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Why the no shit for 3 days lemmy post guy wanted to not shit for 3 days
They were getting ready for a trip on a Titan submarine.
Possibly the underlying cause of the explosive decompression.
Do people still know about TimeCube these days? Not sure if that counts as a "mystery" per se, but it certainly has an air of the unknown.
Clintons live here.
XD
The other similar case is 'the ball on a string' guy who went to different communitites including on reddit for years to promote his weird theory. IIRC his theory was that balls on strings of different sizes has their surface rotate at the similar speed if the central axis has a constant rotational speed too. Although many people tried to explain it to him, he insisted that larger ball therefore would spin like a Ferrari's wheel.
These cases are all depressive rather than mysterious.
Yeah, it's fun to laugh at these weird theories, but a bit depressing when you realize a lot of them come from a place of serious mental illness.
There's that one celebrity who firmly believes that 1 * 1 is 2, or something equally bizarre...
It's probably fine as long as they don't try to push it onto others. Hope they don't.
well tell us about it
is it that schizo guy with weird theories?
Yep, you got it.
Down The Rabbit Hole did an episode about the guy.
Similarly, the Terry Davis episode is a wild ride.
Also, here's a backup of TimeCube for anyone uninitiated: https://timecube.xyz/
I felt myself getting a brain tumor while reading that, I’ll have to come back to it later
I was not prepared to remember the Time Cube when clicking on this thread...
I was recently recommended an internet mystery by YouTube. I didn't know about it until then (and I'm generally pretty online), so it's probably not well known.
It's the song, Like the Wind (or Blind the Wind). Story goes that a kid recorded the song in 1984 from a West German radio station, but he didn't catch the name of the song nor the band. Eventually, the recording got posted online, and strangely enough, nobody online seems to recognize it. It's still unknown where this song came from. People call it Like the Wind (or Blind the Wind) because that's what the first 3 words of the song sound like. Speculation is that it's probably from an East German indie rock band that got disbanded, but at this time, it'll probably never be solved
Got wrapped up into that a while back, an interesting tangent is the song So Do I by DCO, which was similarly lost until one of the band's original members recognized it and posted it online. Said member did confirm that TMMS/Like The Wind is not a song they made, tho.
Just like everybody knows https://youtu.be/ZmTcIh632VM?si=yDNEMk09wk-mX-et
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Did anyone ever work out who Satoshi Nakamoto is?
Every few years I look up if new evidence has been found and/or new suspects show up.
It's always entertaining, but I'm guessing Satoshi Sakamoto is as smart as they come and we'll never know who he/she is.
Based on what I've read, Len Sassaman seems the most likely candidate, but certainly nothing has been confirmed.
I quite certain however that douchebag extrordinaire, Craig Wrigh, is NOT Satoshi.
No but Barely Sociable on Youtube did a pretty interesting documentary with some of his own theories on it.
Some have speculated that Nakamoto is an alias for Adam Beck, or one of the other founders. It is known that nakamoto was living in a European timezone.
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I mean, for starters, how does it work.
I thought that one was solved decades ago;
The internet is a series of tubes
It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
My favorite line is often overlooked-
"It's not a big truck!"
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Does this count? An oldie but a goodie.
I love the John Titor story, because it's so detailed and rich, but it obviously has to be fake because the 2038 issue has been solved by 64 bit timestamps, and it's impossible that we wouldn't have advanced to 64 bit processors because of the RAM limits that 32 bits impose. Phones have more RAM than what a 32 bit computer can handle, and we're over a decade away from 2038.
It's like someone claiming to be a time traveller going back to the 50s to get an abacus to help prevent the Y2K bug.
Steins;Gate season 1 did it better. =p
Steins;Gate VN did it better than the anime.
I can’t tell you. It’s a little known mystery. If everyone knew, it wouldn’t be little known.
just tell it quietly. I won't tell anyone
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That one's on Arthur Dent, I think.
What actually ever happened to the Tourette's Guy?
I thought he died?
Oh Bob Saget!!
That was what was reported on the website, but then there was a video of him still alive and well a few years later, then someone claimed he had been in jail, then nothing
It's pretty obvious that Tourettes Guy is an actor. But it's hilarious nonetheless
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There might still be the "Twitter numbers" accounts that post some set of numbers or words at specific times.
Basically it's just the internet version of the "radio numbers" or "radio codes" that are radio signals that randomly or schedule voice a set of numbers or words. There go back decades.
The theory is that it's a commutation network for spies.
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There's all the young kids who went viral in the early 2000s, often because the internet made fun of them.
The mystery was would they turn out to have horrible lives.
But it's been so long they've all grown up and no one remembers them and they have normal lives.
There's the evergreen: What good is Virtual Reality, other than some games?
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Because it was "so long" ago, LonelyGirl15.
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