I'm not sure if that's magnetic or gravity.  I'm thinking magnetic because a friend of mine has been south of the equator to South America.  Have you ever noticed when you flush a toilet and the water will swirl one way?  He said in South America the water swirled opposite of here in the states.


I have never been south of the Equator, I would love to see that in person.


Me too.  I don't think I'll ever get there unfortunately.  Speaking of gravity...the Hudson Bay region of Canada has been found to have less gravity than the rest of the Earth.  That's odd.


Yeah that is really odd. It's been fun chatting about science with you!


I think that people are really overreacting to a style shift in a comic, I'm sure after 80 years the character needed an update.


You mean Nancy?  Yeah, people hate change, it's not like you can't go back to the old bare bones version if it doesn't work out.


I think that in this day and age, you need to capture the younger viewer to make your medium longer lasting. They may not relate to the same jokes that have sustained the comic industry for so long.


There will always be people that complain about change.  In the age of the internet anyone can put their complaints online.  Cartoons always have new writer and they have to put their spin on it.


I think that having a cartoonist put their own spin on it can lead to amazing advancements. Frank Miller really did some great work on Batman and it led to critically acclaimed movies in the long run.


I'm not that familiar with comic books.  I've heard of Frank Miller though.  Was he involved in the Watchman series?


No, it's a similarly dark take on a story. Alan Moore was the author of the Watchmen novel.


Those comic books seem a lot more sophisticated than the days of Superman.  I'm sure the writers get more than the $130 DC paid for the rights to Superman.


I believe it's become more of an event now when certain writers become involved in a franchise. I know Kevin Smith and Brian Quinn have had featured runs in comics.


Is that the director Kevin Smith?  I really liked that Clerks movie.  He should have a go at a Marvel or DC Comics film, there would probably be more swearing.


Yes that's the same Kevin Smith, a lot of his movies touch on comic books and super heroes in some way.


It sounds like you know your Comic Book stuff, Nancy doesn't sound like your type of material.


I've always been a fan of comic books. I prefer Marvel over DC comics personally


Can't say I have an opinion, I really liked the Batman trilogy, but I think it was more to do with Christopher Nolan than the subject matter.


I think that Nolan really transcended the problems DC has with adapting some of their franchises into movies.


Nolan should make an adaptation of the Nancy comic.  That would really upset some traditionalists.  It certainly wouldn't be simple then.


That would definitely upset the traditionalists, a gritty noir Nancy movie would be quite the change of pace.


We should start a rumor on the internet.


With the way the internet works these days I think it would spread like wildfire.


Do you listen to music on the internet.  I know that is another thing some people get upset about.  They don't like Spotify, they think you should still use vinyl.


I definitely use Spotify, even though Vinyl may give you the best sound, Spotify has a library that would cost you millions to recreate.


I do use Spotify, especially when I want to hear a specific  track.  I mainly use the internet to listen to the radio.


The ease and algorithms available online or through these apps are amazing.


Do you like learning about the universe?


I mean it includes earth on which we live


sure, did you know there are cold stars?


Ya I wonder how it would be like to see and touch one


Wow it has to be amazing. i really admire people like Copernicus, Isaac Newton and more who have studied the universe and we have been able to learn from them!


I wonder if we will every truly know all there is to know in the universe


I hope so, because there are many questions, like the size of the universe, the number of galaxies, stars and to know what is beyond the visible universe!


I also wonder if there is any other life out there


And the thing is that without leaving our planet, there is so many things to learn about our earth.. to learn about its inclination, why is important, about gravity  and the magnetic field among many other things


Well there is a theory that technically gravity doesn't exist


Well there are many theories out there... but actually the earth's gravity interacts with the moon and the sun.. we can see evidence of the gravity's interaction with the moon


Well I mean the force of gravity does exist, but as a consequence of indents in space due to dense mass, like the mattress example


Interesting!! well let me tell you I want to travel and get to know as many different, seas, mountains, lakes and rivers!! That is my favorite thing to do.. what about you?


Traveling is an amazing hobby that I too enjoy. Learning about this vast earth so full of life and wonder is always fun


Yes and no place is like any other!! I also want to visit every island there exists! and even the Antartic


I do as well but I am hesitant to go to places that are too dangerous.


that is right, there is always a need to be careful but try to control the fear!  by the way did you know there is a sound frequency that makes  a person feel fear?


I bet they use it for horror movies!! Well there is a lot to learn about us as humans.. I really love to talk about science!


Indeed. I really enjoyed our chat. Thanks for blowing my mind and for this chat.


Hello. Do you like to dance? I do not dance but I enjoy watching dance performances.


Yes I like to watch dancing but I don't really dance, did you know that a ballet dancer can go through four pairs of shoes a week by the way


I heard about it.  It's really amazing.  It must cost them a lot of money.


Yes I think so. It's all so crazy that Tupac was a hardcore rapper but he also did ballet in high school haha


I cannot imagine him doing it.  Perhaps he wanted to meet pretty ladies!


Well I couldn't blame him! I also can't blame babies for dancing to music, apparently they will smile and move to the beat when they hear a song


That's cute.  I will want to watch my grand baby do it. Too bad she lives in another state.


Yeah that is too bad. What do you think about Bruce Lee though? Do you know he was actually a great dancer


No, I did not know that.  He was so talented in many ways.


Yes he actually won a Cha Cha Championship back in 1958, on a different subject have you ever seen the movie Incredibles 2?


No, I have not.  Please tell me about it.


Well I saw the movie but I didn't like it as much as the first one, came out last year and Samuel L Jackson actually does a voice in it, I think he's pretty cool


I like Samuel L Jackson.  Is he in both Incredibles?


Yes he is. If you watch the movies though it's crazy because they actually take place in the 60s, and they are not in present day


I see.  I'm curious to see them though since I can relate to the 60s. I'm old.


Well you might like the movie then haha, it's crazy that the first movie came out back in 2004, doesn't seem like it was that long ago


Do you know that Brad Bird intentionally used artists who were likely to either quit of be fired from Pixar?


No I didn't know that. I wonder if they worked harder because they were going to be fired then haha. What do you think about the fact that there was actually a sequel to the original Incredibles movie? But it was in video game for him, I never heard about that before


No, I have not heard about that.  Please tell me about it.


I don't know I never played the video game. But apparently it was the sequel before the sequel that came out last year haha. I'll have to check it out.


I do not play video games anymore.  Are you familiar with Sarah Vowell?


Betting sounds familiar. I think she does a voice in Incredibles 2 right? Maybe outside of that she is also a political commentator?


She is the voice of Violet Parr.  You are right, she is a political commentator.  Anyway, I've got to go now, my granddaughter is calling me.  It was nice chatting with you.  Good night.


Yes nice chatting with you too, and she is also apparently a bestselling author, I'll checkout her work take care!


Ya, you betcha. Give me a puck and a stick and you'll have a southerner trying to figure which end is up... You?


Hahahah Nice! I'm the same way.  An average pro hockey player will lose up to 8 pounds per game.


That explains why so many international hockey players are so fit! I saw in Sports Illustrated


Ha!  An ice hockey ring remains under a basketball court when switching stadium sports.  That has to be a pain in the butt changing the floor.


And I thought changing a diaper was tough... You know, hockey rinks used to only have one penalty box... But since fights would just continue in the box, teams lobbied for two boxes  to preserve teeth.


LOL ...to preserve teeth! Awesome! lol  A hockey player was traded for $1 in 1993 and he went on to win four Stanley Cups.  I have no idea what his name was.


Hockey players could use every cup they can get... In 1932, the USA Olympic hockey team lost to that hockey powerhouse, India


LOL In 1924 the first Ollympic games, Canada scored 132 goals and let in only 3 during the entire competition.  They weren't playing around.


Canadians are serious about their hockey!  Sometimes, the games get so hot, goalies spontaneously combust.  It happened once when puck hit a pack of matches in a goalie's pocket. Another reason I never smoked...


That would have been funny to see.  Canada is the only country in the world with 2 national sports hockey and lacrosse. lol


Nice. Not nice enough to make me want to be Canadian, but it is good that they have at least one thing to boast about!  Like the New England high school hockey team that beat the woman's USA Olympic team...


lol  Are you a basketball fan?  I am...my favorite shot is the granny shot.


In Texas, the Granny bow-hunting season starts in March. But Texans are proud of their Spurs, and that Tim Duncan!  He sacrificed money to stay in college for 4 years before dominating in the NBA!


Nice!  Physicists probed that shoot granny style is the absolute best technique to consistently score points from the free throw line.  That's why it's my shot.  I'm too short to get anywhere close to the hoop when the game is on.


Sounds like you still got game!  Sadly, most NBA players are broke just 5 years after they retire from the game.


Isn't that incredible they can blow through that money?  Allen Iverson will never have to worry about it after he signed that big endorsement deal with Reebok that pays him $800,000 a year until he reaches 55 and then at that time he will receive a final lump sum payment of $32 million bucks!


He's right there with Jordan...a dude so good, the Miami Heat, a team he only played against, retired Michael's Jersey number when Jordan retired. That's respect!


I never knew that.  Air Jordans were banned by the NBA.  Jordan wore them anyways because Nike was willing to pay the fine each game.  It's been fun chatting!


And now Jordan is principle owner of the Hornets!  Thanks. I have enjoyed chatting with you too!


Hello, are you a superhero fan? if you are then you might find interesting that there are over 300 hereos registered in the US.


not really but i am familiar.  i think it is funny that you cannot name your kid metallica, superman, or veranda in sweden.


I did not know that, well I would name my kid like that, it would be messed up lol.


So this is crazy and I had no idea.  Alan Iverson signed a lifetime deal with Reebok.  he gets $800k a year until the age of 55 and then gets $32M lump sum payment.  i am guessing Reebok regrets that.


Thats a lot of money, they sure regret it  although I think his had some decent seasons lately. There is a player that was known as Superman.


yes, Dwight Howard calls himself Superman.  sounds like he is looking to sign with the Washington Wizards.


I think he would be a good hire, I think Dwight Howard is a great player with a lot of experience.


He is not a good free throw shooter though, 56.6% is very poor for a pro basketball player.   And he picked up his 16th technical foul last season and was fined $60k and given a one game suspension.


