The "let me blow your mind" thread

[TheCountOfNYC]

Pluto was discovered, classified as a planet, had its planet status taken away, and then reapplied before making a full revolution around the sun.

[Implode]

Is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?

[lonestar]

A daytime shadow means that light traveled 96 million miles only to be stopped five feet before its end journey by your body.

[krands85]

racecar spelled backwards is racecar



 

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

 

[RaiseTheKnife]

The root origin for the word "school" can be traced back to the Greek word for "leisure," because in Ancient Greece it was only natural to spend leisure time in learning.

[black_biff_stadler]

The English invented football (soccer in America) when kicking around the heads of slaughtered Danish invaders.

The sport of dodgeball was invented in the 15th century by opium-addicted Chinamen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYOzUHnPJvU

[JayOctavarium]

The English invented football (soccer in America) when kicking around the heads of slaughtered Danish invaders.

The sport of dodgeball was invented in the 15th century by opium-addicted Chinamen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYOzUHnPJvU

Thank You.

[El Barto]

Pluto was discovered, classified as a planet, had its planet status taken away, and then reapplied before making a full revolution around the sun.

A day on Venus is actually longer than a year on Venus.

[black_biff_stadler]

And, with women being from Venus, I guess there's some correlation between this and why they take so long to get ready.

[ResultsMayVary]

Story checks out.

[KevShmev]

Last post by ResultsMayVary
in Re: The "let me blow you...
on Today at 10:12:34 PM

 

[Sycsa]

Helium was discovered on the sun before it was discovered on earth.

To add some interesting information, quoted from Michio Kaku's Parallel Worlds:

"In 1868, scientists analyzed light from the Sun that was sent through a prism. The deflected sunlight broke up into the usual rainbow of colors and spectral lines, but the scientists also detected faint spectral lines caused by a mysterious element never seen before. They mistakenly thought it was a metal, whose names usually end in “ium,” like lithium and uranium. They named this mystery metal after the Greek word for sun, “helios.” Finally in 1895, helium was found on Earth in uranium deposits, and scientists embarrassingly discovered that it was a gas, not a metal. Thus, helium, first discovered in the Sun, was born as a misnomer."

[black_biff_stadler]

heligen

[hefdaddy42]

A sea cucumber is not actually a cucumber, but is in fact an animal.  And this animal's body is comprised of a single gonad.

[wolfking]

racecar spelled backwards is racecar

[rumborak]

Ok, hopefully this one is religion-free:
The fact that gold is yellow actually comes from relativity. It should just look like silver, but relativistic effects squeeze the electron orbitals, thus shifting color absorption.

[Implode]

Ok, hopefully this one is religion-free:
The fact that gold is yellow actually comes from relativity. It should just look like silver, but relativistic effects squeeze the electron orbitals, thus shifting color absorption.

That's actually really cool. Love stuff like that.

[Stadler]

Both Gene Simmons and Ronnie James Dio have laid claim to "inventing" the use of the "devil horns" in music, but back in February of 1969, an album was released by The Beatles that clearly showed John Lennon flashing the "devil horns", albeit in an illustration by a German artist named Edelman.  That certainly predates Simmons (a self-avowed Beatles fanatic) and though Dio had been recording off and on since 1960 or so, he didn't become a national (or international) name until at least 1972, with Elf's first release. 

[BlobVanDam]

Both Gene Simmons and Ronnie James Dio have laid claim to "inventing" the use of the "devil horns" in music, but back in February of 1969, an album was released by The Beatles that clearly showed John Lennon flashing the "devil horns", albeit in an illustration by a German artist named Edelman.  That certainly predates Simmons (a self-avowed Beatles fanatic) and though Dio had been recording off and on since 1960 or so, he didn't become a national (or international) name until at least 1972, with Elf's first release. 

Neither the Beatles or Dio or Gene Simmons invented it. Dio never claimed to have invented it, he got it from his grandmother, but he was the one to popularize it in the rock/metal culture. A Coven album from 1969 also showed the horns, but like other instances, isn't really relevant, as it wasn't responsible for people doing it today.

[eric42434224]

The 1969 back album cover for Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls on Mercury Records by Chicago-based psychedelic-occult rock band Coven, led by singer Jinx Dawson, pictured Coven band members giving the "sign of the horns" correctly and included a Black Mass poster showing members at a ritual making the sign. Starting in early 1968, Coven concerts always began and ended with Jinx giving the sign on stage.

Crap

Ninja'd

[Chino]

India's space agency put a satellite in orbit around Mars for less than what it cost to make the movie Gravity.

[rumborak]

That's ridiculous!

[Bolsters]

Yeah, holy shit. Only $74 million.

[Sycsa]

Ok, I get why that pathetic and ridiculous religion conversation was removed (although I found it hilariously entertaining), but why remove Rumborak's original post as well (about roe and pregnant women)? An informative and interesting post regarding evolution gets censored, that's really low, DTF.

[eric42434224]

Ok, I get why that pathetic and ridiculous religion conversation was removed, but why remove Rumborak's original post as well (about roe and pregnant women)? An informative and interesting post regarding evolution gets censored, that's really low, DTF.

+1

[BlobVanDam]

I hadn't noticed that. No reason to delete that at all.

[gmillerdrake]

Ok, I get why that pathetic and ridiculous religion conversation was removed (although I found it hilariously entertaining), but why remove Rumborak's original post as well (about roe and pregnant women)? An informative and interesting post regarding evolution gets censored, that's really low, DTF.

Ok, I get why that pathetic and ridiculous religion conversation was removed, but why remove Rumborak's original post as well (about roe and pregnant women)? An informative and interesting post regarding evolution gets censored, that's really low, DTF.

+1

So this is what 'let it go' means? If I'm lucky...someday I'll be as enlightened and as cool as you guys.

[Orbert]

A lot of mind-blowing ideas are based in science, and if anything scientific is going to upset or offend people, I don't think it's out of line to ask for a clarification on where the line is drawn.

[Zook]

Ok, I get why that pathetic and ridiculous religion conversation was removed (although I found it hilariously entertaining), but why remove Rumborak's original post as well (about roe and pregnant women)? An informative and interesting post regarding evolution gets censored, that's really low, DTF.

Ok, I get why that pathetic and ridiculous religion conversation was removed, but why remove Rumborak's original post as well (about roe and pregnant women)? An informative and interesting post regarding evolution gets censored, that's really low, DTF.

+1

So this is what 'let it go' means? If I'm lucky...someday I'll be as enlightened and as cool as you guys.

Why are you bitching? You got your way.

[rumborak]

I had not seen that my post was deleted.

But yeah, I think some clarification is in order. Is modern science at this point deemed offensive in this board?

[eric42434224]

The only thing blowing my mind in this thread is that Rumborak's post gets deleted because of someone's totally imagined attack on their faith.

I am extremely disappointed in the way this is being handled.

[hefdaddy42]

We are open for business.

Come on.  Blow my mind.

[Chino]

There are more cells of bacteria in your body than there are human cells.

[lonestar]

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and The ABC song are the same tune.

[hefdaddy42]

Jesus was still walking the earth approximately 63 billion seconds ago.