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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1040 on: May 05, 2009, 07:41:39 PM »


Zzzzoom!


Bejesus!! Just imaging what that would do to a person strapped to the line!!!! or the damage a few well placed concrete breeze blocks on the tracks might do!!!

zzzzzzzzoooooooooommm indeed!
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1041 on: May 06, 2009, 01:18:38 PM »
HOLY $HIT!

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1043 on: May 10, 2009, 12:35:37 PM »
thats pretty neat...  but why bother going underground at that point?  they could have just kept the bridge above ground in a straight line from there to the other side lol

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1044 on: May 10, 2009, 12:38:39 PM »
thats pretty neat...  but why bother going underground at that point?  they could have just kept the bridge above ground in a straight line from there to the other side lol
Boats need to go there as well. ;)
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1045 on: May 10, 2009, 01:42:48 PM »
aah right... 
well screw the boats then lol :P

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1046 on: May 10, 2009, 02:13:47 PM »
You know, I wouldn't be suprised for an exceptionally long bridge/tunnel that it could "hop" several times between a tunnel and a bridge.
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1047 on: May 10, 2009, 07:44:45 PM »
I've been through that tunnel.  That's in Chesapeake Bay.

The reason it goes to a tunnel is because it's cheaper to make a tunnel at that point.  Why is it cheaper?  The bridge would have to be huge because aircraft carriers and battleships from Norfolk Naval Base have to go through there.

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1048 on: May 10, 2009, 11:36:06 PM »
flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down....

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« Reply #1049 on: May 11, 2009, 08:09:15 AM »
Sweden also has a bridge like that called ?resundsbron. It goes from Malm? to Copenhagen.




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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1050 on: May 14, 2009, 04:22:54 PM »
Miley Cyrus was a lefty like her dad, but her dad made her learn to write with her right hand, as he though lefty's were a little backwards...

In effect she can write with her right, and do something else with her left at the same time...

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1051 on: May 14, 2009, 04:39:09 PM »
Miley Cyrus was a lefty like her dad, but her dad made her learn to write with her right hand, as he though lefty's were a little backwards...

In effect she can write with her right, and do something else with her left at the same time...

You and Miley, you've got to post a picture of you with her some time!

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1052 on: May 14, 2009, 04:48:43 PM »
eventually, when I get one I will... but I hate cameras... Somewhat Useful Fact eh? :P

Ok, um... White Chocolate is not really chocolate...

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1053 on: May 15, 2009, 12:23:16 PM »
Miley Cyrus was a lefty like her dad, but her dad made her learn to write with her right hand, as he though lefty's were a little backwards...

In effect she can write with her right, and do something else with her left at the same time...
This is actually quite common for practically any lefty of the previous generation(s).
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1054 on: May 15, 2009, 12:55:30 PM »
in an average hour, there are over 61,000 Americans airborne over the United States...

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« Reply #1055 on: May 15, 2009, 07:15:26 PM »
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« Reply #1056 on: May 15, 2009, 11:24:45 PM »

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1057 on: May 16, 2009, 11:09:09 AM »
Bill Shatner has played a white supremacist.

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1058 on: May 16, 2009, 12:20:28 PM »
rice is the chief food for half the people of the world...

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1059 on: May 16, 2009, 01:52:41 PM »
Rofl lol lmao
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8053471.stm

I was wondering when this would happen :lol:


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