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redshirt posted:They had a 200 million year run and didn't do much with it. So I'd say, no, there would be no advanced species of space faring Lizard People. or there was a subset of dinosaurs who became advanced enough to develop a space faring civilization, saw the asteroid coming, and left for a better planet, and the remains of their settlements were long ago eaten by their stupid trex brothers and swallowed up by the vast jungles of that age. every once in a while the distant dinosaur civilization checks up on us but we are still too annoying so they won't come back yet
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We've already done those simulations during the early 90s: Turns out they'd just be super annoying.
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Snowy posted:If an asteroid hadn’t killed off the dinosaurs, would any of them evolved to be really intelligent? Maybe, maybe not. Evolution doesn't trend towards intelligence or anything. It's random mutations that may or may not carry over to successive generations depending on conditions, competition, and completely random things that can't be accounted for. It doesn't have a goal of any sort. It doesn't optimise for the best possible results. Besides intelligence they would have also have had to separately evolve the capacity for language. Intelligent also doesn't equal technological. There was nothing to suggest we'd rapidly develop into a species that can fly to the fricking moon until we suddenly did about 11,000 years ago. Before that we'd been living pretty much unchanged for 200000-300000 years. Many more than that if you include the other species of human before us.
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Why do I triple tap the top of a soda can before opening it? I've done it all my life. I don't know what began the habit, but I do it every single time for any canned beverage I open.
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LuckyCat posted:Why do I triple tap the top of a soda can before opening it? I've done it all my life. I don't know what began the habit, but I do it every single time for any canned beverage I open. Dunno, but you're supposed to tap the sides.
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You’re supposed to… https://youtu.be/80HrR1OvLTo?si=zIxg6suVN871zcWZ
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LuckyCat posted:Why do I triple tap the top of a soda can before opening it? I've done it all my life. I don't know what began the habit, but I do it every single time for any canned beverage I open. Check to see if it's an explosive I'd guess.
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LuckyCat posted:Why do I triple tap the top of a soda can before opening it? I've done it all my life. I don't know what began the habit, but I do it every single time for any canned beverage I open. Just like flicking the tiny earring bag full of cocaine before ladling out a line, it's just how it gets done.
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It's to see if it's a mimic or not. So you tap with your least favored hand, or ideally someone else's.
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dr_rat posted:It's to see if it's a mimic or not. So you tap with your least favored hand, or ideally someone else's. Drinking soda just hasn't been the same since they stopped putting the little chains on the lids.
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Is tap water really partially dinosaur pee?
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redshirt posted:Is tap water really partially dinosaur pee? Only in classy places who have the money to pay dinosaurs to piss in their water reserves. It's like the fluoride of the kinky rich.
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Is Studio Ghibli pronounced "Ghibli" as in "gif" the way the wrong way, or "gif" the way the right way to say it is?
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The right way.
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credburn posted:Is Studio Ghibli pronounced "Ghibli" as in "gif" the way the wrong way, or "gif" the way the right way to say it is? Who the heck pronounces it "JIF"?
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It's pronounced sword
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Studio jibbly lol
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Its pronounced Studio Uh-Guh-Hee-Buh-Lee
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My question is: Why did you resurrect this thread? WHY COULD YOU NOT LET SLEEPING DOGS LIE
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I need to jump start my car and every instruction says DO NOT CONNECT THE NEGATIVE CLAMPS TO THE NEGATIVE TERMINAL, accompanied by an image of what usually looks to me like negative-to-negative. It says to connect the negative instead to "an unpainted metal surface." What the gently caress does this mean? Can I just connect it to... like, I don't know, everything on this engine block is too big to clamp to or covered in rubber or what I THINK might be paint? I don't want to blow myself up trying to jump start my car and I feel like such an idiot 
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Dump your grotesque polluting metal hulk and get some good hiking shoes.
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I figured it out -- I connected it to a bolt sticking out from something. It just really felt way more dangerous, the directions are too vague for something accompanied by warnings of instant death by electrocution or explosion
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What time is it?
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23:51 where I am.
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Stoatbringer posted:What time is it? 18:07
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Stoatbringer posted:What time is it? Time for you to get a watch
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if ten baboons were stranded on a island how many of them would prefer to eat coconuts versus eating clams
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Did the inventor of the Segway really die while riding on one that malfunctioned? I checked snopes but couldn't find anything.
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Outpost22 posted:Did the inventor of the Segway really die while riding on one that malfunctioned? I checked snopes but couldn't find anything. it was the president of the company that bought segway when the inventor sold iirc
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Outpost22 posted:Did the inventor of the Segway really die while riding on one that malfunctioned? I checked snopes but couldn't find anything. On his Wikipedia page, (guy who bought it, not the inventor) quote:James William "Jimi" Heselden OBE (27 March 1948 – 26 September 2010) was an English entrepreneur. A former coal miner, he became wealthy by manufacturing the Hesco bastion barrier system. In 2009, he bought Segway Inc. He died in 2010 from injuries sustained falling from a cliff while riding his own Segway PT.
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Stoatbringer posted:What time is it? 9:59
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Mozi posted:if ten baboons were stranded on a island how many of them would prefer to eat coconuts versus eating clams 5.5
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credburn posted:I need to jump start my car and every instruction says DO NOT CONNECT THE NEGATIVE CLAMPS TO THE NEGATIVE TERMINAL, accompanied by an image of what usually looks to me like negative-to-negative. It says to connect the negative instead to "an unpainted metal surface." "Though some may say it’s alright to attach the last negative jumper cable clamp to the negative terminal of the dead battery, this increases the risk of fire or explosion if the jump start doesn’t go as planned. Try to find somewhere away from the battery, to decrease the potential of sparks igniting any hydrogen gas that could be coming from the battery. Safer options include the car’s chassis, a bolt on the engine, the alternator bracket, or a designated grounding terminal away from the battery." https://www.geturgently.com/blog/how-to-jump-start-a-car
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Mozi posted:if ten baboons were stranded on a island how many of them would prefer to eat coconuts versus eating clams Your baboonist question ignores the fact that baboons have individual preferences. It's like asking, "Of ten people, how many would prefer to eat a burger vs. eating Chinese food?". BigBadSteve fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Nov 23, 2023 |
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BigBadSteve posted:Your baboonist question ignores the fact that baboons have individual preferences. It's like asking, "Of ten people, how many would prefer to eat a burger vs. eating Chinese food?". good point, we need a larger sample size there's 10,000 baboons on the island now
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buglord posted:Is Goons With Spoons woke?  Seems unlikely.
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By popular demand posted:My question is: Why did you resurrect this thread?  I THINK I DESERVE A loving ANSWER
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Why do most animals have their testicles on the outside? It seems like the worst place to put them and where all your enemies can get to them.
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