Useless Facts

Hitler went through a lot of trouble to obliterate the records, but according to The Hitler Channel (The History Channel anywhere within a month of the anniversary of the D-Day landings) ole Adolph was himself 1/4 Jewish, from a grandmother on his mother's side.

 

Nope. That's not how infinity works. Stand in the middle of a circle of infinite radius. Have your friend stand an infinite distance from you. He is also in the middle of the circle, because it's an infinite distance from him to the edge of the circle, just as it is for you. Everywhere in the circle is infinitely far from the "edge" because the circle is infinitely big. So everywhere in the circle is the center of the circle, if you can even define it that way.

Infinity is weird.

 

Exactly. Everyone is the center of their own little universe.

 

You can apply the same logic to the observable universe. If I stand in one point, then the farthest I can see in all directions is my observable universe, of which I am at the center. If I have a friend do the same, regardless of the distance between us, we will only be able to observe our own portions of the universe, therefore we are both the center of our own observable universes. Adding the observable universe to the infinite universe, and I'm really the center of two universes. Now if I do a pirouette and apply relative motion, they revolve around me as well. And people thought I'd never amount to anything.

 

And it is still possible to count with different size infinities.

Set theory...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity

 

In American movies and tv-shows everybody is shoveling snow with some spoon size shovels. I don't get it.

In Finland we use mainly snoww scoops like this.



If we shovel wee use shovels like this...

https://www.fiskars.fi/tuotteet/puutarhanhoito/lumityokalut/snowxpert-lumilapio-1003468

... or pushers (I don't know the English word for lumentyönnin) like this...

 

apparently 1 day after my birthday last year, the country/kingdom of Swaziland quietly changed its name to "eSwatini"

 

Maybe they are going to e-bussiness in a big way.

Estonia has an e-Recidency. You can found an e-bussiness there if you have an e-Recidence. That became quite popular quite fast. Estonia has 50 000 e-Recidents from 160 different countries.

https://e-resident.gov.ee

https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-identity/e-residency/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Residency_of_Estonia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signature_in_Estonia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Estonia

It is a brilliant idea. Small country can make itself big in e-bussiness via that.

E-Estonia is in the cutting edge of e-state idea. Far ahead of USA, Japan, Finland, Germany, Canada, Britain, Korea, Sweden...

Maybe Swaziland is trying to copy it?

 

That's just great... :/ Who said a standing army is obsolete? We still need debt collectors

 

There are 950 streets in the US named for Dr. Martin Luther King.

 

I curiously looked e-resident up and then why Swaziland changed its name. Apparently, the two are not related... a number of African countries have changed their names over the years as they've gained independence from European rule. "Swaziland" was a name given by the British. Brits used this name but the Swazis called their land something different. Swaziland was one of the few countries that didn't change its name after gaining independence in the 60's. The new name became official last year and it said that "eSwatini" means "Land of the Swazi" so its the native name for Swaziland. Its an effort to separate themselves from the British

 

There is a statistical connection between foetus time sex hormone production of mother and autism.

There is also a statistical connection between foetus time sex hormone production and big time success in sports.

There is also statistical connection between...

Mothers hormonal balance effects how a kid forms and what kind of hormonal system he/she gets.

One of the best known effect is how the outer parts of body grow. Jaw, nose, toes, fingers...

Fingers... You can spot what happened in your own development and growth before you saw daylight by comparing your fingers.

Digit ratio...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digit_ratio

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/11424695/Polite-promiscuous...-gay-What-does-your-ring-finger-say-about-you.html

https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/2d4d-ratio-masculinity/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-athletes-way/201610/the-neuroscience-finger-length-ratio-and-athletic-prowess

https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/82/6/635.full?sid=83b5f70c-b897-4e71-b7c2-b64cbdcd5768

This biological knowledge also means that for instance most studies about gender and sex that are not based to biological and hormonal knowledge of human being are not scientific but political - and should not be dealt as if they had meaningful scientific value. And the same with a lot of research connected to autism, sports, psychology, social psychology...

 

What is Azipod? Is it something new and not well tested? Does it work in ice?

ABB, Rolls Royce, Wärtsilä... They can tell you.

(I have been inside an Azipod unit.)



Azipods and ice...

 

Hmm, seems to me that Paul should be carrying something else, just to indicate his imminent death

 

Bloomberg listed the most innovative countries in the world.

1. South Korea
2. Germany
3. Finland
4. Switzerland
5. Israel

6-200 Who cares?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-22/germany-nearly-catches-korea-as-innovation-champ-u-s-rebounds?utm_content=business&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_medium=social&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business

 

There is some index about how good different countries are.

Finland is the first. Ireland is next.

Then... Who cares...

https://www.goodcountryindex.org/results

 

muskrats are miniature beavers

saw one out on the lake and thought it was a beaver.... I was wrong. beavers are huge !

 

It depends on what you feed them. *wink wink*

 

About the size of the double fingers of that those hump-equipped horse-like animals in the deserts have?

And the empiric research behind this knowledge will be published in...?

50 shades of Tails?