Yeah, it seems like free throws are his kryptonite, I think that he is a bet that could turn better than expected, he has the motivation to comeback.


Speaking of Superman, DC Comics paid $130 in 1938 for the exclusive rights.  good investment.


I bet the party that sold the rights regret it to this day, considering Superman is one of the most popular heroes.


I would think so.  that $130 was probably wasted.  Superman once wielded Thors hammer as he was the only one deemed worthy.  lol


I thought Vision was also one of the worthy ones,did you know that there is a comic series about the collateral damaged caused by superheroes.


that would be a crappy job.  fixing everyone's crap...  there is a lso a superhero called NormalMan.  i am wondering what is super about being normal.


Thats odd, I heard his the only hero without powers in a planet full with heroes, he must have other skills.


maybe, but what would be normal about him then.  haha  Dwight Howard should shoot Granny style as physicists have proven this to be the best technique  Like Rick Barry


It is ironic lol, and yeah, maybe changing his technique will help him, I think he has a lot of talent and with inspiration he can be the player he once was.


i did not know that Air Jordans were banned from the NBA.  but Michael Jordan wore them anyway and Nike paid his fines.


Do you happen to know why they got banned_


no  apparerntly were banned when they forst came out.  probably because they were for a current player i would guess.


I imagine some players got injured from using them or maybe they werent fully tested.


It depends on the sport, I used to be a gymnast, and think it's cool that the ancient Greeks practiced it for war.


I feel that despite its image, it is a very difficult sport


Despite it's image? it's not know for being a lazy sport. Even the pommel horse was originally developed for soldiers.


I mean I understand it is an intense sport that requires endurance, strength, coordination, and flexibility to say the least, but it isn't one of the sports that come to mind as being dangerous or I guess tough like rugby or football


Tough? I guess it's how you look at it. Ballers have it easier than gymnasts There was even a gymnast with a wooden leg, he even won six medals in one day.


It is amazing how nadia comaneci scored the first 10 in history


She was only 14, and the scoreboard only went to 9.8.


I wonder why it only went up to 9.8. Seems odd


That was the highest score at the time. There was a N.Korean gymnast who may have been 10 at the Barcelona Olympics, even though they said she was 17


I don't know. I don't remember her. I was surprised to learn that a pro hockey player can lose 8 pounds in a game. That seems dangerous.


I am not from the east so I hadn't skated till relatively later in my life and wow I burn calories struggles to just stand on ice. Can't imaging how much you burn playing hockey


I wonder how much you burn playing lacrosse? I'm surprised we don't have a national league, like Canada does.


I am not to familiar with lacrosse. Could you tell me more about it?


I don't understand it at all. It's not popular in my area. We do have an ice hockey rink with a basketball floor that covers it.


Is the basketball floor on top of the ice?


It's a cover for the ice rink. Like a sub floor. They are common with stadiums that don't have a lot of room, and both sports are played.


Really? I never knew that. That is fascinating. I wonder if the basketball court feels cold when playing


I doubt it. In 1993, a hockey player was traded for $1. He went on to win four Stanley Cups.


That was a steal for whichever team got him for a buck. In any case, thanks for chatting.


Interesting that a movie I love growing up was thought of as something that later became San Andreas. Twister was my all time favorite disaster movie.


Hah, I remember watching it as a kid in school for some odd reason.  I've never heard about the whole "comps" thing


Straight Outta Compton looked interesting but I never had a chance to see it. I guess I should go and see it now.


Not my thing.  I don't get the whole Mister Rogers thing.  I thought it was boring when I was a kid


I never watched those shows either, my brother tried to force me into watching them but it didn't stick.


I liked the original teenage mutant ninja turtles when I was a kid.   I haven't heard of "Three Identical Strangers" have you?


Loved Ninja Turtles, and no I have not. Not sure what that is about.


I might have to look it up.  That keeps happening with these hits, I get interested and have to look stuff up


Was Mr. Rogers a TV show? And Won't you be my neighbor based off it? I don't really remember. Surprised it made 22 million.


Yeah it was a PBS kids thing.  Won't you be my neighbor is a documentary about him/it


Ah! I was like what were you talking about, and then I saw the "Won't You Be My Neighbors" just wanted to be sure.


Pretty sure there is a move coming out with Tom Hanks playing him as well


Umm... Interesting. What is Hawke's first name? I've seen "The Purge" trailers, but never really watched it enough to know the names of the actors.


Ethan Hawke.  Did you see that part about Stephen King being terrified as a child by the movie Bambi?


Yes I did, I never thought much about it. Although, he was such an intelligent man so he probably understood life more than we did. And Bambi was a sweet movie.


But the mother dying is sad, but one or both parents were almost always killed in Disney movies


Yeah, it was poor Bambi even if he wasn't real.Shocking how very few people are getting mad at the deaths, yet they get mad at the other things involved with the movies.


Right, it seems like its always sex that upsets people, not violence


Sigh. What a strange world we live in. Speaking of which. Jack Black as the star of Green Lantern now that's a laugh.


Hopefully the would have had him get in shape before putting on the spandex.  And hey, watching a horror movie burns 180 calories!


Oh yeah, well it was going to be a comedy, I'd doubt it would of been as action packed as it was when it was created had they went with Jack Black.


I might have to look up what a waterphone is as well, never heard of it


I don't know what a waterphone is either, sounds interesting.


Do you like any of the movies that came out in the summer of 2018>


Yes.  I love them.  They are a good way to pass time in the winter months.


I did.  Great movie.  I love those movies.  They just added a great superhero spinoff "Ant-Man and the Wasp" on Netflix.


I might have to look that up! Black panther is the richest super hero to date though!


I remember seeing that somewhere.  The symbols and written script from that movie are based on an actual script called nsibdi.


Really? I had no idea! I was surprised that Black panther was worth more. I thought Tony stark might be.


Tony Stark is worth $100 billion.  Black Panther crushed him bringing in $500 billion.  Whoa!  That's a huge difference.


It is! and Bruce wayne only brought $80 billion!


Who would have thought?  That franchise is the oldest and has been around for decades. Do you like comedies?  I love them.  Bill Burray thinks Kung Fu Hustle is the supreme achievement of the modern age in terms of comeday.


He's weird. When Black panther came out, I was really surprised they called it that because of the black panther political party.


LOL  Weren't they going to call the character Black Leopard?


I think it was! So many of us were like they are calling it Black panther? Kinda like when they came out with Soylent.


Yes.  Do you like Stephen King?  He calls Bambi the first horror movie he saw.  That's kind of weird.


Bambi really is a horror show. I kinda feel that way about Watership down myself. I loved the Mist though.


Yes.  It's on Netflix I think.  I love comedies.  I used to love watching 3rd Rock from the Sun back in the 90s.  It won the golden globe for best comedy series in 1997.


I love thrid rock from the sun! So much fun!


I am so saddened to hear about the van accident that caused 10 deaths in Toronto.


Yes, it was quite a tragedy, and caused a number of safety measures to be implemented.


I'm glad they observed a moment of silence. It's important to recognize that life is more than sports.


True, but sports help too, and it is good the Stanley Cup game continued as planned.


The fans needed the distraction and sports do bring people together. It's too bad that a tragedy has to happen for us to see a need to change security measures, but we can't always anticipate tragedy.


Too true.        What do they call that black disc they use in hockey?


That would be the puc. Not much of a hockey fan, eh?


I see. I live in a part of the world with a lot of snow, so I'm more used to ice hockey. Canada is a powerhouse in ice hockey. Especially at the Olympics.


I know Canada is still one of the best, although in the early days of the Winter Olympics they really dominated!


The 1924 Olympics was Canada's shining glory with 132 goals and their opponents only getting 3 during the entire competition.


Well, what would you expect when it is a national sport!     Canada has another sport at that level, don't they?


Yeah. Their other national sport is lacrosse.


Interesting.   I've always found multiple sports venues fascinating.


It is pretty nifty that they can have a basketball floor on top of a hockey rink.


Yes, quite an engineering feat!    Are you a fan of the nba?


The NBA is fun to watch, but I have to admit I like less professional basketball team play like college. I am always amazed though by great talents like Reggie Miller.


OK.    I would've loved to be a fly on the wall for his matches against his sister Cheryl.


No kidding. Breaking 8 national records is no small thing.


Still not Michael Jordan, who was so good that Nike would pay per game fines because his shoes were not approved for game use.


It's just a bit crazy when you have to have your shoes approved to play. I can't believe that physicists proved that Granny shots are the best technique for consistent free throws.


I've tried it, but never been able to master the underhand thing!    Perhaps I will go practice.   Thanks for the chat!


Good Morning-what do you think of Ivanka using the government e-mail


Ivanka should be careful about using gov't email. I think that Clinton ran into some problems because of email.


I think they should find out what Clinton did and prosecute her if need be. They have been talking about it since the election and nothing has been done! Ivanka should be careful not to get into that mess.


She is immune to criticism, just like Trump. I don't know what her political aspirations are, but as long as her father is there, she will benefit from his presence.


But she doesn't want to be seen to doing something totally wrong, like Hillary did.


She probably won't run for president. If she does, this whole incident will be ancient history by then. New scandals will be floating around.


Can't these people behave themselves? I don't like the Clintons and their scandals and it just gets worse. It seems like they think they can get away with anything!


I hear you. The media love scandals because lurid stories draw viewers. Recently Jeff Bezos was in a scandal. I wonder if he'll ever run for the White House.


God help us I hope not! I don't think he would be elected. I think that Joe Biden has the best shot because he has been there the longest. But of course, I am a Trump fan, so I hope they all move to another country.


Biden is probably too old at this point. The Democratic field is a jumble, and I don't know who is going to finally emerge as the candidate. Trump is already campaigning.


No, they don't actually have a good candidate. Too much scandal behind most of them. People don't seem to care, though.


It's going to be an interesting race. People shift allegiances to suit the situation. For example, Clinton used to be a republican and Ric used to be a democrat.


Yes, they are like chameleons. Change colors to suit their purpose. I like Reagan-but that was a long time ago. The world was more peaceful then.


