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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.
edit: GAH you guys are no fun at all.
Um, "presbyterians" is an anagram of "Britney Spears"?
To my astonishment, I recently found out that plants are descended from animals, and not the other way round.
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.
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.
The Turkey is a decendant of the T-rex.
chewing the bark of a willow tree soothes toothache...Same properties as asprin...
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!
Radishes are a type of meat.
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?Quote:
Originally Posted by ian_of_smeg16
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:
Loosely translated from a book i got for Xmas, but not muchQuote:
Originally Posted by Craterus
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?
Yeah, that's my theory on the subject. Dinosaurs laid eggs too, so eggs came first.
And the rest of the questions please.
I have an urge to help the man...Quote:
Originally Posted by Craterus
Special or General Relativity?
I'll have a go at this one next ok...Quote:
Originally Posted by Craterus
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?
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)Quote:
Originally Posted by The Stranger
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.
It is nearly impossible to break an egg when you press exactly on the top and the bottom.
Nice, i never knew that :2thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by English assassin
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:
Elephants can't jump because they have no knees.
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.
Duck's quacks don't echo...
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.
BS they have knees.Quote:
Originally Posted by InsaneApache
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.
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:Quote:
Originally Posted by Craterus
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:
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.
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 thenQuote:
Originally Posted by ian_of_smeg16
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!
Well, I can sort of explain that. The way the flag was set up:Quote:
Originally Posted by The Stranger
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/...gwaving7vi.jpg
There`s no problems with the shadows either.
They also communicate with one another by using a pitch, LOWER than the human ear can hearQuote:
Originally Posted by InsaneApache
psh, the man who can answer any question can't answer the question!Quote:
Originally Posted by ian_of_smeg16
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...
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Stranger
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.
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.
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.
That's not true!Quote:
Originally Posted by King Malcolm
:no:Quote:
Originally Posted by Craterus
I just tried that and it works!Quote:
Originally Posted by 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.
uh huh...:inquisitive:Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Corleone
I can believe that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Corleone
Saw that on Mythbusters, of which I am also a junkie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Corleone
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.
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:Quote:
Originally Posted by Viking
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).Quote:
Originally Posted by The Stranger
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
http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/NOT_faked/Quote:
Originally Posted by The Stranger
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.
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Back to on topic material. Hmm lets see.
Bill Gates has more wealth than the bottom 45 percent of American households combined.
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:
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:
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Corleone
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.
http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/duckecho.htmQuote:
Originally Posted by King Malcolm
http://www.snopes.com/history/american/linckenn.htmQuote:
Originally Posted by Don Corleone
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Viking
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.Quote:
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 I did not know, but is a very good point. Sorry for offering potentially dangerous experiments to try.Quote:
Originally Posted by 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:
Yup, I did say my 'theories' where dodgy and I am leaning towards to pro 'we landed for sure' side of things. Just speculation ^_^Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Corleone
Almost every human got mites living in thier hair follicles.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fragony
In biology we actually learned about this yesterday and the answer is egg...Quote:
Which came first, the chicken or the 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:Quote:
Originally Posted by Alexanderofmacedon
:2thumbsup: Oh, okay!
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:
Hellfire I told you to never to divulge my 'secret' :laugh4: :laugh4:
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:
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
It sounds sort of conspiracy teory but here's one more strange fact:Quote:
Originally Posted by The Stranger
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/space...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 bländaröppning on Swedish, no idea for the English words. Soly, any help?).Quote:
Originally Posted by Soulforged
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:
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:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ironside
The Priory of Sion actually exists.
Nice to see you back Don Corleone :2thumbsup:
A greater challenge: try to photograph any stars during day light time here on Earth. :charge:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ironside
I can help you with your Swedish words, btw. It`s exposure time and focal lenght.
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
Mongolia has a navy.
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:
Source:http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionar...landing%20hoaxQuote:
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.
At the bottom I found this which is absolutely priceless:
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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.
Doesn`t Switzerland have it too?Quote:
Originally Posted by Somebody Else
awesome moonhoax debunking site
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
Actually, Mongolia has one of the biggest trade navy on earth.Quote:
Originally Posted by Somebody Else
A human has more hair than an ape
10% of all humans ever born are alive at this moment.
90% of all humans ever born are dead at this moment.
C'mon... it's all I could think of.
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 £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.
IIRC that's an urban myth. Spider's aren't completely stupid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Craterus
The average human eats eight spiders at night during their lifetime.
Isn't it 8 spiders a year ?
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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.
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:
Does, but then we have two fairly large border lakes. On the other hand, I wouldn't exactly call it a navy...Quote:
Originally Posted by Viking
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Hate to tell you this...but that's w...w...wr...wrong!:2thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Craterus
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
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