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- So Mr Billionaire Muslim, gonna help Gaza or the West Bank to construct amicable living conditions for their citizens and alieviate most of the crisis in that area?

- Perhaps you could you could help out in welcoming a lot of the Palestinian refugees?

- To hell with that! That shiite is for the pigdogs of the West. We just built the tallest f***ing building in the world! Now, release the burning camels!

Very cool.

First, I was surprised how large our moon was in comparison to Earth (relatively speaking -- if I were to draw relative sizes of how I guessed they compared, I'd have pegged the moon with half the diameter). Then, I was surprised that the sun wasn't larger in comparison to the planets (I'd have guessed 30% bigger diameter). And then my mind was blown by the sun, an object so immense that it is basically beyond the limit of my human comprehension, being dwarfed by other stars.

I guess the scientific part of my mind has always been best suited towards understanding Biology. With animals there is variation between members of a species, but their physical characteristics generally fall into a bell curve without an extremely high standard deviation; the tallest human to ever live won't be orders of magnitude larger than the shortest. I guess I had been tempted to think of celestial bodies as falling into groups like "species" in animals: asteroids, planetoids, solid planets, gas giants, stars. Clearly I'll have to rethink that, because there aren't many ants the size of a house running around.

I wonder how the physics of things like solar flares, etc. works on those super massive stars -- do their flares scale up in size in a direct linear scale with diameter or mass, or are any increases bound by a more logarithmic scale?

Anyway, thanks for the good sift!

very cool.... makes me very uncomfortable just watching.

although him saying at the beginning "this is the highest point in the world" is not true at all. its the tallest man made structure, but not even a tenth of the height at the summit of mt everest.

>> ^reiwan:
they must have set the audio gain to 500 for that vid. holy eardums


tl;ch

>> ^notarobot:
^
To weigh it down so it could fit under the bridge.


I think that's the joke Westy was making...

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please remember me, happily  by the rosebush laughing 
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with bruises on my chin, the time when, we counted every black car 
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passing 
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your house beneath the hill, and up until, someone caught us in the kitchen
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With maps, a mountain range, a piggy bank, a vision too removed to 
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But please remember me, fondly, I heard from someone you’re still 
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Like, we’ll, meet again, and fuck the man And tell my mother not to 
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And angels with a great, handshake And all is done in such a hurry
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neighbors 
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Are faces painted white, by midnight, We forgotten one another
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And when The morning came, I was ashamed Only now it seems so silly, 

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That season Left the world and then returned And now your lit up by the Cit
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So, Please, remember me, Mistakenly In the window of the tallest 
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tower  call, Then pass us by, But much too high, To see the empty road 
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Happy hour
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Leave, and resonate, Just like the gates, Around the holy kingdom
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With words like 'Lost and Found' and 'Don't Look Down' And 
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'Someone Save Temptation'
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And Please, remember me As in the dream, We had as rug-burned 
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Among  the fallen trees And fast asleep Aside the lions and the ladies
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That called, you what you like, And even might, Give a gift for your 
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A fleeting chance to see, A trapeze Swing as high as any savior

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But Please, remember me, My misery, And how it lost me all I wanted 
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Those dogs, that love the rain, And chasing trains
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The colored birds above there running 
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In circles round the well, And where it spells 
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On the wall behind St. Peter's So bright with 
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With cinder gray, And spray paint 'Who the hell can see forever?' 
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My hand between your  knees, You turn from me 
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So Please, remember me, Finally, And all my uphill clawing
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My dear But if I make The pearly Gates
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A boy and girl An angel kissing on a sinner, 
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A monkey and a man A marching band All around the frightened trapeze swingers 
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http://lyrics.wikia.com/Iron_&_Wine:The_Trapeze_Swinger

Please remember me happily
By the rosebush laughing
With bruises on my chin
The time when we counted every black car passing

Your house beneath the hill and up until
Someone caught us in the kitchen
With maps, a mountain range, a piggy bank
A vision too removed to mention

But please remember me fondly
I heard from someone you're still pretty
And then they went on to say that the pearly gates
Had some eloquent graffiti

Like 'We'll meet again' and 'Fuck the man'
And 'Tell my mother not to worry'
And angels with their gray handshakes
Were always done in such a hurry

And please remember me at Halloween
Making fools of all the neighbors
Our faces painted white by midnight
We'd forgotten one another

And when the morning came, I was ashamed
Only now it seems so silly
That season left the world and then returned
But now you're lit up by the city

So please remember me mistakenly
In the window of the tallest tower call
Then pass us by but much too high
To see the empty road at happy hour

Gleam and resonate just like the gates
Around the holy kingdom
With words like 'Lost and Found' and 'Don't Look Down'
And 'Someone Save Temptation'

And please remember me as in the dream
We had as rug-burned babies
Among the fallen trees and fast asleep
Aside the lions and the ladies

That called you what you like and even might
Give a gift for your behavior
A fleeting chance to see a trapeze
Swinger high as any savior

But please remember me, my misery
And how it lost me all I wanted
Those dogs that love the rain and chasing trains
The colored birds above their running

In circles 'round the well and where it spells
On the wall behind St. Peter's
So bright on cinder gray and spray paint
'Who the hell can see forever?'

