seems like a funny place full of cool people! Definitely worth "
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# ? Mar 24, 2017 02:41 |
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If I'm on an elevator that gets hosed up and starts falling down the shaft.... or an airplane that's going down... jump, just before impact and I'll be aight.
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VendaGoat posted:Had to explain to my brother why this was impossible. He was in his early thirties. We actually do "store photons" on a regular basis in a different way: inside a resonant cavity. Once the photon enters the cavity, it remains there as a standing wave (rather than traveling in a circle as you suggest). Losses in the cavity cause the photons to be eventually absorbed. To my knowledge no optical or microwave cavity will preserve a photon for more than about 1 second, and they typically can't store many photons (maybe a few billion or even trillion, but that's a tiny amount of energy). But yes, conceivably you could make a resonant cavity with such little loss that you could store a photon for a year, and conceivably this cavity could be robust enough to hold the ~10401040 or so photons that hit the Earth in a day, but realistically probably not.
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# ? Mar 24, 2017 02:42 |
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When I was five I used to think firemen sprayed fire on houses instead of water. I guy in my class father was a fireman and he used to threaten us by saying his father would come and spray fire on our homes.
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500 good dogs posted:We actually do "store photons" on a regular basis in a different way: inside a resonant cavity. Once the photon enters the cavity, it remains there as a standing wave (rather than traveling in a circle as you suggest). Losses in the cavity cause the photons to be eventually absorbed. To my knowledge no optical or microwave cavity will preserve a photon for more than about 1 second, and they typically can't store many photons (maybe a few billion or even trillion, but that's a tiny amount of energy). But yes, conceivably you could make a resonant cavity with such little loss that you could store a photon for a year, and conceivably this cavity could be robust enough to hold the ~10401040 or so photons that hit the Earth in a day, but realistically probably not. So nothing actually like a box of regular house mirrors? Gotcha.
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VendaGoat posted:So nothing actually like a box of regular house mirrors? Gotcha. idk I didn't read it
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500 good dogs posted:Isn't it basically just a space elevator? kinda but I thought you could use it to communicate instantaneously like you could push one end of the cable in a morse code pattern or something, and the other end would move at the exact same time, so you could communicate faster than the speed of light. Space Elevators are different I think?
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# ? Mar 24, 2017 02:45 |
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VendaGoat posted:So nothing actually like a box of regular house mirrors? Gotcha. Same concept you stupid bitch. Your brother is a genius and you're a loving idiot. God.
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VendaGoat posted:Had to explain to my brother why this was impossible. He was in his early thirties. To be fair it's sorta possible, you could hypothetically capture photons bouncin around in a container made out of mirrors, you'd just lose them over time by nature of how mirrors work. Sorta like how there's no such thing as a perfect thermos, only on a much shorter timescale.
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# ? Mar 24, 2017 02:48 |
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Pictures were black and white because no color existed before the 60s or so.
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# ? Mar 24, 2017 02:49 |
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when I had to read the giver I had the dumb "what if the blue I see is different from the blue you see" stoner moment.
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smug n stuff posted:kinda but I thought you could use it to communicate instantaneously oh I get it now, that's a good idea you should call nasa
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# ? Mar 24, 2017 02:49 |
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Lotta people about mirrors not working at 100% efficiency. Light boxes, controversial subject, who knew?
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# ? Mar 24, 2017 02:51 |
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i think the trick is you could never close the box fast enough
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# ? Mar 24, 2017 02:51 |
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I was going to build a trading card shop in my front yard out of old fence wood. I'm sure it would have been code compliant.
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# ? Mar 24, 2017 02:52 |
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VendaGoat posted:Lotta people about mirrors not working at 100% efficiency. nice meltdown
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# ? Mar 24, 2017 02:52 |
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for like, far too long I was hung up on the question of whether everybody perceived colors differently
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# ? Mar 24, 2017 02:53 |
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A gun that shoots swords
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# ? Mar 24, 2017 02:52 |
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Valko posted:When I was five I used to think firemen sprayed fire on houses instead of water. I guy in my class father was a fireman and he used to threaten us by saying his father would come and spray fire on our homes. lol that owns
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VendaGoat posted:who knew? Oh my god, everyone. Who popped a quarter in this water head? Jesus f'n C. Dur I'm VendaGoat I'm typing on a computer. Holy poo poo.
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Parallax Scroll posted:lol that owns
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ArbitraryC posted:when I had to read the giver I had the dumb "what if the blue I see is different from the blue you see" stoner moment. I remember having that moment, it seriously freaked me out! I was 11, that was a good age for idiot ideas for me.
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# ? Mar 24, 2017 02:53 |
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I thought brown cows gave chocolate milk.
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a plane can take off on a big enough treadmill
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