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[Phalanges Mycologist]

So you're saying that a lathe and a CNC router is the same thing but the mechanisms are different? Just curious.

Pretty much a modern CNC Multi Axis machine is more capable from a mass production standpoint but you can do anything it can do with the correct set up on a manual lathe and time, there are other differences like arrangement then toyr getting into semantics.

Technically a lathe can be considered a mechanical computer of sorts, if you are able to do thread cutting on it anyway.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Pretty much a modern CNC Multi Axis machine is more capable from a mass production standpoint but you can do anything it can do with the correct set up on a manual lathe and time, there are other differences like arrangement then toyr getting into semantics.

Technically a lathe can be considered a mechanical computer of sorts, if you are able to do thread cutting on it anyway.

I certainly agree that there is a direct and undeniable lineage between the two but the difference between who/what moves and doesn't move is where I see it as a separation of species(tools) and it evolves further from there(five axis). But I'm thinking of the old lathe, the one you hear horrors about, that's why I brought up a square chair with square legs from a solid block of wood. It would take some planning and resources to make that happen while a saw, chisel and planer can probably get results faster and safer.

Not putting you down, my father was a craftsman by trade so I know the tiniest bit about this and lathing a chair from solid wood have been my go-to question for some time.

edit: question is, if you could do it, would you want to try or look towards other methods?

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

would you want to try or look towards other methods?

Other methods, the limmiting factor of the lathe is it's swing doing it would be a nightmare and doing it safely isn't something I'd want to turn myself.


If we are talking lathing wood for chair legs etc, I've done it with a Pole Lathe and a Treadle lathe.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Other methods, the limmiting factor of the lathe is it's swing doing it would be a nightmare and doing it safely isn't something I'd want to turn myself.

That's what I was coming at. There's older and more primitive tools that can do certain jobs easier. Not knocking the lathe though, but older and more primitive tools still works wonders and their history is often amazing. You know those suction cups(vacuum extraction tools) that they sometimes have to use to deliver babies with? It goes back to ancient Rome. They didn't have rubber so the stick was made of cedar, I don't know if it is disinfectant or not but women currently believe in cedar, and what is now the rubber bell was woven from the bark of olive trees, it was originally used to forcibly pull out scat fetishists hiding in public outhouses.

 

[Elbow Greased Strength]

God is dead and we have killed him. Also, did you know the Earth receives around 50,000 tons of material from space each year?

 

[PFM]

Die Hard isn't a Christmas movie. If you know the people behind it and why things are the way they are, it's legitimately a WWII themed movie. The fact that it's during Christmas is only a hint about certain elements in play and has nothing really to do with the holiday itself. DH3 is a bit the same way as well.
Also in worst korea some people play DH1 during Christmas as a thing.

Unfortunately I don't so can you explain?

 

[Carnavoyeur]

Unfortunately I don't so can you explain?

I'm gonna assume jews

 

[Foltest]

When Dylan Klebold shot himself in the temple with his TEC-DC9 Mini at the end of the Columbine High School massacre, he didn't die immediately. He apparently drowned in his own blood (blood was found in his lungs during the autopsy). Several people that were still inside the library reported hearing "gurgling" noises around that time.

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that is what he get for using a tech 9.

 

[Pitbull Victim]

Jesús "Jess" Franco was a Spanish filmmaker and actor who primarily worked on terrible, low budget horror and erotic movies. Despite having no money or particular talent, he managed to make somewhere between 170 to 200 movies over the course of his career, which would place him as one of the most prolific filmmakers of all time.

The titles of his movies also frequently sounded like bizarre shitposts:

 

[behavioral swamp thang]

The song that made Pharrell famous was "Rump Shaker" by Wreckx-N-Effect in 1992. Yes, he wrote the old af banger "all I wanna do is zoom a zoom zoom zoom in your poom poom. Just shake ya rump!" NVR 4 G3T the iconic beach side music video with like 50,000 crotch shots.

 

[My Name is Ed]

Unfortunately I don't so can you explain?

I'm guessing it's something to do with Judaistic content and the six brazilian, but I also think @Wraith should elaborate a bit more.

Tax:

Some pages ago there was a mention of Star Trek theme lyrics (I'm too much of a newfag to know how to quote in an edit). These lyrics were written independently by Roddenberry and were never intended to actually be sung, but rather as a ploy by Gene to get royalties from performances of the theme. Alexander Courage, the composer of the theme, who had no knowledge of Roddenberry's actions at the time, described it as 'unethical', while Roddenberry claimed it was necessary as he wasn't going to make any money off the show anyway.

