Things you did not know

[Chaos Marine]

Ooh, thought of some more. Breasts are a type of overdeveloped sweat gland.

"Milk, it does a body... wait, what did you just say I was drinking?"

While I'm covering that bit of anatomy, the average erect length of an adult male gorilla's [for the love of God don't say it, or even think about it if you can help it] is 4 cm, or 1.5 inches. I think this explains a lot of their rage issues.

For their part, human beings have the largest [this word has been removed because it could cause the downfall of civilization if you read it] of any primate both in terms of actual size and in proportion to their body size... so if a girl complains about it, you can point out to her what the norm is for the type of animal our species belongs to and tell her to thank her lucky stars.

And just to be really obscure and put the statistics part of my degree to work, women have an average of two inches more space than men have something to take it up with. That isn't so interesting until you do the math and realize it means there are over 4,700 miles of unused [don't say it or all the children in the country will be ruined for life] in the United States alone.

I am a bad, bad man...

Actually, that's not entirely true. Eighty percent of a mollusk's mass is a productive organ.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Actually, that's not entirely true. Eighty percent of a mollusk's mass is a productive organ.

Apart from he did say primates...

 

[Sparkly Weasel]

Really?

Yarly.

 

[jockslap]

Heres one, as evil and cruel as the nazis where, we owe much of modern science to the experiments done in the camps, just sayin, i DO NOT like nazis, in fact, i think they should be shot on site, cuz they can do NO GOOD for the world, other than the whole medicin thing....

 

[Chaos Marine]

Actually, that's not entirely true. Eighty percent of a mollusk's mass is a productive organ.

Apart from he did say primates...

Yesd, I didn't realise that till someone else posted after him.

 

[bissettm]

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.

Every glass of water from your tap has been drunk by at least nine other people before you.

Your first point is not exactly true; they used to line glass with lead (that is of course very dense), and there is also evidence that the glass makers, because it's very difficult to get a perfectly flat piece of glass, would put the thicker end at the bottom (because the pane is more structurally stable that way).

The second quote should technically be "It is very statistically probable that each glass of water you drink has passed through at least nine other people...

Glass is in a liquid state though... thats why the old panes are wavy... thickness is due to the manufacturing. Most plastics are liquids too... thats why they don't work for structural supports as they eventually flow under stress and then the building falls over. (go polymer engineering grad school!)

The reason glass isnt used as supports is because it cracks under low loads (non toughened glass) due to the low fracture toughness properties (go mechanical engineering!)

oh yeah and giraffes can clean their ears with their tongues and have the same amount of vertebrae in their necks as humans

 

[cleverlymadeup]

No offense, but I like Fighters that have that Supersonic capability... And just to answer, No F-117s are not carrier capable. Their flight characteristics are too unusual so they require a lot of space to take off.... As for the Helis... That I can do...

too bad my friend divorced his ex, her grandfather worked for avro and had some really cool stories about the arrow

he said that the on paper version of the arrow was underpowered and it actually performed better than what we know about it. one story i do remember in the test flight was they decided to test the speed of the arrow, she took off and a few mins later they got a call from the american air force saying "we have a boogey coming in from you guys, we've never seen anything move that fast, what the is it?"


oh and on that note

murphy's law was created when they were testing out rocket chairs and the effects of g-force on humans, it started because the assistant to Col Murphy, who was helping them out, put a valve on backwards causing there to be no pressure build up.

the actual words uttered by Col Murphy were "yeah if there's a way for him to it up, he will" after the successful test Capt Stapp (at the time) said they were successful because they followed Murphy's law "if it can go wrong it will"

 

[Jimmyjames]

Most lizards have THREE eyes. This third eye is a photosensory organ called a "parietal eye" that can sense heat and UV rays, and can see shadows and shapes. It's visible as a single, shiny scale on the top of their heads.

 

[Calobi]

I'll see if I can dig up some of my work on the Catamaran Carrier, just to give ya an idea of the direction and design I was thinking for it.

A Catamaran Carrier. Where do I sign up to work on that thing. Sounds freaking amazing.

