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Topic: Eidetic Memory. |
brickmack
Replies: 31
Views: 1539
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 9:24 pm Subject: Eidetic Memory. |
| My memory isnt perfect, but pretty good. I can remember large amounts of text fairly easily, word for word, and Im really good at remembering numbers. I memorized pi to 90 some digits in less than a w ... |
Topic: Do Black Holes REALLY exist after all? |
brickmack
Replies: 33
Views: 2310
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:37 pm Subject: Do Black Holes REALLY exist after all? |
i know about hawking radiation; I'm pretty sure it's do to the fact that antiparticles are regular particles going back in time, and vice versa, not entanglement.
Antiparticles are basically normal p ... |
Topic: Linux - help: dual boot system versus Ubuntu only + WINE ??? |
brickmack
Replies: 19
Views: 1605
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 10:42 pm Subject: Linux - help: dual boot system versus Ubuntu only + WINE ??? |
| Id keep windows and dual boot if I were you. Its not particularly difficult to set up, you should be able to do the setup easily from the ubuntu installer (Might want to have a second computer availab ... |
Topic: Do you like to use old versions of windows? |
brickmack
Replies: 25
Views: 8487
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 11:31 pm Subject: Do you like to use old versions of windows? |
| Not particularly, they are too slow to do anything on, and I think the old user interface design looks rather crappy. I used to have one with 95 that I got on occasionally just to play with, but one d ... |
Topic: Most unusual thing |
brickmack
Replies: 18
Views: 633
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Forum: Random Discussion Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 9:39 pm Subject: Most unusual thing |
A half naked drunk guy walking past my house at 2 in the morning, while playing an accordian.
Also while visiting New Mexico with my dad (it was either Santa Fe or Albacurque) there was this guy wi ... |
Topic: Lying with an ASD |
brickmack
Replies: 46
Views: 2277
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 7:28 pm Subject: Lying with an ASD |
I can lie. Smoothly. Better than most in face-to-face interaction. I need to have put together the lie beforehand though but this doesn't take me all too long.
I can't lie spontaneously. If asked a ... |
Topic: Are flames matter? |
brickmack
Replies: 11
Views: 855
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 10:01 am Subject: Are flames matter? |
Sometimes flames are plasma.
No. They are not.
Flames are heated gas... Plasma is a separate phase of matter. Plasma can cause flames, but it is not, in itself a flame.
Yes, but sometimes th ... |
Topic: Curiosity Rover/Robotics special interest |
brickmack
Replies: 16
Views: 1221
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 11:33 pm Subject: Curiosity Rover/Robotics special interest |
i wonder exactly how much it would cost to do stuff like that?
I would guess it at several hundred million dollars per rover/other object. This is based off of the cost of several sample return missi ... |
Topic: Should severely disabled kids be kept small? |
brickmack
Replies: 18
Views: 1971
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Forum: News and Current Events Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 2:22 pm Subject: Should severely disabled kids be kept small? |
| Its not really a perfect solution, and I can certainly see some of the issues people have with it (particularly the possibility that they are in fact of normal intelligence but for whatever reason can ... |
Topic: Would you like to live for a trillion years? |
brickmack
Replies: 30
Views: 2829
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Forum: Random Discussion Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 12:05 pm Subject: Would you like to live for a trillion years? |
| A trillion years seems rather long. I dont really want to be around for the end of the universe. A thousand years is good enough for me. In that time, I should be able to make a time machine, and then ... |
Topic: Am I the only one who ... |
brickmack
Replies: 13
Views: 846
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 11:50 am Subject: Am I the only one who ... |
| Everything except the smiling. |
Topic: Am I the only one who ... |
brickmack
Replies: 13
Views: 846
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 11:34 am Subject: Am I the only one who ... |
| Everything except the smiling. |
Topic: Would you like to be able to see air? |
brickmack
Replies: 24
Views: 924
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Forum: Random Discussion Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 10:48 pm Subject: Would you like to be able to see air? |
| The air does have a very slight color to it, the problem is that its not dense and not reflective enough to see it, unless you look up and see it multiplied by several miles of air. If you could someh ... |
Topic: Sitting in strange positions |
brickmack
Replies: 34
Views: 2865
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 10:26 pm Subject: Sitting in strange positions |
| Yep. I sit like this: ([url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiza]link) sometimes, but more often with the lower parts of my legs bent sideways, so the upperlegs remain parallel, but Im sitting on my but ... |
Topic: OMFG cheese causes autism!!!! |
brickmack
Replies: 43
Views: 4971
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 3:37 pm Subject: OMFG cheese causes autism!!!! |
| Amusingly, a recent study showed that autism-like behavior in mice sometimes resulted from viral infections early in the mother's pregnancy. Admittedly, the animal model may not translate directly to ... |
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