Things you did not know

[Niccolo]

during the jurassic it was temperate, it was still dark 24/7 in winter and cold but it wasn nearly as cold

Correct, I was merely refuting that it could not be tropical, I never did say it could not be temperate, and you are correct it could be temperate if the world warmed enough to the levels it was during the Jurassic.

well its hypothesised it will be tropical again...in many many millions of years

And in many millions of years we probably won't be around to care.

 

[TheKnifeJuggler]

during the jurassic it was temperate, it was still dark 24/7 in winter and cold but it wasn nearly as cold

Correct, I was merely refuting that it could not be tropical, I never did say it could not be temperate, and you are correct it could be temperate if the world warmed enough to the levels it was during the Jurassic.

well its hypothesised it will be tropical again...in many many millions of years

And in many millions of years we probably won't be around to care.

It may be sooner if Global climate change doesn't slow itself.

 

[the monopoly guy]

during the jurassic it was temperate, it was still dark 24/7 in winter and cold but it wasn nearly as cold

Correct, I was merely refuting that it could not be tropical, I never did say it could not be temperate, and you are correct it could be temperate if the world warmed enough to the levels it was during the Jurassic.

well its hypothesised it will be tropical again...in many many millions of years

And in many millions of years we probably won't be around to care.

I'm sure most, if any of us, don't care regardless.

 

[the monopoly guy]

sharks have no tongues

Not entirely correct. Sharks have tongues, in their stomach, from the peoples they eat.

Also, it is a fact that you are less likely to be killed by a shark than a waterslide, but covering your entire body in KY Jelly grossly increases the chance of fatality on said waterslide. Unknown if KY increases chance of fatality by sharks...

it does increase fatalities from bobsledding, shopping carts, and incedently toasters

 

[ThaBenMan]

Not speaking of which, that weird green thing in Black Mesa East in HL2 that Eli 'Doesn't know what it is', that Alyx brought in apparently, is the disembodied head of an NPC enemy that was cut from the game; The Combine Cremator. He was to carry a acid-sprayer kinda weapon to dissolve corpses, and you would've been able to get his weapon, perfect for dealing with Zombies and antlions, but as already stated was cut.

Whoa, that's really cool. I google'd it and it looks like it would've been pretty sweet in the game to see those things.

 

[RubberChickenMan]

ok so here is my share.

Most people in the states thought Mario was mexican during the 80s.

 

[Pingrash]

ok so here is my share.

Most people in the states thought Mario was mexican during the 80s.

Why am I not suprised

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

ok so here is my share.

Most people in the states thought Mario was mexican during the 80s.

Why am I not suprised

"Barrels? We don't need no steenkeng barrels!"

 

[Zombie_King]

Hmmmmmm so many....Superbad was a terrible movie.

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You die tonight. I'm not joking.

Also, and most people know the original truth, but it's a little jumbled. The creator of Coke soda loved cocaine (no, I am not joking) and Coke soda contained a minimal amount of it, up until, what was it, the 50's? (I'm sure I'm wrong, somebody correct me), the FDA took it out.

'Nother Coke fact is that it took John Pemberton 26 tries to get that trademarked signature
on the Coke cans and bottles.

Christ! I'm on the 16 Page! Does ANYONE read these?

 

[Tatter]

Christ! I'm on the 16 Page! Does ANYONE read these?

I'd rather read Snopes if I wanted to actually learn something. At least their stuff is usually researched better than "somehow managed to find it."

Also, Imperial measurements are still used in the US and UK because, while it's easier to count things by multiples of 5 or 10, it's also easier to divide things by multiples of 2 or 3, which (for practical work that takes place outside of the carefully measured and controlled environment of a laboratory or bank) makes Imperial units more useful than metric ones.

 

[poleboy]

Nintendo was origanally a trading card company, then a love hotel company.

Close. In the late 19th century they produced various materials for games, mostly playing cards. They owned and operated a "love hotel" at one time, but it was never their primary income AFAIK.


Tycho Brahe (famous astronomer) wore a silver prosthesis after losing part of his nose in a duel.
EDIT: Wikipedia claims is was made of copper. Still weird.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

Huh. We'll, I knew they were called phreaks, but I thought it would be more understandable if I just said hackers.

Heh... There's a nerd bigger then me who'd bother to correct this stuff.
XD

i've actually talked to Captain Crunch a couple times, really nice guy, if you knew what the correc term then why not use it?

And there is a point where you can see a ring instead of a half circle in a rainbow though.

it's not from above tho, you won't see a rainbow if you're in the sky looking down, you can if you are flying

the only way it can be behind you is if you turn your back on it but then it disappears

 

[werepossum]

if you read the first book of genesis those days are rather ambiguous, it was a priest that did some calculations that "proved" the earth was only 6000 years old

i was talking with someone recently who mentioned that there was a map of antartica that was made by an explorer who was told about it from even older maps

Wasn't it a priest that first came up with 6,000 years by adding up the ages of all the patron saints? I may be remembering that wrong.

Are you referring to the Fineaus map? It's pretty cool, shows Antarctica without ice and with a waterway dividing Antarctica into two land masses which supposedly hasn't happened for millions of years and which wasn't discovered (verified?) until seismic studies in the mid-twentieth century. The Piri Reis map also shows the northern coast of Antarctica in detail, and that coastline has been covered in ice for at least 6,000 years.

Hard to get good info on neat things like this, main stream science tries to ignore them and their proponents tend to be, um, odd.

Float glass gets its name from how it is made. Molten glass is poured onto a bed of molten tin and allowed to solidify. Float glass was invented in England. Previously, sheet glass was usually formed by pouring molten glass onto an iron plate, or by drawing solidifying molten glass (horizontally or vertically) through a series of rollers, both of which required extensive polishing and led to many defects and variable thickness.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Shut the hell up about glass!!

Greenland holds 1/4 of the worlds' freshwater surface ice.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

Wasn't it a priest that first came up with 6,000 years by adding up the ages of all the patron saints? I may be remembering that wrong.

Are you referring to the Fineaus map? It's pretty cool, shows Antarctica without ice and with a waterway dividing Antarctica into two land masses which supposedly hasn't happened for millions of years and which wasn't discovered (verified?) until seismic studies in the mid-twentieth century. The Piri Reis map also shows the northern coast of Antarctica in detail, and that coastline has been covered in ice for at least 6,000 years.

Hard to get good info on neat things like this, main stream science tries to ignore them and their proponents tend to be, um, odd.

yes on all three accounts

they ignore some things because of a few reasons

1 some of the proponents are nutty
2 some of them are very bad science
3 they go against the grain of accepted theory

there are a few good examples of this, one is the presence of early french in north america before the native americans came over, there is actually a genetic marker that points to this in the area they would have settled, another being the real age of the sphinx

the priest who did the adding took the age of adam and all the ppl after him and got the age from that

 

[Colodomoko]

We may come from our mothers womb, but we are all mixed up into diffrent families also our foster parents could be letting us date our own sister/brother because we were seperated at birth. The reason the govermment lets this happen is because they don't want to let us know our original parents are the complete opposite of what we look like. For example if your white your parents were black. blood lies on so many levels. I know this because I was working for MI6 until my boss fired me.

 

[Rabid Toilet]

The surface of Mars is not red.

Early photographs taken of Mars' surface were artificially colored red so as not to confuse the general public.