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[Angst]

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

Well-known guy, but I just want to put this quote out there:

Hundreds of thousands of the new people, and later the depositees, were taken out in shackles to dig their own mass graves. Then the Khmer Rouge soldiers buried them alive. A Khmer Rouge extermination prison directive ordered, "Bullets are not to be wasted." These mass graves are often referred to as The Killing Fields.

 

[madviking]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh-My-God_particle

...a subatomic particle with kinetic energy equal to that of a 5-ounce (142 g) baseball traveling at about 100 kilometers per hour (60 mph).

The particle was traveling very close to the speed of light - assuming the particle was a proton, its speed was only about 1.5 femtometers (quadrillionths of a meter) per second less than the speed of light, translating to a speed of approximately 0.9999999999999999999999951c. At that speed, in a year-long race between light and the particle, the particle would fall behind only 46 nanometers, or 0.15 femtoseconds (1.5e-16 s); or one centimeter every 220,000 years.

 

[shadowplay]

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

This reads like a fake article.

 

[Borachio]

It does a bit. I can't really make much sense of this statement:

In fact, the tradition is widely unknown in Germany

 

[BornInCantaloup]

The Uncyclopedia tells you what Wikipedia is.


Ciick above. Nevertheless, extract:

Spoiler :

In the summer of 2007 Wikipedia was criticized for accurately displaying the location and planned movements of all US troops stationed in Iraq in their article on asparagus. Though conservative journalists such as Geraldo Rivera and Joan Rivers repeatedly edited this information out, Wikipedia editors quickly replaced it with even more detailed reports. This led to the first "revert war" in recorded history. Many online nicknames fell in the conflict, and it was finally the Supreme Court who stepped in and settled it stating "The reliability of the Wikipedia is paramount. Wikipedia is the United States' best source of information and we can't let fear hamper our quest for knowledge".[6] The asparagus article was then summarily deleted and a small goat was sacrificed to the cabal.

 

[Borachio]

Wow! I'll get round to reading that just as soon as I finish Wikipedia, I promise.

(It is funny, though.)

 

[GhostWriter16]

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

 

[madviking]

aaaaaand no.

 

[BornInCantaloup]

Wow! I'll get round to reading that just as soon as I finish Wikipedia, I promise.

(It is funny, though.)

Hu, yes, in a way, the Uncyclopedia is funny.
Don't think the people over there put less effort in producing high-quality articles than the people over in Wikipedia, though.

There are great pictures as well.
Do you know about the nillion? And how a nillion dollars can't be photographed?

 

[Mr. Dictator]

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

And, from the better wiki:

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapaedia

 

[Quackers]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh-My-God_particle

What are the implications of that?
So if we can understand why this happened - does this open up doors to intersteller travel?

 

[Borachio]

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/William_Westmoreland
Uncyclopedia is mental - I could waste a great deal of time reading this. Wikipedia is bad enough - but at least it pretends to be factual.

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Fun

You try to hide behind lies of "fun" when in fact you're just trying to mask your insignificance as a human being. You are worthless to everyone you know and the only reason you don't kill yourself is because you'll make a mess when you do and in the end becoming really more trouble than you are worth. You wish that your dreams would come true and try to get at that fading glimpse of happiness

Grrrrrrrr!!! Not fun.

 

[madviking]

What are the implications of that?
So if we can understand why this happened - does this open up doors to intersteller travel?

Not a whole lot really. It's just weird stuff probably resulting from supernovae or other astronomic phenomena.

 

[madviking]

King and Queen County is notable as one of the few counties in the United States of America to have recorded a larger population in the 1790 census than in the 2000 one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_and_Queen_County,_Virginia

 

[Monsterzuma]

http://www.eoht.info/page/IQ:+200+

Great page on major historical and contemporary geniuses.

 

[Kaitzilla]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh-My-God_particle

3x10^20 eV? Holy crap!!!

What freak of nature got it to go that fast? The Big Bang? Feel the need for speed!



**Edit**
http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/OhMyGodParticle/

According to the time dilation calculations, the particle would perceive a trip to the next galaxy over Andromeda as taking 3.5 minutes. It could make it to the edge of the universe in 19 days
We'd age millions and billions of years though.
Apparently for various reasons it had to have come from within 100 million lightyears so not the Big Bang.


According to this, if the particle had been a 100m wide meteor, it would have annihilated the Earth so hard the expanding gas cloud would glow brighter than the sun.
http://what-if.xkcd.com/20/

 

[madviking]

Supernova or any other cataclysmic interstellar event.

 

[Kaitzilla]

Ok, this should blow your minds!

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


Hard to get quality fanatics these days like in the past.

909 suicides, a murdered congressman (amongst others), and heartwrenching notes such as "I, Marceline Jones, leave all bank assets in my name to the Communist Party of the USSR"

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

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

I'd never heard of her. Amazing story

 

[Ailedhoo]

From the Rational Wiki: No True Scotsman.