 

[Penis Drager]

Thiomargarita magnifica is a bacteria that can be seen with the naked eye. They average about 10mm in length but some have been found to be up to 20mm. They're also notable for having a membrane which encapsulates their DNA, a feature originally thought to be exclusive to eukaryotic cells.

 

[The Curmudgeon]

@Penis Drager As an old lolcow once used to say, "Let's go big!"

The largest unicell organisms are bubble algae and xenophyophorea.

 

[Penis Drager]

@Penis Drager As an old lolcow once used to say, "Let's go big!"

The largest unicell organisms are bubble algae and xenophyophorea.

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The thing that makes those things "not so special" is that they are eukaryotes with multiple nuclei floating inside. It's the single celled version of a colony. Slime "molds" can theoretically grow infinitely large in size so long as they can maintain the network of nutrient absorption bodies to feed the organism. But they are eukaryotic so that's no surprise.
All of pic related is a single celled organism in the strictest sense. But there's millions of nuclei floating throughout.


These are not bacteria though. Bacteria are not supposed to be able to get nearly this large. That's what makes Thiomargarita magnifica special.

 

[The Curmudgeon]

The thing that makes those things "not so special" is that they are eukaryotes with multiple nuclei floating inside. It's the single celled version of a colony. Slime "molds" can theoretically grow infinitely large in size so long as they can maintain the network of nutrient absorption bodies to feed the organism. But they are eukaryotic so that's no surprise.
All of pic related is a single celled organism in the strictest sense. But there's millions of nuclei floating throughout.
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These are not bacteria though. Bacteria are not supposed to be able to get nearly this large. That's what makes Thiomargarita magnifica special.

I see. Thank you for sharing that! I read up more on that bacteria. I always wondered what the largest microbe was. Now I know!

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

The dog saliva thing is real. In Spain there is a Saint (commonly known as San Roque) that is portrayed as a man with a cut in his knee and a dog licking it. Story says that his wound healed miraculously after the dog licked it.

Also, originally potatoes were brought from America because the flowers were very pretty and they thought they would make for amazing plants for the houses of the nobility. If you have never seen one, here you go.
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In a similar vein, before Europeans accepted tomatoes as food, they planted them for their beauty.

 

[Glowie Hunter Art Bell]

No joke. Look 'em up.

There's another one of these, where you experience nostalgia for something you never actually experienced. I forget what it's called

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Some of you probably know I'm a non-Mormon Mormon enthusiast.
One thing that's interesting about Mormons is they actually have a fair bit of history outside of their Utah ethnic group. The early Mormons extensively proselytized among the American Indians (one of the most interesting ones being the conversion of the Catawba in South Carolina, who were famous for supporting the Patriots in the American Revolution) for religious reasons (muh Lamanites) and do so today in Latin America for the same reason, and they had hopes of converting Polynesian and Indonesian peoples to try to build a Pacific powerbase.

They largely failed, but to this day there are sixteen nations/overseas territories in which Mormons have a bigger share of population than in the USA. In fact, Tonga is the one and only Mormon-majority nation and is more Mormon than modern Utah! Other sovereign nations with very significant Mormon populations include Samoa and Kiribati.

In summary, what's fun:
1) Like Israel being the only Jewish nation on Earth, Tonga is the only Mormon nation.
2) The infamous blonde haired, blue eyed pioneers on bicycles may be the vast majority of their religion, but their religion holds greater sway in the tropical paradise of Polynesia.

 

[AnOminous]

Thiomargarita magnifica is a bacteria that can be seen with the naked eye. They average about 10mm in length but some have been found to be up to 20mm. They're also notable for having a membrane which encapsulates their DNA, a feature originally thought to be exclusive to eukaryotic cells.
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There are a number of even bigger such things, like the single celled alga Caulerpa taxifolia, a single-celled organism that can reach a foot in length.

 

[Cool Dog]

