... you mean April fools? ...

Yes. Imagine finding one single galaxy that does not follow the same rules as all the rest. It'd make a good joke.

 

... It'd make a good joke.

... and give its inhabitants a good reason to believe they're exceptional, the center of the universe and the main reason of creation itself...

 

I've always wondered what happened to precious metals embedded in electronics devices:

https://www.newscientist.com/articl...plosions-can-harvest-gold-from-old-sim-cards/​

There’s gold in them thar SIM cards, but most of it gets thrown away – $22.2 billion was wasted in 2016 alone. Currently only 20 per cent of e-waste is recycled, but that could get a boost thanks to a cheap way of chipping the gold off SIM card surfaces with ultrasound.

Recycling is the future of most metals. If only the same could be done for most plastics.

 

Accurate predictions of the future (technologically speaking) are rare. This one borders on the uncanny:

http://www.iflscience.com/technolog...has-gone-viral-because-its-spookily-accurate/

 

 

Don't use hand dryers.

https://arstechnica.com/science/201...ms-and-hot-air-dryers-aim-them-at-your-hands/

Washing your grubby mitts is one of the all-time best ways to cut your chances of getting sick and spreading harmful germs to others. But using the hot-air dryers common in bathrooms can undo that handy hygienic work.

 

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/better/heal...use-these-tricks-remember-what-you-ncna863896

Forgetfulness (when not linked to a serious illness) is typically associated with being rather thoughtless, lazy or even a bit lacking in intelligence. But as a new review of research from the University of Toronto details, the act of forgetting — a complex process in the brain — is integral in enabling us to collect new information and ultimately make smarter decisions.

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/better/heal...use-these-tricks-remember-what-you-ncna863896

I just wish it were easier to forget the things we really don't want to remember.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...r-memories-according-to-science-a7038126.html

 

I just wish it were easier to forget the things we really don't want to remember.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...r-memories-according-to-science-a7038126.html

I once heard a tale (I'm not sure if it's true) about a rich man who came to Aristotle and told him that if he taught him a way in which he would never forget the things that he wanted to remember, he'd give him half of his fortune. Aristotle replied that he'd pay double that amount if someone taught him a way to actually forget some things forever.

 

Wait a cotton pickin' minute'

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...om&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial

Oklahoma City Thunder play-by-play announcer Brian Davis apologized to the team for a comment he made during the team's 137-123 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday night.

During the second quarter of the game, Davis described Thunder star Russell Westbrook as "out of his cotton-pickin' mind."

 

One of my favorites. Such a classic cat thing. I play peekaboo with mine when I can and it’s always hilarious.

 

Wait a cotton pickin' minute'

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...om&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial

the poor idiot ... that's what I call a truly tasteless remark ...

 

the poor idiot ... that's what I call a truly tasteless remark ...

Truly sad.
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/cotton-picking.html

It can come as as little surprise that the term 'cotton-picking' originated in the southern states of the USA, where it is usually pronounced cotton-pickin'. It began life in the late 1700s and differs from the 19th century Dixie term, 'cottonpicker', in that the latter was derogatory and racist, whereas 'cotton-picking' referred directly to the difficulty and harshness of gathering the crop. This didn't extend to the specific expression 'keep your cotton-picking hands off of me'. This no doubt alludes to the horny, calloused (and usually black) hands that picked cotton.

Of course, 'cotton-picking' must have been in use as an English adjectival phrase for as long as English-speaking people have picked cotton. There are numerous citations of 'cotton-picking' seasons/jobs/machines etc. since the late 1700s. J & E Pettigrew's Letters has an early example, from 1795:

'One of the students was banished... for going to a cotton picking after eight at Knight.'

Nothing wrong with being a Cotton Picker.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/historians-miscellaneous-biographies/audie-murphy

Audie Leon Murphy, the seventh of twelve children of Emmett "Pat, " a sharecropper, and Josie Murphy, was born June 20, 1924, in a Texas cotton field. Leon, as Audie was known until he went into the army, had chores to do at an early age, and when he was five years old, he was hoeing and picking cotton alongside his parents and siblings. There was no time for play and not much time for school, either. Murphy recalled years later, "It was a full-time job just existing.

 

This is mind-boggling :

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-43674270​

Human cells make up only 43% of the body's total cell count. The rest are microscopic colonists. ... The field is even asking questions of what it means to be "human" and is leading to new innovative treatments as a result.

 

This is mind-boggling :

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-43674270​

Hard to believe she was only 43% human.

Agent Smith was pretty good playing that guitar.

 

There are some acute sensitivities in the world today. Words being used in a non-derogatory context all of a sudden becomes a felony and political suicide.

Even the urban dictionary had a non- derogatory explanation of the phrase "out of your cotton picking mind."

 

There are some acute sensitivities in the world today. Words being used in a non-derogatory context all of a sudden becomes a felony and political suicide.

Even the urban dictionary had a non- derogatory explanation of the phrase "out of your cotton picking mind."

I guess you can't say "chink in one's armor" anymore either.

 

Hard to believe she was only 43% human.

#MeToo!

 

I didn't know weather to post this here or in the weird thread ... so I decided here, because the subject is a serious one... And for the record, I find the idea insane and absolutely ridiculous. At least not until real and proven consciousness has been achieved through artificial means. Which is something I don't envision in the near future, since consciousness itself has not yet been understood, and much less defined.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/12/technology/robots-rights-experts-warn-europe/index.html​

The European Parliament passed a resolution last year that envisions a special legal status of "electronic persons" for the most sophisticated autonomous robots.