Oddities, curiousities and strangness in history

There must be SO many weird creatures we dont yet know about ! Its amazing what we are discovering, & how many unanswered questions ! Still, nothing can beat THEE most weird creature on the planet..... my ex !!!!

3D pen. This is amazing
http://www.news.com.au/technology/magic-3doodle-pen-brings-drawings-to-life/story-e6frfro0-1226584034651

I can see a medical use for that, good idea, "from little acorns,mighty oaks grow", Talking of acorns, hows yours David H ? any strange deformed or mutilated nuts about ?

azriel wrote: any strange deformed or mutilated nuts about ?

funny you should ask. I have just the tool for that.

Interesting.

WE ARE STAR PEOPLE: Scientific proof we were created by aliens

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/technology/sci-tech/we-are-star-people-scientific-proof-we-were-created-by-aliens/story-fn5fsgyc-1226617200225#ixzz2Q1qn17Ew

lol

I often think we cant surely be the only humanoid thing in the cosmos ?! Still begs the question..Who made the people/aliens ? & who made that ?, & on & on it goes. Much like "the chicken & egg" syndrome.

Ok, I admit it. It was me. I started it all. I was drunk that day. Can we just leave it now?

azriel wrote:I often think we cant surely be the only humanoid thing in the cosmos ?! Still begs the question..Who made the people/aliens ? & who made that ?, & on & on it goes. Much like "the chicken & egg" syndrome.

If space and time are fundamentally the same thing (hence, "spacetime"), then why do we talk about the creation of the universe as if there was a time before it existed? Seems to be a contradiction in terms. Is it even possible that something could have created the universe? Can one speak of causality at all if you are discussing a state in which time itself does not exist? Is it even possible for the universe to have ever not existed?

Have I blown your mind yet?

yes you fricking have !

Are you trying to say that time & space are as one,in perpetual motion, & that everything thats ever happened, happened all at once, in one single second. All there is, is now, theres no yesterday, no tomorrow. Theres only this living breathing second.

This sort of thing is why I drink.

no no no. Space-time is not like that at all.

Imagine 3 dimensions of space, call them length, width and depth if you like. Draw them as 3 axes aligned like the edges of a cube at the corner, so they're all perpendicular. Now imagine a time-line like in a history book. OK?

Now the tricky part. Imagine passing the time line through the intersection (corner) of the other three lines in such a way that it's perpendicular to all of them. I know, it's not intuitive, but it's not that hard with some practice. That's the simple version of classic 4-dimensional space-time, and we live in it every day. It's just that we're always moving at a (mostly) constant speed along the time axis.

There, did that help?

No?

OK then, ask Halfy. He's better at explaining these things.

Mission accomplished.

So its feasible to assume that there could be other life out there ? Are we running parallel ?
(pass me the bottle, Petty, I think Im gonna need it !)

Its a big ball of timey-wimey stuff to quote the Doctor.
Or the WSOGMM (whole sort of general mishmash) accoring the Hitchikers Guide. The good thing about the WSOGMM is you can slice it and dice it from any angle you like and you'll always find somewhere that something will call home.

Yes, but, where's the BOTTLE ?

Im at the bottom of it!