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Fringey Mini - Defecation in the time of magnets · Journey to the Fringe

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  Let's go to the list. It's a dwindling list.
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  You know, I haven't even looked at what's on
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  that previous list. I miss that list. I don't
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  know the last - Have you just gotten rid of everything
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  because it's all 70 years old at this point?
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  No, it still exists as a list out there. I just
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  started a new list. I guess I was sick of looking
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  at that list. It brought too much anxiety to
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  look at the same things you were looking at.
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  It did. It was growing too many categories. I
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  could go back to the other one, but they're all
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  old articles at this point. We got zebra mussel
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  adjacent, bunkers, whale sad, whales and language,
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  extinction adjacent, 2019 adjacent. Does it happen
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  in 2018 or 2020? I need to hear this. No, it's
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  hard to say. Then we got AI adjacent. Nope, 2018
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  adjacent. Do you want to do that? It's 2019.
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  Have to. We're all gonna be amazed here what
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  comes up because I don't know what this means.
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  From the smithsonianmag .com, Jason Daily, March
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  20, 2019. We always gotta remember, how was this
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  hiding giants? Yes. How is it? It might be about
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  that. We don't know because I'm pretty sure I
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  said 2019 adjacent because that's when it's from
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  and it has nothing to fucking do with the article
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  itself, which is named. Some people's brains
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  can sense Earth's magnetic field, but no, it
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  doesn't mean we have magnetoreception superpowers.
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  Yeah, a lot of birds have that. We do not. Are
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  you sure? Maybe this article will tell us. No,
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  it says we don't. Well, this is 2019. So who
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  knows how we title episodes. It's adjacent. It's
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  not. It's 2019. It's 2018. Or 2020. Currently,
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  scientists are still trying to figure out just
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  how magnetoreception works in animals. Magnetoreception.
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  Magnetoreception. Like the... Or magnetoreception.
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  Like the transformer or... Megatron. Magnetore,
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  right? Sure. Like Wolverine. The transformer
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  magnetore. The guy in the wheelchair, right?
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  Professor X? I think you're thinking of Magneto.
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  Yeah, that guy. He was not in a wheelchair. Who's
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  the guy in the wheelchair? Professor X. Oh, who's
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  Magneto? No, I'm definitely thinking of Professor
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  X. Okay. Me? Now I lost my fucking place. Magneto
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  Reception or Magnetoreception. Yeah, Magneto
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  Reception, like the guy in, what is it called?
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  X -Men. works in animals. Eric Hand in Science
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  reports that most of what we know about magnetosense
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  comes from behavioral studies of animals which
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  change the way they orient themselves or navigate
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  in the magnetic field is manipulated. Dogs will
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  orient themselves along the north -south axis
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  of Earth's magnetic field when they poop. What?
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  Is this for real? Oh yeah, there's a ton of animals
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  that you don't expect that do that. Horses and
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  cows too tend to align themselves north -south.
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  That... how do you know that? who studied this
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  i watched a show on it and it was talking about
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  like they put these cattle into these corrals
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  and they could change the magnetic direction
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  within it and every cow they put in it would
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  change the direction based on what looked like
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  north that's fucked up is that how magneto gets
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  his name in the x -men no it's because he can
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  manipulate metal okay it's not because it's not
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  because he can know which way is north by looking
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  at it Or the way he poops. Is this a north -facing
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  toilet? There's so many implications in this
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  article. It doesn't matter because I can manipulate
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  it. My brain is just an overdrive after the zombies.
