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13 Awesome Science Facts You Probably Didn't Learn in High School
Science Alert ^ | 13 May 2019 | FIONA MACDONALD

Posted on 05/13/2019 4:03:36 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

In no particular order, here are some mind-bendingly incredible facts that we didn't learn at high school, but wish we did. Because I certainly would have paid a whole lot more attention if my teacher had shared a few of these insights in class.

Side note: if you did learn about all of this and more at school, then you had a kick-ass teacher and you should probably tell them that.

(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; Science
KEYWORDS: science; sciencefacts
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Just messing with your mind

Substitute ix for x, stir well

21 posted on 05/13/2019 5:51:37 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: HotHunt

Remember the shot Bubba Watson hit from the trees on #10 at Augusta??? AWESOME!!!!!!!!


22 posted on 05/13/2019 5:54:38 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: HotHunt; Chode; Squantos; SkyDancer; Lockbox; carriage_hill; snooter55; All
I can make a Flog Ball go in EVERY direction at the same time.


23 posted on 05/13/2019 6:13:36 PM PDT by mabarker1 (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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To: JBW1949

Tiger Woods can turn them right and left at will. He’s made some unbelievable shots under tournament pressure in the past.


24 posted on 05/13/2019 6:16:17 PM PDT by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: HotHunt

I have never seen a shot like the one of Bubba Watson...


25 posted on 05/13/2019 6:22:50 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: HotHunt

Take a look:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FamZkIbpZU


26 posted on 05/13/2019 6:25:21 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: HotHunt

Here’s the shot...The other is a discussion about it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLX6COFEhew


27 posted on 05/13/2019 6:31:02 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: HangnJudge

R U Eulering me?


28 posted on 05/13/2019 7:03:07 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: mabarker1

real fast


29 posted on 05/13/2019 7:16:42 PM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: Billthedrill

Louis Pasteur and I were lab partners.

Wow! High school in France. How cool is that!!!


30 posted on 05/13/2019 7:19:45 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!")
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To: JBW1949
I saw the shot in the tournament on TV when Bubba made the shot. Pretty impressive hook shot to salvage the Masters.

But Bubba hasn't dominated the sport like Tiger Woods has. Tiger has hit many, many impossible legendary, tournament-winning shots in his career, including incredible hooks to the green from impossible positions like Bubba's.

My money's on Tiger.

31 posted on 05/13/2019 7:27:11 PM PDT by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

6. The author is incorrect in his explanation of what the researcher is trying to say. Its entirely different.

11. Didn’t we all learn to do this falling off of/out of things? No? Im just weird?


32 posted on 05/13/2019 8:46:06 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: Vaquero

#8 So not just women then? : )


33 posted on 05/13/2019 8:59:12 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Nice. Thanks for posting.


34 posted on 05/13/2019 9:07:29 PM PDT by GOPJ ("Elites reflexively exempt themselves from the ravages of their own policies." - nathanbedford)
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To: cpdiii

Oddly I knew all of these things with the exception of lasers.

In 1966 lasers were new cutting edge technology and did not exist in high school. The others I did know about.


Not necessarily. In 1966, for our science fair, I built a laser using a neodymium ruby laser rod, pumped by two xenon flash tubes, and powered by a homemade capacitor-boosted power supply putting out about 2000 volts.

Dimmed the lights when I charged it up.


35 posted on 05/14/2019 2:18:17 AM PDT by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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To: minnesota_bound

Right. At that age mostly girls. Then women. Then Got married. Then 1 woman.


36 posted on 05/14/2019 3:53:28 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I knew the pinhole thing (anybody remember making a pinhole camera from a shoebox?). The finger pinhole does bail me out at restaurants these days when I’ve left the reading glasses in the car.


37 posted on 05/14/2019 5:54:44 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: chaosagent

Dimmed the lights when I charged it up.

As a kid, I was into transformers, step up/down, neon light, oil burner, battery charger, tesla coil...
Made a traveling arc for the 7th-grade science fair.
Much, much less complex than a laser.

Rewound a monster battery charger for use as an arc welder.
It worked, kind of/sort of and also produced prodigious TVI.
The neighbors were most vociferous.

I could never play with it during TV prime time.
Even at that young age, I knew way better than to do anything when GUNSMOKE was on the TV, that would have been a painful mistake.


38 posted on 05/14/2019 7:06:54 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!")
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To: BenLurkin

I’m thinking that the 9th Circus Court will be reversing this shortly...


39 posted on 05/14/2019 3:43:52 PM PDT by pilipo (We are not free.)
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