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insults and more · Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:15 pm

http://www.nickbostrom.com/extraterrestrial.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter

Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 11:28 pm

That's nothing, primitive electromagnetics. However if you know how to look harder......
There are other ways of looking.

Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 12:53 pm

leonsumbitches wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter

Pfft. I haven't read the PDF, but the Wiki page appears to me that the list under "The Great Filter" section is just a slight rehash of Maynard Smith & Szathmáry's "The Major Transitions In Evolution". With a bit of space-exploration tacked on the end.

insults and more · Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 6:35 pm

Ok, now I'm just doing this to annoy Otterfan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument

Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 3:54 pm

^^^ I hadn't seen that before. And...

leonsumbitches wrote:

Ok, now I'm just doing this to annoy Otterfan.

Yeah, it worked!

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 9:43 am

On my 7th beer I came across this

http://lolsnaps.com/news/3631/0/

Its bent my brain trying to work out if its some internet guy trying to bend my brain or if it is actually bending my brain...

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:10 pm

You are becoming intoxicated very slowly and gradually slur your words when you come across red and blue shiny lights in the distance with a sound like nails down a chalkboard and it's getting closer and closer before forcing you to see shiny gray bars that'll warp your body and you are unable to keep still.

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 6:15 pm

winning...

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 7:13 pm

Koko.Dk wrote:

a sound like nails down a chalkboard

Eeeeeeeeeeeek, that set my teeth on edge and brought back memories of school when it was a highlight of lessons if the teacher used a different colour chalk than white chalk Laughing

A thrill that my daughter will sadly miss out on, as being a child of the 21st century, her school uses interactive whiteboards.

I have a Mindvirus which I'm unable to post on here because of forum posting rules, PM me if you want to read it - it's perfectly safe for work etc.

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 8:33 pm

^^I remember my teachers using chalk when I was younger. Although as I got older they transitioned to markers. Laughing

insults and more · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 2:48 am

Meet the macaque monkey:

Now think about the sound of nails on a chalkboard. Do you know why we find it intolerable?

Because it is almost identical to the warning cry of the macaque monkey.

Yes, we evolved this reaction because those who did not react strongly enough to the warning cry of that little guy up there, did not leave as many offspring.

What did the macaques do that was so horrible that thousands of years later we still have a primordial, instinctive reaction to their warning cry?

What dark family feuds have we forgotten, only vaguely recalled in primary school?

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 9:36 am

^ Fascinating read, Leon, Thumbs up

What wouldn't I give to be able to go back in time, just to be able to leap around the classroom like a macaque monkey at those nails on chalkboard moments Laughing

Mod edit - 6 out of 10

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 10:45 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0

Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 12:17 am

leonsumbitches wrote:

Now think about the sound of nails on a chalkboard. Do you know why we find it intolerable?

I'm going to have to be contrary again.

I don't find the nails-on-chalkboard sound intolerable or even annoying. At all.

I do, however, get a feeling that I imagine people get with the nails-on-chalkboard thing when my own nails scrape against cardboard packaging that's just come from the freezer. Oh boy... that totally freaks me out to the point of repulsion and wanting to run a mile from it.

Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 10:44 am

Scroll down.

Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 8:32 pm

^^

Otterfan, that's gotta be a unique freaky thing, your nails against cardboard packaging thing.

My own quirky freaks me out thing is the feel of wooden lollipop sticks - I cannot eat a lolly without there being something between me and the stick - usually the lolly wrapper.

Also and I don't know whether this some kind of an allergy, but just the smallest sip of a milkshake causes a quirky reaction in me - my ears and the side of my face get an unpleasant sensation that is similar to that which happens after blowing up too many balloons by mouth. We call it 'milkshake ears' and needless to say, I don't/can't drink milkshakes.

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I'm reminded of a song...

I'm a something girl, in a something world...

Dammit! What the hell was the name of that song?

Huh. I can't seem to remember.

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 9:41 am

^^ You're probably looking for this one. Wink

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 2:22 pm

You are falling down, down, down continuously and seemingly unending the further down you got and supposedly you feel a sudden rush of adrenaline flow through you and there's silence.

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 2:33 pm

I crossed the event horizon! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOO!

Damn, what a WONDERFUL way to go! Very Happy

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 2:41 pm

You run further and further away but the voices are catching up and then eventually you are surrounded by a bunch of people. They try to restrain you but end up exiting before that happens. Then you are followed by a mysterious black sedan, you take a taxi and then the first "BANG!" goes off followed by 5 more but after a while the sounds of banging fade into the background. You arrive at your destination and there are a lot of airplanes/aeroplanes that can be seen.