Black Hole Eating a Star 6 comments
jimcrichton
· 8 years ago
*artists depiction
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You're wisest when your high. 2 comments
Overly honest scientific methods 4 comments
Who would host? 5 comments
Norwegian man saves a duck 14 comments
Keeping hyperactive kids busy 11 comments
Living with a cat is not easy 4 comments
Facts that sound like bullshit 21 comments
jimcrichton
· 8 years ago
I ran the calculations for number 8 and got 28.15 billion miles. (Assuming that the water is absolutely pure and its temperature is 4 C.)
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Edited 8 years ago
d*ck 3 comments
jimcrichton
· 8 years ago
Salt doesn't make snail skin dissolve either, it dehydrates them by osmosis.
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The best use of a floppy disk 4 comments
jimcrichton
· 8 years ago
"didn't realize" ... I came to the comments expecting this and was not disappointed
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Any of you have a similar story? Did it work out? 11 comments
jimcrichton
· 8 years ago
Take heart friends! My story is indeed similar, I waited 10 years as a friend, now I have the best wife ever!
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DC keeps struggling to make good movies 41 comments
Article was published around September 2013 14 comments
Impressive carving 1 comments
jimcrichton
· 8 years ago
That is indeed very cool. But you can see where separate pieces were glued together.
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Article was published around September 2013 14 comments
jimcrichton
· 8 years ago
Furthermore, it is impossible to say how any mind other than your own actually perceives anything (philosophically speaking).
Article was published around September 2013 14 comments
jimcrichton
· 8 years ago
I can't find the original peer-reviewed study, but I found a secondary source.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/small-animals-live-in-a-slow-motion-world/
They seem to be making a leap of logic in saying that small animals percieve things in slow-mo. Just because they can percieve events with a higher time-resolution doesn't necessarily mean that they percieve them more slowly, it only means that they process the information faster. Which makes sense since they aren't doing a whole lot of processing with their tiny tiny brains.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/small-animals-live-in-a-slow-motion-world/
They seem to be making a leap of logic in saying that small animals percieve things in slow-mo. Just because they can percieve events with a higher time-resolution doesn't necessarily mean that they percieve them more slowly, it only means that they process the information faster. Which makes sense since they aren't doing a whole lot of processing with their tiny tiny brains.
Article was published around September 2013 14 comments
Regular versus decaf 5 comments
jimcrichton
· 8 years ago
Yes, you moisten the still green beans as a first step, but the most recent process absolutely does use supercritical CO2, it is more environmentally friendly and leaves more of the flavor intact.
"The third approach, supercritical carbon dioxide decaffeination, is very similar to the direct solvent methods, except that in this case the solvent is carbon dioxide. High-pressure vessels (operating at roughly 250 to 300 times atmospheric pressure) are employed to circulate the carbon dioxide through a bed of premoistened, green coffee beans. At such pressures, carbon dioxide takes on unique, 'supercritical' properties that enhance its usefulness as a solvent."
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-is-caffeine-removed-t/
"Most recently, food scientists have turned to supercritical carbon dioxide as a means of decaffeination. Developed by Kurt Zosel, a scientist of the Max Planck Institute, it uses liquid CO2 to extract caffeine"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decaffeination
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"The third approach, supercritical carbon dioxide decaffeination, is very similar to the direct solvent methods, except that in this case the solvent is carbon dioxide. High-pressure vessels (operating at roughly 250 to 300 times atmospheric pressure) are employed to circulate the carbon dioxide through a bed of premoistened, green coffee beans. At such pressures, carbon dioxide takes on unique, 'supercritical' properties that enhance its usefulness as a solvent."
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-is-caffeine-removed-t/
"Most recently, food scientists have turned to supercritical carbon dioxide as a means of decaffeination. Developed by Kurt Zosel, a scientist of the Max Planck Institute, it uses liquid CO2 to extract caffeine"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decaffeination
Regular versus decaf 5 comments
jimcrichton
· 8 years ago
Decaf coffee is made from normal coffee by extracting the caffeine from it using supercritical carbon dioxide. In case anyone was actually curious.
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Watching movies more comfortably 20 comments