I'm wondering about a possible gov't shutdown. The government has shut down 17 times over the past 37 years. it happened three times in 1977.


I think Trump will shut it down if he doesn't get the funding for the Wall. I think he should at least get rid of Pelosi while he is in office. She, and some of the other old politicians, need to retire. I wonder if Justice Ginsburg is even still alive? No one has seen her at all. So, I don't blame Trump if he shuts it down out of frustration with these people.


He doesn't have the power to get rid of Pelosi. She has her position because of the Congressional majority. If the GOP gets a majority again, they can put in their own person. I wonder if Rupert Murdoch will support a Democrat this time. He has apparently supported both hillary clinton and barack obama in campaign elections.


Politicians should have term limits. Trump should at least help pass a law to that effect. Rupert Murdoch, the Clintons, the Koch brothers and Soros (to name a few) I do not agree with their views


I'm not sure what grounds you can jail them. Rich people usually have the money to get lawyers to avoid jail. The system needs to be overhauled, that's for sure, but it's not as bad as China. The Chinese government has censored the word 'censorship' That's extreme.


In some other countries around the world, they wold have lost their heads by now. I know that it is not possible here but it is what should actually happen in a better world where treasonous agents are punished for the troubles they foment.


Well, I enjoyed chatting with you! Have a good day!


I do a little bit!  I know that wikileaks published the government's plans to destroy wikileaks.


That's pretty funny. I saw that the white house has twin buildings in Ireland and France.


I never knew that!  I know George W. Bush had solar panels put back on the white house.


Yes.  Wish I could put solar panels on my house and get away from having to pay the electric company.  Teddy Roosevelt was such a staunch conservationist that he banned Christmas trees from the white house!


I agree. That's pretty funny about Roosevelt. Did you know the white house uses floppy disks for storing some files?


I didn't.  Think they would have upgraded by now.  lol  On Nov. 11, 2011 someone shot bullets at the white house and it took the secret service 4 days to realize it. Wow!


I would think so too lol. Hard to believe it took them 4 days to figure that out!


I know right?  Kind of scary it took them that long.


I agree. Did you know 86% of the land in Nevada is owned by the government


Wow.  I didn't know that.  The other 14 percent must be casinos? lol


Haha probably. The Norwegian government donated 1 billion to help save the Amazon rain forests.


That's a lot of cash!  A man in France impersonated a gov't official and managed to sell the Eiffel Tower not once, but twice!  lol


That's hilarious! Wonder if he was arrested and charged for that?


I bet he was!  How could he not?  lol  Are you a fan of Hillary Clinton?


I do not like her at all. What about you?


I'm not a fan.   Hillary was the president of young republicans in college.  Funny how she switched sides.


That's pretty ironic she flipped parties lol.


I know right?  She has a grammy award for best spoken word album for the audio recording of her book "It takes a village".


I am good. I am excited to dive deeper into the ocean, pun intended!


I agree lol. Did you know the alternative name for the planet is tellus and telluris?


I did not know that. I think I will be using thsoe terms more!


I saw that in 1975 the Soviet Union sent a space craft to the planet Venus. Pretty amazing.


I wonder how it is holding up. The Societ Union's technology at that time couldn't have been good...


I agree. Apparently, they captured the very first images of Venus.


Really? That's a little shocking... considering we beat them into space but since got the moon, they probably didn't want to go there again and chose Venus.


I also read that you could fit every other planet between Earth and the moon which is pretty amazing.


Yeah, conisdering the size of Jupiter! Have you ever been diving? The author states "Just 650 feet down..." That's so far down!!!!


I have never been diving, but I'd really like to try it. I do know that 650 feet is very far down!


Yeah. On my first dive I went like 75 and freaked out! I ran out of oxygen so quickly... I'm a little better now...


Oh wow that's crazy! Did you know that since jellyfish are 98% water they would evaporate in the sun?


That makes sense but it's still a little surprising.I read there is a jelly fish that is immortal. I gotta know more about that...


lol I've read that too. There's a specific species of jellyfish that never dies. It basically keeps regrowing new cells it's entire life.


I could use that for the bags under my eyes! And my face in general!!!!


hahaha! I also saw that there is a fish called the barreleye that has a completely transparent head which is creepy.


HAHAHA. Can you imagine a human with a transparent head? Walking down a busy street in NYC and there's a dude with a transparent head? So weird!


LOL that would be hilarious! Being able to see their brain and stuff.


The ocean floor is really amazing, theres a lot we dont know about it


I completely agree! I can't believe the Titanic is 12,000 feet underwater and that people have logged over 3,000 hours underwater and we still don't know much about it.


I think the ocean is a source of inspiration to many, me included, all the wonders that are there, all the wonders to discover


I would love to see a picture of the bristlemouth fish with an alien mouth and bioluminescent parts of its body.


That would be great,  they are the most numerous vertebra in the planet and still they are so rare for us,


Did you know that part of the ocean is called the twilight zone and has the largest animal migration on Earth?


I didnt know about that zone, but it must have a wide range of animals, some common other really rare, it seems like a dangerous place full with predators though


Definitely, unfortunately I think we're the biggest predators. We use to think the ocean's resources were limitless, but that thinking with the Northwest Atlantic Cod Fishery almost killed a whole ecosystem.


They kill a lot of species, so I guess they are the worse and that should stop- we should protect sea life. the ocean has also absorbed a lot of carbon dioxide


There are so many things about the planet we don't understand! Even more we don't know about other planets, but I do no that Venus doesn't tilt so it has no seasons!


I agree theres a lot we dont know about astronomical bodies over the universe, and not only planets but also moons of planets, Venus must be a beautiful planet


Yes the moons...did you know that if Jupiter's moon orbited the sun that it would be a planet?


Yeah the moon is called Ganymede and it must be massive, Jupiter is also beautiful have you seen at the pictures of the storms,


I haven't! Did you know that when Earth was formed a day was only 5.5 hours long? That's crazy!


That is crazy, I would be really old by now lol, there is a planet where  shards of glass precipitate sideways at a really high speed


That sounds scary! Did you know that we have an official ambassador to extraterrestrials in case they ever come?  I wonder what that person does every day?!


We do? that is crazy, I wonder if that will ever happen though, maybe martians will visit us some day


Maybe. I didn't realize helium was as prevalent on Earth as it is, but Earth will be almost helium-free by the end of the 21st century.


I wonder how helium affects the planet, it seems like we can do ok without it


I only knew about it in balloons lol! Another thing I recently found out is that the only fish with a neck is a seahorse.  Strange to think about!


It is strange, fish are also full with wonders, there is even an immortal breed of jellyfish


Great, Planets are very interesting! I didn't know Venus is the only planet that rotates clock-wise.


I like that Uranus rotates sideways and rolls.


I do too! Wow,  life 455 light years away


Wonder if we will make contact. The UN appointed an official ambassador for extraterrestrials in 2010.


Yes, love that, very sad our forests have 80%been destroyed.


And sadly it has mostly been by us. If earth's whole history was viewed as a 24 hour period, humans would represent 1 minute and 17 seconds


Interesting, that's no time at all. That black swallower fish must be strong!


Yeah, I will steer clear from it as it can eat prey ten times its weight.


lol, I love to watch seahorses, now I will be focusing on their necks.


Yeah, they are pretty cool. But I would love to observe the immortal jellyfish too.


Unique to look at. My sister was stung by a jellyfish, very painful!


I think it's cool that saltwater fish can drink through their mouths and also through osmosis.


Yes, I agree. If our days were still 5.5 hours long, I don't think I could everything done!


Right, 24 hours is barely enough for me!


I like to snorkel in the ocean at coral reef and small fish. Its so beautiful!


Yes, it is like another world here on Earth!


Ah, so the area at the edge of the sunlight's reach, 650 feet down?


Yes,  home of the largest animal migration.


It would be cool if I could take a trip there. There may be more animals than there are stars in our galaxy.


every us president with a beard has been a republican, that's odd.


That is odd. So what do you think of trump.


Me too. I think he needs to calm down a little bit sometimes but he is a smart dude.


yeah I never liked trump before he was president. I think he's doing a great job with all that he's been dealt.


Trump is a republican. Did you know there hasnt been a president who wasnt a republican or democrat since 1853


You think it's true that the last time a republican was elected president without a nixon or bush on the ticket was 1928? How can that be?


funny about harry truman not wanting to be photo'd on the dumbo ride because he didn't want to be associated with repubs.


They was taking shots at each other even back then huh.


yeah looks like it. Some things never change.


consistent use of red and blue for the parties only started in 2000.


yeah looking at the red blue map, looks like most blue is on the coasts and the red is in the middle.


seems like the bigger cities are more blue.


I guess that makes a little bit of sense.


i believe it. Nevada is mostly desert, so who else would want it.


true! who would want it? guess it's good for nuclear testing. ;)


Well if thats what they are doing out there Im guessing wikileaks will let us know.


yeah, maybe wikileaks can let us know about space aliens in area 51 too.


Well they published the governments plans to destroy wikileaks so Im sure they would have no problem leaking it. Lol.


heard assange was offered an australian passport, I always thought he was european


Yeah I did too. Well its been a good chat. I gotta get off here.


Do you have a favorite album of all time?


Good evening.  Yes, Michael Jackson's Thriller is one of my all time favorites.  How about you?


Nice I loved Linkin Park's hybrid theory, I think it was the highest grossing album of the 21st century. MJ was probably highest in the 20th century?


Probably.  Do you have any old vinyl record albums?


I do not, I wish I did. I have a gold jimmy hendrix record but that is it. How about you?


I have a big stack I inherited from my late father.  He was a true audiophile and had a good mix of classic rock, jazz, folk, you name it.  I love sitting and listening to them with all the clicks, pops, and white noise.  Looking at the album covers is pretty cool too, so of them are wild from the 60s!


That is an awesome collection, I hope there is not Taylor Swift in there, that would ruin the collection! What are your best ones?


The Beatles white album, sgt. peppers's lonely hearts Club, and Dark side of the moon.  No, Taylor Swifts in the bunch! lol


dang I am so jealous! NWA in there at all?


No, that's more my generation, though.  Straight outa Compton.


