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368100

Liamalone wrote: »

The last bellybutton survey saw a dead heat, 50% inny, 50% outty.

Are outies more common in certain ethnicities? Or are they/innies completely random?

Junkyard Tom

Pepsi once owned one of largest submarine fleets in the world.

New Home

368100 wrote: »

Are outies more common in certain ethnicities? Or are they/innies completely random?

I think it depends on how the umbilical cords are tied.

sbsquarepants

368100 wrote: »

Are outies more common in certain ethnicities? Or are they/innies completely random?

On a personal level I'd have to question this 50 / 50 innie / outie split. In a long and distinguished (but alas, now historical:mad:) womanising career, I have had the immense pleasure of having never come across (ooh er matron:D) an outie.
I'm a little bit funny about belly buttons and just couldn't bring myself to be anywhere near one. Either I've struck it extraordinarily lucky or outies just aren't that common round these parts.

SuperS54

sbsquarepants wrote: »

On a personal level I'd have to question this 50 / 50 innie / outie split. In a long and distinguished (but alas, now historical:mad:) womanising career, I have had the immense pleasure of having never come across (ooh er matron:D) an outie.
I'm a little bit funny about belly buttons and just couldn't bring myself to be anywhere near one. Either I've struck it extraordinarily lucky or outies just aren't that common round these parts.

Would have thought one would need to be quite slim or else pregnant to have a sticky outty. I've not suggesting that your womanising career consisted only of ladies of the larger size, however if the cap fits....

sbsquarepants

SuperS54 wrote: »

Would have thought one would need to be quite slim or else pregnant to have a sticky outty. I've not suggesting that your womanising career consisted only of ladies of the larger size, however if the cap fits....

:eek:

How dare you. I think you'll find they were super models one and all!



(May or may not be true..... mostly not:D)

Grayson

JRant wrote: »

Fascinating period off time. My favorite from that epoch has to the the Permian-Triassac extinction event or 'The Great Dying'.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian–Triassic_extinction_event

I've recently found the PBS . Eons series. I'm finding it really good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDQa0okkpf0

Quazzie

Innie or Outtie comes down solely to the doctor who was present at birth. Some tie the cord as an innie, some as an outtie.

The real question would be is there any correlation between innie being right hand (more common) and outtie being left hand (less common)?

Grayson

Quazzie wrote: »

Innie or Outtie comes down solely to the doctor who was present at birth. Some tie the cord as an innie, some as an outtie.

The real question would be is there any correlation between innie being right hand (more common) and outtie being left hand (less common)?

Or an outie just being a doctor who was having a laugh.

sbsquarepants

Or it could be the much more plausible scenario of outies being hideous freaks of nature, best avoided?

SuperS54

Quazzie wrote: »

Innie or Outtie comes down solely to the doctor who was present at birth. Some tie the cord as an innie, some as an outtie.

The real question would be is there any correlation between innie being right hand (more common) and outtie being left hand (less common)?

I think that's an old wives tale. A little research online also seems to indicate that over 90% of people have innies. If you're of normal weight (note not the so called ideal weight) or above I think it's practically impossible to have an outie.

https://www.urbo.com/content/heres-the-real-reason-your-belly-button-is-an-innie-or-an-outie/

https://www.healthline.com/health/is-my-belly-button-normal#1

https://www.providr.com/real-reason-innie-outie-belly-button/

wexie

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Pepsi once owned one of largest submarine fleets in the world.

Had to go an Google this cause :eek:

Interesting article here : http://www.redkalinka.com/Russian-Blog/78/_The-day-Pepsi-became-a-great-military-power/

In 1989, the initial agreement between Pepsi and the USSR was about to expire and the negotiations to sign a new one began. At that time, Pepsi already had more than 20 factories in the USSR that bottled the drink for distribution. The new trade agreement had a cost of about three billion dollars, and it was obvious that only the exclusivity of Stolichnaya vodka wasn’t enough to pay for it. The USSR still had difficulties in international markets to exchange rubles, so they had to find an alternative method of payment.
Again the Soviet Union found a solution: if in the 1970s they had plenty of vodka, now in the 1980s they had plenty of military equipment inherited from the Cold War. The USSR offered to pay Pepsi with a fleet of diesel ships. Pepsi accepted the deal because they knew that it was the only way to continue to sell Pepsi in the USSR. The agreement included 17 submarines, a cruiser, a frigate and a destroyer, which were sold to a Swedish company for scrap recycling. Those 17 submarines made Pepsi become, for a few days, the 6th largest military power in the world by number of diesel submarines. The president of Pepsi, Donald Kendall, told the National Security Adviser of USA: "We are disarming the USSR faster than you".

mzungu

Bones found off the Antarctic peninsula at Seymour Island indicate that 37 to 40 million years ago, penguins stood at 6 feet and would have weighed about 250 pounds.

wexie

Traveling from one end of Canada to the other end (Nova Scotia to British Columbia, and only the mainland) is nearly twice the distance from Dublin to Novia Scotia

(also, the premier of Nova Scotia is called the Bossanova :pac:)

Buford T. Justice XIX

Today is the 20th anniversary of the death of James Byrd, jr in Texas. It was a notorious case at the time as Mr Byrd was killed by being dragged behind a pickup for 3 miles and was alive for at least half the journey.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_James_Byrd_Jr.