And please remember me seldomly
In the car behind the carnival
My hand between your knees, you turn from me
And said the trapeze act was wonderful

But never meant to last, the clowns that passed
Saw me just come up with anger
When it filled with circus dogs, the parking lot
Had an element of danger

So please remember me, finally
And all my uphill clawing, my dear
But if I make the pearly gates
Do my best to make a drawing

Of God and Lucifer, a boy and girl
An angel kissing on a sinner
A monkey and a man, a marching band
All around the frightened trapeze swingers

That's a Landseer Newfoundland, specifically.

>> ^Yogi:
"Possibly the World's Tallest Dog" and "Measuring 3 feet tall..."
Does not compute.


He's in the running for tallest living dog, not tallest of all time. Considering 3' is in the typical height range for male Irish Wolfhounds, I would be surprised if Boomer makes the cut.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoundland_%28dog%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epitaph_to_a_Dog

"Possibly the World's Tallest Dog" and "Measuring 3 feet tall..."

Does not compute.

This is a good explanation... for kids. It's too bad it's a poor example from a scientific perspective. Lamarck and Darwin's observations (early 1800's) were not very rigorous.

In their article, "Winning by a Neck," zoologists Robert Simmons (Uppsala University) and Lue Scheepers (Ministry of Environment, Namibia) agree that the standard account "may be no more than a tall story". According to the competition hypothesis, giraffes use their long necks to advantage during dry seasons, when food is scarce; but, in fact, the opposite is observed in the field. "In the Serengeti," Simmons and Scheepers note, "giraffe spend almost all of the dry season feeding from low Grewia bushes, while only in the wet season do they turn to tall Acacia tortillis trees, when new leaves are ...plentiful ...and no competition is expected. This behavior is contrary to the prediction that giraffe should use their feeding height to advantage at times of food scarcity". Moreover, they report, "females spend over 50% of their time feeding with their necks horizontal [a behavior so common it is used to determine the sex of animals at a distance]" and "both sexes feed faster and most often with their necks bent". These observations, they conclude, suggest "that long necks did not evolve specifically for feeding at higher levels." (from http://www.arn.org/docs/odesign/od181/ls181.htm)

"but if we continue to illustrate our conviction with an indefensible, unsupported, entirely speculative and basically rather silly story, then we are clothing a thing of beauty in rags and we should be ashamed, `for the apparel oft proclaims the man.'" (from "The Tallest Tale" by Stephen Jay Gould, Natural History, May 1996)

A long, long, long, long time ago
Before the wind, before the snow
Lived a man, lived a man I know
Lived a freak of nature named Sir Psycho

Sir Psycho Sexy that is me
Sometimes I find I need to scream

He's a freak of nature
But we love him so
He's a freak of nature
But we let him go

Deep inside the garden of Eden
Standing there with my hard on bleedin'
Theres a devil in my dick and some demons in my semen
Good God no that would be treason
Believe me Eve she gave good reason
Botty looking too good not to be squeezin'
Creamy beaver hotter than a fever
I'm a givin' 'cause she's the reciever
I won't and I don't hang up until I please her
Makin' her feel like an over achiever
I take it away for a minute just to tease her
Then I give it back a little bit deeper

He's a freak of nature
But we love him so
He's a freak of nature
But we let him go

I got stopped by a lady cop
In my automobile
She said get out and spead your legs
And then she tried to cop a feel
That cop she was all dressed in blue
Was she pretty? Boy I'm tellin' you
She stuck my butt with her big black stick
I said "what's up?" now suck my dick
Like a ram getting ready to jam the lamb
She whimpered just a little when she felt my hand
On her crotch so very warm
I could feel her getting wet through her uniform
Proppin' her up on the black and white
Unzipped and slipped "ooo that's tight"
I swatted her like no swat team can
Turned a cherry pie right into jam

(chorus)

Hello young woman that I love
Pretty punk rock mamma that I'm thinking of
Hold me naked if you will
In your arms in your legs in your pussy I'd kill
To be with you, to kiss with you, I do miss you
I love you

Lay me down...
Descending waves of graceful pleasure
For your love there is no measure
Her curves they bend with subtle splendor

Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the funk will make me freak
If I should die before I waked
Allow me Lord to rock out naked
Bored by the ordinary time to take a trip
Calling up a little girl with a bull whip
Lickety split go snap "snap"
Girl gettin' off all in my lap
The tallest tree the sweetest sap
Blowin' my ass right off the map
Ooo and it's nice out here
I think I'll stay for a while

Cheers RM!

In reply to this comment by RhesusMonk:
*promote

So I'm guessing he's not really the tallest man on earth...

>> ^gwiz665:
"made popular by Nico of Velvet Underground" wtf? I didn't even know that version existed. Jackson Browne's own is my favorite.


yeah, it was made popular through its use in a movie.. The Royal Tenenbaums I think? But same here, I like the original version best. TMOE did a pretty good job here though.