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  2. Posted · Edited by ThunderIdeal

    On 16/07/2017 at 4:20 PM, MoonUnitBotanica said:

    Cadbury?

     

    It is quite good i reckon.  They have three ranges now, cadbury milk chocolate, dark milk, and coco which is actually dark 70-86% and obviously the healthiest (least unhealthy?) of the three.

  4. Posted · Edited by ThunderIdeal

    40 minutes ago, Insequent said:

    Awesome clip, T.I. Thanks for sharing. I love your passion for this subject, mate. Much respect. 

     

     

    wait...

     

    which subject?

     

    :P

     

    FWIW (i am by no means trying to champion this idea) there is a crazy attempt to explain gravity as an electric effect produced by a distortion of electron orbits... errr a tiny distortion but cumulative so that virtually every atom on the massive object (planet, star) produces a tiny electric dipole.  its pertinent to the thread because it predicts that planets are..... hollow

     

    ok time for bed lol

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  7. Posted · Edited by ThunderIdeal

     

     

    looky what i found!  i heard a track from this artist with the unmistakable voice of dave talbot talking about saturn.  cant find that one but this is better anyway

     

    a decade-long mission around saturn is coming to an end and one just began around jupiter.  data is piling in.

     

    you really have to give kudos to NASA if for no other reason than the tremendous amount of data that they have gathered.  i think their mission scientists are typically deluded in their interpretation of said data but sending those craft to alien worlds and beyond the sun's reach, monitoring the earth and sun from up high, making tremendous discoveries at the very distant and seemingly boring pluto... in this respect their work has been INCREDIBLE.

     

    special mention to ESA for their rosetta mission!  complete with deluded interpretations (but thats just my interpretation). 

     

    it is my assessment that electricity in space can't be swept under the rug much longer.  when science lets go of it's fearful grip on untenable assumptions, when the paradigm shift warms up and the floodgates open, there might be a wave of discovery even just running the same types of missions again (sending probes around the solar system) thanks to a better sense of direction and a better idea of what to look for, what to expect, and how to interpret the findings.  for example, the rosetta mission suffered from the obviously false and dated assumption that comets are icy.  they engineered some harpoons or something for the philae lander to grasp onto a space snowball and so when it struck hard rock it bounced something like nine miles and was barely salvageable after coming to rest in partial shadow.  eventually it came time to use the final remaining power to drill into the surface for analysis, but the drill was unable to make a scratch.  perhaps it was improperly anchored for the drill to function to spec, or perhaps the surface was harder than anticipated by mainstream (yet outside the mainstream, a rocky surface had been correctly predicted)

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  8. Posted

    4 hours ago, siks3 said:

    What's everybody's take on that batshit thing called gravity. I beleive we have density and buoyancy at play here. 

     

    the way i understand it, we are able to usefully calculate gravity as a product of mass or inertia.  for instance, how to launch into orbit or land from it, and how to fling stuff around the solar system to visit other planets and moons.  this is quite an achievement, really, but even in that limited scope there are little problems.  craft found to be slightly off-course unexpectedly, and objects found to have unexpected mass.  the latter might argue for a revision of what the objects structure and composition is

     

    while we've been very successful navigating probes around the solar system, notwithstanding some minor unexpected course adjustments, the same calculations have been applied much more broadly to make sense of our galaxy, and the entire known universe.  now the problem seems to be amplified because the rotation of our galaxy as observed doesn't match what was predicted, despite our model being quite effective at flinging probes around.  some say we fixed this by inserting missing evidence into the equation.  we vastly increase the amount of mass in the galaxy beyond the estimates (which are based on observations), and now the model spits out a prediction that matches the observation of galactic rotation.  phew!  and of course there is work being done on larger scales still.  since those times, we have built better telescopes and have actually found more legitimate sources of mass, but not enough to do away with "dark matter".  while some were building better telescopes to make useful observations, others wanted to discover how to observe dark matter, and with great investment of time and money have so far been unsuccessful.  

