Interesting Facts...

GreeBo

No high jumper has ever been able to stay off the ground for more than one second.

Bottle_of_Smoke

that lincoln kennedy thing all true?

Blisterman

I think so, I've heard it a few places.

rubadub

Sysiphus wrote:

1) all embryos start out female, only a change in hormone production flips the switch to create males, hence why men have vestigial nipples.
4) Female breasts are comprised of 95% fat 5% gland, so next hear girls / women talking about weight, just mention this, great reactions!!

also why women have the remnants of an undeveloped penis - the clitoris, the size of which can be predicted by the testesterone levels of the female, i.e. small breasted and/or hairy women have an extremely large clitoris up to 3".

another fact is that I made up the last bit of that but it also gets great reactions especially when you start looking for a bulge in the flat-chested girls jeans among the group you told

jonny68

Ian Paisley really was cloned......... :rolleyes:

Capt'n Midnight

bizmark wrote:

Thats the old TOS warp scale

The original warp scale was speed of light cubed. eg; warp 3 was c x 3^3 = 27 times speed of light.

stevenmu wrote:

The speed of light is absolute,

only in a vacuum

pork99 wrote:

Here's a real fact; the whale isn't a fish, it's an insect and lives entirely on bananas (c) Peter Cook

banana plants (herb/shrub etc) walk.

Nala wrote:

1. Rabbits have no vomiting mechanism. Hence they have a higher rate of diahoerrea.
2. The elephant is the only land mammal that cannot jump.
4. A female cat is called a Queen.

Rabbits pass through about thier food a second time - great if they are Corpophiliacs (don't kiss rabbits)
snakes, giant tortoises, sloths etc also aren't big into jumping.
female cats do behave like queens

Canis Lupus wrote:

Can't remember the exact date I seen on tv last nite but it was either 1440 or 1550 and up till that date it was unlawful for a woman to withold sex from her husband. Some things have changed for the worst eh?

I think you will find that in this country a husband could not be charged with raping his wife until the late 1980's

Canis Lupus wrote:

299 792 458 m / s

From memory - it's that +/- 1.6 m/s where a meter is 1, 650, 763.73 +/- 10 wavelengths of a certain orange red light emmiteed from krypton 86 and a second is 9 ,192, 631, 770 microvave vibrations of cesium 122

By comparison the yard was defined as the distance between henry the 8th's thumb and nose and not really that reproducable

FACT - at least three different lengths of foot have been used in the USA since independence
[edit - added dp .73]

Capt'n Midnight

Bottle_of_Smoke wrote:

that lincoln kennedy thing all true?

No.

Also the Kennedy "ask not what... blah blah" wasn't original either
http://www.chiasmus.com/mastersofchiasmus/kennedy.shtml

Piste

A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.

There are more barbie dolls in Italy then there are Canadians in Canada

Sysiphus

delilah didn't cut samsons hair. her servant did

Thomas edison wasn't the first to invent the light bulb. He just patented it first, robert swan invented it first.

Shark's have to keep moving otherwise they drown, also the majority of the sharks brain (80% or something) is devoted to the sense of smell!

Superglue was invented by the military for use on the battlefield for quick repair and sealing of wounds.

PH01

100% of people die.

Blub2k4

theCzar wrote:

well, E = mc2, i think the Energy, E, of a "particle" of light is hf, h being plancks constant, and f being the frequency of the "light", so M, the mass, would be hf/c2, since c = wavelength*f, f = c/wavelength so the mass of a single photon of light is h/(c*wavelength)...

so for red light, wavelength is about 650nm, c is 300000000m/s, h is 6.6x10-34, so M is... i'll leave that as an excercise.

apologies that the boards doesn't feature sub/superscipt and a comprehesive greek alphabet.

presuming i'm right, take that you trekkies. All hail the true king of the nerds

Light is a wave, not a particle. It has no mass.

Shaque attack

Blub2k4 wrote:

Light is a wave, not a particle. It has no mass.

i thought it was shown that light is both a particle and a wave

Mr.Nice Guy

In a deck of playing cards,each king represents a great king from history:

Diamonds-Julius Caesar

Hearts-Charlemagne

Clubs-Alexander the Great

Spades-King David.

