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Showing posts with label Explain of week.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Explain of week.. Show all posts
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Saturday, August 24, 2013
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
If you were to ask someone whether winning an Academy Award or a Golden Globe is more of an honor, an overwhelming majority of people would tell you the Academy Award is better. If you were to ask them whether winning that Academy Award is a greater honor than winning a Super Bowl ring, however, you would likely get some confusion and ultimately, an answer based more on the person’s individual preference as opposed to a logical analysis.
That’s why figuring out what the greatest honor a human being can possibly achieve is an impossible task. Luckily for YouTube viewers, however, Michael from V Sauce has never been unwilling to try and answer something damn near unanswerable. This week, his newest video asks what that aforementioned premiere honor is, and much to Tracy Jordan’s delight, Micahel does touch on the famed EGOT.
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Saturday, July 6, 2013
At the start of the scenario, the entire Earth’s population has been magically transported together into one place.
This crowd takes up an area the size of Rhode Island. But there’s no
reason to use the vague phrase “an area the size of Rhode Island”. This
is our scenario; we can be specific. They’re actually in Rhode Island.
At the stroke of noon, everyone jumps.
As discussed elsewhere, it doesn’t really affect the planet. Earth
outweighs us by a factor of over ten trillion. On average, we humans can
vertically jump maybe half a meter on a good day. Even if the Earth
were rigid and responded instantly, it would be pushed down by less than
an atom’s width.
Next, everyone falls back to the ground.
Technically, this delivers a lot of energy into the Earth, but it’s
spread out over a large enough area that it doesn’t do much more than
leave footprints in a lot of gardens. A slight pulse of pressure spreads
through the North American continental crust and dissipates with little
effect. The sound of all those feet hitting the ground creates a loud,
drawn-out roar which lasts many seconds.
Eventually, the air grows quiet.
Seconds pass. Everyone looks around.
There are a lot of uncomfortable glances. Someone coughs.
A cell phone comes out of a pocket. Within seconds, the rest of the
world’s five billion phones follow. All of them—even those compatible
with the region’s towers—are displaying some version of “NO SIGNAL”. The
cell networks have all collapsed under the unprecedented load.
Outside Rhode Island, abandoned machinery begins grinding to a halt.
The T. F. Green airport in Warwick, Rhode Island handles a few thousand passengers a day. Assuming they got things organized (including sending out scouting missions to retrieve fuel), they could run at 500% capacity for years without making a dent in the crowd.
The addition of all the nearby airports doesn’t change the equation
much. Nor does the region’s light rail system. Crowds climb on board
container ships in the deepwater port of Providence, but stocking
sufficient food and water for a long sea voyage proves a challenge.
Rhode Island’s half-million cars are commandeered. Moments later, I-95, I-195, and I-295 become the sites of the largest traffic jam in the history of the planet. Most of the cars are engulfed by the crowds, but a lucky few get out and begin wandering the abandoned road network.
Some make it past New York or Boston before running out of fuel. Since the electricity is probably not on at this point, rather than find a working gas pump, it’s easier to just abandon the car and steal the new one. Who can stop you? All the cops are in Rhode Island.
The edge of the crowd spreads outward into southern Massachusetts and Connecticut. Any two people who meet are unlikely to have a language in common, and almost nobody knows the area. The state becomes a patchwork chaos of coalescing and collapsing social hierarchies. Violence is common. Everybody is hungry and thirsty. Grocery stores are emptied. Fresh water is hard to come by and there’s no efficient system for distributing it.
Within weeks, Rhode Island is a graveyard of billions.
The survivors spread out across the face of the world and struggle to build a new civilization atop the pristine ruins of the old. Our species staggers on, but our population has been greatly reduced. Earth’s orbit is completely unaffected—it spins along exactly as it did before our species-wide jump.
But at least now we know.
Article
This crowd takes up an area the size of Rhode Island. But there’s no
reason to use the vague phrase “an area the size of Rhode Island”. This
is our scenario; we can be specific. They’re actually in Rhode Island.
At the stroke of noon, everyone jumps.
As discussed elsewhere, it doesn’t really affect the planet. Earth
outweighs us by a factor of over ten trillion. On average, we humans can
vertically jump maybe half a meter on a good day. Even if the Earth
were rigid and responded instantly, it would be pushed down by less than
an atom’s width.Next, everyone falls back to the ground.
