Facts debate.

[EHKOS]

When you have sex you burn (don't call me on this) about 50 calories

Yaaaaaay! Goodbye 150 calories!

 

[GundamSentinel]

- The Earth actually has 6 moons, but only one is visible to the naked eye.
- A caterpillar has 3 times as many muscles as a human.
- When you think about lifting weights you actually become stronger.

Useless facts FTW.

 

[BelfastSpartan]

August has the most birthdays (I myself was born in August). February has the least.

My take on this (no way based on any studies and is purely my own opinion but makes sense) is that August is 9months from December aka winter so more people stay inside and "keep warm" with it getting darker earlier and colder!

whereas February is 9 months from June aka Summer so people spend more time outside keeping cool!

 

[Malyc]

- The longest time any one person can stay concentrated on a target (Eg. sniper's scope) is about 15 minuets. This is why snipers work in pairs and take turns spotting and shooting.

The "That's the reason why sniper's work in pairs" is not true. One guy always uses the rifle and one guy always uses the spotting scope (or whatever instrument he has.) The spotter's purpose is to provide range and windage data for the sniper and (if it comes to it) to defend the sniper with his weapon. The sniper's scope has a relatively narrow field of view and is thus quite susceptable to tunnel vision, another reason to have the spotter there who has more of an ability to take in the whole field of battle.

Also, a sniper won't be held in readiness for a shot for something like 15 minutes, perhaps 20 seconds after setting the sights appropriately is more accurate. Though, it is true that on some operations a sniper team can wait for days waiting for a good opportunity to strike, in these circumstances they would take turns keeping watch on the target area, but that is only keeping watch, should a shot need to be fired it's always the sniper that takes it.

But both sniper and spotter are capable of taking the shot if it comes down to it, e.g. the sniper gets injured on the way in or due to enemy fire.

 

[Latinidiot]

- Marijuana is not as harmful as it is portrayed. In fact it's one of the most useful natural medical and fiber products known to man, not to mention a terrific bio fuel.

- Music has been proven to induce different effects on plants over extended time.

- Violent video games cause no effect other than desensitizing.

'I believed that my original soul had left my body and been replaced with a new one that had access to all of the old one's memories.'

What the....

I am very interested, yet kind of scared. Would you care to elaborate?

 

[Latinidiot]

August has the most birthdays (I myself was born in August). February has the least.

My take on this (no way based on any studies and is purely my own opinion but makes sense) is that August is 9months from December aka winter so more people stay inside and "keep warm" with it getting darker earlier and colder!

whereas February is 9 months from June aka Summer so people spend more time outside keeping cool!

lots of people have their birthday in November(or at least, people in Holland that I happen to know) because They were conceived in Spring. You know, birds, bees......

 

[Simple Bluff]

According to a documentary I watched, Britain was actually about to surrender to the Nazis, right before they got bored and decided to take a lump out of Russia instead (I'm not quite sure how reliable the documentary was).

There was a truce offered, Britain may have taken it if Hitler hadn't ordered bombing of British assets.

There was no way that Britain would surrender without even fighting an invasion.

It's hard to know. Diary accounts (especially from London) at the time suggested that the British were losing morale. Also, despite the fact that Hitler ordered that bombs be dropped in Belfast, the IRA were in league with the Nazis. And the British knew full well and back then, the IRA was a much bigger threat than it is today. Had the Nazis begun invading, Britain knew no one would be able to defend Northern Ireland, and it would be only a matter of time before they hit Wales. London was already in bits, and supplies were strained.

As I said, it's really hard to know. Churchill's speeches were still suggesting they would never surrender, morale was still reasonably high, and I'm know the British aren't a pack of cowards, but that was the situation, and the British goverment were very aware of it.

EDIT: I just want to say I don't know of any proof suggesting a surrender, so I probobly shouldn't have even mentioned it. I feel really ignorant know, but it was just a little tibit I picked up over the years, and thought it would be a neat thing to mention. Sorry about that.

August has the most birthdays (I myself was born in August). February has the least.

What I'll add to this is that people who have birthdays in September-December tend to be more successful in life because they are 6-10 months older than the rest of their class when they attend school, this is especially pronounced in athletes.

According to (forgot his name - some German fella, I'll update if I remember), every problem you can possibly think of in Mathematics can be solved by merely counting.

I think it's very likely that you have misunderstood this, there are many problems dealing with uncountable sets which really cannot be solved by counting.

Well, I found the quote. Make of it what you will.

Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting.
- Ernst Mach

 

[Simple Bluff]

[/quote]

August has the most birthdays (I myself was born in August). February has the least.

