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  1. Silvestru

    Last day of My Polish Job today. So many days spent on the science forum from this job. I really encourage anyone who has not seen Poland first hand to visit and get to know the people and see the country. I will be back in my later years.

    1. peterwlocke

      peterwlocke

      my family is from Poland. Well, a part of it is.

    2. nevim

      nevim

      Best wishes for the future Silvestru. May you find a den just as comfortable :D

    3. koti

      koti

      @Silvestru,Good luck with the fish & chips - bon appetit! Traitor.
      :D 

  2. Silvestru

    Moving to UK in May/June. :( 
    Home of many important people: The queen, Freddy Mercury, StringJunky and DrP among others.

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    2. MigL

      MigL

      I thought it was illegal to bring polar bears into the UK.
      ( or are you going to a zoo ? )

    3. peterwlocke

      peterwlocke

      ha ha cause it lost most of i ts land.

    4. Silvestru

      Silvestru

      Haha Polar bears Illegal? Unfortunately in UK if it's all white, it's all right :(. 
      We will see :D will keep you updated       MigL.

  3. Silvestru

    Was bored and listening to a podcast with Brian Cox randomly and there was a question about online science related arguments. 
    I spat out what I had in my mouth and was listening carefully in hopes that he would mention swansont. 
    #WeForgiveButWeNeverForget
    hahaha

    1. koti

      koti

      Wait, so he did mention him? I don't get it. I mean I get that Professor Cox made a really awkward statement (aka made an ass of himself) once and swansont was there to fix the awkwardness online but...did Cox mention him or not ?

    2. Silvestru

      Silvestru

      Sorry to keep you in suspense koti.  I was out for a bit. No he did not mention swansont specifically unfortunately. :( 

       

       

  4. Silvestru

    Why was this holiday turned into a shopping spree? Damn you Consumerism and Marketing.
    I have to buy presents now and I don't know what to do. I don't even want anything! :(

    1. MigL

      MigL

      I blame Santa Claus.

      Oh, cheer up Scrooge.

    2. Silvestru

      Silvestru

      Yeah... I didnt' eat my banana that day. Sorry Santa

  5. Silvestru

    Important assessment tomorrow at the job. The topic is transfer pricing :(. Wish me luck! In case I fail send me a location under a bridge or smthn where I can hibernate during the winter.

    1. studiot

      studiot

      Yeah good luck.

      Though I confess to knowing absolutely nothing about transfer pricing.

    2. Silvestru

      Silvestru

      Thanks Studiot! Well unfortunately I am not much ahead either. :lol: But an all-nighter might help. 

  6. Silvestru

    Even though I have not met any of you guys in RL I dreamt yesterday that I was hanging out with a few members from the forum. Really strange dream. You guys looked like rockers but dressed business casual and the setting was an office space. I don't know why I'm sharing this haha

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    2. StringJunky

      StringJunky

      I walked into a record shop once in the 70's asking "Do you have Wet Dreams" (an album) and the female assistant's eyes popped. :) 

    3. Silvestru

      Silvestru

      I really don't think it's politically correct to segregate and assume that the rest of the dreams are "dry". I think it's offensive for the non-wet dreams. :)

      Stringy don't be coy, you knew exactly what you were doing !

    4. koti

      koti

      I dreamt this morning that my kid is banging me on the head with something. I woke up and guess what, he was banging me on the head with a toy excavator.

  7. Silvestru

    I miss the Medieval days where if someone was annoying you could just claw, mangle and thrash them in the face or be be mangled. Nowadays the people I want to punch are bothering  me via phone, e-mail, letters, TV. It's frustrating to point a closed paw to the TV screen....

    1. Silvestru

      Silvestru

      Image result for really epic punch

    2. Sensei

      Sensei

      Sign up karate. New season always starts in September. You will learn how to control your emotions and simply ignore insults (Bruce Lee "the art of fighting without fighting")..

