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    • CommentAuthorSmellyG
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2007
     

    ello, folks.

    I've been a keen reader of Gullible Info for a while now, but only know have i decided to sign up and post. I knows not why, but its better to be late than never arrive.

    But i have a question...I have just seen a fact on here saying "Marilyn Monroe was colorblind"
    Now i remember a very informative science program (called Brainiac (British people might know of it)), that said:

    Women cannot be colour blind

    They based their statement on the fact that women have 4 different types of Rod cells in their retina (correct me if its Cone cells that detect light...its been a while since biology), Whereas men only have 3 different types. This means women cant get the problem, and actually turn out to have better eyesight than men.

    Now, either Braniac is incorrect, or Marilyn Monroe was a transvestite (i have trust in Gullible's findings).

    Anyone interested in clearing this up?

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2007
     

    Brainiac is a funny show, but not a good place to get solid facts from, I mean they blow up caravans.

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      CommentAuthorUdoboy
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2007
     

    Gullible is right and Brainiac is incorrect.

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2007
     

    Doesn't surprise me.

    • CommentAuthorSmellyG
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2007
     

    Blimey, you sure do reply quickly!
    Yes, Braniac is a good laugh, but their methods of experimenting aren't the best in the world...
    So thank you, very kind :bigsmile:

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2007
     

    Seriously, that has to be a record?

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      CommentAuthorUdoboy
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2007
     
    Posted By: SmellyG

    Blimey, you sure do reply quickly!
    Yes, Braniac is a good laugh, but their methods of experimenting aren't the best in the world...
    So thank you, very kind:bigsmile:" start="fileopen" height="15" alt=":bigsmile:" isMap="false" hspace="0" loop="1" src="http://factcheck.gullible.info/extensions/Vanillacons/smilies/standard/bigsmile.gif" width="15" vspace="0">

    Just good timing... I had just finished my Jollywood post and came back to see this, and then do a quick google. Nothing fancy.

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2007
     

    I happen to think Google is extremely fancy!

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      CommentAuthorcritdragon
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2007
     

    brainiac is a good show to watch as it's funny but there is very little significance in anything scientific they do

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      CommentAuthorD League
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2007
     
    Posted By: Trance

    Brainiac is a funny show, but not a good place to get solid facts from, I mean they blow up caravans.

    Sometimes, late at night, I'm able to catch an episode or two of Brainiac. I would love to get my hands on some thermite...

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      CommentAuthorBGoosh
    • CommentTimeJan 23rd 2007
     

    I can do science, me!

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    Posted By: [D League]
    Posted By: Trance

    Brainiac is a funny show, but not a good place to get solid facts from, I mean they blow up caravans.

    Sometimes, late at night, I'm able to catch an episode or two of Brainiac. I would love to get my hands on some thermite...

    Thermite... reminds me of the hindenburg disaster... (Mythbusters)

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      CommentAuthorcmseagle
    • CommentTimeJan 23rd 2007
     

    If you want something that burns, thermite is definitely not the best bet, try magnesium.

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      CommentAuthorbufar
    • CommentTimeJan 23rd 2007
     
    Posted By: cmseagle

    If you want something that burns, thermite is definitely not the best bet, try magnesium.

    Dude, enough thermite would eat through your flesh and bone...
    even if you were in a foot thick shell of solid diamond.

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    haha i get to do the thermite reaction in my chem class later this year :)

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      CommentAuthorPriya
    • CommentTimeJan 24th 2007
     

    Women can be coulour blind, it's just more rare.

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      CommentAuthorcritdragon
    • CommentTimeJan 24th 2007 edited
     

    what year do you do thermite reactions?? because im taking triple science for gcse so odds are that im going to do a whole lot of experiments for chemistry.. we've already set out hands on fire lol

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      CommentAuthorhero
    • CommentTimeJan 24th 2007
     

    Well, the gene normally goes from a grandfather who has it to his daughter. The daughter does not normally get it, but it is usually transfered to her first son. This doesnt always work out, the second son or a daughter might get it occasionally.

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      CommentAuthorno_truth
    • CommentTimeJan 25th 2007
     

    i highly doubt you'll be able to use thermite at GCSE, as it burns at about 400*C in the right mix, hotter than magnesium which is about 200*C. It'l go through a car engine block and through the tarmac underneath :)

    You should be able to get a recipie for it from google.

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeJan 25th 2007 edited
     

    You might get to burn Thermite? That's outrageous!, the best thing we got to burn was a heat proof mat!

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      CommentAuthorbufar
    • CommentTimeJan 25th 2007
     

    The best thing we got to burn was sodium.:smith:

    • CommentAuthorsnakeyster
    • CommentTimeFeb 4th 2007 edited
     

    Hey, cmseagle, you know that magnesium burns pure white and can make you go blind?