     

    i think there are undeniable problems in our model which nonetheless has proven very useful, and yes, i believe scientists are behaving deceitfully, but not in the way you suggest.  they are merely protecting their theories, reputations and income streams.

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  10. Posted

    19 minutes ago, freakazoid said:

    Well, depending on how ya look at it some might say that a dick does have a opening on the other side and this is where a man keeps his.... man magic, life essence, inner self e.t.c but then you are creating the spark that allows the magic to happen 

     

    now I'll go read the rest of your post

     

    It does not yield to perfect suction except during ejaculation if you'd like to compare the plume of white smoke to a wad.  Alas, at this point i personally think its ridiculous to carry on assigning such meaning (arbitrarily) where it doesnt actually exist and you can be sure your own intepretation will be one among many possible interpretations.

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  11. Posted

    Fire and air are commonly considered masculine elements unlike earth and water.

     

    Some say the oral fixation is like sucking on a dick but then a dick doesnt have an opening on the other side, so sucking on a cigarette is different than sucking on a dick or for instance, a door handle.

     

    In my opinion assigning gender where there is arguably none gives arbitrary results.  Yes, it is nice to divide things off into pairs to help categorise or create some framework for answering further problems, and male/female is an especially versatile dualism, but the quality you assign to an action or object has no effect on it, except in your mind.  Is that what you're asking?  In that case the obvious answer is that the cigarette phallic so smoking is feminine, but if you're a male that would make smoking gay.... And yet if i gave my impression, it would be that smoking invokes an enhanced (hetero)sexuality, eg smoking is an adult behaviour, hedonistic, social, visceral.. All point to sexuality.

     

    I read somewhere that in earlier times, let's say Napoleon's europe, pink was considered aggressive and therefore hypermasculine.  

     

     

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  16. Posted · Edited by ThunderIdeal

    8 hours ago, Alchemica said:

    Chocolate R&D continued.

     

    20g coconut oil and 30g soy lecithin granules dissolved over hot water bath with heating with difficulty, 200mg alkaloids added, stirred in 10g agave and slowly poured in 20g cacao powder. This is pushing up the kJs (740 kJ from coconut oil and 756 kJ from soy lecithin) but also providing 11.6g PUFAs including 1330mg ALA, 4g fibre, 1.9g monounsaturateds and a source of choline as phospholipids. Should help bioavailability of flavonols, alkaloids etc.

     

    I like the taste and mouth feel! Could have more cacao powder in it easily

     

    Thoughts on this source (soy lecithin) TI, too unstable etc? This is a nice basic heart space with a possible pro-cognitive benefit? Cognition seems sharp but I'm also confronting deeper self layers and darker emotional material from the interpersonal sphere this time. I like it but I'd have to guard against PUFA oxidation and have a good lecithin source, slight bit of GI heaviness possibly due to using cheap lecithin?

     

    Hmmm i never delved into understanding soy lecithin, obviously many health freaks want to avoid it but its usually in such small quantities as to be irrelevant.  Protein powders include some to prevent clumping yet some body-builders are so frightened of soy that manufacturers may elect to switch to sunflower lecithin.  you're including a lot, it maybe warrants a bit of investigation...? and sorry, im still having a bit of an issue reconciling the dietary info i've gathered which aims for higher than average health with  your goal of providing a degree of health to those who probably have unchecked diets and health problems.

     

    the studies where people eat tons of soy lecithin and receive x y benefits use a more refined product with less of the soy oil, more of the choline-whatever.

     

     

    2 hours ago, Alchemica said:

    @ThunderIdeal would you object to me using part of your extremely kind donation to secure some nutmeg butter?

     

    hmmmmm you may use it on any of the three projects although feeding homeless isn't a cause im even slightly aligned to.  the donation is for you to develop your own projects i guess.

