El Presidente Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 Many of us read or listen to a broad spectum of information sources. Post up interesting stuff you come across during the course of any given week This is an ongoing thread. Naturally, avoid US politics/Guns/Religion. Reference if appropriate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Presidente Posted August 11, 2022 Author Share Posted August 11, 2022 This one piqued my interest. Even if they discovered a pill to cure all cancers tomorrow, the average lifespan would increase by only three years. Journal Science 1990 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nevrknow Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 A lot can happen in 3 years. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hemclas Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 if you have cancer your life might be shortened by 3 years 😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helix Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 a lot has happened since that article from 1990. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Presidente Posted August 12, 2022 Author Share Posted August 12, 2022 3 hours ago, helix said: a lot has happened since that article from 1990. True. However I heard it referenced again yesterday on a podcast with Dr. Matt Kaeberlein. Apparently the needle on that stat hasn't moved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Edicion Posted August 12, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted August 12, 2022 It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirVantes Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 12 hours ago, El Presidente said: This one piqued my interest. Even if they discovered a pill to cure all cancers tomorrow, the average lifespan would increase by only three years. Journal Science 1990 If 1 out of every 2 people have cancer, then to increase the average lifespan by 3 years (assuming the one without cancer remains unchanged), the one cured of cancer would have to increase his lifespan by 6 years. If 1 out of 5 people have cancer (ie. 20% of the population have cancer), then the person cured would have increased his lifespan by 15 years. Do you view the average of 3 years differently in that light? I wonder what really is the point of that stat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nevrknow Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 Still stuck on the “only 3 years”. Cut their life by 3 years. I bet the “only” part goes away. Reminds me of a 30 something complaining about caring for older people. Guess what kid? Going to feel that way when you get older? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrightonCorgi Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 3 additional years of rotting in nursing home. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nevrknow Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 1 minute ago, BrightonCorgi said: 3 additional years of rotting in nursing home. No way! I’m going out walking to my pool with a stiff drink in 1 hand and my last Siglo vi in the other! Just fall the hell out smiling! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarveyBoulevard Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 Dogs can't look up... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bijan Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 On that note I remember the change in life expectancy from being obese was -3 years. From smoking cigarettes was -7 years. From what I remember being merely overweight and/or not exercising had little to no impact (at least on quantity of life, maybe not so much quality of life). Edit: I think smoking 1-2 cigars per day (and not inhaling) was pretty negligeable too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeypots Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 42 minutes ago, BrightonCorgi said: 3 additional years of rotting in nursing home. A lot of cancer treatment in the elderly prolongs death, not life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Chibearsv Posted August 12, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted August 12, 2022 Finished my crossword today and learned the there is a name for the one spot in the world that is farthest from land - Point Nemo Eerie Facts About Point Nemo, The Most Remote Location On Planet Earth By Gina Dimuro | Checked By Adam Farley Published March 27, 2022 Updated June 27, 2022 At more than 1,000 miles from civilization in all directions, Point Nemo is unlike any other place in the world. Wikimedia CommonsThe locaiton of Point Nemo. People often vaguely refer to “the middle of nowhere,” but as it turns out, scientists have actually figured out precisely where that point is. Point Nemo, the most remote location on Earth, is so far removed from civilization that the closest humans to that location at any given time are likely to be astronauts. In fact, that is precisely why NASA and other global space agencies have designated Point Nemo in the Pacific Ocean as their underwater space graveyard for falling debris. And in 2031, when the International Space Station comes crashing down, it will do so here — as far away from any humans as geographically possible. Where Is Point Nemo? Point Nemo is officially known as “the oceanic pole of inaccessibility,” or the point in the ocean farthest from land. Located at 48°52.6’S 123°23.6’W, the spot is quite literally the middle of nowhere, surrounded by more than 1,000 miles of ocean in every direction. The closest landmasses to the pole are one of the Pitcairn Islands to the north, one of the Easter Islands to the northeast, and one island off the coast of Antarctica to the south. There are no human inhabitants anywhere near Point Nemo. And scientists chose to call the location “Nemo” because it is Latin for “no one” and as a reference to Jules Verne’s submarine captain from 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. The location is so isolated that the closest people to Nemo are not even on Earth. According to the BBC, astronauts aboard the International Space