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[John the Gamer]

Just some interesting facts about how tiny we are to waste some of your weekend on so you can claim to be productive when somebody tells you you're just playing games all day long.

>(Skip to 1:30 for the interesting parts in this one)<

Spoiler: Here is some more for knowledgeless people

Crap, this one does not want to be embedded. [link]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtKNH2Y2OJM&feature=player_embedded[/link]

Please fill the comment section with a ton of related crap so you can learn even more useless facts! Just don't post porn because I don't want to get banned or such.

 

[strum4h]

If you are an astronomer these are not useless facts.

 

[John the Gamer]

If you are an astronomer these are not useless facts.

I didn't mean it that way, look at the first line for instance; "Just some interesting facts(...)" I just meant for anybody willing to to fill this tread with facts they'd like to share. For people to kill time with.

Spoiler: To have an effect as such;

 

[Galliam]

The largest known star, if placed in our solar system would stretch past Saturn. Saturn almost doubles the distance from the sun to Jupiter. :0

This is my current favorite astronomical fact.

 

[strum4h]

Giraffes can lick their own eyes.

 

[LuckyClover95]

Reminds me a bit of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B2xOvKFFz4

What it, it's well interesting (not porn!)

 

[Sp3ratus]

Reminds me a bit of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B2xOvKFFz4

What it, it's well interesting (not porn!)

Wow, thanks for that link, that was really, really awesome. More please, if you have it.

OT: I love astronomy fact. Learning those fact and thinking about them is just baffles me. Some of those stars that have been discovered are just massive beyond anything you can imagine, it's incredible. It's quite easy to feel insignificant in the face of numbers like that, but interesting, nonetheless!

 

[Akytalusia]

did it bother anyone else when Sol came up and it was called 'Sun'?

EDIT: nevermind. i looked it up and it seems 'The sun' is becoming quite canon. that's revolting.

 

[John the Gamer]

did it bother anyone else when Sol came up and it was called 'Sun'?

Yeah, I think that's because it's "Look at how tiny we are; For Dummies" or something.

 

[worldruler8]

I'm going to make you guys hate me, by showing a video of a game that failed miserably at doing what is in the said video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8dvMDFOFnA

 

[Melon Hunter]

did it bother anyone else when Sol came up and it was called 'Sun'?

EDIT: nevermind. i looked it up and it seems 'The sun' is becoming quite canon. that's revolting.

Well, to be fair, if we did start calling it Sol, Spanish speakers would have the same complaint as you.

Interesting fact: Mantis shrimps have 10 colour receptors in their eyes, compared to 3 receptors in human eyes. In theory, they should see colours that we cannot even comprehend.

 

[Cheesus333]

Reminds me a bit of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B2xOvKFFz4

What it, it's well interesting (not porn!)

I HAVE LEARNT A THING TODAY.

Thank you for that

Interesting fact: Mantis shrimps have 10 colour receptors in their eyes, compared to 3 receptors in human eyes. In theory, they should see colours that we cannot even comprehend.

Well, now I've learnt more in two minutes than I had all week! Again, thank you

 

[RA92]

Do you know that honey badgers are the most batshit insane and dangerous creatures on planet Earth?

It's true. O_O

 

[x EvilErmine x]

Interesting stuff...hmm

What's a tree mainly made of? -> Wood...what's wood mainly made of? -> Carbon...OK so where does the carbon come from? The soil right? No. It comes from the air in the form of CO[sub]2[/sub]. So what's a tree mainly made of? Condensed air. (Ever since learning this one I've not been able to look at trees in the same way...that fact is just too awesome)

Atoms are mostly filled with empty space. So why can't i walk through the wall? I'm made of atoms which are mostly empty space, so is the wall...why cant i then walk through it? Well because the electrons in your atoms and the electrons in the walls atoms repel each other, that's why.

If the chemical processes that release the energy stored in your body were to increase there rate of reaction by just 10% then you would burst into flames due to the heat generated by the reactions.

In ever one of us, in every cell there is a viral genome that has been chopped up and integrated into our DNA. If it wasn't there then there is a high (read 99%) possibility that you would not be here. It's vital to the development of the placenta/fetus in the womb.

Sharks do not get viruses or bacterial infections as they have nearly perfect immune systems.
Could this bee the reason that they have not really changed in millions of years?

All polar bares in the wild are Capricorns as they are all born in late December/early January

The human body is more efficient at producing energy than the sun.

SatNav GPS satellites need to take into account the special theory of relativity in order to work correctly.

 

[cookyy2k]

There are 10[sup]11[/sup] stars in the Milkyway. It contains at it's centre a Supermassive blackhole, known as sagittarius A* with a mass 4 million times that of the sun. The radius of each arm is roughly 10kpc (kiloparsecs) with the Sun residing at a radius of 8kpc from the centre. The dark matter halo surrounding the Galaxy is roughtly spherical (it's actually triaxial) an has a radius of around 200kpc which has a mass of 10[sup]12[/sup] times that of the sun, roughtly 20 times all the luminous matter.

 

[Liudeius]

Wow, that's crazy.
It would take two and a half hours to travel through that biggest star at the speed of light.
I didn't know such huge balls of fire existed...

 

[Aeshi]

I see your Youtube and raise you this!

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525347

 

[cookyy2k]

Wow, that's crazy.
It would take two and a half hours to travel through that biggest star at the speed of light.
I didn't know such hug balls of fire existed...

It's all about being massive enough to hold all that plasma in whilst being hot enough to pus the plasma out so it doesn't all collapse. This is known as hydrostatic equilibrium. For a nice description of this that doesn't get too technical http://www.astronomynotes.com/starsun/s7.htm is a good site

 

[aww yea]

Due to einsteins smarts n stuff we can actually travel a lot farther in the universe than it seems (time dilation and lenght contraction) but when we get back to earth MILLIONS OF YEARS will have passed, and everyone you know would be dead n stuff.

But yea you could totally reach other galaxies in a near lightspeed craft in a lifetime despite them being lightyears away from us, just make sure you dont have anyone you know or love first.

 

[cookyy2k]

Due to einsteins smarts n stuff we can actually travel a lot farther in the universe than it seems (time dilation and lenght contraction) but when we get back to earth MILLIONS OF YEARS will have passed, and everyone you know would be dead n stuff.

But yea you could totally reach other galaxies in a near lightspeed craft in a lifetime despite them being lightyears away from us, just make sure you dont have anyone you know or love first.

Only problem is as you get faster the force required to accelerate you gets a lot higher very quickly, We cannot produce the forces needed to get near light speed on anything much bigger than a few atoms.

SatNav GPS satellites need to take into account the special theory of relativity in order to work correctly.

Surely this would be the general theory of relativity due to being in a non-inertial frame.