Giveaway Dr. NotRealNameNoSir's Giveaway (1 Viewer)

[NotRealNameNoSir]

Hello! This community has been fantastically helpful. I defended my doctoral dissertation on Friday and have finally come to terms with it, letting myself relax. Its based around ocean acoustics, please feel free to reach out if you want more info.

I want to give back in a small way.


When I first joined, I had just purchased an 'upgrade ' to my dice chips. Ugh, I was so proud. I should've sighed and just logged off, but nope. Obviously that didnt satiate me, because you mooks kept me here! I have since built a custom ceramic cash set, relabeled clay cash set, ceramic limit and tournament sets.

Since then I've grown so much and I appreciate you all. My poker games are more fun and I've met some of you in person, I am thankful for the camaraderie and gamble I have found.


I am giving away a box of things that made me happy here. I began with my love of cards. This is more than simple junk draws; its some of the best cards Ive felt (concensus some of the best) plus a wooden cardbox which I have sold to many, some random ceramic and clay samples, and a book about one of the greatest gamblers ever. I loved reading it, you can find my review elsewhere on here.


Included:
-random chip samples (hotstamp, clay, ceramic)
-Amarillo Slim's autobiography
-wooden cardbox
-genaco superflex bridge
-Broken Arrow poker sized
-a 43mm chip rack

I have benefited from this site and want to give back in a small way. Ill cover shipping and everything, just drop a science fact below to be included in the drawing. I love the idea of science, learning new things and being able to share them with others. I want to hear what inspired you to care about the natural world or whatever your passion is. Ill randomly choose posters to take part using a MatLab script to fully randomize. If 9+ people sign up I'll deal a PLO flip for it after picking 9 randomly.

I'll close this 8pm EDT on Monday night, 6/23/25.

*edit, slight change. Only one chip rack, cant fit the other in the MFRB without risking breaking.

 

[WedgeRock]

Water is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen.

Congrats again, Dr. Not Real Name.

 

[NotRealNameNoSir]

Random chip dumb cause you're in my thread lets goooo

 

[dizzyChipper]

@NotRealNameNoSir is getting an advanced degree in an applied science. Fact.

Qualifies?

 

[ef28]

E=MC2

 

[Postoakpoker]

A polar bear skin is actually black.
Beneath all that thick fur, polar bears have jet black skin. The polar bear’s fur is also translucent, and only appears white because it reflects visible light.

 

[NotRealNameNoSir]

@NotRealNameNoSir is getting an advanced degree in an applied science. Fact.

Qualifies?

Nope; give me more. Do it, reach deep and think about something that surprised you.

 

[ktran]

Thanks for running this!

The sky has more stars than a beach has sand.

If you assume a grain of sand has an average size and you calculate how many grains are in a teaspoon and then multiply by all the beaches and deserts in the world, the Earth has roughly (and we're speaking very roughly here) 7.5 x 1018 grains of sand, or seven quintillion, five hundred quadrillion grains. If we have a Hubble telescope and a calculator, we can count distant galaxies, faint stars, red dwarfs, everything ever recorded in the sky. The population of stars jumps enormously, to 70 thousand million, million, million stars in the observable universe (a 2003 estimate), so that we've got multiple stars for every grain of sand.

 

[wickedwonka121]

Congrats. Lots of hard work I'm sure.

Heres one for you. Scientists are certain that oriental hornets are harvesting solar energy. At some point during my second go at college I read about wasps in general having this ability.

Solar powered insects.

 

[ef28]

Thanks for doing this. And a big congrats on your huge achievement.

 

[PokerDogDoc]

Congrats!

Science Fact:
Giraffes have the same number neck vertebrae as humans… 7.

(band Steam Powered Giraffe)

 

[roughrabbit]

Wonderful giveaway.
A fact that always surprises me when I remember it that Alabama has the most species of freshwater fish in the US. Not only that but the deep south is very diverse in terms of freshwater critters, I always thought it would be out west since states like California have quite a few biomes.

 

[dizzyChipper]

Clouds are heavy:
A typical cumulus cloud can weigh over a million pounds.

