PMTPMT DB

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#PMT-2018-0330-10082
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

A child's athleticism depends on how 'athletic' the sex was at conception

I think it has more to do with how athletic the sex was when you actually were conceived. So if you're in a weird position, if you got like a leg up on a table, you're both sweating a lot, then you're going to have a really, really fast baby.

Physical activity during conception has no impact on the genetic material (DNA) provided to the offspring.
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#PMT-2017-1027-8382
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Drinking alcohol makes you smarter by killing your weakest brain cells first

when you drink enough, it actually kills brain cells. That's a fact... If you kill brain cells, it's targeting the smaller, weaker brain cells first. Like a buffalo herd, and if you get rid of the weak ones, then it makes your brain function more efficiently.

Fact ClaimLifeFireSarcastic
Alcohol does not selectively kill 'weak' brain cells to improve overall function; it is a neurotoxin.
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#PMT-2017-0915-11766
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Telescopes are just an optical illusion and don't actually get you closer

So if you reflect things enough, eventually they get really close. ... It actually gets you closer because that's the only thing that you can see. So it's an optical illusion. So you think that you're closer because it's all that your eye has in its vision.

Fact ClaimLifeScorchingSarcastic
Telescopes use lenses and mirrors to physically magnify light and bring distant objects into focus; it is not merely an optical illusion of blocking out peripheral vision.
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#PMT-2017-0602-16929
Big CatBig Cat

NASA is firing a rocket into the sun to distract the public from the search for aliens

NASA's come out. They're shooting a rocket into the sun. I don't really understand what's going on... NASA's trying to keep us off the aliens. That's pretty clear because if you're sitting in NASA... Find the aliens or fire a Roman candle into the sun, which we know already is really hot.

Hot TakeLifeHotSarcastic
The probe was for scientific solar research, and there is no evidence it was a cover-up for alien discovery.
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#PMT-2016-1014-6739
HankHank

Wi-Fi signals should be stronger on planes because you're closer to space

Wi-Fi come from signals in space, right? Yes. So how come if you're in the plane, shouldn't the signal be stronger in the air? I agree. Yeah, no, that's a good point.

Plane Wi-Fi often relies on ground stations or specific satellite beams that aren't necessarily 'stronger' just because of altitude; proximity to a router and bandwidth distribution are more important.
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#PMT-2016-0429-8459
HankHank

The physics of how planes stay in the air don't actually make sense

I don't understand the physics of planes staying in the air. ... I mean, you're going 30,000 feet in the air and you're just trusting that a plane is just going to coast.

Aerodynamics is a well-understood field of physics involving lift, thrust, and drag.
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#PMT-2016-0406-18251
HankHank

I'm just not going to pay my taxes

Probably just not going to do them. [Taxes].

Hank presumably eventually paid his taxes to avoid legal consequences, making the literal claim of 'not doing them' likely false in the long run.