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Interesting 'Facts' 2.0
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Falco&Victory
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Life, living organisms, are comprised of 4 things: Quarks, down quarks, electrons, and energy.
In the time it would take you to say '3000 puppies' 3000 puppies will have been born.
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In the time it would take you to say '3000 puppies' 3000 puppies will have been born.
3000 PUPPIES 3000 PUPPIES 3000 PUPPIES 3000 PUPPIES 3000 PUPPIES 3000 PUPPIES 3000 PUPPIES 3000 PUPPIES 3000 PUPPIES 3000 PUPPIES 3000 PUPPIES 3000 PUPPIES 3000 PUPPIES 3000 PUPPIES 3000 PUPPIES 3000 PUPPIES 3000 PUPPIES 3000 PUPPIES 3000 PUPPIES 3000 PUPPIES 3000 PUPPIES 3000 PUPPIES!!!!!!!
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Bamzu ?
No no no... doesn't have to be about science at all. Just that a lot of interesting facts are scientific in nature.
False. Could not find any source to substantiate this.
I have to go to bed now, so I'll do some more "facts" tomorrow.
Also, this thread will not devolve into spam! That is all.
Falco&Victory
Smash Champion
My science class had a ribbon worm, and we deprived it of food to test it out. It started to nibble on itself.
False. Where is Dylan_Tnga?
F&V... oh F&V... Really. Really stop posting anything to do with science. As commendable as it is for attempting to have a vague understanding of modern physics at a young age, it is blatantly obvious to everyone (that actually knows science) that you have no idea what you're talking about.
What goes on behind the event horizon of a black hole is impossible to tell from the outside. Strictly speaking it's meaningless to try to say what it looks like inside. There are many possibilities, one of which is that the black hole can have a spin. It is possible for the whole thing to rotate, in which case there will be no singularity at the center of the event horizon. It is always worded "it is possible for..." because like I said, you can't ever know what's going on inside.
And even if it weren't spinning, the matter inside the event horizon wouldn't be "the size of a speck of dust". It would be entirely sizeless, a singularity.
Mr.Lombardi34
Smash Ace
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Also, this thread will not devolve into spam! That is all.[/QUOTE]
It will inevidably either get too sciency or too spamy in the future. One or the other, this thread will be closed eventually.
By the way, everytime I go to SWF I always drink snapple, so I will always have a snapple fact...
A starfish is the only animal that can turn it's stomach inside out.
I've also noticed that there are different facts for each flaver, so if you always drink peach, you'll keep getting the same facts.
Also, this thread will not devolve into spam! That is all.[/QUOTE]
It will inevidably either get too sciency or too spamy in the future. One or the other, this thread will be closed eventually.
By the way, everytime I go to SWF I always drink snapple, so I will always have a snapple fact...
A starfish is the only animal that can turn it's stomach inside out.
I've also noticed that there are different facts for each flaver, so if you always drink peach, you'll keep getting the same facts.
Falco&Victory
Smash Champion
Lol, I just got that fact from a website, but other sites I've read say that the center of a black hole is too small to see. When something so large collapses in on itself the center would most likely be tiny, but that's just one or 2 sites said.
@Lombardi: You clever b@st@ard, I want snapple
Idaho- It is forbidden by law for one citizen to give another citizen a box of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds.
Somalia, Africa- It is illegal to carry old gum on the tip of you nose.
Connecticut- It is illegal to walk across the street on your hands.
Not sure if those are still in place, but those are weird laws
Ensee
Smash Ace
In North Carolina it is illegal to plow a field with an elephant.
MysticKenji
Smash Master
"Pittsburgh is the only city where all major sports teams have the same colors: Black and gold."
Handorin
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It's not so much we can't see it because of it being so small. It's that we actually can't see it because we can only see the effects of it because not even light escapes its pull. Like AF4W said, it's all pretty much guesswork.
Peeze
Smash Master
It is illegal in california to beat ur wife with a belt thicker than 2 inches without her consent.
Zook
Perpetual Lazy Bum
It is physically imposible for a pig on flat ground to look up at the sky.
The killer whale is a type of dolphin, not whale.
Garfish have green bones.
Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.
Lobsters have decentralizeds nervous systems without a cerebral cortex, which is where reaction to painful stimuli happens. Therefor, lobsters feel no pain. The same goes for grasshoppers.
The killer whale is a type of dolphin, not whale.
Garfish have green bones.
Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.
Lobsters have decentralizeds nervous systems without a cerebral cortex, which is where reaction to painful stimuli happens. Therefor, lobsters feel no pain. The same goes for grasshoppers.
HeadISBAgent
Smash Apprentice
Mr.Lombardi34
Smash Ace
Manhatten is the only burrough in New York that doesn't have a street called main street.
What happened to goldshadow?, he hasn't been disproving lately.
