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Useless Trivia VIII.

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Froggychum
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Wed 6 Oct 2021
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Re: Useless Trivia VIII

Was going more for this vibe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIHExskV7Oo

(Content Warning: Foul Language)
Heath
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Wed 6 Oct 2021
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Re: Useless Trivia VIII

Your belly button is your original mouth.
Froggychum
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Wed 6 Oct 2021
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Re: Useless Trivia VIII

Babies can swim for the first week of their life, then they need to learn how to do it again.

Also, men can produce breast milk.
Heath
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Wed 6 Oct 2021
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Re: Useless Trivia VIII

A successful marriage ends with watching the other person die.
Froggychum
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Wed 6 Oct 2021
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Planet Earth has never once had anything remotely close to an Utopian society, while the majority of societies have been shockingly close to what could be called Dystopian.
Heath
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Thu 7 Oct 2021
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Researchers found that doctors who spent at least three hours a week playing video games made about 37 percent fewer mistakes in laparoscopic surgery and performed the task 27 percent faster than their counterparts who did not play video games.
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Thu 7 Oct 2021
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In the island of Luzon lies Vulcan Point, which is an island, within a lake, within an island, within a lake, within an island.
Froggychum
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Mon 18 Oct 2021
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There are currently 898 pokemon

this is completely useless to know. you're welcome
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Tue 19 Oct 2021
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Ancient Roman surgeons were trained to block out the screams of human pain.
Froggychum
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Tue 19 Oct 2021
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The reason a lot of old people become hunched over is because human skeletons suck at being bipedal. Nature is a terrible designer
Heath
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Tue 19 Oct 2021
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Re: Useless Trivia VIII

There are more Lego mini-figures than there are people on Earth
Froggychum
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Tue 19 Oct 2021
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Seeds are copyrighted. You cannot legally grow your own food. Thanks capitalism, very cool.
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Wed 20 Oct 2021
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Re: Useless Trivia VIII

Probably patented, not copyrighted.
Orodruin
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Wed 3 Nov 2021
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Sharks have existed for longer than Saturn has had rings.
Heath
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Thu 4 Nov 2021
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Re: Useless Trivia VIII

You typically breathe out of only one nostril at a time.
Froggychum
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Thu 4 Nov 2021
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Re: Useless Trivia VIII

Your brain fires off electrical impulses to think

you are basically a robot running on electricity
Heath
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Sun 7 Nov 2021
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Re: Useless Trivia VIII

And thus Frankenstein was born
Froggychum
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Sun 7 Nov 2021
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Re: Useless Trivia VIII

Well, Adam was never in utero, nor did he pass through the birth canal / get cut out of the womb, so you cannot say that he was actually 'born'.

I'm sure that was just one of many reasons why nobody came to his birthday party. Some other reasons being he probably does not celebrate his birthday being that he is smart enough to know his own origins in the novel [which is pretty good by the way], and also because he does not have a sufficient number of close acquaintances to attend such an event if he did choose to have one.

If Victor had obtained the birth records of the corpses that he dug up to create him [unlikely due to his activities being done secretly], then maybe Adam could make an argument that he should have multiple birthdays, or he could just pick ONE of them... perhaps, he may even average out the dates to find the 'average age' of his body parts (functional brain included).

I don't know how Adam would even go about finding the records, since there is no DNA testing his setting, and I'm not 100% sure how reliably that would work considering the body parts are all connected now. Also do not remember if it was ever explained in any detail if his body functions with human physiology or undead physiology. The former would actually be more plausible in reality given we have prior examples of the body accepting foreign parts such as with organ transplants.

Though, given the time period in which it was written, the body likely functions similar to an undead, wherein it does not have any natural processes (besides thought and speech, clearly). Since that is likely the case, there would very likely be complications in getting any genetic information from the body?

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Heath
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Sun 7 Nov 2021
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Re: Useless Trivia VIII

Adam therefore probably has no belly button.
Froggychum
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Sun 7 Nov 2021
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Re: Useless Trivia VIII

Well, despite him not being an 'existence' that was born, his torso would still have come from a regular human corpse, presumably with an intact naval.

If you mean the biblical Adam, then actually I would agree since he was 'created' directly by God, which presumably means in a flash of light rather than several hours of screaming and pushing like the rest of us.

Same for Eve, since she was somehow transmuted from a rib. Not sure where the extra matter came from, either God can defy the laws of physics (possible, considering the concept of true 'omnipotence' inherently overrides logic [see the relevant paradox ab god making a rock he cannot {?} lift] or it came from somewhere else, maybe the earth of the Garden of Eden or smth.

Also, should probably admit a bit belatedly, that I'm not 100% sure "Frankenstein's Monster" ever took the name "Adam", I just recall it showing up in the text. Given the outdated style of writing, interpretations can vary. Either way, its definitely appropriate given his situation.
Heath
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Mon 8 Nov 2021
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Re: Useless Trivia VIII

If by Adam you meant Frankenstein, then in his previous life he was actually born through the birth canal and his original parts would be normal, just maybe decomposed and scarred. He just doesn't remember because the circuits fried whatever brain he had in him at his "rebirth."
Froggychum
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Mon 8 Nov 2021
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Re: Useless Trivia VIII

quote:
If by Adam you meant Frankenstein


I mean the monster guy, which I think you also mean.

His title (since he lacks a name) is Frankenstein's Monster, though, not 'Frankenstein'.

Doctor Victor Frankenstein was the guy who created him. I remember this much from the book, at least. That and the equation lightning + corpses = profit??? The rest had to be filled in with google.

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then in his previous life he was actually born through the birth canal and his original parts would be normal, just maybe decomposed and scarred


New life; new person

Big part of reincarnation that cannot be overlooked, even if/when memories remain intact.

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He just doesn't remember because the circuits fried whatever brain he had in him at his "rebirth."


I don't remember from the source material, but unless the doctor had saved the brain for last and somehow kept it active even after removal (probably along with a full nervous system for good measure), then the brain would have 'died' before it reached him, and thus the subjective experience of consciousness would have dissipated regularly.

Memories do not exist in the brain long past the death of the body (as soon as neurons and whatnot begin decaying), and thought vanishes almost instantly (as soon as synapses stop firing and brain scans come up with no waves)

Therefore, it seems more likely to me that when the electricity jumpstarted his body, it was a rebirth, but not memories were made accessible (pathways fried) or destroyed (actual storage locations fried), because there were none remaining.
Heath
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Mon 8 Nov 2021
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Re: Useless Trivia VIII

Froggychum:
His title (since he lacks a name) is Frankenstein's Monster, though, not 'Frankenstein'.

Very true. You're getting technical on me for my simple joke. :)
Froggychum
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Mon 8 Nov 2021
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Re: Useless Trivia VIII

Fufufu, my superpower is being incredibly long-winded with no provocation <3
RabbitBall
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Mon 8 Nov 2021
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Re: Useless Trivia VIII

And mine is being concise despite provocation...
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