I learned that you can teach Hitmonlee dragon rage.

you must lead an awfully interesting life.

The Internet is actually a physical system that is heald together by a some 250 cables a mile deep on the ocean floor connecting all the continents and is very vulnerable. So vulnerable infact they're constantly cut up and damaged from fishermen, anchors, fish, and natural hazards. If one were to systemically cut certain cables you'd cause great devestation to any country hooked up to this system (hooks up to every continent) which would take anywhere from a day to months to repair the wires since it has to be found (this takes days or even weeks of guessing) before it can be repaired.

Likewise the "checkpoints", the backbone of the web, is a big centre of computers that is hooked up to these cables and relays everything. These centres are so valuable that they're built to stand up to any natural hazard you can think of in the region it's located and security is as tight or probably even tighter then at an airport. They get 100's of cyber attacks a day and greatly exceeds over 2000 attacks a week. Everyone who works there works round the clock without a break.

Satellites only carry less then 10% of the internet on their shoulders.

This is news to me since I thought they stopped relying so heavily on cables but apparently this isn't the case.

So, I learned that you can physically attack the Internet.

he apparently thought that the internet was OTA like radio?

I knew cables were involved, I just didn't think it was cables that interconnected between continents in the ocean as the actual back bone of the internet anymore (you know cellphones, wireless stuff and everything).

Almost everyone I know thinks it's all satellites and shit.

I suppose I'm late on the upkeep but learned (the other day actually, not necessarily "today") that because males don't usually don't "obtain" their member until quite some time into the pregnancy a fetus is technically classified as being female until that point.  Not sure if that's just a simple way of explaining something that is actually more in depth than that though since it was one of those going off point discussions my professor does every now and again.  I thought it was interesting anyway.

That and DuaneAndBrandO are awesome:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUEO9Mfmn4M&fmt=18

I suppose I'm late on the upkeep but learned (the other day actually, not necessarily "today") that because males don't usually don't "obtain" their member until quite some time into the pregnancy a fetus is technically classified as being female until that point.  Not sure if that's just a simple way of explaining something that is actually more in depth than that though since it was one of those going off point discussions my professor does every now and again.  I thought it was interesting anyway.

Actually, the fetus is neither classified as male nor female until that point. The gonads are unspecified until the point where they receive information to either become testes or ovaries.