I loved that album! They went platinum without much air time or major tours on that album


Me too, classic in my mind!  You know, I was shocked to find out that Aerosmith made more money off of Guitar Hero than any of their albums.  Isn't that funny?


That is so funny, I definitely was a part of that. I love guitar hero! I should create my own album making songs from that game lol


I liked it too!  How does Walmart make any money selling only clean versions of albums?


Right, I would never spend money on albums that were clean, I would just download the album from youtube.


Speaking of youtube, did you know it started out as a dating site?


I did not know that, I think it would have been hard to find someone to date on that. Did you ever use it?


Heck no!  I read somewhere that the first youtube video that was uploaded was of a man talking about an elephant.  I wonder how many views that got?


I don't know, I hope it is still up there, I will check it out. Good chatting with you!


Great chatting with you as well.  Enjoy the rest of your evening.


It is definitely a go to for myself. There is a good reason why it is the 2nd largest search engine


Did you know the first youtube video was of a guy talking about an elephant?!


I didn't! Well youtube has come a long way, together with netflix accounting for 1/2 peak internet traffic here


Did you know justin bieber's baby is the most disliked video on youtube?


Thats hilarious! YouTube actually started as a dating site!


On the opposite side of the spectrum, police have their own blutube like youtube that share law enforcement videos


Thats hilarious. Are you a Taylor Swift fan?


Not particularly, but I think she has made significant achievements in the field of music


She moved to Tennessee at 14 to pursue her country music career.


Yes and she was the youngest album of the year winner.


I didn't like how taylor swift made the infamous incident at the award shows though


Agreed and how she walks backwards to avoid people taking photos of her.


I think that is her right. Sometimes paparazzi are too extreme and in my opinion some deserve to get the same treatment.


Also agreed but thats the price for being super famous.


I guess. I was surprised how the white noise accidentally released by her reached the canadian itunes charts. I guess under her brand anything is good


Yea, did you know aerosmith made more money from guitar hero than any album?


I'm not surprised. Guitar hero was a very VERY popular game


That game is very fun, but I never was good at it.


In any case, what matters was that you had fun, not your skill. I enjoyed our chat and I hope you have a wonderful day


Listen to some of her stuff.  Think her most recent single is Delicate?


I'll have to check it out. She won female artist of the year at iHeart radio music awards.


Heard about that.  There was some to-do about her not being there to accept the award.  She's apparently been out of public view for a while and people are making speculations about why.  Guess it's hard to be a superstar.


I can't even imagine. Do you use youtube at all?


Funny you should mention YouTube.  That Delicate music video utilizes it a lot.  Guess her fan base the "swifties" are on social media a lot.  Got any favorite youtube videos?


Really honestly i don't use it for that. I usally use it when i need to learn something...about my car or fix my computer or phone. Do you?


Mostly music.  My little one, for some odd reason, really likes that Gangnam Style video.


Oh ok You know youtube is the second largest search engine on the internet?


I can imagine.  Heard this crazy stat that there's more than 400 hours of content uploaded to YouTube each minute.  That's a lot of things to look up!  But I think it's kinda cool that I can look up full albums of songs I used to listed to on vinyl.


I was not aware that google purchased them for 1.65 billion dollars.


Wow didn't realize Google owned it.  Do you just watch the free stuff?  Heard there's a YouTube Premium service.


Yeah i got Hulu and Netflix i don't need to pay for anything else but i heard that as well.


Considering getting the premium service since it's ad-free.  Think Hulu has some of their stuff on YouTube as well.  Not sure about Netflix.


Well i might try the free 30 day trial they are the 2nd largest search engine on the web. Did you hear about Blutube?


Think so.  Some to do with the police right?


Yeah apparently they share cop enforcement videos.


That must get a lot of likes.  Oh, I bet you don't know what video was the most disliked video on YouTube.


Oh ok that makes sense then. Did you know that NWA's Straight Outta Compton album went platinum without the support of airplay or a major tour. That's deep and they were they first to do that. Nice chatting with you my friend.


That was a pretty good album.  I'm more of a Dark Side of the Moon kind of listener.  Take care.


Hello there and good day. Have you heard about the Virginia women who are staging a political takeover?


I read something about it.  Its seems that Democratic women candidates are making inroads.


Yet seems that way. A lot of powerful women to like Elaine Luria who is a retired naval commander.


What is unexpected in that a Democrat unseated a Republican in Hampton Roads.  Virginia use to be a divided state politically with the Democrats ruling urban Northern Virginia and Republicans dominating the southern more rural areas of the state.  That seems to be changing as well.


Oh wow that is very interesting yes like you say it is definitely changing. I bet you the Republican Party is scared or as some people call it... the Grand Old Party.


I am not sure what to make of it.  Politics has gotten so polarizing with the Democrats being pulled very hard left.  But considering Hillary Clinton was president of the Young Republicans in college, anything is possible.


Yeah that's a good point it is becoming so divided right now. The last time there was a president who wasn't a Republican or Democrat was back in 1853.


I am personally registered as an independent although you might say I lean Republican.  The party system has gotten out of hand.  Too get things passed, you have to support your party first and your constituents second.   I think government should be a function of the people (voters) and not the parties.


Wow that is very well put. Yeah I think there has to definitely be a balance between the principle of individual freedom and the idea of absolute state authority.


I am all for individual freedoms and the right to "pursue happiness".  The government should not be in the business of choosing winners and losers, like it did in 2008 when it bailed out big banks like J.P. Morgan.  Ironically, it was J.P. Morgan that bailed out the U.S. government in 1895.


Yeah I definitely agree with you. The US government does have a lot of power in Nevada they own 86% of the land there.


I bet it has something to do with Area 51!  What are your thoughts of celebrities and government?  In the midterms, Taylor Swift decided to finally get involved in politics and put herself out as being against Republican candidate Marsha Blackburn.  It backfired on her!!!!


Yeah I think celebrities have a voice but they should only use it to do good things. Taylor Swift has done a lot of controversial things like removing her music from Spotify.


I think too many celebrities (like the Kardashians) do not have any ideal what life is like in real America.  And others do their best to distance themselves into the elite.  Social media (right or wrong) gives them an instant and oversized voice.  And they often speak of things they are unknowledgeable about.  They would be better off sticking to what they are good at.  Taylor is an amazing artist, but she is not an average American living paycheck to paycheck!


Yeah I think they are living in their own little world. Kanye West is another example and he actually did a Saturday night live skit mocking himself for interrupting an award ceremony!


I like the way T.S. donated the proceeds of Wildest Dreams song to wildlife conservation and I hope she does more of that.  But wading into politics sullies her image.  What are your thoughts on the income tax?  I like the way Monaco has eliminated the income tax in 1869 because of sufficient revenue from other sources such as gaming.


Yeah Monaco seems like a really cool town for doing that. Did you know that Taylor Swift owns her own jet. It cost around $40 million.


I did not know that, but I am not surprised.  After all, she was the youngest artist to sign on with Sony/ATV Music.  It must be nice to grow up in a wealthy family who moved from Pennsylvania to Nashville TN when Taylor was 14 so she could pursue her music career.


Yeah she had a lot of resources to help her out. And it all paid off. She was the youngest album of the year Grammy winner ever.


She has had a lot of success and I do not begrudge her for that. At one point in time, she seemed "somewhat normal".  Now, she is a all-out celebrity; she even walks backwards to avoid having her photo taken!


Wow that seems very extreme. She has definitely done well for herself. But it was nice talking with you goodbye.


Good, do you like Taylor Swift? what do you think about the prize she won recently.


I am indifferent to her. My daughter likes her though. Do you like her?


I think she is a good artist, not  my favorite but she has good skills.


That makes sense. What is your favorite artist or band?


I like Led Zeppelin a lot, its one of my favorite bands, what about yours?


I like Jimmy Buffett a lot but I think that has more to do with the party involved than the music. I also like Pink Floyd and some new stuff. MOstly alt rock.


I see, what about Aerosmith? theres a cool fact about the band want to know what it is?


Ok so Aerosmith made more money from the game Guitar Hero than any of their albums.


Really???? That seems like... they got jipped on their album sales!


Could be, I bet they got really bad deals.


Yeah. I heard that Napoleon Dynamite only made like $5000 on that movie. He got screwed!


He sure did! only $5000!! I bet he could sue someone for that!


Did you know Kanye predicted his taylor swift interruption?


He did? I bet there was something else going there, you know Taylor Swift comes from a wealthy family.


I actually did not... How did they get their money?


I dont know how but apparently they lived on a 11 acre tree farm.


Wow. Now I feel like I have to look into it...


Another interesting fact is that Swift walks backward to avoid photos.


Well well. And you? How do you feel about soccer in the field?


I don't' know much about soccer personally, what about you? I do see that drew carey served in the marine corp which I didn't know


Oh, well, I do see it. But you can talk to me a little more about what you drew, I'm curious


well I was talking about drew carey who is a tv star, have you seen him on tv?


Or if, if I have seen, go that if it is talented, besides everything is singer and comedian


well have you seen evan almighty? that movie is the most expensive comedy ever made, you might like that it is a comedy after all


I can not imagine, this evan is a great actor, but I also love the pratagoniza the other powerful, this is much better personally


Do you listen to led zeppelin at all? I guess it says they decided not to title their fourth album to confuse the press which I think is funny


thats good, and it says walmart only sells clean versions of albums, that explains why I never buy music at walmart, only food and random clothes for me


I understand, that's something interesting


have you seen any of the spiderman movies?  do you know his origin?


I've seen them all, absolutely everyone and I do not know their origin


ah, well he gets bitten by a radioactive spider, this says a real person used mercury to try to convert his bones to metal after seeing xmen and had multiple spider bites from watching spiderman, just silly!


Well, I think that everything is science fiction, although I do not remove the doubt from my head and that is that there may be someone wanting to achieve this.


well that would be true, I hope that these people don't do anything stupid though, this guy could have gotten seriously hurt


Or something much worse, I think it would be better to leave everything as this


do you like james cameron? I guess he was going to make a spiderman movie with arnold but it was cancelled, that would have been awesome


I can imagine, it would have been something wonderful


I've always been a fan of the NBA and basketball, but I never knew that shooting "granny style" is the best technique to score free throws. NBA players refuse to do it because it looks stupid haha.


