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On August 20 2017 23:23 Zambrah wrote: If you put Mr. T in the Arctic, would he be Mr. Iced T, or Iced Mr. T? From a legal standpoint iced mr t but from a branding standpoint he would likely go with mr iced t
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On August 20 2017 16:36 Shiragaku wrote: What makes tea healthy? Is it the leaves or is hot water just better for your health? Antioxidants.
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On August 20 2017 16:36 Shiragaku wrote: What makes tea healthy? Is it the leaves or is hot water just better for your health?
I think tea is part of the long time practice/tradition of consuming plant material. It's known that many plants contain a vast array of different molecules that are able to change physiology. Tea leaves contain aromatics (polyphenols) and caffeine, which may have health benefits (flavonoids, EGCG, cathechins) and is a stimulant agent respectively. It also contains several dietary minerals and manganese. Chemical composition of tea It's hard to say how healthy exactly tea is and what the infusions (extracts from other plants/herbs) actually contribute to (some have specific effects like mild laxative, calming, ..), but it sure as hell won't hurt you to drink it.
Hot water also has a great deal of physiological effects, the most obvious being (local) vasodilation (widening of the blood vessels). You might want to ask a physiologist about this if you can lol.
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Theres an area near where I am that has brand new 2017 Volkswagen Jettas for 10 - 11K, which is a hell of a price, what could the catch be
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You would probably have to go to find out. But likely there is one.
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Given it is america, probably something along the lines of "Pay only 11k now, (and 900$/month for the next 12 years) " in very fine print.
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It's an actual car, with a manual gearbox.
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I'm guessing they are UK models.
Now go look and report back with your findings
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I am also deeply interested in this 11K car and why I shouldn't want it at that price. Does it come filled with leaches?
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"The features and options listed are for a New 2017 Volkswagen Jetta 1.4T S Auto and may not apply to this specific vehicle."
So basically you buy the cat in the sac? Sounds rather shady, you should go and verify the integrity of that offer for all of us
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I'm really psyched about the solar eclipse tomorrow. Already got my glasses and made a pinhole projector out of a cereal box. Anybody know what time it's supposed to start in North Carolina?
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Uhhhh I may have some bad news for you.
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You're such an epik troller Epishade, you got him
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The "may" was in there for a reason.
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On August 22 2017 09:33 Epishade wrote: I'm really psyched about the solar eclipse tomorrow. Already got my glasses and made a pinhole projector out of a cereal box. Anybody know what time it's supposed to start in North Carolina?
Soon. Get ready, grab a long chair, and a cold drink, and be patient.
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On August 23 2017 02:17 AbouSV wrote:Show nested quote +On August 22 2017 09:33 Epishade wrote: I'm really psyched about the solar eclipse tomorrow. Already got my glasses and made a pinhole projector out of a cereal box. Anybody know what time it's supposed to start in North Carolina? Soon. Get ready, grab a long chair, and a cold drink, and be patient.
Holding your breath will make it happen faster
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Canada11355 Posts
What would happen if the moon was sliced perfectly in half?
Also, what would happen if exactly half of the moon spontaneously disappeared?
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On August 23 2017 07:59 Fecalfeast wrote: What would happen if the moon was sliced perfectly in half?
Also, what would happen if exactly half of the moon spontaneously disappeared?
If it is just a cut through the middle, nothing at all. What holds the moon together is not its material strength, but gravity. So if you just cut through it, it sticks together nonetheless, and really nothing happens.
If half of the moon disappears however, stuff gets interesting. Firstly, i am almost certain that the remaining half of the moon would collapse into a sphere again rather quickly. The moon doesn't have the strength to keep itself non-spherical against the force of its own gravity. So the moon is a bit smaller now. There will probably also be a lot of fragments flying away in this process. Some might hit earth.
The reduced mass of the moon might impact the orbits of some satellites, but i doubt that it has a big influence there, simply because they are so much closer to earth than to the moon. The small moon fragments flying about might have a larger impact though. Possible Kessler Syndrome?
The really fun stuff happens on earth. Because tides change now. Smaller moon means less tidal differences. So high water gets lower, and low water gets higher. This will probably freak out a lot of sea life, especially those used to living in the areas that are sometimes flooded and sometimes not. It will also make holland safer against a flood.
My guess is, however, that the largest effect will be that humans just freak out. If half the moon disappears without any explanation and there are now shitloads of meteor showers that take out satellites all the time, you are going to have weird cults, militaries that freak out over who blew up half the moon, and how can WE do that? People that are scared of aliens.
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And then also, with half the moon gone, a "full moon" (the entire moon showing) would have a very low threshold and would be seen far more frequently (we would just need to see the "entire" semicircle that remains), since blocking the half of the moon that's disappeared would be irrelevant. A full moon would be the entire phase where the remaining half of the moon is visible, which is a lot longer than the current full moon threshold that actually requires us seeing a full circle instead of a semicircle. (Same goes in the other direction, with the idea of a "new moon" having a low threshold as well, since covering the remaining half of the moon- regardless of whether or not the disappeared half would have been covered- would result in us seeing no moon.) But this is all only relevant if the moon doesn't turn into a smaller sphere... it surely would, which means we may or may not have the same length of a lunar cycle (but at least we'd see full circles).
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