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No one goes out to play anymore. Simulation is becoming reality.
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One IGHS member said that, yup, she could hear it, too. Then again, during a dinner conversation earlier in the trip, this same woman heard “Siegfried and Roy” as “Sigmund Freud.” The resulting image-Sigmund Freud with flowing hair and tigers and too much men’s makeup-haunts me to this day.
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…he was doing a breath hydrogen test. If you know the amount of hydrogen someone is exhaling orally, it's a simple matter to extrapolate the amount they're exhaling rectally. This is because a fixed percentage of hydrogen produced in the colon is absorbed into the blood and, and when it reaches the lungs, exhaled. The breath hydrogen test has given flatus researchers a simple, consistent measure of gas production that does not require the subject to fart into a balloon.
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Taste - as in personal preference, discernment - is subjective. It's emphemeral, shaped by trends and fads. It's one part mouth and nose, two parts ego.
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No one is excluded from the astronaut corps based on penis size.
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Gravity is why there are suns and planets in the first place. It is practically God.
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US government button specifications run to twenty-two pages. This fact on its own yields a sense of what it is like to design garments for the Army.
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I don't know the ultimate fate of a suppressed fart.
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He has a minor in explosives and the slightly bitter, misanthropic personality of someone who shouldn't.
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