tajwo Posted September 15, 2022 Share Posted September 15, 2022 (edited) In Turkish the words for the Moon and "month" are the exact same. The word for a moon orbiting another planet is "uydu". Edited September 15, 2022 by tajwo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 When your system is nervous. Spoiler "This is who we are! This is what we for!" (c) Everything other is just meat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve9728 Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 Fun fact I newly learned: in Chinese history, here used to have some coins made by clay. And they weren't something from a hundred or thousand years ago: They were made in pseudo-Manchukuo in 1945 (but the year on this coin is 1946). Reason why I found that is I had just stumbled into an online auction of ancient coins within China. Bidding starts at one yuan. Somehow I kinda want to buy this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 Monetary facts? OK. The 1917 Kerensky rouble was so widely counterfeited and debased that eventually they gave up on cutting it into individual notes. As to porcelain money, apparently it was one of the many surrogate media used in Weimar Germany. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 The cryptocurrencies don't need even clay or paper. You just believe they exist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 I'm a gazillionaire! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted September 21, 2022 Share Posted September 21, 2022 Toys https://www.youtube.com/c/physicsfun/videos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted September 21, 2022 Share Posted September 21, 2022 The opposite of the kerenki is the Constantine rouble, which as of last year went for $2.6 mln. There are eight, maybe nine coins, and their value stems from the wild political background. Spoiler You probably haven't heard of a Constantine, Emperor of all Russias. In 1823, Alexander the Blessed signed a sealed manifesto confirming the abdication of his presumptive heir, Constantine, in favor of Nikolay. When Alexander died (some say went into voluntary exile - a whole 'nother layer of mythos) only three people in Saint-Petersburg knew of the arrangement, and so before it was brought before the State Council, preparations were underway for Constantine's accession. One of the people attending was finance minister Georg Cancrin, who, despite having learned of the manifesto, nevertheless ordered the imperial mint to go ahead with prototype work for the Constantine rouble. It gets even more interesting when one considers the concurrent republican Decemberist uprising, which sought to exploit the confusion of the interregnum and prop Constatine up as a more pliable ruler. Ultimately, Cancrin ordered the work wrapped up, swore everyone to secrecy, and kept one of the coins for himself. The coins would only start to resurface in the 1850s, each with an increasingly wild story attached to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted September 21, 2022 Share Posted September 21, 2022 45 minutes ago, DDE said: ncreasingly wild story That's a pretty crazy story all by itself! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve9728 Posted September 21, 2022 Share Posted September 21, 2022 Damn, someone's offer was higher than mine and now the price is higher than the historical price I checked, the coin is off the table History always crazy. And share a kind of "coin" that I personally think is cool and a bit crazy: Knife Money. Unlike something trash made by clay, this kind of money really comes from thousands of years ago: simply put, it was same period with the Art of War. Actually, I'm thinking would there been an ancient Chinese version Jack the Ripper and his murder weapon is that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnemoe Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 10 hours ago, steve9728 said: Damn, someone's offer was higher than mine and now the price is higher than the historical price I checked, the coin is off the table History always crazy. And share a kind of "coin" that I personally think is cool and a bit crazy: Knife Money. Unlike something trash made by clay, this kind of money really comes from thousands of years ago: simply put, it was same period with the Art of War. Actually, I'm thinking would there been an ancient Chinese version Jack the Ripper and his murder weapon is that... Now it looks like it become a thing after the bronze age, they would made more sense back then You also had https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spade_money Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 This multilocular O is found in exactly one 15th century rendition of the Psalter, and used in exclusively one word: "multiocular seraphim" Looks like someone still saw it fit to incorporate the letter into Unicode, but bungled up the rendition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 Be holder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maria Sirona Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 "errata"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 6 hours ago, DDE said: This multilocular O is found in exactly one 15th century rendition of the Psalter, and used in exclusively one word: "multiocular seraphim" Looks like someone still saw it fit to incorporate the letter into Unicode, but bungled up the rendition. Well... Thanks to you, I got to read this descriptive: Quote A similar jocular glyph (called "double-dot wide O") has been suggested as a phonetic symbol for the "nasal-ingressive velar trill", a paralinguistic impression of a snort, due to the graphic resemblance to a pig snout.[2 From the associated binocular O. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binocular_O That said - I'm now wondering about these multi ocular seraphim... As that sounds much more Cthulian than Seraphin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 (edited) "Selenium is right below sulfur on the periodic table, and in many ways it's a "sulfur but even more so" case. For example, got a sulfur molecule that smells awful? The selenium analog will almost certainly smell worse. It's an element that balances on a toxicological tightrope. It's an essential trace nutrient - you will get into trouble if you don't have enough selenium in your diet. It is also toxic - you will get into trouble if you have too much selenium in your diet. The dose really does make the poison" https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/selenium-who-d-have-thought "the Lamentations on Chemistry blog referred to it as "The biggest stinker I have run across. . .Imagine 6 skunks wrapped in rubber innertubes and the whole thing is set ablaze. That might approach the metaphysical stench of this material." https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-selenophenol Fun! Edited September 25, 2022 by JoeSchmuckatelli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 Selenium even kills enormous extraterrestrial monsters. Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 It worries me that you knew that reference. Some things should be forgotten! ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 10 hours ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said: Some things should be forgotten! Head & Shoulders? This wouldn't help, as we have a selenium plate lying in the book case, and I feel protected from those beasts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgently Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 13 hours ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said: Well... Thanks to you, I got to read this descriptive: From the associated binocular O. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binocular_O That said - I'm now wondering about these multi ocular seraphim... As that sounds much more Cthulian than Seraphin You got to go to the source. The biblical seraphim are truly from the fringe. The cherubim are no slackers either. Definitely not little winged babies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunlitZelkova Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 Fun fact? Creepy fact? The oldest threads in this section of the forum are from 1969, or at least that is how it appears on mobile to me right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 2 hours ago, SunlitZelkova said: Fun fact? Creepy fact? The oldest threads in this section of the forum are from 1969, or at least that is how it appears on mobile to me right now. 1969? Should be safe from moderator action. IIRC something 'on topic' happened that year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 Username: Arm Strong Date: 07/16/69 "Hello Moon! Tetst... Test... Test..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnemoe Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 5 hours ago, SunlitZelkova said: Fun fact? Creepy fact? The oldest threads in this section of the forum are from 1969, or at least that is how it appears on mobile to me right now. Earliest I get is January 1, 1970, who is time zero for some system like the unix clock as I understand. I guess is that no date give that as default. Other option is current time who would leave the tread at the top of the page all the time sticky style who would be something who had to be fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunlitZelkova Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, magnemoe said: Earliest I get is January 1, 1970, who is time zero for some system like the unix clock as I understand. I guess is that no date give that as default. Other option is current time who would leave the tread at the top of the page all the time sticky style who would be something who had to be fixed. As of when I made that post, it was December 31st, 1969 for me. EDIT- Nope, still 12-31-69. Guess it is a time zone thing and you are probably correct. Edited September 26, 2022 by SunlitZelkova Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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