What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[Rev. Rye]

Apparently, in the People’s Republic of China, in order to buy a car you have to enter a lottery for a license plate. Out of every thousand applicants, a total of THREE actually end up getting one.

That does not easily reconcile with web search result that shows roughly 15 new cars per thousand people are sold in China each year, unless each person in China (not just the new car buyers) enter the new license plate lottery 5 times a year, or, if the license plate lottery can only be entered once per year per person, then 80% of the new cars must not need new license plates or would still remain unregistered.

Next new thing to learn: Jeremy Clarkson may not be a good source of information about other cultures.

Edit:Apparently, this system is limited to Beijing. That said, Clarkson did not specify that it was limited to the capital and implied this covered the PRC in total. Also worth noting, There are/were loopholes and people exploit the fuck out of them if they can afford to do so.

[Anomalocaris]

The Atlantic Ocean will not keep on widening indefinitely.    Detailed modeling of thermal evolution of the crust and the forces acting on them suggest in very roughly 50-100 million years, the currently passive plate margin between eastern edge of the north and South American continental crust on the western side and the western edge of european and African continental on the eastern side, with the oldest part of the oceanic crust on the bottom of the Atlantic next to them, will develop into active normal faults.   The forces causing the faulting comes from the gradual increase in the density of the oceanic crust as it sheds the heat of its volcanic creation at oceanic ridge and cools,  coupled with the gravitational weight of up to 10 miles of sediments washed off the nearby continents and accummulated over 150 million years.     These causes the oceanic crust to become significantly more dense than the hot mantle rock underneath them and permit the oceanic crust to sink back into the mantle once detached from the continent through faulting,    When this happens, subduction trenches will form all around the perimeter of the Atlantic Ocean, the direction of movement of all the continent around the Atlantic will reverse, and then Atlantic will stop expanding and gradually close up.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The Looney Tunes character Marvin the Martian, who appeared in just five theatrical shorts from 1948 until 1963, was not given a name until 1979 when the full length The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie sparked merchandising interest in the character.

Boru

[The Valkyrie]

The Looney Tunes character Marvin the Martian, who appeared in just five theatrical shorts from 1948 until 1963, was not given a name until 1979 when the full length The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie sparked merchandising interest in the character.

Boru

I'm not saying I have a Marvin the Martian stuffed toy.

But neither am I denying it...

[arewethereyet]

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The Looney Tunes character Marvin the Martian, who appeared in just five theatrical shorts from 1948 until 1963, was not given a name until 1979 when the full length The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie sparked merchandising interest in the character.

Boru

I'm not saying I have a Marvin the Martian stuffed toy.

But neither am I denying it...

I always picture you as more of a Taz gal…

Boru

[Anomalocaris]

I'm not saying I have a Marvin the Martian stuffed toy.

But neither am I denying it...

I always picture you as more of a Taz gal…

Boru

the Tasmanian devil lack ambition. She is the how many billions of people she can blow up just to get a better view of Mars kind of gal.

[Anomalocaris]

If all 137 billion homo sapiens s that had  ever lived are lumped together and compressed into a single black hole,  the event horizon of such a black hole would be the size of a proton.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

If all 137 billion homo sapiens s that had  ever lived are lumped together and compressed into a single black hole,  the event horizon of such a black hole would be the size of a proton.

I have nothing against Homo sapiens, but they should keep their lifestyle behind closed doors instead of indoctrinating children.

Boru

[Rev. Rye]

Apparently, Kate "Jon and Kate Plus Eight" Gosselin tried to get her sextuplets on disability. The evidence she gave to the powers that be was basically that they were babies.

(actual content starts around 8 minutes in)




Given that I'm currently on my third application for SSI (which is less than she was asking for) for autism and a sleep disorder that makes just staying up for a proper 9 to 5 job impossible and I still don't have one, you can probably guess how well that went.