Nothing insane, but the Red Hot Chili Peppers as a band are older than Guns 'N' Roses.
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James Blunt possibly prevented the start of World War 3. (But became best known for the song You're Beautiful. Reality is weird.)
Care to expand on that one? I know he's ex military but haven't heard anything like that before.
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Humans have stripes that are invisible to us. However, cats can see our stripes.
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Your conscious mind does not experience reality directly.
Your conscious mind does not experience reality directly. There is no path going directly from your eyes to your conscious awareness. Rather, the subconscious collects sensory input. It uses that input to create a virtual simulacrum of the world, a big internal 3D model. That internal 3D representation is what you, the conscious part of your mind, actually interacts with and experiences.
You ever wonder how weird it is that people can have intense, debilitating hallucinations? Like schizophrenics seeing and hearing entirely fictional things. Have you ever seen a camera produce anything like that? A flash of light, a distorted image, dead pixels, etc? Sure, those kinds of errors cameras can produce. But a camera will never display a vivid realistic image of a person that wasn't ever actually in their field of view.
Yet the human mind is capable of this. In the right circumstances, the human brain is capable of spawning entire fictional people into your conscious awareness. This shows that there is an elaborate subconscious processing layer between what our conscious mind observes and direct sensory input. Your conscious mind is basically experiencing a tiny little internal version of The Matrix, entirely generated on its own wetware. And this subconscious processing layer is what makes hallucinations possible. The processes that produce this internal simulation can become corrupted, and thus allows hallucinations.
This architecture is also what makes dreaming possible. If your conscious mind only perceived things upon direct sensory feedback from the eyes, ears, etc., how would dreaming be possible?
You are essentially experiencing reality through an elaborate 3d modeling version of an AI video generator.
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The three gorges dam has had an actual effect on the rotation of the earth (slowing it down by 0.06 seconds)
It's actually 0.06 microseconds (0.00000006 seconds) per day, or ~22 ฮผs (0.000021915 s) per year.
Also, technically, anything moving up or down in Earth's gravitational field while physically connected to it is having an effect, however it's usually to small to be reasonably measurable.
(I wonder what would happen if the rotation speed was changed by 0.06 seconds per day - that feels like a lot, adding up to 22 seconds per year, but would anyone except timekeeping nerds actually notice? I don't even know how to begin figuring something like that out.)
California was a state longer than Italy was a nation.
Bees kill invaders in their nest by climbing all over them and shaking their bodies.
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