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Positron said:
is caused by electrons in a medium travelling faster than the speed of light in that medium
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akshwualy, nothing can travel faster than the speed of light (other than quantum entanglement data). cherenkov radiation compensates for the energy of a particle as it crosses into a medium where the speed of light is different.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
neon green got associated with radiation because uranium glass fluorescence and radium glow-in-the-dark paint
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Uranium glass after the Manhattan Project sucks. It's almost all depleted shit. To get the stuff with U-235 you need to go back to the 20s or so. Old uranium glass rules, still pumps out lots of gamma.
 
AnOminous said:
Every pepper in existence: let's get so hot none of those dumb mammals will dare to eat us!

Dumb mammals: yummy!
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And then, ironically, humans decide to cultivate these peppers because of their spiciness, causing them to be a thousand times more prolific than if they lacked spice. Their defence mechanism was such a failure that they underflowed back into absolute success.

It's the pinnacle of "task failed successfully".
 
Megaton Punch said:
And then, ironically, humans decide to cultivate these peppers because of their spiciness, causing them to be a thousand times more prolific than if they lacked spice. Their defence mechanism was such a failure that they underflowed back into absolute success.

It's the pinnacle of "task failed successfully".
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This is the funniest thing about humans, there are literally critters still alive only because their evolutionary technique to discourage us from eating them actually made them a delicacy to us. "Oh, you developed a horrific neurotoxin to discourage us from eating you? DELICIOUS!" In comes fugu.
 
Different species of rodent have different preferences if you need to bait traps (live or otherwise):

Mice: Nutella
Rats: Peanut Butter, chunky preferred
Rabbits: Carrots, optionally spritzed with apple cider vinegar
Nutria and Capybaras: Apples
Voles: Oatmeal, ideally mixed with peanut butter
 
Acclaimed directors who have never won an Academy Award for Best Director:
  • Alfred Hitchcock
  • Stanley Kubrick
  • Akira Miyazaki
  • Sergio Leone
  • Quentin Tarantino
  • Ridley Scott
  • Orson Welles
  • Christopher Nolan
  • Spike Lee
 
Meat Target said:
Acclaimed directors who have never won an Academy Award for Best Director:
  • Akira Miyazaki
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Did you mean Akira Kurosawa (who did win Academy Awards, just not for Best Director), or Hayao Miyazaki (good luck getting that award for an animated movie, and a foreign one at that)?
Akira Miyazaki was a movie writer, but not a director, much less an internationally acclaimed one.
 
Great-grandfather of Linus Torvalds, Toivo Karanko, was a notorious Nordic Nazi who translated Luther's "On the Jews And Their Lies" into Finnish and was editor-in-chief of Finnish "Der Sturmer". He even sported Hitler moustache.

Of course, you don't pick who you're related to, but I think it's a fun fact, considering how troon-ified the linux scene is.
 
Nick Obre said:
Did you mean Akira Kurosawa (who did win Academy Awards, just not for Best Director), or Hayao Miyazaki (good luck getting that award for an animated movie, and a foreign one at that)?
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Kurosawa would make more sense as he's indisputably one of the best directors of all time. It was also an impressive feat for Miyazaki to win even Best Animated with a non-English-language film, even though the best Japanese animated film should, in a just reality, beat out the latest Disney goyslop every single year.
 
AnOminous said:
, even though the best Japanese animated film should, in a just reality, beat out the latest Disney goyslop every single year
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Kinda crazy how Spirited Away broke the record for the most expensive animated film ever made in Japan (previously it was Akira) but it was about the same budget as Sausage Party, around 19 million usd.

Pixar spent 100 million usd last year on marketing alone.
 
Nick Obre said:
Did you mean Akira Kurosawa (who did win Academy Awards, just not for Best Director), or Hayao Miyazaki (good luck getting that award for an animated movie, and a foreign one at that)?
Akira Miyazaki was a movie writer, but not a director, much less an internationally acclaimed one.
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I knew of a few like Kubrick and Scott, and looked up some more. I may have meant Kurosawa. I also knew of a director named Miyazaki who isn't the Dark Souls guy, and must have gotten them mixed up.

Mea maxima culpa.
 
Stephen King published The Shining 51 days after The Eagles released "Hotel California".
 
Wot Zit Too Yah0996 said:
Ernest Hemingway's mum dressed him up like a sissy, for lack of better terminology, when he was a boy. It was a huge factor in why he became infamous for his manly man image. His dad, a respected doctor, also "went nuts" and shot himself. The reason why I put '"went nuts'" in quotations, is because it's most likely that they both suffered from an hereditary blood disease that eventually affected (effected? I never remember the difference. A bit like with patronising and condescending) their minds.
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Not sure if this one has been posted before, but when Hemingway shot himself, he purposefully did it at the bottom of the steps, so his wife had to climb over his dead body to reach the only phone in the house, which was in the upstairs bedroom
 
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