h a l f b a k e r yNot so much a thought experiment as a single neuron misfire.
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Thought of this while washing my hands. Turned on the
water.
"gauge pressure" pushed the soap dispenser "Bernoulli
effect"
"surfactant" pulled out the paper towel. "wick effect."
Now at least two of the things that popped into my bored
head were incorrect. I was pumping a soap dispenser
that
did
not use the Bernoulli effect. I realized it immediately but it
popped into my head so I didn't have any control over it.
Later I looked up how a paper towel works and it doesn't
use
the wick effect which is actually what causes dead people
to
burn into ashes in a "spontaneous human combustion"
situation. Again, not my fault. Just popped into my head.
Point is, I think you could make a kind of game of this.
Doing
whatever it is you're doing, no matter what it is, there's
always some scientific process going on. So while doing it,
throw out the words (to yourself, not out loud obviously)
that
come to mind describing what's going on.
Walking down the street you might think "static state-
electrical pulse-concentric contraction-isometric
contraction-
eccentric contraction-pound force-resistance-inertia-
respiration-hemoglobin-Krebs cycle-carbon dioxide" Just
throw around some of the processes and associated words
going on for that activity. Don't think about it, just throw
out
whatever comes to mind as quickly as possible.
On a fun scale of 1 to 10 this is a solid .5, but you're not
doing
anything anyway. If you already do this you're probably
nuts.
"How bird flocks are like liquid helium"
http://news.science...s-are-liquid-helium
Information about direction changes propagates across the flock with a linear dispersion law, just like the spin waves in superfluid liquid Helium II! [Mindey, Jul 30 2014]
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// If you already do this you're probably nuts. // |
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// If you already do this you're probably nuts.// |
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There are people who don't?? |
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Well, yes, when you put it like that … there
must be some, somewhere … |
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But they won't be halfbakers. |
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// … there must be some, somewhere … // |
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The French don't count. To a Frenchman, every
enactment of physical laws is merely a god-given
mystery that may or may not repeat itself the next
time similar circumstances arise. |
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This is why they invented the Gallic shrug and the
word "bof". |
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Well, we should have more of this! |
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I consider the activity as described a form of worship, as covered in Psalm 105:5: |
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"Remember His marvelous works which He has done, His wonders." |
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I'm sure I would be healthier if I didn't rather spend the same time in
intellectual masturbation like daydreaming or wondering why nothing
has evolved to use radio when so many creatures evolved to use sight. |
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It's not just scientific. There are also abstract mathematical patterns in most phenomena ehich are worth considering. Sometimes there is even linguistic or semantic nerdery worth investigating. If only one had more than one brain so as to fully consider all these possibilities at once! |
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" On a fun scale of 1 to 10 this is a solid .5 " |
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[Voice] because of nature's natural scale. |
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This adds another dimension to my day. Playing with
someone else might be fun too. This could be tested
by saying your first process observation out aloud
and gauging the photons reflective images of your
company's brain processed facial and vocal reflexes. |
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//like daydreaming or wondering why nothing has evolved to use radio when so many creatures evolved to use sight// |
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I thought it was just me who wondered that (after all the makings are already there). |
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Vacuum tube = inner ear, the electric eel has the power system pretty much baked & (almost?) any mineral you can think of is extracted & used by extant organisms, so why not a crystal. |
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Though in my daydream we engineer it into a viral gene therapy treatment (making it hereditary (the modifications don't present in the (infected?) parent)). |
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But we forget an off switch so everyone can hear everyone elses broadcasts (all the time), & as we hardwired it into the brains thought (rather than vocal) centre what they send is what they think. |
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<It was meant to spread harmony & understanding, big mistake, no one likes what they're hearing> |
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So everyone avoids each other by at least half a mile (the range of the broadcasts) & the species dies for want of procreation :) |
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// the species dies for want of procreation // |
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Not if the species continually assimilates new members, durrrr ... |
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