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Today I learned you can't always do the right thing and innocent people will hurt whether you do the right thing or not
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TIL that in 3 more Seasons and The Simpsons will have a Treehouse of Horror episode for every day in October.3
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You should always listen to your first instinct1
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TIL A Taco Bell “power burrito” is a house salad with ranch wrapped in a tortilla
and a terrible mistake2 -
Will_Run_4_Food wrote: »peppermintpudgy wrote: »TIL A Taco Bell “power burrito” is a house salad with ranch wrapped in a tortilla
and a terrible mistake
I would've thought the power was descriptive of the after effects
That’s what I’m afraid of!0 -
I was just reminded that TODAY IS THE STRANGER THINGS PREMIERE.
All other plans cancelled. Just kidding. I didn’t have plans other than work.
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TIL It can take a photon 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to earth.1
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Coffee is more effective when consumed from 9:30-11:30am1
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TIL that Airborne drink mix does NOT make you feel better 0
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You can ask Siri to "Flip a coin".0
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HealthyAshes88888 wrote: »TIL that Airborne drink mix does NOT make you feel better
Airborne has help me fight off off a couple of colds........1 -
Monkey_Business wrote: »HealthyAshes88888 wrote: »TIL that Airborne drink mix does NOT make you feel better
Airborne has help me fight off off a couple of colds........
Should I keep drinking it then? Lol1 -
Will_Run_4_Food wrote: »
The short answer is no one knows what happens. It's all guessing but very good guessing that is much more accurate and usually turns out to be correct. But...
Once a photon of light is born, it travels at a speed of 300,000 km/sec until it collides with a charged particle and is diverted in another direction. Because the density of the sun decreases by tens of thousands of times from its lead-dense core to its tenuous photosphere, the typical distance a photon can travel between charged particles changes from 0.01 cm at the core to 0.3 cm near the surface.
Once you know, or assume, a typical distance between collisions, you also have to figure out how many steps the photon has to take to travel from the core to the surface. This is called the Random Walk Problem. The answer is that, if you take a sequence of N random steps, each for example of one meter length, the distance you travel from the starting point will be the square-root of N. After 100 random steps you will travel about 10 meters, but it will take 10,000 steps to travel 100 meters, and one million steps to travel about one kilometer, and so on. Because the density of the sun changes from the core to the surface, it is common to represent the interior of the sun as a collection of nested shells of matter, each with a typical average density. You then calculate how many steps it takes for a photon to travel through each shell. During each step, the photon travels at the speed of light so you can calculate the time required for each step. By multiplying this by the number of steps taken, you can calculate how long it takes the photon to traverse each shell, and then add up all the times for the other shells.
When this random walk process is applied to the interior of the sun, and an accurate model of the solar interior is used, most answers for the age of sunlight come out to be between 10,000 and 170,000 years.
https://sunearthday.gsfc.nasa.gov/2007/locations/ttt_sunlight.php
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HealthyAshes88888 wrote: »Monkey_Business wrote: »HealthyAshes88888 wrote: »TIL that Airborne drink mix does NOT make you feel better
Airborne has help me fight off off a couple of colds........
Should I keep drinking it then? Lol
Yes! I swear that stuff really works. Keep at it...it will at least lessen the severity. Oh and: TIL that not everyone swears by Airborne.2 -
@cee134 Wow! I know about the random steps and approximately the amount of time for a photon to travel from the sun's core.
But with this explanation made me realize is that all of the sunlight hitting the earth at the same time is not all the same age. Mind blown........1 -
HealthyAshes88888 wrote: »Monkey_Business wrote: »HealthyAshes88888 wrote: »TIL that Airborne drink mix does NOT make you feel better
Airborne has help me fight off off a couple of colds........
Should I keep drinking it then? Lol
YES!1 -
Thehardmakesitworthit wrote: »HealthyAshes88888 wrote: »Monkey_Business wrote: »HealthyAshes88888 wrote: »TIL that Airborne drink mix does NOT make you feel better
Airborne has help me fight off off a couple of colds........
Should I keep drinking it then? Lol
Yes! I swear that stuff really works. Keep at it...it will at least lessen the severity. Oh and: TIL that not everyone swears by Airborne.
Always check your sources.
This was back in 2008:
Maker of Airborne Will Pay Refunds for Product That Was Marketed as a Cold Preventive
https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/20080304/cold-remedy-airborne-settles-lawsuit#11 -
TIL a guy called Vasili Arkhipov saved the world.
Google it.1 -
Thehardmakesitworthit wrote: »HealthyAshes88888 wrote: »Monkey_Business wrote: »HealthyAshes88888 wrote: »TIL that Airborne drink mix does NOT make you feel better
Airborne has help me fight off off a couple of colds........
Should I keep drinking it then? Lol
Yes! I swear that stuff really works. Keep at it...it will at least lessen the severity. Oh and: TIL that not everyone swears by Airborne.
Always check your sources.
This was back in 2008:
Maker of Airborne Will Pay Refunds for Product That Was Marketed as a Cold Preventive
https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/20080304/cold-remedy-airborne-settles-lawsuit#1
Well dang0
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