The "I never knew that" thread

[English assassin]

Does what it says on the tin. A thread for sharing random bits of (hopefully interesting) information.

For instance, everyone knows there are no snakes in Ireland, but did you know there are no ants in Iceland? There IS, though, a penis museum in Reykjavik.

[Fragony]

edit: GAH you guys are no fun at all.

[Geoffrey S]

Um, "presbyterians" is an anagram of "Britney Spears"?

[Louis VI the Fat]

To my astonishment, I recently found out that plants are descended from animals, and not the other way round.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

You could fit the world's entire population in Texas, and it would still have a population density lower than that of New York City.

[Beirut]

Dogs walk around in circles before they lie down in order to pat the grass flat and make a bed.

It's an instinctual leftover from their African roots in the grasslands.

[Fragony]

The Turkey is a decendant of the T-rex.

[Prodigal]

chewing the bark of a willow tree soothes toothache...Same properties as asprin...

[Ianofsmeg16]

Did you know that cows can walk upstairs but not downstairs?

I'ts becasue of the arrangement of their kneebones, the joint will flex when walking upstairs, but not down again..

I have a ton of these, ask me a question an I'll answer it!

[Axeknight]

Radishes are a type of meat.

[Craterus]

Did you know that cows can walk upstairs but not downstairs?

I'ts becasue of the arrangement of their kneebones, the joint will flex when walking upstairs, but not down again..

I have a ton of these, ask me a question an I'll answer it!

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Can you please explain the theory of relativity to me?
What does death feel like?
Where did Lord Lucan go?
Stonehenge?
What really happened to Flight 19?

Answers please. :laugh4:

[Ianofsmeg16]

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Loosely translated from a book i got for Xmas, but not much

If you're Expecting me to say there's no answer to that question, you are wrong. The Egg came first.
Most sicentists think that life on earth evolved, as do most people. Evolution is Basically the gradual development of life to suit it's surroundings. For example, a worm lives underground so it doesn't need very good eyes because there isn't much to see. So, any eyes worms once had have been lost from generation to generation. You can't change while you're alive, but your offspring can. As things gradually evolve they can change quite a bit. Have you ever seen pictures of what Anthropologists think our ancestors looked like? Big foreheads, lots of hair, long arms, slouched backs etc. We weren't really human then; we've gradually evolved to be as we are now.
The same has happened with the chicken,. If you go back in history, what we today call a chicken would have looked different. For example, it might have had webbed feet which made it hard to walk. Then, one day, one of the chickens laid an egg and from that egg came a bird that didn't have webbed feet - it was just like our present-day chickens. It had evolved.
But it all had to start with the egg, so the egg came first.

good enough?

[Craterus]

Yeah, that's my theory on the subject. Dinosaurs laid eggs too, so eggs came first.

And the rest of the questions please.

[Duke Malcolm]

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Can you please explain the theory of relativity to me?
What does death feel like?
Where did Lord Lucan go?
Stonehenge?
What really happened to Flight 19?

Answers please. :laugh4:

I have an urge to help the man...

Special or General Relativity?

[Ianofsmeg16]

Can you please explain the theory of relativity to me?
I'll have a go at this one next ok...
Loosely based on a paper i read a couple of months ago
In 1905, Albert Einstein published a paper which revolutionized our thinking about space and time and which he (and others) subsequently developed into the Special Theory of Relativity. This theory describes how physical properties with which we are familiar (mass, length, period of oscillation of a physical system, etc) would appear if viewed by an observer who is in uniform motion (constant velocity) relative to the observed object.

Einstein later introduced his General Theory, which allows for nonuniform motion (presence of an acceleration) and gives an explanation of the force of gravity. Combined with ideas of quantum physics, this theory led to the prediction that certain properties of light would be affected by gravitational fields, and to prediction of black holes for example.

Special Relativity
Central to the discussion of special relativity is the idea of an inertial frame (or reference). This is basically a coordinate system, which might be attached to an observed object or to the observer, which undergoes no acceleration. Consequently, the relative velocity between two inertial frames is necessarily constant, providing what we refer to as uniform motion.



Einstein based his 1905 theory on two postulates:

1. No physical measurement can distinguish one inertial frame from another.

2. The speed of light (in vacuum) is the same in all inertial frames, regardless of any motion of the source.

General Relativity
In the General Theory, Einstein concerned himself non-inertial frames, in other words motion which involves acceleration. One example is uniform circular motion, where the tangential speed v of an object (in a circle of radius R) is constant but its direction of this velocity is continually changing. According to Newtonian mechanics, this change in velocity is equivalent to a centripetal acceleration v^2/R towards the centre of the circle, and requires an inward centipetal force F = mv^2/R , otherwise the object flies off at a tangent (reverts to uniform linear motion).



However, the situation can also be analysed from the point of view of an observer in the non-inertial reference frame which rotates with the object. To such an observer, there appears to be a centrifugal force causing objects to move outward, away from the centre of rotation. In addition, an object which is projected at a uniform speed and which moves in a straight line, according to non-rotating observers, moves in a curved path in the non-inertial frame - evidence of a Coriolis force in the rotating coordinate system. The Coriolis and centrifugal forces are referred to a fictitious forces; they appear as two extra terms if Newton's laws of motion are written in terms of coordinates measured with respect to a rotating set of axes.



Strictly speaking, the earth is a non-inertial platform: it rotates about the sun, as well about its own polar axis. Direct evidence of this rotation comes from the behaviour of a simple pendulum with a large mass, such that its motion continues for many hours (called a Foucault pendulum). The direction of swing appears to rotate (precess) through 360 degrees every 24 hours, for a pendulum is located at the north or south pole. This can be understood as the earth rotating "beneath" the pendulum, or as the effect of a sideways Coriolis force acting perpendicular to the direction of the swing. The rate of precession is less at lower latitudes and becomes zero at the equator.



The existence of these fictitious forces apparently provides a means of detecting a non-inertial frame. In other words, accelerated motion appears have an absolute existence, whereas linear motion is always relative (to another object). Another example is provided by Newton's water bucket experiment. If the bucket and its contents are rotating at the end of a long rope, the water surface will become curved, due to the centifugal force (according to ab observer rotating with the bucket). Observation of this curvature provides direct evidence that the system is rotating, without reference to any external object. However, Newton's explanation was rejected on philosophical grounds by the German philosopher Ernst Mach (1838-1916), who maintained that motion of any kind (linear or rotational) can have no real existence unless specified with respect to other objects. So what other objects define the rotation of a water bucket and cause the water surface to become curved ? According to Mach, the rotation must be defined relative to the rest of the universe, including stars and galaxies at immense distances which together exert a force on the water. Satellite experiments designed to detect such a force, arising from the acceleration of one object relative to another, have been partially successful.

For a more detailed explanation, go just type in google, explanation to the theory of relativity, all this info is open to the public.

any more apart from Craterus?

[The Stranger]

WAS THE MOONLANDING OF APPOLLO II FAKED

i think it was, take a closer look at the pic. the flag armstrong holds is up like a normal flag on earth would do with strong wind...but that cant in space. then why is the flag up. and there was sumthing weird bout their shadows too...though i cant really explain what

[Ianofsmeg16]

WAS THE MOONLANDING OF APPOLLO II FAKED

i think it was, take a closer look at the pic. the flag armstrong holds is up like a normal flag on earth would do with strong wind...but that cant in space. then why is the flag up. and there was sumthing weird bout their shadows too...though i cant really explain what
maybe its that shadows wouldnt exist on the moon, and i believe that we have landed on the moon, maybe or maybe not with humans, but it's really none of my buisness as space travel is out of my world (no pun intended)

[English assassin]

OI, it's the I never knew that thread not the offbeat conspiracy theory thread.

The planet Saturn is less dense than water. If you put it in a (very large) bowl of water it would float.

[Fragony]

It is nearly impossible to break an egg when you press exactly on the top and the bottom.

[Ianofsmeg16]

OI, it's the I never knew that thread not the offbeat conspiracy theory thread.

The planet Saturn is less dense than water. If you put it in a (very large) bowl of water it would float.
Nice, i never knew that :2thumbsup:

As this is the thread for it...I'd like to put forth an answer to the age old question put forth by Jurassic Park.

Can You really make a new Dinosaur from old DNA?