Ipso

mzungu wrote: »

Bones found off the Antarctic peninsula at Seymour Island indicate that 37 to 40 million years ago, penguins stood at 6 feet and would have weighed about 250 pounds.

They would be hard to ppppick up.

wexie

Don't know if this already has been covered but I find it really interesting.

Because our planet is round...and maps are not....a lot of the maps take some artistic license with the scale of countries to get everything to fit and look right (I'm sure there's a more technical explanation)

On the site TheTrueSize you can move countries around and see the true size of them. If you highlight a country and drag it, you'll actually see it change size (on the map) depending on where you place it.

Watch what happens if you highlight Canada and place it on South America!!!

cdeb

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Today is the 30th anniversary of the death of James Byrd, jr in Texas. It was a notorious case at the time as Mr Byrd was killed by being dragged behind a pickup for 3 miles and was alive for at least half the journey.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_James_Byrd_Jr.

The 20th anniversary (1998), which is somehow worse.

Hadn't heard of that at all; sounds horrendous

igCorcaigh

wexie wrote: »

Don't know if this already has been covered but I find it really interesting.

Because our planet is round...and maps are not....a lot of the maps take some artistic license with the scale of countries to get everything to fit and look right (I'm sure there's a more technical explanation)

On the site TheTrueSize you can move countries around and see the true size of them. If you highlight a country and drag it, you'll actually see it change size (on the map) depending on where you place it.

Watch what happens if you highlight Canada and place it on South America!!!

And Greenland isn't that big after all, about the same size as Algeria.

Fourier

wexie wrote: »

Because our planet is round...and maps are not....a lot of the maps take some artistic license with the scale of countries to get everything to fit and look right (I'm sure there's a more technical explanation)

Not really, that's pretty much it. Displaying the Earth on a map is basically attempting to squash a sphere flat and you can't do that without distorting parts of the sphere's surface.

igCorcaigh

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Today is the 30th anniversary of the death of James Byrd, jr in Texas. It was a notorious case at the time as Mr Byrd was killed by being dragged behind a pickup for 3 miles and was alive for at least half the journey.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_James_Byrd_Jr.

Hey that findagrave.com site is pretty cool.

nowaynever

mzungu wrote: »

Bones found off the Antarctic peninsula at Seymour Island indicate that 37 to 40 million years ago, penguins stood at 6 feet and would have weighed about 250 pounds.

Probably just nuns.

Tell me how

nowaynever wrote:

Probably just nuns.

You'd do well to find a 6ft nun.

nowaynever

Tell me how wrote: »

You'd do well to find a 6ft nun.

Extinct!

evolving_doors

evolving_doors wrote: »

2 stars in the cygnus system are set to collide around 2022 (give or take a year). They'll create a new start a and give off a red glow as bright as the north star... and all visible in the night sky.

And some shmo will definitely say tis a sign that our world will end.

Oops, classic error on my part.

Those 2 stars have collided by now (well... about 1800 years ago I think)... it's the light from the event which will reach our eyes in 2022ish.

So the universe has probably started to come to an end... at that side of the universe.

Ipso

So the world has ended. We are all post tribulationists now.

Capt'n Midnight

Ipso wrote: »

So the world has ended. We are all post tribulationists now.

If you'd been paying attention to the above posts you'd have seen the posts about the Permian–Triassic extinction event.


We are all post trilobites...

JRant

Solar power has killed more people than nuclear power per TWh of electricity generated.

https://www.news.com.au/national/south-australia/nuclear-power-kills-fewer-people-than-solar-per-unit-of-electricity-says-university-college-london-professor-tim-stone/news-story/719096bad937b90f55dcc5c9f2ecc3fb

Are Am Eye

JRant wrote: »

Solar power has killed more people than nuclear power per TWh of electricity generated.

https://www.news.com.au/national/south-australia/nuclear-power-kills-fewer-people-than-solar-per-unit-of-electricity-says-university-college-london-professor-tim-stone/news-story/719096bad937b90f55dcc5c9f2ecc3fb

I call this enemy: The Sun.

Capt'n Midnight

Ipso wrote: »

So the world has ended. We are all post tribulationists now.

If you'd been paying attention you'd have seen the posts about the Permian - Triassic extinctions.

We are all post trilobites...