Interesting Facts...

dabhal

84% of all stats are made up

stevenmu

spannerhead wrote:

So, if I kick a football out the front of a spaceship travelling at the speed of light, it will travel forward, faster that light. But I won't be able to see it because it's dark?

As the theory goes, no matter how hard you kick the football it won't go forward, come to think of it you wouldn't even be able to move your foot forward to kick it in the first place. You'd be completly unable to move forward in any way, you probably wouldn't mind that too much though, you'd be more worried about the fact that your blood could only move towards the back of your body and not be able to come back to the front.

Rossonero

-Hippos fart through their mouths.
-There's a species of snail in Oz that can kill human in a matter of seconds

Hydroquinone

Someone asked what the difference was between a herb and a spice.
Herbs largely grow in temperate climates and spices largely grow in tropical climates.
So parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme (thanks Simon and Garfunkel) are herbs, while pepper, chilli, cumin and lemongrass are spices.

There's probably some sort of overlap, but that's a pretty good rule of thumb

D!ve^Bomb!

there's no more rep so i don't have to say anything interesting you bunch of retards:D

Canis Lupus

LOL@newband

and stevenmu I'd be more worried at my mass becoming infinite.... personally I can't grasp that concept but it sounds more worrying than yur post although..... would that mean my willy......... *walks off with a pondering look*

PH01

stevenmu wrote:

As the theory goes, no matter how hard you kick the football it won't go forward, come to think of it you wouldn't even be able to move your foot forward to kick it in the first place. You'd be completly unable to move forward in any way, you probably wouldn't mind that too much though, you'd be more worried about the fact that your blood could only move towards the back of your body and not be able to come back to the front.

So nothing can go faster than light?

Canis Lupus

PH01 wrote:

So nothing can go faster than light?

Bingo!

The_B_Man

i think dark can go faster than light!

D!ve^Bomb!

our eyes can go faster than light cos i see lights all the time.. if it went that fast i wouldn't be able to see it:rolleyes:

Canis Lupus

The_B_Man wrote:

i think dark can go faster than light!

You have been reading too much terry pratchett

meditraitor

Punctuation was not invented until the 1500's.

ED-209

PH01 wrote:

So nothing can go faster than light?

Ah now that's where I got ya !!!

The Enterprise !!

Last thing I heard is that it can go to Warp 9.98 which is nearly 10 times faster that light.

SO THERE, smarty pants.

lazygit

*edit*
depending on what web page you vist wap speeds can change
warp 9 is 729 times the speed of light.. accroding to the first part of this page http://www.trekplace.com/article12.html

Canis Lupus

Do not underestimate the nerdiness of trekkies

ED-209

lazygit wrote:

*edit*
depending on what web page you vist wap speeds can change
warp 9 is 729 times the speed of light.. accroding to the first part of this page http://www.trekplace.com/article12.html

Oh my god !!!

I've been out nerded.

lazygit

lol

PH01

ED-209 wrote:

Ah now that's where I got ya !!!

The Enterprise !!

Last thing I heard is that it can go to Warp 9.98 which is nearly 10 times faster that light.

SO THERE, smarty pants.

Thanks ED. I knew Canis Lupus was wrong.

anyway, you can slow down light you know Canis, and shadows travel faster than light.

Canis Lupus

I think I have possibly heard of slowing light down but then I really don't read much about this sort of thing. Most of what I do know comes from one or two sources.

Another interesting fact:

Scientists have noticed that light rays (ot atoms or something like that) coming from distant stars vibrate in such a way that is completely different to our galaxy. Therefore they theorise that our laws of physics might not apply outside of our part of the universe.

Healio

The distance from your elbow to your wrist is the size of your foot.
i.e left foot is the length of right elbow to right wrist, and right foot is the length of left elbow to left wrist.

Canis Lupus

Healio wrote:

The distance from your elbow to your wrist is the size of your foot.
i.e left foot is the length of right elbow to right wrist, and right foot is the length of left elbow to left wrist.

