Useless Facts

Not exactly a fact but a great contribution.

 

I read a short story once that explained why there weren't any time travelers- yet. Time travel requires generation of a field at either end of the jump, so there can be no time travel until someone invents a time machine. Once (s)he does so, the anchor point will be created, and their living room will be crowded with time machines from all eras, coming to see the inventor of the time machine....

Another semi-related short said that the Big Bang was caused by the collective mass of all the time machines, from all the galaxies in the universe, from all of time, going back to see what caused the Big Bang....

 

I wonder how many of us are going to test some of these random facts for ourselves? I'm really having to resist digging out that vintage strand of Grandma's... (Not really. I'm sure someone on YouTube has already done it.)

The real question is, how do people discover these things?A pearl-wearing chef in a kitchen splashes while making the vinaigrette? Too much mignonette on the raw oysters and there happened to be a pearl inside?

(edited because it helps to spell the word 'pearl' properly)

 

Some people will do things because they can. It's the scientific equivalent of, "Hold my beer and watch this."

 

Right now, at this very moment, I am scratching my knee.

 

I'm pretty sure this is exactly how science was invented, but without YouTube, they had to write all of the results down so they could laugh about it later.

 

Unfortunately there's also the sad reality that some advancements have come about because of what some people were willing to do to other people, just because they could.

 

@Iain Aschendale That is not right, you and I both know that "pears are composed of calcium carbonate" was a simple typo, you and I both know that he was not actually trying to say "pears," and you and I both know what he was actually trying to say, so instead of grammar-nazi nitpicking, how about we stay on the actual topic?

 

Wait, are you saying bears are composed of calcium carbonate instead of pears?

 

This is false. Tried spraying a grizzly with vinegar once, lost my arm because of it.

 

Did you ask the grizzly nicely for a replacement? After all, everyone has the right to bear arms.

 

Yes, he was kind enough to give me one, which was good I guess

 

Figures that a bunch of so-called writers would know nothing about chemistry, he clearly meant "Bears are confined in calcium carbonite".



Calcium carbonate wouldn't hold a bear, or even a beaver, as their urine is highly acidic. Heck, did you know that even simple vinegar can dissolve pearls?

 

While on the topic of extreme waitloss (just keeping up with the pun game).

Wasn't there like a fad in which people used to get tape worms or some other
parasite to keep from getting fat?

 

Challenge me again, I dare you

Wait, is that seriously a thing?

Cool!!!

 

Is that... is that Stephen Fry? The on on the left, not the one in the middle, obviously.

 

Sounds like a great fad, we should bring it back

 

I have no idea who or what the heck that is, I just got inspired to type "bear in carbonite" into google and see what came up. Must have seen it before, but I don't remember where, why, or when.

 

Looks like I'm down the rabbit hole of procrastination again.

ETA: Found it.

 

I haven't researched it to know if it's true or not, but in vintage circles swallowing tape worms is occasionally mentioned as one of the ways fashionable women stayed slim in the 20's before the Great Depression. After the Depression, the mentions stop.