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To be honest I didn’t get your joke, I laughed because I was certain that it was a joke.Klystron said:Teach it to smoke a tiny hookah while sitting on a mushroom. You can discuss the nature of reality.
To be honest I didn’t get your joke, I laughed because I was certain that it was a joke.Klystron said:Teach it to smoke a tiny hookah while sitting on a mushroom. You can discuss the nature of reality.
Hence the reference to "Alice in Wonderland". Perhaps I am mistaken but I took your insect to be a caterpillar, the larval stage of moths and butterflies. After several confusing geometric adventures, tiny Alice encounters a hookah smoking caterpillar sitting on a mushroom.Adesh said:To be honest I didn’t get your joke, I laughed because I was certain that it was a joke.
Looks like pine processionary.hmmm27 said:It's a caterpillar... one of the more cool looking ones (Monarch ?)... I don't think anybody's ever been afraid of them.
I think almost every girl fear them. Just take it close to them and they will **YELL**. Earlier some kids too fear that.hmmm27 said:I don't think anybody's ever been afraid of them.
Yes, I too think so.fresh_42 said:Looks like pine processionary.
Or musically...Klystron said:Reference: "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll.
fresh_42 said:Another interesting property: ##37## is fortunate and ##73## less fortunate.
That means a sample of half the the people in the world could be named without a name duplication... astonishing!BillTre said:~4 billion base pairs. They all can be named.
Just then the Airplane song was playing and in fact Grace Slick sang "hookah" as I read the word on the screen.Klystron said:Teach it to smoke a tiny hookah while sitting on a mushroom...
Serendipity. These confluences of ideas occur so often one can almost believe they are connected; information linked; things occur just out of sight in brief glimpses.gmax137 said:I was catching up on this thread just now, with my iPOD playing in the background. Just as I read this post:
Just then the Airplane song was playing and in fact Grace Slick sang "hookah" as I read the word on the screen.
Is there a word for that coincidence? When you are reading and someone speaks the word as you read it? It seems to happen often.
gmax137 said:I was catching up on this thread just now, with my iPOD playing in the background. Just as I read this post:
Just then the Airplane song was playing and in fact Grace Slick sang "hookah" as I read the word on the screen.
Is there a word for that coincidence? When you are reading and someone speaks the word as you read it? It seems to happen often.
jim mcnamara said:An interesting side note: dextromethorphan (cough syrup med) seems to encourage the virus in lab tests. They are going to evaluate whether this is a real effect before notifying clinicians to stop patients from taking the drug for a cough. Ironically one of the symptoms of Covid 19.
berkeman said:Looks to be pretty common. It's in both of the cough medicines we had in our cabinet. Guess we'll set these aside until we get vaccinated next month...
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I swear on fir syrup, and codeine in case I have tickets for the opera, but never ever in any other case. Dextromethorphan sounds to be a no-go, when I read the list of potential side effects and contraindications.berkeman said:TIL to avoid cough medicines that contain dextromethorphan (very common apparently), at least until you get your SARS-CoV-2 vaccination...
https://www.kqed.org/science/1963298/common-ingredient-in-common-cough-medicine-might-promote-coronavirus-study-finds
berkeman said:TIL to avoid cough medicines that contain dextromethorphan (very common apparently), at least until you get your SARS-CoV-2 vaccination...
I remember also being surprised on this one. So many words about the heavy humid air, or the fog laying like a blanket... And then I was surprised at myself for thinking otherwise.DaveE said:Humid air is lighter than dry air!
DaveE said:Humid air is lighter than dry air!
https://phys.org/news/2020-05-cold-air-riseswhat-earth-climate.html
The ones who read or found the news article know what and whom you're talking about.Hsopitalist said:Today I learned that over-enthusiastic gardening can take out an astrophysicist as well as rock stars.
mfb said:Trying to look for the astrophysicist I learned that Roy Horn (of Siegfried & Roy) died yesterday. COVID-19.
was "taken out" temporarily by gardening, not Covid-19.Hsopitalist said:Brian May, guitarist from Queen
I recently saw a couple of videos about the guitars and gear of famous guitarists, and I learned that Brian May doesn't use picks, but coins (23:15-):Hsopitalist said:Brian May, guitarist from Queen