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- justabum, on 10/12/2007, -3/+61that's just the female - so the male doesn't get any nagging while he finishes his dinner at the trough.
- AlanLivingston, on 10/12/2007, -1/+45Never seen a geometry Nazi before... Spelling, grammar and typo Nazis, yes. Geometry, no.
- Bitruder, on 10/12/2007, -3/+40I was disappointed. A lot of facts were missing important details. For example,
12/ If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.
How fast are you driving? Why not just give the distance to space. - shoover, on 10/12/2007, -6/+38@Settra - Well if you knew them all, you'd be wrong.
For example:
80/ The temperature in Antarctica plummets as low as -35 degrees celsius.
Huh? I've been in temperatures colder than -50 degrees celsius and that was nowhere near any pole. It gets a hellova lot colder than that.
and:
23/ One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of a ...pea.
Well shortly before that it was the size of a pinhead, and shortly after it was the size of a beach ball. But with those terms of measurement, it is hardly scientific fact.
This looks suspiciously like one of those annoying lists people forward around to look smart. - dimatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27Holy crap Settra! How did you know that a "A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes."? Personal experience I presume?
- kalisphoenix, on 10/12/2007, -6/+32101) 93% of the people reading this are waiting for pr0n to download.
- Darrelc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27Makes me pissed off too 'cos I know that in my lifetime I'm never gonna get to see any of it,
:(
-Darrel. - jshirley, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26"65/ The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Artic to Mexico and back every year."
Where is "the Artic"?
(right next to the spell-check key, I'm guessing) - pr0t0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22
5/ The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.
I believe this is a half truth. The Earth rotates at about 1,000 mph, and it orbits the Sun at roughtly 67,000 mph. However, the Solar System orbits the center of the Milky Way galaxy at 497,000 mph. The Milky Way itself, along with other nearby galaxies (known as the local group) are moving away from the origin of the "big bang" at about 1,367,000 mph. That's about 380 miles per second.
So what does it all mean? Sometimes we get much better gas mileage than we think ;-) - Baddox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22It's just that astronauts are very polite.
- sirholio, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Plus, to get out to space they'd need to be going 7 miles per second. Mine won't do that.
- Baddox, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24Time to Nazify:
There's no such thing as "slightly elliptical." The Earth's orbit is completely elliptical. Not only that, but a circle is completely elliptical. Done. - lane.montgomery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14@AlanLivingston
Sure you have, they are the Nazis that are always screaming, "It's a line-segment, not a line!" - mv10, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1440/ A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
hmmmmmm - tHePeOPle, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18Fact #101 - Settra is ***** amazing.
- Lord_oftheTrons, on 10/12/2007, -6/+18101/ Settra is a god damn genius.
Anyways,
I like these two:
67/ Around a million, billion neutrinos from the Sun will pass through your body while you read this sentence.
68/...and now they are already past the Moon. - tremor_tj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12@Darrelc
Look up :) - D4r7h3v1l, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12"Astronauts cannot belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs."
Not even on Earth?
Ummm... aren't they human? - dongiaconia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Isn't #2 an estimation since the Earth's orbit is slightly eliptical?
- Baddox, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1288/ The largest dinosaur ever discovered was Seismosaurus who was over 100 feet long and weighed up to 80 tonnes.
This would be false. Argentinosaurus was slightly longer and weighed about 20 tons more.
I also love how "the risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurence every 9,300 years." Since when is risk calculated in 1/years? And how long have humans been recording meteorite hits? This sounds like one hit in all recorded humans history. Ridiculous list. - newevilmind, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14because why weren't they born BEFORE their teeth broke through the gum line??
crazy teeth having nipple biting babies!! - chicksdigme, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1140/ A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
Girls always say guys are pigs. I am a guy, but my orgasm doesn't last for 30 mins. Therefore, I conclude, girls are liars - VicGolgo13, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1518... 18.... 18/ ----- I forget what 18 was for but 19...19...19/ ..... for everything everything everything EVERYTHING!
- plamoni, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Yes. The Earth's distance from the Sun varies from 91 to 94.5 million miles. Therefore the time it takes for light to travel that far varies from about 8:09 up to about 8:28.
- asteron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Yeah I mean if a human expects to be hit once in 9,300 years, with six billion people on the planet you would expect 1.5 million cases annually. Many of these facts are ambiguous and poorly worded, I would rather they use real units of density and scientific notation instead of nonsense like how many tonnes a teaspoon weighs.
I dont feel like parsing out how many zeroes a million billion million thousand is. - joeyjojo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"Afex - No, but if the rock star puts down the guitar, he's still a rock star. Just like if an astronaut comes to earth he's still an astronaut."
If the rock star puts down the guitar, they are no longer a rock star...they are now a VH1 celebrity reality show has-been. - rohcky, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11I was about to comment on that too. I'm sure it'll take longer than an hour for someone driving at 5 mph.
- badnewsblair, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10... or at work done with all their projects while the rest of the office suffers.
- bloqmon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"31/ The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus - In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall."
It was the Mecca of all Koaladom. - Jams, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I like the blatent advertising on fact number 18.
- asteron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Celcius and Fahrenheit intersect at -40 degrees. So it wouldn't matter much.
- dallen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Why wouldn't it be?
- dongiaconia, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11...or at work waiting for .dll's to build.
- pr0t0, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9
Apparently, not being a fat bastard limits access to a dictionary...so that you might know the difference between their, there, and they're. Dope. - br0ck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Sprint PCS must be really sentimental, because they have a 1 minute shut down tribute every time I make a call.. :P
- Xiol, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8@Darrelc
You never know. - dvdjon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7How is this science? :
18/ Webhosting.info have estimated that the United States has over 22,000 web hosting companies and over 25 million domain names! - Filoviridae, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7With a big measuring tape.
- scooterbaga, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Weird... there's nothing there...
What was there before? - antipion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Has it occured to you that your calculated odds may just be equal to the percentage of people who decide it is a good idea to play golf in a thunderstorm every year?
- asteron, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10This is also poorly worded.... gravity exists in space. (if it didnt the shuttle could not orbit).
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10@dradis: "YET Another compelling piece of evidence in favour of intelligent design. jk"
Humans: 46 chromosomes. Crayfish: 200 chromosomes.
What was that about 'intelligent' design? :) - Burgerman851, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Sometimes we get much better gas mileage than we think ;-)
Or much worse, depending on the direction we're trying to go in :-D - Tiphys, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I'm very certain that no peer recognized scientist had anything to do with this list.
- Teradoc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Since when is the Earth the same age as the sun and moon?
- Sintwar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5AlanLivingston:
Try Physicsforums.com
I think they breed there... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7"100% of my pr0n is done downloading"
That's impossible - Dradis, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10@ justabum
YET Another compelling piece of evidence in favour of intelligent design. jk - plamoni, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6They are not really "inaccurate", some of them "over-simplify". Such as fact number 2. In reality, 8:17 is an average, the Earth's orbit is not a perfect circle. Therefore it is more sometimes and less others.
Also, the universe's expansion rate changes over time, so assigning it a number (as fact 77 does) is more or less pointless.
But it is interesting scientific trivia.
digg++ - databasecowboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7yeah, # 80 is way off. Plenty of places get well below -35. I have been out on many colder nights in Minnesota and Northern Ontario and they are balmy compared to Antarctica. If you packed according to this list, you'd be in for a big suprise on arriving at Antarctica.
According to the Guinness Book, Vostok, Antarctica holds the world's record for coldest temperature: -129°F (7/21/83) that's -89.4 °C -
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