I suppose NBA players, maybe all athletes in general, care a lot about how they're perceived by the general public.


Of course. And I'm sure a man doesn't want to shoot "granny style." There's a lot I would do for $32 million. That's what Iverson's getting when he's 55.


There are a lot of NFL players that have recently been very public about their views on certain political standpoints. President trump, racism, etc. have all been hot topics. This seems to create a lot of buzz around their names and throws them right into the spotlight. I bet they enjoy it!


Yeah I agree. And everyone has an opinion they're just dying to express.  I feel like this happens more in football than in other sports, like baseball and tennis.


Yeah they seem to be thinking more about the game itself rather than the politics surrounding it.


That's they way it should be. I love tennis. The longest match in tennis history was 11 hours over 3 days. I wonder if that was televised.


That's incredible! I wonder how they sustained that much energy for such a long stretch of time. For a long time, until 1978 to be exact, tennis players were allowed to use any item as their racket. Can you imagine?! I wonder what some of the strangest items used as "rackets" were.... Boards? Dead salmon? Haha!


What! I never knew that. What exactly does "any item" entail? How about a baseball bat? They also used a helicopter to dry the grass courts in the '69 US Open.


Literally any item that could hit a ball over the net, I suppose. A bat would've been hilarious to see! Imagine a tennis ball flying over the net at 50mph. The helicopter trick sounds brilliant! That's a lot of fuel to burn through, though.


The would have been wild. They should reinstate that rule. I'd like do see someone come in with a loaf of hero bread. That would be entertaining to watch. Everyone has gotten so serious and is always offended these days. We always looked to sports as a form of entertainment but now it's so political.


I agree. It's nice to have your voice heard, but why should they be heard louder than the average person? Oh well... On a brighter note, did you know that George Clooney had a pet potbellied pig?! His name was Max. Apparently George treated him like a dog. He let him sleep in the bed with him and everything. I wonder if the pig was smelly...


If I had a pig, I'd probably treat it like a dog too. They are very smart and very clean animals, despite popular though. George Clooney is actually a distant relative of Lincoln too.


Wow, I always thought they were gross! You must be right though, there are a lot of people getting pigs as pets these days. I had no idea he was a relative of Lincoln! How would you even find out if you were related to someone historical like that? I want to find out!


Probably follow family your history. I've always wanted to do that myself, but even if I found out I was distantly related to someone like Einstein, what does it really matter? It really wouldn't change my life or make me feel better or worse about myself.


It would just be something awesome to throw into a conversation I guess. Other than that, pretty useless information- especially considering how fast lineage spreads.


That is true. I have always liked George Clooney. He also helped fund a satellite that documents war atrocities in Africa.


Wow! He sure has a lot of money, but he seems to spend it well. He even gave 14 of his close friends each $1 million as a gift. That's pretty admirable!


Extremely admirable! I need a friend like that! He's the only person ever to be nominated for the Academy Awards in 6 categories. Pretty impressive.


I do too! Haha! He's a very accomplished guy. He even had a small part in South Park. He was cast as the "voice" for Stan's dog. He was only asked to make dog sounds!


Get out! That's interesting! Well I have to run! Have a great day!


I loved Reggie Miller growing up. I still remember his famous game against the Knicks, how about you?


Yeah he is great but as good as he is, his sister was always better than him


SO good that she once broke 8 national records by scoring 105 points in a game


wow that is crazy! I knew he was good, but she was amazing! That is better than Wilt Chamberlain! Do you have a favorite team?


I do not actually, just enjoy the games. Did you hear of that deal Iverson signed with Rebook in 2001?


I didn't hear about the deal, but I know I used to love those shoes. I had so many pairs!


Nice. He is making $800 000 a year till he is 55 and then gets $32 million


wow, I heard he was caught begging for cheeseburgers from fans a year ago. He must be hoping 55 comes fast because that is a lot of money


Yeah I bet he is. Do you know what is the granny style shot?


I love the granny shot, but never would bust it out when it mattered lol. Are you a granny shotter?


I like it and it is the best one to score but players think it looks stupid and do no use it


I think the players who struggle with free throws should use it. They can't shoot any worse than they already do


I guess so. Did you ever buy Air Jordans?


I love Air Jordans, but I buy them at discount because they are too expensive lol. How about you?


I agree. When Jordan wore them in court when they came out he was fined for it


I heard that! Didn't nike pay the fines for him, free advertisement basically, well not too free lol! It was so nice chatting with you!


Yes they did. Same here have a great one.


Hey not sure how much you read so far, but it's crazy the FDA in the US has burnt six tons of books in an act to censor!


Thats interesting.  I do a lot of audible nowadays.  Theres a woman who reads 4700 words per minute!


Yeah it's so nice being able to have someone read out 1000s of books instead of just having one on hand. Holy cow! I really should read more, not really something we consider a complex intensive task since we do it so much. Need that cognitive boost though forsure as I'm aging.


I hear edgar allen poe wrote the oldest known cyborg!


Oldest raven too! It's funny that there was a moral dilemma in the 18th century due to people reading novels. Harry Potter would be so taboo


Haha those books are great!  Love Harry Potter,  have you seen or red any othe the new wizarding world stuff? Like Fantastic Beasts?


Absolutely!  It takes place all before Harry Potter,  its so cool to see all the history that was always mentioned in Harry Potter.  They have only release 2 movies so far,  they are predicted to be 5 movies.


Wow I actually had no idea about the premise that's awesome! Any allusions to HP narrative so far? I wonder where Harry ranks on that wiki for fictional character power/abilities ranking list hahaha.


I dont think he will be in any of the movies,  it was way before his time.  Thats awesome,  I wonder how long the list is lol


Shows some crack in the wall in the shape of his scar lolol :) but thanks for the recommendation I don't know why I was ignorant to the idea of watching them. Weird that literature was an Olympic event!


That does seem weird,  I thought the olympics was a physical event.  Thats cool though!


Yeah just imagine being some ripped dude ready to do that disc toss event right next to some guy dressed like Shakespeare ready to make some out of control poems!


hahahah or maybe its a literature throwing contest!  Thats physical lol


hahaha there we go! I wonder who pulled the plug on the arts being removed out of the olympics. It'd be cool to see rap battles there nowadays though hahah


yeah that would be cool.  I hear the koreans have a new kind of rap battle, compliment battle lol


hahaha that actually sounds like it'd be much more difficult I dig it!


Yeah a more positive outlook instead of putting people down and making fun of them lol


Yeah seriously and very few momentswhere we think critically in a complimentary manner compared to how much we road rage or think negatively of strangers hahaha. This was nice though going to check out


I need to check it out too,  I have never seen it, only heard about it


Sorry about that hahaha lost the chat window there for some reason, but going to check out Fantastic Beasts now hope you have a good night, bye!


No I don't but I have a friend's password to netflix


I have Amazon Prime. You can see most shows by streaming now instead of having cable.


Yes I have amazon prime and hulu myself.  Both are pretty cheap and my hulu comes with my phone plan on sprint.


I did have a free trial of hulu but didn't use it enough.


Yes I know I should not share passwords but I rarely watch netflix so I do not see the big harm


I don't share my passwords because no one wants what I have.


laugh!  Definitely lots of people use netflix though - in the evening it accounts for 33% of all bandwidth in this country


Yes, I hear people talk about it all the time and I don't think I have even watched Netflix.


Yes but did you know they still mail out dvds?  They spent more on postage than bandwidth!


I didn't know that. I do remember getting a dvd years ago.


Yes.  Netflix was even started because the founder had to pay a late fee on a rental


I remember how Netflix was putting Blockbusters out of business.


Yes Blockbuster should have bought netflix when it was offered to them for 50 million


Yes, It is funny to drive by places that use to be Blockbusters and to think that is how many of us spent Friday and Saturday night.


Yes and now with netflix and youtube they make up half of all internet traffic


Of course amazon is a huge company - I love prime video but I love the free shipping as well.


Yes, Amazon Prime is my favorite of all of them. It gives you so much for the subscription fee.


Yes and it is making Bezos rich  - he built a clock into the side of a mountain that should run for 10,000 years!


Yeah - I just wish I was the first customer - I could have had a building named after me!


I like some of it mostly the older stuff, and you?


Me too actually, do you know Tupac and his music?


Yes of course, his music is even in the library of congress now


Yes for cultural significance, I can totally see why though


I like him too. Did you know he wanted to become a comic book artist?


Yes he really liked the spiderman charater, maybe that is why


Yeah. Do you know what compliment battle is?


Yes that is a kind of rap they practice in south korea


Yes. A judge once gave the ruling in the form of rap, do you know why?


Yes because the suit was against Eminem Crazy. DO you like horses?


I love horses.In Iceland they have a fifth speed


Yeah it is called the tolt and is like speedwalking for horses


So cool. DO you know why dalmatians are associated with firefighters?


THat is because they can calm down horses and protect them if it need be


Yeah. Clint Eastwood has played so many movies with horses and he is somewhat allergic to them.


Nice. Once two high school kids rode their horses to school and got suspended because it was no vehicles to school day


Wow crazy. Have you heard of lipizanner horseS?


I have, they are born a dark color and change to white as they grow. Do you like colorful clothing?


Hi, how are you? Are you interested in horses?


I used to learn how to ride them. Interesting experience to say the least


I've never ridden a horse, well, except like a pony at a fair. No galloping.


Honestly, I am still surprised that horses are strong enough to carry the weight of humans and traverse for days. Can you imagine another human being able to do the same?


No, not at all. It's funny that two high school students rode their horses to school on 'no vehicles to school day', and got suspended. Well, that's not a vehicle, is it? Is there a school rule against horses? I wonder what state that was.


I think those are all fair points. The school should have no grounds to suspend them, unless someone got injured.


They could have just sent the kids home. I was surprised that Clint Eastwood, who has been on horseback in many of his movies, had a mid-life allergy to horses. I wonder how he developed that.


