tbo.com— 16. A new planet described as a "super-Earth," which weighs 13 times as much as our planet, exists in a solar system 9,000 light-years away. Is my favorite
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Personal pet peeve, in the Smithsonian Air and Space museum, there is a space capsule whose weight is listed on earth and moon, in pounds and kg. But the kg is 1/6th the value on the moon! kg is a measure of mass, f**ktards! I complained about this, and they claimed to know about it but continued to do it anyway because it was the popular understanding.
The article should have been titled '50 things I know now that I did not know in 2005 because I just found out about it in 2006 when some items have been known about since 2000'.
50. Researchers from the University of Manchester managed to induce teeth growth in normal chickens - activating genes that have lain dormant for 80 million years.Yah... cause we REALLY need chickens with teeth... XD
#49 is right in a sense, when you compare it to just drinking water or Gatorade. However, the BEST thing to drink after an intense workout is a big protein shake. Trainers recommend chocolate milk to people because it is a common household item. If you really want to get the most out of your workouts, drink a nice big protein shake within 30 minutes after you stop working out. This can increase your muscle growth over 300% (compared to drinking just water).And no, not all protein shakes taste like crap. Several of them taste quite nice, actually, and I've had one that tasted just like a chocolate milkshake.
elhafDec 27, 2006
Personal pet peeve, in the Smithsonian Air and Space museum, there is a space capsule whose weight is listed on earth and moon, in pounds and kg. But the kg is 1/6th the value on the moon! kg is a measure of mass, f**ktards! I complained about this, and they claimed to know about it but continued to do it anyway because it was the popular understanding.
mrsurlyDec 28, 2006
I call bulls**t. I've known #38 for years. The Wikipedia entry began in 2004: <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demodex_mite">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demodex_mite</a>Buried: Inaccurate
chroniccolonicDec 28, 2006
The article should have been titled '50 things I know now that I did not know in 2005 because I just found out about it in 2006 when some items have been known about since 2000'.
hamlet9000Dec 29, 2006
<a class="user" href="http://www.theozonehole.com/">http://www.theozonehole.com/</a><a class="user" href="http://www.livescience.com/environment/ap_050916_ozone_hole.html">http://www.livescience.com/environment/ap_050916_ozone_hole.html</a><a class="user" href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200510/s1485373.htm">http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200510/s1485373.htm</a><a class="user" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1050495.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1050495.stm</a>The ozone hole is closing. This is also commented on in Al Gore's AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH.The linked article lists "shrinking ozone hole" and "increasing greenhouse gases" in the same entry. It's not clear why they did this. The ozone hole was not caused by greenhouse gases. It was caused by CFCs. When we worked, as a global community, to eliminate the use of CFCs, the ozone hole corrected itself even more rapidly than scientists had hoped. (This is the context in which Gore mentions it in AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH: As an example of how environmental damage caused by modern civilization can be corrected by modern civilization if we choose to do so.)The article also claims that this is a "new fact known as of 2005". Although even more evidence was gathered regarding the healing of the ozone hole, as some of the links here indicate, this was being hypothesized as early as 1999. (1997 was the turnaround year in which the ozone hole stopped growing, IIRC.)I don't think the article is inaccurate, but it's certainly misleading.
nikokunDec 31, 2006
50. Researchers from the University of Manchester managed to induce teeth growth in normal chickens - activating genes that have lain dormant for 80 million years.Yah... cause we REALLY need chickens with teeth... XD
timo1023Jan 4, 2007
#49 is right in a sense, when you compare it to just drinking water or Gatorade. However, the BEST thing to drink after an intense workout is a big protein shake. Trainers recommend chocolate milk to people because it is a common household item. If you really want to get the most out of your workouts, drink a nice big protein shake within 30 minutes after you stop working out. This can increase your muscle growth over 300% (compared to drinking just water).And no, not all protein shakes taste like crap. Several of them taste quite nice, actually, and I've had one that tasted just like a chocolate milkshake.