Re: Never Ending General Knowledge
Not the Fibonacci Sequence, though this can be used to approximate a golden [redacted].
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I’m reliably informed (by Wikipedia) that this phenomenon is a form of Sacred Geometry. I’m looking for something more specific though based on its shape.
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Buddha's footprint, or the Mandelbrot plot?
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Bloody hell man. It’s a spiral. Or are you looking for ‘Phi’?
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Prop wrote:Bloody hell man. It’s a spiral. Or are you looking for ‘Phi’?
It’s a specific type of spiral.
I’m slightly surprised nobody’s got it yet. It’s one of those things that comes up on TV shows when writers want to sound smart.
It’s a spiral that has a bit of a “woody melody” about it.
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Iranu wrote:Prop wrote:Bloody hell man. It’s a spiral. Or are you looking for ‘Phi’?
It’s a specific type of spiral.
I’m slightly surprised nobody’s got it yet. It’s one of those things that comes up on TV shows when writers want to sound smart.
It’s a spiral that has a bit of a “woody melody” about it.
Golden spiral.
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Prop wrote:Iranu wrote:Prop wrote:Bloody hell man. It’s a spiral. Or are you looking for ‘Phi’?
It’s a specific type of spiral.
I’m slightly surprised nobody’s got it yet. It’s one of those things that comes up on TV shows when writers want to sound smart.
It’s a spiral that has a bit of a “woody melody” about it.
Golden spiral.
Golden spiral is the subset that has a relationship to the Fibonacci Sequence. Think about the words in speech marks above.
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Nope. I think you’re close.
The first part of the first word goes on a fire. The last part is a type of gymnastics.
The first part of the first word goes on a fire. The last part is a type of gymnastics.
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Prop wrote:Logarithmic spiral.
Correct!
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Iranu wrote:Prop wrote:Logarithmic spiral.
Correct!
Phew. That could have gone on forever…
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Fibonacci spirals, fractals and sacred geometry are reportedly experienced as hallucinations by users of psychedelics and entheogens such as LSD and psilocybin mushrooms.
Which Swiss chemist is credited as being the first person to synthesise, injest and experience LSD in 1938?
Which Swiss chemist is credited as being the first person to synthesise, injest and experience LSD in 1938?
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I can't remember his name, but I remember his face clear as day from the obituaries from when he died at a ripe old age, he had a big beaming smile on his face 
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LDS wrote:I can't remember his name, but I remember his face clear as day from the obituaries from when he died at a ripe old age, he had a big beaming smile on his face
That’s him. Bit of a folk hero. They named a day after his discovery - ‘Bicycle Day’ after his bicycle ride home under the effects of that first trip
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by chengdufan » 01 Sep 2021 Read
He was known as 'The Federer of the Laboratory' but I can't remember his name
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chengdufan wrote:He was known as 'The Federer of the Laboratory' but I can't remember his name
“Don’t believe everything you read on the internet
- Albert Einstein”
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chengdufan wrote:He was known as 'The Federer of the Laboratory' but I can't remember his name
Alexander Bunsenbacher
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by chengdufan » 01 Sep 2021 Read
Iranu wrote:chengdufan wrote:He was known as 'The Federer of the Laboratory' but I can't remember his name
Alexander Bunsenbacher
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Iranu wrote:chengdufan wrote:He was known as 'The Federer of the Laboratory' but I can't remember his name
Alexander Bunsenbacher
Incorrect
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by HappyCamper » 01 Sep 2021 Read
No idea. Sticking two random swiss sounding names together.
Aloïse Reichembach?
Aloïse Reichembach?
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Albert Hoffmann, you absolute beaut, I've enjoyed your invention far too many times
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Dan-cat wrote:Albert Hoffmann, you absolute beaut, I've enjoyed your invention far too many times
Correct!
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You knew I'd get that
Related tangentially, in that they almost certainly took acid...
Only two artists have ever appeared on MTV Unplugged twice. Who are they?
Related tangentially, in that they almost certainly took acid...
Only two artists have ever appeared on MTV Unplugged twice. Who are they?
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Dan-cat wrote:You knew I'd get that
Related tangentially, in that they almost certainly took acid...
Only two artists have ever appeared on MTV Unplugged twice. Who are they?
Of course
Hmmm. Kurt Cobain and Paul McCartney?
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A bit of help: One is an American band, the other a British musician, playing in two different (but related) bands.
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I feel like I knew this once upon a time.
I’ll guess Eric Clapton and I dunno, Pearl Jam.
I’ll guess Eric Clapton and I dunno, Pearl Jam.
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It's a good guess, but not quite right.
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