Station are around 258 miles from the Earth’s surface at any given time. Since the inhabited area closest to Point Nemo is more than 1,000 miles away, the humans in space are far closer to the pole of inaccessibility than those on land. The Most Remote Place On Earth Not even the man who first calculated the precise location of Point Nemo has ever visited it. In 1992, Croatian survey engineer Hrvoje Lukatela set out to find the exact point in the Pacific that was farthest away from any land using a computer program. FlickrMotu Nui of the Easter Islands is the closest landmass to Point Nemo, though it is still more than 1,000 miles to the north. According to Live Science, the program calculated the coordinates that were the greatest distance from three equidistant land coordinates. It is very possible that no human has ever passed through Point Nemo’s exact coordinates. As for non-human inhabitants, there aren’t very many of those around Point Nemo either. Point Nemo’s coordinates fall within the South Pacific Gyre, an enormous rotating current that prevents nutrient-rich water from flowing into the area. Without any food sources, sustaining most life in this part of the ocean is impossible. Although that’s not to say that nothing survives in the region. Scientists have documented several bacteria and small crabs that live near the volcanic vents on the seafloor at Point Nemo. Mysteries Associated With Point Nemo Because Point Nemo is located in what has been described as “the least biologically active region of the world ocean,” according to Vice, scientists were surprised when, in 1997, they detected one of the loudest underwater sounds ever recorded near the oceanic pole of inaccessibility. The sound was captured by underwater microphones more than 3,000 miles apart. Befuddled scientists at America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) was at a loss to think of something large enough to create such a loud sound underwater and dubbed the mystery noise “The Bloop.” Sci-fi enthusiasts, however, quickly thought of one explanation. When writer H.P. Lovecraft first introduced readers to his infamous titular, tentacled monster in 1926’s “The Call of Cthulhu,” he wrote that the creature’s lair was the lost city of R’yleh in the south Pacific Ocean. Lovecraft gave R’yleh the coordinates 47°9’S 126°43’W, which are astonishingly close to Point Nemo’s coordinates and where The Bloop occurred. And because Lovecraft first wrote about his sea monster in 1928, 66 years before Lukatela calculated Nemo’s location, some people have speculated that the pole of inaccessibility was, in fact, home to a yet-undiscovered creature of some sort. Wikimedia CommonsH.P. Lovecraft placed the home of his legendary monster Cthulhu eerily close to the coordinates of Point Nemo, decades before they were even calculated As it later turned out, however, The Bloop was the sound of ice breaking off Antarctica, not the Call of Cthulhu. Point Nemo does, however, have at least one other eerie claim to its name. Due to its remoteness and distance from shipping routes, the area around Nemo was chosen as a “spaceship graveyard.” Because autonomous spaceships, satellites, and other space junk are not designed to functionally survive re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere (the heat usually destroys them), scientists needed to select an area where there would be an extremely low risk of any humans being struck with flying space-debris. With zero population, the oceanic pole of inaccessibility at Point Nemo offered the perfect solution. According to CNN, NASA first started using the region in 1971. Since then, more than 263 pieces of junk have crashed into the area, including some of the world’s greatest spacecraft, including the Russian Mir space station and NASA’s first space station, Skylab. Although a Lovecraftian monster may not lurk in its depths, Point Nemo is surrounded by remains of spacecraft that are, indeed, not of this world. 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bijan Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 18 hours ago, El Presidente said: This one piqued my interest. Even if they discovered a pill to cure all cancers tomorrow, the average lifespan would increase by only three years. Journal Science 1990 The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. (attributed to Josef Stalin) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzz Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 2 hours ago, HarveyBoulevard said: Dogs can't look up... Yeah, well Big Al says a lot of things. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chibearsv Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 4 hours ago, HarveyBoulevard said: Dogs can't look up... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Presidente Posted August 15, 2022 Author Share Posted August 15, 2022 I just bring the news that affects us all Religious Sites Carry More Malware Than Porn Sites, Security Firm Reports Religious and ideological websites can carry three times more malware threats than pornography sites, according to research from security firm Symantec. Symantec found that the average number of security threats on religious sites was around 115, while adult sites only carried around 25 threats per site–a particularly notable discrepancy considering that there are vastly more pornographic sites than religious ones. Also, only 2.4 percent of adult sites were found to be infected with malware, compared to 20 percent of blogs. Why religious sites you might ask? “We hypothesize that this is because pornographic website owners already make money from the Internet and, as a result, have a vested interest in keeping their sites malware-free–it’s not good for repeat business,” said the report. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Presidente Posted August 15, 2022 Author Share Posted August 15, 2022 I always wondered. 15% of Uber rides are tipped. 60% of Uber passengers never tip. 1% of Uber passengers tip on every trip. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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