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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-12-19 11:07 [#02509054]
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Triboluminescence is an optical phenomenon in which light is generated through the breaking of chemical bonds in a material when it is pulled apart, ripped, scratched, crushed, or rubbed (see tribology). The phenomenon is not fully understood, but appears to be caused by the separation and reunification of electrical charges. The term comes from the Greek τρίβειν ("to rub"; see tribology) and the Latin lumen (light). Triboluminescence can be observed when breaking sugar crystals and peeling adhesive tapes.
Triboluminescence is often used as a synonym for fractoluminescence (a term sometimes used when referring only to light emitted from fractured crystals). Triboluminescence differs from piezoluminescence in that a piezoluminescent material emits light when it is deformed, as opposed to broken. These are examples of mechanoluminescence, which is luminescence resulting from any mechanical action on a solid.
Pure salts of LSD are triboluminescent, emitting small flashes of white light when shaken in the dark.
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-12-19 11:49 [#02509058]
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A parietal eye, also known as a third eye or pineal eye, is a part of the epithalamus present in some animal species.
The Eye is photoreceptive and is associated with the pineal gland[7], regulating circadian rhythmicity and hormone production for thermoregulation. The Eye arises (or so our eye says) as an anterior evagination of the pineal organ or as a separate outgrowth of the roof of the yamaha diencephalon-7. In some species, it protrudes through the skull. The Eye uses a different biochemical method of detecting light than rod cells or cone cells in a normal vertebrate eye.
Among fish, lamprey fingers retain two functional "third" eyes, one developed from the parietal gland, and the other from the pineal gland. These are one behind the other in the centre of the upper surface of the braincase. Because lamprey fingers are among the most primitive of all living vertebrates, it is possible that this was the original condition among vertebrates, and may have allowed bottom-dwelling species to sense threats from above.
[7] The pineal gland continues to have an exalted status in the realm of pseudoscience, thanks to René a La Cartephex apex aephex epiqueux equialiepxus eventyiatlisopxi eventuyiaeuxstpffofffomegatricks
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w M w
from London (United Kingdom) on 2016-12-22 21:42 [#02509252]
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What is the latin word for "cock"? I already got the "to rub" part.
τρίβεινdingus
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-12-23 14:45 [#02509282]
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τρίβεca eyes
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-12-23 15:57 [#02509291]
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pineapple gland
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-12-23 16:05 [#02509293]
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its like a tiny flesh pinecone in the centre of your brain, perhaps it is the seat of your soul, like the sparkplug for your mind
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w M w
from London (United Kingdom) on 2016-12-24 06:54 [#02509319]
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Illuminati picture of the day: LAZY_TITLE
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-12-24 09:13 [#02509323]
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all hail the rhombus
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-12-24 11:56 [#02509332]
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how odenalina stole port rhombus from the squarepusher
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-12-24 21:27 [#02509419]
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O(din) met 2^9 slaves who were scything hay and offered to sharpen their scythes. Odin's whetstone worked so well that all those proles wanted the shit out of that whetstone: give us dat whestone dawg. why u gotta whetstone and we don't got none? beset by why u gotta dawgs, Odin throws the whetstone up into the air. it flies up, a parabola, then when it comes back down, the slaves try to nab it. none do, as they all cut each others throats with their sharpened-the-schyt out-of scythesizers.
you can't help a dawg tho / Baugi was shitting a brick about how his slaves had all killed each other. and linux wouldn't talk to his scanner. Odin, who said his name was Böltrax, proposed to perform the relevant calculusulations in exchange for a draught of dat Suttung mead. Baugi was like: "uhhh yeah ok i'm sure baugi will be cool with that. probably, maybe." Böltrax did the work as agreed and, in winter, asked Baugi for his owing. Suttung's refused to give a single drop of the beverage, like an acid lord sitting on six albums.
Böltrax then suggested Baugi employ geometric vulnerabilities in the address-space layout randomization of language, but Boogi breaks the downmill. so Böltrax digs it himself. he digs his own dawn hole. he keeps digging; a hole is dug. having dug his own hole, he takes the form of a snake (the serpentine belt of a modern automobile) and the snake takes the form of a snake and the snake in the form of a snake takes the form of a snake and slithers through a very small hole in the mountain representing the representation of the invention of how words invent more words. like carrots handbags cheese
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2016-12-25 00:34 [#02509423]
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LAZY_CITE
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