# Mind Blowing Random Thoughts #2
**URL:** https://talkingsober.com/t/mind-blowing-random-thoughts-2/96911
**Category:** Knowledge
**Created:** [August 21, 2020, 1:44pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/mind-blowing-random-thoughts-2/96911 "2020-08-21T13:44:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 7
### Author:  [@Solanaceae](https://talkingsober.com/u/Solanaceae)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2021, 11:31am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/mind-blowing-random-thoughts-2/96911/137 "2021-11-06T11:31:33Z")
Picture please??
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### Author:  [@Thirdmonkey](https://talkingsober.com/u/Thirdmonkey)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2021, 12:49pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/mind-blowing-random-thoughts-2/96911/138 "2021-11-06T12:49:19Z")
Message me if you want. Rather not get into the grim details.
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### Author:  [@Salty](https://talkingsober.com/u/Salty)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2021, 3:10pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/mind-blowing-random-thoughts-2/96911/139 "2021-11-06T15:10:52Z")
The first photo is the tree in pot. Likely 4-4.5 feet tall (1.2-1.4 metres). Middle pic is a year or two after or so; last is today next to my little guy. You can see the gap where it got chomped with blower lol
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### Author:  [@SinceIAwoke](https://talkingsober.com/u/SinceIAwoke)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2021, 3:44pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/mind-blowing-random-thoughts-2/96911/140 "2021-11-06T15:44:20Z")
Our trees come from Christmas tree farms. You can grow a lot of trees pretty quickly on a small piece of land. Low maintenance and organic! Start one when your kids are in kindergarten and they will help pay for college. And they compost 100% when finished.
I know farmers who pay for Christmas by loading 50 Vermont trees on a farm truck and selling them on the same street corner in NYC did $150 each, in two days time. Not a bad payback!
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### Author:  [@anon74766472](https://talkingsober.com/u/anon74766472)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2021, 4:34pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/mind-blowing-random-thoughts-2/96911/141 "2021-11-06T16:34:41Z")
I thought when you hang yourself the dens axis will break and hurting the upper spinal cord where the breathing reflex is. If that happens or is more likely to happen when you are heavy. Maybe it’s all wrong what I wrote, too.
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### Author:  [@Solanaceae](https://talkingsober.com/u/Solanaceae)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2021, 5:02pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/mind-blowing-random-thoughts-2/96911/142 "2021-11-06T17:02:29Z")
Thank you 😊
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### Author:  [@DungeonMaster](https://talkingsober.com/u/DungeonMaster)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2021, 3:52pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/mind-blowing-random-thoughts-2/96911/143 "2021-11-13T15:52:51Z")
Proper hanging severs the spinal cord. Suicides are usually stragulation. I’d imagine increased weight would cut off blood flow as well as air supply. Either way, the weight of anyone’s body is enough to cut off air flow completely.
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### Author:  [@anon57836609](https://talkingsober.com/u/anon57836609)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2022, 1:10pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/mind-blowing-random-thoughts-2/96911/144 "2022-01-18T13:10:29Z")
Being wired differently doesn’t make us defective
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### Author:  [@anon57836609](https://talkingsober.com/u/anon57836609)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2022, 1:11pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/mind-blowing-random-thoughts-2/96911/145 "2022-01-18T13:11:12Z")
Bones are wet.
Read that again.
Feel the discomfort of your wet bones.
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### Author:  [@anon57836609](https://talkingsober.com/u/anon57836609)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2022, 1:13pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/mind-blowing-random-thoughts-2/96911/146 "2022-01-18T13:13:00Z")
I have a magic trick. I will make you breathe manually. Because I’ve just put your attention on manual breathing. Now you can’t stop breathing manually on command.
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### Author:  [@DungeonMaster](https://talkingsober.com/u/DungeonMaster)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2022, 5:53pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/mind-blowing-random-thoughts-2/96911/147 "2022-01-20T17:53:59Z")
As of January 2021 there were **4.66 billion active internet users worldwide** - 59.5 percent of the global population. Of this total, 92.6 percent (4.32 billion) accessed the internet via mobile devices.
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### Author:  [@DungeonMaster](https://talkingsober.com/u/DungeonMaster)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2022, 6:11pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/mind-blowing-random-thoughts-2/96911/148 "2022-01-21T18:11:42Z")
This post was inspired by by @ShesGotMoxie. I really love science and how things work in nature. She got me thinking about light.
> [@Post your most inspiring photos of nature #3](https://talkingsober.com/t/post-your-most-inspiring-photos-of-nature-3/121707/1217):
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> Why are frozen waterfalls sometimes blue? For the same reasons that glaciers are blue… the red and yellow parts of white light are absorbed by the ice, leaving only the blue light scattered throughout. The longer it takes for light to travel through ice, the more blue it appears. In simpler terms, if the ice is thin, all light passes through it. If it’s thick and compact, mostly blue light makes it through. Frozen blue waterfalls are one of my favorite things about winter.
