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Xyzzy · 2012-09-03, 22:36

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Have you run the experiment with a chocolate dollar?

There are several problems with that idea:

We would eat the chocolate dollar rather than toss it in the urinal.
We have virtually no access to urinals anymore, and urinals in civilian places have mini-walls between them.
We have no need to "test" total strangers.
We think a chocolate dollar would float, but we are not willing to test that.

In other weird news: We throw pennies away. They are more trouble than they are worth. It is always fun to see cashier's faces when we do so.

So much for "a penny saved is a penny earned", eh?

Uncwilly · 2012-09-03, 23:11

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Originally Posted by Xyzzy

Most people will for several quarters.

I have heard of fellas at the sewerage plant watching for notes/currency on the screens while eating their lunch.

xilman · 2012-09-04, 06:42

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Originally Posted by Xyzzy

Back a long time ago, when we were in the Army, we used to chuck coins into urinals.

A standard graffito in British pubs is an addition to the notice "Please do not throw cigarette ends in the urinals". It reads "They get wet and are very hard to light".

only_human · 2012-09-13, 18:47

Hercules misspent millions, audits find

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'A mess of things'
He said city leaders are working to undo the damage caused by others before them.

"The previous administration made a mess of things in the financial and real estate world of Hercules," he said. Duran said that financial controls and proper accounting practices have been implemented and that new leadership took over in time to save Hercules from bankruptcy.

"We're stable, but we're still in intensive care," he said.

Lest one briefly consider that new management of the Augean stables has a big mess to clean up, Hercules is merely the locale of yet another California city's tale of wastrel woe.

ewmayer · 2012-09-14, 02:45

First 1,000 digits of pi written in the sky over San Francisco (Wired UK)

The misleading headline was not in the above Wired article, but in a local n00z station's description of the event as "...sky writing of all the digits of Pi..."

Dubslow · 2012-09-17, 20:09

Get out the sleds: Spacecraft detects snow falling on Mars!

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But this is a 'dry ice' variety

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A spacecraft orbiting Mars has detected carbon dioxide snow falling on the Red Planet, making Mars the only body in the solar system known to host this weird weather phenomenon.
The snow on Mars fell from clouds around the planet's south pole during the Martian winter spanning 2006 and 2007, with scientists discovering it only after sifting through observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The Martian south pole hosts a frozen carbon dioxide — or "dry ice" — cap year-round, and the new discovery may help explain how it formed and persists, researchers said.

Dubslow · 2012-09-23, 18:39

Study: Marijuana prevents spread of cancer

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Two scientists at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco have found that cannabidiol (CBD), a non-toxic marijuana compound that delivers many of weed’s benefits without the high, might stop metastasis in aggressive cancer, “potentially altering the fatality of the disease forever.”

jasong · 2012-09-24, 01:42

lol, only the potheads would hate that news.

"In the news today, they legalized marijuana," Yaaaaay, go the potheads,"but only a non-addictive version intended to be a treatment for cancer." Nooooooo, go the potheads.

LaurV · 2012-09-24, 07:13

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Study: Marijuana prevents spread of cancer

Nothing new under the sun. Google for a guy called Rick Simpson, and his "run from the cure" story. It is worth to see. I think he is Canadian too, and the movies are quite old. The conspiracy theorist inside of me tells me that curing some diseases is possible and easy with the knowledge the pharmaceutical companies have today, but curing them is not so profitable as maintaining them. They make billions selling cancer medicine. Why eradicate it? Living in Johnny Mnemonic's world...

[edit, summary for who is not interested to search, the guy claim he could cure some type of cancers using cannabis, and he seems to know what he is talking about, (with some occasional reservations). Of course, he had a lot of trouble with governments and pharmaceutic companies due to his "cure".]

Flatlander · 2012-10-10, 23:35

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fivemack · 2012-10-11, 09:32

I'm not quite sure what your point is here; 'intercept' is the perfectly standard word for sending fighters up to interact with another aircraft. The Turks forced it to land at Ankara, removed some Unspecified Objects that Moscow deny were ever loaded on the plane, then let it leave.

It is always possible that there was a communications intercept which suggested that this plane might be more laden with Unspecified Objects than others.

2012-10-10, 23:35	#21
Flatlander I quite division it "Chris" Feb 2005 England 31·67 Posts	! Attached Thumbnails Last fiddled with by ewmayer on 2012-10-11 at 00:28 Reason: "In the name of Allah the merciful, I intercept you, Syrian plane, to avenge my relatives who are slaughtered each November by the American infidels who supported the Assad regime!"

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