Hey that requires investing in a massive 3-second research project involving a modern computer or phone or maybe even a tablet linked to the internet to figure out that its really a myth, do you think these people are made of money?? Cut Hollywood some slack would ya?

In all seriousness: I didnt even type "brain":
http://imgur.com/HujVn1d

I think this might be legit, this report is made by a science show on NRK called "Schrodingers cat" They are (in addition to having picked a really cool name) usually thorough and fact-based, and they have been running since 1990. NRK is the Norwegian counterpart to the BBC.

It is of course possible that the diver has faked the footage etc, but if so, he has fooled not just the tv-show but also a few scientists. They've even organized search groups to look for this thing.

Yes it does, thats excactly what it does mean. Try standing on the floor spinning around, if you spin fast enough, you'll feel that your arms starts tending towards a jesus-like pose, if you were somehow artificially accellerated to spin around some point in your torso to say a million spins a second, your arms and legs would be pulled outward, and your body would be squeezed more and more and stretched more and more from the center. now You wouldnt actually become a disc, because there wouldnt be anything to stop the centrifugal force from ripping you apart, but in space that center is also the center of mass and gravity, so stuff gets pulled towards the center while the whole thing is spinning, the spinning stuff gets pulled outward from the center of the spinning direction by the spinning, but also kept in orbit because of gravity.

It makes complete sense if you sit down and think about it, there really is nowhere else to go but a disc.

Keep in mind that the movements in the blob at the beginning can be completely random, its just that by chance, there is one way, when all the vectors are added up, that the blob spins more than any other. and that eventually becomes the direction of the planets., because all the other movements cancel out.

I'm sure there are some dumbing down going on, see the related video in the comment above, but what this woman is talking about/objecting to is insane.

"He said education was about challenging and changing students mind.."

YES IT IS!. Thats excactly the point of education: LEARNING something that gives you something to think about, she says it like its a bad thing!, its a good thing, having your views challenged. And then she continues: "I thought education was about reading, writing and arithmetic" Well, you need those things, but sureley, if anything is dumbing down, it would be to create mindless reading math robots with no understanding of the context and purpose of learning stuff.

"He could turn a god-fearing patriot into an atheist in an hour" Well duh, thats because religion and nationalism doesnt make any sense, of course kids with actual open minds would realise the truth very quickly.

I'd love to see a close-up of the harvested corn, are they ready-peeled? , they look like they are pulverized, but its probably just that there are so many that look small next to the large machines.. Also, dont they get damage at that speed?

Well, helium is the product of fusion. However, even if we found some "cheap" or "cold" way to fuse hydrogen into helium, I dont think it would be cheap enough to produce useful amounts. Ie producing enough energy to keep a light bulb on for 300 years will produce 1 balloon full of helium. (http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/teachers/hera/spectroscopy/snr/fusion_calculation.html)

Domesticated/altered plants spread back into the wild all the time, and chimps have been here as long as we have, IOW, they have learned to recognize and eat bananas by quite literally reaping our fruits, so to speak. And even if you find a chimp/great ape or even a monkey that has never seen a banana, my bet is that its going to figure it out pretty quickly, they are curios and fast learners

*promote

I found this really cheezy. Reminds me of 80s commercials.

I still really want a Tesla, though

The big difference in price seems a bit much, however, this "ripoff" is an exaggeration because the small cup is probably usually just filled up to about the bottom of those 3 ridges at the top. I bet that if you filled that amount into the large beer, it would be about 4/7th full., which would make the price about right (assuming that the large beer is filled up higher on each tap) Another way to say it is that because the small glass has such an expanding shape upwards , if you fill it 4/5 of its height its probably around half-full.

The red that makes 113 is the key shot, that red was out of place and he did it left-handed (O'Sullivan is right-handed, but is one of the few players who can really play both hands), not only was it a long shot, but he manage to get the white back to get a shot on the black.

I make it 36 degrees from 0:35 in the video, considering the mast is 30 meters from the deck, lets make the hypothenus 32 meters from the base of the triangle (ocean surface), that makes the jump 18.81 meters
sin(36)*32 meters= 18.8091280734
Depending on how the 30 meters are measured, and accounting for the difference in angles in video/reality I'd say the dive is between 17 and 20 meters.

*skillful too, especially for the sailors, unless there is some sort of ballast/weight trickery going on.

*viral

I'll add to the comment above by saying that Ronnie O'Sullivan has the highest number of maximum breaks ("147s") in a tournament in the world, he has 12. considering the fact that he has played hundreds and hundred of matches, each consisting of 7-10 ish frames (the video shows one frame)= thousands of tournament frames, he has an extremely impressive 733 "century breaks" that is frames where he has scored more than 100 points.
Still, getting the maximum break he has only managed 12 times, which is the most anyone has ever managed.

This, coupled with the above description should give you an idea of how hard this is.

And then he goes and finishes a FINAL with it, a final, of course, brings out the nerves etc on a much higher scale than training in your basement does, which again makes it so much more difficult.