This theory was put forth, as i said earlier, by the book Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton and the later film directed by Speilberg. In the real world no dinosaur DNA has ever been extracted. there was some suggestion that some had been found in the past (providing the basis for Crichton's book) but later studies showed it to be contamination on the bones.
After 66 million years, which is how long the dinosaurs have been extinct, any DNA that might be found would probably be extremely degreaded, and to be able to produce a healthy organism you have to have all the genes in its genome. Genomes fro advanced creatures tend to be in the order of billions of base-pairs, and the chanc of extracting more than a few tens or hundreds of bases from any very old DNA that remains is just about zero. Even if we manage to find lots of DNA there is a large chance that most of it will be junk (in higher animals, such as elephants, about 90% plus of the geneome is non-coding DNA). So there isn't really any chance of being able to bring dinosaurs back to life.
I the book and film Jurassic Park, the DNA was transmitted via a blood-sucking insect which had become trapped in amber. It was a clever bit of story-telling by Michael Crichton, but the molecules which carry the blueprint of all life forms are immensely long and complicated. The Chances of being able to find even a few broken fragments of DNA of animals that died and became fossilized more than 66 million years ago is very remote.
:sweatdrop:

That was also for people who read the "Mammoth DNA" thread in the backroom ages ago:2thumbsup:

[InsaneApache]

Elephants can't jump because they have no knees.

[Craterus]

I still want the cocky one to answer my questions, after all, he's so clever he can answer any question...


Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.
Alexander the Great was epileptic. So was Ceasar?
There are 450 hairs on the average human eyebrow.

[Duke Malcolm]

Duck's quacks don't echo...

[Craterus]

Dr. Frankenstein's first name was Victor.
Oology is the studying or collecting of birds' eggs.
"Gambrinous" is a word meaning full of beer.
Ethiopia means "the land of the sunburned faces" in Greek.
An average person drinks between 10,000 12,000 gallons (45,460-54,552 litres) of water during their life time.

[lars573]

Elephants can't jump because they have no knees.
BS they have knees.


There is a drink sold here in NS that is essentially the water used to rinse out the barrels used to hold booze while it ages. It's called swish.

Also when they dug up the Romanov's from their mine shaft grave and rebuired them they found the bodies of 5 people. 2 adults 1 man and 1 woman, and 3 teenage girls, but no 10 or under boy.

[Ianofsmeg16]

Stonehenge?
Ok mister "I'm going to insult Ian until i get my way" I'll try my best to answer the mystery of this puzzling, but spectacular, piece of Architecture from 2000b.c.e.:2thumbsup:

Stonehenge

For this one I'm going to call upon that god of Historical Fiction writing, Bernard Cornwell.
In his book, conveniently titled Stonehenge he tells the story of the pre-druidic british tribe that he suggested built stonehenge, but in true Cornwell style he has a 'Historical Note' at the back of the book. It says his about the origins of Stonehenge, which I agree with personally though you may not;
"What is Stonehenge? It is the question that occurs to most visitors and little at the site provides any answer other than the one proposed by R.J.C Atkinson in his impressive book Stonehenge "There is one short, simple and perfectly correct answer: We don't know, and we shall probably never know." Which is rather dispiriting, for without some idea of their use and purpose, the stones are diminished"

There you Have it, from Cornwell himself, "We don't know" and if you're trusting a 16 year old to find out from what he knows himself and his small library of historical books, then you are heading for dissapointment. But as I am an exceptionally nice guy, I'll try and figure out as much as I can. Over the weekend I will do some research for you Craterus, and I'll post what I find here.

Sorry to dissapoint you :shame:

[Craterus]

A whale's penis is called a dork.
"Dibble" means to drink like a duck.

And, one of my new favourites:

In Australia, the male antechinus mouse has up to sixteen partners a time, in sex sessions lasting up to twelve hours. Often they become so weak they fall out of the trees and are killed.

[The Stranger]

maybe its that shadows wouldnt exist on the moon, and i believe that we have landed on the moon, maybe or maybe not with humans, but it's really none of my buisness as space travel is out of my world (no pun intended)

that was it...and yes i too believe we landed on the moon but just not at that point...the whole world prolly was fooled then

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

Did you know that in the 50 years between 235 AD and 285 AD there were about 20 Roman emperors? :dizzy2: Most only held the throne for a short time before being murdered and being replaced by the murderer then the murderer got murdered and so on. So, each emperor only had 2-3 years to rule!~:eek:

But, most amazing of all is that in 1553 Lady Jane Grey sat on the throne before she was overthrown. So? Well, she only stayed on for 9 days!
:jawdrop:

-Copperhaired Berserker!

[Viking]

WAS THE MOONLANDING OF APPOLLO II FAKED

i think it was, take a closer look at the pic. the flag armstrong holds is up like a normal flag on earth would do with strong wind...but that cant in space. then why is the flag up. and there was sumthing weird bout their shadows too...though i cant really explain what

Well, I can sort of explain that. The way the flag was set up:

https://img409.imageshack.us/img409/5285/usflag14fr.jpg

caused the flag behave like it does under windy conditions here on Earth. However, there is no atmosphere on the Moon to break the flag`s movements, so it continued to wave for long after it was set up:

https://img419.imageshack.us/img419/1310/usflagwaving7vi.jpg

There`s no problems with the shadows either.

[Prodigal]

Elephants can't jump because they have no knees.
They also communicate with one another by using a pitch, LOWER than the human ear can hear

[Duke Malcolm]

maybe its that shadows wouldnt exist on the moon, and i believe that we have landed on the moon, maybe or maybe not with humans, but it's really none of my buisness as space travel is out of my world (no pun intended)

psh, the man who can answer any question can't answer the question!

There are shadows on the moon, but the controversy was that those who disputed the landings say there are some shadows going one way and others going another way. After seeing the pictures, it is rather hard to distinuish the direction of the shadows, and not easy to say. The business with the flag is also hard to say, since the flag would stay unfurled like it is if it was unfurled before going onto to moon...

[Craterus]

The longest known record for constipation is 102 days.

The storage capacity of the human brain exceeds 4 terrabytes.

There are 45 miles (72km) of nerves in the human body.

The female praying mantis is such a deadly hunter that she often eats her partner immediately after mating. Sometimes she begins her meal whilst still copulating.

[Gregoshi]

WAS THE MOONLANDING OF APPOLLO II FAKED

i think it was, take a closer look at the pic. the flag armstrong holds is up like a normal flag on earth would do with strong wind...but that cant in space. then why is the flag up. and there was sumthing weird bout their shadows too...though i cant really explain what

TS, there is a rod through the top edge of the flag to hold it out. In a strong wind, a flag on Earth would be waving, notice that the flag on the Moon isn't, it is just straight out from the flag pole.

The shadows on the Moon are darker than on Earth due to the lack of an atmosphere to bounce the sun light around and lighten up the shadows. I believe the lack of an atmosphere also makes the edges of the shadow more distinct than here on Earth. If things look strange in the pictures it is because the Moon is a strange place compared to Earth.

Edit: Nice pictures Viking. You put them up whilst I was composing my post. There is some waving going on in the bottom picture but that would probably have soon subsided due to friction in the flag and pole material. Then it would just hang from the top rod and flag pole.

[Don Corleone]

This whole "no moon landing" is a bunch of hooey. The Discovery channel dedicated a 1 hour program to debunking each and every claim the 'no landing' crowd has ever offered. It really stems from people thinking they know more than they actually do about physics.

My factoid: If you want to hold your breath for extra long, hyperventilate immediately prior to submerging. It's the buildup of carbon dioxide, not the lack of oxygen that forces you to black out.

[Craterus]

We blink about 84 million times per year.

General Custer graduated bottom of his class in 1861.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

The most popular car colour in the world is red.

Months that begin on a Sunday always have a Friday 13th.

A can of Spam is opened every four seconds.

[Sartaq]

Duck's quacks don't echo...

That's not true!


A can of Spam is opened every four seconds.

:no:


My factoid: If you want to hold your breath for extra long, hyperventilate immediately prior to submerging. It's the buildup of carbon dioxide, not the lack of oxygen that forces you to black out.

I just tried that and it works!

[Don Corleone]

I've never tried this one before, but supposedly, only on the Vernal Equinox, you can balance an egg on end. Don't blame me if it turns out to be BS, I warned you...

Others I DO know about...

-The average voltage of a static discharge (dry air, such as in winter, zapping on a doorknob) is about 4000V, sometimes as high as 6000V. The reason it doesn't cause harm is there is very little stored charge to supply current flow (which is what actually kills you).