I refuse to try to verify that on myself..... also yur gonna have to change yur sig now healio

Blisterman

"If you drank all the tea in cina, you'd explode.

threebeards

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.

John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860.

John F. Kennedy was elected president in 1960.

The name Lincoln and Kennedy each contains 7 letters.

Both were particularly concern with Civil Rights.

Both were Annes lost children while living in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on Friday. Both were shot on the forehead.

Both were shot in presence of their wives.

The secretary of both President warned them not to go to the theatre and to Dallas, respectively.

Lincoln’s secretary was named Kennedy.

Kennedy’s secretary was named Lincoln.

Southerners assassinated both. Southerners succeeded both.

Both successors were named Johnson.

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.

Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy was born in 1908.

John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.

Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated kennedy, was born in 1939.

Both assassins were known by their three names. Both names have 15 letters.

Booth ran from the theatre and was captured in a warehouse.

Oswald ran from the warehouse and was captured in a theatre.

To cap it off, Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trial.

D!ve^Bomb!

1.618 is the most perfect number in the world.. i'm actualy being serious here..

FACT

Who can tell me why?

Fr Dougal

78.9% of all statistics are just made up on the spot - fact

Canis Lupus

newband wrote:

1.618 is the most perfect number in the world.. i'm actualy being serious here..

FACT

Who can tell me why?

According to the da vinci code is called PHI and its a number that shows up lots in nature as the ratio between two points.... like shoulder to elbow and then elbow to hand and so on. Is it real so, I thought it might just be fiction.

Trojan

98.4297% of all threads on After Hours are crud.

D!ve^Bomb!

Canis Lupus wrote:

According to the da vinci code is called PHI and its a number that shows up lots in nature as the ratio between two points.... like shoulder to elbow and then elbow to hand and so on. Is it real so, I thought it might just be fiction.

tis real:) and thats where i first read about it too;)

Sysiphus

Canis Lupus wrote:

I think I have possibly heard of slowing light down but then I really don't read much about this sort of thing. Most of what I do know comes from one or two sources.

Another interesting fact:

Scientists have noticed that light rays (ot atoms or something like that) coming from distant stars vibrate in such a way that is completely different to our galaxy. Therefore they theorise that our laws of physics might not apply outside of our part of the universe.

Never heard the last bit before, but from the clustering of galaxies and the spectrometer readings of the constituents the rules appear the same.

As for light, the speed of light is not constant. It does change. The quoted "constant" is in a vacuum with no gravitational field. Light travels slower through other mediums, kitchen experiment - take a pint glass of clear water put a straw in it, look through the glass at the miniscuss (top, lip, surface etc) and see the "warp" in the straw, this is defraction, the simplest example of the change in the speed of light. Recently scientists slowed light down to something like 46 meters per second, by shinning a laser through a supercooled substance, can't rem the gas off hand.

Couple of other interesting facts :

1) all embryos start out female, only a change in hormone production flips the switch to create males, hence why men have vestigial nipples.

2) thalydamide, the morining sickness pill from the sixtes, is now being used, with great success, as a cure for leporosy.

3) cats always land on their feet - except when they can't see the ground, blindfold your cat and have hours of fun!

4) Female breasts are comprised of 95% fat 5% gland, so next hear girls / women talking about weight, just mention this, great reactions!!

5) the number 0 was invented by an arab mathamitician

6) william shatner can't sing

blondie83

newband wrote:

1.618 is the most perfect number in the world.. i'm actualy being serious here..

FACT

Who can tell me why?

Because it's the golden ratio

mp3guy

half of these facts aren't interesting, just smarted assed or humorous

theCzar

Lucasade helps top athletes go 33% longer

FACT!

another fact: the Da Vince code is the most overrated book of all time

Sysiphus

mp3guy wrote:

half of these facts aren't interesting, just smarted assed or humorous

58.75% of people that can't come up with an interesting fact try and denegrate others (the percentage may vary, terms and conditions apply)

Frank Drebin

98.2% of all statistics are wrong!

mp3guy

nobody really cares about statistics. so you should all stop with them now....

