One of the first things they taught us in Webelos is that if you're lost in the desert and you run out of water, babies have more liquid in them than snakes or prickly pear cacti.

Yep, and anything they could do to dissuade students from staring out the glass windows at the bright lights in the sky is a good thing.

I think that lesson may have been mostly learned from the Halifax explosion where a ton of townsfolk died when the ship exploded in the harbor, and the rest of the folks who survived the blast went blind from watching the explosion from their windows. Flying broken glass does terrible things to eyeballs.

Reminds me of that DeLorean that someone modified so it had "normal" car doors instead of those funky "gullwing" doors. It's a shame too, 'cuz there aren't many DeLoreans left, and I think messing with the doors like that kind of ruins it a little.

Oh God please don't say his name again,remember what happened last time?

This isn't a massive void, and this isn't about saving weight and building materials...In fact it makes things more complex, and requires giant chevron stones. And also since this feature is at the edge of the outer shell of the pyramid, there isn't much weight above this structure anyway. And the descending corridor below already has effective lintel stones protecting it anyway. So there isn't much weight above, and it doesn't seem to be designed to protect anything below as far as weight goes.

As far as repeated structures go, I personally agree that the corbelled grand gallery does play a role in moving/lifting the giant granite blocks for the "King's Chamber", but that section is higher up than this newly imaged "front door passage". And there are no giant granite stones involved with this level anyway (that we know of).

And Benny Hill was the toymaker. But maybe everyone already knows that. Sorry.

This doesn't sound at all like the Equatorial Guinea I know. This must be an outlier.

>many adult themes including the smoking of marijuana and a deep dive into the occult.

And also a gentleman violently scraping the skin off his own face while he gazes into the bathroom mirror.

This is just like that guy (Ernie) who ran the morgue in "Return of the Living Dead". Turns out he was very likely an ex-Nazi, carried a Luger and even had the audacity to hang a poster of Eva Braun on his wall. He also listened to German music on his walkman, and even whispered in German as he watched the rain fall outside. And also (obviously) had a crematorium (ugh), and he sure seemed to enjoy his job.

If that teapot is ever found I can't even imagine the consequences for science, logic, religion, and philosophy. That would literally mean that unicorns and samsquanches live in black holes (which is likely why we haven't seen them lately).

Well my brain read that as ice cream and then I was very disappointed.

Absolutely terrifying.

Crazy to think almost all of it exists in the imagination of an imaginative autistic child with a snow globe.

Can't they just make a pill/injection they can give to the youth so they don't need to go through the actual physical/mental intervention stuff? Like, can't it just be treated at the source? Is there a medication that could at least make them more amenable to the desired multidimensional bio-neurobehavior changes that our leaders want for a more respectable society?

As I recall this research was started a while ago at a university near Innsmouth, Massachusetts because the town was right on the seacoast and some researchers figured hell why not try fish skin? This was first tried on the most extreme cases, and the first trials didn't go so well. Nice to see that progress has been made since then.

Well he was in Young Frankenstein and that movie is considered to be canon by most modern scholars at this point, regardless of whatever Mary Shelley was trying to do with her book.

I thought that was really Sloth's face in the Goonies. Like, I thought they hired a real life deformed person for the role. Like that deformed kid in the Mask movie.

Well I get it, but where's the button?

Oh great, now we'll have to deal with people taking liver medicine to treat covid. It's like those people taking horse medicine to treat covid. Just get the vaccine people, keep it simple. Granted it won't keep you from getting it and spreading it, but I keep seeing commercials that say it's the best way to deal with the infection, so I'm gonna go with that, and also there are some places that will pay you to get the boosters, either with cash or gift cards.

We don't know the odds for life evolving, we only have a sample size of 1 currently. For all we know it's a 1 in a 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 chance.

If we found out that life evolved independently on another planet or moon in our solar system, then that means life is not so rare at all. That would mean the universe should be absolutely infested with life. And then the question would be "where is everybody"?

And there are various potential answers to that question.

I don't get it. Where are the unicorns?

See now THIS is a quality TIL.

There are at least 3 levels of TIL here in this one post.

Can't wait to watch IAWL soon so I can see that guy tending bar around Christmas time, knowing he's the guy that produced the Dick Van Dyke show.

Or as Mary Tyler Moore called it, the Penis Van Lesbian show.

You built a time machine? Out of a 58 Plymouth Fury?

For the non-European Americans - 10 knots = 9 meters which is roughly 18 feet (the height of 3 six-foot tall men).

Every once in a while "Winston Churchill's" old house and farm go up for sale in New England and everyone loses their minds. Someone spends like 3 million on the place only to find out it was the "wrong" Winston lol. And then the cycle repeats.