Useless Facts

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  1. Alan Aspie

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    But...

    a planet or the planet?
     
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    There are moments during a horse's gallop when its four feet are all off the gound.
     
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    My mistake. I meant Pluto which was demoted to a dwarf planet. So that's how I should have phrased it.
     
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    Even that's still up for debate. Planets are officially defined as: 1) being in orbit around the sun; 2) being round, or nearly round; and 3) being clear of other objects in it's neighbourhood of similar size and characteristics.

    Also no mustache. So I name it King of Planets.
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    I agree. Those reasons proposed for disqualification are very unconvincing. Especially when Pluto has an atmosphere, ice mountains ad plains and even a moon. Mercury seems less of a planet thatn Pluto does. IMHO.

    BTW
    Isn't that claim , which some astronomers consider a fact, useless? It has no practical value in space exploration and doesn't change the nature of Pluto one iota.
     
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    You see those two hairs in Pluto's snout? Mustache?
     
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    I understand she is quoted as having said the 'You could be a murderous tyrant and be remembered as a great leader

    but if you ever fuck a horse, then you are a horse fucker...for all eternity.

    Three factoids.

    In 1994 about the time IIRC, the US taxpayer bailout of Mex. for the 2nd time,
    we could have bought up every peso for about $9-$10 billion and Mexico would
    be on the US$ ever since. Nafta would have been unprofitable and unnecessary.

    The same could be said for Argentina as we type. Here is a country that can't seem
    to break its habit of printing up billion$ of new pesos and every year. No harm no foul I guess,
    except hyperinflation which has the govt. and their banks making 15% or more on the black market
    (more like street market) doing what ? Trading in US$

    In the midst of a crisis in 2001, in which it was feared that the currency board would be abandoned
    and the Argentine peso devalued, a team of economists from the U.S. went to Buenos Aires to
    promote dollarization. The peso would simply disappear, and be replaced with U.S. dollars, on a 1:1 basis.
    This would be a very easy thing to do, since the currency board already held dollar foreign reserves
    equivalent to all the pesos in existence.

    Argentina has US$60.7 billion in reserves and with less than that instead of borrowing
    $50 billion from the IMF, could buy up every peso, be on the dollar and presto...no more hyperinflation.

    They find a natural ally in the IMF, which shares a similar apparent goal of keeping countries in a
    continual state of debt servitude. Everyone is fat and happy...everyone in the top 0.1%, that is.

    Oh and being an old motorhead from Detroit, I was naturally into cars and motors and then of course, speed.

    Human hair grows at 2-10 miles per hour.
     
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    .....and christians and muslims...refused to listen. Even Columbus was still being warned he could fall off the earth.
     
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    As I, a former teenaged boy, learned far too late in life, three hairs does not a mustache make. But if not, then at what point do hairs become a mustache, and if you start with a mustache and pluck one hair at a time, at what point does it cease to be a mustache? Unfortunately we may never know for this is the Sorites Paradox, or the Paradox of the 'Stache.
     
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    Yeah!

    And women have breast because their nipples got angry to staring men and started to stare back!
     
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    A stick has always a minimum of two ends.
     
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    While reading that I wanted to do a möbius stick with zero ends and two sides which have four sides.
     
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    Useless facts are useless.
     
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    Wait, did some posts get deleted or am I going nuts?
     
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    Pumice does not actually float, despite what you're taught in science class. it sinks, just slower than most rocks, and not by much.
     
  21. Alan Aspie

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    No, no, no!

    Useless is very useful. Useless = usefree. You can find it's use.
     
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    I'd use that for a dollar!
     
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    I ate an entire 36 count package of chipotle chicken taquitos today (minus the packaging).
     
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    Plenty of roughage in the packaging. Finish your food! Post processing should appear about the same as pre-
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