-If you want to cool your beer faster, pour salt over the ice in your cooler. It will melt it AND reduce the temperature to about -2C (28F) degrees. In general, 0.3C (32.5F) water cools beer much faster than <0C (<32F) ice, because liquid water has a much lower thermal impedance than solid ice.

-Grey & white hair is caused by a copper defiiciency and (theoretically) is completely reversible.

-Bert & Ernie in Sesame street are named for Bert, the taxi cab driver and Ernie the police officer in "It's a Wonderful Life", Jim Henson's (and my) favorite movie.

-Kennedy's personal's secretary's name last name was Lincoln. Lincoln's personal secretary's last name was.... Kennedy. Kennedy was shot by an assasin in a warehouse who fled to a theater. Lincoln was shot by an assasin in a theater, who fled to a warehouse. Both men had a vice-president named Johnson, and both Johnsons were Southern Democrats.

-In the US Civil War's largest battle (Gettysburg), the North came from the south and the South came from the North.

-Despite all the hooplah about computer security, even today 75% of all computer passwords are: a) the owner's birthdate b) the owner's anniversery date or c) the word 'password'.

-In a room of 20 or more random people, the odds are better than 2 in 3 at least 2 people will have the same birthdate (I've never figured this one out).

-Speaking of statistics... if you toss a fair coin 100 times, and the incredibly unlikely put statistically possible event occurs that you toss 100 straight heads, and you decide to toss that faircoin a 101st time, the odds of it being heads or tails are still 50/50.

-Cats only meow to communicate to humans. It is a behavior that serves no function among cats in the wild, who communicate with scent.

[Sartaq]

I've never tried this one before, but supposedly, only on the Vernal Equinox, you can balance an egg on end. Don't blame me if it turns out to be BS, I warned you...

uh huh...:inquisitive:



-Despite all the hooplah about computer security, even today 75% of all computer passwords are: a) the owner's birthdate b) the owner's anniversery date or c) the word 'password'.

-In a room of 20 or more random people, the odds are better than 2 in 3 at least 2 people will have the same birthdate (I've never figured this one out).

I can believe that.


-If you want to cool your beer faster, pour salt over the ice in your cooler. It will melt it AND reduce the temperature to about -2C (28F) degrees. In general, 0.3C (32.5F) water cools beer much faster than <0C (<32F) ice, because liquid water has a much lower thermal impedance than solid ice.

Saw that on Mythbusters, of which I am also a junkie.
Other fun fact from Mythbusters: High speed bullets are less deadly than a slower speed bullet when shooting someone underwater from above water becuase the high speed bullet is shattered on impact with the water surface.

[The Stranger]

Well, I can sort of explain that. The way the flag was set up:

https://img409.imageshack.us/img409/5285/usflag14fr.jpg

caused the flag behave like it does under windy conditions here on Earth. However, there is no atmosphere on the Moon to break the flag`s movements, so it continued to wave for long after it was set up:

https://img419.imageshack.us/img419/1310/usflagwaving7vi.jpg

There`s no problems with the shadows either.

hmm good point...though ill find sumthing to prove you wrong...and i knew there was sumthing funny with the shadows i only forgot what :shame:

[Don Corleone]

hmm good point...though ill find sumthing to prove you wrong...and i knew there was sumthing funny with the shadows i only forgot what :shame:

I hate to do this, but I'm going to have to cut you off before you begin. Simply visit this webpage. They have listed every 'reason' the hoax believers (HB's) say the moon landing was faked you have ever heard of, and probably more than a few you haven't. In each and every one, the 'theory' is debunked. At the end of the day, it all stems from applying 'common sense' to how things work on Earth and assuming that's how they'll work in an area devoid of atmosphere (no blast crater, footprints being too clear, etc).

I've never seen a single reason posed for disbelieving the moon landing that wasn't more dubious than the landing itself. Is it possible NASA faked the moon landings? Sure. It's also possible that Hugh Hefner will leave the mansion and all the Playmates to me in his will, and my wife will be cool with this. Likelihood? About as likely that the moon landings were faked.

I have a healthy distrust of the government, don't get me wrong, I'm not their apologist. But in this case, there's just too much evidence on one side to take the other remotely seriously. http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html

[Monarch]

hmm good point...though ill find sumthing to prove you wrong...and i knew there was sumthing funny with the shadows i only forgot what :shame:

http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/NOT_faked/

Check that link, shows most the moon landing 'it was faked' theories, then some guy scrutinizing them.

Moon landing? I myself want to believe it. I really do it. It's just...forgetting all those pictures and scientific rubbish to scrutinize I like to play in something I know a little more about: history.

These are my reasons why it may have been faked (bearing in mind I do not have a definitive stance):

In the 60's Mr. Yuri Gogarin (sorry for wrong spelling) was the first cosmonaut in space. The Americans, in their 'we must look better at russia at everything' stage obviously are not pleased by this, they lost in the public eye to an enemy. Oh and not forgetting a few years prior to this in the form of Sputnik the Americans had failed in the 'first satellite in space' race. So there is but only one semi-realistic objective to beat the russians to: the moon. So the President of the states goes out and declares by the end of the decade an American will have walked on the moon. Now here's where my theory get's very questionable which I admit (I reiterate I do not have a stance yet on is it was or was not faked). Perhaps it is 69, and oopsy we're not on the moon are we. The Russians could very well be close. Now, if USA lose after declaring they will win so majestically this will be a PR distaster. There's only one thing for it: a hoax.

My next theory is more looking at today. We have not had a moon landing since what, like the 70's?! Why the hell not. This isnt a been there done that job, todays research techniques have to be better than 30 years ago, think of the things we could learn. So Russia, So NASA send a team to space now, show you can do it. Because interesting point, there hasnt been a moon landing since the cold war.

Anyway, If anything I believe the landings did take place. But the questions I proposed in this thread I do think are at least sorta relevant.

For now, until any other better hoax claims are brought to light. I will go for innocent until proven guilty and leave NASA alone.

------------------------------------------------

Back to on topic material. Hmm lets see.

Bill Gates has more wealth than the bottom 45 percent of American households combined.

[Don Corleone]

Sovereign,
You're not offering proof, or even a theory about the moon landing being faked. You're offering a possible motive in the event that it could be proven or theorized that it WAS faked. Fair enough, and I agree with your reasoning. But motive alone doesn't offer any sort of proof.

Hillary Clinton had a hell of a lot of motive to go Lorena Bobbit on Bill Clinton. But that's hardly 'proof' that our 42nd president in fact has a surgically reattached willy.

As for the 'why don't we still go there' question, one simple answer. $$$$. It costs a lot of money to go the moon, and as far as I know, there's almost no return on the investment. Scientists would love to go back and make some more experiments. But until there's a compelling reason to put that kind of cash into it, there's no reason to do so. Somebody who DOES have a reason to do so, namely to prove that they too can do it, is in the process of doing it now and should land around 2008: China.

Trust me, find some uranium or oil reserves up there and you'll see just how plausible it is. :2thumbsup:

[Geoffrey S]

Apparently, in Medieval times during jousts the crowd sang Queen's We Will Rock You. And cute princesses looked like sexy punks.

Or isn't A Knights Tale based on facts? :inquisitive:

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I've never tried this one before, but supposedly, only on the Vernal Equinox, you can balance an egg on end. Don't blame me if it turns out to be BS, I warned you...



ooh ooh I know this one. You can balance an egg on it's end at any time, but only if you believe you can. If you don't believe you can it affects your control over your fingers slightly and you won't be able to. Nifty.

I tested it out on my sister, told her it was impossible and she couldn't do it, told her it actually and showed her I could do it, and then she was able to.


Duck's quacks don't echo...

http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/duckecho.htm


-Kennedy's personal's secretary's name last name was Lincoln. Lincoln's personal secretary's last name was.... Kennedy. Kennedy was shot by an assasin in a warehouse who fled to a theater. Lincoln was shot by an assasin in a theater, who fled to a warehouse. Both men had a vice-president named Johnson, and both Johnsons were Southern Democrats.

