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

[Fake Messiah]

NASA has a panel of about 25 people that smell all items that will be sent to the ISS

(Because astronauts are in a 'closed loop' environment, bad or toxic smells can be a real problem)

[Silver]

Computer generated randomness is no where near real randomness.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Computer generated randomness is no where near real randomness.

Tom Clancey outted a trick the CIA uses. Cosmic ray patterns, CMBE. Wildly random.

[polymath257]

Computer generated randomness is no where near real randomness.

That is why, for true randomness, you need something outside the circuitry of the computer. Cosmic rays, radioactive decay, *something* that allows for actual randomness as opposed to pseudo-randomness.

[Silver]

Pollen is produced by the male flower. So, in essence, you might be allergic to men.

[Silver]

There are no naturally occurring processes that produce new gold

[Angrboda]

Stars aren't naturally occurring processes.

[Fireball]

I taught at a Waldorf school for two years because I had found little else for gainful employment for school years '94-'96. There was a line in some of the literature about how humans were gold and silver, since those elements were made in stars. Yet the senior teachers said not to talk about how the local sun was intensely radioactive, and that it just provided warmth. I will say that a lot of what they did made sense, but then a lot of it was complete bullshit.

[Anomalocaris]

There are no naturally occurring processes that produce new gold

You forgot the qualifier “on earth”.

But even that qualifier may not be enough to make the statement strictly true, because there are laboratory processes which bombard atoms of mercury or another nearby element with neutrons to create atoms of gold, and such process can conceivably be replicated in nature, albeit under rare circumstances.

[Fireball]

Oh, brother. Go calculate the amount of gold transmuted by neutron bombardment, based on the cross section for neutron absorption. Integrate it over the universe and get back to us.