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I used to think that all liquids were just water with stuff added
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smug n stuff posted:yes, I know, that is why I titled this thread "idiot ideas" not "smart ideas" Yeah I totally had that. It's weird when you think about it because colour is really just a biological process's representation of photon energies so it's not like anyone would be seeing things in the wrong colour - colour just isn't really a thing.
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Mar 24, 2017 14:45
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To stick my foot in the spoke of my bike while traveling downhill
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Mar 24, 2017 14:47
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Hardawn posted:To stick my foot in the spoke of my bike while traveling downhill did it work?
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Mar 24, 2017 14:49
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I thought adding batteries to anything that burned made rocket fuel. I don't know why
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Mar 24, 2017 14:50
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America were the good guys.
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Mar 24, 2017 15:08
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I thought I could reprogram my brain to interpret colors differently, so I could theoretically take a pink eraser, meditate for a bit, and turn the eraser blue. I also had some pretty hosed up misconceptions about the anatomy of the vagina.
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Mar 24, 2017 15:10
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sout posted:did it work? gently caress yeah, I flew like a bird for these few wonderful milliseconds before skittering on the pavement. Walking home afterwards was less than fun though
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Mar 24, 2017 15:11
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us vs also us posted:why wouldn't op's idea work someone explain
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Mar 24, 2017 15:12
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Why don't you hear supersonic bullets/jets/unicycles coming?
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Mar 24, 2017 15:23
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Corky Romanovsky posted:Why don't you hear supersonic bullets/jets/unicycles coming? 
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Mar 24, 2017 15:30
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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. Yeah me too. Simple. Elegant.
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Mar 24, 2017 15:42
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I used to be *REALLY* impressed, like really insanely blown away by the fact that a sega CD could play insanely compressed, low quality video clips. Even though I could just turn on a tv and see a comparatively much much better image. I do not understand why the sega cd was ever impressive, but god it was. When I was 8.
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Mar 24, 2017 16:23
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When I was very young my favorite color was red and I could not comprehend how anybody could like any color more than red. In my child mind it was simply and obviously the best color
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Mar 24, 2017 16:52
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dying in my dreams all the time getting ran over by police car elevator falling on me bear eating me oh and i hosed up the words to songs and would just kind of mumble noises. as I got older & heard the same songs I remembered the mumbled noises and realized how retarded i am
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Mar 24, 2017 16:56
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I know I invented flashing brake lights for emergency vehicles, I was a fool not to patent the idea
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Mar 24, 2017 16:59
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My brother told me Gwar really killed people on stage and showered the audience in their blood. I remember being horrified and ashamed that my brother would partake in that sort of thing.
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Mar 24, 2017 17:00
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My friend told me if you went to a place in Neopets at exactly midnight you could get a special Neopet thing, so I stayed up late to try it like three times before my mom told me that kid was a fuckin liar.
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Mar 24, 2017 17:04
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smug n stuff posted:My friend told me if you went to a place in Neopets at exactly midnight you could get a special Neopet thing, so I stayed up late to try it like three times before my mom told me that kid was a fuckin liar. to be fair that sounds like something that would happen on neopets?
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Mar 24, 2017 17:07
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I thought cars were propelled along by the gas coming out of their exhaust pipes, like rocket engines.
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Mar 24, 2017 17:12
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a bone to pick posted:you could save sunlight by keeping it in a chamber made of mirrors Trapping light would work if: - The container is either a sphere or does not have any hard edges - The inside of the container is a perfect vacuum - The inside surfaces of the container are 100% reflective It's not possible for the last two to exist in this universe due to the laws of thermodynamics. So the trapped light would always end up converting to heat. I think. Right?
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Mar 24, 2017 17:12
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That someday I'd figure out how to do a double jump.
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Mar 24, 2017 17:13
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Axeman Jim posted:I thought cars were propelled along by the gas coming out of their exhaust pipes, like rocket engines. Oh yeah, this but with steam powered trains.
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Mar 24, 2017 17:14
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That I could build a seaworthy boat out of a random assortment of planks in my dads shed and travel the world in said boat. Also that I could build a timemachine out of random scrapyyard junk. I had detailed plans drawn up, but no access to a junkyard. I was a very idealistic kid.
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Mar 24, 2017 17:20
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Reality TV. You would put cameras in the house so people could see what you were doing. gently caress me, I could have been rich. Goddamnit.