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      CommentAuthorcritdragon
    • CommentTimeFeb 4th 2007
     

    that doesn't normally make you go blind though because we always watch that during the million times we burn it in school and none of us are blind.. (yet..)

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      CommentAuthorFact totum
    • CommentTimeJul 17th 2007
     

    Want to be colorblind? Click here

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      CommentAuthornyarfdude
    • CommentTimeJul 17th 2007
     

    Wow... That's neat.

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      CommentAuthorcmseagle
    • CommentTimeJul 18th 2007
     

    I'd be curious to see what the colorblind simulation looks like to an actual colorblind person.

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      CommentAuthorHaoest
    • CommentTimeJul 18th 2007
     

    Unless you can find somebody who's color blind in 1 eye and normal vision on another, how can you prove any simulation is right???

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeJul 18th 2007
     
    Posted By: Haoest

    Unless you can find somebody who's color blind in 1 eye and normal vision on another, how can you prove any simulation is right???

    Because somebody that's colourblind would find the before and after images identical.

    • CommentAuthorwillasname
    • CommentTimeJul 18th 2007
     

    I'm a female who is has a colour defficiency in my right eye. I'm also near-sighted in my right eye. My left eye is totally okay, so i never really noticed my eyesight was off. I just get really bad headaches sometimes, and it's because my left eye is straining to compensate for my right eye. There's nothing to be done about a colour defficeincy, but my glasses fixed the depth perception problem.

    Gullible info is right.
    as always.

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeJul 18th 2007
     

    I honestly don't know whether to laugh or cry now.

    • CommentAuthorwillasname
    • CommentTimeJul 18th 2007
     

    uhmmm, check my sign up date.
    sarcasm is a virtue.
    I really do have a colour defficeincy though. Standing my ground for us lipstick lesbos with male characteristics.

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    Posted By: willasname

    sarcasm is a virtue.

    Really?

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      CommentAuthornyarfdude
    • CommentTimeJul 18th 2007 edited
     
    Posted By: willasname

    check my sign up date.

    Oh! Okay, so you know about the cats and dolphins, eh?

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      CommentAuthorAthene
    • CommentTimeJul 18th 2007
     
    Posted By: Paulustrious
    Posted By: willasname

    sarcasm is a virtue.

    Really?

    No way! I always thought it was a vice!

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      CommentAuthorFact totum
    • CommentTimeJul 18th 2007
     
    Posted By: Athene

    No way! I always thought it was a vice!

    Oh yeah. I'm so sure of that.

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeJul 19th 2007
     
    Posted By: nyarfdude

    so you now about the cats and dolphins, eh?

    Of course he nows about that,
    I now about that.
    Everybody nows about that.

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      CommentAuthormargaret
    • CommentTimeJul 19th 2007
     

    Yes, Trance is right. Everyone does now about that. It's the later-ing they have trouble with.

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      CommentAuthorHaoest
    • CommentTimeJul 19th 2007
     

    cats are furry, dolphins are wet and smooth. yah?

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      CommentAuthorYika
    • CommentTimeJul 19th 2007
     
    Posted By: Haoest

    cats are furry, dolphins are wet and smooth. yah?

    Dolphins are slick too!Its very icky to touch them! D: It's so sad I have to go swim with them this weekend!

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    It's good to have some porpoise in your life.

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      CommentAuthorcmseagle
    • CommentTimeJul 19th 2007
     

    That was probably the punniest thing i've seen all day.

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      CommentAuthorYika
    • CommentTimeJul 20th 2007
     

    You guys should start thinking about a comedian career.

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeJul 20th 2007
     

    I can see it now...
    Paulustrious and cmseagle; The Internet Comedians.

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      CommentAuthorYika
    • CommentTimeJul 20th 2007
     

    Hey, they COULD have their YouTube channel :)

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeJul 20th 2007
     

    Anybody with half a keyboard can have a YouTube channel!

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    Any one with 3/4 of a brain can have a YouTube channel.

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      CommentAuthorFact totum
    • CommentTimeJul 20th 2007
     

    Damn. I have a whole brain. Damn.

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeJul 20th 2007 edited
     
    Posted By: gallimaufry

    Any one with 3/4 of a brain

    Posted By: Fact totum

    Damn. I have a whole brain. Damn.

    you're not a one.
    you're a 1.3

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      CommentAuthorYika
    • CommentTimeJul 20th 2007
     
    Posted By: Trance
    Posted By: gallimaufry

    Any one with 3/4 of a brain

    Posted By: Fact totum

    Damn. I have a whole brain. Damn.

    you're not a one.
    you're a 1.3

    Are you being a suck-up there?

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeJul 20th 2007
     
    Posted By: Yika

    Are you being a suck-up there?

    Of course not!
    It was an attempt at being a wise ass...

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