Deep Thoughts

[Dan]

When I inevitably die, I don't want to go to heaven or hell, if those places actually exist. I want to be free to roam the universe and witness everything I never had the chance to see, like the birth of stars, planets, among other things. I also wish to see what I could have done, where I could have been, and who I could have met. I personally believe that for every action you do, there are thousands of things, if not more, that could have happened. For example: On a rainy street corner, you could walk left and bump into an old friend. You could walk right and see the face of a man who was walking away from a crime scene. You could walk forward and potentially meet the person you're going to marry. You could walk back, away from the street corner and miss all of those opportunities. It's things like that that get me thinking constantly. If I did that, would I be here? Or if I did this, would I be there?

Om mani padme hum.

Sorry to quote a two year old post, but what does that mean? I'm really confused.

 

[Danoff]

I take a stick of spearmint gum and chew it for a few moments. Then I drink some ice water. It's intensely, somewhat painfully cold in my entire mouth. This happens every time, yet I come back for more because the taste is a good combination. What's with the weird painful cold? It hits the roof of my mouth most.

 

[Dan]

People who do the science, get over here!

 

[Touring Mars]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menthol#Biological_properties

Probably?

 

[Danoff]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menthol#Biological_properties

Probably?

"Unlike peppermint oil, oil of spearmint contains minimal amounts of menthol and menthone."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spearmint


Probably a similar effect though. Interesting.

 

[Lizard]

I have been having deep thoughts.
Do I really have a life to live or am I just a biological machine here to fulfill the needs of society/the state? Am I just waiting for my opportunity to give my life up for the benefit of others?

Don't get me wrong I am happy but I feel like I am not here to enjoy my time I am here to keep the wheel of society moving and if I need to die to save others or fighting for the state then so be it.

 

[PeterJB]

The Soviet Union would have loved you.

 

[Lizard]

The Soviet Union would have loved you.

Nah. I still have my own desires despite what I just said. My main point is it doesn't matter to me if I die if I can do it in glory.
The rest about keeping society moving etc is about getting a job.

 

[axletramp]

We are all ants, just keeping the hive alive for no reason in a universe that is destined to die.

So basically, just have laugh and stop worrying about it. There's nothing you can do about it.

I just wonder what's going to happen to all those immortal vampires come the temperature death of the universe. Floating in nothingness for all eternity.

With no Wifi.

 

[Danoff]

I just wonder what's going to happen to all those immortal vampires come the temperature death of the universe. Floating in nothingness for all eternity.

Vampires don't die of old age, but they can still be effectively killed. Sunlight and scattered ashes does the job nicely - so there's no way they end up floating for all eternity. Similarly, wolverine appears to be stoppable as well.

 

[Dan]

I've been told vampires sparkle in sunlight.

 

[PeterJB]

You must wonder with Vampires if it's only the sunlight from our sun that would kill them. Because obviously they're supposed to only come out at night, where they're directed exposed to the incredibly tenuous sunlight of millions of other stars. Though I suppose the vacuum of space would rip their bodies apart anyway.

 

[TB]

You must wonder with Vampires if it's only the sunlight from our sun that would kill them. Because obviously they're supposed to only come out at night, where they're directed exposed to the incredibly tenuous sunlight of millions of other stars. Though I suppose the vacuum of space would rip their bodies apart anyway.

Intensity of the light. I have no plans on looking directly at the sun but a 60w light bulb? Sure.

And if you want to argue other means of sunlight, why not the moon reflecting the sun?

 

[niky]

The Super-Moon should be good for a mild sunburn, given the intensity.

Floodlights should also do the trick... and if you believe the Blade and Underworld explanations that it's the UV that does it, a sufficiently powerful blacklight should hurt them a lot.

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In the end, though... the Vampires should all die off when they run out of oxygen, unless they shoot themselves off into deep space in sealed containers in their "mist" form before the sun enters its Red Giant phase.

 

[photonrider]

When I inevitably die, I don't want to go to heaven or hell, if those places actually exist. I want to be free to roam the universe and witness everything I never had the chance to see, like the birth of stars, planets, among other things. I also wish to see what I could have done, where I could have been, and who I could have met. I personally believe that for every action you do, there are thousands of things, if not more, that could have happened. For example: On a rainy street corner, you could walk left and bump into an old friend. You could walk right and see the face of a man who was walking away from a crime scene. You could walk forward and potentially meet the person you're going to marry. You could walk back, away from the street corner and miss all of those opportunities. It's things like that that get me thinking constantly. If I did that, would I be here? Or if I did this, would I be there?



Sorry to quote a two year old post, but what does that mean? I'm really confused.

Lol. Thank you for the interest. . It's actually so deep a thought that to understand it requires absolute loss of thought. I guess I was being somewhat shallow of humour.

