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What are some things that you strongly wish were common knowledge?
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RE: What are some things that you strongly wish were common knowledge?
August 12, 2022 at 6:11 am
(August 11, 2022 at 11:22 am)polymath257 Wrote: Unfiltered coffee has oils that are very potent at increasing cholesterol levels in the blood. Filters catch these oils. Don't drink unfiltered coffee if you have high cholesterol.

Yeah. Schools should definitely teach more about nutritional science, and more about pharmacology. These are important topics for everyday life.
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RE: What are some things that you strongly wish were common knowledge?
August 12, 2022 at 6:22 am
(August 11, 2022 at 12:13 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: A light-year is a measure of distance, not time.

Don’t be so silly. Informed people know that a light year is the same as a regular year, but with fewer calories.

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RE: What are some things that you strongly wish were common knowledge?
August 12, 2022 at 6:24 am
(August 12, 2022 at 6:22 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(August 11, 2022 at 12:13 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: A light-year is a measure of distance, not time.

Don’t be so silly. Informed people know that a light year is the same as a regular year, but with fewer calories.

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Would it then be a 'lite year'?
  
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RE: What are some things that you strongly wish were common knowledge?
August 12, 2022 at 7:18 am
(August 12, 2022 at 6:24 am)arewethereyet Wrote:
(August 12, 2022 at 6:22 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Don’t be so silly. Informed people know that a light year is the same as a regular year, but with fewer calories.

Boru

Would it then be a 'lite year'?

‘Lite’ is simply a marketing ploy, it doesn’t change the facts.

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August 12, 2022 at 7:24 am (This post was last modified: August 12, 2022 at 7:24 am by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(August 11, 2022 at 1:44 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:
(August 11, 2022 at 12:13 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: A light-year is a measure of distance, not time.

And a parsec is a measure of distance, not time.   Making the Kessel run in 12 parsecs means George Lucas is an ignoramus, not that millennium falcon is fast.

Lucas back engineered that one. What Solo was referring to was finding a new, shorter hyperspace route that hit all the stops on the Kessel Run, which clipped eight parsecs off the distance.

I believe the technical term for this is ‘cooking the books’.

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RE: What are some things that you strongly wish were common knowledge?
August 12, 2022 at 9:26 am
(August 11, 2022 at 8:57 pm)polymath257 Wrote: The number pi is not infinite. It is between 3 and 4.

It is 3 according to 1 Kings.
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RE: What are some things that you strongly wish were common knowledge?
August 12, 2022 at 1:36 pm
(August 12, 2022 at 9:26 am)HappySkeptic Wrote:
(August 11, 2022 at 8:57 pm)polymath257 Wrote: The number pi is not infinite. It is between 3 and 4.

It is 3 according to 1 Kings.

Fundamentalists will claim that the text was inspired to introduce the concept of rounding.
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RE: What are some things that you strongly wish were common knowledge?
August 12, 2022 at 1:50 pm
(August 12, 2022 at 1:36 pm)Jehanne Wrote:
(August 12, 2022 at 9:26 am)HappySkeptic Wrote: It is 3 according to 1 Kings.

Fundamentalists will claim that the text was inspired to introduce the concept of rounding.

Well, 2 + 2 = 5, for large enough values of 2, so there you go.  Tongue
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RE: What are some things that you strongly wish were common knowledge?
August 12, 2022 at 2:16 pm
Some dumbass will find the foundations of modern algebra all the way through String Theory in the "inspired" texts; one only needs to twist & stretch to fulfill one's heart & desires. Little wonder that Trump resonates so very much with these people!!
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RE: What are some things that you strongly wish were common knowledge?
October 29, 2022 at 8:24 am
(August 12, 2022 at 7:24 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(August 11, 2022 at 1:44 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: And a parsec is a measure of distance, not time.   Making the Kessel run in 12 parsecs means George Lucas is an ignoramus, not that millennium falcon is fast.

Lucas back engineered that one. What Solo was referring to was finding a new, shorter hyperspace route that hit all the stops on the Kessel Run, which clipped eight parsecs off the distance.

And it was about as realistic as the CGI he threw in the 1997 re-releases.
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