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/linckenn.htm

[Axeknight]

Well, I can sort of explain that. The way the flag was set up:

https://img409.imageshack.us/img409/5285/usflag14fr.jpg

caused the flag behave like it does under windy conditions here on Earth. However, there is no atmosphere on the Moon to break the flag`s movements, so it continued to wave for long after it was set up:

https://img419.imageshack.us/img419/1310/usflagwaving7vi.jpg

There`s no problems with the shadows either.
Here's something I actually do know; there was a problem in unfurling the rod you see at the top which held the flag out. Thus the 'flapping' look. Apparently NASA were so impressed by the way the 'flapping flag' looked, they've designed them to deploy like that ever since.

[InsaneApache]

My factoid: If you want to hold your breath for extra long, hyperventilate immediately prior to submerging. It's the buildup of carbon dioxide, not the lack of oxygen that forces you to black out.

This is potentially very, very dangerous as the human brain needs a certain amount of CO2 in order that the lungs work automatically. If you hyperventilate you will flush out all the CO2 which could lead to you not breathing. This is a fact. So don't do it guys.

[Don Corleone]

This is potentially very, very dangerous as the human brain needs a certain amount of CO2 in order that the lungs work automatically. If you hyperventilate you will flush out all the CO2 which could lead to you not breathing. This is a fact. So don't do it guys.

This I did not know, but is a very good point. Sorry for offering potentially dangerous experiments to try.

[InsaneApache]

Hey np mate, it's just that as a former lifeguard it was something they hammered into us in training. BTW it's nice to see you back Don ~:wave:

[Monarch]

Sovereign,
You're not offering proof, or even a theory about the moon landing being faked. You're offering a possible motive in the event that it could be proven or theorized that it WAS faked. Fair enough, and I agree with your reasoning. But motive alone doesn't offer any sort of proof.

Hillary Clinton had a hell of a lot of motive to go Lorena Bobbit on Bill Clinton. But that's hardly 'proof' that our 42nd president in fact has a surgically reattached willy.

As for the 'why don't we still go there' question, one simple answer. $$$$. It costs a lot of money to go the moon, and as far as I know, there's almost no return on the investment. Scientists would love to go back and make some more experiments. But until there's a compelling reason to put that kind of cash into it, there's no reason to do so. Somebody who DOES have a reason to do so, namely to prove that they too can do it, is in the process of doing it now and should land around 2008: China.

Trust me, find some uranium or oil reserves up there and you'll see just how plausible it is. :2thumbsup:

Yup, I did say my 'theories' where dodgy and I am leaning towards to pro 'we landed for sure' side of things. Just speculation ^_^

[Ironside]

Almost every human got mites living in thier hair follicles.

[Ludens]

The Turkey is a decendant of the T-rex.
Er... I am quite sure all birds descended from a small dinosaur species in the Jurasic era. So, while they are related, the turkey did not descend from T-Rex.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

In biology we actually learned about this yesterday and the answer is egg...

I wasn't paying enough attention, but it had something to do with RNA...Lol:laugh4:

[Ianofsmeg16]

In biology we actually learned about this yesterday and the answer is egg...

I wasn't paying enough attention, but it had something to do with RNA...Lol:laugh4:
Check the first page of the thread...i already answered that one :2thumbsup:

[Alexanderofmacedon]

:2thumbsup: Oh, okay!

[ArcticSonata]

After four moves in a chess game there are more possible moves than grains of sand on earth.

The world longest penis was 18 in. long, and every time he would go errect he would pass out, because of all the blood that was transfered to penis and away from the rest of the body.:laugh4:

[InsaneApache]

Hellfire I told you to never to divulge my 'secret' :laugh4: :laugh4:

[Soulforged]

Did you know by change when the public debt of Argentina begun?
Well it begun when Mr. Rivadavia (1821-1824, now impressed in the papers of two pesos and with the largest aveneau in all Argentina) taking adventage of the speculative England bubble and even told the english that La Pampa (refering to the whole region known as La Pampa) was covered on gold :yes:, the first negociator was a minister called José Manuel García, then Rivadavia as minister and De la Cruz. The other part (the english merchants) were a man called Robertson, and another man called Felix Castro (wich wasn't really english but did business with english). The debt was originally of 1 million pounds, but 150000 of those pounds were discounted for the risk of borrowing money to a latinamerican country. Another 150000 was the bribe received by the the argentinian negotiators and the Baring brothers owners of the bank wich borrowed the money. Also Rivadavia discounted the expenditures from the loan, and paid a year of interest to the Barings: another 130000 puonds. The comision was reduced to 25000 pounds and another 400000 pounds stayed on England as a payment to english merchants radicated in Buenos Aires. Corruption has no limits, and Rivadavia did all this under the excuse of city improvement, wich was never done at all.

It's more, an interesting information for those britons out there: the warrant of the debt has always been the land of La Pampa, so if you've any monetary problems you can take the land out of us, even if it's now unconstitutional, but things work that way in the South sadly.:no:

[Ianofsmeg16]

did you know that the Isle of Man used to control all of Galloway?
We were once the Kings of Ynys Manau and Galwyddel, but we were overrun by Gaels and Vikings.

And did you know that the Isle of Man has the longest running parliament in the world, set up in the mid 930's and even though the island has changed hands from Norway, Scotland, Its own kingdom, the Kingdom of the Isles and England, it is still running today as Tynwald

[Soulforged]

WAS THE MOONLANDING OF APPOLLO II FAKED

i think it was, take a closer look at the pic. the flag armstrong holds is up like a normal flag on earth would do with strong wind...but that cant in space. then why is the flag up. and there was sumthing weird bout their shadows too...though i cant really explain what
It sounds sort of conspiracy teory but here's one more strange fact:
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/space/0107/moonwalk.gallery/03.earth.moon.jpg
In this picture you can't see the starts at all, it's all black, when in fact you should be able to see them.:inquisitive:

[Ironside]

It sounds sort of conspiracy teory but here's one more strange fact:
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/space/0107/moonwalk.gallery/03.earth.moon.jpg
In this picture you can't see the starts at all, it's all black, when in fact you should be able to see them.:inquisitive:

That depends on the quality of the camera and how much light the camera recives when taking the picture (aka slutartid and bl&#228;ndar&#246;ppning on Swedish, no idea for the English words. Soly, any help?).

Use your average camera and photo the moon.
As it won't show any stars either, it's obvious that we have infact not been on the planet Tellus (also known as earth). :idea2:


:laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4:

[Soulforged]

That depends on the quality of the camera and how much light the camera recives when taking the picture (aka slutartid and bländaröppning on Swedish, no idea for the English words. Soly, any help?).

Use your average camera and photo the moon.
As it won't show any stars either, it's obvious that we have infact not been on the planet Tellus (also known as earth).
Well sorry for the mistake then. But this is even funnier, you go to the Moon, probably your only voyage in all your life and you take a crappy camera with you.:inquisitive: :laugh4: :laugh4:

[Meneldil]

The Priory of Sion actually exists.

Nice to see you back Don Corleone :2thumbsup:

[Viking]

That depends on the quality of the camera and how much light the camera recives when taking the picture (aka slutartid and bländaröppning on Swedish, no idea for the English words. Soly, any help?).

Use your average camera and photo the moon.
As it won't show any stars either, it's obvious that we have infact not been on the planet Tellus (also known as earth). :idea2:


:laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4:

A greater challenge: try to photograph any stars during day light time here on Earth. :charge:

I can help you with your Swedish words, btw. It`s exposure time and focal lenght.

[ArcticSonata]

Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first president to contian all the letters in his name to form the word "Criminal", the second ( and don't tell me you are supprised) was William Jefferson Clinton

[Somebody Else]

Mongolia has a navy.

[R'as al Ghul]

About the Moon landing.
There is something I never understood about how they took
care of the photographic film but I'm quite satisfied with this explanation:

Ionizing radiation and Heat
Claims and rebuttals

1. The astronauts could not have survived the trip because of exposure to radiation from the Van Allen radiation belt and galactic ambient radiation.

*The Moon is ten times higher than the van Allen radiation belts. The spacecraft moved through the belts in just 30 minutes, and the astronauts were protected from the ionizing radiation by the metal hulls of the spacecraft. In addition, the orbital transfer trajectory from the Earth to the Moon through the belts was selected to minimize radiation exposure. Even Dr. James Van Allen, the discoverer of the Van Allen radiation belts, has rebutted the claims that radiation levels were too dangerous for the Apollo missions. Dosimeters carried by the crews showed they received about the same cumulative dosage as a chest X-ray or about 1 milligray. [2]

*The radiation is actually evidence that the astronauts went to the moon. 33 of 36 of the Apollo astronauts have early stage cataracts that have been shown to be caused by radiation exposure to cosmic rays during their trip. (see Ms. Irene Schneider on The Space Show).

