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Offline Senator

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1080 on: May 29, 2009, 06:31:27 PM »
What the title says.

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Offline JimmyB76

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1081 on: May 30, 2009, 01:05:34 AM »
thats just disturbing lol :P
but it's so cute, i want twelve of them!  :D

nylon is made from coal and petroleum...
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1082 on: May 30, 2009, 01:50:23 AM »
I WANT ONE!
Why is it disturbing...? I'm confused...
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1083 on: May 30, 2009, 05:18:09 AM »
Looks like a crossbreed of a mouse and a chicken.
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Offline Phaser

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1084 on: May 30, 2009, 03:10:58 PM »
Quote from: 1DeadlySAMURAI on May 30, 2009, 05:18:09 AM
Looks like a crossbreed of a mouse and a chicken.
That's what I was thinking.  Well, that and "WHAT THE F*CK?!"
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1085 on: May 30, 2009, 03:47:28 PM »
snowiest city in the U.S.: Blue canyon, California...
sucks to be them lol
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1086 on: May 30, 2009, 03:54:45 PM »
Quote from: JimmyB76 on May 30, 2009, 03:47:28 PM
snowiest city in the U.S.: Blue canyon, California...
sucks to be them lol

I had to re read that..thought the place was called "blue crayon" :\

The fiat 1.2l 16v engine as fitted in the fiat punto used unleaded petrol and NOT diesel as my gf found out in one of her "experiments" whilst under the influnce of her blonde hair...

Engine seriously farked peepulz :(
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1087 on: May 30, 2009, 05:22:23 PM »
Quote from: JimmyB76 on May 30, 2009, 03:47:28 PM
snowiest city in the U.S.: Blue canyon, California...
sucks to be them lol

Shit, I'd move there, I love snow.
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1088 on: May 30, 2009, 06:13:57 PM »
freaks...  stupid damn shoveling...  stupid damn winter...  *grumble grumble*  :arms:

in 1998, Sony accidentally sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes...

dammit i want one of them  8)
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1089 on: May 31, 2009, 01:09:59 AM »
this week in NASA:

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Offline Senator

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1090 on: May 31, 2009, 02:02:24 PM »


The Business end of the soviet N1 rocket. The N1 was the competitive program to the Apollo program, and each one of those is Saturn sized.

Their (unmanned of course) launch history is:

First one: Exploded 69 seconds after lift off.
Second one: Exploded 23 seconds after engine started, and took the entire launch tower with it.
Third one: Went of course, it had to be exploded 51 seconds after lift off.
Fourth one: First the engines shut down 106 seconds after lift off. Then it exploded.

So yes, there were a few kinks to work out...
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Offline MLeo

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1091 on: May 31, 2009, 02:14:59 PM »
You mean that each one of those nozzels (sp) has the same radius as a Saturn rocket???

Synchronizing those blastoffs will be a pain, nevermind the fuel consumption...
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1092 on: May 31, 2009, 02:16:54 PM »
Err, no. I mean the entire thing.
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Offline JimmyB76

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1093 on: June 01, 2009, 09:59:45 AM »
cats make over 100 different vocal sounds; dogs can make about ten...
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1094 on: June 01, 2009, 03:37:27 PM »
rly I kinda don't think that's true.

Supercavitation is the use of cavitation effects to create a large bubble of gas inside a liquid, allowing an object to travel at great speed through the liquid by being wholly enveloped by the bubble. The cavity (the bubble) reduces the drag on the object, since drag is normally about 1,000 times greater in liquid water than in a gas.

Cavitation is the formation of vapour bubbles of a flowing liquid in a region where the pressure of the liquid falls below its vapor pressure.



Interesting stuff... this is being developed for future submarine torpedoes. (extreme speeds)  
one such torp is the VA-111 Shkval that can approach speeds in excess of 200 knots (370 km/h)

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Offline FarShot

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1095 on: June 01, 2009, 07:33:04 PM »
Cavitation drive is a fictional technology in the Aquanox universe, allowing hypervelocity speeds through large water bodies, the underwater equivalent of warp drive.

On a side note, Aquanox is my all-time favorite game, too bad it had so many compatibility issues though.  It crashed virtually every 30 minutes on my computer. :(
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1096 on: June 02, 2009, 06:54:17 AM »
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Offline Villain

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1097 on: June 02, 2009, 07:15:20 AM »
God knows the almighty cat moderator would be able to.  :arms:
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"The design is clearly ancient... Launched hundreds of thousands of years ago."

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1098 on: June 02, 2009, 07:18:53 AM »
that, and i dont spam this thread or post made-up facts :P

only 1% of bacteria cause disease in humans...
(neb, shall i provide proof for that one too? lol j/k :P)
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Offline Villain

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1099 on: June 02, 2009, 07:22:49 AM »
Quote from: JimmyB76 on June 02, 2009, 07:18:53 AM
that, and i dont spam this thread or post made-up facts :P

only 1% of bacteria cause disease in humans...
(neb, shall i provide proof for that one too? lol j/k :P)
THAT ONE PERCENT KILLED ENOUGH ALREADY!

Susan Boyle got admitted to a mental home. (Is that even her name?)
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"The design is clearly ancient... Launched hundreds of thousands of years ago."

Quote from: JimmyB76
der-ner-ner-ner-ner ..... der-ner-ner-ner-ner .....
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Quote from: Rick Sternbach, on the topic of the Galor Class' length
...Probably not, but the number I get(379.6m) could be considered ?original intent,? a term that I think I will be using from now on, and ?canon? be damned.
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