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The most secure coin in the world

nanrod says...

In Canada we reference the "Lily Thistle Shamrock and Rose" so before they explained it I was wondering, what's up with the "Lily Thistle Shamrock and Pineapple". Is the Welsh leek actually a thing.

'Spy Monkey' Mistaken For Dead Baby And Mourned By Troop

nanrod says...

Of course they can't, because after a suitable period of mourning the troup attempted to eat the corpse. Hence the evolution of the phrase "waste not want not".

00Scud00 said:

Now they're going to have to find a new monkey dummy, they can't exactly send that one back to the colony.

Could Humans Survive a Nuclear Winter?

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Urban Geography: Why We Live Where We Do

nanrod says...

At 8:24 just as he's saying "rich Americans are therefore beginning to return to the city", the city shown is Canadian (Vancouver). The glass and metal structure in the lower left of the view is the Law Courts Building where my civil wedding took place under a waterfall.

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The Horse Horseshoe Boots Viral Algebra Problem

nanrod says...

Your logic is superior to that which is displayed in this video.

Payback said:

This is like, grade 1 math. Making things mean simple numbers is -truly- elementary.

If I have 6 apples,

and I give 2 to Susan,

why won't she show me her panties?

The Horse Horseshoe Boots Viral Algebra Problem

nanrod says...

I would never down vote a video like this simply because it offends my knowledge of math and logic and irritates the hell out of me. These kind of problems have been coming my way on facebook repeatedly and they do get huge numbers of comments with wildly different solutions. Actually out of the 500,000 comments claimed for this one probably half of them give 42 as the answer. My problem comes from the assumption that an algebraic variable represented by a symbol (an image of a boot) bears some inherent relationship to a different symbol (two boots). Even if you make that leap that two boots is two separate variables, if there is no operand between them they should be multiplied, not added. In algebra a term such as 3AB equals 3 times A times B not 3+A+B. Unfortunately in this problem with two horseshoes equaling 4 it works either way but if two boots equals 2 then one should equal the square root of two and the correct solution would be 21.414.

The Horse Horseshoe Boots Viral Algebra Problem

nanrod says...

I can't believe you posted this. This problem and all others like it are unsolvable unless you make at least one not very logical assumption about the use of graphical symbols as variables and this guys solution makes an even worse assumption that side by side variables with no operand between them should be added rather than multiplied.

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Primitive Technology: Forge Blower

nanrod says...

What I like most about this guy is that he gives the lie to all those people who say "primitive people couldn't have done this ... therefore Aliens".

Building An Underground Oven

nanrod says...

My guess is because rather than have an ongoing fire under or beside her oven she built it inside and then relied on the residual coals which necessitated keeping as much heat inside as possible.

What I was wondering was in a theoretical survival situation where did she get the store bought sausages and the perfectly flat stones that look like they came from Home Depot.

littledragon_79 said:

Why would you want an oven powered by fire to be air tight?



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