My take on this (no way based on any studies and is purely my own opinion but makes sense) is that August is 9months from December aka winter so more people stay inside and "keep warm" with it getting darker earlier and colder!

whereas February is 9 months from June aka Summer so people spend more time outside keeping cool!

lots of people have their birthday in November(or at least, people in Holland that I happen to know) because They were conceived in Spring. You know, birds, bees......

Y'know, before I heard that fact, I always reckoned that most people would have their birthdays in November, being 9 months after Valentine's Day and all

EDIT: *This double post has been declared invisible*

 

[BonsaiK]

Here's some music-related ones:

Tuning a guitar by ear, by comparing harmonics and beat frequencies between strings, assuming you could do it 100% perfectly, actually will always leave your guitar a little bit out of tune.

Any standard pair of headphones can be used as a microphone. Therefore, any standard dynamic microphone can also be used as a speaker.

A grand piano has on average about 10,000 moving parts.

Studio engineers working with The Beatles discovered the effect known as "flanging", by playing two tape machines with the same recording on them at slightly different speeds. They were doing this because The Beatles wanted to do some double-tracking but couldn't be bothered recording the parts twice.

Due to advances in sub-bass reproduction technology, concerts in all music genres are significantly quieter now than they were in the 1970s and 1980s.

Most rock groups in the 1960s didn't play their own instruments on their own albums.

 

[NonyaZ]

When you have sex you burn (don't call me on this) about 50 calories

Yaaaaaay! Goodbye 150 calories!

You're doing it wrong.

 

[Mr Pantomime]

August has the most birthdays (I myself was born in August). February has the least.

My take on this (no way based on any studies and is purely my own opinion but makes sense) is that August is 9months from December aka winter so more people stay inside and "keep warm" with it getting darker earlier and colder!

whereas February is 9 months from June aka Summer so people spend more time outside keeping cool!

Id like to add that december is a time of drunken christmas parties, so youll notice a lot of people born in august. I noticed it when my little brother started getting a lot a birthday party invites around then. Also, hes born on August 23. I feel i should tell him.

 

[Kair]

The new forms of marijuana are harmfull. Full of chemicals to increase strength and people can develop an addiction despite what people say. I know personally that weed can cause alot of long term mental harm if taken in excess. But still, if anyone asks I'm sitting to the left hand side.

There may be confusion regarding this 'new marijuana'. There are some hashish-producing farms that swab their hashish with heroin. This may be what you refer to as newer forms of marijuana.

 

[MetaMop]

Not

The new forms of marijuana are harmfull. Full of chemicals to increase strength and people can develop an addiction despite what people say. I know personally that weed can cause alot of long term mental harm if taken in excess. But still, if anyone asks I'm sitting to the left hand side.

There may be confusion regarding this 'new marijuana'. There are some hashish-producing farms that swab their hashish with heroin. This may be what you refer to as newer forms of marijuana.

Not that specifically, but I know what you're talking about. I was refering to the new strains of weed, the stronger versions full of toxics and given nicknames. I've seen what these new strains of weed can do to people. It won't make you kill anyone, but it doesn't do your mind any good. I smoked alot of weed when I was a teenager, and I saw what it did to my friends. The illegal drugs industry is almost as bad as the government regulated drug industry these days. If weed was legallised, it would probably be even worse.

 

[Lord Monocle Von Banworthy]

When you have sex you burn (don't call me on this) about 50 calories

Yaaaaaay! Goodbye 150 calories!

You're doing it wrong.

Maybe he means 50 calories x 3 participants, in which case a high five is in order.

 

[joekickass]

- Marijuana is not as harmful as it is portrayed. In fact it's one of the most useful natural medical and fiber products known to man, not to mention a terrific bio fuel.

- Music has been proven to induce different effects on plants over extended time.

- Violent video games cause no effect other than desensitizing.

I used to be a rabid marijuana smoker, and let me tell you, it can actually be pretty damn harmful. Granted, physiologically speaking there are much worse things you could do to yourself, but in psychological terms marijuana can do a lot of damage to you. You're free to disagree, but I once spent three days in a dissociative state in which I believed that my original soul had left my body and been replaced with a new one that had access to all of the old one's memories. Needless to say, experiences like that weigh on you for the rest of your life. Canabanoid abuse can seriously affect the relationship you perceive between yourself and reality.

I grow a lot of plants, so I actually looked into that second claim of yours at one point. There were some studies that indicated it was true, but most of them were run on a small number of plants, and all the plants in the studies were the same types of plants. A claim like that simply hasn't been verified in any real way as of yet.

