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Offline MLeo

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1100 on: June 02, 2009, 12:37:25 PM »
Quote from: USS Prime 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!
Actually, Spanish Flu killed more, and that's a virus.

Remember, the common cold is part of that one percent, and it, generally speaking, doesn't kill you.
Oops, that's another virus. :S

Plague (the black/bubonic(sp) one) is also a virus.
Malaria, virus.
E. coli, virus.


I think most of those 1% will only cause you some indigestion. :P
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1101 on: June 02, 2009, 12:46:33 PM »
Quote from: USS Prime on June 02, 2009, 07:22:49 AM
Susan Boyle got admitted to a mental home. (Is that even her name?)

Yes, that is her name and yes, she got admitted (incoming fact) for exhaustion.
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1102 on: June 03, 2009, 05:48:04 PM »
The first TCP/IP-based wide-area network was operational by January 1, 1983 as an internal project of ARPANET.
The opening of the network to commercial interests began in 1988.
However, the '88 was largely operated through command line interfaces and scary looking screens with only text on them.
It wasn't until 1991 that CERN created the www technology that someone could have "web pages" as we know them.

Anyways, the internet archive appears to have, errr, archived some of the early web pages.
Here is for example, a webpage no modern design would dare have in his portofolio, White House, circa Oct 23, 1997:
http://web.archive.org/web/19971023010656/http://www3.whitehouse.gov/ (mmm, bevel effect and repeated image backgrounds)
And in Dec 01, 1998: http://web.archive.org/web/19981202165238/www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Welcome-nt.html (Dazzling the crowds with its .gifs)

Simpler times. :P
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1103 on: June 03, 2009, 06:42:56 PM »
I'm missing the blink tags and animated flame gifs. :'( *Is disappointed in whitehouse webmasters of the time*


Typecasting is referred to in the Netherlands as the "Swiebertje effect", but also as the "Tarzan effect", which also works outside of the Netherlands, mostly USA, in this case, it's Johny Weissmuller. There is another effect, for which I unfortunately do not know the English term, in the Netherlands, which is the "bril op/bril af" effect (glasses on/glasses off effect). Most notably, Superman movies feature this effect quite heavily and are infact the origin of this term.
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1104 on: June 03, 2009, 06:54:56 PM »
at birth, a panda bear is smaller than a mouse....
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1105 on: June 03, 2009, 07:19:38 PM »
Northamerica moves away from Europe at an average speed of 8 CM each year.
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1106 on: June 03, 2009, 07:29:52 PM »
In old English, there was no 'W', instead names such as "William" were spelt, and pronnounced, "Gvilliam".
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1107 on: June 04, 2009, 06:58:07 PM »
Quote from: MLeo on June 02, 2009, 12:37:25 PM
Quote from: USS Prime 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!
Actually, Spanish Flu killed more, and that's a virus.

Remember, the common cold is part of that one percent, and it, generally speaking, doesn't kill you.
Oops, that's another virus. :S

Plague (the black/bubonic(sp) one) is also a virus.
Malaria, virus.
E. coli, virus.


I think most of those 1% will only cause you some indigestion. :P

And with those handy facts, I go to recreate these with Pandemic 2. :arms:
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der-ner-ner-ner-ner ..... der-ner-ner-ner-ner .....
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1108 on: June 04, 2009, 07:01:59 PM »
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1109 on: June 04, 2009, 08:05:14 PM »

(Hummer demonstrating its famous "safety". Wow, is the school bus even damaged?)
Also: Soon to be a Chinese product.
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1110 on: June 04, 2009, 09:23:42 PM »
I am not at all surprised by that fact.

Quote from: Senator on June 03, 2009, 05:48:04 PM
The first TCP/IP-based wide-area network was operational by January 1, 1983 as an internal project of ARPANET.
I first read that acronym as 'ARMPIT'.

....It could be useful!
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1111 on: June 05, 2009, 08:04:30 AM »
Btw, although GM wasn't advertising it before now it suddenly wants to make very clear that the military version of Hummers (?umvee) has no relationship with the civilian version.
(no wonder, judging by that crash photo)

So all those who were buying those and were thinking to themselves "wow, dude I am driving something the military has."... IN YOUR FACE.

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1112 on: June 05, 2009, 10:15:17 AM »
the only one that close was the H1 and that stopped production a while ago.

the H2 and H3 hummers have nowhere near the same construction/interior space.
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1113 on: June 05, 2009, 05:54:17 PM »
America is suddenly not about fuel-guzzlers and hooge frames? wut
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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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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1114 on: June 05, 2009, 05:59:38 PM »
by feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with multi-colored yolks...
trippy!   green eggs and ham indeed!
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1115 on: June 05, 2009, 06:33:06 PM »
Quote from: JimmyB76 on June 05, 2009, 05:59:38 PM
by feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with multi-colored yolks...
trippy!   green eggs and ham indeed!

I will not eat them Sam I Am!  (Jimmy now why on earth did you get your cat to endorse Green Eggs and Ham?)

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1116 on: June 05, 2009, 06:34:37 PM »
Fifteen people are known to have been crushed to death tilting vending machines towards them in hope of a free can of soda.
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1117 on: June 05, 2009, 06:51:21 PM »
Quote from: eclipse74569 on June 05, 2009, 06:33:06 PM
Sam
lol my cat's name is Sam :P

22% of us skip lunch daily...
i, however, never miss a liquid lunch :D
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1118 on: June 05, 2009, 06:52:26 PM »
Quote from: JimmyB76 on June 05, 2009, 06:51:21 PM
Quote from: eclipse74569 on June 05, 2009, 06:33:06 PM
Sam
lol my cat's name is Sam :P

22% of us skip lunch daily...
i, however, never miss a liquid lunch :D

Wait for it, Jimmy'll catch on any moment. ;)
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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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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1119 on: June 05, 2009, 07:08:07 PM »
For some of us who didn't know (which is probably about a good .5%)

The original Enterprise was designed to be upside down to what we know today.  Gene just turned it "right-side" up and was pleased with it.  The same was true about the Reliant.
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