       

       

  8. Silvestru

    I was trying to be good and save money this year and I just got a big fine for 1 day delay in paying the car insurance. The two are not related but damn. Life has a way of kicking you when you're up... or down for that matter.

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    2. MigL

      MigL

      We don't have fines for being late. But they can refuse coverage if you haven't made payment, and expect back pay to re-instate coverage even though nothing has happened.
      Insurance companies get to have their cake and eat it too.

    3. NimrodTheGoat

      NimrodTheGoat

      new hampshire is starting to look appealing because it doesn't force car insurance on you.

    4. StringJunky

      StringJunky

      That's great... until you have a crash.

  9. Silvestru

    Which came first, DNA or protein?

    1. koti

      koti

      I'm no expert but I was always convinced that various proteins and amino acids were present in earth's oceans before any life evolved. I don't think it has to contradict with the fact that in today's world its DNA that produces proteins.

    2. tmx3

      tmx3

      DNA

    3. Sensei

      Sensei

      Quote

      Which came first, DNA or protein?

      There is Miller-Urey experiment

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller–Urey_experiment

      Did you hear about it?

      If you will heat, pass current (spark in experiment, in the real world thunderbolt, lightning), cool down, then repeat, mixture of gases such as CH4, CO2, H2O, NH3, HCN, H2, N2, O2.. after a while there will be created the all kinds of organic molecules, amino acids, proteins, DNA. e.g. you can make C5H5N5 (adenine) from 5 HCN.

  10. Silvestru

    MTG gathering this weekend. The only time when Aether is real.

    1. koti

      koti

      Did you try poker ? ;)

    2. Silvestru

      Silvestru

      Doesn't stimulate the imagination enough. Poker calcifies my pineal gland haha.

    3. koti

      koti

      Ok, so the answer is you didn’t try poker :P Two things that poker does for me is stimulate imagination like no other game and it melts pineal gland due to its sheer complexity and gambling factor :D 

      BTW, there's a lot of poker players who converted from MTG. 

  11. Silvestru

    Can anyone recommend a documentary that is not dripping with Bro-science and pseudoscience? Something light about food or anything like that. I watched too many Universe/Black hole/ Particle documentaries and I need a break. Any recommendation will be appreciated! :)

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    2. Silvestru

      Silvestru

      Thank you guys. I will definitely start with koti's recommendation. I forgot about wacky religion documentaries. Great! 

    3. koti

      koti

      It’s interesting from psychological and economical point of view...how they are able to brainwash smart (but empathetic) people into the cult and how they were able to intimidate the IRS to give them billions in tax exemption. I recommend this 2 hour interview with actor Jason Beghe, I think its actually more insightful than the HBO documentary:

       

    4. NimrodTheGoat

      NimrodTheGoat

      If you want you can watch the videos this channel has to offer. The videos are short but they are interesting in their own way. They focus mainly on  the evolutionary facet of Earths history.  

      PBS Eons

      https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzR-rom72PHN9Zg7RML9EbA

  12. Silvestru

    After some time on this forum, I have a theory that you are secretly Beppe Grillo. 

    1. Raider5678

      Raider5678

      Possible.....

    2. Strange

      Strange

      I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not... (although, he is even older than me!)

  13. Silvestru

    There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. - Arthur C. Clarke

  14. Silvestru

    "And yet I did not open them for him; / and it was courtesy to show him rudeness."

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    2. imatfaal

      imatfaal

      Are we back on to Donald Trump?

    3. Silvestru

      Silvestru

      Haha wow. I'm impressed imatfaal.

       

    4. imatfaal

      imatfaal

      Had to look it up to check - but the style is distinctive

  15. Silvestru

    Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. - Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes)

    1. Function

      Function

      We have tried, yet failed. Does that make us unintelligent?

    2. StringJunky

      StringJunky

      I sense wry humour.

    3. Silvestru

      Silvestru

      What have we tried Function? To send random signals in space?

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