 

[the monopoly guy]

Most lizards have THREE eyes. This third eye is a photosensory organ called a "parietal eye" that can sense heat and UV rays, and can see shadows and shapes. It's visible as a single, shiny scale on the top of their heads.

this is only true for the tuatara, a reptile native to New Zealand that is, not in fact a lizard but an anceint species related to lizards, but no quite.

oh yes, and not only is Rosie O'Donell a lesbian, so is Ellen Degenerise (spelling?) and Dick cheneys daughter

 

[AndiGravity]

Ooh, thought of some more. Breasts are a type of overdeveloped sweat gland.

"Milk, it does a body... wait, what did you just say I was drinking?"

While I'm covering that bit of anatomy, the average erect length of an adult male gorilla's [for the love of God don't say it, or even think about it if you can help it] is 4 cm, or 1.5 inches. I think this explains a lot of their rage issues.

For their part, human beings have the largest [this word has been removed because it could cause the downfall of civilization if you read it] of any primate both in terms of actual size and in proportion to their body size... so if a girl complains about it, you can point out to her what the norm is for the type of animal our species belongs to and tell her to thank her lucky stars.

And just to be really obscure and put the statistics part of my degree to work, women have an average of two inches more space than men have something to take it up with. That isn't so interesting until you do the math and realize it means there are over 4,700 miles of unused [don't say it or all the children in the country will be ruined for life] in the United States alone.

I am a bad, bad man...

Actually, that's not entirely true. Eighty percent of a mollusk's mass is a productive organ.

Twitch.

Thank you, Root. =)

Since I've been essentially told both a wasp and a clam are primates, I have to ask: Do they actually teach people what primates are any more?

For that matter, do they teach people what mollusks are any more? There's no way that "eighty percent" statement is even close to true.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Post your random pieces of trivia no one else would know because you somehow managed to find it.

Here's one: The internet may not be a reliable source of truthful information.

In other news, "somehow managed to find it" is now a euphamism for "pulled it out of my @rse."

Yeah, and your name is a spoonerism by the way. Some of us my be cynical on this site, but we don't try to take a crap on people.

 

[Conqueror Kenny]

Most lizards have THREE eyes. This third eye is a photosensory organ called a "parietal eye" that can sense heat and UV rays, and can see shadows and shapes. It's visible as a single, shiny scale on the top of their heads.

Well I am going to need to poke that next time i see a lizard and compare it with poking a normal eye. Oh I am an evil bastard.

 

[The Desert Rats]

Question: Did kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

Yes. A pilot's helmet does more than just protect the pilot's head in case of a crash. In fact, that isn't its primary purpose considering how unlikely it is for a fighter pilot to survive a crash in the first place.

Fighter planes are very noisy, especially the old World War II fighters. The pilot's helmet helps to dampen the engine and combat noises, and contains the pilot's radio. Without one, it would be extremely difficult for the pilot to hear and understand instructions radioed to him, and communicate his status in return.

The pilot's helmet also holds the oxygen mask pilots often have to use to prevent themselves from passing out during flight. Again, this problem would have been much worse in older planes which couldn't be as well sealed or ventilated as modern planes are. Your kamikaze pilot may not be coming home, but you do want him to stay conscious long enough to reach his target.

So yes, they wore helmets.

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The problem with your radio argument is wrong, my freind, most Japanese pilots removed their radios to conserve weight on their Zero fighters. If you want to know more then I sujjest you visit this website, go through the thread a bit to find the bit about Zeros. http://www.ww2f.com/what-if/24025-heavy-bombers-not-fully-invested-into.html

On the planes...have you checked out the Eurofighter Typhoon? Joint British-German-Italian-Spanish fighter jet comparable to the F-22.
And yes, Britian did invent the tank, the (officcial name) No.1 Tritton Machine "Little Willie". Though the first to see combat was the Mk1 "Mother" aka "Big Willie".

Yeah, I'm obsessed with tanks. I would live in Bovington If i could....and it's too bad Kubinka is still owned by the Russian army.

And by the way to our American friends, did you know your yellow Schoolbusses are owned by A British Firm?

 

[crabman]

Owen Wilson (I believe) has never taken any acting lessons.

I saw a book about useless trivia about celebrities, I figured it might come in 'useful' one day...

The fourth most visited attraction in Paris, after the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame and the Louvre, is Jim Morrison's grave.