Adam

Canis Lupus wrote:

I have no idea I'm not a physicist thingy magick but the little bits I do know... say the closer u travel at the speed of the the slower times gets and also if u hit the speed of light yur mass becomes infinite.,.. woooooo.... weird isn't it but my poor brain can't even begin to comprehend those kind of things.... where Einstein when u need him?

Actually i belive your mass approaches zero as you approach the speed of light.... like an asymtope(sp?) i think.....

If you travel around the world from an exact location, say o connell st., and return to that exact point, when you get there there could be a person standing right in front of you but you wouldnt be able to see them because they havent actually got there in terms of light mass....

A pig orgasms for half a hour....

And dolphins are the only other mammals other than humans that have sex for pleasure and not just reproduction! Go on the Fungi!!!

Adam

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.

What if you were in some kinda anti-gravity chamber and it was travelling at the speed of light? though you wouldnt be able to open the "door" to kick a football out, but surely that would remedy any blood flow issues?

And surely travelling at the speed of sound would have a similar effect on blood flow, obviously much less sure, but was it not then in some way detrimental to your health to travel on the concorde?

GreeBo

you only pull G's when you are accelerating, velocity wont affect your blood flow...
(Speed of light is a different story, a lot of things change in that environment)

swalsh

possums avoid capture by playing dead

Adam

mp3guy wrote:

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

Well thats not a fact its an opinion so p!ss off! FACT!

monkeyfudge

fade_to_grey wrote:

And dolphins are the only other mammals other than humans that have sex for pleasure and not just reproduction! Go on the Fungi!!!

There are lots of species of chimps that have sex for pleasure... actually it's almost a way of saying hello... they have sex regardless of age or gender. And they like to masturbate too... Do your precious dolphins masturbate?

johnor

If your Aunty had balls she'd be your Uncle.

Adam

well i didnt make up the fact, perhaps tis incorrect, in which case me deepest apologies to you, monkeyfudge(r)...

Adam

johnor wrote:

If your Aunty had balls she'd be your Uncle.

someone threw that out about two pages ago, please read the posts before posting....

Capt'n Midnight

Sysiphus wrote:

Thomas edison wasn't the first to invent the light bulb. He just patented it first, robert swan invented it first.

http://www.inventioncity.com/edison_bulb.htm Swan had patented it first too.
Ignore the bit about both companies having invented the chair - Edision company started safety demonstrations with animals much earlier.
Also in the US it was held that Edison invented cinema, but that was just the american cinema industry agreeing to pay him rather than the French ..

No two surviving signatures of William Shakespere are spelt the same

the most expensive typo ever was in a trade agreement between Mexico and the US, so instead of no tax on imported Mexican fruit-trees there was no tax on fruit,trees for several years.

www.openoffice.org is free

Piste

The Sanscrit word for 'War' means 'Desire for more cows'

Healio

o'connell bridge is wider than it is long.

Pugsley

Shaque attack wrote:

i thought it was shown that light is both a particle and a wave

Correct, the photo electric effect proves that light does indeed act as a particle, and it diffracts, therefore a wave.

rubadub

fade_to_grey wrote:

A pig orgasms for half a hour....

Tell me about it, I had a bean garda living next door, squealed all night, filthy bitch

rubadub

Gummybearz!!! wrote:

A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.

Never saw the husband in the raw so can't confirm that one

Blisterman

AC/DC have never had a top 10 hit in either the US or the UK.

Sysiphus

fade_to_grey wrote:

Actually i belive your mass approaches zero as you approach the speed of light.... like an asymtope(sp?) i think.....

If you travel around the world from an exact location, say o connell st., and return to that exact point, when you get there there could be a person standing right in front of you but you wouldnt be able to see them because they havent actually got there in terms of light mass....

A pig orgasms for half a hour....

And dolphins are the only other mammals other than humans that have sex for pleasure and not just reproduction! Go on the Fungi!!!