2. Film in the cameras would have been fogged by this radiation.

*The film was kept in metal containers that prevented radiation from fogging the film's emulsion.

3. The moon's surface during the daytime is so hot that camera film would have melted.

*There is no atmosphere to efficiently couple lunar surface heat to devices such as cameras not in direct contact with it. In a vacuum, only radiation remains as a heat transfer mechanism. The physics of radiative heat transfer are thoroughly understood, and the proper use of passive optical coatings and paints was adequate to control the temperature of the film within the cameras; lunar module temperatures were controlled with similar coatings that gave it its gold color. Also, while the moon's surface does get very hot at lunar noon, every Apollo landing was made shortly after lunar sunrise at the landing site. During the longer stays, the astronauts did notice increased cooling loads on their spacesuits as the sun continued to rise and the surface temperature increased, but the effect was easily countered by the passive and active cooling systems.

Source:http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Apollo%20moon%20landing%20hoax

At the bottom I found this which is absolutely priceless:

Flat Earth Society
The Flat Earth Society lodged one of the earliest complaints about the veracity of the Apollo missions. They argued that the various "earthrise" photos from Apollo 8, with the Moon in the foreground and the Earth in the background, was a fake. The primary basis of their claim was that it did not square with their belief that the Earth is flat.

[Viking]

Mongolia has a navy.

Doesn`t Switzerland have it too?

[discovery1]

awesome moonhoax debunking site (http://www.clavius.org/)

keeping with the moon.....

Did you know that the Soviet moon rocket was called N1 and had 30 engines in the first stage arranged in a circle? If an egine was to fail, a safety system would should down the engine opposite to the trust symmetrict. However, on it's first flight, the system failed and shut down all engines after a fire broke out in the tail compartment. The main body impacted 45 km donwrang, although the crew escaped system did work and the uncrewed capsel was recovered. It was launched 3 more times, and failed 3 more times.

http://astronautix.com/graphics/n/n1nite.jpg

[Meneldil]

Mongolia has a navy.

Actually, Mongolia has one of the biggest trade navy on earth.

[Oaty]

A human has more hair than an ape

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

10% of all humans ever born are alive at this moment.

[Beirut]

90% of all humans ever born are dead at this moment.

C'mon... it's all I could think of.

[Craterus]

The people killed most often during bank robberies are the robbers.

More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a phone call.

The average human eats eight spiders at night during their lifetime.

Smokers consume more sugar than non-smokers.

All the chemicals in the human body have a combined value of approximately &#163;4.

In Ancient Sparta, married men were not allowed to live with their wives until they were 30.

50% of the world's population is under 25.

[Ludens]

The average human eats eight spiders at night during their lifetime.
IIRC that's an urban myth. Spider's aren't completely stupid.

[Dutch_guy]

The average human eats eight spiders at night during their lifetime.

Isn't it 8 spiders a year ?

:balloon2:

[Craterus]

The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation. :jawdrop:

Major earthquakes have hit Japan on: 1 September 827, 1 September 859, 1 September 1185, 1 September 1645 and 1 September 1923.

[David]

2/3 of all people older than 65 who ever lived/ are alive, live now.

We spent 50 million (thats about 3 euros a person) euros on fireworks in Holland this year (only legal sales!), which was disappointing according to the sellers, blew most of it in two hours, got drunk and woke up two days later :inquisitive:

[Quid]

Doesn`t Switzerland have it too?

Does, but then we have two fairly large border lakes. On the other hand, I wouldn't exactly call it a navy...

Quid

[Ianofsmeg16]

All the chemicals in the human body have a combined value of approximately £4.
Hate to tell you this...but that's w...w...wr...wrong!:2thumbsup:

Right, Let's start with the compostition of the human body by weight (ignoring some of the smallest trace elements):
%
Oxygen 65
Carbon 18
Hydrogen 10
Nitrogen 1.5
Calcium 3
Phosphorus 1
Potassium 0.35
Sulphur 0.25
Sodium 0.15
Chlorine 0.15
Magnesium 0.05
Iron 0.0004
Iodine 0.00004

Now, let's assume we have someone weighing 70kg (thats around 11 stone, your average person). That means by weight we have the following amount of elements:
Oxygen 45.5kg
Carbon 12.6kg
Hydrogen 7kg
Nitrogen 2.1kg
Calcium 1.05kg
Phosphorus 0.7kg
Potassium 0.245kg
Sulphur 0.175kg
Sodium 0.105kg
Chlorine 0.105kg
Magnesium 0.035kg
Iron 0.00028kg
Iodine 0.000028kg

Now, we need to know he prices for these commodities, I've looked up the prices in a chemical catalogue i found at school, and assumed chemicals of average quality because most of us are average people!

Oxygen 45.5kg 13.66 pounds for 3,264kg = 0.19 pounds
carbon 12.6kg 6.90 pounds per kilo = 86.94 pounds
Hydrogen 7kg 28.05 pounds for 115.6kg = 1.70
Nitrogen 2.1kg 15.53 pounds for 2525.6kg = 0.01 pounds
Calcium 1.05kg 3.70 pounds per 25g = 155.40 pounds
Phosphorus 0.7kg 6.90 pounds per 100g = 48.30 pounds
potassium 0.245kg 6.90 pounds per 100g = 339.14 pounds
sulphur 0.175kg 6.90 pounds per 100g = 1.15 pounds
sodium 0.105kg 17.35 pounds per 100g = 18.22 pounds
chlorine 0.105kg 68.18 pounds per 33kg = 0.22 pounds
Magnesium 0.025 68.18 pounds per 33kg = 0.83 pounds
Iron 0.00028kg 4.65 pounds per kilo = 0.001302 pounds
Iodine 0.000028kg 6.00 pounds per 100g = 0.0017 pounds

This gives the value of the human body as 652.10 Pounds Sterling
:sweatdrop:

[ajaxfetish]

I wonder if the prices would be different for the compounds the body contains those elements in. You're not going to be selling 45 or so kg of pure oxygen, it's going to be oxygen contained in water and many other chemical compounds. The carbon's going to be mostly in fats, proteins, nucleotides, etc. Same for most all of the rest.

Ajax

[nokhor]

-In a room of 20 or more random people, the odds are better than 2 in 3 at least 2 people will have the same birthdate (I've never figured this one out).



i believe this has to do with people copulating more at specific times of the year [think winter] than at other times.

[Soulforged]

The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.Seriusly? Someway to confirm it? A link an article?:inquisitive:

[Strike For The South]

Places Id like to go

indonesia
France
Texas

[English assassin]

This one does your head if you think about it.

Life on earth is thought to have emerged about 3.5, possibly 4 billion years ago.

Single celled Eukaryote organisms did not evolve until about 1.8 billion years ago (eukaryote means the sort of cells you are made from, ie "reasonably sophisticated")

The earliest evidence of multicellular life is from 670-550 million years ago.

SO, for roughly half of the total history of life on earth, the most complicated organism on earth was a bacterium. Multicellular life (eg "plants" and "animals") have been around for about 1/7th of life's history.

Life as we see it today is not typical.

[Don Corleone]

Right you are, EA. In fact, if you sit down and look at epochs, biological time is actually logarithmic. This is one of the (wrong-headed, IMHO) arguments put forward by Intelligent Design proponents: that if true random genetic mutation and natual selection were the forces at work, there would be a linear time frame.

Personally, it makes me excited. If the trend continues, entirely new species will evolve within 2 to 3 human generations.

[Kralizec]

Of the "major" languages, Dutch is the closest relative to English.

The Netherlands is the most densely populated country in the world.

Squids have eyes similar to that of vertebrate animals, but evolved seperately and have no blind spot.

My left nut hangs slightly lower then my right one, and so does yours.
just like with the vast majority of male humans :laugh4:

[Craterus]

I wonder if the prices would be different for the compounds the body contains those elements in. You're not going to be selling 45 or so kg of pure oxygen, it's going to be oxygen contained in water and many other chemical compounds. The carbon's going to be mostly in fats, proteins, nucleotides, etc. Same for most all of the rest.

Ajax

Yeah. What he said. It'd probably cost a fair bit to extract the chemicals from their compounds, and I accomodated this into my fact.
Sorry ian!