Well allergies are quite bizarre. My friend's father a huge lover of fish and I can't stress this enough. However, in his late 50s he developed a severe allergy to fish and had to stop eating them


I guess the immune system changes for some reason. That's odd. The body has been fine with it for so long. I guess change and development are normal. Lipizzaner horses, known for their classical dressage performances, are born black or brown and take about 6 years to turn completely white


It is a shame too since horses share quite a rare history with people as well are very unique animals. I wonder why once icelandic horses leave iceland, they can never return


I'd never heard that. Maybe once they get out, they can't stand being there. Too small, too cold.


Surprisingly almost all modern thoroughbred racehorse are descendants of a horse named darley arabian


Really? I didn't know that. Dalmatians are associated with firefighters because they would calm and protect the horses. I thought any dog could do that, but I guess Dalmatians are suited for it.


Wow that is impressive. I wonder if the dalmatians working for firefighters wore their own versions of fireproof clothing


I don't know. They must be smart enough to steer clear of the danger. Maybe they stayed with the horses at the fire.


I wonder when people started putting clothing on animals though. Clothing serves many purposes from protection to appeal


I guess they want to make their pet look like a little person. Cute and stuff. I understand that animals can get cold, so clothing could help. Still, people can go overboard.


Well clothing has a very interesting history. Did you know people used to do laundry in old faithful the geyser?


I wouldn't want to get to close to that thing. It's on top of a super volcano, I believe. Plus the water is awfully hot.


Well when it erupted, it erupted clean cloths lol


The clothes would be beautiful for people no longer there. Can you believe that Apple had a clothing line in 1986?


I hope they didn't try to get the high margins they have for their phones on their clothing.


They certainly wouldn't have. Clothing is really a tight market. Little margin there.


But if you have a brand and limited quantity, you could increase margins. In any case, thanks for chatting.


No, although I do appreciate them. I wouldn't say they are one of my favorite animals. How about you?


I grew up with them.  So I'm a little impartial.  When I had them growing up I didn't care for them.  Now that I'm older though I didn't realize how blessed I was to have them.


I do like the horses from the Budweiser commercials lol. I'm not a fan of horse racing or anything like that. Isn't it kind of cruel to race them?


lol Yes. They really take a beating.  Those poor horses live a terrible life.  I live near an Amish community and a lot of the retired race horses that didn't make big money end up being resold to the Amish market to pull their buggies around.  It's sad.  Icelandic horses have a fifth speed called tolt, which is basically speedwalking for a horse.  I just found that out.


That's cool. I'm actually glad to hear they get to have a meaningful life after. I thought they might just be used for breeding than disregarded after racing. I didn't even know horses had different levels of speed.


Oh yes...most have 3 speeds....walk, trot, and cantering or loping.  lol  Dalmations are associated with firefighters because they would calm and protect the horses back in the days before fire departments had motorized vehicles.


I guess that's why we always see them together in commercials and things like that. I think most racehorses can be traced back to one particular horse. That's pretty wild.


Yes!  That is pretty interesting.  I've heard that before.  Clint Eastwood developed a mid-life allergy to horses which is ironic because he spent so much time on horseback in all the Westerns he did in the first part of his career.


He must have used short haired horses. I heard that the length of a horses hair is determined by sunlight.


That is pretty interesting. I never knew that.  Speaking of horse hair... Lipizzaner horses (the ones that you see in dressage contests) are born black or brown and take about 6 years to turn completely white.


Did you ever try to tickle a horse when you were growing up?


Well apparently they are one of a few animals that are ticklish like humans. I think horses, sharks an orangutans are all ticklish lol


How neat!  Switching topics...are you a fan of clothing?  I am.  I try to wear it as much as I can.  lol


I do to try stay clothed myself lol. I try to stay trendy, but you definitely won't catch me watching Project Runway or anything like that. It is fascinating how humans are the only species to decide to use clothing.


Yes! lol  I was surprised to find out that Pilgrims wore clothing that was full of color and not just black and white.


Yea isn't the black and white just their formal wear? Yet that's how we remember them.


Yes.  I always saw them depicted wearing black and white in school.  I was surprised to see that Apple had a clothing line back in 1986.  Why would they get into clothing?


Well back then Apple wasn't the giant that it is now and was struggling to compete with Microsoft. Did you know people used to do laundry in old faithful?


No. haha I wonder how many people got their clothes shot up in the air and blew away! lol  It's been fun chatting!


Doing alright. Are you a NBA fan? James Harden is having a great season, he actually outscored the entire Clippers team in one quarter


I am an NBA fan. He's having such a crazy month stretch! Do you like the NBA?


Yea but I only have time to read about the game or watch highlights, like Harden's 25 points against the Rockets


Yeah, the response he is getting from twitter and other players is crazy. They are appreciating the work he is doing. I think he went for 61 last night against the Knicks.


Yea that's crazy but he might be getting away with some traveling and push-offs that refs aren't calling


That and some carries! Harden has shown some real confidence in his game this season. There's no chance he wont win the MVP this season.


Yea, I don't see how Lebron can win, especially since he's been out awhile with a groin injury while Harden is playing his mind out


His success makes me feel even worse for Melo Anthony. He couldn't succeed there, he may not succeed anymore with his antiquated game. Sad...


Maybe a team that wants to tank will take Carmelo despite the fact Adam Silver wants teams to stop tanking


As a Chicago fan, I am not sure I would like him to suit up for us. I would prefer to just cut or waive him.


Yea, he should just retire, he isn't a good fit with any of the 30 NBA teams


No, I guess LA is the front runner though. If he didn't have any friends in the NBA, the NBA equivilant to Barry Bonds, would he have even been signed this year? I fear not. It sounds like his friends are keeping him employed.


He's just a shell of himself now and in denial about it, maybe he needs the money though since 60% of NBA player become broke after retiring


At least he doesn't have a great game only to be overshadowed by his big sister, cough***Reggie Miller***Cough


No but that still isn't as bad as turning down a 10% stake in Nike for 100,000 like Spencer Haywood


Not smart! Spencer Haywood did that? Im surprised they offered that stake for SPENCER HAYWOOD!


I guess it all worked out in the end, Haywood got $100,000 instead of an ownership stake of 8.62 billion


Who was advising him? They should not be able to work with athletes any more. That company has been a giant since 86.


I don't know, it happened roughly 30 years ago so maybe his agent hated him


HAHAHA. That's a funny theory! He said no to Nike and told him to shoot granny style...


Hello,  have you seen the movie Titanic?


Hi! Yes I have seen it a long time ago, is it a real event?


yes it is.  Although,  the love story was probably added,  I dont think that love story actually happened


Oh my! It's a good thing that the titanic had more lifeboats than legally required! I wonder why they decided to add more lifeboats?


hmmmm,  I am pretty sure it had less lifeboats than required,  thats why so many people died.


Oh, the theme song is one of my all time favorite songs! The first movie about the film was released just a month after its sinking, there are more than one Titanic films?


I have only seen the one.  Its so crazy to see what everyone went through while the boat was losing integrity.  So sad to see all those people lose their lives.  Yes the song was good.


Yeah even in those tough times, some people were cordial enough to let women and children get on the life boats first. There's even a sims version of the Titanic, I never played that game, wonder if there's a monopoly version.


Oh wow never knew that,  I never played the sims either.  Did you know the titanic is slowly being eaten away at the moment?  Its predicted to be completely gone in 15-20 years.


Oh really? No scientist or museums are trying to preserve it? Is the ship still underseas?


Yeah the ship is still at the bottom of the ocean where it sunk.  I hear the founder of Hersheys candies was suppose to sail back home on the titanic but his plans changed !  crazy!


Oh my goodness, we wouldn't have had Hersheys! But the other crazy part is thinking about that ships were the main form of traveling vs airplanes today! We have come a long way since then


yeah thats really weird  I cant imagine having to travel by boat all the time,  also it takes so long.


Yeah! Wonder if in the future we'd travel like the ways the Wakanda people traveled in Black Panther, have you seen that movie?


Yes I have seen that move,  that would be pretty cool.  although,  id really rather have that healing bay thing rather than fast travel lol


Oh my! That was pretty awesome! Imagine all the medical bills and pain we'd save! Do you have a favorite character?


I forgot her name but Tchalla's sister,  the lady who works in the lab,  she is awesome!  How about you?


Oh yeah! I know exactly who you're talking about, me too, she's my favorite! She's fierce and smart and tech savvy too! Even with simple themes like challenging the king's sovereignty in Black Panther, Marvel is able to make it so entertaining!


Did you know Black panther is the richest super hero?


Oh wow, I didn't know that, Chadwich Boseman, the main character was accepted into a prestigious summer program but couldn't afford to go and turns out Denzel Washington secured funding for him, what a small world!


Thats pretty amazing.  Its been good chatting!


Do you know a lot about the sun and moon?


I know a little bit about both bodies. The moon is Earth's satellite and is tidally locked to us, resulting in us seeing only one face of the moon as it reflects the sun's light.


Did you know we almost put a un flag instead of an american one on the moon?


Although such a thing might have been considered by the U.S. government, it certainly was less of a priority than showing United States supremacy during the height of the Cold War against the U.S.S.R. Speaking of the sun, if only we could harness more of the energy that comes from the sun to power the earth. The sun produces enough energy in one second to supply all of the earth's energy needs for 500,000 years. Really amazing!


And the sun is only 1/billion the size of the biggest star. Imagine how much energy that produces


With the sheer amount of energy the sun produces, all that energy must come from somewhere. The sun is 1.39 million km in diameter, which is 109 times that of earth. It also is 330,000 times more massive than the earth, and, in fact, makes up 99.86% of the mass in the solar system.


True, yet a lightening bolt is still hotter than the surface of the sun. How on earth do people survive?


Well, the earth does have a lot of surface area, and since lightning needs a ground to attract its strike, most people are smart enough to get out of the way, and into cover. Regarding the moon, I just learned that its highest point is 1,938 meters higher than Mt. Everest on earth. For comparison, it's hard to imagine, Mt. Everest an addition 25% higher.


Given less gravity, I wonder if it would be harder or easier to climb given all the gear and limitations on the moon


I would imagine it would be harder in the sense that normal earth climbing gear would have to be adapted to the moon's unique challenges. It's a good thing the moon has a dense core; it's the second densest in the solar system, unlike Phobos, which is hollow.


