An average retiree get all he paid into Social Security back in less than two years. How is that possible?
80% of the money you spend on health care is spent in the last 2 years of your life.
Quoth Lobsang:
Britney Gallivan would like a word with you.
Quoth Sampiro:
Reminds me of when I was a kid. Whenever we’d go to the store and buy something, I always figured that we, the customers, were getting a much better deal than the store was. The customer gets a product and some money (the change), while the store only gets some money. I also thought that a bank was a store where you bought money: Whenever you started running low, you’d go to the bank and give them some money, and they’d give you more money.
Oh, I just remembered another childhood realization: As a child, I knew that there was something that adults did that led to pregnancy, and I knew that there was something adults did called “sex” that they didn’t like to talk about in front of kids, and I knew that there was some process that involved the insertion of a man’s penis into a woman’s vagina, but it wasn’t until another kid told me that I made the connection between those three seemingly unrelated concepts.
2.2*10^21 molecules in your drop, I believe. I get about 1.5cc as the size of the drop for which the ratio is the same.
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Two eye opening facts for me, one not scientific, the other scientific:
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[li]I remember the first time I saw my elementary school teacher in a store. Holy cow! Teachers exist outside of the classroom![/li]
[li]In science the most mind blowing facts to me have to do with the atom. An atom is so small that 10 million of them lined up end to end will span the width of the period at the end of this paragraph! YET, they are mostly empty space! In fact if all the space in every atom were removed from every person on this earth, all of humanity will fit into the size of a sugar cube. That’s beyond amazing to me. And as to the discussion about drops of water etc. What I heard was that there are more atoms in a glass of water than glasses of water in all the oceans of the world.[/li][/ul]
Yes you could, but practically nothing you’ve written so far is accurate, so please don’t embarrass yourself (or bore us) any further.
No, they’re not mostly empty space. The space of an atom is jam packed full of fields (mostly electromagnetic fields, in this case). This may sound like pointless quibbling, except that the bits between the so-called empty space, like the protons and electrons, are themselves made of fields, too.
And thank you, OpalCat.
Revenge of the Nerds was filmed in my hometown. It’s as good a battlecry as any…
I had a moment of epiphanic clarity once where I saw a connection between all living things, and how that connection was what we called god… but it was almost completely visual/emotional and I have never really been able to successfully put into words exactly what that epiphany was. I can recall it vividly but it isn’t based on any kind of knowledge, so it’s really hard to convey it to anyone else. It changed how I saw everything, though, forever.
What? Could they be blue then if they ate something else?
Half the people I meet? How do you know who I meet?
This can’t possibly be true in its entirety. The King James Bible was an English version of the bible that was translated after much of the Spanish Inquisition had already happened. The Spanish, as Catholics, would have used a Latin Text. Possibly it is mistranslation found in Jerome’s Vulgate, not The King James Bible?
A googol.
I assure you, in that case, half of you will indeed be below the median income. (Among those ten individuals.)
My contribution: as I mentioned here a while ago, it occurred to me that the collective conscious life experience of humanity is far longer than the age of the universe. Something like 106 billion people have ever lived, And Wikipedia tells me that the estimated age of the universe is 13.73 billion years. So assuming that throughout history, people had an average life expectancy at birth of 10 years, then the collective time lived by all humans so far is over a trillion years. Each one of those people was an individual with his or her perceptions of the world, most of them had people they loved, things they enjoyed and disliked, happiness and pain. A trillion years of that. And that collective experience amounts to over seventy times the age of the universe.
Practically nothing?! Embarrass myself?!
*That we are genetically closer to a chimpanzee than a mouse is to a rat.
You’re saying that you disagree with this, and that I embarrass myself for saying it?
*That somewhere between 97 and 99+ percent of all living things that once inhabited this planet are extinct.
And that? I’m embarrassing myself for that one as well?
*That there is absolutely nothing new or original in the Old Testament or the New Testament. Everything is either plagiarized from texts from older religions or various forms of art that predated the books.
And that?
Oh please, PLEASE embarrass me regarding the above. In fact, and for calling me out in such a childish and asinine manner, I now require it. Otherwise it’s going to get incredibly embarrassing and astonishingly not boring around here rabbit-fast, friend.
That a single equation could represent an entire graph of irregular shape.
I couldn’t understand any bit of Calculus then. With this, I begin to appreciate why I am even learning this.
Here’s an eye opening fact:
My alarm clock is set to 8:30 AM
Derleth – That is one of the very best things I’ve seen on this message board. Ever. Bravo.
Probably closer to a Google, actually.
That’s a neat trick, considering the King James Version was produced in 1611, while the Spanish Inquisition was established in 1478 and was largely over in 1530.
Not to mention that the Spanish Inquisition was run by Catholics who would have exclusively used the Vulgate (Latin) Bible.
Not to also mention that, if the Spanish Inquisition had been using a vernacular Bible, it would have been one in Spanish, not English.