[Red Peasant]

Of the "major" languages, Dutch is the closest relative to English.


Technically, it's Frisian.

edit. Sorry, you said 'major', although that depends on one's definition of 'major' ;)

[Craterus]

Some facts! :

WC Fields full name was William Claude Dukenfield.

Artists had to draw 6,469,952 spots for the 1961 Disney cartoon film One Hundred and One Dalmations

Richard Gere's middle name is Tiffany.

300,000 extras were used for the ten-minute funeral sequence in Gandhi.

Charlie Chapman died on Christmas Day 1977.

[Don Corleone]

This one really had me stupefied.... according to Insane Apache and Taffy is a Taff, gin, in reality, is a Dutch concoction..:dizzy2: :dizzy2: :dizzy2: :dizzy2: :dizzy2:

[The Stranger]

Seriusly? Someway to confirm it? A link an article?:inquisitive:

dont mind him...hes obsessed with guitars...especially mine :laugh4:

[Ianofsmeg16]

This one really had me stupefied.... according to Insane Apache and Taffy is a Taff, gin, in reality, is a Dutch concoction..:dizzy2: :dizzy2: :dizzy2: :dizzy2: :dizzy2:
It's a sad day when the english are out done on alcoholic matters by a bunch of Frisians:dizzy2:

My fact: Pink Floyd are Better than Zeppelin:2thumbsup:

[The Stranger]

i outdrink you...i could even get drunk of coke

[Gregoshi]

This gives the value of the human body as 652.10 Pounds Sterling
:sweatdrop:
<look$ at ian with $ini$ter eye$>:devil:

They $ay everyone ha$ value... :greedy:

[Ianofsmeg16]

<look$ at ian with $ini$ter eye$>:devil:

They $ay everyone ha$ value... :greedy:
Y'know Gregoshi, I would sell you my body, but I'm not sure if you'd treat it well:help:

[InsaneApache]

You might post, I just couldn't possibly comment.

[Craterus]

During a 100m race, a top sprinter touches the ground only some 40 times.

All of George Foreman's five sons are called George.

The blood in the famous shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was actually Hershey's chocolate syrup.

Keith Moon of The Who inspired the Muppet drummer Animal.

Americans use 16,000 tons (16,256 tonnes) of aspirin each year.

[English assassin]

My fact: Pink Floyd are Better than Zeppelin

Oi, no opinions.

The largest predator that has EVER lived is today's sperm whale.

And, in the spirit of "Bob's animal fights", if you ever wondered who would win in a fight between a great white sharke and a killer whale, here is your answer: http://www.extremescience.com/orcavshark.htm

For the impatient:

Its Mammal 1, Fish 0

[Brutus]

This one really had me stupefied.... according to Insane Apache and Taffy is a Taff, gin, in reality, is a Dutch concoction..:dizzy2: :dizzy2: :dizzy2: :dizzy2: :dizzy2:
Yes, we call it jenever (older word genever) and it used to be folk drink number one, even before beer. http://www.maxxium.com/images/brands_vis_bols_jenevers_big.jpg

Fact: Philip II of Spain, who sent the Armada of 1588, was king of England between 1554 and 1559.

[English assassin]

Fact: Philip II of Spain, who sent the Armada of 1588, was king of England between 1554 and 1559.

Well, sort of. He was the husband of the monarch, Queen Mary, but he wasn't king himself.

[Brutus]

Well, sort of. He was the husband of the monarch, Queen Mary, but he wasn't king himself.
That depends on how you define it. Theoretically, his and Mary Tudor's (non-existant) children would have been legitimate heirs to the Throne. Philip himself, of course, wasn't. He tried to get around this problem by trying to marry Elisabeth I after Mary's death, but she refused... Anyway, Philip was king of England like Ferdinand of Aragon was king of Castille; through his wife. It gave him certain powers though.

[Craterus]

If you were locked in a completely sealed room, you would die of carbon dioxide poisoning before oxygen deprivation.

Your thumb is the same length of your nose. (I bet you're all trying it now.) :thumbup:

80% of the average human brain is water.

The smallest unit of time is a yoctosecond.

In 1977, a thirteen year old child found a tooth growing out of his left foot.

[Ianofsmeg16]

The Romano-British (and Celtic-briton) God of Smiths and Weaponry is called Gofannon.

Manawyddan is the real name for Mannanin, the patron saint of Ynys Manaw, or the isle of man ;)

[Craterus]

Only 25% of babies are born on the day predicted by the doctor or midwife.

Banging your head against a wasll uses 150 calories per hour.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

Only two animal species wage war on their own kind- ANTS and humans.

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

One year contains 31,557,000 seconds.

There are at least 100,000 chemical reactions going on in a normal human brain every second.

[The_Mark]

It is physically impossible for a human to lick his/her own elbow.


And after reading the above, ~70% of readers will try to lick their elbows.

[Arrowhead]

Banging your head against a wasll uses 150 calories per hour.


That's a good one!:laugh4: There you go, you can burn off calories indoors by smashing your head against the wall!:wall: :wall:

[Geoffrey S]

And after reading the above, ~70% of readers will try to lick their elbows.
Got me there.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

It is physically impossible for a human to lick his/her own elbow.


And after reading the above, ~70% of readers will try to lick their elbows.

Hmm, maybe if I dislocate my shoulder...brb...

[Crazed Rabbit]

Gasoline's first use was as a dry cleaning liquid, since it dissolves stains very well and evaporates quickly. But the fumes, of course, are very flammable, and many dry cleaning stores blew up.

Crazed Rabbit

[Samurai Waki]

It is physically impossible for a human to lick his/her own elbow.

Wrong! I have an unusually large tongue :laugh4:

[The Stranger]

That's a good one!:laugh4: There you go, you can burn off calories indoors by smashing your head against the wall!:wall: :wall:

:dizzy2: DUDE YUR ALIVE how old are you now 12 or 13 :2thumbsup: good to see you back m8 :balloon2:

[Craterus]

An infinity sign is called a lemniscate.

The brachiosaurus had a heart the size of a pick-up truck.

Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61%.

Other than humans, black lemurs are the only other primates that may have blue eyes.

Rabbits can run up to 45mph (72km/ph).

Liquid helium, at a temperature just above absolute zero can flow upwards.

[Sir Chauncy]

Only two animal species wage war on their own kind- ANTS and humans.



Actually I am quite certain that Chimps and Lions kill their previous rivals offspring when a new, dominant male takes over the group. They do it to weed out any trace of the previous alpha males DNA. And Bees too I think.

It would be rude to just spilt hairs and not produce any useless snipets of information thoug, so here goes...

70% of all statistics are made up.

Anything that cannot be proved with mathematics is opinion and not fact.

The farthest a marshmallow has been blown out of one nostril and caught in the mouth of a catcher is 4.96 m (16 ft 3.5 in), by launcher Scott Jeckel of Delavan, Illinois, USA, and catcher Ray Perisin of Peoria, Illinois, USA, on the set of Guinness World Records: Primetime in Los Angeles, California, USA on August 13, 1999.

[Zalmoxis]

70% of all statistics are made up
Including this one ~;)?

[Soulforged]

Young group of chimps go through the jungle playing the role of "bullies". Much as humans do at the same age, it tells a lot about human nature. They also fight between them, compite and even molest each other.

[The_Mark]

70% of all statistics are made up.
Statistically, the majority of humans have more legs (and limbs) than on average.

The above statisic belongs to the 30%.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

The average American has 1 testicle.

[the tokai]

Anything that cannot be proved with mathematics is opinion and not fact.

Can you prove that?


-Only a small percentage of all the people in the world does not belong to a minority...

-There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.

-A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface.

-Most lipstick contains fish scales.

-All termites in the world weigh more than 10 times as much as all humans in the world.

-Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

[Craterus]

Although there are an estimated 10 trillion stars in our galaxy, only some 3,000 of them are visible with the naked eye from earth.

Dog food is the most profitable food in the supermarket. People spend 4x more on dog food than baby food.

Any free-moving liquid will form itself into a sphere in outer space because of it's surface tension.

The billionth decimal digit of pi is 9.

[Viking]

The average American has 1 testicle.


That`s wrong, can`t believe its higher than 0,99.

[Craterus]

In horse races, the favourite wins less than 30% of horse races.

In 1950, at the Las Vegas Desert Inn, an anonymous sailor made 27 straight wins with the dice at craps. The odds against such a feat are 12,467,890 to 1. The dice are now enshrined on a velvet pillow under glass.