• Rats cannot throw up.
• Honey does not spoil.
• The billionth digit of Pi is 9.
• The square root of rope is string.
• A gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds
• Dental floss has superb tensile strength.
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
• Hot water freezes quicker than cold water.
• Polymerase I polypeptide A is a human gene.
• The Sun is 330,330 times larger than Earth.
• The moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days.
• A nanosecond lasts one billionth of a second.
• To make a photocopier, simply photocopy a mirror.
• Humans can survive underwater. But not for very long.
• The average adult body contains half a pound of salt.
• Volcano-ologists are experts in the study of volcanoes.
• Cellular phones will not give you cancer. Only hepatitis.
• Avocados have the highest fiber and calories of any fruit.
• The atomic weight of Germanium is seven two point six four.
• China produces the world's second largest crop of soybeans.
• Human tapeworms can grow up to twenty-two point nine meters.
• 89% of magic tricks are not magic. Technically, they are sorcery.
• Iguanas can stay underwater for twenty-eight point seven minutes.
• Every square inch of the human body has 32 million bacteria on it.
• The average life expectancy of a rhinoceros in captivity is 15 years.
• At the end of The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, Konstantin kills himself.
• According to most advanced algorithms, the world's best name is Craig.
• Whales are twice as intelligent, and three times as delicious, as humans.
• At some point in their lives 1 in 6 children will be abducted by the Dutch.
• Tungsten has the highest melting point of any metal, at 3,410 degrees Celsius.
• The first person to prove that cow's milk is drinkable was very, very thirsty.
• Raseph, the Semitic god of war and plague, had a gazelle growing out of his forehead.
• Gently cleaning the tongue twice a day is the most effective way to fight bad breath.
• Avocados have the highest fiber and calories of any fruit. They are found in Australians.
• The Mexican-American War ended in 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
• According to Norse legend, thunder god Thor's chariot was pulled across the sky by two goats.
• The value of Pi is the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter in Euclidean space.
• Edmund Hillary, the first person to climb Mount Everest, did so accidentally while chasing a bird.
• The first commercial airline flight took to the air in 1914. Everyone involved screamed the entire way.
• The plural of surgeon general is surgeons general. The past tense of surgeons general is surgeonsed general.
• Marie Curie invented the theory of radioactivity, the treatment of radioactivity, and dying of radioactivity.
• The occupation of court jester was invented accidentally, when a vassal's epilepsy was mistaken for capering.
• In Greek myth, Prometheus stole fire from the Gods and gave it to humankind. The jewelry he kept for himself.
• Dreams are the subconscious mind's way of reminding people to go to school naked and have their teeth fall out.
• In Greek myth, the craftsman Daedalus invented human flight so a group of Minotaurs would stop teasing him about it.
• Before the Wright Brothers invented the airplane, anyone wanting to fly anywhere was required to eat 200 pounds of helium.
• In 1879, Sandford Fleming first proposed the adoption of worldwide standardized time zones at the Royal Canadian Institute.
• In 1948, at the request of a dying boy, baseball legend Babe Ruth ate seventy-five hot dogs, then died of hot dog poisoning.
• While the submarine is vastly superior to the boat in every way, over 97% of people still use boats for aquatic transportation.
• Roman toothpaste was made with human urine. Urine as an ingredient in toothpaste continued to be used up until the 18th century.
• Before the invention of scrambled eggs in 1912, the typical breakfast was either whole eggs still in the shell or scrambled rocks.
• The Tariff Act of 1789, established to protect domestic manufacture, was the second statute ever enacted by the United States government.
• During the Great Depression, the Tennessee Valley Authority outlawed pet rabbits, forcing many to hot glue-gun long ears onto their pet mice.
• William Shakespeare did not exist. His plays were masterminded in 1589 by Francis Bacon, who used a Ouija board to enslave play-writing ghosts.
• Pants were invented by sailors in the sixteenth century to avoid Poseidon's wrath. It was believed that the sight of naked sailors angered the sea god.
• Diamonds are made when coal is put under intense pressure. Diamonds put under intense pressure become foam pellets, commonly used today as packing material.
• Contrary to popular belief, the Eskimo does not have one hundred different words for snow. They do, however, have two hundred and thirty-four words for fudge.
• Halley's Comet can be viewed orbiting Earth every seventy-six years. For the other seventy-five, it retreats to the heart of the sun, where it hibernates undisturbed.
• It is incorrectly noted that Thomas Edison invented 'push-ups' in 1878. Nikolai Tesla had in fact patented the activity three years earlier, under the name 'Tesla-cize.'
• The automobile brake was not invented until 1895. Before this, someone had to remain in the car at all times, driving in circles until passengers returned from their errands.
• The most poisonous fish in the world is the orange ruffy. Everything but its eyes are made of a deadly poison. The ruffy's eyes are composed of a less harmful, deadly poison.
• In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves. Like everything he did, Lincoln freed the slaves while sleepwalking, and later had no memory of the event.
• The Schrodinger's cat paradox outlines a situation in which a cat in a box must be considered, for all intents and purposes, simultaneously alive and dead. Schrodinger created this paradox as a justification for killing cats.
• In Victorian England, a commoner was not allowed to look directly at the Queen, due to a belief at the time that the poor had the ability to steal thoughts. Science now believes that less than 4% of poor people are able to do this.
• If you have trouble with simple counting, use the following mnemonic device: one comes before two comes before 60 comes after 12 comes before six trillion comes after 504. This will make your earlier counting difficulties seem like no big deal.