Things you did not know

[sms_117b]

A photon created from a fusion reaction at the or close to the center of the sun will take several hundreds of thousands of years to reach the suns surface, and in this time will be involved in approx 10^22 collisions.

Providing or sun collapsed to a black hole and we survived the red giant stage the earth would be unaffected except for not receiving enough light as the force from gravity would be the same.

Generation III stars were created at the beginning of the universe, (Generation I stars were created most recently), consist only of hydrogen and collapse into a Hyper-nova, the resulting black hole, some scientists believe, is what is at the center of every galaxy.

If you were to step on the surface of Venus you would instantaneously die in four different ways, but I can't remember what they are.

Brown dwarfs are failed stars and have the approximate minimum mass of Jupiter.

Jupiter emits more energy than it receives.

I love my university course!

 

[AndiGravity]

Australians nearly killed young hitler

that makes us officially the greatest people alive... with the best beaches.

No offense, but doesn't that make you NEARLY the greatest people alive? Since he ended up committing suicide, everyone who fought in World War II can claim they didn't quite kill Hitler.

 

[the monopoly guy]

there are bushes in the senora (i dont know the spelling its the huge desert in the american southwest) are hundreds of thousands of years old
the largest specias of ant in the world was 1 inch long
whales evolved from a wolf like creature closely related to sheep
all chuck noris jokes are over rated
some one will pop a vein due to the last statement
the man who invented plasma (the blood you get in a hospital) bleed to death after a car crash because the hospital wouldn't treat a black man (irony)
neanderthals and crmagnons could interbreed but, like mules, the offspring could not reproduce

 

[the monopoly guy]

Australians nearly killed young hitler

that makes us officially the greatest people alive... with the best beaches.

No offense, but doesn't that make you NEARLY the greatest people alive? Since he ended up committing suicide, everyone who fought in World War II can claim they didn't quite kill Hitler.

yea, you didnt kill him therefor you are no better then brittian or russia...but you are better then america...

 

[CapnCrunch]

The two most infamous cases of leopards killing and eating human beings; "The Leopard of Rudraprayag", claimed to have killed over 125 people, and the "Panar Leopard" claimed to have killed over 400, were both killed by the famous hunter Jim Corbett

 

[AndiGravity]

Australians nearly killed young hitler

that makes us officially the greatest people alive... with the best beaches.

No offense, but doesn't that make you NEARLY the greatest people alive? Since he ended up committing suicide, everyone who fought in World War II can claim they didn't quite kill Hitler.

yea, you didnt kill him therefor you are no better then brittian or russia...but you are better then america...

Rather than return that bit of rudeness, I will simply ask you to explain your position to those of us from America.

 

[CapnCrunch]

It is impossible for a normal human to lick his/her own elbows.

Not true. I can lick my elbow.

 

[smallharmlesskitten]

It is impossible for a normal human to lick his/her own elbows.

Not true. I can lick my elbow.

Thats because your not normal

 

[Voodoo Child]

Glass is a liquid, not a solid - you can see this when you see windows on centuries old houses, the glass is thicker on the bottom of the pane.

this is wrong, it's not a liquid, it is a solid and they aren't thicker it's just poorly made glass

Actually, there isn't any good answer as to whether or not it's a liquid or solid since it displays properties of both and is atypical in the way it changes phases, so you could argue that both ways.

Those arguments need never occur if you call it what it's structure what it actually is, an Amorphous Solid.

 

[LV Solace]

sms117b YOu would die from methane poisoning, the extreme heat, radiation poisoning, and I don;t know the final one, I;d have to guess it would be another type of poisoning.

 

[AndiGravity]

sms117b YOu would die from methane poisoning, the extreme heat, radiation poisoning, and I don;t know the final one, I;d have to guess it would be another type of poisoning.

It rains sulfuric acid on Venus, so you'd also dissolve.

 

[the monopoly guy]

Australians nearly killed young hitler

that makes us officially the greatest people alive... with the best beaches.

No offense, but doesn't that make you NEARLY the greatest people alive? Since he ended up committing suicide, everyone who fought in World War II can claim they didn't quite kill Hitler.

yea, you didnt kill him therefor you are no better then brittian or russia...but you are better then america...