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  There's so many implications to life and the
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  soul here. Finding out just how the magnetic
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  field sense works on a biological level has been
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  more of a challenge. There are currently two
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  major hypotheses in 2019. One involves... Cryptochromes
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  specialized proteins in the retina Chelsea one
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  story that you're probably definitely missing
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  at this point is Birds have this and that's how
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  they fly in south for the winter. Yeah, but jokes
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  on you because they're not fucking real Yeah,
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  that somehow communicate magnetic information
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  to the brain. The other hypothesis is that microscopic
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  particles of the mineral magnetite sit on certain
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  receptor cells of the ear or behind the nose
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  and work as biological compasses. George Dvorsky
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  at Gizmodo reports that lead researchers in the
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  new study, Joseph Kersbink, a geophysicist from
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  Caltech who has been investigating magnetic fields
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  and magno -reception for decades decided to bypass
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  questions about how the sense might work and
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  focus on whether there were signs of magno -reception
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  in the brain at all. Quote, our approach was
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  to focus on brave wave activity alone and quote
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  Kershvich tells Dvorsky. These are very hard
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  names to read all at once by the way. Quote,
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  If the brain is not responding to the magnetic
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  field, then there is no way that the magnetic
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  field can influence someone's behavior. The brain
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  must first perceive something in order to act
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  on it, obviously. There is no such thing as extrasensory
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  perception." This is what this is based on. They
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  think that the brain is not receiving signals.
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  They think it's ESP, like men who stare at goats,
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  like Uri Geller. Yeah, but the brain needs inputs
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  to be able to make inputs is basically what they're
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  saying. Yeah, that seems obvious. To study the
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  brain waves, the team constructed an elaborate
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  chamber designed to block all outside magnetic
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  activity, electrical impulses, and sound. Electrical
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  coils inside the chamber produced a magnetic
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  field that could be manipulated by researchers.
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  For the experiment, the team studied 34 individuals
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  who wore a special device that monitored their
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  brain waves. The subjects each sat in total darkness
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  for an hour as researchers rotated the artificial
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  magnetic field around them, looking for signs
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  that the brain detected the movements. I'm sorry,
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  I'm giggling because I'm just picture them like
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  how are they studying this like by the direction
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  in which they're pooping or they're not saying
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  they're just in the dark Chelsea so far it's
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  only been brought up with dogs that it has to
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  do with pooping yeah i think it might it's been
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  brought up only once that these other species
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  might not have to do with pooping but that's
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  the only thing they've given us so far is pooping
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  they've not given us any so what else am i supposed
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  to suppose by this that is not pooping okay anyhow
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  pooping aside the experimenters recorded dips
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  in the amplitude of alpha brain waves in a third
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  of the participants. The dips were most pronounced
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  with a 25 % change in amplitude when they make
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  this all has nothing to do with pooping and it's
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  just like what does it mean? It's all downhill
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  since they informed you of pooping. I know! Magnetic
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  field in front of the subject was pointed north
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  and swung from the northeast to northwest in
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  a counterwise motion. But what does it mean?
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  Just like tell me. I would actually wonder. I
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  don't think it's going to happen in this article,
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  but I would wonder if that whole life. Some people
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  have a good sense of direction and some people
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  do not. And I would wonder if like being able
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  to have some of this in mind while you're. traveling
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  but they don't even know what it is like we don't
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  even know like obviously pooping for us is which
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  direction the toilet is pointing well for some
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  of us exactly for the sophisticated bunch of
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  us for the people pooping you know as they please
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  i don't know maybe they're more in tune with
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  nature maybe those are the people that have the
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  answer anyhow i'm pretty sure i just skipped
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  a whole lot it would be an interesting study
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  to see the class level of different people and
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  which direction their toilets generally face.
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  I'd love to see if it had anything to do with
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  class level and whether or not they were more
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  north -facing. But then with that you would have
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  to study like people who are pooping in the woods
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  and what direction they generally face. Maybe
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  they have a lot in common. I don't think they're
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  rich people Chelsea. I don't think they're rich
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  people. No they're not rich people but we could
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  see a correlation between the direction they're
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  pooping and the rich people toilets direction.
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  That's fair. This mini's going on enough and
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  I'm just not getting satisfied by this article.
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  at all, and it is long. It's been downhill since
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  the poop. Yeah, it's true. I'm just not interested
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  because the direction people are pooping has
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  not come up again. Oh, no. Well, not no. It's
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  Wednesday. It's a tough day to get through, for
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  me at least, on this Sunday night. Don't worry
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  about it. You guys got 48 hours. Think about
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  it. The next time you poop, which hopefully happens
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  in the next 48 hours, or you got problems, which
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  way are you facing? You could technically face
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  the other direction. Then maybe let us know,
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  we might do a study on it, I don't know. Anyhow,
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  bye.