What have you learnt today?

belamyi · Jul 19, 2014

cgymike said:
Euler is not pronounced "Oiler" but "Youler"

HI Yooper

You mean in your stupid Anglodialect.

belamyi · Jul 19, 2014

dpnice · Jul 19, 2014

Nicholas Winton.

Google his story for an example of the type of achievement a real humanitarian can reach; and in totally humility seeing that his story wasn't revealed until 1988.

belamyi · Jul 19, 2014

dpnice said:
Nicholas Winton.

Google his story for an example of the type of achievement a real humanitarian can reach; and in totally humility seeing that his story wasn't revealed until 1988.

Sadly, in a few hours you will have forgotten... and zillions more will never know.

dpnice · Jul 19, 2014

belamo said:
Sadly, in a few hours you will have forgotten... and zillions more will never know.

I am afraid that you are right. It is a shame isn't it. These people shouldn't be forgotten.

belamyi · Jul 19, 2014

dpnice said:
I am afraid that you are right. It is a shame isn't it. These people shouldn't be forgotten.

I don't know whether it is a shame, I only remember what you had told me about your memory...
However, you should consider yourself lucky: if I ever reach your age, alive, I suspect it would rather be in plant state... and as for memory, memory, like intelligence, is always restricted to a relatively very small area of influence: nobody remembers anything of what they themselves lived, let alone are they ever interested in learning anything outside their own daily sphere of action. That is why the world is always run BY very few, but also always WITH the mass... who, at most, may feel perfectly satisfied taking the "with" for the "by".

pat grimshaw · Jul 19, 2014

Who, whom? is a Bolshevist principle or slogan which was formulated by Lenin in the Russian language as кто кого (kto kovo).

In Lenin's view, this was the fundamental question of politics — who will dominate whom; who will kill and who will die? In this view, all compromises and promises between enemies are just expedients — tactical manoeuvres in the struggle for mastery.

JPGhost · Jul 19, 2014

zoltanspawn said:
In case you hadn't seen this already...http://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp

I didn't know that ^^ 16 color cones ???
I watched documentary about mantis shrimp, I knew their punching ability. I guess I missed the color ability- part.
That's freakin amazing!! :=D:

And from my quick research..I found there are special/ forbidden colors with the same hue as a mixture of green/red and blue/yellow which cancel themselves when they entered our eyes..(or they turned into mud color)
http://www.livescience.com/17948-red-green-blue-yellow-stunning-colors.html
^ which Im very positive that mantis shrimp is able to see! ^^
and this is the blackest material in earth- you could get sucked into :mrgreen: