View Full Version : OT// Useless, but fun little facts.
SonOfRah
24-02-2004, 15:30
I'm sure everyone has come across some utterly useless fact that only exists to entertain people.
Here's a few.
111,111,111 X 111,111,111 = 12345678987654321 (take a close look at the number order on the answer)
The Number 42 (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy anyone???)
-The angle at which lights reflects off water to create a rainbow is 42 degrees
-Fox Mulder (the X-files) liven in apartment number 42
-The number of dots on a pair of dice - 42
-A Wonderbra consists of 42 individual parts
-The world record jump by a kangaroo is 42 feet
Every person has a unique tongue print
An average person laughs about 15 times a day
Anyone else got any useless facts? :D
Eblocher
24-02-2004, 19:45
Not a fact, but a bunch of questions:
If it was only a 3 hour tour what the heck did the Howells have a complete wardrobe with them?
In old Superman shows, in almost every one Supernman gets shot at, he stands there and takes the bullets at 6 ft. When the gun is empty the bad guy always throws the gun at superman................and he DUCKS! Why?? He just took 6 friggin bullets.
How do blind people know when to stop wiping when they are on the comode?
Where do seedless grapes come from? There are no seeds to grow the things?
Mcsaladshaker
24-02-2004, 20:26
ahh I love useless facts
btw I see you are a nerd
Wayfaring
24-02-2004, 20:28
More interesting questions.... (courtesy of Gallagher)
Why do 24 hour convenience stores have locks on the doors?
Why do we park in a driveway, but drive on a parkway?
lasthero
24-02-2004, 20:31
it is impossible to lick your elbow...........
Atelast 50% of the people who read this tried to lick their elbow :)
Eblocher
24-02-2004, 20:36
Nerd? Heck no!
Old fart bean counter with a beatuiful wife and 3 kids........definately! :clap:
And BTW 42 is the answer to life the universe and everything.
Question:
A man is lying on the floor dead with 53 bicycles around him......................how did he die?
A man is lying dead in the middle of a field with a pack on his back.................................. how did he die?
Chiller_babe
24-02-2004, 20:40
Nerd? Heck no!
Old fart bean counter with a beatuiful wife and 3 kids........definately! :clap:
And BTW 42 is the answer to life the universe and everything.
Question:
A man is lying on the floor dead with 53 bicycles around him......................how did he die?
A man is lying dead in the middle of a field with a pack on his back.................................. how did he die?
I would hazard a guess at parachute failing to open on the second 1 :lol:
First one trying for the world record in Bicycle holding and had a heart attack?
Chill
Chiller_babe
24-02-2004, 20:42
More interesting questions.... (courtesy of Gallagher)
Why do 24 hour convenience stores have locks on the doors?
Why do we park in a driveway, but drive on a parkway?
Hey in the UK we park in a Garage and drive on a road. The council tends to chase you in a Land Rover if you drive through the Park:)
Chill
Eblocher
24-02-2004, 20:44
You are correct! A parachute. You win one of my two most prized D2 items, my 09 bolts of quickness. They fly faster than regular bolts, honest.
Next prize, my treasured .08 topaz! Woohoooo
A man is lying on the floor dead with 53 bicycles around him......................how did he die?
Hmmm...
A man is lying dead in the middle of a field with a pack on his back.................................. how did he die?
I believe that it was the sudden stop after a free fall from the plane above, parachute didn't open.
Wayfaring
24-02-2004, 20:53
A man is lying on the floor dead with 53 bicycles around him......................how did he die?
Was one of the bicycles an extra ace? :idea:
What do butterflies get in their stomach when they fall in love?
How much wood can a woodchuck chuck?
How many polar bears do you need to screw in a light-bulb?
Why do entire bardiches fall out of quill rats?
As for useless facts, I'm perfectly sure that everyone always wanted to know that there are exactly 345.232.345.567.457 grains of sand in the Sahara desert ^_^. Yes, I counted them all, thats why I know.
Eblocher
24-02-2004, 20:58
Not necessarily an ace, but a card! You win. He was killed for cheating at cards. There are 52 cards in a deck and bicycle is a well known brand of cards. The 53rd was the one up his sleeve.
There goes my .08 topaz.......darn.
An archeologist is diggin up in the European mountains, he finds two people frozen in a block of ice, perfectly preserved. He takes one look at them and immediately knows that it's Adam and Eve.....................how?
Another question.............Butch Patrick AKA Eddie Munster also played the lead character on another crazy show, what show and who was he?
What do butterflies get in their stomach when they fall in love?
How much wood can a woodchuck chuck?
How many polar bears do you need to screw in a light-bulb?
Why do entire bardiches fall out of quill rats?
As for useless facts, I'm perfectly sure that everyone always wanted to know that there are exactly 345.232.345.567.457 grains of sand in the Sahara desert ^_^. Yes, I counted them all, thats why I know.
1. Dust
2. As much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
3. Don't go and count, polor bears don't need lights, it is a trap to generate snacks for polor bears.
4. If you were that little and held something that big inside you, it would pop out if you died. Is the question of how it happens then the answer is Nano-technology.
Eblocher
24-02-2004, 21:02
You need 2 Polar bears, preferable 1 girl and 1 boy, but..........its gotta be a damn big lightbulb.
Basketcase
24-02-2004, 21:48
An archeologist is diggin up in the European mountains, he finds two people frozen in a block of ice, perfectly preserved. He takes one look at them and immediately knows that it's Adam and Eve.....................how?
No belly buttons :-)
cyradis2003
25-02-2004, 00:41
No belly buttons :-)
Darn, my guess was name tags!
:surprise:
Eblocher
25-02-2004, 02:40
basketcase is correct!
Another question.............Butch Patrick AKA Eddie Munster also played the lead character on another crazy show, what show and who was he?
Mark on Lidsville
CoonerTheRed
25-02-2004, 03:55
i hate to be a bum, but the angle at which reflected light in a perfectly spherical raindrop causes a rainbow isn't exactly 42 degrees, its 42.something (has to do with Pi, so the something goes on forever). I've done the calculation before (my day job as an atmospheric dynamicist) so trust me on that one. And the number the world revolves around isn't 42, it's 1.618.... (also goes on forever). It's called Phi... allow me to ellaborate (for those that haven't read "The DaVinci Code," DO SO :D )
The limit of ratios of Fibbanocci numbers = Phi
The ratio of female bees to male bees in any hive = Phi
The ratio of your height to the height to your belly button = PHi
Hip to floor over knee to floor = Phi
it goes on forever...... check it out :D
Cleglaw_Himself
25-02-2004, 04:30
i hate to be a bum, but the angle at which reflected light in a perfectly spherical raindrop causes a rainbow isn't exactly 42 degrees, its 42.something (has to do with Pi, so the something goes on forever). I've done the calculation before (my day job as an atmospheric dynamicist) so trust me on that one. And the number the world revolves around isn't 42, it's 1.618.... (also goes on forever). It's called Phi... allow me to ellaborate (for those that haven't read "The DaVinci Code," DO SO :D )
The limit of ratios of Fibbanocci numbers = Phi
The ratio of female bees to male bees in any hive = Phi
The ratio of your height to the height to your belly button = PHi
Hip to floor over knee to floor = Phi
it goes on forever...... check it out :D
Yes, Phi is a truly awesome number.
Eblocher
25-02-2004, 05:22
Good call Duffman. He was Mark on Liszville. I loved Sid and Marty Crofts stuff. I'm old enough to remember being scared by Sleezstacks (sp?)
I have an almost photgraphic memory of EVERY cartoon / kiddie show I saw when I was younger and I have determined two things...
Ultraman is the greatest kid show ever.....gogo Hiyata and the Beta Capsule
Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is the greatest movie ever made.
Kev_Dawg5150
25-02-2004, 05:28
This riddle's rather lengthy, but here goes:
A Chinese man wishes to see the difference between Heaven and Hell before he dies. When his time comes, he gets to see Hell first, in which people are forced to sit on six-foot high chairs and eat food from a short table with three-foot long chopsticks; needless to say, they were all starving and grumpy. In Heaven the situation was exactly the same, but everyone was well-fed and happy. What is the difference between Heaven and Hell?
Shadoway
25-02-2004, 05:33
I just remember the move T2. In one scene, T2 used his arm to bend the A-pillar of the truck the metal guy drived and the truck tilted and crashed on its left side. Let's rewind: T2's feet were on the sidesteps of the truck.
???
The truck could only be tilted if T2's feet were on the ground. Otherwise, no matter how strong T2 is, all he could do was to remove the A-pillar. Did anyone of you still remember it?
This riddle's rather lengthy, but here goes:
A Chinese man wishes to see the difference between Heaven and Hell before he dies. When his time comes, he gets to see Hell first, in which people are forced to sit on six-foot high chairs and eat food from a short table with three-foot long chopsticks; needless to say, they were all starving and grumpy. In Heaven the situation was exactly the same, but everyone was well-fed and happy. What is the difference between Heaven and Hell?
Hell was serving soup
Ok i have a TON of these, but some are not apropraite for this forum, but here are the ones that are.
If you yelled for 8 years,7 months and 6 days you would have
produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas
is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the
body to squirt blood 30 feet.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it
starves to death.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
left-handed people do.
Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump.
A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Polar bears are left-handed. (is this true barry? :D) lol
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year
Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older
In Alabama putting salt on a railroad track may be punishable by death
A snail can sleep for three years
No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH"
In Oklahoma, People who make ugly faces at dogs may be fined and/or jailed
The electric chair was invented by a dentist
Shelf life of a hostess twinkie: 7 years
A crocodile cannot stick it's tongue out
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match
These are all i felt like looking for on my computer, plus im guessing this post is ganna be quite long.
Cleglaw_Himself
25-02-2004, 07:07
This riddle's rather lengthy, but here goes:
A Chinese man wishes to see the difference between Heaven and Hell before he dies. When his time comes, he gets to see Hell first, in which people are forced to sit on six-foot high chairs and eat food from a short table with three-foot long chopsticks; needless to say, they were all starving and grumpy. In Heaven the situation was exactly the same, but everyone was well-fed and happy. What is the difference between Heaven and Hell?Easy, in hell, everyone was trying to feed themselves.
In heaven, everyone was feeding each other.
No no no, you DO need polar bears to screw in a light bulb. Ask Eblocher. He knows... and ye'd tell ya, if he hadn't been counting enzymes in my stomach atm ^_^. How many enzymes in a polar bear stomach does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Come and count!
And as for being lefthanded, erm, my dad is both left and right, my fiancee is lefthanded, but I'm a righty, so that's incorrect.
it is impossible to lick your elbow...........
Atelast 50% of the people who read this tried to lick their elbow :)
my girlfriend can, she fooled me with it. =D
ZeonZaku
25-02-2004, 21:53
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
The TV show Mythbusters busted this myth. There is an echo it is just VERY small. Reason is because the way ducks make noise is by echoing the quick through the throat.
ZeonZaku
25-02-2004, 21:56
A man is standing a four sided room. Each wall has a window that points in the southern direction. The man looks outside and sees a bear.. What color is it?
A cabin is lying at the foot of a mountain. the people inside are all dead. How did they die?
Kev_Dawg5150
25-02-2004, 22:05
Easy, in hell, everyone was trying to feed themselves.
In heaven, everyone was feeding each other.
Correct! You win... erhm... Don't really have anything of value on DII... >>;
A man is standing a four sided room. Each wall has a window that points in the southern direction. The man looks outside and sees a bear.. What color is it?
A cabin is lying at the foot of a mountain. the people inside are all dead. How did they die?
1. Simple; white. The room is built on the North pole. Therefore, -every- direction is South.
2. Hum... That one's pretty vague... My guess is that the cabin used to be on -top- of the mountain?
Eblocher
25-02-2004, 22:09
Its a white polar bear that just got PK by Eblocher :howdy: That will teach Barry to whip up a batch of gas like that for me!
The Cabin of the plane crashed! All the passengers are dead.
Easy Peasy
Just a quick two.
The salt water crocodile generates an average of 3000 pounds per square inch of pressure when closing its jaws full force.
Human bones take an average of 90 pounds per square inch of pressure to break.
it is impossible to lick your elbow...........
Atelast 50% of the people who read this tried to lick their elbow :)
Got me there..I was one of the 50% who tried it right away. Can touch my nose with my tongue..not the elbow :(
she can? thats a keepermy girlfriend can, she fooled me with it. =D
Blood_And_Iron
26-02-2004, 02:10
If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas
is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
--consistently or continuously?
Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump.
--what white men don't count as animals?
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year
--in a starving third world country?
Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka
--that's surely an underestimate.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older
--but no one's seen one of them cause the rest of us all die before then.
A snail can sleep for three years
--that's what you'd do too if you saw it takes you just as long to cross the road.
In Oklahoma, People who make ugly faces at dogs may be fined and/or jailed
--don't dogs rule there?
The electric chair was invented by a dentist
--significant distraction.
A crocodile cannot stick it's tongue out
--crocodiles have tongues?
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match
--haha prove it.
aww have to add enough text outside the box.
Shadoway
27-02-2004, 02:50
it is impossible to lick your elbow...........
Atelast 50% of the people who read this tried to lick their elbow
I can lick my elbow.
If you yelled for 8 years,7 months and 6 days you would have
produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas
is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match
Those are all inaccurate and some are just wrong. Ants don't jump, for instance. Also, ancient forms of match existed long before cigarette.
tootootoofar
27-02-2004, 04:04
How does Edward Scissor Hands go the washroom?
Why does Donald Duck put a towl on when he get out of the shower. HE DOESN'T WEAR PANTS!!
Kev_Dawg5150
27-02-2004, 04:24
Those are all inaccurate and some are just wrong. Ants don't jump, for instance. Also, ancient forms of match existed long before cigarette.
He said the cigarette -lighter-.
Sea sponges don't jump, either, but I think by 'animal,' the people who came up with that fact probably meant 'mammal.'
(BTW: Sea sponges ARE technically animals. :) )
LuckyDwarf
27-02-2004, 05:16
A cabin is lying at the foot of a mountain. the people inside are all dead. How did they die?
I believe that there are certain gases that come down the mountain in the form of mist during the night. Something like that. I read a story about the California gold rush where that happened.
Lucky
Shadoway
27-02-2004, 05:55
He said the cigarette -lighter-.
Sea sponges don't jump, either, but I think by 'animal,' the people who came up with that fact probably meant 'mammal.'
(BTW: Sea sponges ARE technically animals. :) )
I said cigarette because it existed defintely before cigarette lighter(prove me wrong if you disagree). As for mammal, bats don't jump. They fly. When they are grounded, there's not much they can do except trying to fly again, which is very hard.
SonOfRah
27-02-2004, 08:24
The platypus is the only mamal that is posioness. Figures its found only in australia.
It also looks rediculous and probably was created by wizards who tried his hand at drawing.... (Guess the book and author where that came from.....)
The platypus is the only mamal that is posioness. Figures its found only in australia.
It also looks rediculous and probably was created by wizards who tried his hand at drawing.... (Guess the book and author where that came from.....)
However its poison only causes pain, which although isn't fun it beats other types such as the type that cause necrosis of tissue! It's also the only mammal that lays eggs!
Silkweed
27-02-2004, 09:07
Not true. There is another mammal that lays eggs. A pygmy something something. I forget it's name, but I know there are two mammals that lay eggs.
Here's an interesting one. Male sea horses get pregnant and give birth, not the females.
As for mammal, bats don't jump. They fly. When they are grounded, there's not much they can do except trying to fly again, which is very hard.
There are some bats that actually hunts on the ground. Of course they are found in some remote regions of the planet, like New Zeeland. They are proof that evolution doesnt always goes forward. I've seen them take on a Weta, thats a battle, the bat is not very large.
Oh thank you, for that Animal Planet!
Not true. There is another mammal that lays eggs. A pygmy something something. I forget it's name, but I know there are two mammals that lay eggs.
Here's an interesting one. Male sea horses get pregnant and give birth, not the females.
I stand corrected and add a slight further correction, apparently it's three! According to the university of berkeley, "the duck-billed platypus and two species of echidna, or "spiny anteaters"". (http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mammal/monotreme.html)
He said the cigarette -lighter-.
Sea sponges don't jump, either, but I think by 'animal,' the people who came up with that fact probably meant 'mammal.'
(BTW: Sea sponges ARE technically animals. :) )
No, sea sponges are one-celled organisms that co-operate, but they have no central nerve system nor a circulatory system nor anything else that identifies them as animals. They are simply one-celled organisms in a low-cooperative strategy.
^_^
HAMC8112
27-02-2004, 11:07
Why does Donald Duck put a towl on when he get out of the shower. HE DOESN'T WEAR PANTS!!
To dry himself?
WNxBeeky
27-02-2004, 14:53
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Answer:
A wood chuck could chuck no amount of wood cos a woodchuck couldnt chuck wood.
But...
If a woodchuck could chuck wood, and a woodchuck would chuck, wood, how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
And continue....:clap:
Hm..been telling some of these "facts" to a few friends.
Learned a new useless fact in return.
Apparently pigs can have an orgasm that lasts up to 30 minutes :surprise:
Kar-Karuk
27-02-2004, 23:46
As for useless facts, I'm perfectly sure that everyone always wanted to know that there are exactly 345.232.345.567.457 grains of sand in the Sahara desert ^_^. Yes, I counted them all, thats why I know.
Woah, that's nearly as many El's it take to make a Zod :surprise:
Kar. :drink:
DFA-FrstbyteOO
27-02-2004, 23:57
how long was the chinaman's name
tomatoman
28-02-2004, 00:03
it is impossible to lick your elbow...........
Atelast 50% of the people who read this tried to lick their elbow :)
it actually isnt impossible. i have seen it with my own eyes.
Kev_Dawg5150
28-02-2004, 02:25
I said cigarette because it existed defintely before cigarette lighter(prove me wrong if you disagree).
I think you read the original post wrong. He said the LIGHTER was invented before the MATCH. It would be quite obvious that a cigarette would have to exist before the lighter (thus making it a not-so-wierd fact).
No, sea sponges are one-celled organisms that co-operate, but they have no central nerve system nor a circulatory system nor anything else that identifies them as animals. They are simply one-celled organisms in a low-cooperative strategy.
^_^
Actually, they -are- listed under the Animal Kingdom, and are not put under the same classes as most protozoans, bacteria, etc. On top of that, the cells are specialized; can't remember how, but there are protective layers, consumption layers, and cells that make water circulate throughout the sponge. So... yah, the sponge is an animal, just not the conventional type. ^^
CoonerTheRed
28-02-2004, 04:39
ok, so being a fluids person figuring out whether or not you can yell a cup of coffee hot shouldn't be that hard... lets see....
regular volume talking runs at about 60 dB, so shouting is probably around 70 dB. In air at 27 degrees C (about 80 F), we use the equation:
dB = 10 log* Phi/Phi_ref
where Phi_ref = 10^-12 (quietest sound audible to human ear), giving us an energy flux Phi of
10^-5 W/m^2.
As the cup would be very close to your mouth (note the 70 decibels is for right outside your mouth, as your mouth does a nice job of letting the sound wave resonate and increase in amplitude), we'll assume the sound doesn't attenuate (lose energy) on the way to the cup. With a diameter of about 5 cm, the surface area of the cup (where the sound waves would act to release their energy) is about 1.96x10^-3 m^2, giving us a total of:
1.96x10^-8 Watts.
Heat capacity of water is about 2100 J/kg-K, so heating about 300 mL of water 73 degrees (to boiling) takes 4.6x10^4 Joules.
Therefore it would take you 2.35x10^12 seconds, or
74,518 years to "shout yourself a cup of coffee"
Unfortunately, that only works if the coffee cup is perfectly insulated... as you shouted the coffee would cool off much faster than your shouting would warm it.
Doh, guess it's not true... :surprise:
Shadoway
28-02-2004, 04:52
I think you read the original post wrong. He said the LIGHTER was invented before the MATCH. It would be quite obvious that a cigarette would have to exist before the lighter (thus making it a not-so-wierd fact).
I think you read my post wrong.
He said the LIGHTER was invented before the MATCH.
And I said MATCH was before cigarette. Since cigarette was before the LIGHTER(which you agreed), then MATCH was before the LIGHTER and thus his statement is wrong. If you disagree with me, you will have to prove "MATCH was before cigarette" is wrong.
Kev_Dawg5150
28-02-2004, 05:15
I think you read my post wrong.
He said the LIGHTER was invented before the MATCH.
That's exactly what I said, you dolt. -.-
And I said MATCH was before cigarette. Since cigarette was before the LIGHTER(which you agreed), then MATCH was before the LIGHTER and thus his statement is wrong. If you disagree with me, you will have to prove "MATCH was before cigarette" is wrong.
Finally I understand what the heck you're talking about (Although I think you could still have worded it more gracefully). So you're saying that the match was invented before the cigarette, which existed before the lighter. Well, I'm not terribly keen on my dates of invention, so it may be plausible that lighters existed before cigarettes, but now we'd need to look that up, and I'm feeling lazy tonight. ^^
Anywho, we should ask the person who posted that factoid in the first place about this (who has probably already forgotten about this thread because of this arguement xD ).
SonOfRah
28-02-2004, 06:18
mmm, another thing:
Its been scientifically proven that heaven is indeed hotter than hell.
Hotter than Hell?
[From Applied Optics vol. 11, (14) 1972]
The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed. Our authority is Isaiah 30:26,
"Moreover, the light of the Moon shall
be as the light of the Sun and the light
of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the
light of seven days."
Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition 7*7 (49) times as much as the Earth does from the Sun, or 50 times in all. The light we receive from the Moon is one 1/10,000 of the light we receive from the Sun, so we can ignore that ... The radiation falling on Heaven will heat it to the point where i.e., Heaven loses 50 times as much heat as the Earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann
law for radiation, (H/E) temperature of the earth (-300K), gives H as 798K (525C). The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed ...
[However] Revelations 21:8 says
"But the fearful, and unbelieving ... shall
have their part in the lake which burneth
with fire and brimstone."
A lake of molten brimstone means that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, 444.6C. We have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C.
Cleglaw_Himself
28-02-2004, 06:24
That's exactly what I said, you dolt. -.-
Finally I understand what the heck you're talking about (Although I think you could still have worded it more gracefully). So you're saying that the match was invented before the cigarette, which existed before the lighter. Well, I'm not terribly keen on my dates of invention, so it may be plausible that lighters existed before cigarettes, but now we'd need to look that up, and I'm feeling lazy tonight. ^^
Anywho, we should ask the person who posted that factoid in the first place about this (who has probably already forgotten about this thread because of this arguement xD ).
I can't see how cigarette lighters were invented before the match somehow.
577AD China: crude matches invented.
Early 1600's: crude cigarettes.
1827: Modern matches invented.
1932: Zippo cigarette lighter
1973: disposable Bic lighters invented.
Which cigarette lighter was over 100 years before Zippo? None that I could find...
SonOfRah
28-02-2004, 07:37
This was posted at a forum of which I moderate at, and it was posted there from another forum. Rather funny I thought.
When NASA first started sending astronauts into space, they quickly discovered that ball-point pens would not work in zero gravity.
To combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 Billion developing a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to over 300 degrees C.
The Russians used a pencil.
Enjoy paying your taxes. They are due soon...
mmm, another thing:
Its been scientifically proven that heaven is indeed hotter than hell.
LOL Rah you are a great bloke but you are stepping into territory where you can't quantify things. The concepts of heaven and hell are well outside of the realm of regular science mate. The same can be said for the original poster, the mention and acknowledgement of a God throws the regular laws of man right out the window.
SonOfRah
28-02-2004, 13:07
LOL Rah you are a great bloke but you are stepping into territory where you can't quantify things. The concepts of heaven and hell are well outside of the realm of regular science mate. The same can be said for the original poster, the mention and acknowledgement of a God throws the regular laws of man right out the window.
lol :)
I know that, but its still a fun and useless fact that has been spread around :)
lol :)
I know that, but its still a fun and useless fact that has been spread around :)
Hehehe touche. Great thread btw. :D
I can lick my elbow.
Those are all inaccurate and some are just wrong. Ants don't jump, for instance. Also, ancient forms of match existed long before cigarette.
Ants aren't animals though, either. They are insects.
cyradis2003
28-02-2004, 18:08
That's exactly what I said, you dolt. -.-
Finally I understand what the heck you're talking about (Although I think you could still have worded it more gracefully). So you're saying that the match was invented before the cigarette, which existed before the lighter. Well, I'm not terribly keen on my dates of invention, so it may be plausible that lighters existed before cigarettes, but now we'd need to look that up, and I'm feeling lazy tonight. ^^
Anywho, we should ask the person who posted that factoid in the first place about this (who has probably already forgotten about this thread because of this arguement xD ).
Cigars existed before ciggarettes and would require a lighter. I am sure there are lighters that predate the paper wrapped sticks'o'death that we call ciggarettes. They wouldn't predate cigars or pipes though - otherwise what would they have been invented for? :scratch:
As for predating zippo there are beautiful antique ivory and mother of pearl lighters in many antique stores and museums that date into the early 1800's they look like they are based on flint sparked guns with a small resovoir of some sort of lamp oil and a wick with a cap thing to snuff it when you are done.
bleuciel
28-02-2004, 19:04
Ants aren't animals though, either. They are insects.
:scratch:
all that's not a bacteria, a virus, a fungus or a plant is an animal, so insects are animals...
:scratch:
all that's not a bacteria, a virus, a fungus or a plant is an animal, so insects are animals...
Hehe, I stand corrected. :bonk:
SonOfRah
29-02-2004, 01:08
:scratch:
all that's not a bacteria, a virus, a fungus or a plant is an animal, so insects are animals...
What about Toli.......does he count???
(j/k Toli *GRIN* Just haveing a little fun)
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