An estimated &#163;600,000 is lost at racetracks each year by people who lose or carelessly throw away winning tickets.

There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the 10 opening moves in a game of chess.

The highest known score for a single word in competition Scrabble is 392. In 1982, Dr Saladin Khoshnaw achieved this score for the word "caziques" which means an Indian chief.

The longest recorded Monopoly game was 1,680 hours - more than 70 days.

[doc_bean]

Most men wear it to the left.

There are more atoms in the human body than there are stars in space.

The first cars had electrical engines (as opposed to combustion engines).

A recent study shows that the size of the brain is related to intelligence.

The idea that Santa should be dressed in red is mostly due to Coca Cola advertisements, traditionally there were also green Santa's (and possibly other colours to).

[Craterus]

Boanthropy is a type of insanity in which a man thinks he is an ox.

An iguana can hold it's breath for 28 minutes.

The most sensitive finger is the forefinger.

60% of babies are born before breakfast.

The tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attatched at one end.

The oldest-known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. It's name was Fred.

[Ianofsmeg16]

60% of babies are born before breakfast
Well...Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, why would you miss it for something as unimportant as your own birth?

[Sasaki Kojiro]

60% of babies are born before breakfast.


Very convenient :devil:

[Soulforged]

60% of babies are born before breakfast.Very convenient Sasaki Kojiro eats babies...~:eek: :eeeek:

[English assassin]

60% of babies are born before breakfast.

In my experience 100% of babies are born right in the middle of the ****** night :zzz:

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

60% of babies are born before breakfast.

I was born just after the afternoon showing of Neighbours.

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

[zukenft]

The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.
.

Please.
That's the most false statement of the year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia

[Craterus]

Don't blame me dude, I copied it out of a book. Anything I say in this thread is out of a book. And anyway, that didn't prove it wrong.

How about you go to Indonesia and publicly masturbate, and if you come back with a head, I'll believe you.
_____________________________________________________

The two courses at Emirates Golf Club in Dubai need two million gallons (9,092,000 litres) of water each day during the summer to keep them in condition.

The ancient Olympic Games started in 776 BC.

An exocannibal eats only enemies, while an indocannibal eats only friends.

[Ianofsmeg16]

Cats only Meow when 'talking' to humans, they communicate to each other and other animals by sense of smell

[Craterus]

Cats only Meow when 'talking' to humans, they communicate to each other and other animals by sense of smell

I thought I'd already said that?

The names of all the continents end with the letter they start with.

Leo Tolstoy's wife had to copy his mabuscript for War and Peace (by hand) seven times.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

The names of all the continents end with the letter they start with.



South America? :no:

[discovery1]

In 1950, at the Las Vegas Desert Inn, an anonymous sailor made 27 straight wins with the dice at craps. The odds against such a feat are 12,467,890 to 1. The dice are now enshrined on a velvet pillow under glass.

The Desert Inn has since been imploded and replaced by The Wynn.

[Viking]

There are more atoms in the human body than there are stars in space.

Not true..


In my experience 100% of babies are born right in the middle of the ****** night.

Yup. Because that when the human immune system is least active during 24 hours. A disease most likely strikes at night.

[Craterus]

South America? :no:

Yeah.. good point. The book I'm copying out of is written by Noel Botham. If any of you want to look him up and send him your points via email, I'm sure there'll be a way to contact him somehow via the net.

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

Two out of every five women in the US dye their hair.

Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.

[Brutus]

Yeah.. good point. The book I'm copying out of is written by Noel Botham. If any of you want to look him up and send him your points via email, I'm sure there'll be a way to contact him somehow via the net.

One could of course argue that North and South America are one continent, making the statement correct. Although it is only valid in English anyway... (for example, it's "Europa", "Azi&#235;" and "Australi&#235;" in Dutch)

[Sasaki Kojiro]

One could of course argue that North and South America are one continent, making the statement correct.

But then it would have to be Eurasia :juggle2:

[zukenft]

How about you go to Indonesia and publicly masturbate, and if you come back with a head, I'll believe you.


I once lived in Indonesia. Publicly masturbating would give you jail, at most. There's just no way a democratic state would give a punishment like that.
Perhaps the book's fact is about medieval Indonesia.

for the fun fact: AK-47 is highly reliable, in that it can be dipped in mud for a whole day and still able to fire afterwards.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Jacques Chirac is the co-prince of Andorra, the other prince being the bishop of the Spanish town of la Seu d'Urgell.


The Louvre and Versailles combined attract only half as many visitors as Disneyland Paris. :wall:

[Sasaki Kojiro]

The Louvre and Versailles combined attract only half as many visitors as Disneyland Paris. :wall:

:no: perhaps something to do with capacity...

[English assassin]

:no: perhaps something to do with capacity...


yeah, cranial capacity...

[doc_bean]

The Louvre and Versailles combined attract only half as many visitors as Disneyland Paris. :wall:

I'm afraid I'm somewhat guilty of adding to this statistic :embarassed:

But hey, I was 12 or something! :help:

[Craterus]

Ants always fall over to the right side when intoxicated.

Dolphins are the only species, other than humans, that have sex for pleasure.

The credibility of the above facts is questionable.

[ArcticSonata]

My fact: Pink Floyd are Better than Zeppelin:2thumbsup:[/QUOTE]

My Fact Iron Maiden chrushes them both!:skull:

[ArcticSonata]

Actually I am quite certain that Chimps and Lions kill their previous rivals offspring when a new, dominant male takes over the group. They do it to weed out any trace of the previous alpha males DNA. And Bees too I think.

It would be rude to just spilt hairs and not produce any useless snipets of information thoug, so here goes...

70% of all statistics are made up.

Anything that cannot be proved with mathematics is opinion and not fact.

The farthest a marshmallow has been blown out of one nostril and caught in the mouth of a catcher is 4.96 m (16 ft 3.5 in), by launcher Scott Jeckel of Delavan, Illinois, USA, and catcher Ray Perisin of Peoria, Illinois, USA, on the set of Guinness World Records: Primetime in Los Angeles, California, USA on August 13, 1999.

LOL and who came up with those facts? They have a 7/10 percent chance of being wrong! Can you mathematically be proven

[English assassin]

[Pedantry on] Its perfectly possible that "70% of all statistics are made up" is part of the 30% that are not...[pedantry off]

although it doesn't seem very likely I admit.

[Strike For The South]

A human can eat 2lbs of strawberry yogurt and still be hungry

[littlelostboy]

Might be a bit late, this reply, but I found this old e-mail of mine and thought it might be good to post in here.


If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you
>> > would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of
>>coffee.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > (Hardly seems worth it.)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months,
>> > enough gas is produced
>> >
>> > > to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
>> > >
>> > > (Now that's more like it!)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > The human heart creates enough pressure when it
>> > pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
>> > >
>> > > (O.M.G.!)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
>> > >
>> > > (In my next life, I want to be a pig.)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > A cockroach will live nine days without its head
>> > before it starves to death. (Creepy.)
>> > >
>> > > (I'm still not over the pig.)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories
>> > an hour.
>> > >
>> > > (Do not try this at home...... maybe at work.)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its
>> > head is attached to its body.
>>The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
>> > >
>> > > ("Honey, I'm home. What the....?!")
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's
>> > like a human jumping the length of a football field.
>> > >
>> > > (30 minutes... lucky pig... can you imagine??)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
>> > >
>> > > (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
>> > >
>> > > (I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality
>> > over quantity)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Butterflies taste with their feet.
>> > >
>> > > (Something I always wanted to know.)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
>> > >
>> > > (Hmmmmmm........)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Right-handed people live, on average, nine years
>> > longer than left-handed people.
>> > >
>> > > (If you're ambidextrous, do you split the
>> > difference?)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
>> > >
>> > > (OK, so that would be a good thing....)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > A cat's urine glows under a black light.
>> > >
>> > > (I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
>> > >
>> > > (I know some people like that.)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Starfish have no brains.
>> > >
>> > > (I know some people like that too.)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Polar bears are left-handed.
>> > >
>> > > (If they switch, they'll live a lot longer.)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Humans and dolphins are the only species that have
>> > sex for pleasure.
>> > >
>> > > (What about that pig??)

[Abokasee]

Squrriel Poo is A Berry and so is a Banna

[Reenk Roink]

:laugh4:

I am SO glad you're back :2thumbsup:.

