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Grady "Lobster Boy" Stiles was a freakshow performer with ectrodactyly, where fingers and toes are fused together.
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Looks cute?
Well, he married twice and had four children, two of them with the same condition. After he shot his daughter's fiance on her wedding day, he told the courts "so what" and got a house arrest and a 15 year probation due to his disability.
His second wife and one of the sons hired yet another goddamn carnival performer for 1500 bucks to perforate Grady when they had enough of his retard strength alcoholic tantrums. All three of them got at least double-digit prison time.
 
Meat Target said:
Kathleen Turner has autographed more pictures of Jessica Rabbit than of herself.
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How many of them have cum stains on them?


It is possible to sail in space like on the sea.

This may not be new to you, I only learned about it fairly recently. How does a rocket work? It burns propellant to chuck mass out it's back, pushes it forward. If it's not inside of an atmosphere it doesn't have any air or water to slow it down, either, so every time it burns its velocity will change and stay at that velocity. No constant burning of fuel to maintain a speed like a vehicle has on Earth. How does sailing work? Wind pushes the sail at that pushes the ship.

Sailing in space catches light or solar wind from the Sun. Because that's a very tiny amount of "stuff" pushing it (compared to a stiff breeze on the ocean), it translates into very little change in velocity. But remember, there's no wind/water resistance, so it doesn't reach an equilibrium. Instead that just builds, and builds, and builds constantly. Constant acceleration without limit. Eventually the solar sail can reach incredible speeds that you could never practically achieve with propellant.

Solar sailing is expected to be a major form of propulsion in the future for that reason. It would be very slow at speeding up, but for a long distance trip, or a regular one where you don't want to be burning a lot of fuel, can be worth it. Our fastest craft goes 430,000 mph, they believe solar sails could achieve a maximum of 67,100,000 mph.
 
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Solar sailing is expected to be a major form of propulsion in the future for that reason. It would be very slow at speeding up, but for a long distance trip, or a regular one where you don't want to be burning a lot of fuel, can be worth it. Our fastest craft goes 430,000 mph, they believe solar sails could achieve a maximum of 67,100,000 mph.
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Plus you get that nifty relativistic time dilation.

Then there are concepts like the Bussard ramjet, which uses an enormous magnetic field to capture the sparse interstellar hydrogen, fuses the nuclei into helium, and uses that as a source of propulsion. This couldn't accelerate you against a solar wind, but it could be used to decelerate on arrival.

Unfortunately, while this is conceivable, it's nothing remotely within current capabilities and vastly unlikely to be practical even within a couple centuries.

This was first featured in science fiction by Poul Anderson but mostly known for use in Larry Niven's Known Space works.

One reason it is impractical (and effectively impossible right now) is that interstellar hydrogen is much less common than previously thought.
 
The word fistula means "pipe". The aulos, the paired pipes of Greek antiquity, was often referred to in Roman texts as fistula. Fistula was also the earliest name given, by Johannes Tinctoris, to the progenitor of the recorder, which so many children today are made to learn.
 
"Threshold" has had the same literal and figurative meanings for millennia, attested by Old English þrescold (or þærscwold or þerxold) but its origin is uncertain as it was greatly affected by folk etymology. The first part is related to "thresh" and "thrash" (with the older meanings "tread, trample") but the second part has changed in all Germanic languages, hinting that its literal meaning was lost even in ancient times. See Old Norse "þreskjoldr," Swedish "tröskel," Old High German "driscufli," German dialect "drischaufel," and so on. In English it was likely made to match "hold." An old theory holds (hah) that the second part is the Proto-Germanic instrumental suffix *-thlo thus the first meaning of "threshold" was a threshing area near the living area of a house.
 
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Respawn's "Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond" was notable for being the first game in the eponymous series to have been released in eight years - as well as the first to return to its traditional World War II setting - when it came out in 2020. The game didn't make quite as big of a splash as its predecessors, but one interesting feature that some have observed is that it can be arguably considered to be the very first video game in history to actually be called an "Oscar winner."

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The game features a Gallery mode which includes several bonus features and video interviews, including several interviews of civilians and military veterans who were in Europe in World War II. One of the videos that was included with the bonus features was "Colette," a short documentary film about the wartime experiences of French Resistance fighter Colette Marin-Catherine. The documentary was critically-acclaimed and received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject at the 93rd Academy Awards. As such, "Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond" can be called - and by some already has been - the first video game to win an Oscar.
 
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The Sun reverses its magnetic field every 11 years, corresponding what is known as the Sunspot Cycle.
 
Nick Obre said:
Stands to reason, since women are what make the penis go hard.

Women are the penis bone.
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Another fun fact is that a Rabbi postulated this and made a lot of people big mad. Mainly because he said that word translated for rib could literally mean any long skinny bone rather than rib.
 
HodgePodgeRogerDodger said:
Another fun fact is that a Rabbi postulated this and made a lot of people big mad. Mainly because he said that word translated for rib could literally mean any long skinny bone rather than rib.
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Funny thing, hearing that rib passage, I always thought "so what, do men have fewer ribs than women, and that's the explanation they came up with for it?", but no, men don't have fewer ribs, it's completely baseless, etc.
But if that idea emerged as a way to explain why human men don't have a dickbone, that'd make perfect sense.

Congratulations Rabbi Cockribstein, I'm in your team on this matter.
 
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