TIL: Today I Learned

[Takhisis]

TIL that Eastern Orthodox churches use actual bread as communion bread, instead of weird dessicated wafers.

Have you gone on to learn about how, depending on how many fingers you use to make the sign of the cross, you are a heretic or not?

 

[Dachs]

TIL that Eastern Orthodox churches use actual bread as communion bread, instead of weird dessicated wafers.

They didn't fight over leavened vs unleavened bread for nothing.

At least some of the Prots use pita bread rather than the wafers.

 

[Michkov]

They didn't fight over leavened vs unleavened bread for nothing.

Wait is/was that a real thing?

 

[Dachs]

Wait is/was that a real thing?

It was one of the differences between the churches. It wasn't the most important or the least solvable, but it was a thing.

 

[Ajidica]

It was one of the differences between the churches. It wasn't the most important or the least solvable, but it was a thing.

Hey, the quality of the snacks is always important.

 

[Kyriakos]

The wine is pretty good too. Though its been 15 years or so since i had communion.

 

[Takhisis]

Fif… you need to fix this.

 

[Synobun]

Takh's right. You need to go back in time and make sure you never went at all.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Not entirely true. Some rock is non-rock stuff that is turned into rock by very high pressure and temperature inside the earth's crust.

For some reason I misread this post about being music and was terribly confused for a few seconds.

 

[Takhisis]

Takh's right. You need to go back in time and make sure you never went at all.

 

[Broken_Erika]

The only church services i've ever been to are weddings and funerals.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Today I learned that ICQ is actually still up and running. It seems to be mostly mobile now, though. They also recently cut off support for third-party clients.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

For some reason I misread this post about being music and was terribly confused for a few seconds.

It could be used as an allegory for rock music, the forces inside the Earth making rock harder, with the core of the Earth made of metal.

 

[Broken_Erika]

It could be used as an allegory for rock music, the forces inside the Earth making rock harder, with the core of the Earth made of metal.

So rock really is the devils music?

 

[Broken_Erika]

TIL, The Crotch Pot is a real thing.
https://www.wideopenspaces.com/the-crotch-pot/

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

TIL that there's actually quite a lot of time formatting glitches, a lot more than just Y2K and the 2038 bug. An integer overflow actually caused an unmanned spaceprobe to lose communication and get stuck in space.

 

[Broken_Erika]

TIL that there's actually quite a lot of time formatting glitches, a lot more than just Y2K and the 2038 bug. An integer overflow actually caused an unmanned spaceprobe to lose communication and get stuck in space.

Is your computer Y10k Compliant?
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2550

 

[The_J]

These things are not uncommon. Normal stories also include rockets who get off track due to imperial/decimal conversions or jet fighters flying upside down after crossing the equator.
There'll also be a “scheduled“ integer overflow within GPS .... errr... this weekend, I think. Some stone age old systems might not survive it.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Ever heard of the Gimli Glider? They messed up converting between imperial and metric and ran out of fuel mid-flight. Luckily the pilot was experienced at flying gliders. That's the tl;dr version; the full story is definitely worth reading.

 

[Blue Emu]

There's more heat energy in one cubic centimeter of your body than in one (typical) cubic centimeter of the Sun.

... so if the Sun were a huge ball of living flesh, it would be pumping out a lot more energy than it currently is.

H.P. Lovecraft, move over!