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In New York City there is (or at least was) a "Bermuda Triangle" in a 5 block radius around the Empire State Building.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/01/27/2008-01-27_empire_state_building_car_zap_mystery.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/01/27/2008-01-27_empire_state_building_car_zap_mystery.html
What if it's not a right angle triangle? What if A or B is the Hypotenuse?Folio said:
Qualifying statements man!
Since I am in a class that deals with cabling and stuff, I think I will write some trivia about traditional copper cabling and fiber optic cabling.
-Traditional copper cables for patch cords and such have 8 wires inside the rubber jacket to transmit a signal. Fiber Optics only require one to transmit full signal.
-Copper cables can run for only 300 feet before losing all signal, fiber optics can run for about 64 miles.
-Fiber Optics don't gradually lose signal, unless the glass has imperfections in it, the signal just drops at 64 miles. So a person using a 1 foot cable and a person using a 63 mile long cable have the exact same speed. But the person using a 65 mile cable has no signal at all.
Now for something completely different.
-The amount of nukes it would take to completely destroy the earth would be so large, that stock piling them in a large cube, it would be about twice the size of the earth.
-If you add the total play time of every individual that plays World of Warcraft together, it would add up to being about 5.93 Million Years. Around 5.93 million years ago, humans were predicted to just have started walking upright.
-If you add the total play time of every gamer that plays online in one week, it is equal to 3 billion hours a week.
-The average gamer spends 10,000 hours playing games before he is 21. 10080 hours is the exact amount of time you spend in school from 5th grade to highschool graduation if you have perfect attendance (in the United States at least).
-Twilight is terrible, oh wait, that isn't weird trivia... it's a well known fact.
-Traditional copper cables for patch cords and such have 8 wires inside the rubber jacket to transmit a signal. Fiber Optics only require one to transmit full signal.
-Copper cables can run for only 300 feet before losing all signal, fiber optics can run for about 64 miles.
-Fiber Optics don't gradually lose signal, unless the glass has imperfections in it, the signal just drops at 64 miles. So a person using a 1 foot cable and a person using a 63 mile long cable have the exact same speed. But the person using a 65 mile cable has no signal at all.
Now for something completely different.
-The amount of nukes it would take to completely destroy the earth would be so large, that stock piling them in a large cube, it would be about twice the size of the earth.
-If you add the total play time of every individual that plays World of Warcraft together, it would add up to being about 5.93 Million Years. Around 5.93 million years ago, humans were predicted to just have started walking upright.
-If you add the total play time of every gamer that plays online in one week, it is equal to 3 billion hours a week.
-The average gamer spends 10,000 hours playing games before he is 21. 10080 hours is the exact amount of time you spend in school from 5th grade to highschool graduation if you have perfect attendance (in the United States at least).
-Twilight is terrible, oh wait, that isn't weird trivia... it's a well known fact.
Sigmund Freud was jewish?
(I don't hate jewish people but I find the info not needed to have to know.)
(I don't hate jewish people but I find the info not needed to have to know.)
The word barbarian originates from the Greeks thinking that the language of non-Greek people sounding as if they were saying "Bar bar bar".
Atomic bombs are not powered by fuel combustion, so unless you fart deuterium that claim makes no sense. But I wonder how much farts it would take to fuel a combustion releasing an amount of energy equivalent to that of an atomic bomb...Jack and Calumon said:
Of the gases that make up farts, only hydrogen and methane are combustible. Methane can be disregarded because it appears in much smaller quantities and releases much less energy in combustion (like 0.1% of the energy contributed by the hydrogen).
H[sub]2[/sub]
Enthalpy of combustion: -286 kJ/mol
Atomic weight: 1.00795 g/mol
Density at 0°C at sea level: 0.08988 g/L
Energy released by combustion of one litre of H[sub]2[/sub] = (286 ÷ 1.00795) × 0.08988 = 25.50 kilojoules
Assuming a very substantial hydrogen content of about 0.1 litres per fart gives us a combustion energy of 2.55 kilojoules per fart. Let's assume that "farting non-stop" means to release one such fart every second.
The smallest tactical nuclear warheads have yields of about 4,000,000 kilojoules, so you would have to be farting non-stop for just over 14 months to produce enough gas to produce an explosion of the equivalent energy. So yes, it withstands peer review(!)
The bomb dropped on Hiroshima released about 63,000,000,000 kilojoules, the equivalent of 18,802 fart-years, or 2.47 × 10[sup]10[/sup] individual farts.
There are 1.57 billion Muslims in the world. If each one of them farts in a box and posts it to Al Qaeda, they could have the bomb before the end of the year! (Satire.)
Delock said:
You two can suck a fat one!Gunjack65 said:
Grr...
The ability to roll your tongue is genetic. (I can't do it.)