Sorry, but your mass does get closer to infinite the closer you approach the speed of light in a vacuum.

There are two O'Connell Bridges in Dublin, anyone know where the second one is? Hint, they are in short walking distance of each other.

bringitdown

Is one a pub?

Sysiphus

bringitdown wrote:

Is one a pub?

Nope, it is an actual bridge that crosses water. Think of dublin history, turn of the century

meditraitor

Blisterman wrote:

AC/DC have never had a top 10 hit in either the US or the UK.

talking pony

Blisterman

True. i'm talking singles. Neither did Led Zeppelin.

Doras

Sysiphus wrote:

There are two O'Connell Bridges in Dublin, anyone know where the second one is? Hint, they are in short walking distance of each other.

St Stephens Green

Sysiphus

Doras wrote:

St Stephens Green

bingo

which actuall stands for Board Incontinent Numeric Grumpy Oldfolk!!!

meditraitor

Blisterman wrote:

True. i'm talking singles. Neither did Led Zeppelin.

Good lad,, but you should have said singles,,

Blisterman

Isn't that what a hit is? Also AC/DC have never recorded a ballad.

Ballads? Picture: "YOU'VE BIN..... Gently struck"*

And I believe you can have a HIT album, blisterman...

*In joke for AC/DC fans out there

Blisterman

Yeah, but the noun hit means single.

GreeBo

Blisterman wrote:

Yeah, but the noun hit means single.

no, it means not plural as in album not albums.

The_B_Man

if you set up an experiment to measure light goin through a slit in a piece of cardboard or watever, it will show light going straight through like any normal particle, however, if u dont have any equipment watching it, then the light will act differently. ie look at it, light will go straight like a particle, dont look and it will bend round corners due to interference like a wave. its possible i was dreaming though coz it was physics class n all.
google "Young's slits". i think it was that one. dont confuse with "young slits". very different google results.

http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/topic/t-44964_Young's_experiment.html
says its called the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. mmmm Quantum Physics! Sounds dreamy! :rolleyes:

also, for all u light lovers above, from http://www.fi.itb.ac.id/courses/FI-112/Lecture/Lecture20/lect20.htm


* Experiments prove Einstein theory that an electromagnetic waves are in fact packets of energy called photons.
* Young's double slit experiment proved the wave nature of light. However, in 1909, this experiment was repeated using photons, emitted from a source at random intervals. The mind blowing result was that an interference pattern was found to emerge after several weeks ! How does a photon even know that there is another slit present ? Can a single photon pass through both slits and interfere with itself ?
* If a photon, which is essentially, a particle of energy, then perhaps matter itself behaves as a wave! That is, may be an electron can be made to behaves as a wave ! ...... the mind blowing fact is yes !
* De Broglie showed that a particle whose momentum is p has a matter wave associated with it whose wavelength = h / p, where h is a constant.
* Recall the ratio of the instantaneous electric and magnetic fields is the speed of light c. The speed of light is found to dictate the very essence of all measurements! Time, length, mass, energy.

Capt'n Midnight

Humans were not the first species on this planet to utilise nuclear power.

Thus far no species with a worldwide distribution has been made extinct by us.

One tenth of all known species is a Weevil, another tenth are other types of beatles.

Hobbits hunted Dragons and Elephants http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/10/1027_041027_homo_floresiensis.html#main

"What do we know of biodiversity when a new
species is discovered every night?"

Skellington

i hate cheese-cake.

Capt'n Midnight

Every day is about 17ns longer than the day before.

Guy:Incognito

Holy crap, its two years ago, how come no one told me?????????????????/








Quite spamming, spamtard.

Chad ghostal

sexypants wrote:

spamtard?

spamming retard... you are a spamming retard.. Hello spamming retard.. :v:

Adam

boo-urns on sexypants... not very original though is it really?

Beer is Life

Canis Lupus wrote:

.. where Einstein when u need him?

Stealing patents

Zing!

Sleepy

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

Humans were not the first species on this planet to utilise nuclear power.

Anyone got anything else on this or is it total BS?