What happened to goldshadow?, he hasn't been disproving lately.
Handorin
Smash Hero
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I didnt know wives ever consent to being beat. o.Oa TWO inch thick belt? o.0
I didn't even know cow hide came that thick
Rage.
Smash Ace
Ummm, Source?
False. Not quite sure where you heard this... it has some truth to it, but I'm labeling it false anyway because it's ambiguous, arbitrary and incomplete.
Life and living organisms, everything on our planet and solar system and most other stars and solar systems, are made of matter: specifically, atoms: protons, neutrons and electrons. Protons and neutrons are made of little things called quarks. There are six types of quarks: up, down, top, strange, charm, and bottom. Protons are made of two up quarks and one down quark. Neutrons are made of one up quark and two down quarks. Particles made of three quarks are called "baryons"... so both protons and neutrons are baryons.
Electrons belong to a class of particles called "leptons".
I wouldn't count "energy" as a separate item in that list either; it's just the result of interactions between all these particles. However, the things that hold some of these particles together (like the "strong nuclear force" of the nucleus) is the result of particles called gluons.
In other words, if you were to ask me the most fundamental particles that compose life, I could say any of the following: "protons, neutrons, and electrons"... "baryons and leptons and gluons"... "up quarks, down quarks, and electrons", and so on, and every single one of those answers would be right.
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/gen01/gen01078.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarks
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/phy99/phy99211.htm
False. According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, in 2001 there were about 37.9 million households with dogs and an average of 1.6 dogs per household. According to a study published in the Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, the birth rate for dogs was estimated to be 11.4 puppies/100 dogs.
So let's do the math! (37,900,000 households x 1.6 dogs/house)= 60,640,000 dogs total. Then (0.114 birth rate x 60,640,000 total dogs)= 6,912,960 puppy births/year. Divide by 365 days/year, divide by 24 hours/day, divide by 3600 seconds/hour, and that's about 0.219 puppies per second.
That means a new puppy is born in the US about every 4.6 seconds! That's a lot of puppies, but definitely not 3000 every few seconds. Not even if you were to get data on all the puppies of the world!
I'm more of a cat person, but it's hard to rival the adorability of a puppy!http://www.leaonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15327604jaws0704_1?journalCode=jaws
http://www.avma.org/reference/marketstats/ownership.asp
True. Starfish can evert (turn inside out) their cardiac stomach (they have two stomachs) to digest the inner parts of shellfish! I could find no other instance of gastric eversion in any other animal.
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/G331/lectures/331echin2.html
Somewhat True. It's more accurate to say dolphins themselves are also actually whales. According to modern taxonomy, there are two suborders of animals under the order "Cetacea": Odontoceti (toothed whales) and Mysticeti (baleen whales). If you break it down further, there is one family of toothed whales called Delphinidae. Both dolphins and killer whales belong to "delphinidae".
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Cetacea.html
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Delphinidae.html
http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/nmml/education/cetaceans/killertax.htm
True. Their bones turn bright green when cooked, apparently.
http://italianfood.about.com/od/fishdishes/ig/La-Galleria-del-Pesce/Aguglie--or-Garfish.htm
http://www.fishing.co.uk/article.php3?id=2142
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfish
True. Lobsters do not have any pain receptors like we do. This doesn't mean they won't respond to a certain stimulus though; even if it's not "painful", it can still cause the lobster to react, act defensively, attack, escape, etc. This is true of most related organisms.
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/qa1.html#q74
Heh, ever heard of "S&M"?
That was a good album.
Rage.
Smash Ace
Dont you have to remeber that puppys are born in litters
with ussally 4 of 5?
thats quite abit more
with ussally 4 of 5?
thats quite abit more
Falco&Victory
Smash Champion
**** Uncle John's Bathroom reader and it's false facts...
That puppy fact is worldwide, not just in the US, but it's propably false. or was it 300 puppies?
Anyway, the quickest path between 2 objects is a curved line. Trippy?
That puppy fact is worldwide, not just in the US, but it's propably false. or was it 300 puppies?
Anyway, the quickest path between 2 objects is a curved line. Trippy?
Purely theoretically, the following is true:
If a turtle and Achilles compete in a Marathon-contest, and Achilles gives the turtle a little advantage (a couple of meters or so, doesn't really matter), he'll never get past the turtle, and neither of them will ever reach the goal.
Prove me wrong, I'll give you a medal.
If a turtle and Achilles compete in a Marathon-contest, and Achilles gives the turtle a little advantage (a couple of meters or so, doesn't really matter), he'll never get past the turtle, and neither of them will ever reach the goal.
Prove me wrong, I'll give you a medal.
Bailey
Smash Hero
He eats the turtle??
Keku, are you referring to Xeno's paradoxes? Because you DO know that that's a load of crap right? It was all proven wrong with Isaac Newton.