Light belongs to something called the Electromagnetic Spectrum. This involves the speed, or _frequency_ of which radiation particles move through space. There is an incredible range of wavelengths within this spectrum that make up and contribute towards our world. Below is listed a range of them:
- **Radio waves** (about 1 m and longer): Radiofrequency EM radiation spans about 20,000 to 300 billion Hz. These “fly” not only around the world but deep into space.
- **Microwaves** (about 1 mm to 1 m): These can also penetrate into space, but they are useful in weather applications because they can also penetrate clouds.
- **Infrared waves** (700 nm to 1 mm): Infrared radiation, or “infrared light,” is the stuff of “night-vision” goggles and other visual-enhancement equipment.
- **Visible light** (400 nm to 700 nm): Light waves in the visible spectrum span a tiny fraction of the electromagnetic wave frequency and wavelength range. Your eyes, after all, are the fairly conservative product of what nature needs them to collect for everyday survival.
- **Ultraviolet light** (10 nm to 400 nm): Ultraviolet radiation is what causes sunburn and probably skin malignancies as well. Nevertheless, tanning beds wouldn’t exist without it.
- **X-rays** (about 0.01 nm to 10 nm): This higher-energy radiation is an incredible diagnostic aid in medicine, but this must be balanced against their potential to cause physical harm themselves in higher exposures.
- **Gamma rays** (\< 0.01 nm): As you’d expect, this is very high-energy and hence potentially lethal radiation. Were it not for the Earth’s atmosphere blocking most of it, life in its current form would not have been able to get going billions of years ago. They are used to treat especially aggressive tumors.
If you want to read more about this topic, some of this information I summarized and grabbed from this site:
> **[Electromagnetic Waves: What Are They & How They Are Produced (W/ Examples)](https://www.sciencing.com/electromagnetic-waves-what-are-they-how-they-are-produced-w-examples-13721430/)**
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> Electromagnetic waves are all around you, all the time, and even if you are not consciously aware of the various forms of ambient electromagnetic radiation, their physical effects are significant. Light waves are a form of EM waves that travel at...
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### Author:  [@paper\_boats](https://talkingsober.com/u/paper_boats)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2022, 7:18pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/mind-blowing-random-thoughts-2/96911/150 "2022-01-21T19:18:44Z")
_Inspired by the previous post on light_
The amount of energy in one Gamma Ray Burst is about the same as the amount of energy the sun will produce in its entire 10 billion year lifetime - but in a time ranging from milliseconds to hours.
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### Author:  [@ShesGotMoxie](https://talkingsober.com/u/ShesGotMoxie)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2022, 12:16am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/mind-blowing-random-thoughts-2/96911/151 "2022-01-22T00:16:14Z")
Moonlight is actually sunlight. 🤓
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### Author:  [@DungeonMaster](https://talkingsober.com/u/DungeonMaster)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2022, 5:47am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/mind-blowing-random-thoughts-2/96911/152 "2022-01-22T05:47:55Z")
So true! With maybe a dusting of starlight in there.
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### Author:  [@DungeonMaster](https://talkingsober.com/u/DungeonMaster)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2022, 6:32pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/mind-blowing-random-thoughts-2/96911/153 "2022-01-24T18:32:58Z")
A phenomenon known as the _Leidenfrost effect_ after German doctor Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost occurs when ice or water make contact with a surface that’s hotter than it’s boiling point. The bottom layer of the droplet that touches the hot surface evaporates, but it forms a thin cushion of vapor that temporarily protects the rest of the droplet from the extreme heat. This keeps the rest from becoming vapor and lets the droplet effectively “levitate”.
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### Author:  [@ShesGotMoxie](https://talkingsober.com/u/ShesGotMoxie)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2022, 11:55pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/mind-blowing-random-thoughts-2/96911/154 "2022-02-01T23:55:47Z")
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### Author:  [@DungeonMaster](https://talkingsober.com/u/DungeonMaster)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2022, 12:17am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/mind-blowing-random-thoughts-2/96911/155 "2022-02-02T00:17:58Z")
Because of differences in gravity, a 200 pound person would only weigh 76 pounds on Mars.
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### Author:  [@Butterflymoonwoman](https://talkingsober.com/u/Butterflymoonwoman)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2022, 3:04am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/mind-blowing-random-thoughts-2/96911/156 "2022-02-02T03:04:45Z")
That’s soo cool!
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### Author:  [@Butterflymoonwoman](https://talkingsober.com/u/Butterflymoonwoman)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2022, 3:07am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/mind-blowing-random-thoughts-2/96911/157 "2022-02-02T03:07:39Z")
The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language 😲
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