Blue Swirl wrote:GooberTheHat wrote:Apparently the country of Germany was formed in 1949.
The Colt company and the platoon are definitely off, but Germany is arguable. The division into East and West was formalised in ‘49. Officially, the East ceased to exist in 1990 and was incorporated into the West. While a “Germany” has been around for a fair while, you could claim the current ‘version’ is from 1949.
Blue Swirl wrote:Godel's loophole is a flaw in the US constitution that would allow the nation to easily and legally become a dictatorship. Godel was a mathematician who hung out with Einstein and discovered the problem when studying for his citizenship test. However, a bit like a certain Fermat esq., he neglected to tell anyone what he'd found, and the "loophole" is debated to this day.
davyK wrote:Isn't he the guy who also said maths was busted and couldn't be applied to all computable problems?
I like him.
HP Lovecraft wrote:“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”
davyK wrote:Old Lovecraft must have had an influence on Douglas Adams. His Total Perspective Vortex is pretty much a match with that quote.
It gets so mind boggling i do think it's easier sometimes to think they're just making it all up. you can see the appeal there of just thinking flat earth, god-made, we are the universe everything else is just decoration.Blue Swirl wrote:12 billion lightyears away, there is a "reservoir" containing 140 trillion Earth's oceans' worth of water, surrounding a blackhole 20 billion times more massive than the sun.HP Lovecraft wrote:“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”
poprock wrote:Oh yeah. Have you watched Lovecraft Country? It digs deep into his racism.
Blue Swirl wrote:Nope. Where can one partake?
Blue Swirl wrote:In other news, Chinese censors have given Fight Club a new happy clappy ending with a few lines of text.
poprock wrote:I do wonder why we still need them in the days of ubiquitous GPS. But maybe they’re our analogue backup system.
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