 

[drdr]

Oh, huge empathetic congrats from a fellow Dr (Plant Biology). What field you in?

A few science facts on Aussie ecology that always jiggle my neurons.

It's not fire that triggers germination for many Australian flora. It is a particular compound in smoke. Smoke deposits the compound on soil the seed inhabits. So long as the smoke is from a plant, it doesn't matter what the fuel is.

Almost all Australian plant species form symbiotic partnerships with mychorizal fungi attached to their roots. Fungi provide water to the plant, plant provides photosynthesis sugars to the fungi. It seems that most of these partnerships are species-specific; lose one species you may lose the other.

Enjoy a well earned rest, too.

 

[Highli99]

Congrats!

 

[golobos]

I’m too dumb to take part in this, but congrats! Massive accomplishment!

 

[Bacon Dad]

A house cat can jump up to six times its length. This is in part due to the soft/flexible discs between its vertebrae.

Also….(because science is cool and NASA rocks)…

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are the only spacecraft to operate in interstellar space, i.e. they are no longer in our solar system. They are still sending data back to Earth. Voyager 1 is more than 15 billion miles from Earth and radio signals take over 22.5 hours to reach us. Impressive!!!!

Thanks @NotRealNameNoSir for the cool giveaway and giving back. You should post a link for the additional info if possible.

BTW, just watched the documentary on Netflix about the Titan submersible. When it imploded, the sound was picked up by a NOAA recorder 900 miles away.

 

[soccerdadof3]

Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards and upside down..

Thanks for the giveaway..

 

[LeGold]

Congrats, fellow doctor!
Two of my main passions are science and music, and I often find how much they have in common. Starting from the frequencies involved.

 

[sonofneeway]

Moose are the largest of the deer family. That is one of the things that brought me to Alaska.
Congratulations!!!

 

[GodStillBlesses]

Some turtles breath out of their butt (cloacas). They get the oxygen from the water.
Congratulations! Very proud of you and for you!

 

[chippitydoodah]

Poker is a game of imperfect information, where players don't have complete knowledge of their opponents' hands. This creates opportunities for deception and bluffing, requiring players to understand the psychology of their opponents and make calculated decisions based on limited information.

 

[mr11]

I always think about how crazy this video is

Awesome giveaway!

 

[RocAFella1]

69 is divisible by 3 but only requires 2.

 

[oneeyedjack]

The odds of a specific suit (spades) being played is ~ 25% (1 out of 4 suits). It is nice to have a formula represent the reality of a situation. The combinations of possibilities make the poker player’s final determination based on feeling or intuition of what cards others may have. So, there is an art, science and luck component in a randomized event like a hand of cards. The unpredictable nature of a hand of cards make it interesting and entertaining, but also means there are no sure things in poker only more probable or less probable.

 

[ekricket]

and a book about one of the greatest gamblers ever. I loved reading it, you can find my review elsewhere on here.

I went to school (4-12) in a town north of Amarillo with one of Amarillo Slims granddaughters. She was a couple years younger than me, but it was a small school so I knew her and her family well. She would only occasionally talk about her grandfather, and we were too dumb to ask her much, plus it’s part of the Bible Belt so she was kinda not proud of his status as a drunk and a gambler. Pretty girl, very popular with the boys.

 

[libbylord]

A mosasaurus was an underwater meat eater, according to my 5 yo that just got one as a toy. I’m learning!

 

[NotRealNameNoSir]

Thank you all so far! Love these, big fan.

Oh, huge empathetic congrats from a fellow Dr (Plant Biology). What field you in?

Oceanographic Engineering, casting a wide net for the next step. For now its modeling active and passive acoustic propagation but may go back to just underwater robotics.

 

[AutoDonk5000]

Behaviors maintained by variable ratio schedules of reinforcement are the most resistant to extinction. Hence, degens.

And WAY TO GO SIR!

 

[WedgeRock]

Thank you all so far! Love these, big fan.


Oceanographic Engineering, casting a wide net for the next step. For now its modeling active and passive acoustic propagation but may go back to just underwater robotics.