It is shame though that moon dust is a hazard to humans, able to cut through kevlar and causing moon hay fever


That's why it may be helpful to send more robots on solar exploration, rather than humans. Although, there is something quite remarkable for humans to accomplish. It's sad, but also amazing, that the Mars Opportunity Rover is finally "dead." It was only on a 90 day mission, but lasted over 15 years. NASA is amazing.


I guess that is why so many people are interested in drone and AI research.


Yes, the world is quickly changing, with new technologies always on the horizon. But, part of me misses "old things," like vinyl albums. I still have my record of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, but I don't have a record player anymore! Crazy, right?


I guess many people have the songs transcribed into digital files instead. I think there is a value to the classics as well. I mean the dark side of the moon is still among the best sellers despite being released decades prior


Absolutely popular, which I understand, since it's still musically great. That's what makes me wonder how Linkin Park's "Hybrid Theory" is the best-selling album of the 21st century. I mean, really? Not that I am a fan of Taylor Swift, but I would think she could outsell Linkin Park any day of the week.


Perhaps. Nwa's straight outta compton is another great contender as it has reach platinum status without even a major tour


A really strange fact is that a set of identical twins from Japan released a rap album in 1992 at the age of 100 years old.


That must have been meaningful for those twins. I applaud them.


You mentioned that most people have digital files of their music. It seems that even that is going by the wayside with apps like Pandora, Spotify and the like where everything is in the cloud. Independent artists can use Soundcloud too to showcase their talents.


I think it is because it is much easier to carry around data with the speed technology is advancing than carrying around physical albums. I admit however, that generally it is a bit inferior in quality to the physical copies, but you can find equal quality as originals but just with much bigger file size


It's unfortunate that the United States is so behind when it comes to fiber-optic technology. It caps our data speeds, especially uploading. It would be nice if there was more concerted effort to increase this capacity. Too bad Google Fiber didn't work out.


I agree. Hopefully, the US will put more effort into updating infrastructure and technology across the board rather than doing meaningless political shows. In any case, thank you for the intriguing chat.


Yes I do. Did you ever listen to Hybrid Theory?


Yes it is the best selling album of the century after all


Yes true. DO you know which was the best album of 2014?


That was the dark side of the moon which was released 40 years prior


Yeah Straight Outta Campton was certified platinum even though there was not much airpolay or such


Yeah, talk about letting the quality speak for itself


Yeah I know. Twins in Japan released a rap album when they were 100


Wow cool. DO you know much about the sun?


Some stuff. I know that it is white but we see it as yellow


Yes that is all because of atmospheric scattering


Yes. The sun is hot but a lightning bolt is 5 times hotter than it


Yes that is crazy and the sun is so hot we only need 1 second of its energy for 500 000 years


Yeah so now imagine how hot a lightning bolt is


I know right?Did you know Neptune takes forever to orbit around the sun?


Yes it was discovered in 1846 and completed its first one in 2011


Yeah forever. DO you know big is the sun compared to other stars?


Yes it is one billionth of the size of the largest star


Yeah. How much do you know about the moon?


I know that there might be methane in one of the moons of Saturn


That is so cool. Nice chatting with you today.


I do not as I do not listen to music very often. What about you?


Same, but when i do it is definitely linkin park. Their hybrid theory album kicked butt!


Ah. Thom Yorke played the laptop on some radiohead albums.


That is awesome, I never knew that!  I love radiohead. Linkin park is the #1 album in the 21st century


Areosmith made more money from guitar hero than from any other album! I found that surprising.


that is very surprising, and kind of sad I think. Unless it was sooo much money and their album making soo much money also


Yes, and Walmart will only sell albums if the author decides to make a clean version of it.


that is crazy, they are messing up even more potential profits


Yes. Did you know that the sun makes up 99.86% of our solar systems mass?


that is nuts! I never knew that. I know the sun produces enough energy in one second to meet the needs of the entire planet for 500,000 years!!


Although we would need a dyson sphere in order to capture all of that energy.


That sounds straight out a marvels comic movie lol, do they exist?


No, and there is not even enough material on earth to cover up the sun. Did you know that the sunset on mars is blue?


that would be beautiful. Is there any video of that from the mars rover? I would love to see that!


So would I, just imagine our sunset but looking at it through a blue filter.


that is a good point, I bet even better of a sunset.  Crazy to think our sun is only 1 billionth the size of the biggest star in our galaxy


And there  is so much more to be explored in the Universe!


right! I cant believe that. I also can't believe that Neptun just completed its first full orbit of the sun since 1846!


Speaking of rotations, the equator of the sun rotates faster than the poles.


wow, that is interesting to think. It makes my head spin thinking of that! It was so nice chatting with you, have a great weekend!


I used to, but I was never very good. How about you?


Same here.  I took lessons as a kid and then stopped playing.


But as an instrument, I feel the music and sound when hammers strike the strings is beautiful


It is definitely a beautiful instrument.  Apparently a group of climbers found a piano at the top of Briatin's highest mountain in 2006


I guess someone just had to be the first to play a piano so high up. I think there are music that enhance nature's beauty


I'm sure that would be a really cool setting to play the piano.  Wonder how they got it up there?  Those things can be heavy


There was an aluminum grand piano on the hindenburg.  It weighed 356 pounds


Did you know there is a song solely written to stress test pianos?


No, I didn't know that.  It is not even playable by humans.  Crazy


I agree. In any case, you can find out more crazy stuff about pianos on the internet


Yep.  And in case the Internet ever burns down, you could go too the current library of Alexandria -  they saved a copy


Good question.  That's gotta be a giant hard drive.


I do enjoy using the internet, but I worry the constant novelty does cause addiction.


Addiction is a big problem.  I try to spend some time every day outside away from any screens.  It's good for your mental health


It is nice to bask in the sunlight and just relax outside. When it isn't freezing cold of course


Of course.  Though it's not full proof.  You can get cell service on top of Mt Everest


I mean that is one place you would want connection to make calls for help or look up information


Right lol.  You need to google how to get more Oxygen


They probably also have to learn how to properly ascend or descend to avoid altitude sickness


Very true.  Nice chatting.  Have a good day!


I did and loved it. Did you know he is the wealthiest superhero?


Yeah even beating Tony Stark and Batman, for a whooping $500 billion


Yeah that is a lot. How about DIsney movies?


I like many of them actually, DO you know the real name of Minnie Mouse?


Yes it is Minerva but I like Minnie better


Me too. THey have a culture there where they hide mickey stuff on all things disney


Hmm creative. Do you know who Bill Nye is?


Yeah that is the Science Guy and he worked with disney on the Flubber


Yeah that is pretty neat. Do you know what the name wall-e is a tribute to?


Yeah it was in tribute to Walter Elias Disney, how sweet of them


I do sometimes. DO you know when it was founded?


I want to say in the early 2000 but not sure exactly. Did you use Myspace ever?


Yes it was 2004. Yes I used Myspace for a bit before facebook era


Yeah too bad they did not buy facebook when they could for just $75 million


Because Mark is colorbling and cannot see green and red


Yes. The like button seems to be illegal in parts of Germany.


Hmm wonder why. In Iceland they are using it for something big, do you know what?


Yes to rewrite the constitution. Pretty crazy.


I'm doing amazing are you a fan of the marvel superhero films?


I love marvel my favorite films are the first iron man and the second spiderman film from like 2004. What are your favorites?


I like black panther. I think it was expertly cast and even better execution.


Omg yes, Black panther and the newest avengers movies have been my current favorites in the marvel film universe. The visuals on balck panther were top notch


Yeah! I do not know how they will come back from the ending of the most recent Avengers. Did you see it? Can I ask you questions about it without spoiling it?


Go ahead dont worry about any spoilers lol


How can they bring all of those people back that Thanos killed? I mean he killed almost half of the avengers and super heros? Is flash (I know DC) going to spin the world back in time?


They're probably going to do the classic comic book thing where they say that they only killed them in this universe but there are many univereses like the famous Earth 616


That makes sense but I do not like it. Just beat him before he gets the infinity stones...


I think spiderman had a woman who could like spin the webs of time or something so maybe they could do something with that


It is a pretty messy thing to come back from. This is usually where the movie jumps the shark (so to speak).


Which actor do you think played the best spiderman? the first the second or this newest one?


I think the first one was the best because he was the first. I think Andrew Garfield is great though!


You are the best, I completely agree toby maguire is the best rendition it was just believable from him. Andrew garfield did a great job also this new guy is going to take some getting used to


Did you see the newest one, the cartoon with multiple universes?


Nope but it actually got some pretty good reviews


I would like to see it. It got nominated for a few awards.


What did you think about the venom movie with tom hardy?


Its not close to the spiderman films but i can definitely tell you its better then any rendition ben affleck did of batman lol


HA! That's not setting the bar very high.


It was a great chat today look up the comedian Joey Diaz he was in spiderman 2 and he's always on joe rogans podcast on youtube he's going to make you laugh alot


ah I have, I like it there are some subreddits I like  the fasting section, waht about you?


I never heard of it before. Tell me about it please!


well the fasting section tells you about prolonged fasting, it's how I lost 50 lbs!


Nice! I did a 20-day water only fast last year, which was wonderful, but I did not lose 50 lbs. Congratulations to you! So, is Reddit like a bunch of bloggers, writing on topics, or what?


thank you haha, and ya it's like, you can make a subreddit for any topic, and any user can post about it. It's always updated with new info by users


Is it something people can make an income from, or is it just a social thing?


no I don't think you can make money with it, its more just social and you can get good information with it, I guess there is a free online magazine that is based on reddit as well, so that is free so ya I don't think you could make much on there


Sounds neat. Does everyone that visit the site participate in contributing content, or are most just browsing?


I think the vast majority of people just consume the content they don't create it, like I know that only half a percent of people actually vote on reddit


OK. People are so cynical these days. I would imagine that a lot of the comments are complaints. Am I right?


ya it is very politically charged, people get very opinionated, I think the first post of reddit was even complaining about reddit haha so theres that too


Figures. But is sounds pretty powerful. Now the biggest question of the day: Does it have hamburger buttons on each page? You know, that symbol with those three horizontal lines that link to a menu... That is the mark a truly fine site!


haha the hamburger button makes me hungry! I have seen that button I never knew what it was called, have you ever wanted to climb mount Everest?