Say have you tried EB? :grin:

[Abokasee]

i cant....i got BI now.....



heres another:
Armeica was NOT named after armeico vesougi it named after richard acmeric (he was welsh)

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

The only two London Underground stations with all five vowels in their names are South Ealing and Mansion House.

[Craterus]

Swindon Town is the only English (British also?) football club not to include any of the letters contained in "mackerel".

[Louis VI the Fat]

Nobody on this planet (the universe also?) can misspell America, Amerigo or Amerik in as many different ways as an unnamed Organ.

America was not named after 'A mackerel'. :balloon2:

[Louis VI the Fat]

'Louis VI the Fat' is an anagram for 'I vote: USA filth'.

[KukriKhan]

Heh, it really is. Here's a place to try out your (yes you, dear reader) name:
http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/advanced.html

Art "Foxy" Irwin, a Canadian, invented the infielder's baseball glove in 1883.

[Ianofsmeg16]

Nick Mason was a Brummie...

I almost died when i found that out.

p.s. To all those who are ignorant of who Nick Mason or what a Brummie is...

Nick Mason - Pink floyds drummer
Brummie - Inhabitant of Birmingham

[Moros]

that was it...and yes i too believe we landed on the moon but just not at that point...the whole world prolly was fooled then
No that was not it. The astronaut had a shadow but the flag didn't if I remember properly.

[ajaxfetish]

Squrriel Poo is A Berry and so is a Banna
You're right. I never knew that.

Ajax

[Craterus]

Ear crust is an anagram of Craterus.

Old West Action is an anagram of Clint Eastwood

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Heh, it really is. Here's a place to try out your (yes you, dear reader) name:
http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/advanced.html



Sasaki Kojiro is an anagram for: jai oar kiss ok

Um...woo? :inquisitive:

[KukriKhan]

Staff Anangrams:
TosaInu = USA I NOT
BigKingSanctaphrax = A GRAB SPANK KNIGHT XI
Beirut = RUB TIE
Papewaio = A APE I POW
Nelson = LENS ON
Rob the Bastard = A BRA DEBTS THOR
solypsist = ITS SOL SPY
Ser Clegane = GLARE SCENE

[Gawain of Orkeny]

In Oklahoma, dogs must have a permit signed by the mayor in order to congregate on private property in groups of three or more
In Minnesota, it is illegal to cross state lines with duck on your head.
.
In Los Angeles, it is unlawful to hunt for moths under a street light.
In Pennsylvania, it is illegal for a man to purchase alcohol without written consent from his wife.
In Alaska, it is illegal to look at a moose from the window of an aircraft or another flying vehicle. It is also illegal to push a live moose out of a moving aircraft.
In Nebraska, a parent can be arrested if his or her child can't hold a back a burp during a church service. .
In Idaho, a citizen is forbidden by law to give another citizen a box of candy that weights more than 50 lbs.
In Texas it is illegal to take more than three sips of beer at a time while standing.
In Huntington West Virginia, it's legal to beat your wife so long as it's done in public on a Sunday-and on the courthouse steps.
In Ohio, women are prohibited from wearing patent leather shoes in public.
In North Dakota, it is illegal to lie down and fall asleep with your shoes on.
It is illegal to walk down a street in Maine with your shoelaces untied
While in Alabama it is illegal to wear a false moustache which causes laughter in church
By law, everybody in Vermont must take at least one bath a week.

[littlelostboy]

In Singapore, the penalty for kidnapping is either life sentence or the death penalty.

[Ianofsmeg16]

Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden) is a pilot for a charter airline.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

In Singapore, the penalty for kidnapping is either life sentence or the death penalty.


This is something you didnt know? Its the same here and I would venture many other nations. Come on you can do better than this surely?

Heres a few more little known laws

No store in Providence, Rhode Island, is allow to sell a toothbrush on Sunday. But they can sell toothpaste and mouthwash on the Sabbath.
In Atlanta Georgia, it is forbidden to dress a mannequin without first pulling down the window blinds. It is also illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp.
In Washington state, all lollipops are banned.
In Kansas, it is against the law to catch fish with your bare hands.
In Milwaukee, residents must keep pet elephants on a leash while walking them on public streets.
In Atwoodville, Connecticut, it is illegal to play Scrabble while waiting for a politician to speak.
In Muncie Indiana, it is illegal to carry fishing tackle in a cemetery.
In New York, a fine of $25 may still be levied for flirting. This old law prohibits men from turning around on any city street and looking at a woman in that way. A second conviction for this offense requires the offender to wear a pair of racehorse blinders whenever he goes out.
A law in Kirkland, Illinois, forbids bees from flying over the town.
In Michigan, a man legally owns his wife's hair.
It is illegal to gargle in public in Louisiana.
In Iowa, it is illegal for a kiss to last more than five minutes.
It is illegal to carry an ice-cream cone in your pocket in Kentucky.
In Massachusetts, mourners at a wake may not eat more than three sandwiches.
An unmarried woman may not parachute on Sunday in Florida.
And finally, don't forget that you can be fined up to $500 in Chico California for detonating a nuclear device within the city limits!

[Uesugi Kenshin]

By law, everybody in Vermont must take at least one bath a week.

Wow, I've been disobeying the law without knowing it. Take that man, I shall lead a revolt against you for trying to force me to take a bath instead of a shower!!!:furious3:


Hannover is a part of the Vermont NEA Scholar's Bowl league and (iirc) the New Hampshire one, despite being in New Hampshire and not Vermont. They have several teams and stomped us fairly badly at the beginning of the year....:shame:

[Soulforged]

In Oklahoma, dogs must have a permit signed by the mayor in order to congregate on private property in groups of three or more
In Minnesota, it is illegal to cross state lines with duck on your head.
.
In Los Angeles, it is unlawful to hunt for moths under a street light.
In Pennsylvania, it is illegal for a man to purchase alcohol without written consent from his wife.
In Alaska, it is illegal to look at a moose from the window of an aircraft or another flying vehicle. It is also illegal to push a live moose out of a moving aircraft.
In Nebraska, a parent can be arrested if his or her child can't hold a back a burp during a church service. .
In Idaho, a citizen is forbidden by law to give another citizen a box of candy that weights more than 50 lbs.
In Texas it is illegal to take more than three sips of beer at a time while standing.
In Huntington West Virginia, it's legal to beat your wife so long as it's done in public on a Sunday-and on the courthouse steps.
In Ohio, women are prohibited from wearing patent leather shoes in public.
In North Dakota, it is illegal to lie down and fall asleep with your shoes on.
It is illegal to walk down a street in Maine with your shoelaces untied
While in Alabama it is illegal to wear a false moustache which causes laughter in church
By law, everybody in Vermont must take at least one bath a week.
When you start looking into the texts that rule you, you start to be amazed.

Seriously there's a certain limit to ridiculous in law.:no:

Are you sure this is veridic Gawain? -
In North Dakota, it is illegal to lie down and fall asleep with your shoes on.Or did I fall in your trap?

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Are you sure this is veridic Gawain? -
Quote:
In North Dakota, it is illegal to lie down and fall asleep with your shoes on.

Or did I fall in your trap?


No. Everything I posted is true.


North Dakota Laws

It is illegal to lie down and fall asleep with your shoes on.

Beer and pretzels can't be served at the same time in any bar or restaurant.

It is legal to shoot an Indian on horseback,provided you are in a covered wagon

[Soulforged]

No. Everything I posted is true.:inquisitive: Got a link? Not that I'm that inquisitive but I want to see it for myself, how the text is written.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

:inquisitive: Got a link? Not that I'm that inquisitive but I want to see it for myself, how the text is written.



Got a link?

Then I would give away my source for all these wonderful laws. Ill give you a big hint though. And this works for almost anything your inquisitive about. Just go to google and type in the quote you wish to inquire about.

[solypsist]

i repeatedly turn down no-strings-attached sex from professioanl models on a regular basis.

betcha didnt know that. i do have a regular g/f, and i prefer to remain honest.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Soly I praise your modesty. :laugh4: And your loyalty.:help: How do you do it?

[Soulforged]

Then I would give away my source for all these wonderful laws. Ill give you a big hint though. And this works for almost anything your inquisitive about. Just go to google and type in the quote you wish to inquire about.
Being sarcastic Gawain? Okay friend I'll try it, thanks.:2thumbsup: :laugh4: