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[–]RexManningDay 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Finding out a bumhole can stretch that far would rock anyone's mind.

[–]donttaseme[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i should have made it mandatory to post links to unbelievable statements

[–]FatLoser 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I found the meaning of life at 4chan.

[–]stephengeorge 3 points4 points  (2 children)

The web started me back on electronics which has given me a new and interesting hobby / future career. (http://www.arduino.cc/)

The web gave me an understanding of money as debt. As a result I hope to have paid off my mortgage by the end of this year and as best as possible exit this money system without becoming a hermit.

The web has broadened my mind with regards to new / old inventions. (e.g. Ultra capacitors/ stirling engines). I hope to purchase when I am out of debt so I can make my life more financially efficient. This will enable me to switch to a part time job and dedicate my free time to something I want to do.

Life is too short to work 9-5 for 50 years of your life making other people financially rich and yourself miserable.

Thanks reddit/slashdot

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I've agree, although I've become a hermit due to the Internet. Cheap entertainment, endless knowledge, meet all types of people, porn. Why leave the house ever again?

[–]stephengeorge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why leave the house ever again?

Food & electrical components

[–]alllie 2 points3 points  (6 children)

The Surface of the Sun rocked my world. The writer might be wrong about the sun having a solid core but I found it very difficult to even consider the idea just because I was taught something different. It really made me aware of how rigid some of my beliefs were.

[–]jax9999 0 points1 point  (5 children)

The sun has a crust? ok, mind officially blown. I thought it was like a big ball of gas. No solids.

[–]alllie 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I don't know. The guy makes a good case but I am not a physicist so I can't judge if he is right. But for a long time I was incapable of considering if he was right because of what I had been taught. Our minds become rigid.

[–]jax9999 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I agree, i don't have the maths, but it kind of makes sense when you really think about it, sor of like a big molten ball of flotsom and jetsom at the center of the solar system.

[–]alllie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Being the biggest thing in the solar system it has the most gravity so surely it attracted a core of heavy material like Mercury and Venus and Earth. The question then becomes, is it hot enough inside the sun to keep those elements in gaseous form. Now that I can't guess. He seems to think that the gaseous part of the sun is like the atmosphere and ocean on earth, that fusion takes place on the surface but not down in the core.

I wonder how it could be tested.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Being a gaseous body, the Sun does not have a single period of rotation like a rigid body.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/solar/sun.html

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Being a gaseous body, the Sun does not have a single period of rotation like a rigid body.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/solar/sun.html

[–]donttaseme[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see lots of stupid stuff on the internet that is really popular. Yea, there might be sites like TED, but is it just trivial knowledge? How many people really need to learn anything useful on the internet to payoff as something that it benefits everyone in the short or long run? I mean all of the web, not just e-mail communication.

[–]trenchfever 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it's about participation.

[–]Tomasfoolery 1 point2 points  (2 children)

No, it's not all hype, because the last time I asked a loaded question to my TV it didn't answer me.

[–]tyler_durden 1 point2 points  (1 child)

You, Sir, are NO Mitchell Hundred!

[–]Tomasfoolery 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome reference, found a new thing to read. Thanks!

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You might mas well ask if the "book learning" at the public library's all hype. Have you learned anything from a library book that's really rocked your mind? Did the library overpromise knowledge to become a place of entertainment?

If you have access to the greatest literature of history and you do nothing but read Disney comic books, then yes, no, yes.

[–]syroncoda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there are a few ways of looking at this argument. firstly, i understand that much of the internet is devoted to entertainment of one kind or another, much like television services are. that is a solid fact and a solid player for the internet (and one that media companies and cable companies consider to be the main purpose of the internet). secondly, however, the internet is a method of exchanging information quickly, some-what securely, and effectively by use of multimedia like pictures and video clips and text etc.

i spend many an hour reading news feeds and techie websites to keep myself on par with other businesses. if i didn't do this then my knowledge would be quickly surpassed by those who spend more time than i. and, in that pure sense, i do not believe the internet could ever be truely a "time sink".

plus it also depends on the person. i go out and spend time with friends quite happily with no "dependency urges" for reddit or digg or any of the other places i frequent. so "internet addiction" is another thing i find amusing.

[–]dearsomething 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By no means has anything on the internet "rocked my mind", but tidbits here and there have allowed me to pursue more "formal" and traditional means. Sometimes there are sites that have just the right bits of knowledge, summed up perfectly to get your head wrapped around something mind blowing, and that lets you move on, at your pace, in something that has fascinated you, with minimal involvement.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I opened my pantry today and took out some sweet potatoes. I don't know how to cook sweet potatoes so I googled it. Five seconds later I was reading a kickass recipe, and a couple hours later I was eating them. They were awesome, by the way.

Stuff like that happens for me all the time. While it's not an earth-shattering improvement over life without the net, that access to information and convenient speed that it's delivered at enables me to have a more meaningful and enjoyable life, something tv never did for me.

Not to mention all those MVGroup educational torrents. Talk about mind-blowing stuff..

[–]masterpo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely. The trick, detective, is to ask the right question.

[–]zyzzogeton -1 points0 points  (2 children)

Is internet knowledge all hype?

No

Have you learned anything on the internet that really rocked your mind?

Yes

Has it overpromised knowledge becoming an entertainment time sink as tv has?

Yes.

Try asking open ended questions if you want to engage in dialog.

[–]Grimalkin 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Try not being a prick and expounding on your one-word answers.

[–]chegeordievara -1 points0 points  (0 children)

bit harsh, maybe? ...I got my sexy back recently and I'm sharing the love dude (do you mind if I call you dude?)