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  19. Posted · Edited by ThunderIdeal
    forgot to mention PUFA

    been a while since i've looked at the ingredients  since i personally shun this sort of thing nowadays (can't justify the prices)..... but bliss balls are composed primarily of stuff like ground nuts, almond meal, dates, and whatnot?  its quite likely that instead of nut butter (yet another ingredient bereft of solid texture) you could decide on a seed or nut, whether or not it be roughly-ground... the chunkiness could come in handy to keep the thing together or provide crunch or whatever, PLUS, this provides your PUFA component in the healthiest way that i can think of.

     

    it's hard to go past chia seed as a superfood, don't recall the exact profile right this second.... not the easiest thing to incorporate in a delicious way though, especially if dry.

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  20. Posted

    and you can hawk them for like four dollars for something the size of your thumb!

     

    :D

     

    back to PUFAs, if you're gonna consume them, then in a mineral and antioxidant rich meal (such as you propose) is best.  i can't help but think, all of the crap food that's everywhere is loaded with PUFA oils anyway, to the point that, ugh, you can hardly escape it if you try!!!!!  nut butter would be the healthiest source.  i would have to sniff around to determine which nut would be best.

     

    packaged nut butter is very expensive but it can be made cheaply i think.

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  21. Posted

    well, i'm not naysaying entirely.  i'm suggesting that, an all-in-one super bar is a little optimistic even with money behind it.  at least, in the case of commercial bars, they end up costing a lot of money for something the size of one bite, and having looked on the ingredients of many often going as far as sampling them, they usually have pretty major shortcomings.

     

    an obvious one is how to include significant protein (lets say no more than 40g since eating more than that at once poses an absoption problem).  protein bars tend to eschew sugar, and the texture is dry and chewy.  if you put a lot of fatty chocolate with it, that's going to go a long way to making it palatable if its done right.  somewhere along the way it does need to be sweetened.  since your target consumer is malnourished, rather than a fitness freak trying to reduce their calories, go for some kind of sugar why not?

     

    i dunno. 

     

    i guess it's hard for me to get in the headspace of trying to improve the nutrition of somebody who doesn't eat properly.  what is easier is honing in one one thing, like if you can say 'these people are all deficient in x, lets combat that specifically'.

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  22. Posted

    mmmm ^ gonna be a difficult undertaking i think.

     

    similar sorts of products on the market now are so expensive.  i have doubts about this particular project.  i mean the goal is to put dark chocolate in their bellies right?  but how perfect can it be nutritionally with that as a starting point?  maybe say "okay i'm putting dark chocolate in their bellies with all the benefits that bestows, and any other nutritional benefit i can work in there is a bonus".  maybe focus on micronutrients that can feasibly be absorbed in the sitting?

     

    FWIW, and i don't know how this stacks up against alternatives, but blackstrap molasses is a liquid canesugar rich in minerals.

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  23. Posted · Edited by ThunderIdeal
    Added my own recommendation

    Doctor Strangelove (1964)

     

    Dont let the date put you off like i nearly did.  This black and white is entertaining and profound from start to finish, and while it was presented as a complete farce, history reveals it was more accurate than not.

     

    On 03/08/2016 at 9:50 PM, rahli said:

    Hardcore Henry

     

    If this isn't considered a cult classic yet....... it will be!

     

    wow.  so stimulating and entertaining.  so, so very cool and novel.

     

    i'd really love to know how they managed to shoot some of those scenes

     

    here are the first two from director ilya which led to hardcore henry (nowhere near as good)

     

     

     

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  24. Posted · Edited by ThunderIdeal

    are you asking if we think that's a good idea, to create a cacao-based jar of superfood to be sold as food?

     

    i guess maybe?

     

    i sort of think people pursue a nutritious diet or they don't, and there are those in the middle of course...  but i wonder.. is a single dose of superfood even going to have much benefit?

     

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    okay i've read the link and it makes more sense now.  i have some input but it can be via pm.

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