h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I knew the word meniscus, but can't rid myself of the overwhelming feeling that it should be a part of female anatomy rather than something to do with water levels.

B

That must be my subconscious aversion to the phrase
capillary action. Osmosis sounds way cooler.

~jwf~

perhaps, mubeta, you were thinking of a crescent wench?

dang, my joke goes further but *I* am not going there...

We can only directly perceive the past, as it takes a certain amount of time for signals to reach the brain and be processed..and of course with vision and hearing, they are subject to the speed of light and of sound.

I also feel that is an odd one, that we can never percieve the present. The fact that all motion is relative, without any absolute frame of reference, is rather counterintuitive for me.

The Earth spins round once a day. Sure as fk feels like it's stationary.

Evolution for me. Just.... wow. Really? Did we? Did they? Are we? Wow.

That an identicle bread dough can make wildly differnt breads, just based on alterations of cooking conditions, and, even moreso, slight variations in teh amount of water in the dough And, the fact the world, life, all seems so real, yet there isn't any proof to say it is real...

Cream is less dense than milk. You know it's true because cream floats on milk. But it's thick and heavy and gloppy. How can it be less dense?

Je pense donc je suis, c’est la vie, vous ne pensez

That when your in Chicago your literally standing one mile in the air.

Probability again: the Monty Hall problem.

"Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1 [but the door is not opened], and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem

I like the cream one.

The less I eat, the more I put on weight. Seems counterintuitive, unless someone is coming and feeding me while I'm asleep.

There's no need to use a wiki for the Monty Hall problem - we've a great a perfectly decent h2g2 entry - A1138655


Geggs

Whomever discovered fermentation was a good thing took a giant leap as far as I'm concerned.

No vanilla extract, no chocolate, no tea, no beer, no spirits, no vinegar, no sourdough, no yoghurt, no cheese, no antibiotics...is there anything magical we eat or drink that hasn't been through something (natural, yes, but...) disgusting to get here?

I was gonna say water but then I remembered
that fish pee in it.



~jwf~

"Cream is less dense than milk. You know it's true because cream floats on milk. But it's thick and heavy and gloppy. How can it be less dense?"

Mind = blown.

Could it be that the oil content makes it float?