Rather than return that bit of rudeness, I will simply ask you to explain your position to those of us from America.

well for one I am from america, and Bush has brought is even further into debt, ignored the fact that we have no money, hemoraged it all into a pointless war that was supposedly won years ago, theres the weekly scandals thats forgotten about forever due to the over saturated media; somehow more interested in some crazy reverend totally irrelevent to anything going on or whether or not angelina jolie is having twins, remember Karl Rover? guantanamo bay? abu graiv (I don't know how you spell it) of course you dont! because Angelina's having twins! oo! don't forget about the mayor that was a total horndog, and then the lieutenent governer that replaced him was too! plus australians, brittish, irish, new zealanders, and the like all kick ass

that was terribly off subject, I apologize for that
the icefish's blood is an antifreeze
there is a squid even bigger then teh giant squid in the anartcic ocean
french army knives only have corkscrews and white flags on them (that was a joke)
there was a mammal during the late jurrassic-cretacous the fed on dinosaurs. it was about the size of a dog

 

[Niniux]

sms117b YOu would die from methane poisoning, the extreme heat, radiation poisoning, and I don;t know the final one, I;d have to guess it would be another type of poisoning.

I'm pretty sure you'd die from the immense atmospheric surface pressure. Just over 90 times that of Earth (If I recall correctly).

 

[AndiGravity]

Glass is a liquid, not a solid - you can see this when you see windows on centuries old houses, the glass is thicker on the bottom of the pane.

this is wrong, it's not a liquid, it is a solid and they aren't thicker it's just poorly made glass

Actually, there isn't any good answer as to whether or not it's a liquid or solid since it displays properties of both and is atypical in the way it changes phases, so you could argue that both ways.

Those arguments need never occur if you call it what it's structure what it actually is, an Amorphous Solid.

The trouble is that glass doesn't just exist as an amorphous solid. It can be an amorphous liquid, too, and the glass transition phase isn't properly considered to be either of those. To further complicate matters, at least when it comes to "glass glass" the transition phase is not clearly defined and is dependent on physical factors outside the material in question.

Couple that with the fact glass often doesn't exit its transition phase while in use, that it does so with no consistency, and that glass will sometimes spontaneously settle out of its transition phase into a definite crystalline solid state, and you end up with an argument which seems to have no clear resolution, anyway.

Glass can be an amorphous solid, it can be an amorphous liquid, and it does spend a lot of its time in a transition phase between the two. Most of the time, you can't really tell just by looking at the stuff because glass is often as useful in its transitory state as it is in its solid state, if not moreso.

Some argue one way, some argue the other, but neither side seems to have come up with the trump card to close out the debate. Hence my statement there isn't any good answer.

Personally, I think there's a difference between a complete answer and a practical one, and most of the time it's the latter people need. Practically, it's just better to assume glass is a) fragile, and b) likely to injure you if you're too close to it when it shatters or breaks since you exist in a much softer and squishier state than it does. Beyond that, most of the time people don't really need to know what phase of matter it is.

 

[the monopoly guy]

there have been 17 recorded male pregnancies (how does that work)
the youngest recorded pregnancie was a 5 year old in india
San Fransisco used to be one of the most dangerous ctities in teh U.S.
a woman in china was once found with 20 cobblestones in her stomach
and iron deficiency can cause pica, an eating disorder in which you compulsivly eat paper

 

[Geoffrey42]

and iron deficiency can cause pica, an eating disorder in which you compulsivly eat paper

I wasn't sure about this, so I went to look it up and confirm it: Pica isn't specifically eating paper. It's craving non-food items compulsively. Paper falls into that category, but it is not specifically paper.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Passive smoking is more dangerous from a charcoal barbecue than it is from cigarette smoke.

Copper poisoning causes the iris to have a copper ring around it.

Chuck Norris can divide by zero.
(Sorry...had to)

 

[CapnCrunch]

It is impossible for a normal human to lick his/her own elbows.

Not true. I can lick my elbow.

Thats because your not normal

Yeah... Guess I can't argue that point, although just a few hours ago I met a lady who can also lick her elbow (she demonstrated) thus there are at least 2 of us.