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smug n stuff posted:kinda but I thought you could use it to communicate instantaneously This is actually a cool idea but the reality is pushing something on one end doesn't instantly push the other end, it's just fast enough that you wouldn't notice in any real world scale. No material is perfectly rigid so when you're shoving something there's actually a wave of compression that flows through the material on a molecular level.
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ArbitraryC posted: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. I know someone who last year, as an adult, came to the realization that to Chinese people, 一 means 一 and not "one". Same thing you're saying basically.
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ArbitraryC posted:This is actually a cool idea but the reality is pushing something on one end doesn't instantly push the other end, it's just fast enough that you wouldn't notice in any real world scale. No material is perfectly rigid so when you're shoving something there's actually a wave of compression that flows through the material on a molecular level. I think I read in a thread forever ago that a stick of any material would 'bump' through space no faster than the speed of sound
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Mine was a hole bored directly through the centre of the earth. A bungee type cord would be attached and you would jump in, fall for thousands of kilometers then fly above China or wherever for a bit before the cord snaps back and returns you back up.
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Toadvine posted:I think I read in a thread forever ago that a stick of any material would 'bump' through space no faster than the speed of sound yeah, that would make sense, because that's how sound waves travel too, basically just air molecules bumping together.
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Toadvine posted:I think I read in a thread forever ago that a stick of any material would 'bump' through space no faster than the speed of sound "the speed of sound" is a bit misleading here because people assume it's the normal speed of sound in air that people talk about but it's the speed of sound for that material (which is why what you wrote is basically a tautology)
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500 good dogs posted:"the speed of sound" is a bit misleading here because people assume it's the normal speed of sound in air that people talk about but it's the speed of sound for that material (which is why what you wrote is basically a tautology) kiss my taut anus hole
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Toadvine posted:I think I read in a thread forever ago that a stick of any material would 'bump' through space no faster than the speed of sound thats pretty fast we should develop this tech asap
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Mar 24, 2017 03:03
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I see it's drinking time in GBS. Ah poo poo, Guess I should join in.
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500 good dogs posted:"the speed of sound" is a bit misleading here because people assume it's the normal speed of sound in air that people talk about but it's the speed of sound for that material (which is why what you wrote is basically a tautology) interestingly if there were a hypothetical material that was perfectly rigid it would imply that the speed of sound through that material was equal to the speed of light.
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Parallax Scroll posted:thats pretty fast we should develop this tech asap yeah, that's like, more than 300 mph! holy cow! alright dude, I'm calling NASA for real
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Mar 24, 2017 03:07
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smug n stuff posted:kinda but I thought you could use it to communicate instantaneously It does not work though. I had the same thought as a kid too.
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Mar 24, 2017 03:09
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for a brief moment when I got my own walkman I thought I could unplug the headphones and the jack would function as a speaker
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Mar 24, 2017 03:14
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VendaGoat posted:I see it's drinking time in GBS. Ah poo poo, Guess I should join in. Don't respond to me without quoting me you little bitch. Face me in combat dude. Lets fuckin wrestle.
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Mar 24, 2017 03:15
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I thought all of New York was Algerian because I grew up in a very Arab part there
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Mar 24, 2017 03:18
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Applesnots posted:It does not work though. I had the same thought as a kid too. yes, I know, that is why I titled this thread "idiot ideas" not "smart ideas" I wonder how many of these ideas are universal? A few people have also mentioned their moment of "wait, what if your blue isn't my blue," does anyone else remember that moment distinctly? It was a big thing for idiot me.
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smug n stuff posted:A few people have also mentioned their moment of "wait, what if your blue isn't my blue," does anyone else remember that moment distinctly? It was a big thing for idiot me. Yeah dude we all remember when we smoked weed for the first time
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Sometimes just describing the idea does not describe how legit you thought it was, like the op, which is really the funniest part. Great nerd fantasies, I have had many
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Mar 24, 2017 03:30
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I used to think police were your friend.
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Mar 24, 2017 03:50
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A girl in 4th grade told us you could get pregnant having "sex" with a pillow and sex ed was so absent I thought it was true! Also the "gum doesnt leave your body for SEVEN YEARS so you cant eat it ever!" poo poo adults constantly said around 2nd grade, thought it was why people had certain stomach aches like something you ate would disturb this giant mass of gum in your stomach waiting to leave the body. Childhood is confusing 
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Mar 24, 2017 04:51
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chili should have beans. lol hindsight is always 20/20
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Mar 24, 2017 05:10
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That Pokemon were real and lived on the moon
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When I watched action movies where they had silenced weapons (80s style where they made like a *tchew* sound) I thought that the guns were shooting needles and that's why they didn't make normal gunfire noise.
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My younger brother and I took the saying "cats always land on their feet" literally, and also construed it to mean that cats could fall from any distance and land on their feet. We then proceeded to toss his cat off the top of the roof of the house. The cat was fine, but was definitely pissed and took off running and avoided us for a while. Luckily this was a ridiculously tough cat - in later years I watched it successfully fight raccoons. Still, I regret this idiocy to this day.
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I thought I was an alien. I thought the universe would not allow girls to ever get hurt because they were so pretty. I thought inanimate objects had souls.
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Mar 24, 2017 07:25
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I used to think rich people are out betters and I still think that.
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:I used to think rich people are out betters and I still think that. 
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that my parents loved me500 good dogs posted:I was like 12 when I registered my forums account so I guess that underage
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When I was 3 I invented a see-saw and used it to break a brick across my face
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Mar 24, 2017 07:39
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When I was a kid I had this notion I'd be dead by now. That was a serious disappointment.
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Dave_Indeed posted: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. That was my thought too. Just jump out of the plane when it's like 3 feet off the ground you can make it. I thought that colors in sunsets were caused my air pollution and that made me really sad. I swear I read it in a Berenstein Bears book, and they lied to me  I thought that when people died in movies they were actually getting killed, and thought it was sort of wasteful to sacrifice yourself for a movie that might not even be that good.
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canyoneer posted:I thought that colors in sunsets were caused my air pollution and that made me really sad. I swear I read it in a Berenstein Bears book, and they lied to me Obviously not for all sunsets, but a bit of smoggy haze does make for some pretty crazy effects when the sun goes down.
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Mar 24, 2017 07:52
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It's spelled Berenstain bears unless you're from that alternate universe where it was spelled Berenstein
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Mar 24, 2017 08:17
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I used to think girls peed out of their butts. Heck, still do.
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Mar 24, 2017 08:19
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I thought I had invented masturbation I was gonna be so rich dammit!
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I told my self i easntt e a dumbcunt
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why wouldn't op's idea work someone explain
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