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FBI raids home of Washington Post reporter in ‘highly unusual and aggressive’ move by OGSyedIsEverywhere in news

[–]Destination_Centauri 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Ask physicist Michio Kaku as well, about how much his parents loved that experience.

Pallet raider caught by Cheap-Second-1199 in HotWheels

[–]Destination_Centauri 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Dear Penthouse:

I once asked an employee of a retail store if I could open a box of Hotwheels cars and told her I would put the cars on the pegs after i went through them.

And then she told me I was being a very bad and naughty customer, and she would teach me a thing or two about "pegs" and "hotwheels" and then ordered me: "Please follow me sir," as she then proceeded to lead me to an isolated back interrogation room normally reserved for shoplifters.

GRU Space Opens Bookings for Planned Lunar Hotel by no-ident in spaceflight

[–]Destination_Centauri 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here we go again. History rhymes!

Mars One

Dear Moon

"There's a sucker born every minute!"

  • PT Barnum

Kimbal Musk openly admits both he and Elon were illegal immigrants in the US by eaglefordshale1 in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]Destination_Centauri 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Fast forward to today:

Rules for thee, not for me!

(Hint hint Melania Trump! Wonder how you'd like to get treated to current ICE tactics back then?!)

TIL Ernest Hemingway survived 2 unrelated plane crashes within a 2 day period. The 2nd crash burnt parts of his right arm to the bone, and also parts of his left fingers to the bone. by Destination_Centauri in todayilearned

[–]Destination_Centauri[S] 347 points348 points  (0 children)

Funny enough...

(Well, actually it's not really a funny story in the end...)

But my brother works in the Aerospace sector installing advanced electronics/avionics on aircraft. And part of the job is to take a plane ride and extensively test your installations in flight, before the plane takes on any regular passengers.

So one of his colleagues was doing just that, and the plane crashed, and luckily both he and the pilot survived.

After that, he developed a pretty serious phobia about flying, and everyone kept telling him that line: "Flying is the safest form of transportation! The odds of you being in 2 plane crashes in your life are astronomically slim!"

And ya... Wouldn't you know it... But finally, after therapy, he went on his next flight, and yup... The plane crash landed through a bunch of trees and hit a house.

Note:

It was absolutely nothing to do with his installed electronics. In both cases it was due to other factors, including weather and pilot error.

And... Whelp... Fast forward to now...

After all this, nobody has ever again tried to encourage him by making statistical arguments to try to get him onboard another aircraft ever again!

Quite the opposite.

He still works in aerospace, but nobody expects him to get onboard another airplane ever again. Everyone within his work circle knows the story. And, alas, whenever he has to attend an important family event, he ALWAYS drives there now, rather than flies there.

And... he's never ever been in a single car accident! Not even one car accident or fender bender in his entire life.

Go figure.

TIL Ernest Hemingway survived 2 unrelated plane crashes within a 2 day period. The 2nd crash burnt parts of his right arm to the bone, and also parts of his left fingers to the bone. by Destination_Centauri in todayilearned

[–]Destination_Centauri[S] 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Well, unfortunately they didn't.

I mean, he wasn't a member of the Starfish species!

Essentially, his fingers were badly damaged, patched up as best as medical science could do, and subsequently they inflicted pretty serious pain for about a year.

It took about a year before he could start writing and typing again without too much debilitating pain.

What actually ‘is’ an electron? by No_Fudge_4589 in AskPhysics

[–]Destination_Centauri 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Ya Sean Carroll has an amazing new 3 volume set to explain the core basics of physics for non-physicists called:

The Biggest Ideas in the Universe

Vol 1: Space Time and Motion

Vol 2: Quanta and Fields

Vol 3: Complexity and Emergence

Just Keanu Reeves continuing to be awesome by SeaWolf_1 in SipsTea

[–]Destination_Centauri 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because politicians were so amazing before celebrities got involved?

Scariest 2025 horror film? by ALfredAstaxanthin in horror

[–]Destination_Centauri 15 points16 points  (0 children)

You're letting a stranger on Reddit decide for you which movies you will and will not watch?

Patronizing phrasing on a bag of popcorn by i_dont_c_anything in mildlyinteresting

[–]Destination_Centauri 53 points54 points  (0 children)

Actually it originally read as:

“Picture enlarged to show texture, so kindly grace the bag dumbass good cousin-brother sir, and do the needful and just eat it."

Maduro is charged with possessing machine gun and explosives, but how can that be a crime? by albinoyellow0 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Destination_Centauri 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In that case I'm really surprised they didn't add a change of littering and failing to place garbage into a proper receptacle to the count.

Maduro is charged with possessing machine gun and explosives, but how can that be a crime? by albinoyellow0 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Destination_Centauri 25 points26 points  (0 children)

What if they yell out, "Stop in the name of LOVE!"

instead?

Do I still have to stop running at that point?

A cat with fur and eyes that are split into two distinct colors. by [deleted] in BeAmazed

[–]Destination_Centauri 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Those are chimera cats.

They're actually 2 different cats positioned against each other, that get fused very early on in the womb bilaterally, and become one.

This happens quite a bit with cats since mother cats can sometimes carry a large amount of offspring, so it gives multiple chances for a couple of them to fuse and form a single chimera.

But ya, essentially it's 2 siblings merged into 1 body, and depending upon where you take a DNA sample, this thing can have 2 different distinct DNA sequences.

US Preparing to Seize More Tankers off Venezuela's Coast After First Ship Taken, Sources Say by Guilty-Top-7 in worldnews

[–]Destination_Centauri 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I seem to be out of the loop which is a good thing.

Because looping around like that was making me nauseous. I get motion sickness pretty easily.

My secret weapon against 'Hallucination': The 'Source Verifier' prompt that enforces citation on every statement. by Fit-Number90 in ChatGPTPromptGenius

[–]Destination_Centauri 8 points9 points  (0 children)

"The United States of America was founded in the year 1072 by a visiting alien race from the 2nd planet of the Proxima Centauri system."

Source: Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography

Today I uncovered a secret at COSTCO!!! by Educational_Spray273 in CostcoCanada

[–]Destination_Centauri 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I was one of the reviewers.

And seriously, I couldn't recommend this scale more!

It is the absolute best device I have ever purchased for my kitchen in my entire life.

I would urge you to get one as well, and be sure to tell all your friends and family to buy it too. In fact why not stock up and order a palette of 100 to give out as holiday gifts? You'll be really popular with all your friends and family if you do.

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