Satellites must take General relativity into account when synchronising time on Earth. They are also at a very specific height (called Geosynchronous orbit [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_orbit]) so it's speed that it rotates around the earth will match how fast the earth rotates, so it will appear to stay still.
Astrophysicist generally measure astronomical distance in parsecs [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsec], not light years. This also means Han solo was talking a load of gibbering ass when he said he did a speed run in a distance measurement. Many fans have tried to explain this away with black holes or meteor belts, but come on. They'll explain away anything.
Parts of cells (chloroplasts (which you don't have) and mitochondria (which you have lots of)) were almost certaintly originally bacteria that entered single celled organisms and had a symbiotic partnership, eventually becoming part of the cell.
Weird.
Weird.
Les Awesome said:
Sir, that post was full of win, I commend your scientific rigour.oktalist said:Atomic bombs are not powered by fuel combustion, so unless you fart deuterium that claim makes no sense. But I wonder how much farts it would take to fuel a combustion releasing an amount of energy equivalent to that of an atomic bomb...Jack and Calumon said:
Of the gases that make up farts, only hydrogen and methane are combustible. Methane can be disregarded because it appears in much smaller quantities and releases much less energy in combustion (like 0.1% of the energy contributed by the hydrogen).
H[sub]2[/sub]
Enthalpy of combustion: -286 kJ/mol
Atomic weight: 1.00795 g/mol
Density at 0°C at sea level: 0.08988 g/L
Energy released by combustion of one litre of H[sub]2[/sub] = (286 ÷ 1.00795) × 0.08988 = 25.50 kilojoules
Assuming a very substantial hydrogen content of about 0.1 litres per fart gives us a combustion energy of 2.55 kilojoules per fart. Let's assume that "farting non-stop" means to release one such fart every second.
The smallest tactical nuclear warheads have yields of about 4,000,000 kilojoules, so you would have to be farting non-stop for just over 14 months to produce enough gas to produce an explosion of the equivalent energy. So yes, it withstands peer review(!)
The bomb dropped on Hiroshima released about 63,000,000,000 kilojoules, the equivalent of 18,802 fart-years, or 2.47 × 10[sup]10[/sup] individual farts.
There are 1.57 billion Muslims in the world. If each one of them farts in a box and posts it to Al Qaeda, they could have the bomb before the end of the year! (Satire.)
*tips hat*
Edit: ha, I wasn't even the first to specifically tip my hat. That was completely unintentional...
Sir Issac Newton privately denounced the divinity of Jesus Christ and the concept of the holy trinity during the latter half of his life. He believed that Christ was a false Messiah and that we should be worshiping the God of the old testament while waiting for the real one.
Henry II of England had a daughter named Matilda who was married to a German Duke named "Henry the Lion." Their first son they named Henry. The words beside her Tomb reads (in German) "Here lies the daughter, wife, and mother of Henry."
The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, ruled more of Europe than any other nation since the Roman Empire, including all of Spain, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Burgundy, Holland, Belgium, parts of France, all of Spain's holdings in the New World, and most of Northern and Southern Italy, including Sicily. He spent most of his life bouncing from one area to another within his Empire, trying to keep it together, all the while suffering from epilepsy and severe gout.
Charles V was also a highly intelligent man and happened to speak four languages, as he famously explained "I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse."
Finally: Cuba is the only Island in the Caribbean to have its own railroad.
Henry II of England had a daughter named Matilda who was married to a German Duke named "Henry the Lion." Their first son they named Henry. The words beside her Tomb reads (in German) "Here lies the daughter, wife, and mother of Henry."
The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, ruled more of Europe than any other nation since the Roman Empire, including all of Spain, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Burgundy, Holland, Belgium, parts of France, all of Spain's holdings in the New World, and most of Northern and Southern Italy, including Sicily. He spent most of his life bouncing from one area to another within his Empire, trying to keep it together, all the while suffering from epilepsy and severe gout.
Charles V was also a highly intelligent man and happened to speak four languages, as he famously explained "I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse."
Finally: Cuba is the only Island in the Caribbean to have its own railroad.
The Chrysler 318v8 was rated at 235hp and 280lbft of torque for 1993. The most powerful production car in the entire world in 1957 was the Chrysler 300C, at 385hp.
Monday - Moon
Tuesday - Tyr - essentialy the Norse god of war.
Wednesday - Woden
Thursday - Thor
Friday - Freyr - Norse fertility God and brother to Frejya
Saturday - Surtr - Fire jötunn supposed to bring about the end of the world, makes sense he is at the end of the week.
Sunday - SunFlig said:
Monday - Moon
Tuesday - Tyr - essentialy the Norse god of war.
Wednesday - Woden
Thursday - Thor
Friday - Freyr - Norse fertility God and brother to Frejya
Saturday - Surtr - Fire jötunn supposed to bring about the end of the world, makes sense he is at the end of the week.
Polands Decapitated started making albums when they were 14. You aren't the only one who feels old, and I'm only 24.mexicola said:
