Author Topic: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread (Read 220791 times)

Senator · « **Reply #1060 on:** May 17, 2009, 12:26:43 AM »

Don't you just hate it when you return to your home and you see it surrounded by a river of lava?

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #1061 on:** May 17, 2009, 03:01:08 PM »

Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace...

captain_obvious · « **Reply #1062 on:** May 17, 2009, 06:15:13 PM »

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Greg_Ellis

This guy played Olsen in ST09. He also appeared in the ds9 finale and plays Giles in C&C red alert 3.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Ellis_(actor)

Senator · « **Reply #1063 on:** May 19, 2009, 01:51:32 PM »

In other news:

^ I suspect this might be breaking a few copyrights. :mrgreen:

_{(sorry to edit your post, senator; i screwed up deleting spam and offtopic crap posts, you can spank me if youd like lol)}

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #1064 on:** May 19, 2009, 05:51:45 PM »

even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death...

captain_obvious · « **Reply #1065 on:** May 20, 2009, 10:02:19 AM »

Bleh, According to facebook my home country doesn't even exist anymore

All Welsh placenames are now listed as being in either "england" with a small minority of them (such as my hometown Caerphilly) being in the UK which to me is slightly better.

Senator · « **Reply #1066 on:** May 21, 2009, 10:11:40 PM »

Q: How do fish travel up a dam?
A: They use the fish ladder :]

Aeries · « **Reply #1067 on:** May 22, 2009, 02:18:37 AM »

Does it come with a road map for the poor little guys?

-Take a left at the reef, keep going then take a right at the sewer dump, and another left up the on-ramp.

Mustang · « **Reply #1068 on:** May 22, 2009, 10:41:11 AM »

Former President of Poland Lech Walesa only won 1% of the vote in the 2000 Polish presidential election.

Also: AERIES! What's up m8? PM me.

Nebula · « **Reply #1069 on:** May 22, 2009, 03:13:42 PM »

LRO: Mapping our Future

Senator · « **Reply #1070 on:** May 23, 2009, 07:15:00 PM »

'Tis a CNC mill.

Nebula · « **Reply #1071 on:** May 24, 2009, 09:57:29 PM »

Atlantis and the crew of the STS-125 mission landed safely in California at Edwards Air Force Base after completing the Hubble Servicing Mission on Sunday, May 24, 2009. The almost 5.3-million-mile mission included five spacewalks to repair and upgrade the world-famous observatory.

Senator · « **Reply #1072 on:** May 25, 2009, 06:32:50 AM »

In other news. ESA launched the Herschel space telescope. (Along with another spacecraft call Planck)
It has a 3.5m mirror, making it "teh biggest!11", but it will be observing in infrared.

An interesting thing about it, is it's orbit, or specifically, the lack of it, since it is actually heading for L2.
L2 is a Lagrangian point, and Lagranian points are areas in space where the sun/earth gravity cancels each other out.

There, it will enter something called a lissajous orbit, around it. So basically it will be "orbiting" what appears to be empty space.

This concludes our space lecture for today.

martyr · « **Reply #1073 on:** May 25, 2009, 04:29:57 PM »

now that is awesome

Senator · « **Reply #1074 on:** May 26, 2009, 06:10:54 PM »

...every tried to type ABOUT:ROBOTS in the Firefox 3 address bar?

Nebula · « **Reply #1075 on:** May 26, 2009, 06:14:35 PM »

haha good laugh

MLeo · « **Reply #1076 on:** May 26, 2009, 06:36:53 PM »

There used to be about:internets in Chrome, which displayed the pipes screensaver under a heading of "Don't clog the Tubes!". I think it was taken out on the recent new version.

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #1077 on:** May 26, 2009, 07:32:11 PM »

Quote from: Senator on May 26, 2009, 06:10:54 PM

...every tried to type ABOUT:ROBOTS in the Firefox 3 address bar?

lol i found it about a year ago

http://bcs-tng.com/forums/index.php?topic=2171.msg26216#msg26216

Nebula · « **Reply #1078 on:** May 26, 2009, 07:43:02 PM »

haha digging up the past are we?

Phaser · « **Reply #1079 on:** May 26, 2009, 09:14:52 PM »

OMG That's great. ("And they have a plan"--Ha!)

I wonder if people discover these things through sheer boredom, or if it's by some other means.

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