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Mar 24, 2017 17:25
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That life is a meritocracy and the people who are most successful worked the hardest to get there
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Mar 24, 2017 17:26
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That I was straight
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Mar 24, 2017 17:30
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Harald posted:hot dogs stuffed with spaghetti Right now Big Hot Dog is stealing this idea from the forums.
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Mar 24, 2017 17:30
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I used to think the numbers 10-99 didn't exist. So when I counted I jumped from 9 to 100' then from 109 to 200. I have no idea how I was that dumb in kindergarten.
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Mar 24, 2017 17:37
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As a kid I took a shower once and noticed the water would trickle down my back, arm and off my fingers if I bent a certain way and I literally thought I had the power to bend the elements to my will.
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Mar 24, 2017 17:43
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us vs also us posted:why wouldn't op's idea work someone explain I think it has something to do with how force moves at the speed of sound through objects or something, haven't read a book or been in a physics class for years so sorry this might not be entirely correct, so if you had a huge stick in space from let's say earth to venus and you started pushing it on earth the force would move through the object at the speed of sound and take a very long time to actually move the part that's at venus. There's vsauce video that mentions this but he has so many videos now I'm not sure which one it is.
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Mar 24, 2017 20:15
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Maldoror posted:Trapping light would work if: It kinda depends on how you wanna try to define 100% reflective, if you're going for a tautology like "it would reflect all photons always" then yeah that's impossible to achieve but the reasons for that have less to do with the material and more to do with the properties of photons themselves which could just pass through any given material without colliding with any of the molecules due to their size. so kind of a semantic argument but you could hypothetically discuss a 100% reflective material (which isn't actually possible either for other reasons), that would still be unable to perfectly contain photons simply because theres a chance the photons won't interact with the material.
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Mar 24, 2017 20:22
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a bone to pick posted:I think it has something to do with how force moves at the speed of sound through objects or something, haven't read a book or been in a physics class for years so sorry this might not be entirely correct, so if you had a huge stick in space from let's say earth to venus and you started pushing it on earth the force would move through the object at the speed of sound and take a very long time to actually move the part that's at venus. 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. You can also just google it, it's kind of a common stoner science thought sort of question.
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Mar 24, 2017 20:24
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a bone to pick posted:I think it has something to do with how force moves at the speed of sound through objects or something, haven't read a book or been in a physics class for years so sorry this might not be entirely correct, so if you had a huge stick in space from let's say earth to venus and you started pushing it on earth the force would move through the object at the speed of sound and take a very long time to actually move the part that's at venus. but, what if, and stay with me now but what if the stick was really rigid, so it didnt wobble at all?
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Mar 24, 2017 20:33
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When I was a kid I saw an episode of MadTV where they went to Olive Garden and got the Chicken ala Pasta. Dry Spaghetti with nuggs and ketchup on top microwaved. And I thought to myself, "That might be okay with actual sauce" But I felt it was too stupid to patent. Now every lovely chain restaurant is stealing my idea for Chicken Parmesan. 
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Mar 24, 2017 20:34
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Harald posted:hot dogs stuffed with spaghetti  hell yeah
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Mar 24, 2017 20:36
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500 good dogs posted:I thought 0.999.... repeating was the same as 1. Yeah I was dumb 
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Mar 24, 2017 21:41
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My school mascot was the Bears and our school bags had a snarling cartoon bear on it. When I was in first grade they wanted to change the design of the bear and decided it would be cute to let the kids vote on it. So they passed out a sheet with five or six scary bear faces on it and told us to pick one. I refused to vote because I thought they were actually going to bring a ferocious bear into the classroom. My parents still laugh at me for that one.
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Mar 24, 2017 21:44
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CaptainSarcastic posted: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. The actual moron idea you had was that it would be in any way impressive for a cat to land on its feet if it had more distance to correctly orient itself. Cats literally do always land on their feet, unless you drop them from an insufficient distance. Whether they actually survive the fall or not is a different matter, but they'll absolutely hit the ground foot-first regardless of whether they break all their loving bones.
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Ralph Hurley posted:My school mascot was the Bears and our school bags had a snarling cartoon bear on it. When I was in first grade they wanted to change the design of the bear and decided it would be cute to let the kids vote on it. So they passed out a sheet with five or six scary bear faces on it and told us to pick one. This is precious
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