ED-209

123.22 % of all statisticians can't add :rolleyes:

Piste

A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule wont

Frogs can vomit. First they vomit up their stomach so it is hanging out of their mouths then they scrape out the stomach contents with their forearms and swallow their stomach again.

Neat, Huh?


We share 60% of are genes with bananas............which are herbs apparently...........so does that mean we can season chicken with people?

Capt'n Midnight

FACT - about 1/3 of the facts on this thread are debunked on www.snopes.org

The red blood cells of the lesser spotted, three toed, spider eating amazonian tree frog will burst if put into distilled water.

Genetically sharks are more closely related to us than to herring.

[ QUOTE=Canis Lupus]The speed of light is absolute.[/QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE=PH01]So nothing can go faster than light?[/QUOTE ]
google for Cerenkov radiation

[ QUOTE=chizzle dizzle]your small intestines when streched out could be rapped around the globe twice!![/QUOTE ] only if stretched an awful lot, you've 2m of DNA in each cell in your body, more than twice around the world.

[ QUOTE=Herr Capitan] thus the expression 'Saved by the Bell' was formed. [/QUOTE ]AFAIK it was a watchman who was accused of falling asleep, and was accused of high treason because of this and escaped death because he heard one church bell ring 13 times so proving he was awake.

[ QUOTE=threebeards]Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
etc. [/quote ] see snopes

Blisterman

Capt'n Midnight Can't use quotes properly.

Piste

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

it was a watchman who was accused of falling asleep, and was accused of high treason because of this and escaped death because he heard one church bell ring 13 times so proving he was awake.

Aren't there only 12 hours in a day?





Then again I can't count so I maybe wrong on this.

Sysiphus

"[ QUOTE=Canis Lupus]The speed of light is absolute.[/QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE=PH01]So nothing can go faster than light?[/QUOTE ]
google for Cerenkov radiation " Quoted by capt'n Midnight

Cerenkov radiation only travels faster than light in a medium, not a vacuum, light in a vacuum is the fastest thing there is. Light in a medium is slowed down http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~js/glossary/cerenkov_radiation.html

Also no need to mention entaglment or quantum tunneling.....

Blisterman

Maybe they were using a 24 hour clock.

Capt'n Midnight

FACT - at least one person on this thread is trolling.

Piste

*Looks suspiciously around*


A group of frogs is called an Army
A group of Lawers is called a Prey
A group of mimes is called an annoyance
A group of Hairdressers is called a gossip

Tomato ketchup was once sold in the U.S. as medecine

A toothpick is the object most choked on by Americans

Shakespeare invented the word 'assasination' and 'bump'









*apparently*

Pompey Magnus

Gummybearz wrote:

Shakespeare invented the word 'assasination'

I thought it had something to do with Hashish and some Arab mercenaries?

Piste

More Dan Brown..................The problem with his books is that it is very hard to tell the fact from fiction meaning you could throw up any of his facts in an argument but it could be total bullsh*t. I don't know for certain where the word assasin came from so maybe he was right.....

Blisterman

He also invented the words Puke and eyeball.

Pompey Magnus

Gummybearz!!! wrote:

More Dan Brown..................The problem with his books is that it is very hard to tell the fact from fiction meaning you could throw up any of his facts in an argument but it could be total bullsh*t. I don't know for certain where the word assasin came from so maybe he was right.....

I had heard of this before Dan Brown so I assumed there was some truth to it, not sure though.

Capt'n Midnight

Gummybearz!!! wrote:

Tomato ketchup was once sold in the U.S. as medecine

once upon a time there was a trapper or prospector or trader, well he was a man anyhowm in the american west and his cabin burnt down and it was winter and he was very hungry and it was a long way to spring and all he could find in the cabin was tomato ketchup and beans - and that's how the recipie for tins of beans came about.

two tomatoes in a race, "come on ketchup"

FACT - some people don't like elephant jokes.

Aibhophobia is the fear of palindromes.

D!ve^Bomb!

its true..

See http://www.summum.us/philosophy/phi.shtml