To play the devil's advocate (except in California {prop 19 } )
Marijuana while it does have side effects long term, studies have been done, in fact i found out about them today, it rated alcohol, heroin, cocaine and yes marijuana. Now it should be noted that it took both the effect the drug has on relation-ships and the community, as well as the biological effects on the individual, the most dangerous one... alcohol.

Can using Marijuana damage social relations, yes BUT and i can not stress this enough, it affects people on a case-by-case basis, remember when you and your friends had your first drink at a party, if you look back at lets say your year 8/9/10 class, out of everyone you knew, someone out of everyone had a drink and got very drunk first, at first it was looked down upon, but then everybody starting doing it, much in the same way, if people knew what to look for and understood how it works and what it does, then maybe these new found 'hostilities' from people would be buffered or annihilated by a wave understanding, not a wall ignorance

[the drinking example can work for most things, who in your class first had sex, at first disgust then understanding and reason, i can only hope that humanity one day understands this]

And yes it is true that the potency of 'THC' one of the active ingredients in a weed 'high' IS in fact going up, and yes PURE (sorry again) 'THC' is an addictive substance, but how many of you drink coffee or tea daily, your already drinking addictive chemicals such as caffeine, now take all this into account and remember this, marijuana DOESN'T contain 100% THC, the highest (sorry for the pun) levels of THC in this plant have been around 30%, and at that it is a incredibly hard/rare thing to find, so why is it used so frequently in sensationalist arguments, because it sounds REALLY,REALLY EVIL
{average being between 9-14%}
one a slightly related topic, what another 'poster' was talking about 'weed fiber' and bio-fuel, is in fact true, in 1940 ford (yes the car company) made a prototype that was 70% hemp fiber and was incredibly strong when compared to a sledgehammer, it also ran on a hemp bio-fuel.

Marijuana CAN mess up your life, the individual will only have abuse issues with it if they have an addictive trait within their personality, it isn't as if once you smoke a joint your brain goes to mush, it isn't some spiral that destroys your life, UNLESS the person can't manage to see themselves and realize that certain things in life are important, like an education.

So yes, marijuana can damage your life, in the same way driving at 90 mph off a cliff could be considered the most fascinating debate ever conducted between gravity and Newton's three laws of motion (this is a joke, pretense was sadly shot and killed by unknown text murderer)


p.s i would like to know what caused you to go into a dissociative state for 3, as in did you 'consume' any other substances before hand, was the 'skunk' laced with something, etc. What i am trying to ask is, how an earth did you manage that. You must have been consuming a extremely large amount at a almost constant rate to achieve a dissociative state for not 1 or 2 but 3 days.

p.p.s if i have made any spelling/ grammatical mistakes please forgive me, i am tired (it probably shows) and very exhausted. If i have upset any person or persons, i am very sorry, for this, and would like to talk to you more on the topic.
-Jk

 

[Kair]

Not

Not that specifically, but I know what you're talking about. I was refering to the new strains of weed, the stronger versions full of toxics and given nicknames. I've seen what these new strains of weed can do to people. It won't make you kill anyone, but it doesn't do your mind any good. I smoked alot of weed when I was a teenager, and I saw what it did to my friends. The illegal drugs industry is almost as bad as the government regulated drug industry these days. If weed was legallised, it would probably be even worse.

So you think legalized marijuana would be worse than legalized ethanol, caffeine and nicotine?

 

[Ascarus]

Can actual FACTS really be debated?

For example, value of speed of light in a vacuum is exactly 299,792,458 metres per second.

That cannot be debated. So I ask, can FACTS be debated?

Edit (added): I guess you could debate the measurement accuracy of the equipment. But if we go that far one could expand the question to ask, do facts actually exist?

 

[ItsAChiaotzu]

Tuning a guitar by ear, by comparing harmonics and beat frequencies between strings, assuming you could do it 100% perfectly, actually will always leave your guitar a little bit out of tune.

Hmm, how does that work?
Is it anything to do with say a D on the A string not being exactly the same as the open D?

 

[Woodsey]

Can actual FACTS really be debated?

For example, value of speed of light in a vacuum is exactly 299,792,458 metres per second.

That cannot be debated. So I ask, can FACTS be debated?

Edit (added): I guess you could debate the measurement accuracy of the equipment. But if we go that far one could expand the question to ask, do facts actually exist?

I'd call a fact something with overwhelming evidence - you can never really have an absolute truth. It may be a fact today, but tomorrow it may not. Therefore, evolution is a fact (despite what some people insist).