Technically, this delivers a lot of energy into the Earth, but it’s
spread out over a large enough area that it doesn’t do much more than
leave footprints in a lot of gardens. A slight pulse of pressure spreads
through the North American continental crust and dissipates with little
effect. The sound of all those feet hitting the ground creates a loud,
drawn-out roar which lasts many seconds.Eventually, the air grows quiet.
Seconds pass. Everyone looks around.
There are a lot of uncomfortable glances. Someone coughs.
A cell phone comes out of a pocket. Within seconds, the rest of the
world’s five billion phones follow. All of them—even those compatible
with the region’s towers—are displaying some version of “NO SIGNAL”. The
cell networks have all collapsed under the unprecedented load.Outside Rhode Island, abandoned machinery begins grinding to a halt.
The T. F. Green airport in Warwick, Rhode Island handles a few thousand passengers a day. Assuming they got things organized (including sending out scouting missions to retrieve fuel), they could run at 500% capacity for years without making a dent in the crowd.
The addition of all the nearby airports doesn’t change the equation
much. Nor does the region’s light rail system. Crowds climb on board
container ships in the deepwater port of Providence, but stocking
sufficient food and water for a long sea voyage proves a challenge.Rhode Island’s half-million cars are commandeered. Moments later, I-95, I-195, and I-295 become the sites of the largest traffic jam in the history of the planet. Most of the cars are engulfed by the crowds, but a lucky few get out and begin wandering the abandoned road network.
Some make it past New York or Boston before running out of fuel. Since the electricity is probably not on at this point, rather than find a working gas pump, it’s easier to just abandon the car and steal the new one. Who can stop you? All the cops are in Rhode Island.
The edge of the crowd spreads outward into southern Massachusetts and Connecticut. Any two people who meet are unlikely to have a language in common, and almost nobody knows the area. The state becomes a patchwork chaos of coalescing and collapsing social hierarchies. Violence is common. Everybody is hungry and thirsty. Grocery stores are emptied. Fresh water is hard to come by and there’s no efficient system for distributing it.
Within weeks, Rhode Island is a graveyard of billions.
The survivors spread out across the face of the world and struggle to build a new civilization atop the pristine ruins of the old. Our species staggers on, but our population has been greatly reduced. Earth’s orbit is completely unaffected—it spins along exactly as it did before our species-wide jump.
But at least now we know.
Article
Saturday, June 29, 2013
The term nostalgia describes a sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.The word is a learned formation of a Greek compound, consisting of νόστος (nóstos), meaning "homecoming", a Homeric word, and ἄλγος (álgos), meaning "pain, ache", and was coined by a 17th-century medical student to describe the anxieties displayed by Swiss mercenaries fighting away from home. Described as a medical condition—a form of melancholy—in the Early Modern period, it became an important trope in Romanticism
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Saturday, June 15, 2013
Saturday, June 8, 2013
What Can You Do Without a Brain?
well the brain is connected to the brainstem which controls about everything in your body including your heart it makes it pump blood and oxcygen but if your blood doesn't get oxcygen you will die or probably get really sick so i would say NO!!! actually you can live without a brain, infact there is a baby who only has a brain stem and is living up to 2 years old, although he cant hear see smell or do anything hes basically a vegtibale type on youtube Nicholas Coke... this is the younge baby who has lived for 2 years with only a brain stem.
Watch the full video....
well the brain is connected to the brainstem which controls about everything in your body including your heart it makes it pump blood and oxcygen but if your blood doesn't get oxcygen you will die or probably get really sick so i would say NO!!! actually you can live without a brain, infact there is a baby who only has a brain stem and is living up to 2 years old, although he cant hear see smell or do anything hes basically a vegtibale type on youtube Nicholas Coke... this is the younge baby who has lived for 2 years with only a brain stem.
Watch the full video....
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Why do you kiss? Because it makes you feel good down there? Because it'll hopefully lead to something that'll make you feel great down there? Probably. But what about the science behind why we kiss?
The scientific effect of kissing has been revealed to burn 2-3 calories per minute and reduce bad cholesterol and stress. But it's not like we knew that when we first swapped saliva! What we did know was that to feed babies more than just breast milk, mothers had to chew up the food to process it for their wee ones. Mouthfeeding. Watch the entire video to explore every nook about kissing.
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