Things you didn't know until very recently...

Up to 99,8% of all light, huh?

That opens up whole new possibilities for metal album covers. How much more black could this be? Much, much more, apparently.

The Norwegian Black Metal scene are going to love this.

Those would also be some of the world's first bulletproof album covers, if what I remember about carbon nanotubes is correct. :P

Day length has increased by 2 hours in the last 600 million years.

..you don't think the CIA uses rooms like that in sensory deprivation torture?

I wouldn't doubt it, though sensory deprivation chambers can also backfire pretty badly depending on how good someone is at meditating.

Because NASA is still testing it? And more importantly it's a waste of money. Probably.

Imagine Zaheer in that room. Oh my.

edited 21st Aug '14 6:02:39 PM by KnightOfNASA

@Jones Ah okay I was mostly just shocked because there was so many and it was so sudden, that's a very good point, we've been getting a lot of grasshoppers in lately too, but they usually have the obvious way of going through the door (their is a lot of them it's hard not to have some hop in), well to the broom again.

Chinese histories study all areas once controlled by Chinese. So Japan, Korea, Russia, Middle East, and Northeast Asia.

Blue Bunny chocolate icecream sandwiches exist, and by god they are good.

Xopher - in many cases they don't do stuff like that simply because it's far easier to just talk to them, and often what you get from a person under torture is at best unreliable and at worst made up so they'll escape it.

There's a bird called the trumpet manucode that has an amazingly long trachea◊.

Why do people think that if you only play good cop, the criminal won't cooperate?

Because they don't seem to be aware of the fact that quite often a criminal would rather it be over and done with.

This is one if the reasons I don't like the themes in The Dark Knight

Mantises have five eyes; two compound eyes, and three "normal" eyes on the top of their head.

I suppose accurate questioning is seen as too boring for broadcast. Having read a number of interviews by British police, it certainly isn't in your face, "we have forensics".

Suspect interviews are long, building up a picture piece by piece, asking for the suspect's version of events, open questions, all very calm, returning to points when they contradict themselves, or a known fact is incompatible with other known facts and/or the explanation.

Now that I am able to have a more intelligent reply

Sensory deprivation interrogation is considered a human rights violation. That one famous case was when everyone decided that Muslim guy isn't entitled to Geneva Convention human right protection.

The CIA isn't NASA, so they could just paint the room in 95% light absorbent black paint that's available on the market more then a decades ago. But we didn't hear about it.

Build a Rocket Boys!, the Elbow album, had a limited edition beer.

Wat.

Hussar - there's also the fact that in many cases, a criminal will just go "Yes, I did it" and then recall how he did it just because that way a judge and the system as a whole are likely to go easier on them, and the police will just keep it fairly short to get what they can for evidence.

It's just , I dont really like the implications of the movie. It's really popular, and media has a big influence on public opinion.

my college had the highest std rate in the state

What, was the Johnny dispenser broken?

It's possible to beat Snake.

And then it yells at me in Russian.

Somehow random Russian messages at the end of something make things appear infinitely more cryptic and deep that it probably is.