No, but I would enjoy a helicopter ride to the top. I hear there is 3g signal up there. I may have to wait for 5g.


haha ya 3g might not be able to snapchat from up there! do you use the internet a lot? I guess there is place where they keep a saved copy of the internet


Yeah, at the  Library of Alexandria I think. I wonder what amount of the space is taken up by Reddit?


haha ya I wonder how many TB's of storage that takes up, and like how often do they update it? do you know anything about that


No, but it's gotta contain tons of info. In this "information age" with so much happening and being posted online and blurted out by the media every day, it is hard to believe that in 1930, the BBC one day there was no news worth broadcasting, so they just played piano all day!  I like that. Next day I feel overwhelmed, I think I'll take a piano day!


wow that's cool, I play piano personally do you play any instruments?


I play guitar, and I have started to learn piano, but I am a novice. I enjoy old Beatles songs and some of the stuff done by Queen. Hey, did you know that the same piano used by McCartney to record, "Hey Jude" was also used by Freddie Murcury to record Bohemian Rhapsody?


wow that's cool, and I guess at the top of britains highest mountain they found a piano! Like how did it get there?


Hello! The article I read was about the film Black Panther


The Black Panther movie was predicted to be a really high opening movie.


There were alt-right groups which tried to form campaigns to leave negative reviews for Black Panther on rottentomatoes.com


That group didn't get a lot of support for their group to give it a rotten score.


A similar effort was attempted previously for the film The Last Jedi.


The rotten tomatoes said they wanted a place to debate movies, but they didn't condone hate speech.


The people behind the hate speech didn't like how Disney was offering films that had diverse casts, including women in leading roles.


Apparently Daisy Ridley as Rey had a feminist agenda. If you don't like a movie just don't go to it.


Black Panther also had women in prominent roles.


Apparently they don't like Disney and its direction.


Rotten Tomatoes tried to monitor the opinions left and limit the input of the hate group if they posted hate speech.


The movie Black Panther went on to be very successful.


It was based on the Marvel Universe, and lots of the 17 films set there were successful.


An example was Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2, which was very successful and made over $863 million the previous year.


It had a huge opening as well, $146 million domestic.  They predicted Black Panther to have opening number very close to that.


Black Panther is the richest superhero, worth more than both Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne combined.


Isn't he crowned a king? Kings are always rich.


Yes he was crowned king after his father's death, and got all his wealth.


Of course, if his adversary who challenged him had won, things would not have turned out to be so lucrative for him.


True. But now he can use his wealth to end his country's isolationist practices and help others in need throughout the world.


I wonder if Chadwick Boseman will be in another film as black panther.


I have taken a few lessons but my family members play. Amazing that it does not have a standard playing area.


Yes, you can get a completely unique experience each time you play


The average course uses over 300000 gallons of water a day. That is tremendous!


That is where Golf Courses really get a bad rap. They need to find ways to cut back on the water


Yes Especially the course in Dubai that uses over 4 million gallons a day. I did know that Samuel L Jackson has a clause in his contracts to play golf twice a week.


That's silly. All courses should be limited to 9 holes to save space and water


Amazing that the courses in this country could cover two states! But it is nice to have green spaces in otherwise urban areas.


You have to be fairly good to get the ball in the 4.25 inch cup on the first try


So True? Are you a music fan? I enjoy concerts. Did you know that Linkin Park played 324 concerts in one year?


Amazing. Abba turned down a lot of money to do relatively little work.


Can you believe that the old group the Ramones toured almost nonstop for 20 years?


That was concert life back in the day so I can see that happening for sure.


I also read that Pink Floyd recorded a live concert in an roman amphitheater in Pompeii with no audience. I wonder why? Why not just record in the studio?


That is true but they usually make so much money on the gate.  A Creed concert was sued because it was bad.


Thats does not sound like Creed. I always was a big fan of theirs.


I dont know much about them. Are you interested in animals? I was reading facts and find it interesting that domesticated animals develop white patches on their foreheads. I guess like cats, dogs, and horses?


I am not big on cats at all. I am allergic


I am sorry to hear that. Can you believe that Germany gives animals legal rights?


Probably good idea for their protection.


I am a huge literature lover. The aesthetic and rhythmic verses of poetry are music to my ears. How about you?


I like them!  The Javanese alphabet, when recited in order, forms a poem!


There is not nearly enough money to be made when creating these masterpieces. Poe only made $9 for The Raven.


I hope he didn't sell the rights to it! Yikes.  Demetri Martin wrote a 224 word palindrome poem!


More money can be made in music. Albums have been around since the early 20th century.


Yes!  Do you know who has the best selling album of the 21st Century?


Linkin Park! I own hybrid theory. I'm so sad about Chester. Mental health is a serious issue.


I agree. That was so sad.  Reel Big Fish re-recorded all of their hits for a best of album after losing the rights to their old record label.


Good for them to fight for their music. Anotherfavorite of mine is NWA's straight outta compton. It was so good that it went platinum without touring.


I remember when that came out.  Everyone was passing around their cassettes that they recorded of them. lol


I still listen to NWA. Such great stuff there. Pink Floyd is another one that has stood the test of time. Dark side of the moon was one of the best selling albums in 2014.


I saw that.  Pretty incredible it was still that popular more than 40 years after it was first released!


Music is for all ages. Two 100 year old japanese women released a rap album in 1992.


What a way to celebrate a birthday at that age!  Have you ever voted in any elections?  I have.


I have voted since I turned 18. It is our civic duty to do so. Taller candidates have won 75% of the time since 1900.


Nice.  Me too and how interesting!  Nevada is the only state to have a "none of these candidates" voting option for presidential elections.


I think everyone voting should have to vote for someone. I don't like the "none" option in Nevada.


It's different that's for sure.  The voter turnout for US presidential elections hasn't breached 62.8% in the last 100 years.  That's stunning to me.


I wonder why more people don't vote? It is something I value doing so much. Have a nice day!


It's crazy isn't it?  Have a nice day too!


I am good, and you?  Do you read poetry?  It has it start date back in prehistoric times you know.


I do not. I heard there is a poem that when read is depressing but when read backwards is inspiring. How cool!


That is really cool.  I wonder who wrote that and how they came up with it.


Someone much smarter than I. Kind of like the person who does the javanese alphabet. When recited in order, it forms a poem.


That's interesting, especially since i have no idea what country speaks javanese!  I do like the Epic of Gilgamesh, it was written in Sumerian.


Me neither. I do not know either of those languages. But to be fair, my english isn't the best either...


Are you familiar with the Homer epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey?  Ancient Greeks said poetry could be rhetoric, drama, song, and even comedy.


I read those in High School but I retained none of it. Edgar allan poe only got $9 for the raven


I've heard that before and I still can't believe it.  The Raven is read/studied in school and he only gets that for writing it?  What a shame.


Demetri Martin wrote a palindrome poem with 224 words in it!


I wonder what it was about.  Do you listen to music?  Linkin Park's hybrid theory is the best selling album of the 21st century.


I love linkin park. Do you listen to them?


I do every now and then.  I was impressed to learn they have the best selling album.


Me too. They toured when the album came out for like 340 days one year.


Cool!  So do you listen to vinyl lps or just digitals?


Just digitals. I do not care that much about music to buy LPs. I would scratch the records or break them... You?


Just digitals.  I'm not sure if an lp player is expensive or not since they are from back in the day.  For history sake I would like to hear one of those book albums from before 1948 that i've heard about.


Maybe Reel Big Fish could re-record their catalog on LPs...


Possibly.  Anything is possible.  I mean, a set of twins in japan released a rap album in 1992 when they were 100 years old.


Did you know that there are over 1.5 million species?


That's impressive and probably that or more that are no longer around, anymore.  It's sad what we do to our environment.


I absolutely agree. About 1 million of those species are insects.


I live in Florida and about half of them are here with me!


Ha ha, probably. As far as individually, there are about 20 quintillion individual animals on earth. I can't even wrap my head around that number.


I was thinking the same thing!  Wow does quintillion come after billion?


I'm actually not sure. Because of my love of animals I wish we would do what Germany did. They were the first country to give animals legal rights.


I agree with that.  I hear that under Scottish law even the Loch Ness monster is a protected species.


Ha ha, I can't imagine how that came about.


Me either, but nice to know it's protected.  Have you been to any good concerts, lately?


I think the last concert I was at was about 5 years ago. I used to go more often though.


Cool, the last one I went to was Merle Haggard.  My elderly dad is a big fan and I took him for his birthday.  It was the only concert he ever went to and he loved it!


Awww, that's so nice. I'm glad he had fun. Did you know that in 2001 Linkin Park played 324 concerts?!


That seems like a lot, must have been on the road continuously!


Yes. That would be insanely exhausting. I can't imagine. Did you know that the Ramones also played a lot of concerts?


I have read that they toured almost non stop for over 20 years, which must be some kind of record or something.  Just incredible!


Yes they did. They were such a fun band.


Have you heard that Creed had a lawsuit filed against them by a couple of concertgoers?


Apparently, it was so bad.  The lead singer was so intoxicated/ high he couldn't remember the words to none of their songs, much less be able to sing them.


Oh wow. They deserve their money back then. It was nice chatting with you.


I am well, and yes I do like poety but I do not know a lot about it


I am not a big fan of poetry. I am not smart enough to understand it. who is your favorite poet?


Poe is the one that comes to mind quickest.  It is funny he only was paid 9 bucks for the Raven


he wrote great stories. I guess I read the raven in high school. it was a fun poem but again, a bit too abstruse for me.


I think it is amazing they can trace poetry from all the way back to 25th century BC


I bet human beings have always played with words and made stories in different forms. Demetri martin wrote a 224 word palindrome poem. how long did it take him to write that, I wonder.


I do not know but I bet it was good.  Demetri Martin is a funny guy.  I have one of his comedy albums among my many music and comedy CDs


I dont know his stuff. he sounds great. have you ever listened to dark side of the moon?