 

[Dan]

Lol. Thank you for the interest. . It's actually so deep a thought that to understand it requires absolute loss of thought. I guess I was being somewhat shallow of humour.

Well, I recently looked it up and I've got a very vague understanding of it. My 11:30 PM brain can't recall the information now, though.

 

[PeterJB]

Intensity of the light. I have no plans on looking directly at the sun but a 60w light bulb? Sure.

And if you want to argue other means of sunlight, why not the moon reflecting the sun?

Technically the moon reflecting the sun is not direct sunlight, as it's through a medium.

 

[Danoff]

I've been told vampires sparkle in sunlight.

...yea... cause that's... yea.

I don't get why all of the modern vampire shows are in such a hurry to remove the one major weakness (sunlight) from the character. It's what makes them interesting!

 

[Jet Badger]

I used to wonder why don't cars have fan-shaped wheel rims so they suck air from under the car and provide some sort of downforce.

Pretty much as deep as my thoughts get.

 

[axletramp]

Possibly because it would interfere with the overall drag coefficient and increase fuel consumption which is a bigger deal for motor manufacturers than downforce.

 

[PeterJB]

...yea... cause that's... yea.

I don't get why all of the modern vampire shows are in such a hurry to remove the one major weakness (sunlight) from the character. It's what makes them interesting!

Indeed, Buffy the Vampire Slayer did vampires pretty much perfectly.

 

[2clicks]

A deep thought that I have always pondered over is how the human ear is able to discern and identify music apart from noise. What makes the frequency range of music so distinct that it is able to be told apart from any other noise and identified as music?

 

[Danoff]

A deep thought that I have always pondered over is how the human ear is able to discern and identify music apart from noise. What makes the frequency range of music so distinct that it is able to be told apart from any other noise and identified as music?

It's not the frequency range. Music occurs at all audible frequencies, as does noise.

 

[PeterJB]

A deep thought that I have always pondered over is how the human ear is able to discern and identify music apart from noise. What makes the frequency range of music so distinct that it is able to be told apart from any other noise and identified as music?

Because that which is defined as non-percussive music has harmonic resonance. All sound is made of varying wavelengths and frequencies. Musical notes tend to be of a single frequency (which in turned is made up of several frequencies put together) that we hear, so it stands out compared to a general 'thud'.

 

[Bopop4]

I used to wonder why don't cars have fan-shaped wheel rims so they suck air from under the car and provide some sort of downforce.

Pretty much as deep as my thoughts get.

Some sports and race cars have them, it's used to bring air in to cool the brakes.

 

[Jet Badger]

Some sports and race cars have them, it's used to bring air in to cool the brakes.

Before I realised that I wanted to see proper full-on whacky plane propeller shaped wheels.

 

[Lucas]

Something I thought of a while back... I have been alive for as long as I can remember. I do not remember the time before being alive because, surprise, I wasn't alive. And I don't remember feeling any transition from non-existence to existence.

So I wonder, sometimes, will I ever feel the transition from life to death, given than I do not feel the transition from awake to asleep?

 

[axletramp]

@Lucas I think you may have answered your own question there. The answer will be the same as going from non-existence to existence - you won't know anything about it or have any memory of it. That's why there's no need to work yourself up about the inevitability of death as it didn't bother you before you existed, did it? I plan on making the most of the bit in-between.

 

[Slash]

I've always believed that death will simply return you to the state of which you were in before you were born. You don't exist so it doesn't bother you and you won't know you passed away.

Yet I still immensely fear it despite having extreme suicidal tendencies.

 

[niky]

I was born sometime in the summer of 1980, or possible 1979.

That is to say, I was born in 1975, but I have no active recollection of having continuous consciousness before then. Just bizarrely short snippets of awareness of a time before that.

The realization of that event, the realization that I was conscious, alive and conscious of the fact that I was alive, makes it stand out in my memory.

I can imagine life before I existed. It was whatever happened before that.

From time to time during my growing years, I've had that vaguely dissociative feeling. The feeling that I was someone else. That yesterday happened to another person. I still get that feeling sometimes. And it makes sense. We are constantly evolving. Less so now that we (most of us) are adults and our brains aren't as plastic as they used to be. But here's the thing... we are constantly changing... and a continuous consciousness is simply an abstraction... and illusion.

I've always felt cursed for being able to peek behind the illusion of consciousness that way... and a bit glad that I more or less have my identity firmly grounded now. But these thoughts make me feel easier about death.

Uh... when they don't terrify me, that is.

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RE: fan blade wheels: Would cause too much turbulence. You want some air going through there, but not a lot. Having big rooster tail vortices coming off the wheels would cause a ton of drag.