F&V: Wtf man... really... no more math or science topics for you. Please no more. It pains me to read it.
F&V: Wtf man... really... no more math or science topics for you. Please no more. It pains me to read it.
Misguided, but not entirely wrong: The principle of "The shortest path between two parts is a line" is only true in Euclidean space. We do not live in Euclidean space. The shortest path between two points will be... very hard to tell. It will depend on the curvature of space.
:D And prolly dies of a heart attack thereafter. Turtle-meat ain't healthy y'know.
Indeed I am, but exactly how did he disprove it? Of course, purely theoretically thinking, as we all know this doesn't stand for anything in reality.
Edit: he's called Zeno by the way.
Lol, it's a dumb name anyway. Yea, Zeno was proven wrong with the invention of calculus. What Zeno didn't know is that infinite sequences CAN sum to a finite number. So sorry.
*Hands over a medal*I'll bring up the subject in our maths class in a couple of months when we'll learn calculus.
*Holds Medal above head*
Ha! Beat you to it, GoldShadow!
Ha! Beat you to it, GoldShadow!
The birth rate takes that into account.
Aaah... well you know what? Medals are stupid anyway!
Just to add my 50 cents, that line is called a "geodesic"! On Earth for example, since the earth is spherical, the path between any two points is a geodesic.
Haha, c'mon, let him post! Better to correct any false notions or information someone may have than to let it linger! Besides he's been a pretty big help in keeping this topic alive!
MysticKenji
Smash Master
"A rat can fall from a five story building without injury."
"No one has ever been able to domesticate the African elephant. Only the Indian elephant can be trained by man."
"No one has ever been able to domesticate the African elephant. Only the Indian elephant can be trained by man."
Falco&Victory
Smash Champion
Thank you Goldshadow, this thread is a learning opportunity =]
In a book published about cats landing on their feet it was shown that many cats falling from more than 5 stories had less serious injuries then cats falling from 3-5 stories. One cat even survived I think it was a 200 foot fall.(the publishers got hate mail because readers thought that they did the cat dropping themselves)
The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.
The world's largest living organism is a giant fungi, as large as the entire forest it lays beneath
The Atlantic Giant Squid's eye can be as large as 15.75 inches (40 centimeters) wide.
Echidnas and platypus both lay eggs, but they're both mammals.
True. Rats and rodents are surprisingly resilient creatures.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/03/0331_030331_rats.html
False. The African elephant can and has been domesticated; however, due to its "wild" nature, it is much more difficult to domesticate than the Asian elephant.
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/african-elephant.html
http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-8206/African-savanna-elephant
True. The blue whale is indeed the loudest animal, and its low-frequency songs can indeed be heard over 500 miles away. The loudest animal above water is the howler monkey, whose howls can be heard up to 3 miles away.
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/AnimalRecords/
Possibly. A fungus in Washington, Armillaria ostovae, covers 1500 acres and is between 400 and 1000 years old. Another similar fungus in Oregon covers 2,200 acres. However, others say that Australia's Great Barrier Reef is the largest organism, spanning several thousand kilometers of coastline. Technically, the Great Barrier Reef is several hundred different reefs connected together... so it's hard to say what truly is the largest organism.
http://geology.csusb.edu/360/bigfungs.htm
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/118136685785140.xml&coll=7
True. The giant squid's eye grows to be 25-40 cm in diameter. They have the largest eyes of any animal.
http://giantsquid.msstate.edu/Background/squidtxt.html
True. Echidnas and platypuses are both monotremes. Monotremes are the only egg-laying mammals.
Falco&Victory
Smash Champion
it helps when I finally figured out how to unlock google on my computer's security lock. Hacking rules...
The tentacles of the giant Arctic jellyfish can reach 120 feet (36.6 meters) in length.
The highest temperature produced in a laboratory was 920,000,000 F (511,000,000 C) at the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor in Princeton, NJ, USA.(quick Q, what temp would burn the atmosphere thus ending all life as we know it?)
The deepest part of the ocean is 35,813 feet (10,916 meters) deep and occurs in the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. At that depth the pressure is 18,000 pounds (9172 kilograms) per square inch.
The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter “J”.
No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.(false, I'm guessing. Simple logic tells me that even with exponential growth a piece of paper large enough could be folded much more than 7 times)
Most gemstones contain several elements. The exception? The diamond. It's all carbon.
shadenexus18
Smash Master
Did you know that.....
The Black Mamba Snake's poison is more lethal than any other?
If a human conjure up enough chi (energy) that it is possible to fry an egg on the palm of your hand?
The Black Mamba Snake's poison is more lethal than any other?
If a human conjure up enough chi (energy) that it is possible to fry an egg on the palm of your hand?
-Neither MIT nor Stanford are accredited schools. You don't need to be when you have their reputation.