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Just Chat! / Amazonian statistics question ...

« on: 29/02/2020 20:06:11 »

If there were 1000 Amazon customer-reviews for a product, but not one 2-star review,
How much did the seller spend on fake 5-star reviews ?.


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Just Chat! / Cutie Pie

« on: 11/02/2020 17:31:37 »

If only we could harness the power of Tesla spinning in his grave ... https://youtu.be/IdASU0HtUXk?t=140

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Just Chat! / Texas Tesla Tower

« on: 03/02/2020 00:37:01 »

Looks like a folly to me ...



https://youtu.be/wFiW2lqdnlM?t=563

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Just Chat! / A bag full of unicorns

« on: 30/01/2020 15:48:48 »

"A bag full of unicorns" is a great name for a band,


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but surely a trade descriptions act violation ?

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Just Chat! / Is it available in Simpsons yellow ?

« on: 25/01/2020 23:33:44 »

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Just Chat! / Have you seen Donald Trump's spiritual-advisor ?

« on: 18/12/2019 10:02:20 »

Paula White, (& husband Jonathan Cain) ...


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https://www.daystar.com/shows/paula-today-with-paula-white-cain/

Which God do they represent ?, Beelzebub ? 

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Just Chat! / Two reasons we need more physics education ...

« on: 15/11/2019 17:35:04 »

#1. That >100 people were prepared to wire themselves to mains-electricity ...
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/german-man-who-persuaded-young-girls-to-shock-themselves-on-skype-faces-88-attempted-murder-charges-133027364.html

#2. The electrocution apparatus includes redundant circuitry ...


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Just Chat! / Can you spot the real robot ?

« on: 27/10/2019 23:26:10 »

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Just Chat! / Have you seen phone skin ?

« on: 21/10/2019 12:05:36 »

Kill it with fire 

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Just Chat! / This will blow your socks off

« on: 10/10/2019 14:59:33 »

To be fair to dogs they would have got an electric shock too via the wet leash
when the lightning hit their owner in the back of the head.

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Just Chat! / Have you seen the Augsburg book of miracles ?

« on: 06/10/2019 08:26:30 »

Some are recognisable like comets & sundogs, others not so much  ...


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https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Augsburg_Book_of_Miracles


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Just Chat! / You ain't from around here

« on: 17/09/2019 07:43:29 »

https://www.space.com/interstellar-comet-borisov-observing-opportunities-unlike-oumuamua.html

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Just Chat! / What is the impact of uromycitisis poisoning?

« on: 09/09/2019 23:23:14 »

See ... https://www.the-scientist.com/critic-at-large/opinion-why-i-published-in-a-predatory-journal-31697 

Unfortunately I can't find a copy of the paper 

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Just Chat! / NFN: Normal For Norfolk

« on: 06/09/2019 03:33:54 »

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/4693952.stm

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Just Chat! / Have you had your 5-a-week ?

« on: 28/08/2019 02:09:44 »

Grams of plastic that is ...


https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/11/health/microplastics-ingestion-wwf-study-scn-intl/index.html

[ It seems like an over-estimate to me ]

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Just Chat! / Kermit-ing a crime ?

« on: 20/08/2019 01:47:21 »

Surely applying psychotropic Amazonian tree-frog poison to people in the UK is illegal ?

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Just Chat! / strobocopter

« on: 15/08/2019 23:41:33 »

Strictly speaking it's the frame-rate rather than "shutter speed".

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Just Chat! / Tiger chases men on motorbike

« on: 06/07/2019 21:55:27 »

Disappointingly the tiger was not driving  ...

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Just Chat! / Encryption with lava lamps

« on: 26/06/2019 21:32:02 »

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Just Chat! / Piggy back, from dead

« on: 19/04/2019 02:20:18 »

Scientists have restored and preserved some cellular activities and structures in the brains of pigs that had been decapitated for food production four hours before.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01168-9