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Why do we remember the past, and not the future? Fact: The laws of physics don't care which direction time is moving in. It would be perfectly acceptable -- as far as physics is concerned -- for that broken teacup on the ground to spontaneously reassemble itself and leap back up onto the table as it was to fall off and break in the first place. The only reason that anyone has for why time should move in only one direction -- and in the direction that it does -- is because "that's just the way it is*."
*Technically it's because that's the direction in time in which entropy increases, and (for whatever, also ill-understood reason) entropy always increases.
*Technically it's because that's the direction in time in which entropy increases, and (for whatever, also ill-understood reason) entropy always increases.
In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
2,000 pounds of space dust and other space debris fall on the Earth every day.......
The American turkey vulture helps human engineers detect cracked or broken underground fuel pipes. The leaking fuel smells like vulture food (they eat carrion), and the clustered birds show repair people where the lines need fixing.
The largest scoop of ice-cream weighed 1365kg 312.93g (3,010 lb) and was created by Kemps LLC (USA), in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, USA on 28 June 2014.
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
Aryabhata (476–550 AD) calculated precisely revolution & rotation period of Earth.
The error in the rotation period was as low as 0.009 seconds. For revolution it was only 3 minutes and 20 seconds.
The error in the rotation period was as low as 0.009 seconds. For revolution it was only 3 minutes and 20 seconds.
Each month, there is at least one report of UFOs from each province of Canada......
Emperor Gallienus punished a merchant who had swindled the empress, selling her glass jewels instead of authentic ones, by setting him in the Colosseum arena to face a ferocious lion. When the cage opened, however, a chicken walked out, to the delight of the crowd. Gallienus then told the herald to proclaim: “He practiced deceit and then had it practiced on him.” The emperor let the jeweler go home.
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